FLAWLESS [Editing]

To Kill A Mocking Girl

I TRUDGED ALONG the woods, with Emily leading the way. Emily seemed overly excited about whatever it is we are doing.

"Who's idea was this again?" Hanna grumbled as they walk through the woods

"Emily's mum." Spencer answers.

"The shed was me, my mum just said that we should do something for us." Emily explains

"Well, couldn't we do something with no mosquitoes." I complain

"There not mosquitos," Aria corrects "their gnats."

"Whatever! They're small, annoying and flying up my nose." Hanna tells her

"Well, there are attracted to your perfume and your hair products and your lip gloss." Spencer teases

"Are you saying I attract flies."

"Gnats." Aria corrects

"Why do I feel like this is the wrong way?" Speculated Emily

"No, this is it. I remember that tree." I say

"Its a halfway point. There's 136 steps left to the shed." Added a confident Spencer.

"Have you guys been out here since Alison?" Emily asked the question that's playing around in the other girls minds.

"Us, no, no way." I answered

"But you remember that tree."

"You guys it's not weird," interjected Hanna "I mean we came out here in eighth grade like, every day, even after."

"I think this is totally the wrong place to do this, whatever you call it, shrine?" Spencer grumbled

"Thank you, about time someone said it." I said

"Its not a shrine. It's just a place to remember Alison, what wrong with that?" Emily asked unsurely

"Doing it way out here makes it look like we have someone to hide." Spencer sighed

"Your worried about what other people think?"

"Well aren't you, do you really want to give that creepy detective more reason to question us?" I asks

Hanna not wanting to be part of this conversation walks away making us look at her before following after her.

"Hanna, why are you so quite?" Emily asked

"I'm trying to keep the bugs in my nose and out of my mouth." Hanna restored

"You are allowed to have an opinion on this" Emily tells her.

"You want my opinion? I say we hold off and not remember till we know for sure she's not still here."

"What?" Spencer and I say in unison

"What are you talking about?" Aria says

"You think she's still alive?"

"Hanna, they found her body."

"We went to her funeral."

"Stop!" Aria exclaimed "I'm officially scared, can we just not—"

Hanna huffed "God you know what you asked for my opinion. I don't believe that she'd really gone."

"We went to her funeral." Spencer argued

"Yeah and when we left we all got a text from her—"

"It wasn't her." Emily interrupted "someone is missing with us."