Pilot

Thunder roared outside Spencer's barn and the wind crashed into it, testing its strength against the firm wooden structure. Inside the music blared, blocking out the sounds of the storm as the five girls sat around laughing and drinking. Kelsey took a sip from her drink, her eyes nervously flicking upwards as the lights began to flicker. Kelsey opens her mouth to make a joke about the flickering lights, but the music and lights fail altogether before she can and the joke dies on her lips. "Whoa what happened?" Emily questions, as Aria picks the flashlight from the floor.

"It must be the storm," Spencer reasoned, always the logical one of the five.

The barn lets out a squeak, startling the five of them, "Something's out there," Aria whispers, her eyes searching towards the door of the barn in fright. The barn door slowly swings open, creaking on its hinges.

"Guys," Hanna's says fearfully, as the five of them stand up grouping together in order to face the danger together. They take careful small steps, moving ever closer to the apparent danger. The sound of glass breaking causes a scream to escape from each of their lips. Aria clutches the flashlight tighter, as they all continue to move forward despite their fear.

Just as the light of the flashlight flickered against the door, a figure appeared, "Gotcha," Alison says, her words greeted with a scream from her friends.

Alison's laughs at the sight of her friend's terrified faces, "That's so not funny, Alison," Spencer snaps, as her heartbeat begins to steady.

"I thought it was hilarious," Alison replies smiling as she passes the girls to make her way back to the seats. The five girls follow her, joining their laughter with hers.

"Ali, did you download the new Beyonce?" Hanna asks, as she takes her seat.

Alison sighs, "Not yet," she admits.

"I'm loving her new video," Emily comments, smiling happily as she settles into her seat.

"Maybe a little too much, Em," Alison responds, her eyes twinkling.

"I don't think it's possible to love a Beyonce video too much," Kelsey comments, crossing her legs on the ground next to Alison's seat.

Alison laughs, picking up the orange glass and passes it to Aria, "Your turn, come on," she sing-songs. Aria looks at the liquid before beginning to drink, causing the girls around her to laugh.

"Careful Aria," Spencer warns, "take too much and you'll tell us all your secrets."

The girls giggle at Spencer's words, but Alison's just smiles looking at them all, "Friends share secrets, that's what keeps us close."

Kelsey eyes open slowly, her body complaining at being forced to sleep on the floor with only a cushion for comfort. She stretches sitting up, carefully she studies her surroundings, her eyes finding Aria, Emily and Hanna but no Spencer or Ali. "Aria," she whispers quietly, placing her hand on the sleeping girl. Her actions have a domino effect as the three sleeping girls all slowly waken one after another.

"Where's Ali and Spencer?" Hanna question tiredly.

Kelsey shakes her head, once more her blue eyes search the barn, "Don't know," she mutters frowning.

Aria stands up moving towards the barn doors, "Ali," she calls out, just as Spencer arrives before the barn door. Kelsey stands up, her eyes glancing behind Spencer to see if Alison was there.

"She's gone," Spencer says in response to Aria's call.

"What do you mean she's gone?" Aria asks in confusion, as Kelsey comes to stand beside her.

"I've looked everywhere for her, I think I heard her scream," Spencer tells them.

1 Year Later

Kelsey runs her hands through her red hair, still unsure about how she felt about having it straight. "Are you sure it looks okay?" she questions the boy occupying the driver's seat beside her.

He runs his fingers through her hair, a twinkle in his eyes, "It could be worse," he jokes.

Kelsey laughs, hitting his chest, "Noel, you're the worst," she says, leaning towards him as their lips meet. He twirls her hair between his fingers as the kiss deepens. Kelsey sighs inwardly as she pull away, her eyes turning to look out the windscreen. "Is that Aria with Emily?" she questions, leaning forward to get a better look at the girl walking into school with Emily.

"Didn't she use to have a pink stripe in her hair?" Noel asks from beside her.

"Yeah, I suppose she got rid of it," she muses quietly, unsure about how she felt about Aria being back. She shakes her head turning back to Noel, "Hey do you," she begins to ask, but Noel stops her placing a wad of money in her hand. She places a quick peck on his lips as she places the money in her bag, "Thanks," she murmurs, jumping out of the car.

"When do you want to go again?" Noel questions her, locking his car as he comes to place his arm around her shoulders.

Kelsey ponders the question in her mind carefully, "Don't know I'll have to ask Carl," she responds, as the two speed up their steps to fall in step with a few of Noel's lacrosse buddies. Kelsey eyes are drawn down as her black boots step over something. She frowns as her eyes catch a crumpled missing poster and her eyes meet with Ali's face. Kelsey takes a deep breath, trying to pay attention to the conservation taking place around her and not thinking about Alison.

Kelsey separated with Noel as she stepped into her English class, catching a glance of Hanna and Mona, no doubt gossiping about someone. She gave Hanna half a smile as their eyes met. "Hey Kels," Spencer says, as she walks past Kelsey making her way to her seat.

"Spence," she replies, walking down the rows to take the seat behind Emily. "Aria," she greets quietly, as she settles into her seat.

