Guys I’m going crazy. I read a fic about Steve rogers x reader where the reader was a super smart tech person and worked with Tony and Bruce. She was younger and she teased Steve a lot because she liked him. She realizes that Steve likes her too because he researched her and she gets a notification that somebody looked her up. I think there’s 3 parts to the story. Does anybody know what fic I’m talking about????
season 1, episode 2 : the one with the jenna thing
The five of us were sitting around The Grill. There weren't many people there, just an older couple, and a few waiters and waitresses standing around. Even then, we still weren't talking loudly.
"Why was Jenna there?" Aria asked the question we were all thinking.
"I guess she's back," Spencer responded.
"I don't like it." I said, and they all stared at me. "What? With her around, we have something to lie about. Something to be guilty about. We ruined her life."
"That cop acted like we were suspects or something." Hanna stated, and she wasn't wrong. He totally did.
"Do you think we looked guilty?" Emily asked, panicking a little.
"Ugh, except you know, we ruined Jenna's life." I snapped. Aria acting like we never did anything to Jenna made me mad. Yeah, Jenna wasn't my favorite person and never would be, but we were all there that night.
"Except lie about "The Jenna Thing"." Hanna defended me and made the point to Aria.
"We promised we'd never bring up "The Jenna Thing" again. Remember? It never happened." Spencer told us.
Emily, who was sitting to my left, reached over and grabbed my water, and took a drink. "This conversation is making me paranoid."
"I'd say I'd order us another one but we're talking about things that we promised never to bring up." I glared at Spencer and Aria.
"Have you found a way to forget? I still wake up sometimes in the middle of the night - " Aria told us.
"Aria, it was an accident." Spencer told her, trying to make her feel less guilty about the situation.
"Was it though?" I whispered, but only Emily and Hanna heard me.
Emily looked down at the friendship bracelet that Alison had made each of us. They were identical . Hanna took the opportunity to dump the rest of the alcohol from the funeral in her soda. The old man stared at her, judging.
"It's medicinal." She told him, but he clearly didn't believe her. "Cramps!" I had to stifle my laugh as the man finally looked away.
"I don't get it," Emily said.
"Don't get what?" I asked her, because there were a lot of things that I didn't get.
"How does A know something about me that only Alison knew?"
"Ali knew all our secrets, but," Aria started, she took a breath. "We never knew any of hers."
"I knew some." Spencer told her.
"Me too." I said quietly. I didn't like knowing Alison's secrets.
"Go on," Aria prompted us.
I looked at Spencer and all but pleaded with her to talk. I did not want to.
"I can't," She finally admitted after our staring contest.
"I'm not sharing what I know until you share what you know!"
"She'd kill me if I told you." Spencer told the girls.
"She's dead." Hanna deadpanned.
Spencer thought for a second before she blurted it out. "Ali was seeing someone that summer."
"I knew she was keeping something from me!" Emily said, upset. I chose to ignore the fact that Emily liked Alison because I knew she would tell me when she was ready to. "I mean us." She added quickly.
"Well, why didn't she want us to know?" Aria asked Spencer, also ignoring Emily's comment.
"He was an older boy." Spencer admitted. "And he had a girlfriend."
"Who was it?" Emily pried.
"Can we at least have his initials?" Hanna asked her.
"She never told me his name." Spencer responded.
"That's only half a secret." Hanna deadpanned again.
"It's more than you ever got from her!" Spencer defended herself. "Well, except for maybe you, Lily. But you would've told Hanna."
"True, and I did tell Hanna. But... I think Ali knew what she was doing that night." I said slowly. "I think Ali wanted to hurt Jenna. And I know she said that she didn't know that Jenna was there." I said quickly, taking a breath. "But part of me thinks that she wanted to hurt both Toby and Jenna that night. She didn't care who was in the garage."
"And you know this how?" Spencer asked me.
"She made a comment the next day about how Jenna had it coming."
The girls were quiet for a moment before Aria spoke up again. "How is it that Ali told us nothing, but we told her everything?"
Emily hit the nail with the hammer with her comment, "Because she made us feel like we were a part of something special."
"We were." Hanna and I said in unison.
"I miss that," Aria sighed.
"Me too," Spencer agreed.
"I miss Ali," Emily told us.
Hanna glanced at Emily's wrist to wear her bracelet from Ali sat. "I can't believe you still wear that."
"Ali still wears her too," Emily defended. "Wore." She said quietly, realizing her mistake.
Spencer filled the gap of silence. "When Ali didn't come home that night, I knew something terrible must have happened, but there was always some part of me that imagined someday she'd just show up."
"Yeah. I used to think that maybe she'd just...Run off with some guy." Aria told what she wished for Ali.
"She was laying on a beach somewhere." Emily added wistfully, nodding along.
"Or getting a tan out by the pool with that hot lifeguard." Hanna laughed, making me giggle.
"Oh, yeah. What was his name?" Aria said smiling.
"Who cares?" I asked, laughing.
"Save me!" Hanna said dramatically, pretending to pass out in my arms, making us all giggle.
Next thing we knew, Jenna was tapping her way into The Grill. We glanced at each other before quietly making our escape.
"Dad, I'm telling you, she slept with that detective!" I informed my father.
"Well, even if she did, she did it to save Hanna's ass. And let me tell you something, if you ever do anything illegal, I will kick your ass so hard, especially if you don't tell me." I thought of The Jenna Thing. Should I tell my dad the truth? Just then, my phone buzzed.
I pulled it out, looking at who it was from.
"Thinking about telling Daddy about Jenna? Might want to consider all the other beans you'd have to spill... starting with this one." The picture attached, was a picture of Noel and me hooking up in his car.
- A
Crap.
"Hello?" My dad called me. "Anybody home in there?" I snapped out of my gazed and looked
to him. I quickly put my phone away.
"Yeah, yeah. What were you saying Dad?"
"Who was that?" Crap.
