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Aria sighed out, a smile stretched widely from ear to ear. She stood for a moment then jumped up and down like a giddy idiot. Then she breathed out and walked to the door. When Alison opened the door she looked very tired, "They're rabid monsters begging for the flesh of gossip." She sighed.
Aria smiled, "Okay." She took Alison's hand and they walked into the living room. Hanna was sitting on Ali's uber comfy loveseat, scrolling through her blackberry, probably with Sean. They'd broken up five times in the last three weeks and Aria wasn't sure where they were at this point.
Spencer seemed to be sitting butterfly style on the burgundy and gold rug in the dead center of the room and was clacking a pencil against her thigh as she skimmed through the SAT prep book she'd snuck off Mr. Gravoni's desk. Only Spencer was so intensely entwined with academics she would ruin her school career to further her college one. She looked like she was over half way through it. Damn, she's only taken it Thursday. And it was like 4:00 am on Saturday morning as they stood in Alison's house.
Emily was sitting near the fireplace biting one of her nails as she read Speak, a novel about this popular girl who ends up losing all of her friends because she gets raped at a party and calls the police. Well, in her ex-besties defense, they didn't know about the rape part . . . only the fact she'd called the cops on a very alcohol induced middle school party.
Everyone looked up though to see Aria standing next to Ali, knowing expressions on both of their faces. Spencer used her pencil as a place holder and shut the SAT prep book. "Okay, so what's up?" she asked, her thick brown locks falling along her back. Aria looked around and panicked. Ali squeezed her hand, telling her she could do this. Aria nodded, "Everyone around the carpet." She pointed and she let go of Ali's hand as they both sat down.
The other three girls looked around at each other, slightly confused, but eventually all of them formed a hollow circle around the rim of the carpet. Aria sighed, focusing on the shaggy fibers of the carpet. "Okay, so . . . y'know Mr. Fitz?" Aria sighed out. It felt so uncomfortable calling him that. It made her feel gross and weird. He was Ezra. That's all.
Hanna playfully crossed her legs, "You mean McSteamy?" Spencer and Emily giggled back but Ali just grabbed Aria's hand. Alison really could be a great friend. Aria chuckled nervously, "Um, sure. Well he and I are kind of . . . dating."
All giggling stopped. Alison nodded, "It's true, guys." Spencer locked eyes with Aria, "You and . . . Mr. Fitz?" she asked. "That call you got at the slumber party last week, and you totally bailed, was that . . .?" Emily held up a hand as a physical question mark. Aria nodded, "I wasn't ready to tell you guys, okay, I promised Ezra-"
"Woah, Ezra? How long had this been going on?" Hanna asked. Aria shrugged, "A few weeks." Hanna gave her a weird expression. "What?" Aria shrieked out. Hanna sighed, "It's just really dangerous."Hanna shook her head back and forth. Emily smiled slightly, "I think it's romantic." She said in a dreamy voice. Spencer smirked, "Yeah, it is kinda sexy." Finally Hanna gave in, too, "Aria, you're one of us, now. Whatever makes you happy." Aria looked around at her best friends. "I love you guys." She pulled them all in for a huge hug.
Aria mouthed thank you to Alison. She just smiled, and nodded. "And I'm really happy you all know because I'm sick of keeping all these juicy date details between Alison and I." Emily mock scoffed, "How come Alison gets to know before us?" she smiled.
Alison pursed her lips, "Because I'm just fabulous, darling." She turned to Aria, "So what did the happy couple do this evening, anyway?" Aria smiled, she was doing this more for the girls because Alison knew every fixture of the night's events, "Well we went to a The Kills concert and then to a movie at this really cool, old drive through. But the whole time we spent making out, basically." She laughed with the other girls.
"Ah, so Fitzy maneuvered his way to first base?" Spencer giggled. They were all taking this so well. Maybe because they all knew Ezra was only six years older than Aria. Maybe that made it way simpler to them. Aria laughed, "Oh, let's just say by the end of the movie we were handing each other the other one's shirt."
The girls all gaped at her, even Ali. Aria smirked, "Don't worry, no lines were crossed. He didn't even see these gunboats." She pointed to her chest and the girls started smiling. Aria breathed in, "Also, just sayin', he is packing a lot of very toned ab-tacular images under all of those vests." She smiled.
An hour later, the girls had scrounged up most of the DiLaurentis refrigerator and pantries' assortments and were lounging in Alison's room. Sid and Nancy was playing on Ali's flat screen. "You guys do realize you can't tell anyone, right? Like . . . anyone. Not Sean, not Alex, no one." Aria pleaded her friends.
They all scoffed. "Hon, that kinda went without saying." Alison smiled, breaking a soda from the plastic six pack casing. Aria smiled, glad she had friends who understood and who she could trust. Emily crawled up into the hanging chair in the corner of Ali's room. "So, Aria, what was the highlight of the tre's elegant evening?" she smiled. Aria smirked mischievously at her friends and sighed, "When he told me . . . he loved me."
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