Hey Guys. SO this is my first PLL fan fic. Now, I've had ideas running around my head so quickly put these down on paper (or screen if you like) This chapter was done in literally 20mins, so it's short, but I'm hoping that if you guys like it, it will only get better! Thanks, hope you enjoy!
Staring at the two lines that marked my future, my head began to pound, the room started spinning. Everyone always talks about that girl who got herself knocked up in high school and how they had their whole life in front of them. Everyone says they wont be that girl. I said that. So how? I reached my shaking hand towards my face and wiped away the tears from my eyes before standing up and shoving the test into my bag along with the other several positives enter the busy school corridors.
"Aria!" Emily linked her arm with mine, the other girls trailing off behind.
"Oh, hey girls,"
"Aria," Hanna began, " where have you been all morning? We've been looking for you." Before I had chance to reply, Spencer cut in.
"Are you feeling ok? You look kinda pale, maybe you should go to the nurse?"
"No," I replied while shaking my head, "I'm good, just a stomach bug, you know, i'll be fine." Hanna rolled her eyes.
"And that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact we have English next and you're totally crushing on Fitz?"
"What? No, don't be stupid, Han."
"Just saying! Everyone can see it."
"Does kinda look that was, Aria." Spence said matter-of-factly.
"Well, I don't, Ok, so just BACK off!" After the words spilled out there was no way I could take them back. I snapped like an elastic band. "I-I..."
"Forget it, it's cool. We understand. Come on, you may not fancy Fitz, but I don't mind an hour of that eye candy." Hanna laughed.
Sitting up at my desk, I looked up to see Ezra enter the room. He smiled over to me as I quickly looked down at my books and entered into a daydream consisting of dirty nappies, dummies and screaming babies. After an hour of painstaking English with the love of my life, the father of my child and twenty other students mumbling away in the background, I finally snapped out of my trance when I realised the class had left and I was sat at my desk, surrounded by my friends and him.
"Aria, are you ok?"
"Em, i'm fine."
"You sure don't look it. We told you to go to the nurse." My eyes watered.
"Can you please just leave me be? I'm just tired." I stood up and picked up my bag.
"Girls, could you all give me a minute with Aria please?"
"Sure," the girls smiled in unison, and carried on standing there.
"I meant alone."
"Oh, yeah, sure Mr Fitz, we will wait outside, ok Aria?" I simply nodded before sinking back into my seat.
"So then, come on, what's up?" The concern in his face made my heart melt. Would he still care if he knew the truth?
"I'm fine, Ezra."
"Do I know you? Yes? Well, I say there is something up. Don't lie to me, Aria. Tell me the truth!"
"The truth? You really want to know the truth?" He nodded back at me. My heart still fluttered every time he looked into my eyes like that. I picked up my bag and emptied the contents onto the desk. It was the only way I could tell him without being speechless or breaking down in tears. He picked up the sticks, one by one, staring at them in disbelief. I stood back up and began placing them back in my bag. "It's fine. I don't expect you to say anything. I don't expect you to say you'll be there. I don't expect you to even care. Its fine. I'm fine." With that I was gone. I left him, still standing there, his mouth dropped to the floor.
Walking down the empty corridor, a million thoughts went through my mind. I couldn't possibly go to my next lesson. My head just wasn't in it, so I decided to head off home and go back to bed. On my way, I decided it was best to head off to the nurse before just shooting off. She believed that I just had a stomach bug and let me go.
As I laid in my bed, I ignored my phone as it beeped repeatedly. That didn't matter. I had to think about me. Me and my baby. Before long, I drifted off into slumber. Peaceful. Happy. Without a care in the world.
After about three hours , I awoke to the sound of my phone, bleeping me awake. I had over twenty missed calls off Ezra and the girls but they didn't matter. What mattered was the text. The most recent one I had received that automatically send red flags flashing in my brain.
"Well, well, well, baby Fitz. This is one secret that will soon come out. -A"
I quickly deleted the text before coming to my senses. What if A hurt my baby? I had to tell the girls. The sooner the better. I quickly text them.
"Meet me at mine 6. Important!"
Six o'clock came in a flash and I paced across the hallway waiting for the sound of the door. Mum had parent/teacher conference night and dad was at work giving me the perfect opportunity to speak to the girls. At that point, I wasn't sure what I would tell them, or how far into detail I'd go but I figured I'd work that out when the time came. When the doorbell rang at exactly 6:06 I ran to the door to see all three of my best friends staring back at me, their faces confused and desperate to find out what it was I invited them over for. "Come in guys." I smiled politely, before stepping back and watching them file through me door.
I looked at the girls staring back at me in anticipation. "Can I get you guys anything? A cuppa? Anything?"
"Really, Aria? You drag us all over here and ask if we want a cuppa?"
"Hanna!" Spencer nudged Hanna at the shoulder.
"What? We were all thinking it!"
"No, Spence, it's ok. Honestly. I need to speak to you guys, and I guess I, just trying to put off saying it or something, but I need to do it do here goes. I'm pregnant." I scanned the faces of my best friends. All looked much like Ezra's, mouths touching the ground. "Please say something. Anyone?" Spencer was the first to react, she stood up and made her way over to me, placing her arm around me.
"It's ok, we're here for you. Do you know who the dad is?" I nodded in response, my eyes welling up. "Who, Aria? Who is it?" I gulped hard before looking up at her.
"I-I can't tell you." It was Emily who spoke up next, she joined spencer, placing her other arm around my shoulder.
"Aria, we're your best friends, you can tell us."
"Yeah, course you can!" Hanna said I she placed her hand over my own. "We're here for you."
"Look, I really, seriously can't. I want to. But it's not that easy. It's complicated."
"It's complicated? Well, Aria, it's about to get a thousand times more complicated if you're gonna be popping out his sprog." Emily and Spencer automatically glared at Hanna, who just rolled her eyes.
"I will tell you. Soon. But I can't just yet." The girls stayed for another half an hour nagging me about how it happened, how I was feeling, before we were finally saved by the door. Mum. I'd never been so relieved to see her in my whole entire life.
"Oh, hey girls!" She smiled at them. "I wasn't expecting you guys over tonight, are you staying for tea?"
"No, thanks, Mrs Montgomery." Spencer said while standing up. "We were just leaving. Bye Aria!" I said goodbye to the girls and showed them out.
"Mom, is it ok for me to pop out as well? I wanted to go shopping. Look for a new pair of shoes." Mom was otherwise distracted unloading groceries into the cupboard.
"Mm, sure, just be back by 9!"
"Thanks, Mom!"
