This is my first fanfic, so please please review and let me know if it sucks!...
Ezra had always been the kind of man to fight for what he wanted. He truly felt that if he did the right thing. Things would work out in his favor. This strong belief in some sort of fate began to die the afternoon Aria Montgomery left him, went into a coma when he learned that she was seeing someone else, and shriveled up and died when he found out she betrayed him with his own brother. Still a glutton for punishment, he let the tiny love of his life deliver one last blow to his heart, a blow he wasn't strong enough to recover from.
So here he was back home in New York City. He moved back in a broken-hearted spur of the moment decision. He stayed at his best friend Hardy's place untill he moved into his own home. A lot had changed for Ezra in the last two years, well everything had changed in the last two years. Hating the overwhelming feeling of defeat that sent him running back to New York, Ezra had decided to start his life over, being as stable and successful as possible. He always felt that if he had it more together and not unemployed at twenty-four years old, that things with Aria might have worked out. He certainly would not have gone back to teaching at Rosewood Day. Ezra enjoyed teaching, but writing had always been his true calling, and it was his writing that was really starting to pay off.
Having a steady flow of checks coming in made leaving his job at Rosewood without any notice easy. When Ezra was upset he wrote, and when he first came back to New York, he had plenty to write about. Using the money he saved up, Ezra and Hardy opened up their own Publishing Company. Hardy was good at business, and Ezra was good at writing, they knew they worked great as a team. Hardy had always been a loyal friend, and Ezra was eternally grateful. Ezra also spent a lot of his time with his high school best friend Sean, they had always been close, and it was at Sean's urging that Ezra let him use his poems for his music. Sean was a successful music producer, and Ezra's writings were helping him make hit after hit.
Life in New York was starting to look up, the firm was going great, Ezra was keeping busy with his friends and family, and with the encouragement from everyone in him life, he was taking a chance at having a love life again. Never one to play it completely safe, Ezra had been dating one of him employees for a little over two months. Hardy was not thrilled at the beginning, but willing to deal with the potential office fallout, if it ment Ezra could finally let go of all thing Aria.
Becca was the complete opposite of Aria, a blonde southern belle, Ezra was attracted to her immediately. Hardy had handled the hiring, while he wrapped up the songs he and Sean were working on. Walking in and seeing Becca on the first day was an unexpected bonus. Ezra knew he made an impression too, as he went into his office, he could hear her tell Julie, his assistant "How are we suppost to work, with that walking around!". Becca was very nervous around Ezra at first, he thought it was adorable. Against his better judgement he started flirting with her, it was fun, and it gave him something to look forward to. Things didn't really start up between them untill the night the office went out to celebrate their first publication. The sly looks and playful jabs turned into a make out session in a dark corner. If they thought they were being covert, the thought wrong, the flashes from the cameras and phones of their friends made that clear.
While things with Becca were great, Ezra was hesitant to let himself fall in love again. He never wanted to be that vulnerable again, and a huge part of his heart still belonged to Aria. For the first time in along time Ezra felt like he could breathe, the aching pain, now a dull one. Still moments took him by surprise. After a perfect night with Becca, their first time together, he woke up with her in his arms. Expecting to feel the afterglow of their passionate night, when she turned up at him and smiled, a deep body wrenching pain shot through him. This was it, true love was a myth, and his new life would always be almost enough. He instantly felt guilty, Becca was amazing, and he was lucky to have found her. She was beautiful caring and honest. He convinced himself to stop building up Aria as an epic love lost, but to remember all the ways she had hurt him. Becca then seemed like a beacon of hope to him, life after heartbreak, she would be that light just past the tunnel he was still coming out of.
Ezra and Hardy sat in Ezra's office. Hardy demanding info on Ezra's first time with Becca. "It was great, that's all your going to get from me" Ezra said sternly. "Stop being such a tease!" Hardy whined. "Ezra" Julie beeped in, "There's an Aria Montgomery in the office to see you"...