Aria held onto Ezra's hand, his chest was no longer moving up and down but she would not give up on him. Their whole relationship had always felt that way, everything seemed to work against them but neither one of them would ever give up, and she wasn't about to start. He had never given up on her, so she was going to fight for him.

The paramedics shortly arrived carrying Ezra away on a stretcher. Aria stood with her friends, using them as her own personal crutches. She stared at Ezra as he was being carried through the door of the brew, he looked pale and broken. Her head was spinning, everything had happened so quickly. Spencer, Hanna, and Emily stared at Aria knowing she could not explain what had happened right away.

Aria watched the paramedics load Ezra into the ambulance, but her concentration was soon broken by the Rosewood police. Of course the cops were going to question her, but what could she really say?

"Ma'am, could you please give me a description of what happened here tonight?" A cop questioned Aria.

To be honest she was unclear of what had happened herself, let alone tell someone else about it. Her life was so complicated with a web spun with so many lies even the biggest compulsive liar in the world would be confused at this point. Aria stared at the ground momentarily trying to gather her thoughts she could not tell them that Ezra had been her significant other, and she could not tell the cops about A.

"Make it believable." She thought to herself.

In other occasions when a lie needed to be told Spencer was very useful, and the girls always had time to practice their story before the police were ever involved.

Aria looked up at the cop with her teary eyes. Her hands and knees were shaking, her words were failing her yet again when all she wanted to do was answer the questions so she could get to the hospital to see Ezra.

"I walked into the brew for some coffee. I saw Mr. Fitz here, so I decided to ask him for some tutoring on an assignment that was due." Her voice was very shaky.

The cop was writing Arias answers down as she said them. He stared at her as if he didn't believe her. She tried as hard as she could to make it believable, so she decided to play the victim card.

"What happened after that?" the cop questioned.

"We heard a loud bang, Ez… acted on his gut feeling and locked the front door. He was on his way to the back whenever we heard an intruder." Aria closed her eyes, tears still running down her face as she relived the horrific scene that just took place.

"What did this intruder look like?" the cop asked, Aria felt like he knew that she was lying. But she had to try.

"I didn't get a chance to see the intruder, sir. Mr. Fitz protected me." Aria stated.

But whenever the cop looked at Aria with a puzzled face she knew that she had messed up. Her eyes grew wide as she tried to find a way to undo the mistake she had just made.

"Protected?" He asked.

"Yes, as any teacher would do." Aria blurted out. Hoping that would cover up her mix up.

"Go on." The cop demanded, still writing everything down as he heard it.

"I closed my eyes, I was scared. I heard two gunshots, and I heard scream out in pain. Then I heard my friend's voices, they had been looking for me. Whenever I opened my eyes, I assume the intruder had ran away because all I saw was lying on the floor." Aria explained, tears in her eyes again.

Her story must have been more believable than she thought, because the cop let her leave. Aria was so relieved to be free of questioning, but she knew it was only for now. Aria walked out of the Brew with her friends, who were all still very confused.

The girls all looked at Aria waited for an explanation but she wasn't exactly sure that she could give them one. The complete truth was that she didn't know what had happened.

"Are you okay?" Spencer asked her.

"I'm fine, I just want to get to the hospital and see Ezra." Aria exclaimed.

"Whoa, wait a second. Rewind and play that again. You've spent three days sitting in your sweats in your room alone because of him. What the hell happened in there?" Spencer demanded an answer. It seemed as if she was being very rude, but to her knowledge Ezra was still A so why would Aria want to protect him?

"Spencer…" Hanna tried to calm Spencer down, but Spencer is a Hastings and Hastings are very stubborn people.

"No! He has been toying with us for years! A cat can only play with the mouse for so long before it finally gets hungry enough to eat!" Spencer yelled.

"He's not A!" Aria yelled walking away from her friends.

"What do you mean he's not A?" Emily asked sympathetically.

