Ok guys, I'm sorry the first two chapters were so short. I wrote two pages on MS Word and they came out REALLY short on fanfiction, so from now on I'm going to try to write 3 to 4 pages for each chapter.

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"Well," she smirked, "if you're lucky I may tell you."

"Sounds like a plan."

"You sound confident," she pointed out to him and leaned forward to rest her folded arms on the table in front of her.

"Not confident, so much as hopeful," he smiled at her and Aria felt a swarm of butterflies flying through her stomach. The moment was temporarily ruined however when her phone began to ring, playing the chorus of Nicki Minaj's Super Bass, alerting her that she had receive a text message.

"Hold on one second," Aria smiled apologetically and she quickly pulled her phone out of her bag. She looked at the preview on the screen and saw that Hanna had texted her. Unlocking her phone, she went to her messages, "Hey Aria, who's the hottie?" she read to herself, then glanced toward the table with her friends where she saw them all staring at her, giggling and waving. Aria quickly turned back to her phone and locked it, throwing it back into her bag.

"Who was that?" he asked her, taking a sip from his drink.

"Nothing important, it was just my mom asking if I wanted her to wash anything from my suitcase," she quickly made up, feeling no need to tell him that her friends who had been ignoring her were now essentially stalking them.

"You were traveling recently?" he asked, his tone filled with surprise.

"Well, I wouldn't exactly call it traveling," she admitted, "I just spent a year in Europe."

"Where in Europe?" the interest in his tone spiking.

"Iceland."

"I spent some time in Erecucvik, before I went to Amsterdam," he paused to look at her, "It's a great city."

As his sentence finished, the song that had been playing over the speakers, which Aria couldn't put a name to, ended and familiar guitar playing filled their ears.

When the raspy voice of the singer joined in the song, Aria closed her eyes contently for a brief second. "I love this song," she whispered.

"B-26," the man smiled and Aria's eyes instantly shot up to him. He looked slightly over her left shoulder, and in response she turned to see a jukebox where a couple, who were obviously smitten with each other were scanning through the songs, probably searching for one to convey their feelings for one another.

Aria spun back around, an amused smirk on her face. She glanced down at the table and saw a book sitting in front of him. "What book is that?"

"To Kill a Mockingbird," he said picking it up and examining the bent corners and torn cover, the book had obviously been well loved. "I was rereading it before I the school year started."

Aria looked the man over, he was older than her, but not by much, "So do you go to Hollis?" she asked.

"Just graduated," he nodded and smiled proudly, "I'm going to start my first teaching job."

"Yeah?" she watched as he nodded. "I think I'd like to teach," she flashed her eyes up to meet his and he just looked back at her, his blue eyes lost in her brown ones. After a short period of time (the actual length of which, neither could guess) the man looked down and cleared his throat, realizing that he had just been starting at her.

"So, uh-what's your major?" he asked quickly.

Aria felt her smile fall a little when it occurred to her that he thought she was in college. "Oh, well- I-I," she began to stutter (as she often did when she lied), "I'm leaning toward English," she finished, smiling at him and hoping he wouldn't see right through her. She hadn't lied to him though, in fact she had put in a considerable amount of time decided what she wanted to do with her life and both English and teaching were in fact at the top of that list.

The look on his face switched to amazement as soon as the words had left her mouth, "That's what I'm teaching," he told her and soon Aria's expression matched the man's.

"Well," she began, wanting to change the subject quickly to avoid any further discussion of her ''college life', "and I write too, but so far it's mostly personal," she paused, "just for me". She tilted her head to the side for a brief second as if to say that it was nothing, but the man sitting across from her clearly thought otherwise.

"I'm impressed," he stated, bringing his cup to his lips and taking a sip.

"Why?" she asked, truly puzzled as to how anyone could even find her as interesting as this stranger did.

"I tried writing, but I didn't get very far. You're lucky, if you're writing for yourself, its pure passion," he paused, watching as her face lit up the slightest bit, "Maybe you'd let me read something of yours?" he asked hopefully.

"Yeah?" she gave him a quizzical look, "You'd really want to?"

"Yeah," he leaned forward, imitating Aria's pose, which essentially made the pair close enough to kiss. "You're smart, you've traveled," he looked up, motioning to the speaker system, "have great taste in music," he added, which caused Aria to giggle. "I'd like to know more about you."

"Yeah," she felt another wave of butterflies. "I'd like to know more about you too."

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