"Just, just Spencer." I said quickly.
"Spencer? I thought you guys weren't friends anymore?" Dad asked, confused.
"We... We started talking again." I said absentmindedly like it was nothing.
"Okay." He said, suspicious of my behavior.
We turned to the morning news, where Detective Wilden was making a statement to the press. "The coroner did release his findings this morning, and although Alison Di Laurentis' body did show signs of a blunt-force head trauma, the cause of her death was suffocation." Dad shut the TV off.
"Enough of that. Is Noel picking you up today?" Dad questioned.
"No," I said absently. "He's got practice so Hanna is."
"Then why is she picking you up?" Dad asked, confused. "Lily! For God's sake put your phone away!"
"What?" I asked him, startled, looking up from my phone.
"Put the phone away and have a conversation with me."
"Okay."
"Well?" He asked, waiting for me to respond.
"Well, what?" I asked him, confused.
"Why is Hanna picking you up?"
"Oh, because Hanna doesn't do sports and Noel has early morning practice. Noel is bringing me home after school. That, and we have a biology test tomorrow, and I don't know anything that's going on in that class."
"I presume that's one of the five classes you have with Noel?"
"Yep, and while science is not his forte, he definitely knows more than me. And enough to help me."
"Okay," Dad nodded. "I work late tonight, so I'm going to see if Hanna and Ashley can come over."
"What?" I demanded. "Why?"
"Because I don't want you two home alone together." Dad said plainly.
"Dad!"
"What?"
"I thought we got over this."
"We did. Until I found out you were having sex."
"Dad!"
"Well, you are."
"I'm going to kill Hanna."
"I'm getting you birth control, one of us can pick it up tomorrow at the pharmacy. But until then, I don't trust you two alone."
"Oh my God, Dad."
"When you decided to have unprotected sex you lost my trust."
My phone buzzed.
I'm here
- Han
"Hanna's here." I snapped at my dad. "I'm leaving."
"I know that you're mad at me," Dad started to say.
"That's a freaking understatement."
"But I'm doing this because I love you."
"Ya know, maybe you should talk to Mrs. Marin again, and this time you can tell her that you took away my life." I slammed the door behind me and all but ran to Emily's car.
"You're being dramatic!" He yelled out the open window.
"Where do you think I get it from?" I yelled straight back at him.
"What's got you in a mood?" She asked as I got in, giving me her concerned look.
"You're mother."
"What?" She said, puzzled. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"Just drive, before my dad takes any more of my life away."
After we got to school, I beelined straight to Noel, who was at my locker.
"We're going to study tonight, right?" He asked, hugging me.
"I'm going to try. Dad said we aren't allowed to be alone together." I sighed, still completely annoyed with the situation.
"Why? I thought we got past that months ago?"
"We did." I deadpanned. "But Hanna saw me ditch the other day and long story short, her mom told my dad and now my dad won't let us be alone together."
"That's," He started to say.
"Don't say it. Okay? Just, don't." I rubbed my forehead. "Let me talk to Hanna. Maybe we can do a study night at Sean's and we can slip away for a while, okay?"
Noel slid his hands into my back jeans pockets, thumbs close to my back. "If not, we can always skip health class again," He whispered in my ear. "Or history. Or even a whole day." between each sentence, he kissed me. When he finished, my hands were at the nape of his neck and I was breathless. I pulled him close to me and just as we started to kiss, the intercom interrupted us.
"Will the following students please come to the office : Emily Fields, Lily Grey, Aria Montgomery, Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin." I groaned and pulled away from my boyfriend.
"Talk to Sean please." I begged him.
He nodded at me. "Promise."
"Okay, good!" I kissed him again, before Spencer grabbed my hand and dragged me away from Noel.
As we caught up with the other three, Aria's phone went off. "Wait, it's from - A."
Hanna looked over Aria's shoulder and read the text aloud. "Dead girls walking."
Once we were all in the office, we were interrogated by Detective Wilden, who was easily becoming my least favorite human being.
"So let's see..." He said, looking at the file before pointing at Spencer. "You thought you heard her scream?"
"I - I said that, yeah."
"And when you four woke up in the barn, Alison was gone, and so was Spencer?" He asked the rest of us. I wiggled in my spot. I hated this. I squeezed closer to Hanna and Spencer.
"Yes, I woke up before them." Spencer saved us from having to talk. "And I realized that Ali was missing, so..." She trailed off.
"So you went looking for her." He filled in the blanks.
"That's what happened." Spencer said with a fake smile.
"I got that. So," He said, looking at us. "Was this a slumber party, or...?" I did not like this man. How on earth did he become a cop, much less a detective?"
"Is this an interrogation?" Spencer asked him.
"It feels like an interrogation," I mumbled to the girls.
"No, just a routine follow up. Why did you guys fall asleep?" He asked another question, making this really feel like an interrogation.
"I guess we were tired," Aria told him.
"Tired? Really." He didn't believe us. "Is that how you remember it? Hanna? Lily?"
"Yeah," We said in sync, quietly.
"Yeah, you guys were tired." He said in that same condescending tone as before, like we were lying about that night. But little did he know, we didn't lie about that night, just a different night.
"Look," Spencer said, trying her best to sound like her mom. In her defense, her mom was a lawyer. "We've told you everything we know, just like the night she went missing."
"I know, and you see, the thing is, it's almost exactly what you said last year -- almost like it was rehearsed." This man was getting on my every last nerve.
"Like Spencer said, we've told you everything we know." Aria added.
In the cafeteria, we were all together again. "He knows we're lying." Aria stated the obvious.
"No shit, Aria. You should be a detective." I snapped at her.
"Lying is not a crime." Hanna said.
"It is when you're giving false statements to the police. It's called obstruction of justice."
"And it is a crime." I added as an afterthought to Spencer's statement.
"Oh please!" Hanna snapped. "We lied about drinking. But the truth that matters is we don't know anything about what happened to Ali that night." She, like me, was losing her temper. It was never good when the two of us lost our tempers about the same thing.
