❝ 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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The red fabric covered Aria from the day's breeze, even when they were back in Rosewood and sat down outside of Lucky Leon's Cupcake Shop. Each with their own drinks and sweet treats, Aria re-told her encounter with the guy in Brookhaven. "Well, he recognised the coat," Aria began, as she took to one of the white, fold-out chairs. "That's when he saw it first, he thought it was Alison... Vivian," she self-corrected.
Clutching her ice-coffee, Emily said, "When we noticed you didn't come back, he was gone."
"He was cute from the back," Hanna commented.
A coy smirk tugged at Aria's lips. "So was his front." Then, after she realised the uneasiness of the situation, Aria briskly added, "Under different circumstances."
"So, what did he say?" Halle asked. She used her pinkie-finger to wipe at her cupcake's frosting. "Why didn't he look for her, Vivian?" she elaborated before sucking the icing from her finger.
"He's been in Florida for, like, a year," Aria explained.
"What did you tell him — exactly?" questioned Spencer pointedly.
"Uh, I told him that I was a friend of Vivian's and that I hadn't seen her since she gave me the coat," Aria revealed, shrugging off the lies she easily told him.
"Can I see that number again?" Spencer asked.
"Yeah." Aria was quick to pass over the small strap of paper she was given by the guy she bumped into, the one who called her Vivian, with his name and number scrawled on it.
"Thanks," said Spencer, accepting the card. She inspected it and read aloud, "'Duncan Albert'?"
"Sounds like a posh boy," remarked Halle, shrugging her right shoulder before she reached for her coffee. "Two first names — and they're Duncan and Albert."
"He said he met her Brookhaven?" Emily asked, intrigued.
"Yeah, in a bookstore," Aria answered. "A couple places down from that creepy doll hospital."
"Well, whoever Duncan is, he's connected to Alison and what she wanted in Brookhaven," Spencer implored.
Emily gave her a questioning look, not quite buying it. She asked them, "How do we know he wasn't just some guy she flirted with in a bookstore?"
"I don't think Alison wasted Vivian on flirting," Spencer reasoned with her. "When she put that wig on, she wanted something."
"Someone," Halle corrected, just as Spencer handed the paper back over to Aria.
