Aria found herself lost in Noel's eyes as they sang along together. For just a moment, the pain was gone. She wasn't worrying over her family or getting a message from "A", she wasn't even aware of the aching she had felt since losing Ezra.

She was still in a daze as she noticed Noel slowly starting to come in towards her for a kiss. It seemed to be in slow motion at first, yet she couldn't react fast enough. She wasn't sure she wanted to kiss him, but she found herself leaning in for the kiss regardless. Before she had a chance to decide, she suddenly realized they were not alone. Someone was at the door. That someone had stopped mid stride at the sight of them about to kiss. And when Aria's mind finally caught up to real time, she realized that person was the last person she wanted to have seen how close she had come to kissing Noel.

It was Ezra. And he looked furious. Aria felt her body immediately heat up with intensity. Her every nerve was standing on eaches own end. The sight of him, standing there with wet hair and rain droplets covering his clothes, sent her heart fluttering and her insides burning. She hadn't felt that feeling since she'd last seen him, when he'd told her he could never hate her. Right before he had left and not returned.

She had often wondered what their reunion would be, what she would say, and his excuses for leaving. This is not how she had imagined. It was her in the hot seat now. Something about her didn't want Noel to leave, but he was already mumbling apologizes for being caught with an adult not around on his way out the door. No care in the world for Aria still left in the classroom alone with Mr. Fitz.

Ezra clinched his jaw, and then made his way to his desk to set down his brief case. Aria hadn't moved from the seat, but she hadn't broken Ezra's gaze since she first saw him in the doorway. He just stared at her, she couldn't read his expression. She didn't know what he was thinking or feeling, he'd had no real reaction yet.

Finally, she broke the silence, "Say something, Ezra, something, anything."

"Maybe you should head back to the common area where the rest of the students are being supervised," he replied and made a lame attempt to find something on his desk to divert his attention.

"Fine!" she let out after a few moments of staring at him with her mouth gaping open in response to his reply, and started making her way to the door. She was almost out the door when she changed her mind. Stopping dead in her tracks, she turned around to face him once more, then started back towards him.

"No!" she was firm; she wasn't going to let him leave again with no explanation. "I need some answers from you, Ezra. You were the one true thing in my life, and then you up and left. When things were at their hardest for me, you ran, without a goodbye, you didn't say where you were going, you didn't even say you were going. And then I find out you are interviewing," her voice trailing off a bit.

By this time she was pacing back and forth in front of the rows of seats, he was leaning against his desk, his arms a crossed his chest as he decides to speak, "how did you know about the interview?"

She shakes her head, not knowing which is the lesser of the two evils, and continues, "and then you walk in on something," she flails her arms towards where she and Noel had just been sitting, "and I'm not really sure I know exactly what was happening, with me and another guy and you just, you just...tell me to leave?" She asks fighting back tears.

She stops at a halt, facing him with her hands that had once been gesturing here and there, now on her hips. She knows she has to let the anger speak now, or the tears will take over, "but I guess you were able to remove me completely from your life, so none of this matters to you. I'm just one of your students now. You haven't wasted a thought on me since the moment you left the dance!"

By this time he is moving in towards her, his voice was firm. "I thought about you every second."