"We also know about someone who might have wanted to hurt her." Spencer told us.
"We should have told the police the truth about Jenna's accident the night it happened." Emily scolded, as if none of us had wanted to tell the police.
"We wanted to," Hanna explained, pointing between the two of us. "Remember?" I nodded in agreement. We did want to tell the police when it had happened, but Ali had talked us out of it.
"We had a chance to do more than just tell the truth. We had a chance to stop Ali." Aria revealed, as if we actually had a chance to stop Alison from doing anything she wanted to do.
"But we didn't." Spencer interrupted my thought. "And telling the police now about what happened to Jenna isn't going to make her see again. It'll just ruin our lives."
"Will it? If Jenna knows that we weren't involved and that we genuinely feel bad about what happened to her, it might make her less angry about the situation." I explained my thought process.
All of a sudden, we heard a cane tapping on the floor. Jenna. Aria stood up and walked over to Jenna.
"Jenna?" Aria asked her. "It's - it's Aria. Do you.." She tried to find her words. "Want to come sit with us?" I glanced across the table to Hanna with a WTF look.
"Sure."
"So you're gonna be between Hanna and Emily. Spencer and Lily are right across from you."
"Thank you." Jenna told her. "So... This would be Alison's chair, right?" She sat down and Spencer nudged me.
I cleared my throat. "No," Emily said. "We're not even sitting at that table."
"We don't sit there anymore." I commented.
"You know, she came to visit me in the hospital after the accident." I looked down at my lunch. I knew that. Alison told me after the fact that she went to see Jenna. That was another reason why I thought that Alison didn't care why Jenna was in that garage that night.
"Alison did?" Spencer asked, confused. I glanced at Spencer before looking down again. Hanna kicked my foot from under the table. I looked up at her and gave a small smile.
"Mm-hm," She hummed. "Everyone misunderstood Alison, but I knew exactly who she was." That was weird. Why would she say something like that to Alison's best friends? Nobody would know her better than us.
Spencer changed the topic away from Alison and back to Jenna. "When did you get back Jenna? We heard that you were in Philadelphia, a school for the... visually impaired."
"You can say blind Spencer." She laughed a little. "It's not a dirty word." Que the awkward silence. I locked eyes with Emily and she bit her lip. "Wow. It's so quiet. You guys used to be the fun table. What happened to you girls?"
We were in Emily's bedroom, clothes were everywhere. We were having a fashion show. We were giggling, having fun. Not a care in the world.
"I see you!" Alison yelled, making us all stop. "Oh my God, I can't believe it." She raked the curtain close to her bedroom.
"Who was it Ali?" Emily asked her. "What did you see?"
"He was in that tree, spying on us! I'm so creeped out!"
"Who was it?" Spencer prodded her to tell us the name.
"It was that perv, Toby Cavanaugh."
"Are you sure?" Aria asked, wanting to confirm who it was before we did anything.
"Yeah, Alison. Are you sure it wasn't just a shadow from the tree?" I asked. I really didn't want to ruin anybody's life, if she didn't know who it was.
"Yes, I'm sure!" She said getting angry. "He was right there! I bet he saw all of us naked." Okay, ew. I didn't want anybody to see me naked.
"Should we tell someone?" Aria asked. We were all wondering what we should do next.
"I mean, we could. But I have a better idea." She smirked, devising a plan.
Fireworks were blasting. Everybody was having fun. Nobody noticed the six girls sneaking around, planning an awful prank.
"Are we sure he's not in there?" Aria asked for the millionth time.
"He's not, okay?" Alison soothed. "You've got the lighter, right Spencer?"
"Let's wait a second." Emily pleaded.
"What, Emily?" Alison asked her, exasperated.
"I don't want to do this."
"Fine. Go back. You're on your own." Once Alison got an idea in her head, she went through with it. The consequences didn't matter. And it was up to us to fall in line, or get out. There was no in between.
"Okay, maybe Emily's right. We should just call the cops. They'll take care of it." Aria chimed back in.
"Where's the fun in that?" Alison questioned us. "Girls, Toby Cavanaugh is a freak, and we need to teach him a lesson. If he thinks he can come and spy on us while we're in your bedroom, Emily, he needs to know that his little domain is no longer a safe little hideout. Who knows what he does in there all day?" She asked rhetorically. "That little freak."
"Are you sure it was Toby?" Spencer asked one last time, wanting to make sure it was him before we did anything.
"Ali, are you sure? Because this has consequences, if it ever gets out."
"Yes! And it's a stink bomb, for God's sakes, Lily. We're not nuking the place. Now, let's do it. Give me the lighter." Spencer hands Alison the lighter and I sank back next to Hanna.
"I don't like this." I told her quietly.
"I don't either." She agreed with me.
Alison threw something in Toby's garage and whatever she threw in there, it exploded. Alison ran back to us.
"Okay, people, let's take our seats." Mr. Fitz told everybody. Noel slid off the top of my desk and into the one next to me. Mona walked in, texting on her phone.
"Am I late?" She asked, dumbly. Why she acted dumb all the time was beyond me. She use to be neck and neck with Spencer before she became popular. She might even be smarter than Spencer, she just dumbs herself down.
"It's - it's Mona right?" Mr. Fitz asked her.
"That's right, Mr. Fritz." All of us laughed a little. "What?" She asked all of us.
"Take our seat, Mona. Please." Mona sat down next to Hanna, who was in front of me.
"It's Fitz, not Fritz." Hanna told Mona.
She gave her a coy smile. "Oops." I rolled my eyes before smiling over at my boyfriend, who was already staring at me.
"If the mockingbird represents the idea of innocence, what characters are innocent? Take a second. Jot down your ideas. We'll discuss."
I opened my notebook and jotted down:
Boo Radley was innocent, as well as Tom Robinson. Tom was innocent because his arm was too short to reach the woman. Boo was innocent. We see his kind nature similar, which is similar to the innocence of a mockingbird.
