❝ we all eat lies, when our hearts are hungry ❞
Halle Brewster made a promise she would never tell the secrets of the summer Alison DiLaurentis went missing. Only now, someone else was doing the telling - something Alison never got the chance to do...
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Halle had gotten out of the hospital before Hanna did. Hanna still had the risk of having her spleen removed. With Halle, all she had to do was heal, which was stressing her mother out — cheerleading wouldn't wait for her. Hanna could afford three weeks in the hospital, and Halle couldn't.
"Why are you taking that off?" Aria asked Hanna. The blonde was finally home and her friends were helping bring in all her things from the hospital — Halle helping the least. Aria set aside the crutches as she eyed the sticker over A's message on Hanna's cast.
"I'm not," Hanna said, pressing the edges down on it. "I'm trying to keep it on. Believe me, I don't wanna see the autograph that's under it."
"Well, you keep messing with it and the tackiness is gonna go," Halle told her. She put down the one bag, full of Hanna's clothes, down on the kitchen table. "It won't stay on."
"We can get you another sticker," Spencer offered.
"Yeah, this time, can you try something mellower?" Aria shot at the girl. "Like, 'save the planet'."
"Hey, there were not a lot of choice, okay?" Spencer crossed her arms and told them pointedly, "it was either Humpty Dumpty, or 'Jesus is coming, look busy'."
Hanna peeled back the orange sticker and groaned, "Oh, god, it's still there."
"Yeah, like it will be every time you check," Halle said. "Just stop stressing over it."
"Easy for you to say, A didn't leave you a deepest condolences on your cast," Hanna fired at her.
"No, A just broke two of my ribs as a warning," Halle countered.
"Well, A broke my leg too," said Hanna.
A sigh left Halle. "Look, I'm sorry. We shouldn't be arguing over who A hurt more, A's hurt all of us."
"Exactly," Spencer said. She saw the blonde go to pick at the sticker again and she crouched down, placing her hand over it. "Hanna, don't. Hanna, don't look at that. Just look around you," encouraged Spencer, glancing around herself. "Because you're safe. You're home. And you're alive."
"Yeah, well, I thought I was safe in my hospital room, too," Hanna retorted harshly. She shook her head and snapped, "no, what's going on with Noel Kahn? Is he A? Have you talked to him?" Hanna questioned Aria.
"No, I avoid him," Aria claimed firmly. "I keep telling him I'm busy. Busy freaking out every time I look at him," she muttered.
