❝ 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 waited at her locker. Her eyes fixed firmly on the girls' toilets across the hall. She had been stood staring for the past two minutes. When she saw a girl come out, Halle instantly slammed her locker shut and made a beeline for them. She pushed open the door and smiled on seeing her friends in there: Emily by the sinks; Aria, Hanna and Spencer each exiting a cubical.
"We have got to find a better place to do this," Aria stated. "Somewhere preferably with a fan."
"And decent air-freshener," remarked Halle, turning her nose up the funny, stale smell that came from the school toilets.
"Good luck," Emily said sarcastically. "We're gonna have to dig a tunnel under the school."
"Uh, not with those hands," Hanna was appalled by her friend's dry skin. "You need some serious moisturiser," she said.
"Because that's the most important issue here," Halle shot.
Spencer was busy reading over the letter Emily had received from the scout at Danby College. She said, "This letter isn't that bad, Emily."
"It's bad," Emily replied shortly.
"Won't your mom be impressed that the scout even took time to write?" Aria asked.
Halle gave Aria a look. "Do you even know Mrs Fields?"
"Here, use this." Hanna was too concerned with Emily's dry hands and interrupted the conversation. She handed Emily a large tube of moisturiser from her handbag and said, "It cost more than my purse."
"—She's like Em on speed, five times the average dosage," Halle continued, staying on the actual subject. "It has to be 'sign on the dotted line' for Mrs Fields to be impressed."
"Exactly," Emily said. "Guys, this is a 'maybe' letter. My mom needs to see something real, something that says 'let her stay in Rosewood, we want her, don't take her to Texas'." Finishing up with the moisturiser, she passed the tube over to Halle.
"Em, there's other colleges," Aria offered.
"Yeah, other scouts will want you," Spencer reassured.
"When?" Emily asked snappily. "My mom's already packed up the whole kitchen. She keeps telling me how much I'm gonna like the rodeo," she put in, annoyed.
"We'll think of something, okay? We won't let you go to Texas," Halle comforted, passing over the moisturiser now to Aria.
Accepting it, Aria picked up on the growing noise outside of the toilets. The clatter of students had increased, getting slowly closer. "Let's just do this later, okay?" After using the cream, she handed it back to Hanna.
Hanna put some on her hands and began to rub it in, asking, "Um, what about after school?"
"I can't today, I've got field hockey," Spencer said.
