Disclaimer: I own nothing except my ocs Valerie and Jess

Pilot

Thunder roared outside Spencer's barn as the five girls inside giggled, passing around their drinks and oblivious to any danger lurking outside. Music blared from inside and Spencer took a sip from her drink when the lights started to flicker. The lights died out along with the music. All laughter ceased.

"Whoa what happened?" Emily asked as Aria pulled out her flashlight.

"It must be the storm." Spencer reasoned as the five stood up. The barn door let out a squeak and all heads shoot up to stare.

"Something's out there." Aria whispered. On the seat next to her perched a blonde haired girl hid a smile and stretched out further as the others tensed. The barn door slowly opened.

"Guys." Hanna freaked out, her eyes never leaving the door. The girls gathered together, minus one who was shaking her head at her paranoid friends. The four started towards the door and something glass broke just outside making scream. Ignoring it, the four continued towards the open barn door. The girl on the couch let out a silent snort.

Just how every horror movie ends, the green eyed beauty thought to herself as she continued to watch her friends in amusement.

"Gotcha!" A girl in a yellow tank top jumped out in sight scaring the four friends as the other let out a laugh.

"That's so not funny, Alison!" Spencer said as everyone joined in to laugh.

"I thought it was hilarious, even Val was laughing." Alison smiled as she joined the other blonde girl. Valerie let out one more laugh before the other girls joined them back to where te seats were.

"Ali, did you download the new beyoncé?" Hanna asked as they settled down. Alison let out a sigh, a smile still present on her lips.

"Not yet," She admitted.

"I'm loving her new video," Emily said. Valerie watched as Alison's eyes started to twinkle.

"Maybe a little too much, Em," Alison said, giving Emily an 'innocent' look. Alison handed the cup to Valerie.

"Your turn. Go on. We all know how you like your drinks Val," Alison sang, her eyes keeping contact with Valerie's. Valerie gave her a bemused look to pass it off. Alison knew she didn't drink. At least not anymore. She quickly passed the cup to Aria.

"I'll pass." Her lips twitched upward as she remained eye contact with the blonde. Aria, Emily, and Hanna gave her a confused look before Aria gulped it down.

"Careful, Aria," Spencer laughed along with the others, "Take too much, and you'll tell us all your secrets." Valerie gave Spencer a thankful look for diffusing the attention else where. The only people who knew about her little secret were Spencer and Alison and having the latter know about it was unintentional. Spencer gave her a knowing smile in return before their attention was directed towards Alison.

"Friends share secrets," Alison said causing everyone to sober up quickly, "That's what keeps us close. Drink up." The girls cheered Aria on as she took another sip of her drink. Before everyone knew it, they were all asleep. Valerie felt something in the pit of her stomach, like something bad had just happened. She blinked her eyes awake and saw that Aria was waking up as well. Valerie pointed at Emily, telling Aria to wake her up as she did the same to Hanna.

"Where's Ali and Spencer?" Hanna asked still half asleep. Aria and Valerie exchanged worried looks.

"We don't know." Aria said as Valerie tugged down her oversized t-shirt and walked towards the door.

"Spence?" Valerie called out as she saw her best friend arrive back. She glanced behind her to see if the blonde was there too. "Where's Ali?"

"She's gone." Spencer answered as she got closer.

"What do you mean she's gone?" Valerie asked, worry creeping up on her.

If this is some sick joke-, Valerie thought.

"I've looked everywhere for her," Emily and Hanna glanced up in worry, "I think I heard her scream."

"So wait, your meeting Melissa's fiance tonight?" Valerie's emerald eyes danced in amusement as she talked to Spencer on her phone.

"Yeah trust me, I'm not exactly excited to meet Mr. and Mrs. Perfect," Spencer laughed on the other line.

"You think he's as uptight as Melissa?" Valerie joked as walked down the stairs of her house.

"No one is as uptight as Melissa," Spencer said seriously making Valerie chuckle. The sound of the front door opening and closing was heard.

"Hey, I think Jess is home, I'll see you tomorrow okay?" Valerie hung up the phone before walking down the hallway to see her aunt sprawled across the couch.

"Rough day?" Valerie asked joining on the seat across. Jess let out a groan.

"No one's hiring, and we can't live off on just you're grandparents inheritance." The strawberry haired woman as she sat up and looked at her niece in concern.

"You seen the news?" She asked cautiously. Valerie hugged her arms around her body.

"Yeah, I can't it's been a year." Valerie sighed before glancing up at a framed picture. There was an older woman with curly caramel hair with a blonde haired man, both hugging a girl with pigtails and a missing tooth. Jess stared up at the picture as well. It's been four months since they both lost her sister and Valerie's mother to a car accident. Her no good father went on a bender after losing the love of his life. The two haven't heard from him since. Jess glanced back at her niece. So many losses at such a yound age. Jess walked over to her and placed a kiss on her head.

