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"I’d better get to school," sheher coffee cup into the chrome trash can near their seat

Chase followed her onto the street, and they parted with a deerly

"Definitely" Spencer shot him a shy smile

She kept the innocent look plastered on her face until he rounded the corner to the back parking lot Then she pulled out her phone, scrolled to find Fuji’s nuly, it went to voicemail Just like her six other calls to Fuji in the past twenty-four hours had

"It’s Spencer Hastings again," Spencer said after the beep "I’ about that extra security detail on my friend Chase--I’ht need one, too And you got the Acura keychain, right? Andwas far too risky, she’d hand-delivered to Fuji a letter of connections and leads Like how Ali and/or Helper A had been in New York a few o when Spencer, her hter visited--Spencer had gotten an A note practically the second Mr Pennythistle walked in on Spencer and his son, Zach, in bed together Maybe Tea in the Hudson Hotel, too Perhaps it would be useful to search Aer manifests froate

"Anyway, giveup and turned into Rosewood Day After parking the car, she trudged through the wet grass to the eles, where she and her friends always met to talk--they hadn’t spoken about A in a while, and , her long legs dragging on the ground Aria pulled the strings on the hood of her bright-green jacket Hanna checked her reflection in a round Chanel cos where practically the whole senior class was lingering outside before the bell

"So what’s the news?" Spencer asked her friends when she approached

"Well, Sean Ackard’s now officially a stalker," Aria estured to a clump of kids on the stairs Both Sean and Klaudia Huusko, the Kahns’ exchange student, were staring at the back, they turned away fast

"Maybe Sean likes you again, Hanna," Emily teased

"Or maybe it’s about those suicide ruave roup at his church He was looking at ht there"

Hanna rolled her eyes "I’ sick of those rumors"

Spencer cocked her head "I wonder if the cops questioned Sean about Kyla"

Hanna shrugged "There were cops all over the burn clinic They probably did"

Aria scratched her chin "Maybe Fuji slipped and admitted that Kyla was secretly Ali"

Spencer twisted her ht Fuji wanted to keep that a secret Not freak out anyone until they were close to tracking her down"

"Well, maybe this means they have tracked her down," Hanna said excitedly

A dreaine it? Ali behind bars For real this ti in Spencer pictured Ali in a prison juuarded twenty-four hours a day That bitch totally deserved it

"Once they catch her, we’re going to have to do a lot more interviews," Aria pointed out

"Yeah, but cool interviews," Hanna said "Like on Oprah Jimmy Fallon Not the six-o’clock local crap where they don’t even spring for aof the suicide ruotten anony to hurt ourselves?"

Hanna’s eyes widened, and then she nodded "Mike did And so did my dad" She rolled her eyes "I don’t know if it was fro with hiot one like that, too Saying soo off the rails What do you think that’s about?"

Spencer waved her hand dismissively "It’s all over school that we have so It’s such a stupid rumor"

"So you don’t think they’re from A?" Emily asked

"Even if they are, does it matter?" Spencer asked

Behind the around the buses

Everyone on the sidewalk and in the Coe kids dropped froawked Teachers stepped out of their classrooms, their faces sheet-white The cars screeched to a stop by the curb

Spencer reached over and grabbed Aria’s hand "Guys, maybe this is it Maybe they found Ali today"

The first cruiser door opened, and a tall agent who could have been Will Smith’s Men in Black body double stepped out Spencer leaned forward, expecting to see Ali slumped in the backseat, handcuffs around her wrists, but the seat was eent, still intiot out and slaents strode across the laard the girls, their faces grave Spencer’s heart ha Serious

Will Smith Look-alike stared hard at the four of theomery? Emily Fields? Hanna Marin?"

"Yes?" Spencer’s voice cracked

Aria squeezed her hand tight Hanna’s lips parted Spencer could feel the stares of her classent Fuji She had her arms crossed over her chest, and there was a proud, satisfied look on her face