Lovely Little Liar

{ 34. Photo, Bead, and Spark Plug }

"Aria, why are you waking us up this early?" Hanna complained as they were walking downstairs because Aria woke them up real early. 

"Who wants coffee?" Spencer asked. 

"Me. Strong, please." Kathlyn said while raising her right hand playfully, "What is this all about, Ar?" 

"Come on, look at this." Aria said as she showed the girls again for the nth time the photo they "received" from 'A', "There's only one place this picture could've been taken from." 

"Alison's bedroom." Aria added while looking at the girls. 

"Okay, this wasn't taken by Ali because Ali's there in the photo." Hanna countered. 

"But somebody in her house did." Aria confidently said. 

"Her parents?" Emily asked. 

In which, Aria just shook her head, "No, her brother." 

"Jason?" Kathlyn asked, cannot believe that her friend is actually suspecting Jason to be 'A'.

"Well, he's back in town, my mom ran into him the other day." Hanna said. 

"We have to call him!" Aria urgently replied. 

"No, I will not talk to him!" Hanna said in which Emily agreed also.

"I can— I can talk to him." Kathlyn said, earning suspicious glances from her friends, "We need to know if he really took this." 

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Kathlyn walked towards where Jason was jogging, topless. She wanted to walk back and ask her friends to talk to him instead, maybe Spencer will do it. But before she can turn around, Jason already saw her and jogged towards her. 

"I'm sorry to interrupt your work out, it's just—" Kathlyn looked up from looking down the floor, only to see Jason standing in front of her, with sweats rolling down his chest, "This can wait." Kathlyn then turned around, but was interrupted by the man. 

"Really? Didn't sound that way on the phone." 

Kathlyn sighed and turned around again to face the man, "Jay, Why are you back in town?" 

"Just taking care of family business." Jason answered with a shrug, "You're not here for pleasantries, I know you, Kath. Why are you here?"

Kathlyn immediately picked from her bag a printed version of the photo 'A' sent to them, "This was sent to me. It looks like this was taken from the second floor of your house." 

"Yeah, looks like it." Jason answered, sounding unconvinced. 

"What?" Kathlyn asked. 

"You see, after Alison disappeared, we got bizarre things in the mail. Conspiracy theories, sympathy cards, blurry images of a blonde girl walking or even running away from the camera." Jason explained. 

"But that's definitely Ali, she's got the same yellow top she was wearing the night she disappeared. And that's Spencer's yard." Kathlyn commented. 

"Kath, it's easy to edit stuff nowadays. It's easy to create photos that do not even exist." Jason told the brunette and the latter just rolled her eyes, "Look, my family hired a PI, I will take the photo to them and let's see what he comes up with." 

Kathlyn nodded at Jason's statement and turned around to walk away, but Jason called her. 

"I was a jerk, I know you better than to believe that you did something." Jason told the brunette.