So another Jaria story, which was still waiting on my notebook ;D It is slightly AU. Jason is not the drug addicted brother and his relationship to his sister Alison is actually pretty normal. I hope you like it anyways.
"Hey, who's that girl?" Jason turns to his friend after Garrett hit him against his upper arm and points towards a small crowd of people laughing in the kitchen.
"Who?", Jason asks. "The little brunette?", Garrett specifies his question. "Aria?", Jason asks, though only one brunette stands in the crowd. "Aria. She could be interesting", Garret says grinning more to himself than to his friend, as he puts the beer bottle to his lips.
"She's a friend of Alison and only fifteen", Jason informs him, hoping to stop him from hitting on her. Actually, he should know him better. That alone is not enough. Garrett wants to reply when he sees Jason's look.
Jason stares thoughtfully at the girl, of whom they speak. "Ah ok, I got it", he says, grinning because he thinks he has exposed the long-guarded secret of his friend. "What did you get?", Jason wonders.
Does Garrett actually possess something like morals and leaves younger girls alone? "Whom do you want to keep away from her? Me or maybe yourself?", Garrett asks laughing.
"What?", Jason replies shocked but also frightened that his thoughts seem to be so obvious. "Don't worry, if you want her, I won't take her away from you", Garrett assures him. Garrett claps him on his shoulder, before he heads for the next blonde girl.
When Jason shoots a glance at Aria again, he sees how she puts a beer bottle to her lips as she smiles shyly at another boy. Jason searches for his sister. When he sees her, he walks towards her.
"Ali!" He exclaims, as he is still a distance away from her to get her attention. Alison turns around. "What's the matter, dear brother?" She asks, not knowing why Jason comes running towards her.
"I told you that you and your friends can come to my party when you don't drink any alcohol", he accuses her angrily. "Yes, and do you see me drinking alcohol?", she asks. Alison holds up her empty hands innocently.
"No, but Aria", Jason informs his sister and points to the kitchen, where Aria is still flirting with the other boy. Alison follows his gaze. When she sees Aria, she just shrugs. "She's fine. And she obviously has fun as well", she says, unaffected by her brother's behavior.
Jason looks back at Aria and sees how the strange boy puts an arm around her. Without wanting it, he can feel the stab in his heart, which hits him at this sight.
"I don't care. You girls are fifteen and you can't drink alcohol. I'm responsible", Jason replies, after turning his gaze back to his sister. "For me there is no problem here and I'm not her babysitter either", Alison answers. She considers the conversation as finished.
When Aria turns around after she has heard someone saying her name, she loses her balance at the turn and falls straight into the man's arms. "Jason", she breathes as she supports herself with her hands on his muscular chest and looks up at him with her brown, big eyes.
Irritated by her proximity, Jason needs a moment before he takes her arms to stabilize her stand. He takes a step back from her. "Why are you drinking?", Jason asks seriously, pointing to the bottle of beer in her hand. Aria walks past him and sits down on the kitchen unit.
Jason stands directly facing her and leans against the kitchen island as he folds his arms across his chest. "Because I like it", she says shrugging, when she wants to put the bottle back to her lips.
Jason, however, holds out his hand and takes the bottle away from her. "You're fifteen and that was the condition for you to be on my party", he says reproachfully. "But the age is just a number", Aria murmurs.
Jason realizes how his body tenses. However, this wasn't only the result of her words, which were already provocative enough, but above all the result of her touches. While she had said these words, she stroked the inside of his right thigh with her foot after her shoe had fallen off.
Jason is so surprised by this action that he has trouble replying. "You've definitely drunken too much alcohol to be still at this party. You should really go to bed", Jason says finally. Aria jumps off the kitchen unit.
On purpose, she stands as close to him as in that moment when she had fallen into his arms. Now her right hand is playing with his shirt collar. "Why? I'm still not tired", she whispers seductively into his ear.
Jason tries to pretend that her advances don't affect him at all. But considering his heart he has to be very careful to remain rational. He knows that she is drunk and therefore says and does things she wouldn't do when she is sober.
"Believe me, it's for your own good", he says because Aria's behavior actually worries him considering how many older men are at this party. Aria looks at him for a moment, as if she were making a plan.
"I go to bed when you keep me company", she finally whispers in his ear. "What? No", Jason shouts so shocked that the other people in the kitchen turn to him and Aria.
Desperately, he is looking for a way to get her off the party as quickly as possible and especially from the earshot of the other party guests who are not supposed to know what she whispered in his ear. "I'll take you upstairs, but I'm not sleeping with you in a bed", he tries to find a compromise, just that Aria will actually go to bed. Aria agrees and runs in front of him to the stairs to the upper floor.
Arriving on the upper floor of the house, Aria walks towards Jason's door before he can stop her from slipping into the room. "Aria! You can't sleep in my bed", he hisses with a muted voice so that he doesn't attract too much attention, not letting anybody know that the fifteen-year-old, drunken friend of his sister is with him alone in his bedroom. "Alright, so we'll celebrate together a bit longer?", Aria asks innocently and smiles at him.
