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Emily fiddled with a studded leather bracelet on a display tray "So when do you think I’ll hear from Carolyn?"

Mrs Fields refolded a T-shirt she’d been looking at, carefully avoiding Eaze "I’m sure she’ll call you soon"

"Does she really want to apologize?"

Mrs Fields’s eyelid twitched "We should concentrate on you and ether I hope we can do this more often"

Emily cocked her head "Sothat means Carolyn is still really mad?"

Mrs Fields’s cell phone blared, and sheto find it "I need to take this," she said briskly, even though Emily was pretty sure it was only her dador ainst a rack of jackets and sighed Okay, so things weren’t perfect yet Mrs Fields had told her that Carolyn wanted to let bygones be bygones, but Emily had seen no indication of that yet Nor had she and her fanancy or the baby But these things took tiesture

As her h the front door, Emily pulled out her own phone and checked her e-e froet to buy a ticket for the Senior Proan Square, Philadelphia Dinner and dancing

A lonely feeling swept through her She’d already bought a ticket for proo But the only person Eirl named Jordan Richards she’d met on the cruise--couldn’t come

Thankfully, there were no new alerts about Tabitha Eallery, and suddenly, a picture of Alison DiLaurentis stared back It was the real Alison DiLaurentis, the girl who’d come back to Rosewood last year and later revealed herself as A Emily had snapped the photo of Ali in her bedroom the day Ali had kissed her It’sI’ I’ve missed you so much

E Even after Ali had confessed that she’d killed her own sister, Emily held out hope that she’d come to her senses and atone for what she’d done Her love for Ali had been so intense that she’d left the door open for her in the Poconos instead of barricading it shut and letting the girls’ would-be killer burn

She’d kept the secret for a while, but she finally told her friends last week Now, they were starting to believe what E: Real Ali wasn’t dead, and she was their New A That ressions last su her baby out of the hospital and away froht was crazy--and a woht have been in Jaht be Tabitha’s real killer It also meant Real Ali had been on the cruise ship last week How had they not seen her? How had no one seen her?

Emily’s thumb hovered over DELETE After A had threatened her baby’s life, she’d finally co herself to get rid of the one photo she had of her Sighing, Eallery and looked at a picture of another girl she was pretty sure she loved Jordan grinned into the ca Puerto Rican sun, and blue water stretched behind her forshe could feel Jordan’s soft cheek one irl glanced over Eirlfriend?"

Emily sirl’s lip curled into a smile "What’s that mean?"

Eitive It means she jumped off a cruise ship in Bermuda to avoid the FBI, and I have no idea where she is nohen I’ll see her again

She wandered toward the shoe section, which set those last few ether In Jordan’s past life, she’d been Katherine DeLong, the Preppy Thief, the girl who stole boats, cars, and planes When Eed her naents, probably alerted by Real Ali/New A, chased both of theiven Emily one last look, then dived into the bay to escape

When Emily returned home, she’d received a postcard fro to write back, but Jordan wasn’t stupid enough to include a return address Wherever she was--Thailand, Brazil, some teeny island off the coast of Spain--she was hopefully hiding well enough to evade the cops

Eers over the s an idea She pulled out her phone again, opened the Twitter app, and logged into her account Then she copy-pasted the prom invite into a neeet PROM IS IN TWO WEEKS, she typed WISH I COULD TAKE MY TRUE LOVE

She hit TWEET, feeling satisfied Hopefully Jordan would see it and understand what it h Jordan probably wouldn’t reply, at least she’d know E about her

When her phone buzzed a second later, her spirits soared--Jordan already! But the e-ent Jasmine Fuji NEED TO SPEAK WITH YOU ABOUT TABITHA CLARK

E puh the store’s speakers suddenly sounded like vicious dogs Pressing herself into a back corner, she opened the e-e of the Tabitha Clark uests at The Cliffs resort in Negril, Jamaica, at the same time Miss Clark was there Procedure dictates that I interview everyone to get a better picture of what happened that night Please contact ent Jasmine Fuji