They settled into bed fairly easy. Aria was already tucked in when Jason came back to be with her. His body dipped the mattress and Aria went over to snuggle with him. As they laid there in the peaceful silence, with rain pattering hard against the window, Aria hugged him to calm her fears.

"I'll wake you up at six tomorrow okay?" he asked her softly as he ran his fingers up and down her back.

"Yea," she replied softly feeling tired once again. A small "thanks" escaped her lips as she fell asleep against him and Jason gave an uplifted smile at that. His eyebrows became to furrow though when he thought back to their conversation from before. Something was going on…something was happening to Aria that he didn't know about, but what?

"You're safe Aria," he whispered into the silence "you're always going to be safe with me."

She repositioned a bit, still making sure she was close to him as she slept. And as he became tired too, his motions against Aria's skin stopped and his breathing slowed. I love you was his last thought before falling into dreamland too.

As promised, Jason woke Aria up at six. She didn't have school till eight so that gave them time for breakfast and a chance to grab her things back at her own place. Rubbing her hair, he kissed her temple and lightly brought her out of her slumber.

"Hey," he stated warmly, watching her eyes flutter open.

"Hey," she sighed contently, snuggling with a pillow as he kneeled beside the edge of the bed.

"Sleep good?"

"One of the best," she blushed as he gazed at her.

"Breakfast is downstairs when you are ready. And the power came back on this morning so you should have a light in the bathroom. There is also a spare toothbrush and paste in the bathroom set for you. If you need anything else just let me know okay?"

Nodding, she smiled at him before leaning over to kiss him lightly. Getting back up from his knees he watched as Aria sat up in bed, running a hand through what she must have thought to be tangled unstyled hair.

After leaving her be, Jason went back downstairs making breakfast was all set for the two of them. Waking up beside Aria in the early morning was beyond amazing. The way she looked when she slept was even more angelic than what was portrayed in the pictures his sister took. Jason seemed to be falling harder and faster for this girl each minute he spent with her.

"I can't believe how nice it looks outside," Aria said as she came down the stairs. "It doesn't even look like a huge storm passed through here."

Still dressed in his clothes, Aria kept her phone in hand and met Jason in the kitchen for another kiss.

"Yea, we are lucky I guess. It seemed like the storm was never going to end."

"Hear ya there," she spoke; grabbing a strawberry from the fruit he set out. Breakfast was unusually smooth. Aria thought that there would be at least some awkward pauses or silence but nothing like that happened. It seemed like a regular day incorporated in a regular routine for them.

Smiling to herself a bit, she helped clean up the plates and then went to change her clothes back to what she was wearing yesterday.

"I can wash these today if you want," Aria offered, holding Jason's shirt and sweats in her hand as he waited for her to take her back to her place. "I'll give them back to you tomorrow."

"Keep 'em," he said giving her a small smile. "They looked pretty good on you."

Blushing she slipped on her shoes and put them in her bag. Aria should have been anxious. With everything happening, her problems should be giving her a run for her money. But when she was around Jason she didn't feel that worry anymore. It could be because it hadn't hit her yet on this perfect morning but she didn't feel a thing except happiness. 'A's words couldn't get her here with Jason and inside his house. She felt absolutely safe with him and it was like nothing could get her down. For once Aria felt confident.

Opening the front door for her, she flashed Jason another smile, as they made their way to his car. The drive to Aria's was fairly easy and nothing looked disturbed from the outside of the house. Grabbing the keys from her purse, Aria opened the front door, walked inside and stopped. This time she was stunned. All of the windows in the kitchen were completely shattered, glass had flown everywhere. There was not one window surrounding that area where it had not broke.

A – was Aria's immediate thought. Whoever he or she was must have done this as a warning to Aria. They had kept up their word at least from the text message.

"It must have been the storm," Jason claimed, taking in the damage as well as he followed her in the house.

"Yea," Aria breathed in disbelief. How was she going to fix this? Or pay for it? What was she going to do and what were her parents going to think? Did 'A' ruin anything else?