I was brought out of my thoughts when Aria entered the classroom. She set down a paper on Mr. Fitz's desk and they stared at each other for a couple moments.
"Hey, I'm sorry it's not going to work for you guys to come over tonight." Hanna told me by my locker as I got my stuff out.
"It's fine." I said, shoving my English and Health binders in and grabbing my Geometry textbook and binder, as well as my biology. "It's my fault. I should have been using protection from the beginning. Your mom did the right thing. It just sucks because it took my dad so long to accept Noel and now I feel like I'm back at square one."
Hanna sighed. "It's hard because your dad thinks of Noel as the guy he was before he started dating you. Noel has really changed in the last year. I think you guys are good for each other."
I smiled bashfully. I looked at the photo in my locker of the two of us from homecoming last year. I was smiling wide, wearing Noel's hat backwards and away jersey, while was in his home jersey. He was smiling widely at the camera. My arms were around his neck and I was perched on his back. "He makes me happy, Han. And not just like, I have a boyfriend and I'm so happy, happy. But in like the, I see his name on my phone and smile, you say his name and I smile. I walk into a room and I look for him, even if I know he's not going to be in the room."
"That's so sweet." Hanna gushed. "Like a sweet Hallmark movie." I pushed the hair out of my face, smiling, before I zipped up my backpack.
"Let's go to Geometry before I embarrass myself even more." I said, closing my locker and spinning the lock.
"Hey Dad," I told him when he picked up the phone.
"Hey, Bug." He responded. Tired.
"Is it okay if we study at the library tonight? Hanna said that she and her mom are busy tonight and can't come over. I really need to study for this Biology test and I have no idea what's happening."
"How is it that you are horrible at science, but I'm a surgeon?"
"That is the million dollar question that I would like answered." I smiled a bit. "Is it okay if we go?"
"Yeah, just be home by 9 okay? I have something I need to talk to you about."
"Is everything okay?" I asked, nervously.
"Yeah, yeah, it's fine," He said distractedly. "I'll see you when you get home."
"Okay, bye Dad. Love you."
"Love you too, Bug."
"Okay, that was weird." I said putting my phone away.
"What was weird?" Noel asked, turning to look at me.
"Dad sounded off, like he was exhausted."
"He's a surgeon." Noel said, matter of fact.
"Well, yeah," I rolled my eyes. "But he sounded more distant than normal. Like he wanted to talk about something. I have to be home at 9 because he needs to talk to me."
"I'm sure it's nothing." He promised me. "Now, let's go to the library and make out in the car."
I smiled at him. "I have to study for biology. I truly have no idea what's going on."
"So, we make out for a while, study, and then make out some more?"
"Well, we could do that... or we could study for a bit at the cabin and then..." I trailed off, grinning at him with a knowing smirk.
"But your dad..." he stuttered. I raised my eyebrow at him. "Cabin it is."
Noel dropped me off at home around 8:50. He promised that tomorrow he would pick me up for school.
I unlocked the front door and went into the house. Dad was in the living room, which wasn't surprising. What was surprising was my brother sitting there with him.
"Justin ... hi." I said, confused. He glanced at me, and then back at dad.
"Hi, Lily."
"Dad?" I questioned, wanting an explanation. I hadn't seen Justin since Alison went missing.
"Justin is back." He said pointedly.
"I can see that." I retorted. "Why?"
"Don't be rude." My dad snapped at me and I rolled my eyes.
"It's okay Dad." Justin told him. I glanced between the two of them.
"Justin is back from Uncle Ben's." My dad told me.
"Okay." I said reluctantly.
"And he's going to be staying here."
"Oh." I turned and looked at Justin. "Well, welcome home, I guess."
"Lily." Justin said quietly.
"I'm not going to... I can't do this tonight, okay? Dad, did you go to the pharmacy?"
"Yeah, your medicine is on the table in a bag. The instructions are in there too."
"Okay," I nodded. "Thank you." I grabbed my stuff from the kitchen before going up to my room. I closed the door and sat my stuff down. I took a deep breath before pulling out my phone and texting the girls.
TW: included but not limited to: mentions of death, PTSD, underage sex, family issues, mentions of sex, funerals, (sorry if I missed any)
We were all in Spencer's barn, laughing and giggling, even though there was a huge storm going on outside. I had gotten there moments before and took my spot next to Hanna. While all six of us were best friends, Hanna and I were the closest to each other. She passed me a cup of whatever they were drinking and I took a huge drink. We were all there, Emily, Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and me. The only person missing - Alison.
All of the sudden, the lights and music went off. We all kind of freaked out internally for a moment.
"What was that?" Emily asked, speaking up.
Spencer answered, "It must be the storm." Always there with the logical answer. There was a noise out there that sounded like a squeak and Hanna and I grabbed each other's hand.
"Something out there," Aria insisted and right after she said that, the barn door opened and we all jumped. We all got up and huddled together. As we got closer, there was a loud blair and Alison jumped out at us.
"Gotcha!" She smiled at us.
"Ahh!" We all screamed at her.
"That's so not funny, Alison!" Spencer huffed at her but we all laughed and sat back down.
"Ali, did you download the new Beyonce?" Hanna asked her. "Lily just got around to it."
"Not yet!"
"I'm loving her new video!" Emily said, excitedly.
"Maybe a little too much, Em?" Alison poked at her suggestively, and I rolled my eyes. ALi gave the glass that we were drinking out of to Aria. "You turn, go on." Ali encouraged.
Aria took a bigger drink than normal, which caused Spencer to warn, "Careful Aria. Take too much and you'll tell us all your secrets."
"Friends share secrets," Alison told us. "That's what keeps us close. Drink up." She told us as Aria passed the glass back to Hanna and me.
"I promise I tell you the most," I whispered to Hanna.
