A/N This story starts after 2x25 UnmAsked, if you haven't seen the season 2 finale yet, there may be spoilers.
This is my first ever fanfic, so please be kind!
This was originally going to be a one shot, which is why it's so long, but depending on reviews i may continue. (next chapters won't be as long, unless you want them to be)
I was glad that I finally knew who A was, Though I still can't help but think that there was more to it, how could Mona have possibly put me and my three best friends (well Four, if you include Ali) through all of that, how could she have known all that, of course she had access to alot of our secrets through Ali's diary, but there were just some things she couldn't have known. I remember the video call we got from Spencer the night we found out, what did Mona mean by the A-team? did Mona just admit she was working with others? Or was she just insinuating that she needed help?
"God, I am never going to get any sleep if I can't stop thinking about all of this!" Aria thought to herself.
She continued writing in her journal.
I mean should i be even keeping a journal any more, what if the rest of the A-team get a hold of it, what will they do. Does this mean Jason's off the hook for good, can we finally trust him now? I know Spencer has become more comfortable now and is making an effort to bond with him despite what her parents think. And poor Emily, I can only imagine the amount of pain she is going through right now, wll sort of i mean, ever since Ezra left to take that job in New Orleans, it kinda feels like i did lose him for good, like apart of me has died, is this how Emily is feeling right now? No who am i kidding, Emily must feel way worse, Is Maya the new Alison? Is there going to be a 2 year long investigation to her death? Was the body even Maya's? There are just so many questions i need answers to right now and there is no one who can give them to me, i mean Spencer's always up for snooping around looking for the answers, maybe i should just talk to her about it, maybe she'll feel the same i mean i can't as Hannah or Emily right now, they're both going through so much, A body was foun that could potentiall be Maya, if they ever identify the body, a report was leaked the other day (was it A?) that the body was so badly beaten that they couldn't identify it right away and dental records and blood works take time to come through, and they're probably going to keep it under wraps for a while even if they did know after all the embarrassment that the Rosewood PD had with Alison's case. An of course i couldn't talk to Hannah about this, or could I? I mean her best friend is A, she trusted her with so much, but still some things don't add up we were with Mona when A things happened, she must have had help, but from whom? I need to talk to somebody about this, with Ezra gone and Emily nd Hannah this upset that leaves spencer and Jas...
"Aria sweetie, could you come down here for a second?" Ella yelled from the kitchen.
"Is everything okay mom?"
"Yeah sweetie evrything's fine, I just wanted you to help me with dinner, I have to pick up Mike from Lacrosse practice."
"Mike's back on the team? Since when?" Mike must really be feeling a lot better.
"Since last week, his coach is letting him play the same position as before...you know?"
"That's great mom" I said with maybe a little too much enthusiasm.
"I won't be long, there's not much to do, I just need you to make sire the food in the oven oesn't burn, your father will be home in an hour and I'll be back in about 45 minutes, there's some things i have to finish off at school before I pick up Mike"
"Okay, have fun" I smirked.
My hand hurts too much from writing to finish that journal entry, maybe later!
Just as Aria went to curl up on the couch and catch up on the latest episode of Gossip Girl, the doorbell rang, she thought for a second that her mom had just forgotten her keys but when she opened the door the smile of amusment that she had on her face prepares to greet her mother with, suddenly fell and was replaced with shock, surprise and was son locked in an intense gaze glued to the beautiful green sea she was staring in to.
Aria after what felt like a lifetime of silence, finally managed to say something...
"Jason, hi, what are you doing here?"
"Hi Aria, Spencer said you would be home, and I just wanted to see how you were doing after the whole Mona thing, can i come in?" He had so much sincerity in his voice.
"s-sure, come on in" I was hesitent at first, but if Spencer sent him over here, I guess it was ok.
"so what did you wanna talk about exactly?" I was trying to make polite conversation to get some of the akwardness out of the room.
Jason went and sat on the couch as i gestured him to do and I sat right next to him, we were so close our legs were practically brushing up against each other.
"Well, Aria I know that these past few months things have been a little weird between us, and I know that you're unavailable, but I want you to know that I really do still care about you, It's just seeing you with Ezra outside my house that day really threw me you know? I mean here's this beautiful girl that I really care about and she's unavailable, I probably should've known that, I mean any guy woul be crazy to turn you down but..."
"Jason, you're rambling" I didn't know why I was being so blunt with him, I coul tell in his eyes how genuine he was being, which must've been hard for him. Jason DiLaurentis wasn't an open kinda guy, he was secretive and kept himself to himself, so why was he telling me all of this, should i tell him about me and Ezra, I mean i on't even know if we're really over or not. Why is my life so confusing?
