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The Hastings house had become their meetup point for the decrypting-As-phone committee, which included all the girls except Hanna, plus Caleb. They were rewatching the video and combing through some pictures, trying to find more clues.
"Turn the volume up" "And the brightness" "Can you make the view full screen?" "Maybe make it lighter. The picture seems really dark."
"All right, that's it. I've officially stopped taking requests", Caleb rolled his eyes, "Can you guys like back up a little bit?"
"We're not even standing that close to you", Spencer scoffed from beside Caleb.
"Really? Then how do I know you had a cheeseburger for lunch?"
"It's the box Jason gave me of Ali's", Avery interrupted the banter, pointing at the screen, "I still can't see what's inside of it, though."
" Just give me a second-", Caleb worked on the picture to make it clearer.
Out of the blue, Spencer's phone rang. Reading the name on the callers ID, the brunettes eyes widened, "It's Hanna." The others motioned for her to ignore it.
"-We may be able to get a clear shot if I-"
The phone continued ringing obnoxiously, interrupting Caleb's explanation periodically, until Spencer groaned in annoyance, "Yeah, I can't take this anymore."
Spencer accepted the call and chirped, "Hey, Hanna...Uh... I'm sorry, Hanna, I really can't right now. I'm just with my family-"
Emily accidentally knocked her glass onto the floor, inciting a yell from Avery. Aria's eyes widened, as she whispered for the two girls to keep mum, "You guys, shut up!"
"Sorry, Hanna. I really have to go", Spencer stuttered before cutting the call and facing the three girls with an annoyed look on her face, "You're kidding me."
"I'm sorry, she was-", Aria began before Caleb cut her off, "Hey! Ladies. Is that a driver's license?"
Caleb zoomed in on an blurry image of a drivers license. It belonged to a woman who sported long chocolate-brown hair, but it was too blurry to make out who exactly it was. It could be anyone.
Emily frowned, "Is that Melissa?"
"I don't know", Avery squinted, "It could be Jenna."
"It's just kinda hard to tell...", Caleb trailed off, still working on recovering the picture. After a couple of seconds, the pixelated image sharpened, to reveal-
"Hold on. It's Ali", Spencer exclaimed in surprise.
"But Ali already had a fake ID", Avery frowned, "And it definitely wasn't this one"
"Why would she need an ID that didn't even look like her?", Aria mused. Instead of untangling the past, it seemed like the knots were only tightening.
