[editing]
A year had passed since Alison DiLaurentis disappeared off the face of the earth, and the five ex-friends of the powerful, vindictive girl were entering their junior year of high school.
Although it was strange to be entering another year...
Earlier that day, Ivy and Emily had journeyed over to Mrs DiLaurentis' house to sneak out some of Alison's stuff. Considering that they had found notebooks Alison had wrote in before (which had been incredibly useful), the girls thought looking at more notebooks and some other things could possibly provide them with some answers.
Although, so far, all the girls had found was junk.
Ivy took a sip of her iced coffee, before putting it back down on the table of The Brew. The girls had decided to grab a drink after school and sort through the junk that Ivy and Emily had recovered.
To get them through the box of junk, the five girls ordered drinks and cakes to snack on and keep them going.
Throughout their search, the conversation had morphed into hundreds of things. They started off with Tippi the bird, then drifted to Alison, to Wilden, and then to Hanna and Ivy's mom. In some strange way, all four of the individuals were connected.
Nothing was ever a coincidence with 'A' still around, so the girls concluded that there was a connection between the four.
"Okay, rewind, my mom is not connected to a cockatoo," Hanna stated with a bitter scoff.
"Parrot," corrected Emily.
"Whatever." Hanna rolled her eyes.
"Well, that bird is connected to Ali, Ali's connected to Wilden, and Wilden's connected to your mom and us and stuff we don't even know anything about," Aria listed off her fingers.
"Our mom may have hit him a little with her car, but she did not kill Wilden," Hanna declared.
"Of course not," Spencer reassured. They would never even start to think that about Ashley.
Noticing that Emily was uncomfortably rolling her shoulder and massaging it, Aria spoke up and asked her, "Hey, how's your shoulder?"
"I'm seeing the doctor again tomorrow," Emily answered, with a small hopeful smile.
Emily passed out at a swim meet after crashing into the wall. She had taken medication to help her shoulder, but when she was in the water, her vision blurred and the pain had increased.
She ended up in hospital, which meant that people knew about her injury and were asking about it. She had to tell people that it was from falling off her bike, but she wasn't sure if they believed her.