"I'm sorry i'll get to the point. I know you've been through a lot lately, and I just wanted you to know that I'm here for you, no matter what Aria, I will always be here for you"
This was just something else Aria coul ad to the list of her confusion.
"Thank you Jason It means alot, but I'm not the only one going through a lot right now, I mean what about you, your house was burned down, and Mona may have been tormenting me and my friens for the past 2 years, but this also affects you Jason, Mona could've played a big part in Ali's murder, or at least know something about it"
"yeah, well I don't think she's gonna talk anytime soon, the cops said she's gonna need alot of counselling before she's even ready to give a statement, and don't worry about the house I've alreay started repairing the damages to the house that the fire caused, it was only the downstairs and the back that got damaged, and Toby's helping me out as well in his free time...I got it covered" He assured Aria with a playful yet assertive wink.
"Well I'm glad to hear that, about the house, not Mona...The sooner we find out who else was involved with this, and her involvement in Ali's murder the better"
Just as Jason was about to say something, reassuring i'm sure, The smell of dinner was getting stronger, Uh oh, I forgot to turn down the heat of the oven.
"uh oh, i'll be right back" I quickly ran to the kitchen and turned the temperature on the oven right down, and quickly checked to see if i had ruined dinner, which thank God, i hadn't.
"what smells so good?"
"Mom's special Tuna steak...Hey, you wanna stay for dinner, Mom always makes enough food for a small Army and i'm guessing you don't get a lot of home cooked meals at the moment with all the work going on in your house."
"I don't wanna impose.."
"No I insist, let me save you from another night of take out"
He giggled at my accurate reply "Okay sure I'll stay for dinner"
What am I doing? Why did I just ask Jason DiLaurentis to stay for dinner, what is this round 2 of last time, well not really I' also need to invite Ezra for that, and as he's no longer welcome in my house...well tonight's going to be...different.
"Do you want something to drink, coffee, water, juice, anything?" Aria asked politley
"Coffee's good thanks" Jason still felt slightly uneasy and akward being here with Aria, he was trying his best but what Jason wanted more than anything was Aria, but she was unavailable, and that wasn't going to change anytime soon, well as far as Jason was concerned anyway.
Aria went over the coffee machine and brewe the coffee, normal strength, not the Hastings' way, It was akward enough without having the shakes from a caffine overdose. She put a littl hazlenut syrup in the coffee, to make it taste even better, she didn't know why she was putting in so much effort to impress Jason, she just was for some reason. She walked back over to the couch where Jason was sitting and handed him his coffee.
"wow, you really know how to make coffee" Jason said impressed
"I know right, I should open my own chain of coffee bean here in rosewood" she was hoping this joke would get more than a tumbleweed
"hahah, maybe" Just then Ella and Mike walke in through the front door, Mike shot a hey at the two of them, without really noticing who was in the room before he ran upstairs to wash up for dinner.
"Jason, hi, what are you doing here?" Ella said with a smile across her face
"Oh i just stopped by to see how Aria was doing.." Ella cut him off, not meaning to be impolite.
"Oh how sweet, would you like to stay for dinner, i always make extra, I'm sure there's enough to go around!"
"I actually already asked him to stay for dinner mom" Aria replie amused knowing that her mother would insist on asking Jason to stay
"Oh, well then it's settled, inner will be in 15 minutes...Hey Mike could you come down and set the dinner table please?"
"sure mom, one second" Mike soon came running down the stairs to help his mother and Aria motioned to Jason to follow her to the back door. As she led Jason into the garden she didn't realise quite how col it was out there as she sat on the swing on her back porch.
"Hey you're shivering, do you want my Jacket? " Jason was always concerned about Aria's well-being, she thought it was sweet, because she knew it was genuine, and not overprotective. She replied with a nod and chattering teeth from the cold, and he complied by handing her his navy blue hoodie, still warm from his body. Jason didn't usually dress so informal since he moved back to Rosewood, unless he was working on the house or playing pick-up at the basketball courts. Oh that's just what Aria needed in this situation, a flashback of Jason's shirtless body that glistened in the sun from the light film of sweat coursing down his body that day...That was all she need for her feelings for him to come rushing back, well that and that gorgeous smell of Chanel Bleu that lingered in his hoodie.
"I don't remember alot from that time, but most of what i do remember i wish i could forget you know?"
Aria didn't know what to say to that so she just replied with a smirk... "you know what i do remember?"
"what?"
"your pink hair"
"really?" Aria was surprised, Jason was wasted that whole summer, and most of the time locked up in his room with Garret and Ian, and when he wasn't partying he was fighting with Alison. Why would she stick out in his memory after everything else he had forgotten?
