I can't explain why there was a year long gap but I can apologize and hope you accept it

Aria walked into her favorite bookstore and trotted right up to the clerk's desk. "High, do you have anything by Fitz, Ezra?" she smiled. The teenager rolled her eyes and typed in the name to the stores database.

"No . . ." she mumbled.

Aria turned slightly then remembered a conversation herself and Ezra had several years ago.

Flashback

"How can someone have so many books?" her eyes grazed the wall to wall book collection. Ezra smiled giving her a mug of thick hot chocolate.

"Years of collecting. I promise you, I haven't even read half these books." He sipped lightly at the cocoa.

Aria turned and smiled at him, inching closer, "Maybe I can help you get through them." She played lightly with his tie and smiled.

"Mrs. Montgomery . . . are you trying to seduce me?"

Aria chuckled, "Is it working?"

"Oh, yeah." Ezra picked her up, her cocoa running over in the process onto his back. "Ahh. Shit . . . Shit, shit that burns."

"Oh, no!" Aria put her cocoa on a side table and helped him to the kitchen. "C'mon. let me get the shirt off." She pulled the sticky, warm cotton off his body. It was red but there wasn't too much damage. She got a dish towel and ran it under warm water.

"The Ezra Fitz way to do sexy\fun never does work out." Ezra smiled. Aria smirked and began blotting the area.

"I wouldn't prefer any other way of sexy\funny if it's all the same with you." Ezra took her free hand and kissed it gently, placing it to his cheek. "It's true!" Aria smiled.

"Do you think you'd like my sexy\funny if my name was Jay Fitzgerald?" he asked.

Aria smiled broadly, "What?"

"Well . . . I was just thinking you know if the writing thing ever works out I think I'd get a pen name. And I thought about Jay Fitzgerald."

Aria smiled and stopped blotting, putting her arms around him, "Well, for now, will you just be my Ezra Fitz?" Ezra smiled back and kissed her softly.

Flashback

"U-um what about Fitzgerald, Jay?" Aria prodded. The teen typed it in.

"Uh . . . yeah. We have two. Which ones do you want."

Aria smiled lightly, "Both, please."

The teen nodded and yelled, "Jerry! Two more of those Fitzgerald books." A small man shuffled up several minutes later with the books and Aria walked out with them smiling. She walked to the Starbucks around the corner to sit down with the books.

"Double shot macchiato, please." She smiled at the barista. It was a slow day at the shop so Aria got the coffee sooner than usual. When she got to the corner booth her phone rang. Two calls were coming in. Austin and Hanna. Aria bit her lip and picked Hanna. She couldn't talk to Austin with last night on her mind.

"Hey babe." Hanna smiled. "What you doing?"

Aria eased onto the cushiony booth, "Don't kill me."

"Oh, no." Hanna sighed.

"It's not bad . . . I'm just reading his books." Aria sipped the coffee which burned the tip of her tongue.

"Wait, Fitzy got published?" Hanna said, and Aria could hear the smile in her voice.

"Yeah. And I think their doing really well. The way the salesgirl was talking about it . . . I don't know."

"Well, tell him kudos next time you see him."

"Hanna . . ."

"I'm sorry. Okay, I'm sorry. The reason I called was to ask you out to dinner because guess who's in town?"

"Who?" Aria smiled. "Don't tell me . . ."

"Yep, Spence and Em are both going to be here tonight. So grab your best drinking outfit and meet us up at my place."

Aria smiled, "Of course. I want to read some of these, though, so I love you."

"Love you, too, babe." Hanna hung up and Aria dropped the phone into her bag. She pulled out the two books, immediately turning them over to read the summaries. The first name caught her eye immediately. B-26

A seamless book of beautiful poetry by a new author, this collection will make you laugh, cry, and beg for more. In his writing debut, Jay Fitzgerald puts his heart on his sleeve and lets you enter into his mind for a journey you won't soon forget.

"Oh, Ezra, you did not write that summary . . ." Aria smiled. She smiled and turned to the next book. What Would I Do Without You?

A stolen kiss, an innocent smile, and 1 hour. That's all it took for Eric Montgomery to fall for Arielle Fitzroy. But when it turns out that Arielle is Eric's student, are they willing to let their romance die? Or will they fight for it with everything they have? Jay Fitzgerald writes this in such a deeply personal recount, you find yourself hoping this tragic love story is real. A timeless recount of forbidden love and how we strive to make it work.

"Miss?" a small voice asked. Aria looked up, realizing she was crying.

"Yes?" she looked up to see the petite woman who had made her coffee.

"Miss are you alright? You've been crying . . ."

"Yes, I-I'm fine. I'm sorry I'm just a little emotional."

The woman smiled and walked away. Aria whisked away her tears and breathed in softly. She was going to read these in the privacy of her own home. The home she shared with Austin. Her fiancé. She left the store quickly, her head down. She just turned the corner when she smashed into someone.

"Aria?" No. Not now. She looked up to see Ezra, who was helping her pick up the books. "Oh, don't tell me." Ezra smiled. Aria smiled, embarrassed. "I remembered that time when um . . ."

"The hot chocolate . . ." Ezra laughed. "I can't believe you remembered that." Aria just giggled.

"Don't worry, I've only read the summaries." He helped her up. "I was reading the summery for the novel. I don't think I need to ask what your inspiration was." Ezra ducked his head.

"Before you read that . . . you have to understand I wrote half of it when we were together and half of it after I left." Ezra moved his hands about like he always did when he was nervous.

"What happens?" Aria poked the book at him.

Ezra shut his eyes and looked as though he was about to get punched, "We die . . ."

"Ezra!" Aria punched him square in the shoulder.

"Ahah . . . That hurt!" (Anyone else piss themselves laughing when they first saw that scene!) Ezra rubbed it.

"We die? Come on, Ezra!"Aria pushed him lightly. Ezra noticed her slightly shaking.

"You're laughing." He said with a smile. Aria nodded and kept laughing, leaning her forehead to his shoulder and breathlessly laughing. "It's not funny!" Ezra laughed himself. Aria just smiled and backed away, wiping tears of laughter from her eyes.

"I have to get going." She smiled.

"Right now?" Ezra asked. She couldn't help but feel a slight thrill at his disappointment. He wanted to be with her.

"Yeah, the girls are back in town. We've got a big night ahead of us." Aria smiled.

"Well I hope you have fun. I'll call you?" Ezra asked.

No . . . NO! . . . Aria . . . Don't you dare do-"Yes." She smiled. Ezra nodded and walked by.

"Oh . . . and Aria . . ." she turned slightly to face him, "For the poetry book, I think you should just skip ahead to page 56."

Aria smiled, "I'll do that. Bye."

Ezra smiled, "Bye."

I know the ending went on a bit but I got writers block around where she starts laughing because I had to run out and buy some stuff for my mum half way through that bit. Please review!