This is a storyline that has been in my head for months now and I just didn't know how to make it into words, so here it is and I hope that it makes sense to you guys.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
- Judy Garland
"I really don't want you to go." Aria told Ezra as they both lay on their couch, bodies entwined, watching TV.
"I don't either but I will be back in three weeks for good." Ezra told Aria as he leaned down and kissed her on the head.
Ezra's job as a professor involved him traveling to France for three weeks as a chaperone, he didn't particularly want to go but if he wanted any consideration of a promotion he had no choice. Aria and Ezra had been married for three years now. Ezra had gotten his teaching position back at Hollis right before they were married. Aria began teaching art at Hollis about a year ago much to Ezra's dismay. She had assured him that she wanted to work and that she only worked that she inly worked three days a week.
"It's going to be sad to walk by your office and not see you in there." Aria sad as she snuggled her face into his chest and inhaled his scent. "I love you." Aria said in almost a whisper.
*PLL*
"I'll be back in three weeks." Ezra told Aria as he wrapped his arms around her. They were waiting for his plane to board for his three week long trip. "It will go by fast, besides Mike said he was going to stay with you so you won't be alone."
"You know you don't have to send my little brother to babysit me." Aria pouted to Ezra, who just kissed her in return.
"He's not babysitting you; he's keeping you company and making sure that nobody breaks into the house."
"Whatever you say." Aria said as she was interrupted by the intercom signaling for Ezra's plane to board.
"Now remember Mike will be the next room over and if you need anything your parents are just down the road and if something bad happens I will be on the first plane back no matter what." Ezra told Aria as he wiped away the tears that were starting to fall.
"I love you." Aria said as she wrapped her arms around him and squeezed as hard as she could.
"I love you too baby, I really have to go now." Ezra said to her as she slowly let go of his waist. He leaned down and kissed much like he did on their wedding day and then wiped his hand across her cheek before grabbing his luggage and walking towards the plane. "I love you." He yelled over his shoulder to Aria who smiled in response to his goofiness.
"It's going to be okay." Aria heard Mike say from behind her. She had forgotten that he had even come with them to the airport.
"I know I just miss him already." Aria said as she felt her brother put an arm lazily over her shoulder. "Let's go home so you can make me something to eat."
"How about we get take-out and I cook for you tomorrow." Aria said to Mike who gave her a fake pouty lip.
"Fine." Mike said before being elbowed by Aria.
*PLL*
Aria was lazily lying on the couch watching a rerun of some lifetime movie which for whatever reason made her want to cry. She was fighting back the tears when her phone began to ring.
"Hello?" Aria asked trying not to sound like she was on the verge of tears.
"Baby what's wrong?" Aria heard Ezra ask over the line.
"Oh nothing I was just watching a sad movie on lifetime and trying my hardest not to cry." Aria said with a chuckle.
"Aria you know those movies make you cry." Ezra laughed over the phone.
"Are you in France yet?" Aria asked standing from the couch and walking towards her room.
"Yeah we just landed, our luggage however is still somewhere in the United States so we are hanging around the airport for a while so I found the nearest international phone and called you." Ezra told Aria.
"So what's it like?" Aria asked excited to hear every detail of Ezra's trip.
"Well the plane ride was boring as heck but once we were landing the city was beautiful. I really wish you were here to see it." Ezra told Aria as he looked outside the window that was near the phone.
"This summer you and me." Aria said seductively. "A hotel room in France I do believe some magic will happen."
"Well Mrs. Fitz why do you say such things to me when I can't even kiss you." Ezra whined over the phone.
"I don't even want to think about going to bed tonight without you by my side." Aria pouted to Ezra.
"As much as I would love to talk to you all day I have people in line behind me so I have to go but I love you so much." Ezra told Aria.
"I love you to. Call me as soon as you can."
"I will baby good night love you." Ezra said one last time.
"Love you too." Aria said before hanging up the phone.
"Did he land?" Aria heard Mike say from her bedroom doorway.
"Oh yeah their luggage got lost so they are waiting on it so he found a phone that did international calls and called to check up on me." Aria explained to Mike.
"The time will fly by until he gets back I promise besides it gives you time to help me with my final paper of my college career." Mike said as he walked into the living room.
"How long does it have to be?" Aria asked afraid to know.
"Twenty pages." Mike said nonchalantly.
"When is it due?"
"In three weeks." Mike said grabbing his computer.
"And how much have you written?" Aria questioned.
"My name and a sentence." Mike said sheepishly.
"Oh these next three weeks will definitely fly by." Aria said as she sat down beside her brother and read the guidelines for the paper.
*PLL*
"Mrs. Fitz." A nurse called from the doorway of the doctor's office. Aria followed the nurse through the different hallways reaching a room where he weight and vital signs were taken then to a smaller room where a single bed was placed. The nurse left Aria in the room to wait for the doctor.
Over the past couple of weeks Aria had experienced dizziness, nausea, headaches, and her period was late much like it had been when she became anemic her freshman year of college. Back then the doctors gave her some iron pills and she ate a stricter diet and felt better in a few weeks. She was hoping that it would be that easy this time. She hadn't told anyone she was going to the doctor because she knew that it would get to Ezra and she didn't want him to worry if he didn't have to.
"Mrs. Fitz, how are you doing today?" Aria heard the doctor say, bringing her out of her thoughts.
"Not too bad I've just had some dizziness, nausea, and headaches a lot like I did when I became anemic about four years." Aria explained to the doctor who took some notes.
"Is there anything stressful going on in your life right now?" The doctor asked looking at Aria.
"My husband left last week for France as a chaperone for Hollis, he won't be back for two more weeks."
