Chapter 1

(Aria's POV)

"Would you like anything while I'm up?" Ezra offered, after heaving himself off of his living room couch.

"No, I'm fine," Aria said with a smile.

Ezra gave her one of his famous boyish grins and disappeared into his kitchen. Aria's phone buzzed letting her know she had a text message. Seeing it was from Spencer, she opened it.

Hey are you busy? – It read.

Aria quickly typed back a response: Yeah sorry, I'm at Ezra's.

Spencer replied immediately: What Mr. Fitz host detention in his apartment now? You must have been pretty bad to end up on his couch with him on top of you. Just kidding! Love you Aria, text me later.

Aria smirked and turned off her phone. She stood up and wandered over to Ezra's desk. Her fingers traced the round black keys of his typewriter when she felt two strong arms wrap tightly around her waist. Startled, Aria jumped.

"What's wrong Ar?" Ezra whispered into her ear.

A chill went down Aria's spine when Ezra called her "Ar". A had been calling her "Ar" a lot lately. Was A trying to lead her to something? Pushing those thoughts to the back of her head, Aria realized that Ezra had asked her a question.

"Oh, nothing," Aria said easily, "you just scared me."

"There's nothing to be scared of Aria." Ezra said lightly as he began to kiss her neck.

Aria relaxed in his arms, when suddenly Ezra spun her around and kissed her very passionately on the lips. Surprised Aria pulled away.

"What was that for?" Aria questioned, searching Ezra's face for any kind of hint in his expression.

"What? I'm not allowed to kiss you?" Ezra said, pulling her close again.

Just as Ezra began to run his lips against her collar-bone Aria asks: "What's going on, Ezra?"

He pulled away, "Nothing, I just missed you."

He smiled and kissed her again, harder than the first time. Something was defiantly up, and Ezra was doing everything he could to avoid it. She pulled away again, her voice stern.

"Ezra, I saw you this morning in class."

But this time he didn't look up, instead he just moved down to her neck trying to distract her.

"Ezra." She tried her best to keep her voice steady, but it wobbled when Ezra hit a sensitive spot on her neck. She knew he knew exactly what he did, and she could feel him smirk when she let out a little sigh. Finally Aria couldn't take it anymore, and she knew she wasn't going to get an answer out of Ezra today. She grabbed his face with both her hands and kissed him full on the mouth. Aria could tell he was pleased and relieved by the way he relaxed his body. She could feel him smiling knowing that he won; or so he thought. As their mouths crashed together, Aria pressed her body up against his; making him think that she had completely forgot about everything that they or she had just discussed. Aria reached to start unbuttoning Ezra's shirt, when his apartment door burst open. She jumped away from Ezra as if he was on fire. Aria almost gasped when she saw who was standing in the doorway.

"Wesley." Ezra said clearly as shocked as Aria was, "What are you doing here?"

Wesley glanced at Aria and smiled before answering.

"Oh you know, I just was in the area and thought I might catch up with favorite brother and his lovely girlfriend."

Wesley winked at Aria and she blushed. Ezra noticed this and glared at Wesley.

"Wes, I'm you're only brother." Ezra reminded him, his eyes still locked on Wesley in an icy glare.

"Yeah I know; that's why you're my favorite." Wesley said chuckling to himself.

"So why are you here?" Aria asked timidly her voice cracking.

Wesley smiled the same way Ezra always did when Aria amused him.

"Actually, I came here to talk to you." Wesley said motioning towards the door, "If I could borrow you for a second?"

Aria shot Ezra an apologetic glance and followed Wesley out the door.

Wesley closed the door behind them and faced Aria.

"Have you told him yet?" Wesley asked keeping his voice low.

"Told him what?" Aria asked suddenly nervous.

"That we kissed?" Wesley reminded her with a smirk.

Aria sighed, "Wes, that's nothing he needs to know about; besides it didn't mean anything."

Aria reached for the doorknob but Wesley placed his hand on hers to stop her.

"It may not have meant anything to you, but it meant something to me."

Aria spun around not sure if she had heard what he said right. "What?"

Wesley ran his hand through his hair, "Look Aria, I've always had feelings for you. And then when we kissed, it made me realize I was in love with you."

Aria didn't say anything so he continued.

"You and Ezra are great together, I admit that. But, he's you're teacher Aria and you're relationship isn't going to end well."

"Whoa." Aria said still trying to comprehend what Wesley was saying. "Are you asking me to dump Ezra?"

This time it was Wesley's turn to not say anything.

"Wes, I can't leave Ezra for his brother; that's worse than the relationship that we already have." Aria continued.

"I know it seems bad, maybe it is. But I can't get over you Aria, and I want to be with you. Do you have any idea how jealous I was when I walked in on you and my brother making out?"

From the look in his eyes, Aria could tell he was being sincere.

Aria closed her eyes, "Look Wes, I can't make this decision now."

Wesley shook his head, "I didn't think you could. But can we at least start off by telling him we kissed?"

Biting her lip, Aria nodded slowly. With that, Wesley opened the door and the two of them stepped back inside.

"Ezra," Aria said weakly, "we have something to tell you."