Not Daddy's Little Girl Anymore

Dead or Alive?

The girls drove quietly to Bucks County. They were on their way to see Toby. Melissa had asked them to talk to him. Her and her parents had called him several times but he hadn't answered. They weren't surprised. Her parents had finally put together the funeral for Spencer and they wanted to make sure he'd known about it. They were all surprised he hadn't talked to anyone since he talked to the police after Spencer had gone missing. They had all called and left messages. Emily pulled up to the construction site and parked. The three of them walked towards an old round guy with a clipboard.

"Hello" Emily said politely.

"What are you pretty little girls doing over here?" He asked.

"We are here to see Toby Cavanaugh" Hanna said firmly. She'd become more bossy since Spencer had been declared murdered.

"If he's not too busy" Emily amended.

"Cavanaugh, get down here, you got company" he barked into the walkie-talkie.

"Who is it" he asked.

"Three pretty girls" he replied.

"I don't want to see them" he said flatly.

The girls all sighed.

"Awww come on, there down here giving me puppy dog eyes, at least get down here and get them off my site" he ordered.

"Ok" he said in a monotone.

They barely recognized the man they saw walking toward them, it was definitely Toby. They could see his muscles underneath his tight tee. He had changed in the three months since they'd seen him when he visited Spencer. His hair had grown and he had grown a beard.

"What?!" He asked gruffly.

"We wanted to let you know the Hastings planned the funeral for Spencer." Emily said.

"Why?!" He asked irritatedly.

"So you can say goodbye" Emily said nearly in tears.

"Why should I?" He asked "she didn't"

"She was murdered!" Hanna yelled.

Toby rolled his eyes. "Yeah, she was murdered" he said putting air quotes around the word murdered.

"What are you talking about" Aria asked incensed.

He pulled his phone out he pressed a few buttons. They heard Spencer's voice, she was crying.

"Toby, I can't do this anymore, I lost my family, I lost my friends, I lost you" there was a long pause filled with sobbing "I have nothing left, I love you"

The click of Spencer hanging up was deafening.

"That was the day she disappeared" Toby said. "I was working, by the time I got it and called her back the phone was dead."

The girls hearts became heavy.

"I would have gone to get her" he said "I would've quit my fucking job to get her if I had to! Why didn't she wait for me?!"

"You think she killed herself?" Emily asked sobbing. Hanna and Aria covered their mouths.

"I have to get back to work" he said. He left before they had a chance to say anything else. They drove back to town, when they got there they sat in the car not getting out for a minute.

"He blames us doesn't he?" Hanna asked.

"I blame us" Emily said quietly.

"I blame us too" Aria added.