EMPTY GOLD.
007. | ❛ i'm done chilling. ❜

"I've never had a salt rub. Does it hurt?" Elena laid there along with Spencer, Emily, and Hanna who were getting a spa day. They all had robes on and cucumbers on their eyes.

"Can't be worse than a sugar wax." Hanna spoke

"Why didn't she meet us here?" Spencer referred to Aria

"Spencer, let it go."

"Why lie? Why not just say I snuck out to go meet Ezra?"

"She's got a boyfriend in Cambridge." Emily replied

"Oh, please, this is about so much more than that. If we had never told her about that security tape, she wouldn't have..."

"This is so not relaxing." Hanna said

"I'm with you on that one" Elena agreed

"Hanna, the police didn't ask us to stick around to exfoliate. You guys, there are gonna be questions."

"Aria doesn't know where Ezra went after she left him."

"Yeah, but she knows that he was in a dark place."

"Just 'cause you're depressed doesn't mean you pick up a weapon."

"Okay, you guys, my mom gave us these passes as a gift. We're here to chill, not spill." There was a moment of silence before Spencer started up again.

"It's just so twisted. She hasn't even spoken to Fitz in, like, five years and now if he did this for her they're gonna be bound together forever."

"Not because of the tape. It's gone." Hanna confessed which caused all of us to rise and our cucumbers to fall off our eyes.

"What? You erased it? When?"

"Doesn't matter. It's done." Hanna said still lying down on the mat.

"What do you guys think this room was before they turned the nuthouse into a spa?"

"Why?"

"The sauna smelled like burned hair."

"Okay, that's it. I'm done chilling." Elena gave up and gathered herself

"Wait, what are you guys doing?" Hanna finally got up looking at the us almost at the door.

"I'm gonna go get dressed. I have to meet with Melissa. We have a meeting with my mom's campaign team."

"I have an appointment." Elena said to Hanna

"Yeah, I think I wanna go too."

"Well, we can't leave. We have appointments! You can't do this. Come on, guys." Hanna said chasing after us begging us to come back.

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Back at home, Elena sat in the living room looking at different samples of flowers, wedding dresses, invitations, and locations. She decided to get a head start on the wedding plans since she would probably be swamped with it later on. Elena was deciding between flowers when Toby came in to all the papers laid across the whole floor.

"What is this?" Toby asked her while not trying step on the papers.

"Planning..."

"This is planning" He spoke sarcastically.

"Well, this is extreme planning. You know how I am, always have to be on top of everything." She continued to sort through catalogs. She held up a picture of roses and one of lilies up at Toby

"Roses of lilies?"

"Definitely roses." He said to Elena. Elena looked at her list and checked of roses.

"Oh no. Not the checklist." Toby shook his head at her

"What's wrong with my checklist? It's effective." She pouted at him as he took the checklist away from her.

"While it is proved effective, for you it's obsessive"

"Okay, fine" She hopped onto the countertop in the kitchen.

"How did I get so lucky?" She extended her arms to Toby who wrapped his arms around her waist while she around his neck.

"Well, I like to believe that the beautiful woman who came up to me in New York and invited me to an art show." They both chuckle to what he said

"That art show wasn't the best idea I've ever had."

"Yeah, that art show sucked especially that artist named Elena Davis." Toby said while Elena smacked his shoulder.

"Yeah, real funny." She said hopping off of the countertop.

"I have to get back to the police station so I'll see you later. Love you" He said kissing her cheek before leaving.

Elena's phone buzzed to reveal Spencer asking if she could come over which she kindly respond that she could. After a few moments, did she hear a knock on the door.

"Uh, come in." Elena yelled from the living room.

"What's this?" Spencer pointed to all of the pictures of different paintings on the floor.

"Uh, planning. I have to plan this art show for this upcoming weekend. I just can't seem to make the pieces fit quite yet."

"Well, you could put the demon looking one next to the light one. You know give it that contrast of light vs. dark." Elena got the two samples and placed them side by side and could see what Spencer was talking about.

"Thanks Spence. You're a lifesaver." When Elena looked over to Spencer she was looking at one of Elena's original paintings that stemmed from being under the dollhouse and A considering that they were basically broken dolls. Spencer was one of the first people to see her new artwork.

"Did you paint this?"

"Yeah, I was awake one night and inspiration struck."

"Well, you definitely have a talent for it." She said before placing the picture down.

"You seem really happy." Spencer told Elena

"So, um, is it weird now for you to see Toby?" Elena asked the big elephant in the room.

"No, not at all. I see that you guys are building a house."

"Yeah, after the whole engagement Toby wanted to permantely have a place just for us." Spencer nodded at this information and smiled.

"We met in New York a year after your breakup, he was there to get out of Rosewood and I was on my way to work when I bumped into him. I'm just telling you so that you know that I would never go behind your back. I would never do that to you. I'd... No." Spencer smiled at Elena who was being honest about what happened. Elena and Spencer shared a moment but was quickly interrupted by both of their phones going off. The text indicated all of them to go confront Ezra. Spencer and Elena quickly hopped in Spencer's car before taking off.

The liars except for Aria were there as they came into Ezra's apartment which revealed that Aria go thee first

"Do come in. Join the party. Anybody bring torches, pitchforks? Anything like that?" He said guiding all of them into his apartment as Hanna lashed out

"You didn't protect Aria, okay? I protected Aria!"

"Hanna... " Elena said trying to calm her down

"And we are not gonna go down for this because you thought that you had to slay the dragon!"

"Hanna, please..."She tried one more time before Hanna stopped

"What? My mom may go down for this too. He needs to own up to what he did!"

"Hanna, just let me talk. Look, you can say that it was self-defense. Charlotte had a very long history of throwing the first punch and nobody would ever question you." Elena butted in

"They can't! You seem to already have all the answers."

"Ezra, it wasn't just some random car that hit her, okay? Somebody planned this to make it look like she jumped." Emily yelled at him

"And you might have already had that plan in your head. That paper that I wrote, "Texas vs. Kellner." You read it the summer before I published it when we met up at DuPont Circle right before your reading." Spencer confessed to him

"Okay. It's time for you to leave."

"Not until you're honest with us."

"Honest, Emily? You are not asking me to change your grade you are asking me to confess to a murder."

"Where did you go that night after you left Aria? Why the hell can't you tell us?"

"Emily, leave him alone." Aria defended him

"Why? Sara Harvey won't leave us alone. She's sticking around Rosewood to punish us, Aria! And she will use this against us until it looks like we planned this and Ezra just carried out our wishes!"

"It's time to go. Now! Get out!" He screamed at them causing them to jump a little and getting them scared.

"Okay. We're gonna leave. But you two better figure this out before the police do." Hanna said the final words before we all followed her lead and left.

When Elena got home, she received an text on her phone, assuming it was one of the girls or Toby, she looked at it.

You know who did it and I'm going to make you talk.

Frantic, Elena tried contacting the other girls but none picked up. She tried to call Toby, to see if his voice would call her down, but to no avail. Elena was starting to getting a small panic attack and quickly went to the bottle of pills and took one out. She knew that taking it would be a slippery slope that she couldn't get off of, if A was back, Elena wasn't safe anymore. None of them were.