"That would probably explain your late period and as for the other things I would say that you have anemia so I'm going to prescribe you some medicine and take a few blood tests just to make sure that everything is okay." The doctor said as she stood from her chair. "The test shouldn't take that long and they should be back in a week or two so until then just go on with your daily life and try not to stress yourself out. To give you my honest opinion I think that you are just suffering from anemia and stress and you will be a lot better once you get some medicine in you." The doctor explained to Aria before leaving the room.
After some blood tests and reassurance from the doctor that nothing was going on Aria returned home. Mike was sitting or rather sleeping on the couch with the laptop open and what appeared to be no work done.
"Mike!" Aria shouted in his ear causing him to jump and almost drop is laptop.
"What the heck Aria?" Mike shrieked.
"Aren't you supposed to be working on your paper?" Aria asked trying not to laugh.
"I was." Mike tried to rebuttal.
"Oh really that's why you had your eyes closed and drool running down your face." Aria remarked as she hit him on the arm. "I'm going to make dinner and invite mom and dad over so please get something done."
"Yes ma'am." Mike saluted Aria before she left the room.
Ella and Byron arrived an hour later to enjoy a nice dinner with just the two of their children. Conversation flowed well between topics of work and Mike's schooling. Ella joked about when she would become a grandmother only to have Aria's face turn twenty shades of red and choke on her sweet tea.
"Mom you know that Ezra and I aren't rushing into anything right now, whenever it happens then that will be the right time." Aria assured her mother, who only smirked at her.
After dinner Mike and Byron went into the living to watch whatever football game was on at the time and Ella stayed back to help Aria put things away and do the dished.
"Aria are you pregnant?" Ella cut to the chase and asked Aria while she picked up the last of the dirty dished from the table.
"No." Aria said as she held out the last part of the word.
"I was just asking because I have noticed you have been a bit more emotional lately and you seemed to have a very hardy appetite." Ella said as she looked over at Aria who was busying herself with loading the dishwasher.
"I'm emotional because my husband is halfway around the world and I haven't seen him for two weeks and I hadn't eaten all day as well hence why I ate so much tonight." Aria responded to Ella trying push the thoughts of being pregnant out of her head.
"Whatever you say, Aria." Ella said with a hint of teasing in her voice.
*PLL*
A week and a half had passed since Aria had gone to the doctor and she was awoken from her nap by the sound of her phone ringing. When she looked to see who it was, she saw it was her doctor and she jumped out of bed to answer.
"Hello?" Aria said into the phone still trying to completely wake up.
"Mrs. Fitz, we got your test results back and you do not have anemia." The doctor told Aria over the phone.
"Then wha-what's wrong?" Aria stammered out fearing the worst.
"Well, I'm really not supposed to tell you this over the phone but I can't really hold it in much longer. Mrs. Fitz you are pregnant, it appears as though you are about two and a half months along." The doctor told Aria who was unable to reply due to her shock.
"I assume that you are in shock, so I'll have a nurse call you back in a few days to come in and do an official appointment. Have a great day." The doctor said and got a 'you too' in reply before hanging up.
Aria walked over to her bed and slowly sat down on the edge of it. She stared into space for what seemed like hours trying to wrap her mind around the fact that she was pregnant. She Aria Montgomery-Fitz was going to have a baby. She and Ezra were going to have a baby. She slowly brought her hand up to her stomach and began to rub circles around it, trying to imagine a small baby in there. She was on the verge of tears when the phone began to ring. Aria quickly jumped up and grabbed her phone off the nightstand where she had left it earlier.
"Hello?" Aria said into her phone.
"Hey baby." Ezra said.
"Hey, what are you up to?" Aria asked. She had only talked to Ezra about six times on the phone since he had been gone. They had e-mailed everyday so they had been in touch bit nothing replaced hearing his voice over the phone.
"Just packing up my stuff, we are leaving in about 2 hours so I should be back tomorrow night or early the next morning." Ezra said causing the smile on Aria's face to grow even more.
"I can't wait; I actually have a really big surprise for you." Aria said biting her lip.
"I can't wait; I will make sure and sleep the entire way home." Ezra said with a chuckle. "Hey listen I have to go and make sure all the students are getting ready but I love you so much and I will see you soon."
"I love you too." Aria said before hanging up.
*PLL*
Aria awake the next morning to the sound of Mike watching TV. She felt a wave of nausea come over her and ran to the bathroom. She had been getting sicker and sicker over the past few weeks and was hoping it would end really soon. When she was done she got dressed lazily in yoga pants and one of Ezra's t-shirts and made her way to join Mike in the living room.
"Hey Mike what's up?" Aria asked her brother as she sat down beside him. When Mike didn't respond Aria turned to look at the TV and saw breaking news of a plane crash somewhere in Europe. "Mike?"
"Oh, sorry I was just reading the bottom of the screen to see where the plane was from, they haven't said yet." Mike said as he looked towards Aria who was getting the same thoughts he was.
"You don't think it was the plane that Ezra was on, do you?" Aria asked her brother on the verge of tears. Just then it came across the screen that they plane was from Hollis College in Roseville, Pennsylvania. As soon as Aria saw the screen she began to cry and Mike quickly wrapped his arms around her pulling her close.
"Aria they said that not everyone has been accounted for yet so I know that Ezra is fine." Mike tried to reassure her as he grabbed his phone to call his parents.
A/N: Well there's the first chapter so I hope you guys really enjoy it. It will be a story with ups and downs and at times you will probably hate me but I guarantee that you will love this story in the end. I am posting this now as I have to work all the way up until Christmas and then I have a few days off so if you will bear with me I will get it written. I don't know how long it will be right now as I still need to plan out all the details. Please, please let me know what you think of it.
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