Aria's POV

I felt awful all morning so when 12 oclock came around the corner I was eager to just check out for the day and go home. I wasn't until 12:30 that I arrived at his house. Apartment 3b that it, it was much closer to school and Ezra wouldn't even know I was here. For the past two months know I've been coming over to his place every chance I get. We've been broken up but we still talk and his place is like a second home to me. I love coming to his little cozy apartment and jumping into the bed and getting under the covers. It reminds me of old times and I miss that.

Ezra's POV

When I pulled into the apartment complex I saw Aria's car in the lot. I assumed she may have been here because spencer told me she had gone home sick. As I walked up the stairs I hoped that she would still be here and not packing up her stuff to leave. I turned the lock and entered into a semi quiet apartment. Aria was sound asleep in my bed and there where Friends reruns on, on the TV. I walked over to the bed and sat down beside her. I brushed my hand up against her rosy cheek. Her face was warm but I don't think she had that high of a fever. I went back into the kitchen and opened a can to make her some of her favorite broccoli and cheese soup.

Aria's POV

I rolled over and bed and looked at my phone 5 o'clock it said. I couldn't believe it was five I rubbed my eyes and looked again but I wasn't dreaming it was really 5 o'clock which meant Ezra would be home soon. I peaked over the covers only to see Ezra standing in the kitchen. Crap I thought to myself this had to be a nightmare so a pinched myself only to find 1 it was not a dream and 2 ouch! Ezra must have heard me waking up because he was now walking over here.

"Hi Aria, are you feeling better?" he asked

I shrugged my shoulders "I guess" I'm sorry I'm here" she said "I only meant to stay for a bit but then I guess I fell asleep"

"Don't apologize" Ezra replied "I like when you're here it's like old times"

Only it wasn't a lot had happened between us since we broke up and it was taking everything in me to not scream at him. So I just smiled "Thanks"

"I made some broccoli and cheese soup, do you want some?" Ezra asked

"Thanks but I'm fine" aria replied

"I think you should have something to eat Aria" he replied

"Really I'm fine Ezra, I should get going" she said as she got out from underneath the covers of his bed.

"Please just stay for a little while longer" he begged

"Maybe a few more minutes but then I really do have to leave Ezra" she replied

"Ok" he said as he left the room and walked back into the kitchen

A few minutes later he returned to the bedroom where Aria was getting all of her stuff together about to leave.

"I don't understand" he said to her as he sat down on the bed next to her

"Understand what" she asked confused

"Before you would've loved this, you wouldn't have gone rushing out the door, and you would've stayed the whole night and lied to you parents that you were staying the night at spencer's what changed" he asked

"Things are different know Ezra were friends but we're not in a committed relationship. I love spending time here with you, but sometimes I just need time for myself" she replied "We can still have this nice friendship but you don't need to keep doing all these nice gestures, it's hard for me to say no to you because there are time when I want you more than anything. But it's not right for us right now, you just got your job back at Rosewood and I'm looking at colleges. Plus were in two completely different places right now" She replied as she gazed back over at Ezra who clearly didn't see her words coming.

"I thought our relationship was worth fighting for" he replied

"It is but like I said we're in too completely different places right now Ezra, I need more time I'm confused.

"What do you mean we're in different places Aria?" he asked

She looked over at him and sighed "Nothing I have to go" so she got up and headed for the door. As she opened the door to walk out he grabbed her arm.

"Please talk to me Aria, Please!" his face was looked very stressed and confused.

"I can't" she replied as she walked over to the stairs.

"Aria what's going on with you? I'm trying to help you out here and your just ignoring every nice gesture I'm making here?" he replied very frustrated

She takes to steps down "No you're not, if you were a nice guy" she pauses

"If I where I nice guy what Aria" he demanded

She takes a few more steps down "I've been trying to talk myself out of this for weeks but I know it true"

"What's true Aria what the hell is going on" he begged

She walks to the bottom of the stair before she finally turns around face him, her eyes welling up with tears. She didn't want to say this to him and she hated seeing the look of sadness on him face.

"If you were a nice guy" she pauses trying not to cry, she takes a deep breath "If you were a nice guy, you would've" she sniffles "You would've told me yourself that you where, that you where A." She wipes the tears from her eyes and runs off to her car before she can see Ezra's reaction.

"Aria wait" he calls from the stair well. But it was too late she had just gotten into her car tears streaming down her cheeks. She had been holding that in for weeks and she couldn't believe she actually said that to him. She cried her whole way back to the apartment she was currently sharing with Toby.

Back at Ezra's he walked back into his apartment and slammed the door. He dialed some number but before we heard the person answer he screamed into the phone "How the hell did she find out I was working for you" he hung up the phone and the through it across the room and into a wall. He sat down on the couch and buried his face in his hands. "She wasn't supposed to find out this way and it's not how it seems I was just trying to help her" he cries into hands.