"I thought it was cool" he was speaking so nonchalantly at her it kind of gave her butterflies which she didn't want to admit as she had a boyfriend...Ezra, which by this point wa so far back in her mind.
"Really?" She was too nervous (but in an excite kind of way) that she couldn't make out any other words in her vocabulary right now!
"Really" Jason chuckled "you, you always did the unexpected, as apposed to me, which i also thought was cool" Jason began to slowyly walk back to his basketball game, only looking back once to give Aria a lingering look that sent shivers down her spine, she was so hypnotized by his words, and not to forget those intense back muscles all she could do was give a kind of have smile, half laugh kina thing before skiping away, she thought to herself "what am i 13?" she didn't care though, well she kinda did, she did still have a boyfriend at the same time as nursing this crush!
Aria quickly snapped back to reality, and noticed that Jason was standing up right in front of her,
"Are you ok, you seemed to zone out for a second?"
"yeah i'm fine, just got dustracted for a minute!"
"your mom just called out that dinner's ready, you wanna head inside?"
"Sure!" She grabbed the hand that he had held out for her, an they slid together so perfectly, and he led her inside towards the dinner table where Mike and Byron were already sitting, As was her mother as she just finished dishing the food out on the table. Her father was sat at the head of the table with Ella right next to him, and Mike next to Ella, Aria motioned for Jason to sit first. so he took the seas opposite Mike and Aria sat next to Jason and her father. They soon dug into the food.
"This is really good "
"well thank you Jason, I don't actually cook that often, i afmit we do get take out alot, but on the rare occasion I do have time to cook i love to use my family's old recipes. Oh and please, you know we're somewhat of an informal family, and I insist that you call me Ella."
random conversation filled the room throughout the rest of the meal and dessert and after all the dishes were cleared away and dessert was finishe it was getting late, so Jason bid his goodbye's and Aria insisted on walking Jason home, but he had his car so she thought it would be a good opportunity to go and see Spencer.
The walk down the street to his car was silent, and he held her door open for her, the car journey was also fairly silent until they pulled up to Jason's drive.
"Well I hope we can do this again soon Aria, you know you can talk to me anytime!"
"Well i kinda wante to continue our conversation earlier, you're not going hom?" she asked confused
"Oh i'm not staying at home right now I'm staying at a motel in town whilst the floors and ceilings are being reinforced, the houses founations are too weak at the moment, wll i won't bore you with the architectural details, i thought you were going to Spencer's?"
"That's just what i told my mom because i knew she'd let me stay out later that way, and if i changed my min i could always stay at hers later without having to change my allabye"
"You are clever , i'll drive us to my motel then"
As Aria walked into Jason's tiny motel room, which for a crappy motel in a small town wasn't actually that bad, it had a pretty decent bed, television with cable, en suit bathroom that didn't have cockroaches, what else could you ask for? oh wait, maybe a couch?
"Umm...You can sit on the bed if you want" Jason motioned akwardyly, but for some reason Aria had never felt more comfortable, they sat own next to each other on the bed, not being too akward, but not being overly comfortable either. And they began to talk, Aria had assumed that Spencer had told Jason a bit about A and why they were so suspicious of him when he first moved back to town and they talked for hours relaying topics off of one another for the next couple of hours; they talked about A, Ali, Jason moving back, his plans for the house, Spencer an her father, Hannah, Emily, Mike, My parents and last but not least Ezra...Aria had a feeling she was going to be here a whiile, so she sent her momm a quick text to let her know she was staying at "spencer's" and another quick text to Spencer confirming the story, though she was surprised when Spencer didn't question it and just agree, did she know she'd be with Jason tonight, maybe she thought Ezra was back in town, oh well that would be a conversation for another day.
Jason didn't really want to ask but they had already covered most topics, it was the only one left, so he went for it "So how are you and..." he hesitated for a few seconds trying to remember his name from the night they met at the dinner party at the Montgomerys "...Ezra?" he continued.
"well..." Aria decided whether or not to tell him the truth or just reply with yeah we're good Just to move off the topic quickly. "we're not so great actually"
A ray of hope came across in Jason's eyes, though it was subtle enough for Aria not to notice.
"we came clean to my parents about our relationship, and to say they wern't happy about it would be a complete undersatement of the situation."
"I'm sorry I could tell he meant a lot to you" he was being as genuine as he possibly could even though it hurt him to think about the day he saw them kissing outside his house, he knew that Ezra used to be Aria's teacher but he couldn't exactly judge her for dating an older guy, after all she was 17 and he was 22.
"Thank you, well anyway, after we told my parents we stopped seeing each other for a while, but not to bore you with the details i'll cut this short. My dad set him up with a job in new orleans which he turned down to be with me which my father knew, my dad still hated the idea of us, but my mom was starting to understand it a little, to put it in her words, then Ezra got fired from Hollis because they found out that he was dating me, well not me exactly but one of his former students, and guess who tipped of the dean...my dad!"
