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"Tabitha’s family was rich" Hanna leaned toward the TV screens "Besides, does Ali have money? Even if she had some sort of trust account, she couldn’t draw fro monitored, if her family hasn’t already taken back all the funds"

"Maybe so her money" Spencer tossed the marker from hand to hand

There was a silence It was so quiet inside the panic roo of Spencer’s Cartier watch "It doesn’t explain why Ali would have bludgeoned her to death, though," she said "Irisk"

Aria breathed in "Someone could have seen Real Ali, period Hoas it that no one noticed her in Jas us back to themoney on the sheet of paper "Now that I think about it, the DiLaurentis family definitely didn’t have cash When I found out all that stuff about Ali and Courtney being my half sisters, part of it was about how the DiLaurentises were broke--probably froeous hospital bills for all those years So how could Ali have gotten the cash to travel to Jamaica? And if she’s A, how did she come back to Rosewood and stalk us so expertly?"

"And go on the cruise," Aria added "All of that takesher," Hanna concluded "It’s the only thing that makes sense--not just for the money aspect, but because of other stuff, too She can’t be everywhere at once It’s just not possible"

"So she has a helper, then," Spencer said "Just like we thought"

Hanna nodded "Honestly, who’s to say Ali has ever been working alone? Maybe she had soht after we found hione?"

She shivered, thinking back to that cold, creepy night They’d coet Officer Wilden, only to find a rass when they’d returned The h, but she wasn’t strong enough to drag a six-two, one-hundred-eighty-pound guy away from a crime scene in under ten minutes

Spencer sat down on the couch "Someone could have helped her carry Ian up the stairs and put him in the closet at the Poconos house, too That same someone could have been the one to kidnap Melissa"

"And kill Jenna Cavanaugh," Hanna said, shifting to the edge of the couch excitedly

"And set that fire in Spencer’s backyard," Aria added

Everyone stared at each other It seemed so obvious now Ali wasn’t superhuh to help her?

"It has to be someone who loves her, obviously," Aria said faintly

Spencer wrote love on the paper "Like a friend or a boyfriend, right?"

"Sure" Emily sounded a little pained "But that could be anyone"

Hanna sat back to think "Well, Real Ali was in The Preserve for a long time So maybe it was someone she met while she was there"

"Like Graha at Aria

Aria hunched her shoulders "Graham seemed more into Tabitha than Ali, and he told me he never visited The Preserve And I’m not sure he’s A--he’s been in a coma since before the latest notes came in"

"But ested, writing down Grahaed our houses? I don’t know about that" Aria tucked her feet under her butt "And anyway, A is threatening to fra Ali’s helper I bet that’s what he was trying to tell me in the boiler rooood friends at The Preserve, though Remember Iris, Ali’s roommate? When I was there, she talked about Ali--well, she called her Courtney--all the tiood" Spencer wrote Iris beneath Grahah I’m not sure Iris could be Ali’s henchman She was at The Preserve when Ian was killed I don’t kno she could have snuck out to haul Ian’s body to the Poconos, either We’ll have to figure out a way to see if she was there ere in Ja" Spencer turned back to their list "Who else?"

"We can’t leave off Jason," Aria volunteered

Hanna frowned "Ali’s brother? Do you really think he’d help her?"

"Who knows?" Aria shrugged "That family is beyond weird"

Hanna raised an eyebrow as Spencer wrote it down That was big of Aria to suggest it--she’d had a crush on Jason forever

"What about Cassie, Ali’s field hockey friend?" Spencer asked "Reed about Cassie nonstop? How she was going to high school parties How Cassie was the coolest How Cassie was going to be her new BFF"

Emily didn’t look convinced "I ran into Cassie last Christmas, and she seemed okay And anyway, that was our Ali’s friend, not Real Ali"

Spencer sht God It’s hard to keep track"

They wrote down a fewDarren Wilden and Melissa, only because the two of them had been involved in Ali’s case from start to finish But they didn’t seem like very likely suspects Spencer scratched her chin "I still feel like we’re ht in front of us and we don’t see it Is there anyone besides the four of us who has been around this whole ti Ian’s death, Jenna’s death, the fires, Jamaica, that summer, all of it?"

Hanna cleared her throat "Well, I can think of two people, but I don’t think either of them would be Ali’s helper"

"Who?" Spencer’s eyes widened