Aria turns to look back at her giving her a smile, "Hey Kels," she replies, as Emily turns to face Kelsey to.

Kelsey eyes turn from them as the new English teacher walks in, "I hear he's supposed to be hot," she comments to the two of them, feeling the need to make some sort of conversation as she shrugs off her black leather jacket.

"Same here," Emily agrees, as he begins to write his name across the black board. Kelsey leans into her bag pulling out her notebook, in truth uninterested in what the new English teacher looked like.

"Holy crap," the teacher declared and Kelsey glanced surprised at Aria who claimed all of their teacher's attention. Aria looks up, an embarrassed look covering her face as she realizes the eyes of the whole class are on her.

A chime from a phone rings out, and Aria grabs her bag, "Sorry," she mutters.

"Uh, I'm Mr Fitz, your new English teacher."

"Hey, loser," Kelsey says happily, grabbing the headphones from the ears of a boy who was hunched over a table in the library.

"Kelsey," he complains as she takes the seat next to him.

"Thom, what's your mum cooking tonight?" she asks him, a smile on her face at his annoyed expression.

"Something you hate," he responds to her, closing the book he was reading.

Kelsey rolls her eyes, "That's what you always say," she reminds him, drumming her red painted fingernails on the table.

Thom shakes his golden locks, "That's what happens when my best friend, lives at my house half the time," he retorts, his brown eyes twinkling playfully.

"I know," Kelsey says, dropping her black messenger bag on the table, "but Noel's parents hate me and its depressing at home by myself," she confesses.

Thom gives her a sympathetic smile, "Your brother not home?" he questions cautiously.

Kelsey laughs, "Is he ever?" she asks rhetorically.

"Kels," Thom starts, "he's meant to be your legal guardian," he reminds her, his tone quiet and his eyes on his friends.

Kelsey laughed again, "I don't even think he could define legal guardian," she responds, standing and pulling her black singlet just over the top of her red skinny jeans, her arm hitting her bag causing it to fall to the ground. Thom immediately got to the ground, picking up her stuff. Kelsey jumps down, "I've got it," she snaps, pulling her bag away from him.

Thom's eyes catch something that has fallen out of the bag, "Kels?" he questions warily. Kelsey follows her gaze, quickly grabbing the cash off the ground and stuffing it into her bag. "What was that?" Thom asks, as Kelsey stands up putting her messenger bag over her shoulders.

"Its nothing," she responds quickly, "just my brother keeps taking money from my account is all, so I keep it in cash," she lies at the look of distrust on her friend's face.

Thom shrugs, "Of course he does," he shakes his head taking his seat once more.

Kelsey takes a deep breath, pushing the strands of hair out of her face, "So dinner?" she questions nervously.

"Of course," Thom replies, "see you later." Kelsey smiles, fishing her phone out of her pocket as she hears it buzz.

Aww poor Kels, afraid to lose another best friend to the truth – A.

Kelsey looks up, her eyes searching over the room frantically. "Alison," she whispers, trying to catch a glimpse of the familiar golden hair.

Flashback

The street is dark as a blonde girl, storms out of one of the houses, slamming the door behind her. "Ali," Kelsey calls frantically, opening the door and chasing after her. "Ali," she snaps, grabbing Alison arm.

"Let go of me," Alison warns, her voice dark.

"You can't tell anyone," Kelsey begs her, her eyes watering.

"What is wrong with you Kelsey?" Alison questions, her voice without pity, "you realize how wrong it is?"

Kelsey nods slowly, "But he's the only family I've got, you can't tell anyone," she says her voice shaking, as she fights back tears.

"Kels," Alison says softly, pulling her friend into a hug, "you have me, but you won't if you don't turn your dad in," she whispers into Kelsey's ear.

"Ali," Kelsey sobs, "I can't."

Alison takes a step back, "Then I don't know how we can stay friends."

Kelsey kicked the stone in front of her, pulling out her headphones as she spied the commotion going on a few feet ahead. Near Alison's house. She pushed her feet forward, her eyes spying the cops and the body bag. It didn't make any sense to her, she had been sure Alison was back. She pulled her overnight bag closer to her, spying Aria and Spencer. She almost ran over to them, feeling the need to be beside people who might understand the tumult of emotions inside her. "I heard the cops took Hanna to the police station today," Aria says as Kelsey stood beside her and Spencer.

"You don't think she'd ever talk about," Spencer begins, "the Jenna thing," Hanna finishes, arriving to stand beside the three of them.

"We made a promise," she assures them, and Kelsey breathes a sigh of relief.

Thom took the hand of his best friend as they stepped towards the church. "Thanks for coming," Kelsey says to him, unable to add that she couldn't have bared it alone. Regardless of her and Ali's differences as far as Kelsey was concerned Ali had been family. Sure they had fought, but what sisters didn't? And now she was gone. Like the rest of her family. She caught the eye of Emily and her mum and before Kelsey could stop herself she had run up and pulled Emily into a hug.

"You okay, Kels?" Emily asks gently.