"Ditto," She held out her pinky to me and I took it with mine and squeezed it. "You're the only one who knows about Sean."
"You're the only one who knows about Noel."
"What, what?" I asked grogally.
"Where's Ali and Spencer?" Hanna asked us.
"We don't know," Aria told us.
"What do you mean you don't know?" I demanded, they couldn't just be gone.
I got up and went to the door, just as Spencer came back into the barn.
"Ali?" Aria asked Spencer, wondering where our blonde friend was.
Spencer looked confused. "She's gone."
"What do you mean she's gone?" Aria asked, all of us growing confused.
"I've looked everywhere for her. I think I heard her scream." Spencer told us.
"We need to find her!" I demanded.
ONE YEAR LATER
"Dad!" I yelled, getting my backpack ready for school. "Have you seen my water bottle?"
"It's right here," He called from the kitchen. "You never wash it and I took it upon myself to do so for you like the good father that I am." He told me coming into the living room and handing me the water bottle, which was full of water and ice.
"You're the best," I smiled at him. "I'd be lost without you."
"Now that's what my ego needed to hear today."
I rolled my eyes. "Take it while you can because I'm not feeding it anymore."
"You say that, but we both know that's only going to last until you need something."
I laughed at my dad. "Very true, Dad."
"Knock, knock." Noel Kahn said at the door.
"Oh great, your boyfriend the jock is here."
"Dad!" I protested and he rolled his eyes and went back into the kitchen. It was no secret that my dad did not like Noel and he made it very obvious.
"Hey, don't sweat it." He said coming over to me. "I just haven't wooed him over yet."
I sighed, very annoyed with my dad. "You say that every time, and yet, here we are, a year later."
He threw his million dollar smile at me, which by default, made me smile. "Let's go to school. We need to get you to voice lessons with Mrs. Shelton and you don't want to be late."
"That is very true." I told him, putting my arms around his middle and hugging him tightly. He put his arm around my shoulder and rested his chin on my head. "Dad!" I called to him.
"Yeah, here's your lunch and your protein shake." He said walking into the living room. "And because I'm feeling nice, I made your boyfriend one." He eyed Noel, who had taken a step away from me when Dad came into the room.
"Thanks, Mr. Grey. I really appreciate that. I have practice today so it will be nice to have the extra protein."
"I still don't like you. I'm working on it."
"Dad!"
"I'm trying!" Dad defended himself.
"It's fine, Lily." Noel promised me.
"I can be in a room with him now." Dad pointed out.
"Before he couldn't even stand to see my name on your phone." Noel concurred. I shook my head before hugging my dad and leaving with Noel.
"He's impossible," I sighed, buckling myself in the front seat of Noel's car.
"He loves you." Noel told me as he pulled out of the driveway and headed to school.
"And I love him. And you!" Noel pulled over at the library. "What?" I asked, confused to why he stopped. He stared at me for a second. "Seriously, what?"
He put one hand in my hair and the other grasped the side of my neck and he pulled me into a hot, passionate kiss. When we finally pulled away, I was dazed and needed to catch my breath.
"I love you too," Noel told me before pulling away and driving the rest of the way to school.
Noel and I walked into our English class together and I spotted Hanna and Mona. I sent Hanna a small smile before sitting next to Noel. I looked around the classroom to see who was in it with us and my eyes widened slightly when I saw Aria sitting next to Emily. I had no clue that she was back. I sent them a smile as I saw Spencer and Andrew trail in. Spencer took the open spot next to me before turning and talking to Andrew.
"So, I was thinking that tonight maybe we could go somewhere for supper, ya know, to celebrate. And then maybe head up to the cabin?"
I turned my attention away from my old friends and looked at my boyfriend. "Yeah! That sounds great. Maybe we finally dip into that bottle of red that your brother gave us." I smiled at him.
"And then maybe we'll sit in the hot tub?"
"I think we could do a lot more than sitting." Noel winked at me and I blushed. How did he still have this affect on me a year later?
I bit my lip as the new teacher came in. He wrote his name on the board Mr. Fitz. When he turned around, his eyes landed on Aria.
"Oh crap." He said, and we all looked at each other confused and then to Aria. Her phone rings, which makes her embarrassed.
After class, I made my way to the hallway. Noel and I stopped at my locker. Realizing we had a few minutes, I slung my backpack over my shoulders and pulled Noel into kiss me.
He groaned into my mouth, turning and pressing me into the locker. "Let's skip second and go to my car." I giggled against his mouth as he pulled me with him out of school. I sent Spencer and Emily a smile as we walked through the hallway to the doors.
His seat was all the way back, so I climbed in after him and planted myself on his lap and kissed him hard. He ran his hands from my arms down to my ass, squeezing, making me moan into his mouth. His tongue wandered in and took the control he knew he had. I panted as he kissed down my neck, to my collar bone, to my breasts. I grinded on him, trying to find friction. I pulled his mouth back to mine and we kissed heavily. Eventually, our clothes came off, and the rest was history.
After our car sex, I made my way to third period, one of the few periods I didn't share with Noel. I looked around and noticed the only spot open was next to Hanna. I slid in.
My phone buzzed. Thinking it was Noel, I pulled it out to respond right away, but it wasn't.
Having sex with your boyfriend in his car during school? Naughty, naughty. - A
Who the hell was A? Alison? That was how she signed all her texts and notes. I was so confused. I pushed it out of my mind, thinking about the first time Noel and I had a real conversation. It was all thanks to Hanna.
"Okay girls, we have a strict schedule to stay on today." My dad told us as we slid into the back seat of the car. "We are only doing school supplies."
"Dad, we have to get coffee. It's like, a right of passage." I told him.
"Yeah, Dr. Grey. It's essential."
"You guys are fifteen, you're too young for coffee." Dad argued. "And you can call me Mark. Dr. Grey is too formal. Only my patience call me that." It was true, my dad was a doctor.
"Please, you know you want an espresso from The Brew." I laughed when he signed. We won.
