Disclaimer: I don't own Pretty Little Liars, if I did, Ezria would never break up and Jake would never exist
Basically, this is my first fanfiction, there's not so much a heavy storyline it's just whatever comes to me. It will get better. Toby was never A (although he's a BAMF), not all of the liars know about Aria and Ezra. Ezra never left being a teacher at the school. Reviews + Favourites would be lovely! Heavily includes Sparia because they're the best! Will be told in different point of views, mostly Aria's, maybe Ezra's, and maybe Spencer's too! Enjoy!
My name is Aria Montgomery, and I'm in love with my English teacher, and before you say it, I know what you're thinking, she's a teenage girl who has a crush on her English teacher, but that's not the case. I'm genuinely and completely in love with my English teacher.
His name was Ezra, or Mr Fitz to his other students. We started this all before he was my teacher, and we tried to stop seeing each other, which I admit lasted a short period, but we couldn't stay away from each other, we were like magnets, I know that's cliché, but it's true.
It was a Monday morning, and most teenagers were lazily dragging themselves out of bed, but not me, nope, I was bouncing around, I couldn't wait to see Ezra, today was a double period, my favourite kind of class. I was wearing a loose fitted skull top and light jeans which had rips in them, and of course I was wearing heels, I needed to add height after all, they were Jeffrey Campbell's to be exact. I had next to no make up on and my hair was just down in loose curls. Ezra loved my quirky outfits, but he also loved my dressed down style too, not that I dressed for him, I'm an independent woman you know!... but I did like to impress him from time to time, okay, most of the time, but what girlfriend doesn't like to impress their man?
I was meeting Spencer before school, we wanted to chat about things, we did this most mornings. She knew about Ezra, she was the only one who did. I didn't tell her, she found out, obviously, and I didn't want to directly lie to her; denying it to her face and just not mentioning it are completely different things. I did want to tell Hanna and Emily, but I just didn't know how. I didn't know how to bring up the conversation that would lead to me telling them I was romantically involved with our English teacher.
"Hey Aria!" Spencer's voice stopped my thoughts, and I barely even had enough time to turn around to face her before she pulled me in for a hug. I smiled into the hug, I really did love Spencer, she was always there for me. We pulled apart and she looked me up and down, "you look hot with a capital H." I laughed, linking her arm, "as do you Spence, as do you".
We walked and talked on our way to school. We both had cars, yet we normally opted to walk, it gave us more time to talk, and I really valued our one to one conversations. "How's Fitz...Ezra?" she corrected herself as soon as I gave her a stern look. I hated her calling him Fitz, or Fitzy or Mr Fitz, he was just Ezra to me, he was my Ezra, not anything else. "He's good, pretty swamped with work so we've not seen each other a lot, we didn't see each other all weekend." I pouted and Spencer put her arm around my shoulders, squeezing me as she did so, "aww Aria, the good thing is that you get to see him for 2 hours."
"yeah, over other students heads," I shouldn't be moaning, I knew the terms, but it got me down at times, I just wanted to run up and kiss him when I saw him, not share secret smiles from time to time. Spencer saw how sad I looked and changed the subject immediately, I was glad she did, I loved talking about Ezra, but not when I hadn't seen him all weekend, she knew then that that was a sore subject, "Toby and I are going away for the weekend, to the lake house, I can't wait..." she stopped herself blabbing on when she saw my face, I wished I could spend alone time with Ezra like that, but that didn't mean I wasn't interested in Spencer's love life, "no Spence, carry on, I love seeing you all giddy, it's a nice, refreshing change from intense," she started to defend herself, but she stopped herself, knowing she couldn't deny it, she frowned before we both started laughing, "I guess I can be intense" she said between laughs,
"What's the joke?" Hanna asked as she came over to us, "nothing important," Spencer reassured her, "just a Sparia joke," I cringed at this, I hated friendship names, or even worse romantic names, but it was kinda cute when Spencer did it.
"Oh." Hanna hated not being in on a joke, she needed to know the ins and the outs of everything, but she let it go pretty quickly when she saw Ezra, "it should be illegal for teachers to be that hot" she eyed him up and down, as did I, "do you think he's hot Aria? I mean, you've never said it, even Emily's admitted she finds him hot, I'm sure even Jenna does!"
I shrugged, "he's kinda hot, I guess," lie. He was drop dead gorgeous. "Kinda hot?! I guess?!" Hanna shouted this pretty loudly, loud enough for Ezra to hear, and he stopped in his tracks, turning around to face our group, he starred at me for as long as he could before someone would notice something weird, and just carried on walking, "close call. I wonder if he knew we were talking about him?" Hanna wondered aloud, and I shrugged once more, "probably not."
The bell rang and I took a deep breath, willing myself to get through the day until my last period of the day, which was English with my favourite teacher.
"Here's your essays back, some of you did really well, some of you not so much" Ezra aimed the last part of the sentence at Emily and Spencer, Hanna and I all exchanged looks, what was happening with Emily? She normally had good grades. I heard Ezra ask Emily if he could have a word with her after class as he handed her back her paper, to which she replied with a nod.
I peered over to see what grade Spencer got, A+ obviously. It was still weird seeing a massive A written on paper, it sent shivers down my spine every time.
Ezra handed me my paper and I grinned, seeing an A+, "well done Aria" he smiled that boyish smile that my dad always spoke of, "wow, you're such a teacher's pet," Hanna smirked, and I bit my lip, more than you know.
I scanned through the notes, wanting to know if there was anything I could improve on. I saw a tiny note in red pen on the bottom of the second page, it said; 'A' for amazing, adorable and awe-inspiring. I love you. Short and sweet, but it was enough to get me through the rest of the day. I traced those words with the tip of my finger, smiling to myself, before putting it away, not wanting anyone to see.