"I'm gonna start dinner."

"Is that Hanna?" Aria's eyes grew wide as she stared at the new and improved blonde in shock

"She's the "it" girl now." Emily said as they both watched as Mona entered as well. And where there's Hanna, there's Mona." Aria's eyes grew wider

"That's Mona?" She asked and Emily nodded.

"Can you believe it?" Emily said.

"Wow," Aria managed to get out, "Talk about a makeover." Hanna glanced their way and waved only to turn her head away from them. Aria gave a look of confusion.

"What's up with her?" Aria asked glancing at the two, "You two fighting?"

"We didn't just fall out of touch with you, Aria. We all fell out of touch with each other," Emily explained as Spencer walked in and slightly smiled at Hanna.

"They're not so close anymore either," Emily admitted sadly.

"So they're friendly, but not friends," Aria realized as a familiar green eyed blonde walked through the doors as well, her head held high, curls casscading down softly past her shoulders. "Well what about Val and Spence?" Emily glanced at the two as Valerie took her spot behind Spencer.

"They've been as close as before, if not closer," Emily said as Aria looked at the two, "Before Ali, it was always just the two of them."

"You said they got closer?" Aria asked, "Was it after Ali, you know..." Emily shook her head.

"Aria, Valeria lost her mom to a car accident," Aria looked shocked at the news, "It was only a couple of months ago, her dad has been MIA and her aunt Jess had to come in. Her and Spencer have kind of been insperable." Aria bowed her head in, her heart aching for her petite friend. The new teacher, Mr. Fitz walked into the classroom and wrote his name on the board before turning around.

"Holy crap." Valerie glanced up at the young teacher to see his attention on her old friend.

"Did you know she was back?" Valerie whispered to Spencer who shook her head as she glanced back at Aria as well. Aria glanced up only to see everyone staring at her when her phone rang out.

"Sorry." She apologized before glancing at her phone.

"Uh, I'm Mr. Fitz, your new English teacher," He said. Valerie narrowed her eyes on Aria's phone as the brown haired girl tensed up in her seat. She saw her mouth whisper one thing.

Alison.

"Do you wanna eat out tonight?" Jess asked as she poured her coffee out in a mug. Valerie gave shrug as she bit into her apple, her eyes focused on the book in front of her.

"Val," Jess sighed, "I'm really trying here." Valerie sighed placing her book down.

"I'm sorry. It's been kind of hectic with the papers," Valerie said glancing out the window, "Even when she's not here, she's still here." Jess smiled in understanding as she opened the door.

"Well, I'm here when you need me," Jess said before jokingly put on a stern face, "I want you home right after school understand? Then we can go out to eat. Good enough?" Valerie let out a laugh.

"Very parental yes," She said putting a thumbs up for approval. Jess smiled.

"Be a good girl for me okay?" Jess yelled out as she left the house. Valerie smiled and shook her head when her phone vibrated on the kitchen counter. She picked it up and frowned.

Keeping dear aunt Jessie in the dark Val? If only she knew how much of a 'good girl' you used to be.

-A

Valerie tensed before turning off her phone and heading out the door.

A mop of blonde hair pulled the petite girl through the crowd of drunk people and up the stairs into his empty bedroom. The both had more than enough drinks.

"How many people are down there?" Valerie giggled as she tried to balance herself, taking the last few sips from her cup. A strong pair of arms wrapped around her waist as she felt a pair of lips smile against her neck before it started placing small kisses. She let out a gasp, dropping the empty red cup onto the ground and moving her hand up from his chest to his shoulders.

"Who cares," He growled as her grip on his shoulder tightened. Valerie let out a gasp as he found her sweet spot, right where her heart beat was. He moved his mouth from her neck to her pouty lips.

"Tell me to stop," He whispered, his words echoing off her lips, "Tell me you wanna leave, and this will never happen." She opened her eyes and glanced at his blue eyes that bore into her emerald ones.

"No," She whispered before letting her lips touch his, "I don't want you to stop." She mumbled against his lips. He roughly pushed his lips against hers in a state of drunken need. Neither of them noticing a familiar blue eyed blonde female standing at the door before she left. Wrapping her legs against his waist, he pushed her up against the bedroom wall as he deepened the kiss. He moved his head down to her neck, running his nose against the soft skin before placing his mouth on the sweet spot of her supple skin. Valerie let out a quiet moan as her grip on his bicep tightened.

In a state of weakness, she sighed out his name, "J-jason."

Valerie and Spencer sat just outside the gates of the Hasting's home, both staring down at Valerie's phone.

