'Hanna, I need your help' Aria stepped inside the Marin's house.
'good afternoon to you too' Hanna raised her eyebrows.
'Hanna I'm serious' Aria sighed. 'What is it?' Hanna asked as they walked to the kitchen. Aria threw her coat on one of the barstools by the kitchen's counter and sat down on it. 'What I told you all last night, I need to do something about it' Aria stated. Hanna sat down next to Aria. 'About Meredith applying for a teachingjob at Hollis?' Hanna asked. 'Yes' Aria answered. 'Of course I'll help you, these things are my speciality, but why the sudden change of opinion? You sounded pretty clear to me yesterday..' Hanna asked. Aria sighed. She took her phone out of the pocket from her black ripped jeans and read the -A text to Hanna: 'If you don't do something about it I will -A' and Aria put her phone away 'well that explains a lot.. But why would it be bad if A did something about it, I mean; that's less to worry about for you?' Hanna was confused. ' Because -A means telling Hollis about my dad's affair with her and then my dad goes to jail.' Aria was explicit. Hanna got it 'what did you have in mind?'
Hanna knocked on the janitor's office. A young man in a blue uniform opened the door. He looked confused at Hanna 'Can I help you..?' he said it with an obvious doubt. 'Yeah uhm they need you on the 3rd floor, something's wrong with the central heating pipes' Hanna lied. The man sighed 'Okay.. I'll get my stuff, thanks for telling me.. uhmm?' he doubted 'Hann..' Hanna couldn't finish her name Aria poked her in her flank. Hanna looked at Aria, Aria gave her a meaningful glance. 'My name's Alison.' Hanna corrected herself. The janitor looked weird at her 'well thankyou Alison' and he went back in his office to get his stuff. Aria and Hanna walked towards the back of the hallway. 'was that poke really necessary?!" 'you were about to tell him your real name. What if it goes wrong? Then you are the one hanging' 'well now it's our dead friend Alison, how weird will that be?' Aria couldn't help but laugh. They arrived at the principal's office. 'screwdriver' Hanna ordered. Aria got a screwdriver out of her bag and gave it to Hanna. Hanna started loosing the doorknob. after a minute she gave Aria back the screwdriver and pushed the doorknob down. It fell with a big clang on the ground. Hanna pushed the door to the office open. The principal looked shocked. 'I'm so sorry.. I didnt know I had to be careful' Hanna said to him. he got up and walked towards the door. 'Don't worry about it I'll get the janitor' the man said. 'he's on the 3rd floor, I heard him talking about broken heating pipes' Aria said. 'Thankyou, you two can go, it'll all be fixed' The principal said. once he was around the corner Hanna and Aria stormed into his office. Hanna looked in the cupboard and Aria searched his desk. When she opened the man's last drawer she found a big brown envelope; 'Job applications' it said. 'Hanna I got it' she said. And she opened the envelope. Meredith's application was on top. Aria took it. 'Let's get out of this place'
Aria walked into Ezra's apartement. Ezra was in the kitchen. He turned around, his eyes were red and watery. he was crying. 'Where have you been?' He asked. 'Ezra what's wrong?' Aria was shocked. 'Nothing, Nothing's wrong why?' he asked confused. 'yes there is, you're crying!' 'huh what. OHH and he started laughing, he stepped aside. Now Aria could see. He was cutting onions. Aria was relieved, she laughed. 'you scared me!' She said. 'What smells so weird?' she asked. 'My soup' Ezra answered. 'uhmm.. I think I'll have dinner at the Hasting's then..' and she smiled, Ezra looked offended like a toddler. 'Okay, I'll stay.. but just because you were crying while making it!' and she bit her lip. Ezra smiled with victory 'Well anyway, where have you been? I thought you were just getting coffee with Hanna and you would be home by 4. 'Uhm well.. We were supposed to be gettig coffee.. and when we were there Hanna spotted this new shop in town and you know Hanna.. She was searching like FBI there' Aria lied. Ezra laughed. 'And did you find anything nice?' Ezra asked while he continued cutting onions. 'No, it was all too girly for me' Aria said. Ezra laughed and turned around 'oh yeah, because you are more the edgy kind..' and he walked towards Aria and kissed her. she kissed back. 'I love you Aria' he said. 'I love you too, even your awful cooking' and she smiled.
