"How was the Juke-box?" Ella says as we walk outside Snooker's. Ezra and I both smile at her and say in unison "good." We start walking back to Ezra's when I think of something. "Hey mom may I go over to Spencer's after we get home, she's going to help me study for that Chem. Test." She thinks it over, "yeah, sure honey." I look over at Ezra and hold up six fingers, referring to the time tonight. He crinkles his face. I mouth, so my mom doesn't hear, 'I do need to study.' He nods his head in understanding, and mouths back 'six is good.' Ella turns around to face me, "how long do you think you'll be there?" I take in a breath and pretend to think. "I don't know how long it'll take, after dinner probably. I'll call when I get there and figure it out." She smiles, "that's fine." We arrive back at Ezra's apartment a few minutes later and all walk over to my car. Ezra leans against my car and says "Thank you for lunch Ella." She smiles and replies, "thank you for coming with us, it was fun." Ezra and I both nod our heads. Ella hugs Ezra "bye Ezra, see you tomorrow." He lets go and says "good bye, see ya" then moves over to me. I hug him and say "By Mr. Fitz" he smirks and says "see you in class." Ezra walks back to his apartment and we drive home, making small talk about the afternoon. Once Ella pulls into the drive way I rush to open the front door and run up the stairs to grab my bag, with my books, and head back out the door yelling behind me "bye Ella, love you."

"Hey Spence!" I say loudly as I walk through her front door. I hear an "up hear" coming from up stairs. I walk up the stairs with my bag and find Spencer in her room. "Hey," she says smiling at me. "Hey," I say back plopping on the bed next to her. She looks at me quizzically which makes me ask "what?" She shakes her head with a small smile on her lips, "you just seem happy. Is it Fitz?" I smile really big. "I knew it, what happened! No, wait if you guys did it I don't want to hear anything." I shake my head laughing "No, Spence! We… My mom had to go over to his place to do some teacher paper stuff and I came with her. Then she took us to Snooker's." Spencer's eyebrows shot up then giggled a bit. "Snooker's as in the pub where you guys met? She took you there! Oh my God! So….how was it?" I open my mouth to speak but I don't say anything, trying to put it in the right term. "Uhmm….good. We had lunch and then recreated our date." I say with a sly smile creeping on my face. She caught on, "so you got frisky with Fitz. Sweet." "Yeah and about that, could you cover for me later? I'm going over for dinner after we study." She rolls her eyes, "yeah sure let me pull an excuse from the file and you'll be good." She says a bit annoyed. Spencer gets off her bed and slugs over to her desk grabbing her chemistry text book. I get up and walk over to her. "Spencer I'm sorry, I know you get tired of covering for me. It's just hard dating someone you can't actually date. Thank you for being there for me, I love you for that." She smiles a bit, "And I'm sorry for acting like this sometimes, I just wish you and I would hang out more." I nod, "that's why, you and I are going to have a team Sparia day. We'll do whatever you want on Saturday." She smiles then turns to face the bed "come on. We need to study."

A couple hours later and several chapters later I look at the clock, 5:47. "Hey Spence, I'm gonna go. Thanks for helping me." I gather my stuff together then crawl over to Spencer and kiss her fore head, "See you Saturday." She smiles, and I hop off the bed and head for the door. She yells after me, "Have fun with Fitz!" I walk out the front door and drive over to Ezra's.

"Hey babe" I say opening 3B with the key from under the mat. "Hey, how was studying?" He says stirring something in a pot in the kitchen. I set my bag and keys on the brown chair. "Good. Babe this smells great." I walk over and meet him in the kitchen then wrap my arms around his torso. We eat dinner on the couch and watch the usual classics marathon. We get through the second movie when my phone rings and I completely forget I was suppose to go home. "Hey mom…" I answer the phone and I hear a sigh on the other end. Great, she's upset. "Aria when are you coming home, it is a school night." I run my hand through my hair. "I'm sorry mom; I know I just really need this extra time to study. Spencer's doing a great job. May I sleep over tonight? I'd really help me." I hear no response on the other end until a few seconds later she comes back on, "that's fine. I'll see you tomorrow at school." I smile and nod my head even though she can't see, "yes, thank you! Love you." She forces out a small laugh "love you too, please get enough sleep." "We will." I end the call and cuddle back into Ezra to start You Can't Take it With You. We end the movie marathon after a couple hours and he settle in to bed. Of course Ezra and I wouldn't do it but we do finish the night making out on his bed then falling asleep.

