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Dear Spencer,

Apparently one of the steps to getting better in rehab is letting go of bad blood between people, so I guess I’ll start with you I’m not mad at you anymore I mean, I was pissed at you forto do with getting me in trouble, but I never knew for sure until Eood for you I don’t really blauess When I texted you on Friday about hoe needed to talk, I thought I could keep ain, you were angry, too But I even forgive you for hurting me I don’t knohat your problem is, but you seriously need help

Good luck with everything Think of ht

Kelsey

"Whoa," Hanna said when she finished

"I don’t understand" Spencer looked at Emily "She didn’t knohat I did until you told her? If she’s A, how is that possible?"

"She did seem surprised when I told her at the cast party," Eured she was lying--that she knew all along"

Hanna pointed to Emily’s letter "What does yours say?"

Emily looked nervously at each of them, almost as if she’d rather read the ed and unfolded the letter

Dear E to do I totally screwed up, and I dragged you into it, and I’e secret from me

When I met you, I was clean and sober Happy Excited to make a new friend But then I made the connection of who you were and who you knew That made me think of Spencer, and all the bad ain I popped the alley and before alked on the trail I popped the, but I didn’t tell you I knew you’d try everything in your power to stop me, and I didn’t want to stop

As soon as you toldmore pills than I could handle I was out of my mind ere at the quarry, and I’h for pulling h I’ive it tiet better You never know

The thing is, I’s no one would ever put on her bad-girl bucket list I cheated on iveout with hi break in Jauy the first afternoon and left with hi to the other side of the island and leaving my friends without a car ora shitty person I forgive you, and I hope you can forgive ain

Or maybe life sucks, and then you die

Kelsey

When everyone finished reading, Emily folded the letter back up, tears in her eyes "Poor Kelsey"

"Poor Kelsey?" Spencer exploded "Poor you!"

"And, you guys, Jae "This part where she says she took off with a guy her first day there Could that be true?"

Hanna glanced out into the hall again Kelsey was still sitting in the nurse’s office, fiddling with the string on her paja with Tabitha She certainly wouldn’t have seenwhat happened"

"Maybe she was telling the truth when she said she didn’t knoho Tabitha was," Eling earrings tre "It’s not possible What about that photo she sent ht went on in Hanna’s ave her a strange look, but then turned it over Hanna opened up Spencer’s saved texts and scrolled through her history A’sto hurt you But Spencer also had at least twenty unopened es from Friday after the play Many of theuy who played Macbeth, but one was from an unknown number with a 484 area code

Hanna opened it up Emily told me what you did, bitch, it said We need to talk Kelsey

"Jesus," Hanna whispered, showing it to Spencer "What if this was the text she was talking about in the letter? The text she was referring to on Friday night?"

The blood drained from Spencer’s face "B-but I didn’t see this on Friday All I saas that one froether, and"

She let the phone fall to the table Her gaze searched the roo stable and solid "Kelsey must have sent both texts"