"Spence, no one knows about Jason, or the drinking or-" she cut her self off before taking a deep breath "no one but you and Alison and unless the dead can start walking and texting, someone's messing with us," Valerie bit out as she ran a hand through the curly mess that sat on top of her head.

"Someone knows our secrets, secrets that only Ali knew about," Spencer shook her head, frustrated at the fact that this was one of the few things she didn't have the answer to. After the two confided in each other about A, Valerie decided to text Hanna to join them just incase A left her a message too. Valerie let her head fall on her best friend's shoulder.

"Just as we're one step closer to normality, someone's gotta push us 10 steps back," Valerie sighed. Just as they got up police sirens and ambulances passed their way and onto the house across from them. Spencer and Valerie exchanged glances before getting up fully on their stared at the cops surrounding what once was the Dilaurentis home. Spencer grabbed Valerie's hand in an instant as the two watched them pull out a body. A car pulled up and Aria stepped out. She glanced behind her and saw her two old friends and made her way quickly towards them. Aria stood at Valeri's left as the three held back tears.

"I heard the cops took Hanna to the police station today." Aria broke the silence.

"Wait," Valerie looked at Aria in shock.

"You don't think she'd ever talk about-"

"The Jenna thing?" Hanna cut Spencer off as she joined the three, "We made a promise."

"I'll come by and pick you up okay?" Jess said as she dropped her niece off at the funeral. Jess would've came along had she been a resident at Rosewood longer than 4 months, she felt as if she were intruding on something meant for the original town residents. Valerie didn't trust herself to speak so she opted for nodding instead as she walked up the steps of the church. She walked up to a hug fest with the Fields and Hastins. Emily took note of her immedieatley and went to hug her blonde friend. The two held on tight before letting go, only to have Spencer grab her hand and squeeze it. The three met up with Hanna inside and Mrs. Dilaurentis led them up to the front to sit. Aria was the last to join them. Hanna held her hand as the others scooted down for more room.

Valerie glanced behind them and was disappointed to not see a pair of familair blue eyes. She shook her head. How could she be so selfish to think of him at her dead friend's funeral.

"Poor Ali," Emily broke the silence as they stared at the coffin in despair.

"Can you believe what a scene this is?" Hanna let out a small smile.

"Alison would have loved it." Aria stated. Valerie let out a dry laugh.

"She would've thrived in it," Valerie said not taking her eyes off the coffin.

"Popular in life and death," Spencer said giving a humerless smirk. Hanna glanced at Emily, the one who seemed the most broken about this. She handed a phial of alcohol to her. Valerie, having sat in between Spencer and Emily, held her breath and kept her eyes forward. She didn't want to take the chance having a whif of alcohol.

"No thanks. I don't-" Emily denied.

"Today, I think you do," Hanna excused for her. A ring from Aria's purse caused the girls to look at the bag in terror. Spencer and Valerie tightened their grip on eachother.

"Anyone we know?" Hanna asked in suspicion.

"No, it's just my mom sending me a text," Aria looked at the other girls in suspicion as well, "Emily and I aren't the only ones Who got messages from A are we?" The hairs on the back of Valerie's neck stood up as she went and turned around.

"Oh my god, it's Jenna," She notified the other girls as they looked at the blind girl. Mrs. Dilaurentis took a seat behind them.

"Did you see that jenna marshall was here? I didn't realize she and Ali were friends." She said, compeltely oblivious to the girls' terrified expressions

"They weren't." Spencer answered.

Just as they left the doors of the church, they were stopped by Dectective Wilden.

"Emily," He called out to them, "Valerie, Spencer, Aria,.. and Hanna."

"Do we know you?" Valerie raised her eyebrow at the dectective, her walls of suspicion raising up.

"I'm detective Wilden. I understand you were all good friends with the victim." What kind of person would question them just as they left said victim's funeral?

"Yeah, we were." Aria said putting on a blank face.

"I'm gonna need to talk to each one of you." He said glancing suspiciously at each of their faces.

"We talked to the police when alison went missing." Spencer deflected.

"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." With that, he left the five as they watched Jenna leave the funeral in a black car.

"Do you think he knows about?" Aria immediatley starts.

"No. How could he?" Hanna shook her head. Just then, their phones ring at once, like a domino effect.

"Oh, my god!" Aria looked at the text.

"It's from-"

"I got one too," Emily confirmed Hanna's statement.

"I'm still here, bitches," Valerie read.

"...And I know everything. A'."

Heeeey. I hope you guys liked this. Since it's Christmas Eve, I wanted to do a little writing and this is just a test run. If you guys like it or want me to continue just leave a review or follow and favorite it. Oh and tell me if you like it in third person or would you rather me write it in first person in Valerie's POV.

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