"He's not A!" Aria repeated herself.

"Well then what is he?!" Spencer yelled.

Aria knew that Spencer wanted to get to the bottom of the situation as they all did, but now was not the time. She already felt bad enough that Ezra risked his life for her, let alone to still believe that he is A.

"First thing is first, Aria talk to us. Tell us what happened." Hanna asked walking towards Aria.

Aria turned around and stared at her friends. She knew by the looks on their faces that they were worried but what more can she really tell them? Her heart was too broken and bruised to fight with them at this point.

"I met with Ezra at the Brew, we walked inside and we were alone. At first I started to panic, but then he told me that he was still the person that I knew. He was trying to explain to me that we were wrong." Aria tried to get the words out before her heart started to ache again. She felt another round of a massive flood of tears making its way through her eyes.

"We heard a noise, and when Ezra turned around it was A. Ezra tried to protect me. A had a gun and A shot him." Aria cried, her friends all gathered around her.

"Aria, I am so sorry. I thought…but we knew…" Spencer tried to speak but she was at a loss for words. Spencer was a Hastings, and Hastings are almost never wrong.

"I just need to see him." Aria said as she turned around to walk to the hospital.

The girls all loaded up into Spencer's car and she drove them to the hospital. Aria walked into the waiting room, the smell of hospitals made her stomach feel sick. She began looking around silently searching for the nurse's desk and approached a nurse.

"Hi, I was just coming to check on Ezra Fitz." Aria said, still with a shaky voice.

"Are you immediate family?" The nurse asked.

Aria's eyes grew wide, how was she to explain herself to this nurse?

"No, no I am just a concerned student of his." Aria stated.

"We all are." Spencer strongly said as she and the other two girls walked up behind Aria.

The nurse flipped through the pages in her book that was laid out in front of her.

"He is in surgery right now, it will take a couple of hours for it to be completed." The nurse said staring at the girls.

"I'll just wait here then. Thank you." Aria told the nurse.

The girls sat down in the waiting room staring at the ground. Aria felt so guilty for everything.

"If I hadn't of thought that he was A we would have still been together." Aria thought to herself, within those two hours a million different thoughts went through hear head. All of them blaming herself.

"Miss." The nurse said, motioning for Aria to approach the desk.

Aris hurridly followed instructions,she sprung out of her chair like a freshly toasted piece of bread in a toaster oven.

"You can see him now, but only for a few minutes."

Aria followed the nurse down a long hallway, what felt like the walk of death. Aria didn't even want to think about the word death. She didn't want to think at all. All she knew was that she wanted to see Ezra.

As the door slowly began to open, she held her breath. Trying to prepare herself for what she was about to see. Aria walked into the room, and the nurse shut the door behind her.

There he was, laying in a hospital bed. Aria looked at him slowly from his feet up to his head, his leg wrapped up in gauze, elevated. She saw all of the wires connected to him, then she saw the breathing tube. She could hear the beeping noise in the background, at least she knew that his heart was still beating.

It was so strange for her to see him this way. A man this is always so strong, independent, and in charge of his own life is now laying in the hospital looking so broken and lifeless. She wanted nothing more but to run over to him, to hug him, to tell him that she was sorry for everything that had happened. She wanted to tell him that she wishes that it had been her instead of him, how it wasn't fair that he had to pay for her mistakes.

Aria walked over to Ezra, she started to push his hair back as she always had done. She touched his fingers, and she was startled by how cold they were.

"Ezra, I'm sorry. I am so sorry." She whispered to him, tears in her eyes she kissed his hand. "I will do anything to make this up to you. I promise. Just please, please come back to me."

She stared at his face, his face looked as if it were made of stone. She missed him so much, he was there physically, but he was somewhere else.

"I promise that I will come back. I love you Ezra Fitz." Aria whispered as low as she could, kissing him on the cheek. She squeezed his hand one more time before she walked away.