Not Daddy's Little Girl Anymore

Wren and Spencer

"He wants to see you" Holbrook says to Melissa.

"Why?" Melissa asked.

"I guess you'll know if you go in there" he countered.

Melissa gave passing glances to her parents and the girls before nodding almost imperceptibly. She walked into the visitors room. Wren sat there in chains and an orange jumpsuit. He was hanging his head even after Melissa sat down.

"What do you have to say to me?" She asked coldly.

"I didn't do it" he said quietly "I didn't kill her"

"Is that all?" Melissa said angrily.

"She called me and told me she was in trouble, she asked me to meet her at a motel and bring her things, she said if I did she'd "give me what I'd always wanted" I did it, I brought her the stuff. I thought I was really clever, I demanded payment before I'd give her the stuff. We...did it, I fell asleep and when I woke up the stuff was gone and so was she." He said exhaling as if a huge weight had been lifted.

"What did you bring her? Why didn't you tell the cops when she went missing?" Melissa inquired.

"Lots of stuff, 3 units of blood, syringes, drugs, I didn't say anything because I figured she had just run away and I would have lost my license, I swear to you if you never believe anything else I ever say believe me when I say I did not kill her!"

"What did she need all that stuff for?" Melissa asked continuing her inquisition

"She said she was pretty sure she was pregnant and her boyfriend told her if she got pregnant he'd kill her" Wren said.

"He's lying!" Emily yelled.

"Toby didn't kill Spencer, he loved her" Aria added.

"He thought she killed herself!" Hanna blurted out.

"How do you know that?" Holbrook asked coming over, once again interested in the conversation.

"He told us" Aria said "when we went to tell him about the funeral"

Holbrook nodded before stalking off.

The girls sat in the Hastings living room later that night thinking of all that had transpired in the last few days. Caleb offered to go get food, Ezra offered coffee and tea but they didn't want anything. After awhile the Hastings came in.

"They aren't going to charge Wren with Spencer's murder" Mr. Hastings announced.

"He'll lose his license and be charged with statutory rape and drug trafficking and endangering the welfare of a child, but not murder" Mrs. Hastings added.

"The cops think that Toby killed her" Melissa sobbed. "He rented a room two doors down from the room Wren had that night. They think she left Wren's room and walked to Toby's and he killed her because she was pregnant or because she slept with Wren"

"So are they going to arrest him?!" Emily asked excitedly. She didn't think he did it and didn't want him arrested but if they brought him in she'd be able to see her friend again.

"He's dead" Melissa said sobbing. "He drove off of a bridge down in North Carolina four years ago. Apparently he was high as a kite and going 80 miles an hour."

This was devastating enough on its own but now with them thinking Spencer was alive it was even more tragic. Emily, Hanna, Caleb, Aria, and Ezra drove down to North Carolina. They wanted to say goodbye and see where it had happened. It was just after 9AM when they reached the bridge. It was a crisp morning and they hunkered in their coats as they stood once again in the spot that had taken a friend.