"Alright, but just coffee. We're having a family dinner thing tonight with Ashley." Ah yes. Since Hanna's dad had left, twice a week we had been having family dinner with Hanna and her mom. It was nice. Ashley was practically a mother to me, and I hoped that Hanna saw my dad that way.
Hanna and I walked into The Brew together and waited in line to place our orders.
"I can't believe that school is starting in less than a week." I sighed in annoyance. "I feel like summer just started."
"Yeah but at least at school, you can see Noel more often."
"Hanna! Shut up!" I scolded her. "Remind me again why I told you I like Noel?"
"Because I'm your best friend."
"True." I nodded, thoughtfully. "And keeping anything from you is hard."
"Also true, and same."
"Can I take your order?" The barista asked us.
"I'd like a medium iced chai latte with 1% milk, and a medium dark roast espresso with half and half. Hanna?"
"Um, a small iced pumpkin spice latte with skim milk." She said timidly.
"Make it a medium, and do 1% milk." I told the barista.
"You don't have to do that," Hanna argued. "I'm trying to lose weight."
"Your total is $10.50." The barista told me, and I handed him my dad's card.
"You don't need to lose weight." I argued back, signing the receipt and giving it back.
"Yes, I do. Sean will never like me if I'm fat. And Ali said it would be good for me."
"Ali doesn't know anything. She's a size zero. It's okay to not be a size zero. I'm not a size zero"
"Ohh, look, there's Noel." I glanced at where Hanna was looking. She was right. Noel was there. He walked over to us.
"Hey Hanna, Lily. How are you both?"
I froze. What should I say? I couldn't say anything.
"We're good." Hanna nudged me in the side.
"Ha, yeah. Good." I whispered. Oh my God. This was terrible.
"Well, I'm excited to see you more, now that we're going to be going back to school." Noel said, looking directly at me. I was going to pass out.
"Yeah, yeah, we'll have to compare schedules." I mustered up.
"Hopefully, all of our classes are together." He threw his million dollar smile at me and my legs went weak. "You have my number, right?"
"Right." I nodded.
"Lily?" The barista called. I sighed in disappointment.
"I'll get them... you guys ... keep doing whatever this is." Hanna told me.
"Well, I'll make sure to text you my schedule. Maybe we could be study buddies." Noel licked his lips.
"Yeah. Yeah. We could ... study." I said shrugging as indifferently as I could, my insides screaming.
"I'll see you around."
"See you." I turned to see Hanna smirking at me. "Not one word." I threatened her.
"You okay?" Hanna asked me quietly as Mr. Nelson walked into our Geometry class.
"Huh?" I asked her, she shook me out of my gaze.
"Are you okay? Your phone buzzed and you spaced out."
"What? Oh, yeah, it was nothing." I dismissed. I pulled out my red notebook and binder.
"Are you sure?" She prodded me. Normally, I would be frustrated with the questioning, but it was Hanna. Hanna and I may not be as close anymore, at one point she was my best friend. And that didn't just go away because we grew apart.
"Yeah, just a text." I smiled slightly at her. "No worries, Hanna."
She smiled back before pulling out her matching red notebook and binder. "I see we still have red for math."
I laughed at her. "English is blue?"
"Science is green."
"History is yellow," We said together and giggled.
"Is there a problem ladies?" Mr. Nelson asked us, glaring slightly.
"Dad, we haven't had a family dinner since like last year."
"Which is why we are doing it again. It will be good for everybody."
"Will it? Because it doesn't seem like it."
"You and Hanna used to be so close, what happened?"
"Nothing happened Dad." I sighed, leaning back into Noel's car as I waited for him. "I was hoping to go to Noel's tonight."
"Yeah, it's a school night. Not going to happen."
"So let me just clarify, I can go to Hanna's but not Noel's?
"I'm glad you understand."
"I don't understand and I don't like this."
"I'll meet you there at 5:00, okay?" Before I could argue further, he hung up on me. How rude, I thought.
Noel got into the car and leaned over and kissed me.
"So, we on for tonight?"
"No. I have to go to a family dinner with Hanna and her mom and my dad. It's going to be awful."
"You and Hanna need to stop ignoring each other and be friends again." Noel told me as he pulled out of the parking lot.
"You don't get to agree with my dad on this!" I protested, pulling out my phone to see if there was a message from Hanna on picking anything up.
"All I am saying is that Hanna is still your friend and as much as I love you, I need you to be friends with her again so I can stop learning about girl talk."
"That's just rude. You should want to know when I'm horny and when I have my period!"
"Babe, your sex drive is constant. Just like mine. I know when you get your period because we've been together for a year."
"I know, I just wanted to be with you tonight." I was disappointed, but also some part of me was happy to be with Hanna and her mom. Dad and Noel were right, Hanna was my friend, my best friend, at one point. Maybe we could get that back.
"And we'll have all weekend together at the cabin." Noel promised me. "Right now, go be with Hanna. I'll pick you up tomorrow, okay?"
"I love you, Noel Kahn." I told him, smiling.
He smiled back at me. "I love you too, Lily Grey."
I walked into Hanna's familiar house and was hit with a million different memories.
"Mom?" Hanna called. "Is that you?"
"No, it's uh, it's Lily."
"Oh. I thought you guys were coming later?"
"Ah, no. Dad said to come now and that he would be here after work. I hope that's okay. I can call Noel to come get me if it isn't?" I said awkwardly. Why was it so awkward between us? It never use to be.
"No, no. It's fine. I'm actually glad that you're here."
"Okay, because if it's not, I can..."
"I want you here." She smiled at me and I sighed in relief.
"Okay, good. Because I really have to get through this math homework and I don't understand it at all."
"Then you're in good company because I have no idea what I'm doing either." She smiled at me.
"The island is cleaned off, and my stuff is already out."
We went into her kitchen and struggled through the math homework.
"So, I saw you ditched second period." She said as we wrote out the next problem.
