I'm feeling generous, so I decided to give you an update four, I say it again, FOUR days before I planned on doing so. All the wonderful reviews from the last chapter got me in the mood to be charitable. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Enjoy :)

"Can you feel this magic in the air?
It must have been the way you kissed me.
Fell in love when I saw you standing there
It must have been the way,
Today was a fairytale."

The walk back up to the school was a long one, especially knowing that with every footstep I was putting more distance between the one man who made my world and myself. The gorgeous charm bracelet he got for me jingled as I walked and my heart felt like it would shatter. Why must our relationship be so difficult? Why couldn't we be allowed to love each other unconditionally like every other couple?

What a way to end my eighteenth birthday – with a broken heart.

I made my way back to my dorm once I'd checked back in at the main office. The secretary, Mrs Tyler, gave me a funny look when she saw my still-wet hair but said nothing.

When I reached the door to the dorm, I could hear whispers inside, which was strange as Amy and Rose said that they were going to the movie playing in the common room.

I let myself in and nearly feinted as I was greeted with a loud "SURPRISE!"

Several pairs of arms engulfed me at once and I squealed in delight as I saw Emily, Spencer and Hanna there along with Amy and Rose.

"Oh, my God! What are you guys doing here?" I put down the heavy bag and we shared another group hug.

"Spencer organised everything and we drove down this morning!" Emily grinned, taking a seat on my bed. I noticed that there were sleeping bags and piles of junk food everywhere. My heart swelled with love for my best friends and all heartbroken thoughts were pushed to the back of my mind.

"Yeah, she added me on Facebook a while back," Rose explained, dragging me by the hand to sit on the fatboy between our beds.

"And they figured it all out," Amy added, "It took some spectacular lying to get them in here, but your friends sure can lie!" Us four from Rosewood shared an uncomfortable look before Hannah broke the tension.

"Yeah, and you weren't exaggerating when you said you live in the middle of nowhere, either," Hanna said with a laugh, opening a packet of gummy bears.

All I could do was grin as I looked around at my five best friends. All that was missing was Ali, which reminded me that I needed to tell them that Ezra knew about A.

"So how was your date with Fitz?" Spencer asked from her place on Rose's bed.

Before I could answer, however, Emily cut across.

"Is that a charm bracelet?" I grinned and held up my wrist to show them all.

"He-" I was about to tell them about each of the four charms but Amy interrupted.

"Never mind that! Is that a hickey?"

My eyes widened and my hand flew to my neck, trying to conceal whatever damage had been done by Ezra. I guess it wasn't my hair that had Mrs Tyler staring.

"Oh my God!" Hanna cried as Spencer and Rose pried my hand away despite my protests. Sometimes it sucks being small. "Fitzy got some!"

The five of them burst out laughter while I felt my face get got. I silently vowed to kill Ezra next time I saw him, whenever that was going to be. Emily tossed me her compact and I inspected my neck. True to their word, there were two large, purpling love bites on my skin.

"Did you have a nice date?" Emily asked, when I handed her back the mirror.

"It was amazing. He brought me to Ophelia's bakery-"

"I love that place!" Amy cried, making the four girls shush her.

"Yeah, it was so nice. He read me a poem that he wrote me about his fears when we nearly got exposed by Noel, and gave me a notebook full of other poems he'd written. It was so sweet. He gave me a few other things, too. Stationary and perfume and earrings, and the bracelet of course," I said, holding it up. "He gave me four charms. B-26 which is our song's number on the jukebox where we met, a book for obvious reasons, a water drop for that day we spent at the river and a heart." I pointed to each in turn and the girls oohed and ahhed in all the appropriate places.

"Then we drove back to the river and we had a picnic and we, well, we went swimming and...yeah…" I blushed and the girls all twit-twood.

"Was he as good as you remember?" Hanna asked, making Spencer smack her on the arm.

"That's so inappropriate, Hanna!"

"No it isn't! How was he?" Amy questioned. Hanna reached across and high fived her. I was so happy that they were all getting along.

I pulled my knees up to my chest and reminisced about how it had felt to have his body on mine again, "It was… just… the best day of my life. He makes me so happy."

"Yeah, I bet he does…" Spencer remarked making me throw a cushion off the floor at her.

"He went above and beyond today. It made me love him more than I thought possible." A smile broke out over my face and I whipped out my phone, standing up and moving to the bathroom. "I'll be back in a sec."

Once I'd closed the door behind me, and locked it for good measure, I climbed into the glass shower and shut the door, trying to put as much distance between me and prying ears as possible. I leaned against the cool tile wall of my little glass cage and dialled his number, waiting for him to pick up.

"Hey!" He answered on the third ring, "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, everything's fine," I told him, "I just wanted to tell you that I love you." Ezra laughed.

"Okay..." I could hear a smile in his voice, "So, what are you doing now?"

"Hanna, Emily and Spencer are here with the girls. They drove up from Rosewood earlier. I was just telling them about our day." Ezra was silent for a moment.

"And how long have they known about us?" My eyes widened, I hadn't meant to let that slip.

"Umm…"

"Aria."

"A while…" I admitted. He remained silent, waiting for an explanation I presumed, "Amy and Rose figured it out after we had that big fight in the library and we hugged for ages outside your quarters. They were able to smell your cologne off of me and Rose recognised it. Which is kind of creepy, now that I think about it... And I told the girls over Thanksgiving after they heard me talking to you in the bathroom."

He let out a breath, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't want you to freak out like you did over that message with A. Are you mad?"

"No, I'm not mad. I just wish you would have told me."

"I'm sorry. No more secrets."

"No more secrets," he agreed. "Which means I should probably tell you that I really wish I was in bed with you right now." I laughed and I could hear him chuckling, too. "You're laughing but it's true. Spring break seems like a lifetime away knowing what I'm missing out on."

"Tell me about it," I agreed, "I can't wait to see you and our place."

"You'll love it. I built you a wardrobe that may just fit all your shoes, the flat ones at least."

"I love you," I giggled, "But I better go. Who knows what the girls are doing to each other trying to listen outside the door."

"Where are you?" He asked.

"Standing in the shower."

Ezra barked out a laugh, "You're insane."

"But you love me."

"True. I'll text you when I get back home."

"Okay, drive safe, love you."

"You, too."

"Oh, and Ezra? There's one more thing," I added, before he hung up.

"Yeah?"

"Could you…look in your pocket?" I bit my lip, waiting for it.

"One sec, let me pull over." I heard him pull up the hand break and shuffle around for a second. "Aria!" He exclaimed, his voice displaying a mixture of shock and amusement, "Are these your panties?"

"Yup."

"But then what are you…?" He trailed off and I could only imagine the thoughts running through his brain. I didn't answer and he must have caught on. "Oh. Ohhh. Man! Have I told you how much I love you?"

"Once or twice," I giggled. "Bye, Ezra."

"Talk to you soon," he said before we disconnected.

I made my way back to the girls and filled them in on the conversation I'd just had with him. They let me know how jealous they all were and for the rest of the night I couldn't keep the cheesy grin off of my face.

There was only one thing better than being in love, and that was being in love with Ezra Fitz.

I know this one was short but I've been wanting to have the girls meet Amy and Rose for a while :P Please review! If you don't, I'll make A tell your Dad what you really did last summer. (That was a crap threat, I know.)

-K

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