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But as the screen flashed, she felt an eerie premonition What if Spencer was in trouble? The last time she’d seen Spencer, she’d seemed so scared and desperate Maybe she needed Eers inched toward the phone, but then Carolyn rolled over in bed and groaned "You’re not going to get that, are you? So"

Emily pressed IGNORE and flopped back down to theback tears She kneas a burden for Carolyn to let her stay here--the futon took up nearly all the floor space, E schedule, and she was asking Carolyn to keep a huge secret from their parents But did she have to be soEe There was one person left to call Spencer pressed Hanna’s na her suitcase closed when the phone rang "Mike?" she answered without looking at the screen All day, her boyfriend had been calling her with random trivia about Iceland--Did you know there’s ayou

"Hanna," Spencer blurted on the other end "I need you"

Hanna sat back "Are you okay?" She’d barely heard froan an intensive suram at Penn The last time she’d seen her was at Noel Kahn’s party, when Spencer’s friend Kelsey caht that had been

Spencer burst into tears Her words caht bits of sentences: "The policepillsI tried to get rid of themI am so dead unless you"

Hanna rose and paced around the rooht Soyou’re in trouble? Because of the drugs?"

"Yes, and I need you to do so for me" Spencer clutched the phone with both hands

"How can I help?" Hanna whispered She thought about the ti a bracelet fro her then-boyfriend Sean’s car Surely Spencer wasn’t asking Hanna to cozy up to the cop that arrested her, as Hanna’s ave you at Noel’s party?" Spencer said

"Uh, yeah" Hanna shifted uncoet them and drive them to Penn’s campus Go to the Friedman dorm There’s a door around the back that’s always propped open--you can get in that way Go to the fourth floor, rooet into the rooet in, put the pills under the pillow Or in the drawer Somewhere kind of hidden but also kind of obvious"

"Wait, whose roo Hanna wouldn’t ask that "It’sKelsey’s," she adht now, Hanna I don’t think I can take it She’s going to ruin me, okay? I need you to put those pills in Kelsey’s room and then call the cops and say that she’s a known dealer at Penn You also need to say she has a sketchy past--she’s trouble That will make the cops search her room"

"Is Kelsey really a dealer?" Hanna asked

"Well, no I don’t think so"

"So basically you’re askingyou both did?"

Spencer shut her eyes "I guarantee you Kelsey’s in the interrogation rooto Iceland in two days!" Hanna protested "I’d rather not go through custoht," Spencer reassured her "I promise Andthink about Jamaica Think about hoe all would have been screwed if we hadn’t stuck together"

Hanna’s stomach swirled She’d tried her hardest to erase the Ja her friends for the rest of the school year so as not to relive or rehash the awful events The sa had happened to the four of them after their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis--really Courtney, Ali’s secret twin sister--disappeared on the last day of seventh grade Soether Other times, it tore them apart

But Spencer needed her now, just like Hanna had needed her friends in Jamaica They had saved her life She stood up and slipped on a pair of Havaiana flip-flops "Okay," she whispered "I’ll do it"

"Thank you," Spencer said When she hung up, relief settled over her like a cool, misty rain

The door burst open, and the phone almost slid from Spencer’s hand The same wiry cop strode into the room When he noticed Spencer’s phone, his cheeks reddened "What are you doing with that?"

Spencer dropped it to the table "No one asked rabbed the phone and slipped it into his pocket Then he gripped Spencer’s hand and roughly pulled her to her feet "Coed Spencer into the hall The odor of rancid takeout burned her nostrils "We’re going to have a discussion"

"I told you, I don’t know anything," Spencer protested "What did Kelsey say?"