I've read some stories that have had this same main idea, but this is going to be slightly written from experience. (Not the teacher student thing. The things happening to Aria) Aria and Ezra never met in the bar. They meet as teacher and student. Mr. Fitz overheard Aria telling her three best friends about something going on at home. Ella and Byron are divorced. Ella is remarried to someone, and they had another child together.

Aria's point of view

Today was the first day of my junior year. Ever since my mom got remarried, I started loving school. It was an excuse for me to be out of the house for seven hours a day. Last night I had difficulty sleeping. I tried to listen to my Ipod to drown out all of the screaming and crying of my sister. (Child Ella had.)

Flashback (In Aria's point of view)

"Damn it Ella! Let me in the house," His voice echoed through the house.

The yelling happened on a daily basis, but I didn't expect to hear a loud popping sound. Oh so quietly I opened my door to see what had happened. At first I saw my sister Payton, and my brother Mike standing in the living room. My eyes scanned the room to look around to see where he was. He wasn't the patient kind of person, so I wasn't surprised when I saw him halfway in the window, with the busted out screen.

"Daddy, stop," Payton cries out.

"Matt, don't you see what you're doing? You just busted out the window screen while our daughter and my son were in the same room. Please, just go. Come back when you are sober." My mom tried pleading.

I don't know if I was the only one that noticed it, but he had already been slowly slipping into the house.

"Matt, leave! It would be better for all of us if you would just leave. No one wants you here." I finally spoke up. In the process of talking, I had walked downstairs.

"I want daddy to stay here." Payton pipes up.

"Are you saying that your sister is nobody?"

"You're really going to use Payton to stay here? She doesn't understand that what you're doing is wrong!"

"Trying to live here with my family is wrong?" He asks in an innocent voice.

"We all know that's not the only thing going on. Mom might have told us some story of how she broke her wrist, but we all know it was a lie. We know it was you!" I didn't realize what I said, before I felt a sharp pain just below my eye. He punched me, he actually hit me.

"Matt!" Mom screamed.

"I... I... I'm sorry. It just happened. I didn't mean to."

"This is what I mean," I say pulling myself off the floor. "You're not safe to be around." I don't give him time to respond before I run up the stairs.

End of Flashback

"Crap." I mutter when I see the time. I always take too long to get dressed. I wouldn't have time to eat and put on my makeup, so I decide to skip putting on makeup. I rush downstairs grabbing my keys and bag, before running out the door.

It only takes about ten minutes for me to get to school from my house, so I was there quickly.

"Aria!" I hear a voice yell. I smile turning around to see Hanna, Emily, and Spencer coming towards me.

"Whoa, what happened to you?" Spencer asks.

"What do you mean?"

"Your face is bruised." Emily answers for her.

"Oh, that. I'll explain when we get inside." I tell them before walking into the school doors. We all walk together to get our schedule.

"I have Mr. Fitz first period." Hanna says.

"Me too." Spencer, Emily, and I say at the same time.

"He's room 32, which is this one," Spencer says pointing to the classroom we were standing outside of.

"Okay, now you have to tell us what happened." Hanna demands. We were the only ones in the classroom.

"Fine. Matt-"

"Matt as in the guy your mom is married to?"

"Yes, that Matt. Now let me finish. My mom locked him out of the house last night because he has been drinking all night. I don't know why, but she locked him out of the house, and he busted the screen out of our front window. I said something that just slipped, and it made him furious. Do you guy's remember when my mom's wrist was broken?"

"Yeah." They said together.

"He did it, and last night I said that we all know that the story she told us was a lie. He snapped, and hit me."

"Oh, Aria. I'm so sorry." Emily says.

"It's okay. I'm used to it by now."

"Girls?" We hear someone say from the door.

"Who are you?" Hanna asks.

"Um, I'm Mr. Fitz. The new teacher. Which one of you is Aria?"

"I am,\." I say timidly.

"Girls, can I talk to her alone?" He asks unsure of himself.

"Yeah, I guess." Emily says. They all walk out, closing the door behind them.

"Hi, I didn't mean to overhear you, but it is my classroom." He says nervously.

"Yeah, um, sorry. We always come to class early. We wanted to talk, and it wasn't something I wanted to talk about with everyone around."

"That is a pretty bad bruise. Are you okay?"

"Physically, my face kind of hurts right now. Mentally, I'm, far from okay."

"How long has this been going on? Has this guy hit you before?"

"It's been going on for about four years. He has hit me one other time. Please, don't say anything to anyone. If he found out I told, he would be furious,"

I know that was short, but I just wanted to try it. Tell me what you thought, and if I hsould continue it.