After twenty minutes of anxious waiting, Aria finally broke the awkward silence between the two of them. 'I'd better go down and meet the girls, I think they'll be almost here now,' she announced. 'Oh okay, I'll put this lot away then' he mumbled, pointing to the leftovers from the Chinese and the small stack of films they had begun to work their way through. Aria was just about to walk out the door when Ezra called her: 'Aria, I love you.' 'I love you too Ezra, so much' she smiled back and turned to walk out of the door. Ezra had got up up to shut the door and pulled her in for a kiss. After a minute or so they were interrupted by a wolf whistle - Hanna. Aria pulled away, 'Oh I was just coming down to meet you guys' she said. 'Well we had been down there for like five minutes so we decided to come find you ourselves, were we interrupting anything?' Spencer asked, winking at the other two. 'We should go inside' and embarrassed looking Ezra suggested. The three new arrivals nodded and followed Aria inside, closely followed by Ezra who carefully shut and locked the door behind him.
'Nice apartment Fitz!' Hanna gushed. 'Loving what you've done with the place!' 'Erm thanks Hanna... You guys can call me Ezra by the way,' he replied 'Ezra? Hot name!' Hanna teased. 'Hanna stop it!' Aria playfully shouted at her, pretending to look angry. 'Ooh touchy feely' she retorted, in the same playful tone. The two girls looked at each other for a few seconds and starting laughing, shortly followed by giggles from Spencer and Emily. Ezra even chuckled, feeling more comfortable than he had when Aria's friends first arrived, and started to make them all a coffee. 'Take a pew then guys' Aria urged.
'Sure. So what is it you wanted to talk to us about then?' Emily queried. 'Well, me and Ezra both decided that it's time that we doing something about A. I'm sure you all agree that it's getting beyond a joke and something needs to be done about it' Aria put forward to the group. 'I agree,' Spencer chimed. 'But what exactly can we do? The police aren't gonna help us are they?' 'We can't go to the police anyway Spence, do you know what would happen to Ezra?' Aria cried. 'What's happening to Ezra?' Ezra asked. He handed each girl a mug of coffee and took a seat on his couch next to Aria. 'Nothing, Aria was just talking about what would happen if we went to the police' Emily filled him in. 'Am I the only one who feels a bit weird?' she asked. 'Well I guess it is strange all of you being here in my apartment but I need to help you girls find out who this A is, maybe then we can all lead a normal life,' Ezra sighed. 'Hey what's wrong with your life?' Aria jumped in. 'Well apart from the fact that this creepy person is trying to split up my relationship nothing is wrong with it - I have you,' he replied, forgetting all the girls were there and moved in for a kiss. 'Aww young love,' Spencer cooed.
'Knock it off Spence,' Aria laughed. 'And as for the whole doing something about A thing, Ezra suggested that we should start to look for any clues A might leave us as to who they are - that's why we called you over here.'
'Well I'm a little too sleepy to be trying to look for clues at the moment, why don't we start tomorrow?' Hanna yawned. 'Okay, we'll sort something out,' said Aria. At that point Spencer, Emily and Hanna got up and started walking to the door. 'Well we better be getting off then' Spencer said.
'Okay, I'll call you all in the morning. Oh and hey guys, I don't suppose one of you could give me an alibi for the night so I can stay over here?' Aria proposed. 'Sure, were all staying at mine tonight anyway' Spence replied. 'Thanks' mouthed Aria as they walked out.
One hour later Aria and Ezra picked up where they had left off earlier eating heated up Chinese takeaway and starting the film where they turned it off. To Aria, this was the definition off perfection. Okay so the food tasted a little weird and the film was a bit cheesy but she was there in the arms of the man she loved. Just to think that only 24 hours ago she thought she was about to lose everything. Instead Ezra had said he would stand by her and her friends throughout the whole ordeal and he had no idea how much that meant to her. She snuggled deep into Ezra's chest and smiled. He simply hugged her back and lightly kissed the top of her head. 'This is perfect,' she sighed, eventually falling asleep on him.
Aria woke up two hours later to an annoying little tune repeating itself over and over. The film had finished and the menu song kept staring again every thirty seconds. She manouevred herself out of Ezra's arms, being careful not to wake him, and turned the damn thing off. Seconds later her phone began to beep. 'Oh no, please don't let it be A' she thought. 'Hey who's that?' Ezra yawned,not fully awake. 'Erm I don't know, I'm gonna check it now,' Aria replied. As she opened the message a smile of relief spread across her face. 'Oh it's only my Mom, it says: Hey sweetie, I got your text off of Spencer's phone saying you're staying there for the night, I guess you'll get this because your phone is probably charged now. Have a good time, love you x. Let me just text her back,' she explained to Ezra. 'And done,' she said moments later, shutting her phone.
'Good, now I get you all to myself,' Ezra grinned. Aria giggled but was soon shut up by the kiss that Ezra planted on her lips. Damn he was a good kisser. Slowly he began to move his kisses away from her mouth to all the way down her neck. When he reached the bottom of it Aria pulled away suddenly, starting to unbutton her blouse. 'Wait, are you sure you wanna do this?' Ezra asked. 'Yes I'm sure, I love you Ezra and there's no other person I'd want to share this moment with. But I just need you to know that, well erm, this is my first time and I don't want you to think I'm no good,' Aria shared.
'Look Aria, I would never think that. We'll go at your pace and if you want to stop then we'll stop,' Ezra replied and began to remove his own shirt. They began to kiss each other again, each one more passionate than the last, and before they knew it they were laid on his bed making love - bonding themselves in the most intimate way. Aria felt nothing but waves of pleasure course through her body; no pain at all like some rumours suggested. Ten minutes later, Aria rested her head on Ezra's bare chest and let out a huge sigh. 'That was amazing,' she smiled.
**So here is your chapter four, review as always please to let me know what you think and give me some good ideas! Oh and just so you guys know I'm starting back at school soon so the chapters won't be coming as frequently!**