Aria woke up to sunlight beaming into her room. She rolled over to see Ezra, but her wasn't there. She sat up, checked the time on her phone, it was 8:45, and got up. She headed to the bathroom to dash her face and brush her teeth and then left her room to find Ezra. As soon as she opened the door she smelt the delicious aroma of bacon and eggs. She walked through the hallway, passing Hannah and Spencer's room. As she walked by they both came out of their rooms without their men as well.
"Mm it smells good!" Spencer said.
"I know right, they better have made something good if they left us all alone in bed!" Hannah said jokingly and they all laughed. The three girls walked down the hallway and into the kitchen. There they saw Ezra, and Toby huddled over the stove making bacon, pancakes, and eggs. And Caleb messing with the microwave.
"Wow we better keep them around girls." Spencer joked getting the boys attention.
"Well maybe not this guy, he can't even work a microwave!" Hannah said going over to Caleb.
"Hey I'm pretty sure it's broken." Caleb said back.
"Mhmm okay" Hannah said kissing him.
Aria walked over to Ezra and kissed his cheek.
"Morning," he said sweetly and they both smiled at one another.
Toby and Ezra dished all the food out on the kitchens island and they all grabbed a full plate of food. They ate on the patio together and talked about all the things they wanted to do this week, how to fix the microwave Caleb broke and all the other fun activities they want to do this summer together. Even with A torturing them, they still wanted to push through and have a great summer and friendship together.
"Hey Han do you mind grabbing me some of the strawberry syrup from my backpack. I brought it with me for time like these." Caleb asked Hannah.
"Why can't you get it yourself?" Hannah said with a mouth full of eggs. He gave her puppy dog eyes until she gave in and left the patio.
"Strawberry syrup Caleb? What's going on?" Spencer asked.
"Okay okay and that was just a distraction for Hannah. So I kind of have some big news to tell you guys." Caleb said smiling. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a velvet box, opened it and show them the beautiful diamond ring inside of it.
"Oh my gosh you and Hannah are getting engaged???" Aria asked excitedly.
"Yeah hopefully. We've talked about it for a while now, and we both see that getting married young a.k.a. now ish would be best for our lifestyles. And I want your guy's help to ask her tonight." Caleb said.
"Wait what's going on?" Emily asked, her and Allison coming up onto the patio from the beach. They had got up early to go down and spend some time together.
"Halebs getting engaged tonight!" Spencer said.
"Oh wow that's great!! What's the plan Caleb?" asked Ally.
"Okay, so Hannah is super obsessed with the bachelor and the bachelorette, so I figured if you guys lined up on the beach all holding roses, she would walk in between you guys and you would hand her the roses, finally reaching me with the 'final Rose'."
"That's adorable" Toby said smiling at Caleb.
"I think we all agree we're all in" Ezra said. He grabbed Arias hand to hold it in his lap.
"Yeah" they all said agreeing.
"Great! Thanks guys, it'll happen after the game tonight. I just need to girls to distract her before it happens. Oh and don't spill ANYTHING" Caleb threatened as Hannah wakes back into the patio.
"Caleb there wasn't any strawberry syrup in your backpack." Hannah said throwing herself in the chair next to him.
"Oops sorry, must of forgot, its right here.". He said teasingly and pulled the syrup out of his pocket.
"Your so weird!" Hannah said and they all laughed.
After cleaning up breakfast, Hannah and Caleb went out for a snorkeling adventure together, one of Caleb's things leading up to their engagement. Toby and Spencer went down to the local music fest that was going on at the beach. Ally and Emily decided to stay in and watch some tv since they had already been at the beach today.
"So," Aria said lying on her bed watching Ezra pull on a shirt. "What do you want to do today?"
"Hmmm, I think..." he said sitting on the bed next to her, he pulled her close and lifted up her chin, their lips almost touching. "This," he finally said, and he pressed his lips against hers. Aria laid down as they proceeded to kiss. Ezra playfully climbed on top of her and intensified the kiss. They broke apart when Arias phone dinged, signaling a text.
"Ughh" she said covering her hands with her face. Ezra laughed.
"Maybe we can continue later," he said winking. "You check that, and I'll go put my swimsuit on, and then we can head to the beach, okay?"
