_‘*    AUDREY JENSEN.

SHE’S NOT THE ACCOMPLICE,      _{not the one who’s torturing her friends now or the one who’s ever tried to hurt them       (      her intentions were dark and violent when she first met piper,       but she never thought it would turn out like THIS.       and she definitely didn’t think she’d become friends with the people that were targeted.     )         she knows how bad this looks,      it’s why she’s been so desperate to hide the truth,     because how does she get out of this now?       ❝}    BELIEVE ME,     _{me,     right now,     here in front of you.     the killer is trying to turn everyone against me    ——     they want to make you believe i’m the enemy,      but i’m NOT.       you know that.      you know me,    ❞        she insisted,       taking a deep breath,     hands out in front of her as she tried to pause for a moment and just breathe.         ❝    i knew piper.    ❞         already,     she worries that it’s not the right words to say,     but it’s a start;      that much is the truth.        ❝    but i didn’t know she was doing THIS.     i didn’t know  she was like that.         you have to believe me,     spencer    —–   none of this was supposed to happen.   ❞} 

_{❛      well i’d like to think so   ,    ❜       she retorts almost immediately    ———     ,    doe eyes wide when head finally snapped up   ,   directly facing the other.     NOT ACCUSING    ,    but almost hurt that audrey would doubt her loyalty.   unable to mask it in tone.    such a trait}   THAT RAN DEEP.    _{it would be hypocritical to suddenly turn on her when she FIRSTHAND knew what it was like to be accused of something you didn’t do.   having once been}   a person of interest   _{in own best friend’s murder investigation.     MADE OUT TO BE A LIAR when stating to a whole town that her sister’s fiance   ,   and resident golden boy was dead.    the whole reason she was moved to lakewood in the first place.     ❛     i don’t think it’s you     ——    ,     but you better have a good explanation because this makes you look really bad.    you’re really in this deep   ,   audrey.    and i   —–   ,   can’t help if you don’t start telling me the whole truth.    why would someone want to make you look this bad?    what business did you have with piper?     ❜        it wouldn’t do any of them any good to split apart    ,   not with stakes this high.    but spencer had}   SO MANY QUESTIONS.