I wake up to the smell of a fresh pot of coffee and turning over in bed to face an empty spot where Ezra lay. I sit up and see he has laid out a towel and made me a cup of coffee that's on his bedside table with the proper cream and two sugars. I grab my favorite mug off the side table and check the clock which reads 6:33. School starts at 7:30 which means I have just enough time to shower. I take a few more sips of coffee then set it back down by the alarm clock and get out of bed. I shiver a bit due to only having on a pair of socks and Ezra's old Hollis t-shirt that just barely covers my bum. I grab the towel he has set out and walk over to the bathroom. I touch the ajar door and it slowly opens. The lights are off and Ezra is nowhere in sight. He must have gone for a quick run. I toss my towel over the shower rod and turn on the hot water. I shrug of Ezra's t-shirt and pull off one sock at a time. I almost hop in the shower when I hear the front door close. I slightly open the bathroom door and poke my head out to see Ezra wipe his neck with a kitchen towel. "Hey babe how was your run." He smiles and walks over to the door. "Good, I'm glad you're up. How'd you sleep?" I smile and blush a bit, "good, since you were there." He touches his hand to the door knob "when you're done I'm going to hop in the shower." I look down at his hand on the door knob, "or…you could join me." He shoots me a smile that I only remember seeing once and whispers "really?" I slightly nod my head and open the door an inch further and walk over to the shower. He opens the door the rest of the way and pulls his shirt over his head as I jump in the shower. Two seconds later he comes in the shower with nothing on but my eyes. "Screw my job" He says just above a whisper. I giggle and kiss him as the water hits both our bodies. Let's just say the shower took longer than usual.

I walk out of the bathroom in just a towel and see Ezra looking through his dresser for a nice button up shirt. "Shit." I say running my hand through my hair. Ezra looks over worried. "What? What's wrong?" I look up at the ceiling. "I completely forgot to bring clothes. Normally if I sleep over at Spencer's I'd just borrow some of her clothes, but…" He looks over to the clothes I wore yesterday. "Why can't you just wear what you had on yesterday?" "Because they're dirty and out of dress code and Spencer and my mom will recognize them." Ezra rubbed his forehead and thinks. "Don't worry," Ezra says now rummaging through a drawer and finds what he was searching for. "It's your skirt you left here about a week ago. And you can wear…" he says looking through another drawer, "this" he says pulling out an old button up shirt. "I use to love this shirt but I shrunk it in the dryer." I smile and kiss him on the cheek, "thank you. Really, you always find the good in a situation." I go over to my pile of clothes and grab my undies and bra then slip them on. Ezra pulls on a pair of slacks and a white button up that is basically a replica of the one I'll wear just his size and a different color. He grabs two different ties as I button up his old shirt and pull on my black skater skirt. "Hey which one should I wear?" he says holding up the ties. I look from one to another and grab the dark navy one with baby blue embellishments. "This one, it brings out your eyes." I put it over his head and fold his collar over then hold both ends in my hand. "Take the right one and bring it over the left." I follow his directions until I finish tying his tie. He peers over my shoulder to look at the alarm clock. "Shit, we have to go." He says walking over to the kitchen counter and fills a canister with coffee. I look over at the clock which reads 7:21 and run over to the brown chair and grab my bag and keys. He walks out the front door and I quickly follow and head down the hall. He locks 3B and I say "see you at school, love you" as I head down the stairs to the lobby with him close behind.

I pull up in the student parking lot at 7:25, after breaking a few laws of the road, and book it to class. I quickly walk down the hall and reach AP English and casually stroll in at 7: 27 and take my seat in the second row. Ezr… Mr. Fitz nonchalantly walks in two minutes later sipping his coffee. The bell rings as he closes the door. He turns around to face the class and says "good morning everyone" and looks at me and smiles. I look down at my notebook and blush, it was a good morning.