Author's Note: Thank you all for the kind reviews! Sorry it took me a while to update, but my hamster is going to die soon. :[ I know this doesn't seem that big of a deal, but I've had him for a while and I'm going to miss him a lot! Anyway, here you are with chapter two. Review please and tell me what you think!

-Maddie

Aria's POV

"Ezra?" She said, her voice shaking. She could not believe her eyes, they had to be misleading her, but they weren't. There he was, her Ezra Fitz, looking just as handsome as usual. The man she fell in love with at just age sixteen. The man she still loved even though she hasn't seen him in six years. The man she promised herself she would move on from forever-just hours before.

"Aria." He whispered, his beautiful eyes never leaving hers. "How are you? It's been forever."

"I'm doing well, you know, just writing and enjoying New York City!" She said smiling slightly. "How are you? I didn't know you left Rosewood."

"Well, after you left, I decided I needed a fresh start. You know, too many memories back there. I had to escape them." As soon as the words left his mouth, all of the memories came flooding back to her. The time when they first met at Snookers, the time she found out he was her teacher, the times they spent hauled up in his apartment snuggling up against each other and watching old movies, the time she confessed her love to him, the time he confessed his to her, the times they snuck around Hollis, and last, but not least, the time she broke up with him after finding out what he did. Just thinking of all of those memories, the good ones and the bad ones, made the tears start to pour from her eyes. Lucky for her he was the last one in line because she had to leave. She couldn't bear to look at him anymore or hear his voice that she missed so much. She mad to move on from him, she just had to.

"I'm sorry," she said, her tears spilling down her face even more rapidly now. "I have to go."

"No, Aria! Please don't go. I'm sorry! Let me explain, please! I've missed you. We haven't seen each other in six years and now we finally found each other, and your just going to leave? I haven't stopped loving you, Aria, and I know that you feel the same way." He said with a weak voice. She knew she felt the same way and that's why she had to get out of there.

"Maybe your right, Ezra. Look, I'm sorry, but this is not a good time, I really have to leave now." And then she turned her back to him and sprinted out of there as fast as she could without looking back. She didn't care what anyone thought as people everywhere watched Aria Montgomery, the famous, best selling author, run across the streets of New York City crying her eyes out.

Ezra's POV

He stood there looking dumbfounded and heartbroken. He felt like the girl of dreams had just broken up with him all over again. The same feeling crept up into his heart that did just six years before, as his eyes began to water. He was a guy who hardly ever cried. This was the second time of his whole entire life, which he could remember, where he allowed himself to let tears fall from his eyes. The other time was when Aria had broken his heart for the first time after he made the biggest mistake of his life. He took his book off of the table remembering why he came there in the first place and realized that she never signed it. Not that he cared, she would always just be Aria Montgomery, the young and fragile girl who he fell in love with at age twenty-three, never Aria Montgomery, the famous and rich author, to him.

He realized how stupid he must look right then and there, a grown man, standing at a book signing, with tears gently flowing down his face, but he didn't care one bit. All that he cared about was getting Aria back, and he was certain that he would, one way or another. He wouldn't allow himself to lose her again. He would break down the wall in which she put up and win over her heart once again. And knowing that she lived somewhere in New York City just made it that more easier. Having that thought in his head, he was able to move his legs from the spot in which they were stuck to and walk slowly back to his apartment. He made a huge mistake already once in his life, and he needed her to know how sorry he was, how much he was still in love with her, and how he needed her desperately.

Aria's POV

Aria rushed into her apartment and slammed the door shut. How could this possibly have happened? She thought she would never have to face him again, never have to see his perfectly toned body, his gorgeous blue eyes, or hear his deep voice ever again. How could things have gone from so great to so horrible in less than seven hours? She threw off her jacket, yanked off her shoes, and ran into her bedroom trying to forget what had just happened.

Minutes later, Spencer walked into the apartment as happy as a clam. "Aria!" She shouted. "Guess what? I got a promotion!" There was no response. "Maybe Aria wasn't home yet." She thought, but then she heard someone sobbing in the other room. She ran across the apartment and pulled open the door to Aria's room. There she was, looking a mess and lying facedown on her bed, balling. "Aria!" She said in a shocked voice. "What happened? You look horrible!"

"He was there, Spence. He was there, at my book signing, asking me to sign his book!" She half yelled, half sobbed.

"Who was there? Ezra?"

"Yes! Who else? Why would he do this to me? He should know that I can't be with him, that we can never be together again."

"Just out of curiosity, why cant you? What's stopping you?

"Because Spencer, because we just can't okay? I promised myself that I would forget him. I've started a new life and I need to focus on writing, I don't need any distractions, and that's all that he is!"

"Aria, you even said it yourself, you're still in love with him. Why don't you give him a chance? If he came to your book signing, he obviously is still in love with you too and wants you back. Did you guys talk at all?"

"Yeah, he asked how I was, and I said great and asked how he was and said that I didn't know that he left Rosewood, and then he said that he left because he needed to escape the memories. Then I couldn't control myself and I started to cry hysterically, and said I had to go, but before I left he said that he missed me and was still in love with me and that he knew that I was still in love with him too, and after that I just couldn't take it anymore, and I ran home."

"I think that you should meet up with him, at least talk to him to see how he's been. I'm sorry, and I know this is a bad time, but you never told me why you broke up with him. I know that you're hiding something, Aria. There has to be a reason why you did it, why you wouldn't tell anyone your reasoning behind it, and why you won't at least give him a second chance."

"Because he cheated on me!" She shouted. Spencer Hastings was at a loss of words for one of the few times in her life. That was one thing that she never knew, never expected, and one thing that explained so much about Aria. Everything about her breakup and her recent meeting with Ezra Fitz finally made sense.

"Why didn't you tell me, Hannah, or Emily? We could have helped your through everything, and you know that!" She responded with a little anger in her voice.

"Because I was ashamed of it. Everyone was always saying how I was stupid to trust someone older than me, and how he was just using me. If I told people that he cheated, then they would just laugh in my face, and say I told you so." Spencer's expression softened as she heard what Aria was saying.

"I'm so sorry, Aria. We wouldn't have said that though. We would have helped you through it like best friends are supposed to. Still though, I know that you two were madly in love, and I think you should let him explain himself. At least meet up for coffee or something just to talk. You don't know the story behind it."

"It doesn't matter! Cheating is cheating, and that's all that matters."

"I know that cheating is cheating, but people make mistakes, Aria. No one is perfect, and I bet you that was the worst mistake he ever made. I bet he misses you so much and needs to apologize and that's why he came to the signing.

"Obviously!" Aria said back a little annoyed. "But that doesn't change the fact that he still did it."

"I know that. I never said it didn't, but you guys were soul mates and I know that for sure." She responded gently. "Just give him one last chance to prove himself."

"Maybe." Aria said her voice still quivering from her earlier tears. "But he better have one damn good apology."