It came to the end of the period and I did my usual pretending to needing to ask a question so I could stay behind. I waited at the back of the class, pretending to listen to music while Ezra spoke to Emily. Of course it would be rude for me to eavesdrop, but it was kind of difficult not to when my friend and my boyfriend were having a conversation.
"I wanted to speak to you today because I know you can do better than this" he picked up the paper, "what's going on Emily?" I knew Emily wouldn't answer, she found it hard talking to anybody, especially not a teacher, "Look," Ezra pulled his chair closer to Emily, "if there's anything at all bothering you, you can tell me, If you need help, I can help, if you need someone to talk to, I'm all ears, if you want me to tell someone, I'm in authority to do so, and if you want me to keep hush about it, then I can keep a secret," he directed the last six words towards me, to which I obviously grinned at. He returned the expression quickly before looking towards Emily again,
"The thing is, I can't help if you don't reach out Emily." I was in total shock when Emily suddenly started crying, not just a few tears, but uncontrollable sobbing. She never let her guard down in front of anyone else but Hanna, Spencer and I. I wanted to comfort her, but I didn't want to invade her conversation with Ezra. Emily needed to speak to someone outside of all this drama, someone who wouldn't understand why she was upset, but could be there to help, and if I interrupted this, she probably wouldn't reach out again, so I carried on pretending to listen to my music.
"Hey, you don't want to cry, it'll ruin your make up, nobody wants panda eyes now do they?" Emily laughed at this, and I had to admit this was the first time I'd seen Emily laugh in a while. Ezra walked to his desk and grabbed something out of the draw. He handed a tissue to Emily, who muttered a quiet 'thank you'. Ezra sat down in his previous seat , "Now we've broken the ice a little, you can tell me what's going on."
As I watched Emily pour her heart out to my boyfriend, about everything, well most things, not A, so that left a lot out, but she explained about how she was finding it hard to deal with Maya's death, and not being able to see her Dad, I found it hard not to smile, obviously not because of Emily, but because of how sweet he was, how lovely he was to my friends, how good he was with people, it made me excited for when I was out of school and I could introduce him to my family properly,, knowing how well they'd get along and how much my friends would really love him if they knew, knowing that when my dad really gets to know him, he'll think of him as more than a good looking teacher with a boyish smile.
Their conversation lasted for ten minutes or so, and when I saw Emily stand up and turn to face me, she smiled for the first time in a long time. It was as if a certain weight had been lifted, not the full weight, but a lot of it, obviously we all had the weight of A on our shoulders. I gave her a look, letting her know I'd talk to her later.
When Emily left the classroom, closing the door behind her, I practically sprinted up to Ezra, throwing my arms around him. I held onto him for ages, not wanting this hug to end. I missed him so much over the weekend. When we finally pulled apart he sat on his chair behind his desk and I sat on top of a desk that was directly in front of his desk.
"So Miss. Montgomery, what can I do for you?" I loved it when he went into teacher mode on me, it was really hot. "Well Mr. Fitz, I'm having a lot of trouble sleeping at night. I miss my boyfriend's strong arms around me." I pouted, and Ezra smirked, "oh, where is he? Why would your boyfriend ever leave you? He must be an idiot..."
I checked outside one door, making sure no one was around, and closed the blind, covering the small window that was on the door, and mentally noted to tell him this was his best ever investment, and I locked the door. I walked over to the other side of the room, doing the same with this door, before climbing onto Ezra's lap, placing a kiss on his lovely lips, "that's the thing, he's actually pretty smart," I said as I pulled away, and Ezra bit his lip, "doesn't seem smart to me..." He tightened his arms that were around my waist, "why would he not want to spend the night with you in bed?" he whispered in my ear, making goose bumps appear all over my body. That man did things to me.
"Fine, I admit, he's kind of an idiot, but I love him for it."
We probably shouldn't be sitting here like this, kissing behind locked doors. What if someone came to look for Ezra and wondered why he was locked in a room with his student, but it was hard not to take advantage of alone time, like I said, we're like magnets. It seemed like the kiss went on for hours, yet it was only a few minutes before I pulled away, interrupted by a text,
SOS, meet me at mine, NOW
Spencer. X
I rolled my eyes, knowing this meant something beginning with the letter A. "I've got to go" I got off Ezra's lap and grabbed my bag, "I'll come round later?" I questioned, and Ezra nodded, he looked a little flustered as he did up his tie that I loosened during our kiss, "I'll get take out" he said as he unlocked the door nearest to his desk, and pulled up the blind. I did the same with the other door.
"Aria, what are you still doing here?" Mrs Welch asked as she walked in a few seconds after Ezra opened the door.
Ezra and I exchanged worried looks. Had she seen us unlock the door? Had she heard us discussing our plans for tonight?
I frantically thought of something to say. It wasn't THAT weird of a situation, minus the locked door part, I was just a student in a teachers classroom, but for some reason I couldn't string any words together to explain.
Ezra sat back down on his chair, "I handed their papers back today and Aria wanted to know about the notes I gave her," he was calm and collected when he spoke, immediately calming me, and it seemed to work, Mrs Welch didn't question it any further.
They started talking about some trip that the English department were going on soon, and I received another text from Spencer, and I knew this was my time to leave
"See you tomorrow Mr Fitz," I called out as I left the classroom, and as soon as I got outside the school I received yet another text, I once again rolled my eyes as I prepared to tell Spencer I was on my way.
But the text wasn't from Spencer, it was from A.
Aria and Fitzy kissing in a tree...or should it go kissing in a classroom? I don't suppose you and Mr Fitz were discussing your paper, were you? Lucky Mrs Welch got held up. – A.