Dangerously close

English is not my mother tongue so there might be some mistakes but I really appreciate if you would tell me. I do now own any of these characters.

Chapter 1

"Aria, let's go home. You have had more than enough."

Spencer expresses the obvious and can't hide her compassionate expression. Without waiting Spencer supports Aria and brings her out of the bar, to which she had gone with Aria and Alison tonight.

Spencer can't hold her friend anymore since Aria is hardly able to stand on her feet. Aria sits down near the entrance. It's not even midnight and Aria is drunk. From her perspective everything just turns around her. The voice of her friend is damped. Aria has only realized that Spencer grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the crowd. She felt the cold air on her skin before her legs had given way and she sat down propped up to the wall of the bar.

Having noticed the absence of her friends, Alison stumbles out of the bar. Irritated she looks down at Aria.

"What's wrong with her?" She asks. "Do I really have to tell you that, Ali?" Spencer replies annoyed by such an unnecessary question. "Anyway I don't think we can make it with her to the bus station to get her home", Spencer notes helplessly. Spencer and Alison look at Aria who barely manages to keep her eyes open.

As Spencer raises her head again, she sees a familiar face which wants to go straight to his car. "Jason!" She calls after her half-brother. He turns around and sees Spencer running to him.

"Spencer, what's up?" He asks. After Spencer has regained her breath, she manages to respond to her brother. "Jason, we need your help. Well Ali and I need your help and Aria probably the most", she explains to him cryptically.

For Jason it would have been enough to hear the names of his two half-sisters to agree immediately, but when Spencer also called her name, she would not even have to say please. "What can I do?" He asks worried. "Well, Aria had probably one too many. We wanted to ride the bus home but in her condition we don't get her to the bus station and then the question would still remain whether the bus driver would take us at all", she explains to him excitedly.

"You're asking whether I bring you home", Jason interrupts her. "Yes, it would be really great if you would do that", Spencer answers relieved that Jason has come to this thought of his own. "Of course, I'll do it", Jason answers without hesitation. Spencer smiles. Even if she has never said it to him, she loves to have a big brother. Above all she likes to have him as a big brother. "Thanks, Jason." Hastily Spencer strengthens her gratitude with a hug.

"Where is she?" Jason asks with an eye in the direction from which his sister has just arrived. Spencer knows immediately whom he means. "She sits in front of the bar. Ali is with her", she replies. Jason nods and follows his half-sister back to the bar.

There Jason kneels down in front of Aria, after he also greeted Alison. She doesn't make a sober impression either. However, she is no comparison to the misery which sits on the ground. Aria's head rests on her shoulder. Her eyes are closed and as Jason says her name, she barely reacts.

Jason wonders what must have happened that she drank so much alcohol. However, he doesn't know whether Aria wants him to know what happened. So he doesn't ask his sisters. Since Aria is apparently not in the state to go just one step, Jason pushes an arm along her back and the other along the hollows of her knees and lifts her up. Thus he carries her to his car and puts her down on the passenger seat, after Alison has opened the door for him. Jason sits down on the driver's seat, while Alison and Spencer take a seat in the back of the car space.