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"Why would A show us that part of the video?", Aria mused as she folded programmes in the Hastings girls house, the others beside her engaged in the same cumbersome task.
"To keep us distracted for when the next attack is launched",Hanna replied, Emily backing her up, "Or to tell us there's more to what happened that night."
"Guys, Ian tried to kill me in the bell tower to get back his perverted videos, and he went after Ali for the same reason", Spencer reminded.
"Yeah, but A had us convinced that Ian killed Alison, and now it's, what, two miles from the kissing rock to Ali's house", Emily frowned, "Did she turn off the camera and walk home in the dark, alone?"
"Yeah, someone could've been waiting for her and surprised her when she got home", Avery suggested.
"Like who?"
"Like Ian. Just because he didn't kill Alison at the Kissing Rock doesn't mean that he didn't do it an hour later", Avery shot back.
"If Ian didn't kill Ali, did A?", Hanna said in a voice slightly above a whisper, as the atmosphere shifted into a tense one. Hanna decided to change the subject, "So, uh, did you invite Ezra to the show?", she asked an absent-minded Aria.
Aria shook her head, "No, he's out of town presenting a paper at a conference. Did you invite Caleb?"
"Why would I do that?"
"Because you kissed him", Avery quipped as the others gathered around the blonde.
"How was it?", Spencer smirked.
"Well, I wore the total wrong gloss",Hanna whined, "You know the kind that looks wet, but it's really sticky?"
"It's all fun and sexy till somebody hacks up a hairball", Aria joked, looking at Avery, anticipating her blithe laughter, her reaction to anything remotely funny. But, the brunette made no signs of reacting the way she expected her to, instead she sat there unheedingly, folding the programmes. Lately, she'd been like this.
"Hey, could we please keep folding?", Spencer shot, "I needed these done yesterday, and I've already missed a million committee meetings."
"Can just send someone a text?", Aria questioned with puppy-eyes.
"If it's to Ezra, then yes", Spencer grinned.
"Wow. Toby has turned our boss into a romantic", Emily teased a blushing Spencer, "I was always a romantic! You know, under a thin veneer of pragmatism and a few shockingly bad choices."
"Guys, uh", Aria got up and headed towards the door, "I need to deal with this."
"Do you realize that we finally all have boyfriends/girlfriends at the same time?", Spencer quipped.
Hanna huffed, "Okay, I do not have a boyfriend!"
"Yeah, you do", Emily smiled, "You just don't want to admit it."
