Pregnant Little Liars

Investigating A pt 1

Three days later
*Emily's POV*

The final bell rings for school. I stop by Spencer's locker. Hanna and her are talking, their voices low.

"What's up you guys?" I ask strutting over to them. They stop talking and look at me.

"It's about Ali." Hanna says, her eyes wide with fear and exhilaration. "Spencer found something."

"We need to contact Aria ASAP." Spencer says pulling out her phone to text her.

To Aria-
S.O.S meet me at Hanna's in 10 minutes! -Spencer

Just as instructed to, ten minutes later Aria shows up in a panic.

"What's going on you guys? Is everything okay?" she asks frantically, looking between Hanna, Spencer, and I.

"Aria calm down" Spencer says laying a hand on her shoulder. Her voice gets quieter. "I talked to Jason Dilaurentis this morning. He gave me a box of some of Ali's old things that he found tucked away in the attic. I'm hoping there will be something in there that will link us to the night Ali went missing!" she says, her eyes twinkling.

"That's great!" Aria exclaims. "Let's see!" Spencer reaches into her bag, and pulls out a small pale pink shoe box, with little white heart stickers.

Spencer opens the box very slowly, as if it were a bomb that might explode at any second. Inside of the box, there's a pencil, a key chain, an old post card with a picture of a flower feild, and a very beat up doll. We all stare at the peculiar treasures.

"Why would Ali have all this random junk?" I ask confused. Spencer just shakes her head. Hanna picks up the post card, and turns it over in her hand.

"It's completely blank!" she says, both surprised and disappointed. Spencer frowns.

"I knew Ali collected post cards, but I would have thought she would have wrote at least something on them!"

Aria picks up the key chain. "Look you guys." she says holding the keychain out in front of her. "Does this look familiar to any of you?" All of us shake our heads. Aria frowns, and puts the keychain back in the box. Then I pick up the beaten doll. I study it for a long time.

"Did you find anything, Em?" Hanna asks, motioning to the doll in my hand.

"uh, no." I say putting the doll back into the box. Spencer sighs.

"There is nothing! Absolutely nothing!" she says a bit discouraged. Aria frowns.

"I really thought we would find something!"

"Me too." I say, looking down at the floor in defeat.

Hanna, who was staring silently at the doll, opens her mouth to speak.

"You guys." she says flipping the doll's hair back. "I think I found something!"

All three of us gather around her.

"What is it?" Spencer asks. Hanna points to the doll's neck. On the back, in small letters read the words 'Vails Doll Hospital'. 

"Where is that?" I ask glancing towards Spencer.

"Lets look it up" Spencer says opening Hanna's laptop.

"Hey!" Hanna yells. "um, do you mind? That's kind of private property, Spence."

"Oops, Sorry!" Spencer says giving her an apologetic smile. Hanna just rolls her eyes, and opens the fridge.

"Hey, are any of you hungry?" She asks, peering into the fridge.

"I could eat." I say nodding in agreement.

"This little one always seems hungry, so I'm down for a snack!" Aria says, laying a hand on her stomach.

"How about you Spence?" Hanna asks.

"uh, sure" Spencer says, zoned into Hanna's computer. Aria and I gather around Spencer at the computer and watch.Spencer types 'Vails doll hospital' in the search box, and hits the enter key. It takes about a second before the web page shows up with about a hundred different links. Spencer clicks on the first one, and reads it aloud.

"Vails doll hospital was founded in the year 1948 by a woman and her son. This woman fixed up her deceased daughter's dolls for years in remembrance of her. Finally she decided to open up a shop of her own and named it after her deceased daughter 'Vailice P. (Vails for short) This small doll hospital is located just north of Brookhaven at 235 Spruce Street." Spencer finishes.

"Don't you think it's a bit odd that it never mentioned the woman's first or last name?" Aria asks.

"Yeah. It is a bit odd." Spencer agrees.

"So, what are we going to do?" Hanna asks, her face stuffed with pretzels.

"There's only one thing we can do." Spencer replies with a mischievous look in her eye.

"What's that?" I ask, only half wanting to hear the answer. Spencer gives a sly grin

"We're going to Brookhaven."