arsenic trioxide - pretty little liars [ON HOLD]

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ROSEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA
SEPTEMBER 10TH 2010
10:39

BEA HAD MADE IT THROUGH HER FIRST SCHOOL DAY.

She had managed to avoid all of Spencer's friends. She spotted Hanna outside on the phone, Aria talking to the young but definitely not hot new English teacher and she had seen Emily talking to another girl who gifted her a red scarf in the morning. It wasn't an intentional shunning of their existence it was more of 'I wasn't told to find you so I didn't' situation. She hadn't even seen Spencer since the start of the day when she was showing her around the school.

The two had met outside their lockers, which happened to be next to each other, to head home at the end of the day and Spencer had stopped by Hanna's locker to pick her up. Hanna and Spencer seemed to have made plans at some point during the day to spend time in Spencer's room so that Hanna could prepare an outfit for the father-daughter dinner she had planned.

Although Hanna was one of the most tolerable of the girls, Beatrice still opted to spend time by herself instead of the two girls. Spencer's parents and Melissa somehow ended up taking another trip to shop away Melissa's cancelled wedding sorrows. So, Bea thought that arranging and rearranging her new room in peace was the most desirable way to spend her time. Plus, Spencer had a dilemma about a Russian History essay that she stole from her sister that Beatrice really didn't want to get involved in - just to make her life a little bit easier.

Beatrice had found that peace was the main factor in the maintenance of her sanity recently, and although she highly doubted that the girls had put a stop to 'A', she had also felt the need to block the number from her phone as soon as Spencer had told her about it. 

It was really a pounding question in Beatrice's mind - she had always wondered how 'A' even got her number in the first place. As far as she knew the people she would consider her friendliest with don't have her number so it couldn't have been them. Bea had no doubt in her mind that it wasn't Spencer considering the girl had much more pressing matters in her life - and that she would never hurt Bea like that.

Beatrice didn't even know why anyone would try to get her number. When she got her first 'A' message, she wasn't planning on staying in America for longer than she had to. 'A' couldn't have known that Bea was going to be staying - not when Beatrice didn't even know herself. So, what was the point of the first message? To keep her there? To scare her away?

All Bea knew for certain is that her mental list of suspects she had been writing for the past week was slowly getting smaller and smaller. Soon it would only have one person left and it would lead her straight to 'A'. No more cryptic messages. No more unanswered questions.

And she would stop at nothing until she got normality back into her life.

ROSEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA
SEPTEMBER 11TH 2010
09:01

BEA WALKED INTO HER NEW ENGLISH CLASS.

Hanna, Emily, Spencer and Aria were all crowded in an area between all four girls' desks, listening to Hanna talking. They seemed like such a strong friendship group again and it had only been a few days since they started talking again.

Beatrice never thought she would have a friendship group that was stable in her life. She never had one back in Brighton, she certainly didn't have one here in America and she didn't plan on joining one any time soon. She would only be imposing on their already built relationships and Bea couldn't, and wouldn't let herself, be such a burden to them. Especially if she was to consider them her new 'friends'.