Home Sweet Home [PLL]

Eye of the Beholder

"Well, he recognised the coat, but when he saw it first, he thought it was Alison... Vivian." Aria explained. Aria in the red coat had caught the eye of a young man in Brookhaven who had mistaken her for Vivian/Alison 

 "When we noticed you didn't come back, he was gone." Spencer said 

"He was cute from the back." Lily shrugged 

"So was his front," Aria grinned and the others gave her dumbfounded looks "Under different circumstances of course. He's been in Florida for, like, a year."

"What did you tell him exactly?" Emily asked 

"Uh, I told him that I was a friend of Vivian's and that I hadn't seen her since she gave me the coat." She said 

"Can I see that number again?" Spencer asked 

"Yeah." 

"Thanks." She said and took it from Aria's outstretched hand "Duncan Albert? He said he met her in Brookhaven?" 

"Yeah, in a bookstore." Aria said "Couple places down from that creepy doll hospital." 

"Well, whoever Duncan is, he's connected to Alison and what she wanted in Brookhaven." Lily added 

"How do we know that he wasn't just some guy she flirted with in a bookstore?" Emily asked

"I don't think Alison wasted Vivian on flirting." Spencer said 

"Ali flirted enough as a blonde," Lily grinned

"When she put that wig on, she wanted something." Spencer finished 

"She was looking for A," Hanna nodded "Duncan was part of that trail,"

"I'll call him." Aria said 

"Aria, you don't have to." Emily said "Any one of us could've been wearing that coat." 

"But it was me." She shrugged. Spencer's attention turned to something behind Hanna, Lily and Emily and when they noticed she was no longer focusing on them they turned around as well 

They watched Toby and Jenna getting out of a black limousine

"She had the operation." Hanna whispered when she noticed the tissues under Jenna's sunglasses. Toby glanced in their direction at Spencer but just as soon, he looked away again

"Spence?" Lily asked, worried about her friend but Spencer just shrugged and sipped from her coffee

The girls together left Brookhaven an hour later and drove back to Rosewood, their weekend passed quickly and soon enough Monday morning had rolled around which meant another school week was upon them

"It's really old, like six months." Mona handed an old phone over to Hanna. Hanna had thrown her phone away to avoid her mother snooping through it and now her mother was refusing to buy her a new one so Mona had decided to lend her an old one "But it works pretty good for an antique. The number bills to my account. Your mum never has to know."

"Oh. Mona, you are a life saver." Hanna smiled 

"Well, what's the point of doing something for someone if it doesn't make you look good?" Mona shrugged "I'm already number one on the speed dial. Ciao!" She waved and left the girls in the hallway 

"If only we could harness Mona's sense of entitlement, we could light the Eastern seaboard." Spencer chuckled 

"Yeah, well, I don't care. I got a new phone and didn't have to go through Caleb." Hanna grinned "He's safe in Montecito." 

"Did you get through to Duncan yet?" Emily asked Aria 

"Yeah, he's coming after school. I'm gonna meet him in the Courtyard." She explained