{Spoby AU} What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?

{Spoby AU} - Collab with @SwearItOnTheStyx

Secrets make the world go round. At least in Rosewood they do. In this town, where shadows lurk around every corner, and the lies we tell gnaw at our black hearts, secrets are the oxygen of the people. Everything is withheld; nothing is shared. People lie.

Rosewood is different.
Strange.
There are rules.
Punishments.
The DOs and the DON'Ts.
The people are the dolls and They are the puppet masters.

They;
They set the rules.
They blare the alarms.
They play with you, hurt and torture you.
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Spencer Hastings is the problematic, avidly intelligent daughter of renowned American attorneys, Peter and Veronica Hastings. Oppressed and constantly watched, she has begun to feel the confines of Rosewood life, and longs for the free life she fears she'll never have.

Toby Cavanaugh is the lonely son of the late Marion Cavanaugh, former patient at Radley Sanitarium. Alone, and with no one to turn to, he pines for the for the comfort of a friend.
When the two unexpectedly cross paths, a bond that neither of them had anticipated forms between them. But some things are forbidden in Rosewood, and there's a reason no one can tell you what happens after the alarms go off.

{also featuring a bit of Emison, Haleb and Ezria}

[DISCLAIMER: THE WORLD, ALL THE CHARACTERS AND THE CHAPTER NAMES BELONG TO MARLENE KING AND/OR SARA SHEPARD]