"Okay sounds good," Aria said as she kissed his cheek and then she grabbed her phone. The message was from A.
"If you wanna survive my games, stop he engagement. ;) -A"
Aria read it horrified. Suddenly her phone rang, it was Spencer.
"Hey, I got another A text" she said nervously whispering into her phone.
"Me too!! Was yours about stopping the engagement too?" she said
"Yes!! What are we gonna do? I'm sure Emily and Allison got the same thing." Spencer asked.
"Well I'm not ruining this for Caleb and Hannah. I'm not gonna give into A." Aria said firmly.
"I agree, we can't give into this. What's the worst that can happen?" Spencer asked sarcastically. "Actually, I don't wanna know.". she said reluctantly.
"Yeah me either. Enjoy the rest of your concerts Spence, we can talk at home.". Aria said, they said goodbye and hung up.
"Ready?" Ezra boomed walking out of the bathroom, causing Aria to jump. "Oh sorry, didn't mean to scare you."
She laughed, "No your good, I don't know why I'm so jumpy lately." She grabbed her swim suit to go change into.
"Have you gotten any A texts lately?" Ezra asked. Aria wanted to tell me a truth about getting another A text, but she didn't want him to worry much, after all it was their vacation, at least one of them should be worry free.
"No" she said shrugging and going to the bathroom to change.
After changing the two headed to the beach for some alone time. They laid out a blanket and both laid on their stomachs next to one another. Ezra pulled out a book, and began to read to Aria. This was something so simple, that she loved. Ezra enjoyed it too, he loved when her eyes shimmered when he read to her. Soon Aria leaned her head on Ezra's shoulder as she closed her eyes listening to him. Eventually he fell asleep, and dropped the book in the sand. Aria laughed, picked up the book and dusted it off, outing it back in their beach bag.
She let him sleep for 30 minutes, but didn't want him to get burned so decided to wake him up. She caught glimps of a washed up sand bucket, and went to the cold ocean to fill it up. She filled it up with the cold water, ran over to Ezra and dumped it on him.
"What the?" Ezra yelled as Aria busted out laughing. He stood up and said "Aria Montgomery your gonna get it" with a goofy smile on his face. He chased her around the beach for a few seconds till her caught up with her. He grabbed her around the waste and started to walk towards the ocean.
"No no please" Aria said flailing and laughing, "it's so cold!" she screamed and then he dunked her in the ocean. She came up and dunked him underback. They both began to laugh and Aria swam to Ezra and straddled his waist with her legs. He held her and he two began to make out, in the middle of the ocean. Thankfully it was a private beach.
When it was almost time for the Sunday night football game to begin, so the two headed back to the house to change into some dry clothes. Aria changed into a white and blue tie-dyed dress. It had spaghetti straps and went to her mid thigh. Her hair had the natural beach waves they always had, except they were more bouncy tonight. Ezra put on a pastel blue polo to match Aria and some kaki shorts.
They walked hand in hand to the kitchen where Toby, Spencer, and Emily were cooking. Caleb and Hannah were cuddled up on the couch and Caleb was flipping through channels trying to find ESPN.
Ezra found a seat in the living room and Aria went to help Emily cut tomatoes and peppers for the salsa she was making.
"Hey so did you get the text A sent?" Aria whispered to Emily.
"Yes! So did Ally, we thought freaked out. What are we gonna do?". Emily asked scooping chopped up vegetables into a bowl.
"Me and Spencer agreed to not do anything, we can't ruin this for Hannah and Caleb they're out bestfriends." Aria said luring lemon juice into the bowl.
"Yeah that's what me and Ally said as well... But what's A gonna do to us? I mean this person managed to break you and Ezra up once, who knows what they could do.". Emily said and Aria glanced back at Ezra sitting in the living room laughing with Caleb. She sighed.
"Who knows. But we have to stay strong.". Aria said and then she went to the sink to wash off her hands.
"Mmm, looks good ladies." Spencer said admiring the salsa bowl Emily and Aria just finished. "Toby just finished grilling hotdogs and hamburgers outside, so we're all ready to eat!" she said laying out all the food on the table.
"Um girls, can I speak to you all for a minute outside?" Hannah said rushing into the room with Ally. They all quickly rushed out to the back patio. "I got another A text." she said frantic. All the girls looked at one another, eyes wide.