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'I'm going to catch up with the girls, Emily and spencer searched the new shop too and we always give eachother opinions' Aria got her coat. 'yeah you told me that, Alison invented it, right? It's good that you keep doing it. Then you keep her memory alive' Ezra said. 'Mrs Dilaurentis told us that too' Aria said. 'Have fun!' Ezra said. 'Don't worry about that' and she was out the door. Aria acted weird when she told that. Like she was lying Ezra thought. She said the shop was way too girly.. Emily and spencer weren't like that. Was she lying? Or was this just in his mind? Does that shop even exist? Ezra knew he should trust Aria. But a little research couldn't do any harm. He got behind his laptop and searched on new shops in Rosewood. Nothing but a chocolaterie popped up. Aria lied.. But why? Then.. where was she this afternoon? He looked around his apartement like he would find something. He saw Aria's bag on the floor. The one she had with her this afternoon. He doubted.. This was Aria's personal stuff. But he was worried.. What if there really was something going on and she was too afraid to tell? He took the bag and looked in it.
'What do you mean Jason wasn't in Rehab?' Hanna was confused. Jason was Alison's older and most of the time stoned/drunk brother. 'The place closed down two years ago.' Spencer explained. 'Why is this relevant?' Aria asked 'I lied to Ezra for your SOS so it better be a genious theory you came up with' She was annoyed. 'We know that -A has to be someone we know, or else they can't hate us, or Ali' Spencer said. 'And Jason and Ali did Argue a lot..' Emily said. 'Indeed, plus Ali had her grandmother write Jason out of her will. the two really couldn't get along and Jason obviously was jealous because it always was all about Ali, Ali even controlled their mother!' Spencer started to make sense. 'And Jason could have easily overheard all the secrets that we shared and read his sister's diaries.' Hanna saw the light too. 'That still doesn't explain why Jason wants to hurt us?' Emily remarked. 'Because we keep Ali's memory Alive' Aria said. She looked down. 'we need to get to the bottom of this, and Aria.. your bridemaids fitting happens to be in the city.. where Jason was supposed to be in Rehab..' Spencer said. Aria looked at her 'I haven't decided about that yet.. maybe I don't want to go..' 'What?! Why not? come on Aria, we'll go with you, you have to!' Hanna said it a little too loud. 'why?! So you guys can find out if Jason's -A or because my mum has tried to convince you all to convince me to go to the fiiting and be a part of their wedding?!' Aria yelled. They stayed silent. 'She has tried to convince you hasn't she? I can't believe you all didn't tell me' And Aria walked out the door downstairs to the Hasting's kitchen. Hanna came after her. 'Aria.. wait.. I know that you're upset. but once you'll think about it you realize it's not a big deal. Now I just need you to come upstairs and tell Em and Spence what we did this afternoon..' Hanna looked at Aria almost begging on her knees. Aria was angry. 'What? no, they will never know! Nobody ever will!' Her phone bleeped. So did Hanna's
Too Late -A
Hanna was still standing halffway the stairs. Emily and Spencer appeared behind her, 'you two have some explaining to do' Spencer said. And she showed Hanna and Aria her phone. It was a message from A, not a text but a video. it was Aria and Hanna searching the Principal's office. They were all silent. 'No I don't, I have to get to Ezra, Hanna you explain.' And Aria took off.
'Ezra, I'm back!' She shouted through the apartement. it wasn't necessary he was sitting on the couch. 'Aria, what is this?' He showed her Meredith's application.
