˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ TEEN SPIRIT ❝ our little group has always been and always will until the end ❞
【 in which adalind barlowe and her friends get messages from an unknown person while
adalind and an her ex fall back in love in the middle of it al...
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chapter thirteen know your frenemies ⎯⎯⎯⎯
"Hi, I'm planning a surprise visit for my husband and he cannot stop talking about the room he had on his last visit." Spencer spoke in some weird southern accent to someone over the phone as she, Emily and Adalind sat out-front a cafe in town. "Can you pull up that reservation?" she asked. "His name is Ian Thomas." she told the other person on the phone as Adalind split her muffin and ate some of it.
"Why are you doing this?" Emily asked in a hushed voice and Spencer held a hand over the end of her phone to answer Emily. "I think Ian and Alison were together the weekend before she disappeared." Spencer answered in a hushed voice. "Don't you remember how Alison was acting when she got home from visiting her grandmother?" Spencer asked the two of them. "All giggles and tan?" she added.
"Yeah," Emily answered while Adalind nodded since she was eating. "Ali hated old people, and Ali's grandmother lives in Georgia, Hilton Head is in South Carolina, she was lying to us." she explained. "So what? Ali lied more than she breathed, you think that was enough to make Ian wanna permanently shut her up." Emily asked. "Wow, I thought you'd be happy to hear it was anybody but Toby." Spencer responded. "All Toby wanted was for me to believe him and I didn't." Emily told her.
"Toby lied about a lot of things too, Em." Adalind told her softly. "If lying was a crime, we would all be in jail." Emily scoffed before she noticed some behind Spencer. "Agent Cooper, good morning." she said, making Spencer and Adalind turn to see walking out of the cafe where they were sitting. "Hi. Beautiful day, huh?" she asked and they all smiled at her before Adalind noticed a car approaching them. It was Hanna, who was no longer wearing her cast on her leg.
"Looks like someone traded in her wheels for heels." Emily said to her. "They're flats, but they are Ferragamos." Hanna responded and sat down next to Spencer. "Thank you." Spencer said to the other person on the phone before hanging up. "The food in this town is to die for, I'm missing it already." Agent Cooper remarked. "You're leaving?" Adalind asked. "Yeah, I came here to find the person that killed your friend, Toby Cavanaugh may be out on bail, but he's not leaving town and we have a solid case against him." she answered.
"So unless you have a reason for me to stay.." she trailed off, "Well, I guess, we'll see you around then." Hanna responded. "You girls take care." Agent Cooper told them before walking off. "Bye." Spencer mumbled and as soon as she was gone, they turned to Spencer. "What?" Emily asked. "Ian was definitely at Hilton Head the same weekend Ali was." Spencer told them, making them share a look. "Maybe we do have a reason for Cooper to stay." Emily said.
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"Agent Cooper is not some small-town cop who's gonna arrest Spencer's brother-in-law because Ali carved his name into a tree." Hanna said to her friends as they walked through the cafeteria. "Yeah, a tree that's no longer there." Aria pointed out. "No one knows that but us." Emily explained. "And Ian." Adalind added. "And 'A'." Hanna continued, staring at someone, making them turn to see Noel Kahn outside.