"What's it say?" asked Aria.
"Say noour you all go️. Kisses! -A"
"What that even suppose to mean? Say no to what?" Hannah asked looking at all them confused.
"Hannah, listen to me, do not listen to A." Spencer said grabbing Hannah's shoulders.
"But what does it even mea-" Hannah began.
"Just trust Spencer, don't do what A says." Aria said sternly.
"Okay okay, you all are acting weird." Hannah said. The girls let out a nervous laugh and then walked back inside.
The boys were already making plates of food. Aria came up to Ezra to make her plate of food.
"Everything okay?" he said concerned.
"Yeah" she said with a fake smile, then she glanced at Spencer, they locked eyes nervously and then got back to making a plate of food.
"Okay," Ezra said kissing her head. Then they all went into the living room to watch the game. Ezra, Aria, Caleb and Hannah sat on the long couch. Toby and Spencer sat on the floor together, and Ally and Emily sat in the separate sofa chairs. The game was full of action, and the boys team they liked was up by 7 by seven points by halftime. During the funny halftime commercials there was a crash in the kitchen.
"Oops a pan probably fell," Spencer said.
"I'll help clean up," Aria said standing up.
"Yeah me too," Emily and Ally said.
The four of the walked briskly to the kitchen with dirty plates from dinner. As they entered the kitchen they noticed the back patio door slam shut. They all looked at each other scared. They threw away the paper plates they had in hand fast and headed to counter where a the pot of salsa was spilt. Next to the mess, written in what looked like ketchup, was a message:
"Stop ruining my plans. Get the ring or I'll get you. -A"
"Oh my God." Ally said.
"This is getting ridiculous." Spencer said.
"Um I think it's a little more than ridiculous Spence, A, there breaking into our house now!" Aria said scared, putting a hand in her hair.
"What are we suppose to do," Emily said crossing her arms.
"Nothing! We're doing nothing! We agreed not to ruin this for our friends remember?" Spencer said pacing.
"Um thats before we realized that this A person, can break into our houses, and is threatening to bury us!" Ally said.
Suddenly Ezra Caleb and Hannah came into the kitchen.
"What's all the commotion about?" asked Ezra looking at Aria.
"Nothing! Just uh-" Aria started.
"I just knocked over Emily's salsa and her and Aria threatened to squirt me ketchup but we all agreed not to do ANYTHING." she said sternly, obviously referring to their A situation, not actual salsa and ketchup wars.
"Okay what did you guys eat today? Your all acting weird." Hannah said going into the fridge, grabbing a soda and leaving.
Caleb stayed in the kitchen. "Okay so seeming you al already Hannah distracted, we should just do the proposal now?" he said.
"Okay, yeah, sure" the girls all said. Ezra and Aria exchanged glances. Spencer quickly smeared the ketchup A note and stuck her ketchup hand behind her back. The girls started to walk out.
"Hold it" said Ezra blocking the exit. "What's going on? Is this about A or B or whatever again?". he asked.
"No nothing's wrong Ezra" Spencer said.
"Everything's under control," Aria chimed in.
"You know we can help if your getting threats or anything." Ezra responded. Aria wanted badly to tell Ezra, she told him everything, but she couldn't. She didn't want him to be in danger as well.
"Thanks dad, but we're fine." Ally said sassy and they began to laugh. They all went into the living room to get Hannah and distract her as the boys set up the beach for Celebs proposal.
Soon they asked Hannah to grab a flashlight and meet them on the beach for a fun game of flashlight tag. The four girls (minus Hannah) quickly ran out and grabbed a rose from Ezra who was holding them. They all lined up on the beach as instructed by Caleb. Hannah finally came out and was super confused at first. She walked down the line receiving a rose from Emily first, then Ally, Spencer, Toby, Aria, Ezra, and then she got to Caleb.
"Hannah, I've loved you since I saw your cute pigtails in first grade. I love your smile your laugh, how much you care for others. I love how dedicated you are to your work. You make me the happiest mans alive and I want nothing more but to spend the rest of my life with you.". by this point Hannah and the rest of the girls were crying. Ezra pulled Aria close as she wiped away her tears. Caleb finally got down on one knee pulling out the velvet box. She opened it and...