Chapter 7:
Hanna POV
"Hanna, come on!" Emily wined. "Don't do this, Aria is your friend, you don't want to get her in trouble!"
"I'm not going to get her in trouble Em!" I replied. "I'm going to give them a warning to take better care of her actions"
My plan was simple. I was going to knock on room 310's door, scare the life out of Aria and Mr. Fitz, and when Mr. Fitz would answer the door, tell him that we can't find Aria and he'll have to pretend to go looking for her! Then we could tell her that we knew. She had to be more careful and no, I wasn't being a bitch by doing this, I was being a good friend.
"So are you guys in?" I asked Spencer and Emily, who looked extremely petrified.
"I suppose!" they both said in a forced manner. "But you can do all the dirty work, we'll just observe!"
I walked up to the door of room 310, and took a deep breath. I began to think that I was doing a bad thing, but suddenly that small thought just about changed my mind about going through with it, because it could have been an act that would loose me a friend.
"Well, Hanna, are you going to knock?" Emily whispered to me, and I turned around slowly.
"You know guys, lets leave her, she's had a rough time these past few years like the rest of us how, let her settle down with someone she likes!" I said, completely sounding like a different person.
"I knew you wouldn't stoop that low Hanna!" Spencer said and gave me a 'You're a good friend' look.
"Now c'mon, we've got a busy two weeks ahead, lets get some sleep." I told them and we began to walk down the corridor until we were stopped by an angry voice.
"Girls what on earth are you doing up? You should be in your rooms!" Mrs Montgomery said to us and we slowly turned around.
"Mrs Montgomery!" I said very slowly trying to stall. "We were just going for a little walk around the hotel, we'll get back to bed now, don't worry!"
"Good" she said, with a grin on her face until she noticed her daughter wasn't with us.
"Where's Aria?" Mrs Montgomery asked, suddenly very worried.
"She's in the shower, Spencer was feeling sick so we came with her for a walk!" I lied, and lied, and did some more lying.
"Hmm okay…." she said, and walked towards Mr. Fitz's bedroom. "Now you girls get off to bed, I just need to talk to Mr. Fitz for a few minutes!"
Myself, Spencer and Emily all looked at each other, each one of us worried that Ella was going to find out about Aria and Mr. Fitz.
"No no no no, Mrs Montgomery you can't go in there!" Emily shouted in a rush and went straight over to her. "Um, its my ankle, ouch, it's really sore. I tripped over it on my way up here and I can't move it!" Emily really came up with the worst lies.
"Let me have a look.." Mrs Montgomery walked over to a bench and Emily followed her, walking with a limp, but just as we thought things were getting better, they got a lot worse when Mr. Fitz exited his room, wearing nothing but pyjama bottoms. He had a beautiful, muscular body and his hair was messed, like he just got out of bed.
"Is everything ok out-Oh dear!" he looked at us and then realised that he had no shirt on.
"Everything's fine Ezra, I just heard these girls outside my room and went out to see what was going on, Emily seems to have hurt her ankle." I noticed that Mrs Montgomery put an emphasis on the 'hurt' but this was no time for over analysing.
"Alright then, I will be going back to sleep, good night Ella, girls!" Mr Fitz walked back into his room and shut the door. I listened for Aria's voice but imagined she was saying nothing, now that she knew her mom was outside.
"Emily, I can't see anything wrong with your ankle, how about sleeping on it, and see how you feel in the morning okay?" Mrs. Montgomery advised Emily, who then agreed.
"Well we better be off to bed, thanks for your help Mrs. Montgomery and good night!" Spencer said as she grabbed myself and Emily.
"Good night girls, you'll be called at 8am for breakfast!"
We then walked down to our rooms. We swiped the key in the door, flung it open and plonked ourselves on the bed.
"That was so close!" I said to the other girls, but I was surprised when they looked at me as if I were the stupidest person on the planet.
"Hanna you almost got them busted, by your own choice!" Emily reminded me, and I felt like slapping her in the face.
"I know, but then I changed my mind, and anyways I was just going to give them a warning, I had no intention to bust them!" I then looked at my phone to check if anyone had text me since I arrived. No texts, I was so loved, not.
Aria POV
Ezra and I embraced in a hug before I left his room and headed downstairs. I knew my friends had found out, but this wasn't how I wanted to tell them. I swiped my key in the door to find them all asleep, except for Spencer.
"Hey Spence, why are you still awake?" I asked her as I sat down.
"Can't sleep!" she said, I could tell she was homesick. Then suddenly, Emily and Hanna woke up and looked at me.
"How was your night?" Hanna asked me while yawning.
"My night was really nice, thanks for covering guys!" I said and gave them a hug.
"So you know that we know?" Hanna asked, doing all the talking.
"Ezra told me you were outside the room, I knew you had followed me up!" I told them.
"We're sorry for following you up Aria!" Emily began. "But why didn't you tell us? How long have you guys been dating?"
"I wanted to tell you's, I just didn't know how you would react! We've been dating since labour day!" I could tell this was going to be a game of questions and answers.
"Really?" Spencer gasped in astonishment, coming out of her daze. "You met before school?"
"Yeah!" I presumed they knew. "You don't think I would just come into school one day and hit on a teacher do you? That's why I'm still dating him, I don't see him as a teacher, I see him as someone I met that I really liked."
"Well that just makes everything a whole lot cuter!" Hanna awed. "Fitz is hot stuff, nice choice of man!"
"But you guys cannot tell anyone, I'm trusting you with my life. I can't even tell Ezra that you guys know and if my mom, or anyone else finds out I'm doomed!" I warned them, but I think they already knew.
"They won't find out!" Spencer informed me, what were best friends for? "And we'll help you and Fitz sneak off together!"
I laughed and the four of us went in for a group hug. I felt better now, knowing my best friends were okay with it, and that they could help me spend time with Ezra.
Well hello! So sorry for the lack of updates but I had absolutely no motivation to write over the past week, but when I saw that amazing scene at the end of PLL last night between Aria and Ezra, I suddenly got my 'mojo' back haha! So I'll update every week after PLL! Hope you're all well. Sorry for the crappy chapters, but tomorrow (in the fanfic, so next chapter for us) is when all the drama begins, people loose friends, people are hurt, people fall in love… its all coming up in a 'school trip to italy'!
