Secrets in Rosewood {2}

Chapter 22: Father Knows Best

Avery's in her room packing her bag for school when her mom walks in and she says, "So, your father is coming home from his conference today." Avery says, "And?" Her mom says, "And I know he's very excited about the father-daughter dance." Avery says, "Yeah, well, uh, the father-daughter dance is a little more irony than I can handle right now." Her mom says, "Well, maybe you should learn to embrace the irony because there seems to be a lot of it in our lives." Avery says, "Mom, if you could just talk to dad and try and convince him." Her mom says, "Honey, at this point I don't even know what I'd be trying to convince him of." Avery says, "Wait. What happened to last night's 'I'm trying to understand you and Ezra?'" Her mom says, "I still am. It's a process. And for now, I just... I don't think your father really needs to know about it." Avery sighs. Later, Avery's at school in the courtyard with her friends and Spencer reads off a text that says, "'Do mom and dad know you're watching murder movies? That would kill them to find out. A.'" Avery says, "Is A talking about the NAT video?" Hanna says, "Of course. A knows we have their cell phone." Emily walks over to them and says, "You guys get that text from A?" Hanna says, "Yes, and now Melissa's threatening to kill our parents." Spencer says, "I already told you. Melissa can't be A." Hanna says, "Alison was getting texts from the law firm your sister interned at." Spencer says, "Yes, but she explained that. Melissa just wanted Ali to leave Ian alone." Avery says, "So, what? What, I got chased by a scary looking man for nothing?" Emily says, "That still doesn't explain why Melissa got into Garrett's car." Avery says, "Do you think that Garrett told her about the video? 'Cause if she knows that she's on it and if she's A--" Spencer cuts Avery off and says, "You guys, my sister is not A. I-I watched her fall apart when we found Ian's body. She had no idea that he was dead. She wouldn't just text herself from her dead husband's phone and lose it like that. Could we... Could we please just breathe for a second?" Hanna says, "No. We have video of four people who could've killed Alison. Okay? They were in her bedroom the night she died. Can't we get in trouble for withdrawing evidence?" Avery looks at Hanna and says, "I think you mean withholding. Look, Spencer's right. W-we've jumped the gun before and we've gone to the cops." Emily says, "And we ended up looking guilty." Spencer says, "Yeah, and they already think that we stole something from the morgue. I-I don't think that we should give this to them. Look, I know that I'm asking a lot. But, I think that I might have a way to find out more. So, can you guys just give me a chance to get into this?" Avery says, "Okay."