Kelsey shrugged, "Are you?" she retorts, even if in their hearts they had always known it never made it better. Kelsey turned around to see Spencer and her family approach, and Kelsey once again enveloped one of her former best friends in a hug, giving Spencer a sad smile as they broke apart. Thom came up beside her as Spencer and Emily hugged and their families greeted each other.

"Lets head inside," she tells Thom, sidestepping the Fields and the Hastings. The church was packed, like Kelsey had known it would be. Her eyes swept the pews looking for a place to seat.

"Kelsey, Spencer, and Emily," Kelsey looked up at her name to see Mrs DiLaurentis coming over and she felt Spencer and Emily stand beside her. "Would you girls sit up the front together, Hanna's already there," Mrs DiLaurentis asks them.

Kelsey looked at Spencer and Emily before nodding, "Sure of course," she tells her.

Mrs DiLaurentis smiles, "It's what Ali would have wanted."

Kelsey turns to Thom who nods towards the back row, "I'll be back here," he promises.

"Thanks," Kelsey murmurs, before following Spencer and Aria towards the front. Kelsey stops just before the front, her eyes travelling back to the DiLaurentis family. Where was Jason? The question came to her mind before she had a chance to stop it. Shaking her head she took a seat next to the other girls, giving Hanna a smile as she sat beside her. It was hard to take her eyes off the coffin and the photo of Ali, so happy, it was all so wrong. Kelsey eyes strayed upwards to see Aria, and they all shifted along making room for the fifth of Ali's best friends.

"Poor Ali," Emily says softly, staring at the picture in front of them.

"Can you believe what a scene this is?" Hanna questions a smile on her face.

Kelsey smiles to, "Its everything Alison would have wanted it to be," she admits, her eyes drifting back to all the people flowing in.

"She would have loved it," Aria agrees.

"Popular in life and death," Spencer murmurs. Hanna looks across at Emily, the most affected by the events, and slips a phial out of her clutch, and passes it across Kelsey and Spencer.

Emily glances down at it, "No thanks, I don't," Emily responds to the gesture.

"Today I think you do," Hanna argues, giving Emily a smile. Emily takes it as Aria's phone goes off, causing the four other girls to look at her. "Anyone we know?" Hanna questions as Aria opens her phone.

"No, its just my mum sending me a text," Aria assures her before closing her phone and staring at the faces of the four other girls. "Emily and I aren't the only one who got messages from A are we?" she asks them. Kelsey turns to look at Emily, both surprised and unsurprised to find her friends had also received messages from A.

Spencer turns back towards the door of the church, "Oh my God," she breathes, "its Jenna." With those words all of the girls turn to look upon the blind girl, taking her seat in the church. Kelsey shifts uncomfortably before turning back to face the front.

"Did you see that Jenna Marshall was here?" Mrs DiLaurentis asks the five of them as her and her husband took their seats, "I didn't realize her and Alison were friends."

"They weren't," Spencer quickly interjects.

Kelsey straightens her black dress as she walks out her arm interlocked with Emily's. Hanna and Aria walked in front of them and Spencer was on the other side of Emily. "Kelsey," the voice stops the five girls, "Emily, Spencer, Aria and Hanna," they're all greeted by a man in a black suit.

"Do we know you?" Spencer asks him confused.

"I'm detective Wilden. I understand you were all good friends with the victim," he introduces himself.

"Yeah, we were," Aria confirms for them all.

"I'm going to need to talk to each one of you," he informs them, passing Spencer his card.

"We talked to the police when Alison went missing," Spencer tells him, warily taking the card from his hand.

"And I intend to go over every one of your statements. This is no longer a missing persons investigation. It's a murder. Rest assured, I will find out what happened that summer," he promises, but something about the way the words came out of his mouth, made it sound more like a threat to the girls. "Kelsey," Wilden says turning his attention to the red hair, "is your brother here?"

Kelsey plays with her necklace nervously, "No he's been out of town for a few days," she replies.

"Well tell him to call me when he gets back," he says to her.

"Sure," Kelsey mutters as Detective Wilden walks away.

"Do you know him?" Spencer questions Kelsey.

Kelsey sighs quietly, "Not really he's just an old friend of my brother's," she murmurs, "you don't think he knows about?" Kelsey begins, spotting Jenna getting into a town car.

"No, how could he," Hanna quickly responds, as the girls form a circle. Kelsey glances back, spying Wilden watching them from he stood leaning against a tree. Her attention is drawn back to the others as each of their phones go off. Kelsey grabs her phone from her shoulder bag, pulling it out.

"Oh my god," Aria states.

"Its from," Hanna begins, looking down at her phone in disbelief.

"I got one too," Emily says.

"Me too," Kelsey mutters, her hand clutching around her phone.

"I'm still here bitches," Spencer begins to read.

"And I know everything – A," the girls all read in unison.

A/N - So I haven't written in forever and I couldn't think of a better way to get back into than with a fanfiction.

This is going to be an eventual Jason/OC story, but with all good things it's going to take some time :)

Feel free to comment, I would love to hear what you think, as I said I have a written in a while so I'm not even sure how good this is.

:)