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And then she shot across the ballroom. Somebody was hiding something, all right. And this time, they<br />

couldn’t turn to the cops for help.<br />

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28<br />

CREEPIER AND CREEPIER<br />

By the time Aria finally fought through the snarl of traffic in line to park at the Radley opening, she was<br />

over an hour late. She tossed her keys to the valet and searched the crowd of bouncers, formally<br />

dressed<br />

partygoers, and photographers for Emily, but she wasn’t anywhere.<br />

After Jas<strong>on</strong> had found Aria in his apartment earlier today and demanded she leave, Aria hadn’t known<br />

what<br />

to do. Finally, she’d driven to St. Basil’s cemetery and walked up the hills to Ali’s grave. The last time Aria<br />

was here, Ali’s casket wasn’t yet in the ground—Mr. and Mrs. DiLaurentis had held off <strong>on</strong> burying her, in<br />

denial that their daughter was truly dead. And although the DNA evidence still hadn’t come in that it<br />

truly<br />

was Ali’s body in the half-dug hole in the DiLaurentises’ backyard, the family must have faced reality,<br />

because<br />

Aria had heard that they’d finally interred Ali quietly last m<strong>on</strong>th, without a cerem<strong>on</strong>y.<br />

Alis<strong>on</strong> Lauren DiLaurentis, the headst<strong>on</strong>e said. There was a new layer of freshly planted grass around her<br />

grave site, already stiff and frosty from the cold. Aria stared hard at the slab of marble, wishing Ali could<br />

talk. She wanted to tell Ali about the yearbook she’d found in Jas<strong>on</strong>’s apartment. She wanted to ask<br />

about<br />

the inscripti<strong>on</strong> Wilden had written over Ian’s picture. What did Ian do that was so awful? And what<br />

happened<br />

to you? What d<strong>on</strong>’t we know?<br />

A girl in a tight black tube dress stopped Aria at the Radley’s grand, double-doored entrance. “Do you<br />

have<br />

an invitati<strong>on</strong>?” she asked, her voice nasal and c<strong>on</strong>descending. Aria produced the invite Ella had sent her,

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