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Hanna sat back, trying to remember which video it could be--there were sothem Hanna had always tried her hardest to duck out of every shot, because for her, the camera added not ten pounds but twenty

Wilden cracked his knuckles and fiddled with a phallic-looking pepper grinder that sat in the center of the table Some pepper spilled on the tablecloth, and the air i I want to talk about is Alison herself We have reason to believe that Alison’s killer ht be someone from Rosewood Someone who possibly still lives here today…and that person erous"

Everyone drew in a breath

"We’re looking at everything with a fresh eye," Wilden went on, rising fro around with his hands clasped behind his back He’d probably seen so to reconstruct Alison’s life right before she wentWe want to start with the people who knew her best"

Just then, Hanna’s BlackBerry buzzed She pulled it out of her purse Mona

"Mon," Hanna answered quietly, getting up fro to the far side of the porch by herto be a couple minutes late"

"Bitch," Mona teased "That sucks I’m already at our table at Rive Gauche"

"Hanna," Wilden called gruffly "Can you please call whoever that is back?"

At the same time, Aria sneezed "Bless you," Emily said

"Where are you?" Mona sounded suspicious "Are you with someone?"

"I’m at home," Hanna answered "And I’m with Emily, Aria, Spencer, and Off--"

"You’re with your old friends?" Mona interrupted

"They were here when I got hoht" Mona’s voice rose higher

"You invited your old friends to your house On the night of our Frenniversary"

"I didn’t invite thehed It was still hard to believe Mona could feel threatened by her old friends

"I was just--"

"You knohat?" Mona cut her off "Forget it The Frenniversary is cancelled"

"Mona, don’t be--" Then she stopped Wilden was next to her

He plucked the phone fro a murder," he said in a low voice "Your social life can wait"

Hanna glared at hi up her phone! Just because he was dating her et all dadlike on her She stor to cal, but she couldn’t ice Hanna out for long Most of their fights only lasted a few hours, tops

"Okay," Wilden said when Hanna sat back down "I received soo that I think we should talk about" He pulled his notepad out

"Your friend, Toby Cavanaugh? He wrote a suicide note"

"W-we know," Spencer stuttered "His sister let us read part of it"

"So you know it h his notebook "Toby wrote, ‘I promised Alison DiLaurentis I’d keep a secret for her if she kept a secret for me’" His olive-colored eyes scanned each of them

"What was Alison’s secret?"

Hanna slumped down in her seat We were the ones who blinded Jenna That was the secret Toby had kept for Ali Hanna and her friends hadn’t realized Toby knew that--until Spencer spilled the beans three weeks ago

Spencer blurted out, "We don’t know Ali didn’t tell any of us"

Wilden’s brow crinkled He leaned over the patio table "Hanna, a while ago you thought Toby killed Alison"

Hanna shrugged iht Toby was A and Ali’s killer "Well…Toby didn’t like Ali"

"Actually, he did like Ali, but Ali didn’t like him back," Spencer clarified "He used to spy on her all the ti to do with his secret"

Emily made a small whimper Hanna eyed her suspiciously All Euilty she felt about Toby What if she wanted to tell Wilden that they were responsible for his death--and Jenna’s accident? Hanna o when she had nothing to live for, but there was no way in hell she would confess now Her life was finally back to normal, and she was in no mood to be known as one of The Psycho Blinders, or whatever they’d inevitably be called on TV

Wilden flipped a few pages on his pad "Well, everyone think about it Moving on…let’s talk about the night Alison went ht before she disappeared, Ali tried to hypnotize you The two of you fought, she ran out of the barn, you ran after her, but you couldn’t find her Right?"

Spencer stiffened "Uht"

"You have no idea where she went?"

Spencer shrugged "Sorry"

Hanna tried to re theone Hanna really felt like Ali had put her in a trance: as Ali counted down froh the barn, Hanna had felt heavy and sleepy, the popcorn and Doritos she’d eaten earlier roiling uncoan to flicker in front of her eyes: Ali and the others ran through a dense jungle Large,plants surrounded the When Hanna had snapped out of it, Spencer was standing in the doorway of the barn, looking worried…and Ali was gone

Wilden continued to stroll around the porch He picked up a Southwest-style cera for a price tag Nosy bastard "I need you girls to re around the time Alison disappeared Did she have a boyfriend? Any new friends?"