Chapter Five

Aria remained still as she spoke the first time that A had texted her. The heads that were listening intensively all showing different expressions. Her mother looked angry but hurt, she knew back then her daughter wasn't being completely honest with her. The girls looked in fear as they all began reminding themselves of past experiences with A and the way that they ruined anything the girls had in their lives at the moment.

As everyone began muttering to themselves a nurse quickly made her entrance into the crowded room during her duties and began filling the forms in located at the end of The bed "Aria, how you feeling?" the nurse asked seeing her cheeks flushed and a few drips of sweat beginning to form on her forehead.

"Hot" she sighed, rubbing away the water from her face before waving her hand in front of her face to get some fresh air into her lungs as she began breathing deeper. The nurse came closer to bed, examining her temperature and turned quickly getting the doctor who she could hear was doing his rounds on the ward. She re-entered the with the doctor following closely "Right can everyone go wait in the visitors room please" the room began to get slowly empty as the friends left leaving only Ezra who refused to let go of her hand as he felt her hold on tighter the fear in her eyes scaring him also. "I'm not leaving her" Ezra replied back. He held onto her hand gently rubbing her palm. The doctor looked at Aria seeing the state she getting herself into and nodded "okay" he didn't normally allow exceptions but seeing the state of his patient and what she had been through recently made him reconsider his actions.

"Last one Aria" the doctor smiled confidently before pushing the last needle into her arm. She closed her eyes tightly slowing the tears were falling and Ezra hand behind her back supporting her with his sweet voice.

"Right it seems your heart rate and temperature is beginning to lower again" he was holding the several charts in front of him showing the evidence.

Ezra smiled with relief. He had never felt so scared for Aria before. He had never seen her that I'll before either. "Can you go get the others please? My mum looked so scared" Aria gulped the guilty obvious in her eyes. He lent down and kissed her forehead sweetly before leaving the room and heading to find the others.

"Aria, we're going to run those tests and see what's going on" the nurse informed before handing her some paracemtol and a glass of water before walking out leaving Aria in the quiet room.

Ezra walked into the room full of people he recognized. There are faces looking at him for words to be released. He sat down on the chair "She's had some tests done were waiting for the results but everything is back down to what it should be" he heard the room sigh with relief. "Ella she told me to tell you to get you first" Ezra remembered his instructions. The smile upon her face showed how happy she was about Aria. Ella stood up leaving the room and heading to see her daughter.

"aria" she cried as she leant down and pulled her daughter into an embrace, brushing her hand through her daughters ebony locks.

"I'm okay mum" Aria laughed softly before moving gently over in her bed as her mum came and sat next to her, allowing her daughters head onto her chest. "I'm sorry I lied" she sighed. She couldn't get the look of her mother's disappoint during her tale earlier out of her mind.

Ella kissed her forehead "I'm not saying I accept your relationship with Ezra or anything of that sort but i've realised you'll always do the right thing and staying with him is the right thing" after she finished she pulled her daughter in tighter feeling her breathing heavier and noticed her eyes were closed.

It had been several weeks since Aria first came into hospital. She was now getting ready to leave, the doctors giving her the all clearing and just advising if she was ever to repeat the experience to came back straight away. She thanked them all before leaving. Ezra had come to pick her up while her family and friends were at the family home cleaning and preparing a whole dinner for everyone to stay and celebrate Aria being home.

"How come their not home yet" Bryon muted looking up at the clock on the kitchen wall seeing it had been over an hour since Ezra had left to go get her. Ella walked up next to husband seeing the stress in his eyes. He wasn't entirely happy about their relationship but knew Aria needed support and love not anything less. "He's properly just still getting her home, traffic, maybe she wanted something" Ella continued reeling off the list of possibilities for their absence.

Aria walked through her house with Ezra following behind holding the several bags that family had brought over for her when she was in hospital and put them next to staircase before joining Aria in the kitchen.

She walked into the kitchen both her parents throwing their arms around their little girl as she giggled slightly before moving away and hugging her friends individually and thanking them for everything they did for her over the last few weeks.

They all sat down and began eating the food Ella had spent most of the morning preparing for her guests. After dinner everyone went into the living room sitting down on the sofas and using cushions to sit on the floor with as everyone huddled around each other enjoying the moment the best they could.

Aria was siting asleep on Ezra's lap snoring gently into his neck. She jumped and began choking everyone turned their heads and focused upon Aria who now realised what she had just done. "Girls would you mind taking Mike for an Ice cream or something?" Ella suggested wanting to talk to her daughter alone. The girls all nodded and playfully left the house with Mike teasing him as they suggested they went shopping instead.

Ella went into the kitchen grabbing a glass of water for her daughter before handing it to her where she was seated on the sofa the mean she idolised either side of her.

"I'm okay" she smiled trying to prove to Ezra and her father she was okay. She knew they were both worried about her and what scared her most was they both weren't leaving her alone for a second scared something else will happen.

"So what happened in your dream?" Ella asked peacefully seeing her husband nod before getting ready to listen to his daughter.

*flashback*

The woodland area was in pure darkness, the only light existing was the backlight from Aria's phone as she kept flashing the thing around in the sky to get some sort of signal coverage and it wasn't looking hopeful. She sighed louder heading towards the river as she knew if she followed the river it ends up at the highway and a place that she knew Ezra could come pick her up at and always knew it had signal. She shivered and rubbed away her goosebumps as they began covering her skin, the night cold air was sweeping in like a plague and making the experience already worse. She had received a text telling her to meet her at the tree they all knew as an tree of importance during high school

*end flashback*

"Aria, who sent you the text?" Ezra asked confused at first he thought it could be one of her friends but they'd surely say sooner than this.

Aria grabbed her phone from her pocket and scrolling down the list of names on her phone till she found the text. "It was A" she began crying feeling Ezra's arm scoop around her as he tried to sooth her.