Chapter 9:

Aria POV

"Hey Mona!" I said smiling, acting like nothing was going on.

"Hey Aria!" she said, and looked at me. "Hey Mr Fitz! What's uh, what's going on here?"

"What do you mean what's going on Mona?" I asked her as if she had just asked the craziest, most bizarre question in the world.

"Why are you two shopping together? Aria you said you were going shopping with your mom!" she gave me a glare but I quickly turned to Ezra in need of an explanation.

"Well, Ez uh, I mean Mr Fitz and I were just checking where the store H&M was because my mom said she was looking for it. So we are here, looking for H&M, I don't suppose you've seen it have you?" I told her, getting more nervous by the minute. I was so bad at lying. I could see H&M right in front of me and yet, I still asked Mona had she seen it.

"Its right there Aria, right in front you" she pointed and I looked in astonishment.

"Well I guess we should go back and tell my mom, I'll meet up with you guys later?" I suggested to Mona and looked towards the other three girls standing a far distance behind her.

"Wait a second, something is not right here!" Mona said and myself and Ezra immediately became extremely worried. "Why is Mr Fitz carrying your shopping bags?"

"Because Mona.." Ezra cut in. "She was carrying a lot of bags and I offered her a hand, which I would do for anyone. If I am picking you up correctly, I believe you're making a very serious accusation which puts me in a very serious situation. I can assure you that Aria is nothing more than a student to me. I respect the law and I should hope you respect me enough to never suggest something like that again?" Mona just stared at him, she knew she had been proven wrong, but we knew she had proven right.

"Uh I'm sorry Aria, I'm sorry Mr. Fitz, I can sometimes over think things a little. I will see you guys later." Mona walked off with Hanna, Emily and Spencer, obviously very shaken up by the 'serious' Ezra Fitz we had just seen.

"Well that was close!" he said and attempted to take my hand until I stepped away.

"Ezra, we were nearly busted by Mona of all people! If she could catch on, then everyone else will if they see us!"

"But they're not going to see us Aria! I organised this trip for us and now you're saying we can't spend any time together?" he was not happy, but neither of us would be happy if we were handed pink slips and sent to prison.

"It's too risky Ezra!" I told him and looked down when it became extremely awkward.

"That was just a once off , I highly doubt we'll be seeing someone we know again!" he said until I noticed Noel Kahn across the road, in viewing distance of us.

"Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure that's Noel Kahn over there." I pointed over to Noel who was talking to some Italian girl, but it was clear the girl had no interest in him.

"We just have to be extra careful!" Ezra said trying to take my hand again, but I was having none of it.

"I can't. My mom is here, my friends are here. We've only been here a day and we've almost been caught twice. I don't want this to be the end of us by getting caught." I told him, while my eyes were welling up.

"Why don't things feel right Aria?" he asked me and I slowly looked up at his tall figure.

"Maybe its because what were doing is wrong?"

"It never seemed wrong until right now!" he said and tears began falling down my face.

"I don't understand why we can't just be teacher and student, for two weeks? Please Ezra!" I pleaded, it was just too risky being a couple with him over here.

"Because you're not a student to me Aria, you will never be a student to me." He said passionately and I realised myself and Ezra were having an argument in the middle of 'Via Dell'Independenza'.

"Well I can't risk being caught, neither can you!" I told him, wiping the tears off my face until I had been welcomed by fresh ones.

"I think I know what I'm doing Aria, I've experienced things you haven't!" he said and I looked at him in disbelief.

"I have to go!" I told him and quickly ran off in the direction that Mona, Emily, Spencer and Hanna had went. As if things weren't going bad enough, he had to bring up that he was more experienced in life because he was older. He knew that I hated that.

I started walking after I became breathless from a combination of crying and running. I couldn't believe that we were fighting over such a silly thing. I knew he had organised this trip so we could sort of have a holiday together, but what if it was the holiday that could ruin us. When I had reached the meeting point, I waited there, alone until everyone had arrived by 4pm, including my mom, followed by Ezra.

"Did we all have a good day shopping?" My mom asked the group with most people answering yes.

"Good, so we're going to get the bus back to our hotel, we'll give you guys 2 hours to shower, have a power nap, whatever you want to do and we'll meet in the hotel's restaurant at 6pm. After dinner, I have arranged for us to go to an ice-cream bar, especially designed for teens your age. Its like a night-club, ice cream parlour place, I think you'll all really enjoy it." everyone seemed to be excited, except me and Ezra, who made eye contact every so often.

When we reached the hotel, Hanna, Spencer, Emily and I went up to our room. I took out my book, 'Pretty Little Liars' by Sara Shepard, lay on my bed and pretended to read it while battling different thoughts running through my head.

"I'm going to shower!" Emily told us while Hanna and Spencer were organising their clothes.

"That was a close one today with Mona, Aria!" Spencer said while folding her cardigan.

"Yeah it was!" I said abruptly and continued pretending to read my book.

"What's wrong Aria?" Hanna asked me, but I didn't want to tell them.

"Nothing!" I lied. "Absolutely nothing is wrong!".

A/N….your reviews make me smile so much, I love reading them! Just make sure you guys keep them coming. It was the reviews that made me update so fast. I hope you like the story so far, we're about half way through it, so I'm guessing ther'll be about 18/19 chapters in total, could be more depending on fillers. So did you like this chapter? I hated writing this, I don't want Ezria to be fighting but I'm afraid that's the way it is in this chapter. The next chapter will be them in the ice cream parlour night club thing. Mr Fitz and Ella will be going along so we can expect some awkwardness, along with someone hooking up with Noel Kahn. Leave me a review to guess who! -Becky xx