She already wants to turn around when Jason holds his hands up helplessly to stop her. "Ok, then stay here. But I'll get your mattress from Ali's room", Jason says. Aria lies on the bed and looks at him. She reaches for his wrist and wants to pull him to bed.
"You don't have to", she whispers, looking deeply into his eyes. "But I want to", Jason says firmly, trying to pull his arm out of her grip. He shakes his head. "You can be really glad that it's only me. At this party are so many men who would take advantage of your condition", Jason says almost accusingly.
Suddenly, Aria is angry and confused. "What? What does that mean? Do you think I'd try it with everyone?", she asks angrily. Frightened by her angry reaction and her sudden clarity, Jason sits down on the edge of the bed and puts his hand on her forearm to calm her down.
"Sssh Aria, I'm not accusing you of anything. I just thought… At least you try it with me", he notes. "Yes, because I like you. Very much", Aria answers without looking at him. Jason looks at her for a moment. "You have a pretty offensive way of showing someone that you like him, especially for your age", he says.
Aria hides her face in her hands. "I'm sorry. Actually, I'm not that kind of a girl. I just thought that men turn their heads off when a woman behaves this way. My father obviously does it", she explains him her behavior.
Jason looks at her in silence. He can see how her eyes fill with tears. He isn't sure if she wants to tell him what she meant. But before he can answer her, she continues.
"Before Ali and I came to your party, I saw my father ... and I saw how he kissed a woman who wasn't my mother." A tear rolls down her cheek. She feels how Jason's right hand lies down on her left. "I mean that is the only explanation for it, isn't it? Apparently, when a woman behaves this way, something must happen in men", she says.
"Is your father the reason you drank tonight?", Jason asks, after drawing his own conclusions from her behavior. Aria sighs. "Yes, probably. I'm so sorry. I didn't want to get you in trouble", Aria answers with an apologizing smile. "It's ok, I was just worried about you", he admits.
"But why did you want me to ... turn my head off?" Jason asks, repeating Aria's words. "I wanted you to forget how old I am and that I am Ali's friend", she whispers again without looking into his eyes.
Jason struggles with himself. On the one hand, he doesn't really want to admit that he feels the same for her, but on the other hand he wants her to know that she has managed to make him forget that she is too young for him without trying to seduce him.
He wants her to know that she doesn't need such behavior to get the attention from a boy. "Aria, I like you, too. More than I should probably", Jason admits.
"Really?" Aria replies in amazement, lifting her head. "Really, even if you scared me tonight." Jason laughs. "What would you have done if I said yes?" He asks curiously. Aria laughs as well.
"Honestly, I have no idea. I didn't really plan that", she answers before she sits closer to him and puts her right arm loosely around his waist. She is so close with her face at his that he can feel her breath on his skin.
"Aria, I can't. I really like you. But I can't", Jason says, while he prevents himself from simply giving in to his feelings. "Please Jason, it's just a kiss", Aria whispers to him as she caresses his cheek with her left hand.
"No Aria, it's not just a kiss. That is the problem. If I allow myself to kiss you now, then there is no turning back. Then I will spend days and nights thinking about you. More than I already do", it bursts out of him with full sincerity.
Aria tries to stop herself from jumping and dancing with joy because she never thought to hear such words from his mouth. "What's so bad about it? I like you, you like me", she continues to convince him that nothing is wrong with his feelings. "I just shouldn't do that", Jason replies, shaking his head in desperation.
He jumps up out of her proximity and storms out of his room. In the hall, he almost collides with his sister, who has followed the two upstairs after some time. Jason walks past her, down the stairs, while Alison goes to her brother's room, where she finds Aria lying on his bed while she looks at the ceiling.
"I'm not really sure if I want to know why my brother ran into me after he comes out of his room where you lie on his bed", Alison says as she stands in the doorway. Aria just turns her head and looks at Alison with rolling eyes. When Alison sees Arias red-eyed eyes, she understands that it is probably not the right moment for bad jokes.
Alison sits down in the place where Jason has just sat. Like her brother, she also puts her right hand on Aria's hand, which lies motionless beside her body. "You like him, huh?" Alison asks, although she already knows the answer to her question. Aria doesn't answer. Instead, she tries to pull away the tears that gather in her eyes.
"Aria, it's his last weekend at Rosewood for this summer. Then he goes back to college. You would hardly see him", Alison tries to explain her friend the chances of a relationship to her brother reasonably and realistic. "I know. He's six years older than me, he's your brother and he's already going to college when I'm going to high school and yet I'm in love with him."
Aria has straightened up and looks at her friend desperately, while her tears are running down her cheeks. If Alison would be honest, she didn't like the way Aria looked at Jason. But Alison wants to do the right thing and push all her grudges against the feelings of the two.
Aria doesn't need anyone who tells her at this moment that you don't fall in love with the friend's brother and no one who tells her how much it will break her heart when she doesn't try to stop these feelings. Aria needs a friend to comfort her, as if it were just an ordinary crush for some boy. Even if it's not ...
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