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“Hanna!” Aria yelled She ran down the slope to her Hanna had called the she’d been in a crash and needed their help
“Are you hurt?” Emily touched Hanna’s arm Her bare skin was slick with rain and covered in tiny shards of glass from the windshield
“I think I’m okay” Hanna wiped the rain from her eyes “It all happened so fast This car ca me out of the lane But I don’t know about … her”
Her gaze drifted to the car There was a girl sluer seat Her eyes were closed, and her body waseyelashes Her lips were pretty and bow-shaped, and there was a small mole on her chin
“Who is that?” Spencer asked cautiously Hanna hadn’t mentioned that anyone ith her
“Her na off a wet leaf that had just blown against her cheek She had to screa rain, which was so violent it was alht—this is her car She was really drunk, and I offered to drive her hoave me directions piecemeal, and she seemed really out of it Does she look familiar to any of you?”
Everyone shook their heads, slack-jawed
Then Aria frowned “Where did you meet her?”
Hanna lowered her eyes “The Cabana” She sounded sheepish “It’s a bar on South Street”
The others exchanged a surprised look Hanna wasn’t one to turn down a coso to a dive bar alone Then again, they all needed to blow off some steam Not only had they been tortured the previous year by two stalkers using the alias A—first Mona Vanderwaal, Hanna’s best friend, and then the real Alison DiLaurentis—but they were also sharing a terrible secret froht Real Ali had died in a fire in the Poconos, but then she’d appeared in Jairls had confronted her on the roof deck at the resort, and when Ali had lunged at Hanna, Aria had stepped forward and pushed her over the side When they ran to the beach to find her body, it was gone The memory haunted each of them every day