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Aria's POV
Do you know that feeling, when the entire world comes crashing down around you? I've felt that. I've felt that so many times, its not even different from regular life anymore. It is regular life. It's that feeling that the entire world is on my shoulders, not the actual fate of the world, not even that feeling, but the weight of it, trying to break me. It almost did. Almost.
5 months ago
"Hey Zach!" I said, as I saw my future stepfather behind the counter as I ordered my coffee. He smiled in my direction, and went back to the phone call he was invested in. I took my coffee over to the nook I always sat in. Spencer and Emily were already there, but we were still waiting on Hanna, who said she was going to be late. I sat down, sipping on the coffee, which for the first time in my life, I decided to take black.
"I guess Fitzy is making you more adventurous," Spencer joked. Emily laughed, and nudged Spence in the side. I was laughing to, and the bitterness of the coffee started to settle on my tongue, it was actually okay. The door of The Brew opened, and Hanna walked in in sweatpants, she looked disheveled, and shooting everybody in the café a glance before walking over to us. She sat down next to Spencer and put her head on her shoulder.
"I'll grab you a coffee," Emily offered, walking over to the register, and ordering Hanna's coffee, as sweet as could be. We were always telling her to cut down on the sugar, but Han wouldn't hear any of it.
"Han?" I asked, "Are you okay?" She seemed to be in a trance. She turned to face me, and shot me a look, like she didn't want to talk about whatever was bothering her. "I'm reading a really cool new book," Spencer said, "It's about the plague." Hanna, happy to be off the topic of her, added on, "That can't be a very good cover." Spence took it out of her bag, and handed it to Hanna. "Tasteless," Hanna said, before laughing and handing the book back to Spencer. Emily came back with the coffee, and began to talk about the swimming team. I was a huge sharks fan.
"So Em, whens the next meet?" I asked as she, still sleepy, gulped down the last of her coffee.
"Its on Saturday," she said.
"Oh! I can't make it, I have a date with Ezra-"
"-Say no more, you can make the next one," she said.
"Speaking of Ezra," I said, looking at the skull shaped watch on my wrist, "I have to meet him before school." With that I said goodbye to the girls, and walked out of The Brew, unaware that Zach's eyes were following me with every step I took...
N/A: I'm really excited about this one, so I hope you guys R & R. I've been dying to see what would happen if Zach hit on Aria. How would Ella react? What about Ezra? I've always hated Zach and saw this thing with Hanna coming so long ago! Hope you like!