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Staring at the bright screen of Melissa's phone, a single question plagued the girls' mind.
"Did things just get incredibly worse?", Aria voiced out loud.
"I can't believe this", Emily exclaimed, "Ian's dead."
"No, zombie's don't text!", Hanna scoffed, "Okay? He is alive somewhere."
Avery looked at the Hastings girl beside her, who stared at the words on the screen, not being able to believe it, "Spence..."
Spencer murmured, "I have to get this phone home before Melissa realizes that it's gone."
"Okay, you put it back, and then what do we do?"
"Do we call the cops?", Aria asked questioned as Avery scoffed, "Oh, yeah, because that always works out so well for us."
"Why is Ian texting Melissa?", Emily looked at the device in Spencer's hand.
Hanna added, "And why is Melissa answering him?"
"Is she?", Avery asked, "I mean, we don't know how long this has been going on."
"Spencer, look, you've gotta find out what Ian told Melissa", Aria sighed, "You're the only one who can find out what he wants."
"And where he is", Emily added.
Spencer's head snapped up, when she heard a clatter from above, "Let's get out of here!"
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"Let's finish this in the morning, okay? I'm cold, damp and scared. We can talk at school", Hanna said, as she walked alongside the other girls. It was pitch dark and windy, almost like nature was emulating their feelings.
"We can't talk at school, remember? The four of us are supposed to be having 'separate time'", Aria reminded as Emily sighed, "Doctor's orders".
"So, what are we supposed to do, not talk to each other?", Hanna scoffed incredulously, "We're in the same classes"
Spencer sighed, "We just have to play it cool."
The clatter of something metallic superseding a loud rustle, alerted the girls of the presence of someone in the lane leading to the Dilaurentis house. They could make out a faint silhouette of a built man, busily stuffing trash bags into a dumpster.
Spencer's eyes widened, "It's Jason."
"Why is he here?", Avery asked frowning, "He said he'll be in New York for a couple of weeks."
"What is all that?", Hanna questioned, seeing the heap of things on the sidewalk.
"That's all that stuff that those people left on the curb when Ali went missing, those tributes", Aria realized.
