Secrets (Pretty Little Liars fan fic!!!!)

Chapter 21__Monsters in the End

After dark, Aria, Spencer, Emily, Hanna and I were sitting at a table in the Brew, drinking coffee and having a snack.

Spencer told us that the police had taken her name bracelet that Alison had given her. And that there were fibers of the sweater that Alison had worn when she died, the one that had been planted with Toby, in that bracelet.

"Do you think somebody rubbed that sweater on your bracelet?" Aria asked.

"Somebody?" Emily repeated. "Try Ian." She looked at Spencer. "He's doing everything he can to make you look guilty. Your parents should hire you a 24-hour bodyguard."

"What about Jenna?" Hanna asked. "What if she paid Caleb to get that bracelet?"

"Wait, when was Caleb in Spencer's house?" Emily asked.

"He doesn't need an invitation, Em," Hanna told her.

"He broke into a vending machine with a spork," Aria told us.

I looked past them, out of the windows. "Guys? I think somebody's watching us."

We looked outside toward life-like mannequins. 

"Those?" Spencer asked. "They're for the Founder's Festival."

"Man, if that's what Rosewood's Founding Family looked like, how did they ever get anyone to move here?" Aria asked.

"And why were they allowed to reproduce?" I asked.

"Guys, if Caleb was..." Emily trailed off. I looked down, looking away. Emily noticed. "Kota, we know this is hard for you, but we have to talk about him. If we want to help Spencer, we have to know what Caleb knows."

"Guys, there is definitely somebody out there," I told them.

They thought I was just trying to change the subject.

"Maybe if Emily and I cornered Caleb, not in school, but somewhere that's Jenna-free," Hanna told us.

"If Caleb's gonna talk to anyone, it's gonna be Dakota," Spencer told us.

They all looked at me.

"Will you do it?" Aria asked.

"To help Spencer, sure," I answered.

"Thanks, Kota," Spencer told me.

I nodded.

They stood, walking out. 

I stood, walking toward the window, looking outside.

"Dakota?" Hanna asked. "Are you coming?"

"Yeah," I answered.

I followed them outside.

~

The next morning, I was home, in the kitchen, looking at the open fridge, staring at nothing.

Mom walked in. "Good morning. So... I have to be at work tonight, but do you want to wait so we can have dinner together and..."

"I'll grab something after school," I told her.

Mom grabbed a coffee cup and the pot. "Okay." She poured herself some coffee. "Did... Caleb move back in with his foster family?" I shrugged, shaking my head. "Do you want to tell me why he moved out so quickly?"

I sighed. "There's... nothing to tell."

I closed the fridge, sitting down at the counter, sighing.