Devious Little Liar ↛ PLL [1]

~ twelve

( chapter twelve; the pAst and the furious )

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MADISON THREW her upper body backwards, laying her head on the pillow of Hanna's bed. She stared up at the ceiling, waiting for Hanna to come back into the room with the pizza they had ordered.

She turned her head as the door opened and Hanna walked in with a pizza box. She placed it on the bed, sitting beside the brunette. Madison pushed herself into a sitting position.

"So..." Hanna started, opening the box to reveal the pizza. She looked up at Madison, who remained silent. She sighed, "Oh, come on, Madi. You said you needed to talk to me and you haven't said anything other than what pizza you wanted."

Madison picked up a slice of the pepperoni pizza, "Because I don't know how to even start, Han. This is... colossal."

"And it looks like keeping it to yourself is destroying you." She said, taking a slice of pizza herself, "Please, tell me. I want to help."

"Okay." Madison shut her eyes tightly, letting out a long sigh before reopening them to look at Hanna, "Jason asked me on a date."

Hanna dropped her slice back onto the box as her brows pulled together in surprise, "Sorry, what? Jason? Jason DiLaurentis? Alison's brother, Jason?"

"Okay, I need to explain everything." Madison quickly responded, "But, Hanna, please, keep this between us for now. I'm not ready to tell the others."

Hanna pondered before nodding, "Promise."

"Last summer, Jason and I were in a sort of secret relationship, well not technically relationship, a, uh,"

The blonde cut her off. Her eyes wide in total shock, "No freaking way. You and Jason were secretly hooking up?"

Madison let out a breath, "Um, if... that's what you wanna call it. I don't know."

"Wait, wait, wait." Hanna held her hand up in a stop motion. Her eyes narrowed, "I thought you and Wren were hooking up last summer?"

"Wren and I happened in June, and then even though I had no clue, he got back with Melissa." Madison told her, "Jason and I we - he kissed me in July and then things went on from there."

"And you kept it a secret until Ali went missing?" Hanna's eyebrows raised and Madison nodded, "Did she know about that too?"

"No," Madison said, shaking her head, "somehow that was the only thing she never knew about. She was so wrapped up in everyone elses business, that she didn't care about her own brother behind his closed bedroom door."