Wanted: A Pretty Little Liars Novel by Sara Shepard

Author:Sara Shepard
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins (2010)
Published: 2012-04-13T16:51:33+00:00

Can’t wait to see you in gym 2day. XX

Emily’s heart flipped. Can’t wait to see you too, she texted back, watching the little envelope spin until the text was sent.

She could still taste Ali’s minty breath and feel her soft, full lips on hers. She could still see Ali dancing seductively at that club on Wednesday night, the spotlight shining on the crown of her golden head.

Carolyn leaned over and glanced at Emily’s cell phone screen. Her eyes widened. “Are you and Courtney friends?”

“She seems nice,” Emily said, trying not to give anything away.

Carolyn folded the menu and slid it to the edge of the table. “It’s so weird that Ali had a twin. Did you ever suspect?”

Emily shrugged. In hindsight, it all fit together. She should’ve guessed something weird was going on the day before the seventh-grade sleepover. When Ali had met the girls on the porch, she’d had no memory of talking to them in her room just moments before. Then later that same afternoon, Emily had excused herself to use the DiLaurentises’ bathroom. Inside, she’d heard Jason whispering angrily to someone on the stairs. “You’d better stop it,” he warned. “You know how that pisses them off.”

“I’m not hurting anyone,” another voice had protested. It sounded a lot like Ali, but it had clearly been Courtney. Jason was probably scolding her for impersonating her sister—again.

She tried to drown me, Ali had said. She wanted to kill me to be me. Emily shuddered.

But what about the other time Courtney had been home, when she’d switched from the Radley to the Preserve? Ali had said it was early in sixth grade. Could it have been the same Saturday that Emily, Spencer, and the others had sneaked into Ali’s yard, hoping to steal her Time Capsule flag? Emily remembered hearing an argument from inside the DiLaurentises’ house—Ali had screamed “Stop it!” and then someone had yelled “Stop it!” back in the same high-pitched voice. She’d figured it was Jason, but it also could have been Courtney.

That was the first day Ali had ever talked to any of them, and for a while, she’d seemed almost friendly. She didn’t even stop the conversation when Mrs. DiLaurentis stepped out on the porch and told Ali she was leaving. Looking back on it now, Emily wondered if Ali’s family was taking Courtney to the Preserve, the new facility. If she’d paid more attention to the DiLaurentises’ Mercedes as it pulled away from the house, would she have seen a face eerily identical to Ali’s in the backseat?

The waitress approached their table and asked if they’d decided what they wanted for breakfast. Carolyn ordered a western omelet, and Emily requested a Belgian waffle. After the waitress strode away, Carolyn dumped a container of creamer into her coffee mug. “Courtney seems really different than Ali.”

Emily stirred her hot chocolate, trying to remain neutral. “Why do you say that?”

“I’m not sure. I can’t really put my finger on it, but the differences are there.”

The bell on the counter rang.

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