"That's rough!" jason replied between nods
"I know right, i told my mom, that he of all people would understand inappropriate relationships
"Did you ever think that maybe that's wht he was so against you and Ezra, not the age difference but the fact that he'd been there himself in a similar situation with a student, that wasn't really real, and maybe he didn't want you getting hurt"
How was it that Jason always knew exactly what to say to her "I know i get where he's coming from but he didn't have to do that! Anyway, at the masked ball Ezra was there to surprise me, which i thought was romantic, and he told me that we were going to figure this all out that it didn't matter, but you know it did and about a week ago I told him that I wanted him to take the job in New Orleans and that I didn't want to be the reason for him to no teach, he said himself it's the only thing he knew for sure that he wanted to o with his life, well teach and be with me, i was hoping that he would say no i wouldn't resent you for it someway down the line, and that he'll find a teaching job in Rosewood or the city, but he just agreed, like I wasn't the most important thing, which I wasn't expecting, I thought i meant everything to him, and i knwo i told him to take the job, but i thought he'd stay and fight, I guess i didn't mean as much to him as i thought, so now i guess we're kind of over...for goo, we haven't spoken since then."
By now there were tears running, no pouring down Aria's cheeks, and for some reason she didn't feel embarassed at all that she was crying in front of Jason, She felt safe.
Jason wasn't used to having girls cry around him, but with Aria it as like he knew exactly what to do, he just wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in, they were now both laying down on the bed cradling each other whilst he just let her sob, until she was done. He didn't say a word he just held her, and let her cry. When She finally caught her breath and wiped away the tears she just looked up at Jason, and got lost in that vast ocean of green.
"Why do you care about me so much?" she was genuinely curious,
"You know, I don't know, well I don't think i could put it into words" He was trying to avoid eye contact, he wasn't used to being so open with people, the last time he was this open with someone was with Aria at Ian's funeral, he didn't know what it was about her that he could let his guard down so easily. "I think it's because you're one of the few people in my life that I completley trust, I've never really had someone in my life like that before, that I can trust completely, but with you I can be honest and open, and vulnerable, i feel like I can let you all the way in, and I think it's the same with you. When I look into those beautiful hazel eyes of yours I get so lost, almost hypnotized, I just feel this connection when i'm in the same room as you, it's weird, scary but kind of exciting at the same time, you know..?"
"I do" she replied softly, by now she was brushing jer jand across his jawline, was Ezra just a distraction from her feelings from Jason, she remembers the electricity coursing through her when they first kissed, and she was able to tell Ezra about it so easily, like she wasn't reliving herself of guilt, but telling the truth, maybe she has always loved Jason.
Their lips connected softly at first, different to last time, the kiss became more passionate wuite quickly. She glided he tongue along the bottom of his lip and preseed her lips against his, hard, raw, passionate to determine her urgency for him. To her it just felt so right. She slid her hand down to the hemline of his T-shirt, which complimente his musculare body beautifully, she pulled it off him and threw it in a pile next to his hoodie and their shoes, next to come off was her dress, which Jason did by sliding the two dainty straps off her shoulder one at a time and slowy unzipping the back while never breaaking eye contact, the dress dropped to the floor and Jason moved in for a kiss.
The moment was too perfect for words, it relayed from sweet, soft romantic moments, to moments of raw passion. he grabbed her by the waist and kissed her even harder than before and motioned toward the wall. She wrapped her legs around his waist while he unzipped his jeans, the jeans dropped to his ankles and he stepped out of them. Aria's back now pressed up firmly against the wall he took her hand in his and raised it above their heads while never once breaking the kiss. They stayed like this for a moment or two, and Aria could feel Jason getting hard through her lace panties, as she felt this she dropped her legs to the ground whilst caressing his, she broke the kiss, looked him in the eyes, an she knew...This was meant to be.
They moved back over to the bed, she could feel Jason's warmth radiating from above her. He kissed her softly which sent a shiver down her spine, and made her back arch, his hand making it's way to the small of her back and sliding up to the clasp of her bra, unhooking it and throwing it to the ground. Next to be remove was her black lace panties. They were both completley naked, the most vulnerable they had ever been, and yet they had never felt so comfortable, both entangled between the sheets and within each other, Aria couldn't help the moans that slipped through her lips, Jason started slow, and gradually picked up the pace, once it was over they had a sense rush over them that had never felt so euphoric, that even with everything else going on in their lives at that moment in time, neither of them could care less. Right here, right now, is all that mattered to them.
A/N: So what did you think? should I continue? Please review!