part 2

whoever found a piece got to decorate it however he or she wanted , and once every Peace was found, the staff sewed the flag together again, held a big assembly honoring the winners, and buried it in a Time Capsule behind the soccer fields. Students who found Time Capsule pieces were Legends-their legacies lived on forever.

It was hard to stand out at a school like Rosewood Day , and it was even harder to snag a piece of the Time Capsule flag. Only one loophole gave everyone a glimmer of hope: the stealing clause, which stated that it was legal to steal a piece from someone, right up until the piece's time of burial. Two days ago, a certain beautiful somebody had bragged that one of the pieces was as good as hers.

now, four nobodies were hoping to take advantage of the stealing clause when she least expected it.

The thought of stealing Allison's piece was intoxicating. On one hand, it was a chance to get close to her. On the other, it was an opportunity to show the prettiest girl at Rosewood day that she might not always get everything she wanted. Alison DiLaurentis definitely deserved a reality check.

Spencer glared at the three other girls. "I was here first. That flag's mine."

"I was here before you," Hanna whispered. "I saw you come out of your house only a few minutes ago."

Aria stomped her purple suede Boot, gawking at Hanna.

"You just got here too. I was here before both of you."

Hanna squared her shoulders and looked at Aria's messy braids and chunky layered necklaces. "And who's going to believe you ?"

"Guys." Emily jutted her pointy chin toward the DiLaurentis house and held a finger to her lips. There were voices coming from the kitchen.

"Don't." It sounded like Ali. The girls tensed.

"Don't," imitated a second high-pitched voice.

"stop it!" Ali screeched.

"stop it!" the second voice echoed.

Emily winced. Her older sister , Carolyn , used to squeakily imitate Emily's voice the same exact way, and Emily hated it. She wondered if the second voice belonged to Ali's older brother,Jason, a junior at Rosewood Day.

"Enough!" called a deeper voice. There was a wall shaking this shattering glass. Seconds later, the patio door opened, and Jason stormed out, his sweatshirt flapping open, his shoes untied, and his cheeks flushed.

"Shit," Spencer whispered. The girls scurried behind the bushes. Jason walked diagonally across the yard toward the woods, then stopped, noticing something to his left.

An enraged expression slowly slithered across his face.

The girls followed his gaze. Jason was looking into Spencer's backyard. Spencer's sister, Melissa, and her new boyfriend, Ian Thomas, were sitting on the edge of the family's hot tub. When they saw Jason staring, Ian and Melissa dropped hands. A few pregnant seconds crept by.

Two days before, right after Ali bragged about the flag she was about to find, Ian and Jason had gotten in a fight over Ali in front of the entire sixth-grade class. Maybe the fight hadn't ended.

Jason pivoted stiffly and marched into the woods. The patio door slammed again, and the girls ducked. Ali stood on the deck, looking around. Her long blond hair rippled down her shoulders, and her deep pink T-shirt made her skin look extra glowing and fresh.

"You can come out," Ali yelled.

Emily widened her brown eyes. Aria ducked down further. Spencer and Hanna clamped their mouths shut

"Seriously." Ali walked down the deck steps, balancing perfectly on her wedge heels. She was the only sixth grader ballsy enough to wear high heels to class-Rosewood Day didn't technically allow them until high school. "I know someone's there. But if you've come for my flag, it's gone. Someone already stole it."

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