"Yeah, it was just health." I said, trying to brush it off. It took me back to that message I got from A. It was still bothering me. Who was A? Was A even a who? Or was it a what?
"You skipped health class to do the nasty with Noel?" I looked at her and blinked.
"It's a form of health!" I defended myself.
"Whatever you say, you better use protection though."
"Hanna! We are not having this conversation!"
"What conversation?" Her mom asked and we both looked at each other and froze.
"Uh," I said.
"Um," she said.
"Well?" Ashley asked us. "I'm waiting."
"I was reminding Lily to use protection." Hanna blurted and my eyes went as wide as saucers.
"Hanna!" I yelled, shocked at her for telling her mom that I was having sex.
"It's true! You didn't get the mom sex talk so I'm giving you my version." She was on the defense now.
"That doesn't mean you tell your mom!"
"Okay, that's enough. You two still bicker like sisters. Good Lord." She took a deep breath before looking at me. "You - I don't like that you're having sex. I don't like it at all."
I pursed my lips and looked down at my hands. "But if you are, Hanna's right. You need to be using protection. Every time. It's only going to take one time for an accident to happen. Are you on the pill?"
I bit my lip. "I don't want Dad to know I'm having sex."
Ashley was quiet for a moment. "I'll talk to your dad."
I looked at her, still biting my lip. "Are you sure?"
"If it means you are on the pill, yes I will." She turned to Hanna. "I appreciate you telling Lily to use protection, but maybe next time, leave that conversation to me." Hanna looked at me before apologizing.
As we were setting the table, my dad came in. "Hi everybody."
"Hi," We all chorused as we sat down.
"I ran into Ella Montgomery today. Why didn't you tell me Aria was back?" She asked Hanna.
"It's not like we're still friends." Hanna told her mom.
"She didn't know your father left. I hate telling that story." I glanced at my dad. Family dinner, family feelings.
"So change the story." I spoke up. I told Hanna that all the time when her dad first left.
"I did. I changed the story. You grew up. You grew apart. It was mutual, and, honestly, We are much happier without him." Hanna finished my thought.
"Hanna." Her mom said, knowing that Hanna was unhappy that her dad left.
"Say it enough, and you'll actually start to believe it."
"Fake it til you make it," I nodded. That was always my motto.
Ashley responded, "Well, I have to admit, it does sound a lot better than the truth."
"Not everybody always needs to know the truth." My dad pointed out.
"Nobody needs to know that we got dumped." Hanna told us.
"We" didn't get dumped. I did." Ashley clarified.
"He left both of us." Hanna reminded her.
"She's right," My dad added. “When a parent and spouse leave, they leave both the spouse and the child." He was referring to when my mother left the two of us.
"Not that it makes it any less weird to say," I mumbled, taking a small bite. Dad gave me a look, causing me to look at Hanna. "But it's true. Parents dump their children all the time. Give it time, and you'll be glad you're with your mom and not your dad. I know I'm happy with Dad." I gave her a small smile before grinning at my dad. "I'm here if you want to talk about it." I told Hanna, turning my gaze back to her.
"Thanks," She said gratefully.
Hanna receives a text, which irritated Ashley. "If that's Mona, I'm staging an intervention."
"It's Spencer."
"Spencer?" I asked in confusion. "What does Spencer want?"
"Hanna. It's dinnertime." As she finished, her phone rang and she picked up. "It's Ashley. Yes, I left it on your desk. Mm-hmm."
The doorbell rang, causing Hanna and I to open the door together. It was the police.
"Hanna Marin?" He asked her.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Is your mother home?"
Ashley and my dad come up behind us.
Ashley told whoever was on the phone, "Let me call you back." And hung up. "What's this about?"
We received a call from Rosewood Mall Security. They have your daughter on tape shoplifting a pair of sunglasses."
My eyes widened and I turned to Hanna.
"I'm sure there's been a mistake." Ashley tried to smooth things over.
"I don't think so. Could you turn around?" He put the handcuffs on Hanna.
Hanna looked at her mom and my dad. "Mom, Dr. Grey."
After they took Hanna out, we turned to look at Ashley.
"We have to go get her." I said immediately, grabbing my coat.
"You guys don't have to come -" Ashley started to say.
"I'm coming." I said defiantly. "Hanna needs me right now."
"Okay," Ashley said, nodding.
"I'll drive, okay?" My dad said and we all left the Marin house. We got into my dad's truck and headed to the police station to get Hanna.
Ashley was talking to an officer in his office while my dad talked to Hanna. Hanna reached for a candy, but stopped when she got a text. She drew her hand away and went back to talking with my dad, a distant look on her face. Ashley came out of the office and marched over to Hanna and my dad, I walked up behind Hanna.
"What's going on?" Hanna asked, confused.
"Let's go." Ashley told us.
"Really?" Hanna asked.
"Did you talk to the officer?" Dad asked.
"What did they say?" I asked.
We all went out and got into Dad's truck. Behind us, police cars bustled around, going a little crazy.
"In a small town like this, What people think about you matters." Ashley told Hanna as Dad started the truck.
"I know." Hanna told her, looking out the back window.
"Then why would you risk it all to steal a pair of sunglasses? Hanna, I buy you everything you need to be popular." I glanced at my phone, updating Noel and trying to forget that I was there. Dad focused on driving.
"That's not why I do it." Hanna protested.
"Then why do? This is something you do?" Ashley interrogated her.
"A few times."
"This is about your father, isn't it? You think this is going to get his attention?" She prodded and I squeezed Hanna's hand.
"I made a mistake." Hanna pleaded.
"In rosewood, you don't have room to make a mistake." My dad told her.
"And neither do I." Ashley added on.
"I'm sorry. I'll fix it somehow."
"You will deny you did anything wrong. It was a misunderstanding." I was confused.
"But..." Hanna tried to say but she was cut off.
"I'm taking care of it."
