If She Stayed

*Nobody's POV*
Aria, Spencer, Hanna, Emily and Alison all sat in Emily's room talking about their classes.
"Ali where were you yesterday? I called you like seven times." Emily said.
"Don't worry about it, Em." She said.
"What are you hiding?" Emily asked.
"Em, I was with my family!" Ali said, a bit of her old flare coming up.
"Ali, I can tell when you're lying." Emily said.
"I can't tell you guys...its a-" Ali stopped herself after realizing how many secrets she has already kept from them.
"Promise you won't tell a single soul?" Ali asked.
"I swear I won't." Emily said.
"Promise." Aria said.
Hanna nodded her head.
"I won't." Spencer said.
"I was with my brother..." Alison said.
"You were with Jason?" Spencer asked.
"I would've said our-I mean..." Ali hesitated. She knew that if she slipped that secret about Jason being Spencer's and her half brother, Spencer would ask her parents.
"No, I wasn't with Jason." She said.
"Then who were you with?" Aria asked.
"Is it a new boyfriend?" Hanna teased. Ali looked at her seriously.
"I'm not lying about being with my brother...because I was." Ali said.
"But you just said that you weren't with Jason." Aria said.
"Because I wasn't...I was with Charlie." Ali said.
"Charlie?" The other girls all asked in unison. Alison smiled at how close they've grown.
"Yes, Charlie. My parents...they sent him...he was...he tried to umm...he tried to drown me when I was just a baby and...my parents put him in Radley...he's been there for a long time." Alison nervously sputtered.
The girls all looked at each other, speechless.
"I promised not to tell anyone...so if you're going to ask to meet him then that's out of the question." Ali said.
After a few seconds of silence Hanna said,
"Well I have to go home..."
"Yeah I should get going to." Aria agreed. I nodded, agreeing also.
"I should go to." Spencer said.
"Well...that sort of hurts." Emily said. I gave her a sympathetic look before grabbing my bag and walking out the door.
I ran up to Spencer, who was picking up the contents of the bag she dropped. I stooped down to help her.
"Hey, listen, Spencer...I have something to tell you but you can't tell anyone...not even your parents or Aria or Hanna or Emily." I said.
"I can keep a secret." She said with an assuring smile.
"Umm...I can't tell you here. Can I go over to your house to tell you? Somewhere...private."
"Sure." She said and we both stood up.

*Hanna's POV*
After our talk at Emily's I went home and sat in my bed for a while.
After about half an hour of boredom I heard the doorbell ring.

"Mike?" I asked.
"Yeah...so you know how Aria's birthday is coming up?" Mike asked.
"Of course."
"Well I was wondering if you would help me get her a birthday present...I don't really have any ideas of what to get her so..."
"Oh I'm glad you came to me. I couldn't decide between these two things I wanted to get her, so you could buy the other one."
"Oh, thanks, Hanna." Mike said.
I thought of the...interesting...history that I had with Mike.

And smiled.

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Got a lot coming for you!

Also I might start up Season 6 again. I have some more ideas. I'm going to continue it from tomorrow's episode, so I'll post a new chapter as soon as I can tomorrow after the episode.