0516- Over a Barrel

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"Wait. So the knife you and Caleb found was covered in blood?" Emily asks Spencer.

The five of us are sat at the brew talking about this knife that Toby found outside Mona's house but Spencer and Caleb stole to get rid of.

"What? Mona's blood?" Aria asks.

"Yeah and any of our prints could have been on it." Spencer points out.

That would not be surprising.

"Thank god you got rid of it." Hannah sits forward.

"Do we think Holbrook planted it?" Emily asks.

"Well, who else?" I ask looking around at all of them.

There is surely no one else who would be able to not only plant evidence, but help Ali.

"Well, you vouched for him. Do you still think he's a good guy?" Aria asks Hannah.

"I'm not so sure anymore. I bailed on my college visit to go track down Holbrook's dad." She tells us.

Not I sit forward.

"The whole family emergency thing, is a lie. I mean Holbrook could still be around. He could have planted it." Hannah points out.

"You should've called us last night Han, as soon as you got home!" Spencer tells us.

"Or text us and told us what you were doing in case something happened!" I squeeze Hannah's knee.

"Wait a second. So if Alison's A and Holbrook is on her side, they could pin Mona's murder on us, couldn't they?" Aria asks.

"That's the least they could do." I groan sinking back in my chair.

I try not to think about my warm boyfriend in my warm bed, waiting for me to get home,

"I don't know. I have to get home. Em do you want me to drop that off in the mail on my way?" Spencer asks gesturing to the massive envelope in Emily's bag that's full of Paige's things.

"I'm good, I'll go later." She tells Spencer.

"If it's something you're having trouble letting go of, we can do it for you." Spencer kindly offers and I nod.

Breakups can be hard, you need all the support you can get.

"This is not holding on. This is strictly here's your stuff, I promise. I found like three pairs of her swim goggles and some of her CDs in my car." She nods at us.

"Are you still going for spring break?" Aria asks.

"I thought that Paige asked for some space?" Hannah questions.

"She did, so I'm not." Emily tells us.

"My shifts about to start." Emily abruptly stands.

"Yeah, I'm out." Spencer adds.

I stand and slip my bag on my shoulder.

I'm gonna get Logan some coffee and a croissant to take home to him.

Spencer and Hannah leave whilst Aria and I head up to the counter where Emily is.

I order Logan a coffee and a croissant.

"I'll see your girls later." I smile and squeeze both their hands before heading home.

When I get home, my dad is in his office and so I quickly head up to my bedroom.

Logan is still fast asleep when I get in there, he's so cute.

"Good morning." I wake Logan and he groans.

"I'm so exhausted." He complains.

I think it's from work and such a long weekend, this morning he's just done. He woke up with me when I had to go and meet the girls but he was so tired he went back to sleep and I left him in bed.

"I got you a coffee." I say before leaning over him to put his coffee and croissant on the bedside on his side of the bed which is filled with some of his stuff that he keeps here.

"Thank you." He says softly before running a hand over his face.

He turns to look up at me and smiles once his eyes land on me.

"You look so beautiful." He tells me and I smile.

"Thank you." I move so I'm on top of him and am hugging him tightly.

"Mmm." He nuzzles against my neck and holds me tightly.

"I've got homework." I tell him.

"Let's just nap and I'll help you with it later, I promise." He kisses the side of my head and that is how we end up falling into a nap.

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I wake up to an aggressive phone notification, it's just a text but it wakes me up.

From: Mona Vanderwall
Activated 10:48
40.079016: - 74.931168.

I gasped so hard and drop my phone, thankfully on the bed.

"What?" Logan stirs and looks up at me.

"I'm going to be sick." I thrust my phone towards him and I quickly stand up and start running a hand through my hair.

"Do the numbers mean anything?" He asks me.

"Not personally but I think they're GPS coordinates." I tell him, my mind racing

"Grace, calm down." He stands out to bed and immediately pulls some sweatpants on before rushing over to me.

"Do you think Mona is wherever these GPS coordinates are?" I ask.

"I don't know Grace." He runs a hand through his hair.

"Let me call Spencer." I pick up my phone and immediately dial her number.

Logan rushes into the bathroom to start showering.

"Hey, did you get that text?" I ask the second she answers the call.

"Yeah I'm on my way to Caleb's right now to get him to track the texts." She tells me.

"Let me know how it goes?" I ask of her.

"Absolutely." She ends the call and I put my phone down before heading into the bathroom.

Logan's showering and I just lean against the sink.

"What did she say?" He asks.

"She's going to Caleb's to get him to track it and she'll let me know what happens." I tell him.

"That's good." He nods and steps out of the shower.

I do a quick sweep of his body as he reaches for the towel and then my body immediately goes back to everything that's happening.

He leads me out into my bedroom and sits me at my desk and puts a sudoku puzzle in front of me.

He knows that numbers help to ease my mind.

Logan puts a pen in my hand and kisses the side of my head before he starts getting ready then making my bed.

He sits with me for a while and does some puzzles with me whilst I sit and try not to let my mind wonder.

This is until I get an influx of calls that evening with an explanation.

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