"Because that's what parents do." My dad added, the rest of the ride was silent.
We all got out at mine and Dad's house because there were sirens going off and a bunch of police officers in Alison's backyard. We crossed over to her street and saw that the coroner was there too.
Hanna and I stood together until we saw Aria and Spencer together and walked over there.
"I heard the cops take Hanna to the police station today." Aria told Spencer.
"You don't think she'd ever talk about..."
"The Jenna thing? We made a promise." Hanna told them.
"A promise that we will take to our grave." I responded. I was annoyed that they thought Hanna would tell the police about The Jenna Thing. She would never do that.
I ended up spending the night at Hanna's because my dad got called in for an emergency surgery.
We were listening to the TV when we heard Ashley come in. She was kissing the police officer she was talking to at the station. Hanna and I glanced at each other but didn't say a thing. Hanna turned the TV back on to drown out any noises.
My phone dinged and I took it out, hoping it was Noel. Unfortunately, it wasn't.
Hanna's in big trouble, but at least her Mommy is here to clean up her mess. Don't you wish you had a Mommy to clean up yours? Oh wait - you do - but she left you. -A
I was holding Noel's hand tightly as we walked into the church. I hated this.
"I'm -" I gestured to the girls.
"Go," He told me, kissing my forehead. "I'll find you after." He promised me and walked to the front of the church.
I walked up to the casket. I glanced at the picture of her and then back at the casket. She was in there. Alison was dead. My brain couldn't wrap around the fact that she was really dead. I knew she was missing, and part of me thought that we would always find her. That she'd come back to us.
Spencer came up and squeezed my hand before leading me over to where the girls were all sitting. I sat in between her and Hanna.
"Poor Ali." Emily said sadly.
"Can you believe what a scene this is?" Hanna asked. She was right, there were tons of people here.
"Alison would have loved it." Aria admitted. It was true. Alison loved attention.
"Popular in life and death." Spencer commented.
"It's immortality, just like she always wanted." I said softly.
Hanna gave a phial of alcohol to Emily, who tried to reject it. "No thanks. I don't--"
"Today, I think you do. Pass it to Lily when you're done." Then, Aria's cell phone rings. The girls look at her terrified. I took a big drink from the phial.
"Anyone we know?" Hanna finally asked.
"No, it's just my mom sending me a text." She paused for a second before looking at us. "Emily and I aren't the only ones Who got messages from "A," are we?"
Spencer turns around and looks at the door. "Oh, my God. It's Jenna." We all turned to look at her.
"What is she doing back here in Rosewood?" I asked quietly. "If she's back..." I trailed off when Mrs. DeLaurentis, Alison's mother, sat down next to us.
"Did you see that Jenna Marshall was here? I didn't realize she and Ali were friends."
"They weren't." Spencer told her before the funeral started.
"The lord giveth and the lord taketh away." The minister told the crowd.
The ceremony finished and we all exited the church. The police officer that Hanna's mom slept with approached us.
"Emily, Spencer, Lily, Aria and Hanna."
"Do we know you?" Spencer asked him.
"I'm Detective Wilden. I understand you were all good friends with the victim." He stated. I already did not like this man.
"Yeah, we were." Aria told him and we nodded in agreement.
"I'm gonna need to talk to each one of you." He told us.
"Why?" I demanded.
"Yeah, we talked to the police when Alison went missing."
"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." \
"I don't like him. He gives me the ick." I told the girls as Detective Wilden walked away from us.
We watched as Jenna got into a car. Aria asked, "Do you think he knows about?" She trailed off.
"No. How could he?" Hanna asked.
"We never told anybody else what happened." I reminded them.
All of our phones rang. We pulled them out and looked at the message.
"Oh, my god!" Aria panicked.
"It's from--" Hanna mumbled. My heart clenched.
"I got one too." Emily told us.
"I'm still here, bitches -" Spencer started reading the text.
The rest of us chimed in to finish. "...And I know everything. A'."
She starts off in a relationship with Noel but it will soon transfer to Jason and then Mike and then probably back to Jason
This will cover trauma (PTSD, lying, stalking, sexual assault, underage sex, anxiety, depression, underage drinking, bullying, substance abuse, other mental health challenges, violence, murder, etc.)
the second is for Outer Banks
OC is John B's sister
She and John B have the same Dad but not the same Mom
She's best friends with Kiara
Kiara and JJ probably won't have a thing at all
This will also cover trauma (including but not limited to: physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual assault, anxiety, depression, underage drinking, underage sex, underage smoking (weed and tobacco), bullying, substance abuse, other mental health challenges, violence, murder, etc.)
Slow burn, but eventually JJ X OC
both will be posted to my wattpad account too. i will post the link at a later date.
annabeth saying zeus will never let percy leave olympus alive and percy replying "I'm done running from monsters" like the line between gods and monsters is completely blurred
annabeth trying to dismantle a GOD's unbeatable machine because her fatal flaw is hubris and percy just knowing he was going to sit on the machine because his fatal flaw is loyalty THIS FUCKING WRITERS ROOM PLEASE SPARE ME
he would comment “slut me out” under your instagram posts, and you’d have to delete the comments because you have family that follow your social media. he’d wear stupid slogan t-shirts from tourist shops that say things like “i ♡ my gf” with a big pink heart around it if you bought it for him. he says “lemme ask the lady.” before agreeing to a plan. he asks you if you want any food and you say no, and when you inevitably pout because his fries look good, he slides the whole thing toward you and says “eat, baby.” he uses fingers and tongue when going down on you, not afraid to get messy. he doesn’t even care if you’ve not showered, or just worked out, he’s eating it. he’s very much the definition of “wear what you want i can fight” and will slap the shit out of anyone who has anything to say about your outfit. he turns his hat around so that he can kiss you. he’ll make silly little tiktok videos with you if you want to. you never have to beg him. he never complains about money problems to you, refusing to let you pay for anything as long as you’re with him. just… bf!jj
