Dreams Become Reality

Chapter Two: The Next Morning

I smiled as the sun hit my face. It was morning, and I was looking forward to the day. As I rolled over, I rolled over onto a toned chest. Since I hadn't opened my eyes yet, I figured it was Ezra. I figured that we had fallen asleep at his apartment. But then it hit me. His bed wasn't near a window. There was no way that I could be laying in Ezra's bed, next to Ezra if the sun was hitting my face. Slowly I opened my eyes and looked down at my body. I was naked. I. Was. F-ing. Naked. Not daring to look at the man's face lying next to/beneath me, I gently lifted the covers up and saw that he too was naked. And his dick was sticking straight up. Daring the glance at who I was in bed with, I gasped lightly. It wasn't, in fact, Ezra like I had thought, but Jason. Jason DiLaurentis. I slept with Jason DiLaurentis.

"Morning." Jason mumbled with an amused smile on his face.

"We slept together." I said as more of a statement than a question, but he responded anyway.

"Yes we did." Jason said.

"I don't remember anything." I replied softly.

"You don't?" Jason asked sitting up quickly.

"No, I don't remember anything." I repeated.

"Oh God, Aria; we need to get you to the hospital." Jason said quickly as he grabbed his clothes off of the floor.

"Why?" I asked grabbing his arm as I stood up from the bed and almost fell over.

"Aria, you remember nothing from last night; nothing at all. This isn't good. You were attacked last night." Jason said.

"That's very funny Jason." I said with a small laugh.

"I'm not kidding Aria. I'm not sure who the guy was, but from the small glance of him that I saw, I think it was that Fitz guy." Jason said gesturing toward my arms.

"Ezra wouldn't attack…" I started to say before looking down at my arms. There were hand shaped bruises on my arms.

"Jason…" I said warily.

"Aria, what's wrong?" Jason asked.

"This is real." I said.

"Um, yeah, it's real. Why would you think differently?" Jason asked as I sat down on the edge of the bed and put my head in my hands.

"I thought this was a dream." I said, but it came out muffled.

"Excuse me?" Jason asked gently pulling my hands away from my face.

"I thought this was a dream. I've had dreams about you before, and I thought this was one of those dreams." I explained.

"Aria, get dressed. I'm taking you to the hospital." Jason said handing me my clothes.

"No." I said simply.

"What do you mean 'no'?" Jason asked.

"I'm not getting dressed and I'm not going to the hospital." I said defensively.

"Aria, you can't remember being attacked or anything else from last night, you need to get your head checked." Jason argued.

"I'm not going to the hospital Jason." I said as I sat with my legs crossed under me and my arms folded across my chest.

"Aria…" Jason said warningly.

"Just shut up about it and get over here." I demanded.

"Aria, please; I'm trying to help you here." Jason said, but didn't move any closer to me.

"Damn it Jason, will you just drop it and get your ass over here? I want you, and only you, to help me remember what happened last night." I said standing up, grabbing his hand and pulling him towards me.

"Aria, I like you, and trust me, I want to stay with you today, but its Thursday, so we can't stay home all day. You have school." Jason said but eyed my breasts.

"Touch them Jason. Grab them and help me remember what happened last night." I said slowly.

"I don't know if this is a…" Jason started to say as I moved his hands to my chest.

As soon as his hands were on me, my knees went weak. Grabbing him by the waist, I pulled him with me as I fell backwards onto the bed. I knew that had made up his mind. We were staying home today; in bed; together. No 'A'. No Ezra. No one could bother us.

After an hour or so, I got a text from Spencer. With a sigh, I rolled over and grabbed my phone to look at the text.

Where the hell are you? Your mom has been freaking out that you aren't at school today. CALL ME! – Spencer

"I gotta make a call Jason." I said as I grabbed his shirt and put it on before walking out of the room.

As I was dialing Spencer's number, it finally dawned on me that I was at Jason's house.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU ARIA?" Spencer asked after two rings.

"Um yeah, I'm at Jason's. Now before you freak out, please, cover for me. Tell my mom that I spent the night at your house and I wasn't feeling well this morning. I will meet you at your house after school. You can freak out on me then." I said quickly and more in a whisper than anything.

"Aria, what really happened last night?" Emily asked.

"Why am I on speaker?" I asked.

"Because Em and Han wanted to listen too; but you can't avoid the question Aria. What really happened last night?" Spencer asked.

"I will explain everything later today." I said before hanging up. "I will explain everything later today if I can even remember everything that happened last night." I muttered to myself.

"Is everything okay?" Jason asked as I walked back into his room.

"Yeah, the girls were just concerned about me not being at school. That and my mom was freaking out at them too." I said with a shrug which hurt my arms.

Seeing me flinch at the movement, Jason was by my side in a second. Gently helping me to the bed, Jason looked into my eyes intently.

"Aria, are you absolutely sure that you don't want me to take you to the hospital?" Jason asked.

"I'm positive Jason. I don't want to go to the hospital." I said with a small nod as my body started to hurt.

"Aria… I didn't want to mention this earlier, but I think that Ezra guy might have raped you." Jason said quietly.

"And you still want to take me to the hospital? Jason, if we slept together last night, any evidence that the doctors would have been able to find from him would have been covered by you." I said. I was starting to get really pissed off at Jason for constantly bringing up stuff from last night.

"Aria; I have something at confess." Jason said.

"What?" I asked folding my arms across my chest.

"We didn't sleep together. You're clothes were tattered and torn and you refused to wear any of my clothes. You said that your body ached too much to wear anything. But when I went to wear my pajama bottoms, you threw a fit and told me that if you were going without clothes, then I was too. We can still nail the bastard for raping you." Jason said.

"Why would you lie to me Jason?" I asked quietly, not even looking at him.

"I'm sorry Aria; I thought I was protecting you." Jason said as he gently tilted my head up with his finger so that I was looking at him.

"I meant what I said a couple weeks ago. I care about you Aria, and I hope you feel the same way about me." Jason said as he lightly pressed his lips to mine.

And with that one kiss, all of my anger and frustration that I had been building in me against him melted away. Wrapping my arms around his neck, I pulled his head closer and we deepened the kiss. It was probably 1 minute later that I pushed him away and curled up into a ball against the far side of the bed.

"Aria, what's wrong?" Jason asked.

"Stay away from me." I said as tears started to fall from my eyes.

"Aria, it's me. It's Jason. I'm not going to hurt you." Jason said trying to reach for my hand, but I pulled further away.

"Get away from me Ezra! I don't want this." I said as tears fell from my eyes.

"Aria, I'm not Ezra. It's me, Jason; look at me Aria, I'm not going to hurt you." Jason said gently placing a hand on my shoulder only for me to shrug it off.

"Just leave me alone!" I yelled as I ran out of the room and out of the house.

End Chapter 2

(A/N: There's more to come soon. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. – Emma)