Alison DiLaurentis (Book Character)

Alison "Ali" DiLaurentis is the most popular girl at Rosewood Day. She has a secret identical twin, Courtney DiLaurentis - who she hates. Alison's best friends are Naomi and Riley, who she describes as the 'coolest girls in school'. Alison holds commanding reign over her year, everyone envies her and is interested in her. During 6th Grade, Ali spots a flyer for the Time Capsule Tradition, and announces that she will have a flag given to her by her brother Jason DiLaurentis. Ali's signature 'A for Ali' ring was stolen by her sister Courtney. That night Hanna, Aria, Spencer and Emily arrive at Ali's house to steal her flag piece but Ali tells them that someones already beaten them to it, only it isn't Ali talking to them. It's Courtney who is about to swap mental hospitals, wearing Ali's signature ring. Instead of Courtney being taken back to the hospital it is Ali as Courtney tricked her parents into believing that she was Ali. Ali insists to her parents she is Courtney, but without her ring her parents don't believe her and just think that it is Courtney becoming more crazy. Furious, Ali realizes the only way out is to pretend that she is Courtney, eventually her parents let her out for a break the next summer. Ali becomes obsessed with stealing her life back. Courtney has befriended who Ali thinks are the 'un-cool' people of Rosewood Day - Hanna, Aria, Spencer and Emily. While they are having a sleepover with 'Ali' in Spencer's barn Ali spies on them, taking pictures with a polaroid camera, eventually she ditches the photos in the woods behind her house. When Courtney runs into the woods after an argument with Spencer, Ali confronts Courtney and eventually kills her by shoving her into a hole where a gazebo was about to be constructed in their backyard, afterwards Ali ran back up to her bedroom. Ali was sent back to the mental hospital, because her parents didn't want her to be fussed over by the media who had become involved in disappearance. Whilst in the mental hospital, Alison befriends a girl called Iris. Eventually Allison takes over from Mona and becomes "A" to continue to stalk the PLL's and keep herself hidden at all costs, including killing Ian Thomas who knew about Alison's existence. this eventually turns into a near murder, when Alison starts a bush fire to burn down Spencer's barn and kill the PLL's inside. Only Alison is trapped by a fallen branch and is nearly killed herself, Aria finds her and rescues her. The rest of the PLL's see her, but Alison runs away before her identity is revealed. Alison also kills Jenna in the book Heartless as Jenna also knew about her existence. Alison returns in Wanted, when her parents, who still think she is Courtney introduce her to the rest of Rosewood, saying that she was 'Alison's' twin, and they didn't want her in the spotlight. Alison convinces the rest of the PLL's that she is Courtney, which they knew as Alison. They become friends again, and they all think that it's just like old times. Alison invites them to a holiday home they had always used to visit with Courtney and Alison makes them re-inact the scene of then night Courtney was murdered. Alison planned the night so she could blow up the house, killing the PLL's and finishing what she started. Only again, she fails the PLL's escape the house and seemingly Alison is trapped inside and thought killed. At the end of the book, a new girl starts her senior year at an anonymous school, a girl whose name just so happens to be an anagram of Alison DiLaurentis.