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about. No <strong>on</strong>e knew how it had started. All any<strong>on</strong>e knew was that the most coveted clique in sixth grade<br />

was<br />

now missing a few members.<br />

When Ali made c<strong>on</strong>versati<strong>on</strong> with Spencer, Hanna, Emily, and Aria at the Rosewood Day Charity Drive<br />

the<br />

following Saturday, the four girls thought it was just a nasty prank. But Ali remembered their names. She<br />

complimented the way Spencer had flawlessly spelled knickknacks and chandeliers. She ogled Hanna’s<br />

brand-new boots from Anthropologie and the peacock-feather earrings Aria’s dad had brought her from<br />

Morocco. She marveled at how Emily could easily lift a whole box of last seas<strong>on</strong>’s winter coats. Before<br />

the<br />

girls knew it, Ali had invited them to her house for a sleepover. Which led to another sleepover, and<br />

then<br />

another. By the end of September, when the Time Capsule game ended and every<strong>on</strong>e turned in their<br />

decorated<br />

pieces of the flag, a new rumor was swirling around school: Ali had four new best friends.<br />

They sat together at the Time Capsule burial cerem<strong>on</strong>y in the Rosewood Day auditorium, watching as<br />

Principal<br />

Applet<strong>on</strong> called each pers<strong>on</strong> who’d found a piece of the flag to the stage. When Applet<strong>on</strong> announced<br />

that <strong>on</strong>e of the pieces previously found by Alis<strong>on</strong> DiLaurentis had never been turned in and would now<br />

be<br />

c<strong>on</strong>sidered invalid, the girls squeezed Ali’s hands hard. It isn’t fair, they whispered. That piece was yours.<br />

You worked so hard <strong>on</strong> it.<br />

But the girl at the end of the row, <strong>on</strong>e of Ali’s brand-new best friends, was shaking so badly she had to<br />

hold<br />

her knees steady with the heels of her palms. Aria knew where Ali’s piece of the flag was. Sometimes,<br />

after<br />

the five-way pre-bedtime ph<strong>on</strong>e call with her new best friends ended, Aria’s gaze would lock <strong>on</strong> the<br />

shoe<br />

box <strong>on</strong> the very top shelf of her closet, a hollow, sour pain quickly forming in the pit of her stomach. It<br />

was

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