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"Are you okay, Spence?" Emily asked

"Of course I’m okay," Spencer answered breathlessly "I’m better than okay Why wouldn’t I be okay?"

"You sound weird, that’s all Like you’re on so"

Spencer snickered "Well, I ie"

"You took drugs?" E to her feet A few passersby stared at her giant 16 and Pregnant stomach

"Chill," Spencer answered "It’s just these pills called Easy A"

"Just? Are they safe?"

"God, Eet it from, Phineas, took it for a year with no side effects And he’s doing better here at Penn than I am"

Emily didn’t answer She watched as people boarded the Moshulu restaurant clipper ship in the harbor, looking happy and problehed "I’m fine, Em I promise You don’t have to worry about iven Eht Eood-bye

E quietly on the bench next to her "Is everything okay?" he asked in a heartbreakingly sweet voice

All of a sudden, E to her friends? Spencer wasn’t the kind of girl who turned to drugs Enant "What do you know about a drug called Easy A?" she asked Derrick

He frowned "It’s not soers around the pole that supported the swings, and Emily came back to the present "What did you do to Kelsey?" Aria asked

Hanna’s head shot up "You don’t know?"

"I don’t, either," E back and forth at both of theht when I called you froht Kelsey and s They questioned us separately, and I was sure Kelsey was placing all the blame on me That’s what the police told me, at least So I called all of you E down at the ground

"I didn’t think it was right to help," Aria filled in, sounding defensive

"Right" Spencer’s voice was tight "So I called Hanna next I had her plant pills in Kelsey’s room and then call the cops and say she was a known dealer"

E her shoes sink into a rass "Seriously?"

"I didn’t knohat else to do!" Spencer raised her hands in protest "I panicked"

"Don’t forget the part about finding out that Kelsey didn’t tell on you after all," Hanna said nervously, casting her eyes around the eround

"I only found out after it was too late," Spencer said

"So you did it for no reason?" Aria squeaked, her tone a tad sanctimonious

"Look, I’ "But Kelsey showed up atout with ey and weird At first, I wasn’t sure if she knew I sent her to juvie, but this note pretty much proves it" She held her phone screen up Think your su such a pill?

Hanna picked nervously at her bottom lip "Hoould Kelsey know you sent her to juvie? You said there was no way for the cops to trace it back to us"

"I have no idea" Spencer sounded exasperated "Maybe Kelsey figured it out Maybe she’s A She had her phone out when I got ers "But Kelsey wasn’t in Jamaica, was she?"

"And I don’t knohy Kelsey would be after all of us," E to her"

"Maybe she thinks ere all in on what I did to her," Spencer said

"That would ht push "Think of that People article It said ere best friends Told each other everything Kelsey could have assu Spencer"

Emily’s stomach swirled Could that be possible?

"I’m still not sure," Aria said "Maybe A is one of Tabitha’s friends Or soh"

"Jenna’s friends would be after Ali, not us," Spencer argued