Chapter one: A brief encounter.

"Miss Montgomery you shouldn't be in here" Ezra said as he balled his fists up trying to prevent himself from beating Connor to a pulp, for the way he has been treating Aria. Aria said nothing at Ezra's words and simply just looked up at him before she walked out of the locker room. Ezra had to stop himself from not only watching her as she left but he also had to stop himself from immediately following her, as it would make the situation even worse; if that was even possible. Instead he just looked at the floor. Seconds later once he was sure she had left he averted his gaze from the floor and sent Connor a warning death glare. A silent warning that if he said anything else to Aria he would be in trouble. He wanted to give him a detention or a bloody nose but he knew he couldn't do either. If he gave him a detention it would look like the rumours were true and if he gave him a bloody nose he might as well just shout it from the school roof how in love he was, is with Aria Montgomery. He didn't waste another second on the dumb teenager as he too quickly exited the locker room like Aria had in search of her. He searched the halls frantically before he bumped into Hanna Marin.

"Everything okay?" she asked him as she regained her balanced.

"Sorry about that and no, I'm looking for Aria, have you seen her?" He asked desperation clear in his voice.

"I don't think that's a good idea Mr. Fitz" Hanna said putting emphasis on the words Mr. Fitz letting him know that he wasn't 'Ezra' anymore.

"I know but please, have you seen her?" He pleaded. All she had to do was look into his eyes to know it was important that he found her.

"Yeah, I saw her heading to the North wing." She replied not understanding what had happened to make him sound so desperate.

"Thank you" Ezra said as he broke out into a slow jog as he went in the direction of the North wing in search of Aria, before Hanna even had a chance to ask what had happened and why he was looking for her. Within minutes Ezra had found her on the North wing stairs, a place that hardly anyone visited, Ezra scolded himself for not looking there in the first place.

He can see she has her phone out and is deleting messages, he peers over the railing to get a better look and cannot believe what people are sending her. She deletes one more before burying her head in her hands and doing her up most best not to cry. Ezra stayed silent for a moment before saying something.

"Are you okay?" It was a stupid question he knew she wasn't. All Aria did was scrunch up her face and slightly shake her head no.

"What happened in there?" She didn't answer him so he descended the last case of stairs so he could see her face before continuation his questions

"Before I came in?" He asked, he had only managed to catch the end of her conversation with Connor and wanted to know the whole story. She still couldn't look at him and faced away from him. She also wouldn't speak to him so he carried on talking, if she wasn't going to talk he was.

"Aria those guys are jerks, you can't let some stupid rumour get to you" He said trying his best to make the situation better.

Aria instantly shot her head up and finally spoke.

"It's not just some stupid rumour if there's some truth to it Ezra" Aria told him through gritted teeth trying to keep as much emotion out of her voice as she possibly could. At her words Ezra was renowned speechless, having no idea what he could or should even begin to say. Just then a voice spoke out.

"Well, isn't this cozy?" At the words the pair of them turned around to face the voice.

"Shut up Noel" Aria said as she gathered her things and stood up.

"What; have I ruined the mood" He said sarcastically loving the fact he had caught the pair talking when were supposedly 'broken up'

"You're pathetic you know that" Aria said as she barged passed Noel and headed home for the rest of the day.

"You know you love me really" Noel called after her causing a scoff from Ezra before Noel too left, leaving Ezra stood at the bottom of the stairs doing his best to process what had happened in the last 20 minutes and what he could do to fix it, and stop all the rumours from spreading even if technically they were true. He hated seeing Aria upset, it broke his heart. He wanted to do everything he could to see her smile again

A/N: So this is the beginning of a multi chapter story I am working on. I know this rather short but they do get longer, I promise. Review and let me know what you think and also if you want a continuation or not. As always, thank you for reading I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry for any mistakes