This is my first chapter in my first fan fiction. I'd love to read your reviews about it, but please be easy on me.
Aria woke up from the sun shining through the window. At first, she didn't know where she was, but then she realized the big mistake she just made. She found herself on the couch in the apartment of Ezra Fitz. Her teacher. And, apparently, her boyfriend. She came back a few weeks ago, how the hell could she get into this mess so fast?
Aria slowly pushed the blanket aside and turned around. Ezra's bed was empty. The girl frowned and stood up as quietly as possible. On her toes she walked to the bathroom and found it empty, too.
She breathed out very relieved and let herself fall down on the bed of her new English teacher. This was ridiculous! Ezra couldn't be seen as her teacher! Aria closed her eyes and tried to recall the last few weeks. Coming back to Rosewood, meeting Ezra, seeing her old friends again, including all those posters with photos of Alison. Her family hadn't even unpacked their moving boxes yet (well, her family was not that ordinary.).
The girl sighed. Alison disappeared a year ago, right before Aria's family left America, and was found dead a few days ago, in her own backyard. The five girls - Aria, Alison, Spencer, Hanna and Emily - had a little school's out party at Spencer's, when four of them fell asleep very deeply. When they woke up, Ali was gone. The thought of their friend being dead or worse ruined their friendship and the girls grew apart. Although Aria was happy when her parents decided to move to Iceland for one year, she also felt comfortable coming home to Rosewood.
When she drove her brother Mike to his sports practice, she didn't want to go home. Her parents had found their love again in Iceland and she wanted them to keep it that way. So, she decided to give Ella and Byron some alone time, while she could eat at a pub.
This pub was the beginning of this, this mess. Aria sat down at the bar and met this guy named Ezra. He was totally handsome, very charming and surprisingly smart. Okay, maybe it was kinda wrong to make out with him in the pub's bathroom. But who could've thought he'd be her teacher?
Anyways, Aria knew that she fell in love with this educated writer.
Next day in school, the less possible thing in the world happened: Aria met her new English teacher: Ezra Fitz. They stared at each other a little too long, before he started class.
They both knew that this wasn't working out. If anyone found out Fitz had an affair with one of his students, he would not only use his job, but also go to jail.
Aria exactly remembered how she felt in that moment, when Ezra wrote something down on the board: this was so unfair! How could she first find her soulmate who then turned out to be a forbidden love?
Before the girl could think about it any further, she heard the keys on the door.
She quickly jumped from the bed and laid back down on the couch, covering herself with the old blanket.
Aria just closed her eyes, when she already heard Ezra entering the room. The door fell back and closed, a jacket was thrown somewhere and keys were placed on the table in the kitchen-area.
A few moments later, Ezra sat down in the couch, first watched Aria ‚sleeping', then slowly tried to wake her up.
„Aria, hey…", he said with his calm voice. „You should wake up now. Its almost ten and i bet your parents need a call to hear you're alright.", he explained and saw his girl open her eyes, looking tired.
„i'm almost ready to go.", Aria joked and smiled at him. Right before she opened her eyes, she had her mind made up: She'd leave him, so there was not risk for both of them left. But now, looking at him, his dark hair still a little bit messy, she just couldn't do it.
„I can see that", Ezra laughed and stood up. „I got you breakfast", he went on and grabbed the brown paper bag from the counter.
„Sweet, thank you", Aria said and took the bag. She opened it and found a bagel inside. She dated a few boys in high school but no one ever got her breakfast. Aria was totally flattered.
„Ezra, I…", she began and closed the paper bag. „You know, that this is not right". She looked at him and thought to see a little bit of hurt in Ezra's eyes.
„I am a minor and you are a teacher. This is wrong in so many ways and you know that. I mean, you're the grown-up here and…", before she could go on, Ezra interrupted her.
„You're right, Aria", he said surprisingly and looked her in the eyes. They both looked sad, knowing that this would be the last time they saw each other in private.
„I cannot do this any longer. Listen…", he started and sat down next to her.
„You must know, no matter what i'll say next, I really like you, Aria. I really do."
„Ezra, I'm starting to worry. What is it?", Aria said, suddenly feel uncomfortable. She had the feeling he would start to talk about her being too young and him using her for his own benefits. But what Ezra was going to tell her was totally different.
„We didn't meet on purpose.", he finally said and waited for any reaction. But Aria stayed calm, in shock, waiting for him to go on with his story.
„As you know, I'm a writer. One day, I had the feeling I found a good story and I followed the lead. It brought me to you.", Ezra went on.
Aria frowned. „What do you mean, it brought you to me? I not assume you wanna write about my experiences in Iceland? Or how it feels for a teacher to have a love affair with a student, right?", she asked provocative and Ezra recognized a bit of anger in her voice.
„No, i don't. Why do you even think about that?", he asked kind of irritated. „I didn't plan on falling in love with you, Aria", he answered and saw something in her eyes, he couldn't quite assign. Was it astonishment?
„Then what is it?", Aria asked calmly and looked him in the eyes in a strong, but cold way.
„You once told me about your friend, Alison.", when Ezra mentioned the name of her former best friend, Aria quivered.
„How she disappeared and how you never knew if she was loving you or hating you.", he went on. But when he saw that Aria had shut her eyes down, he breathed in and out very slowly.
„I knew her.", he said finally and waited for Aria to make a surprised noise. But the girl stayed quite, waiting for him to explain.
„I met her and found out she told a few lies. Alison was an interesting person, but still inscrutable. She was always one step ahead", Ezra almost laughed by the thought of the blonde girl who liked to play with fire. For Area, he sounded quite admiring.
„Why are you telling me this Ezra? You wrote a book about her? How she disappeared and how everyone is scared by the thought what might have happened to her? Bravo, Ezra, i bet it's an awful book.", Aria looked at him with a mixture of anger, hate and disappointment in her eyes. She jumped from the couch and grabbed her bag.
„I better go now.", she said and turned around to the door, so Ezra couldn't see her tears.
„No, Aria wait", he stood up and held on to her arm.
„Alison…", he turned her around. „Alison is alive. And I have proof!"
Aria could only stare at him as if he had totally lost it.