Synopsis: It's Ezria's wedding day and Aria's having doubts.
Pairings: Ezra/Aria Jason/Aria Ezra/Nicole (alluded to only) Alison/Elliot aka Archer (alluded to only) Mike/Mona (alluded to only)
Characters: Aria Montgomery, Ezra Fitz, Jason DiLaurentis, Nicole Gordon, Alison DiLaurentis, Spencer Hastings, Hanna, Marin, Emily Fields, Byron Montgomery, Ella Montgomery, Mike Montgomery, Mona Vanderwaal,
Something Blue
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Song Inspirations ~ Augustana ~ watch?v=DEWdglGJT6E
Halsey~ Colors ~ watch?v=UvH5ZhSn1Jg
Aria should've been over the moon today. Finally, after so many years of fighting to be together Aria and Ezra were finally getting married. But the truth was that while her friends and sister-in-law; Alison, Spencer, Hanna, Emily and Mona fussed over last minute adjustments on her and themselves before the lined up for the wedding march Aria felt like she was being torn into.
She loved Ezra, she just didn't know if she was in love with Ezra or if she loved him because of their history and the star-crossed lovers romance she has built up in her mind for so many years. She had noticed a change in their relationship after Nicole had been found alive even though he chose Aria. But, in rare moments of complete honesty with herself, she knew the blame couldn't only be laid at Nicole and Ezra's feet. When Jason came back to Rosewood a year earlier to check on Ali after the whole Archer Dunhill aka Elliot Rollins fiasco something in Aria had been reawakened, she couldn't stop dreaming of him at night. She would be in the middle of something and start daydreaming about green eyes and she could still feel his touch on her leg when he told her he couldn't imagine anyone better than her.
She has been living with doubt and confusion for months now, not only for herself, but Ezra as well. She does love Ezra, she has loved him since she was sixteen. She loves him enough to wonder if they are both making a mistake and marrying the wrong person for the wrong reasons. She also has finally accepted that she has had feelings for Jason since she was eleven and even with long periods of not seeing him those feeling never really went away. Years could go by and all it took was catching a glimpse and her pulse would race. But, Jason didn't stay in Rosewood, he never stayed long enough for her to figure things out. He would leave as suddenly and as unexpectedly as he would show up again. The last time he showed up out of the blue because he found out about what had happened to Alison, but before Aria knew it he had left Rosewood and moved to New York and then back to Africa where he remained.
Even during the time, they were together during the last month of her senior year of college and after her graduation he didn't stay long enough to figure things out. He had asked her to go to Ethiopia, the part of her heart that belonged to Jason had wanted to scream yes she would go, but another part still loved Ezra and it was still obsessed with their 'romance' and that part combined with a fear that Jason would take off at the first sign of trouble as was his nature had won out and she choose to take a job that could lead her back to Ezra.
Despite their many break ups Ezra never ran away. So many times, confusion because of her feelings for Jason would arise and she would ache for him, she would long to see his intense, but gentle green eyes, to taste of his full sensuous lips, to be wrapped in his strong muscular arms, to feel his work calloused hands caressing her skin, but it was that thought that, Ezra stayed and Jason ran, that would hold the doubts at bay; at least until the next time. It was that thought that was keeping her here now. because the part that of her heart that had belonged to Jason DiLaurentis since she was a girl was begging her to leave this church and find its owner, but she reminds herself when the urge almost seemed to strong; Ezra stays, Jason leaves. The part of her heart that belongs shatters, the part that belongs to Ezra shouts in victory it is cracked, but intact. Despite her doubts that Ezra may still love Nicole, Aria always chooses Ezra in the end and he will stay.
"Aria, it's almost time." Byron tells his daughter, he had made peace with his feelings about his daughter marrying Ezra. Aria knew he, Ella and Mike didn't love it, but they accepted her marriage to Ezra because they loved her and if she thought marrying Ezra would make her happy then they would be happy for her. Aria didn't know if marrying Ezra would make her happy, but she felt he was the safer choice, she wanders what they would say if they knew this.
As she moves to take her father's arm Hanna asked excitedly "Aria, do you have your something blue?" The girls had taken care of the something old, new and borrowed, but Aria told them she had something blue covered. She nods showing Hanna the sapphire bracelet Ezra had given her for her birthday before her father takes her arm patting it gently. As they stand waiting for the first strains of music to begin signaling the start of the ceremony, Aria wanders if she had forgotten her something blue, would her heart have worked.
~Fin~