Jason glanced to his distressed girlfriend, taking her hand in his. "We can fix this – your parents don't have to know. I can come by after school today and clean this up and then replace the windows to look like new."

"That's a lot of work," Aria said, still taking in the damage.

"Its not as hard as you think," he said trying to relieve his girlfriend. "I can do it Aria, its no big deal."

"Jason…" Aria started, now turning to look at him.

"Let me do this, it will be fine," he spoke, facing her too. With a unsure look, Jason leaned down, kissing her lips.

"Go get your things, do what you need to do, and I will sweep up this glass. Do you have a broom or anything I can use?" he asked kindly.

Feeling somewhat better, Aria went and hugged her boyfriend around the waist once more, kissing him as he looked down to her. "There's a broom in the closet, I'll go get it."

Slowly letting her go, Jason kissed her one last time and watched her walk away. When she was somewhere out of sight, he walked further into the house, marveling at the damage the storm had done to the Montgomery's house. It was a good thing Aria was with him for the night.

Meanwhile as Jason was doing that, Aria had went into their cleaning closet and found a broom. On the stick of it was a note taped from her own personal stalker. Since you liked Jason's redecorations so much I thought you would like mine. Think you can just escape from me Aria? Think again. – A.

Aria quickly tore the note form the handle, balling it up in her hand as she brought the broom back to Jason. The damage to the house was once again a shock and she wanted to cry for 'A' doing this to her.

"Thanks," Jason said, taking the broom from her hand, as he was preoccupied with his own thoughts.

"I'm going to go take a shower. Are you sure you want to do this? I can stick around and help you if you want?"

"No," he said in a light manner. "Go take your shower, change your clothes. Do whatever you do to get ready for school. I can clean this up in no time. I don't need you helping me and possibly getting hurt."

Rolling her eyes, Aria kissed Jason again for being so kind. "It's not that dangerous," she added with a knowing look. "Still – its something we can avoid happening," Jason said kissing Aria again.

"I'll be down as quick as I can," she said already rushing off to get ready.

"Take your time!" he called back, watching as she went up the stairs.

Jason had all of the glass cleaned up by the time Aria walked back downstairs. That impressed her, since it seemed like there was so much broken glass that it would have taken forever to pick up.

"You might want to keep your shoes on for a while just till we make sure there aren't any tiny specs of glass laying around that I missed," he stated as he heard her walk down the steps.

"Okay." Her smile faded as she began to acknowledge the openness of her house now.

"If you want, we can put something up to cover the windows."

"Do you think someone will come in?" Aria asked hesitantly, ignoring Jason's offer. She was worried about 'A' or whoever might want to mess with her. The open windows gave them an obvious way to enter the house.

"I think they could…but who would want to?" he asked Aria slightly confused by the question. "Aria, the storm did this."

"Right," Aria said quickly going with that story too. She of course didn't believe that for one second, but for Jason's sake, she accepted that.

"What's going on with you?" he wondered, very puzzled on her behavior.

"Nothing," she said shrugging a bit, "I was just worried someone could easily come in and steal something since no one is going to be home, that's all."

Staring at her in that Jason kind of way, he walked to her, studying the heck out of any expression he could find that flickered across her features. Putting a smile on her face, Aria took the broom from his hands, and went to set it back in its place. From there, it was about 7:15 and Aria needed to grab her bag. Usually her and the girls got there early to sit around and talk about what was going on.

Stuffing her books in her hands and knapsack, she made sure she had everything. "Did you want a ride today?" Jason asked her. Forgetting he was there for a second, she jumped and spun around. An eyebrow was raised at her for that, wondering what was making her so anxious.

"Uh, no that's okay. My car is here, and I probably need to pick up some things from my mom's sub or whatever."

"Okay," Jason shrugged. "But I'll meet you back here after school? That way I can fix the replace the glass and fix the windows."

"Are you sure? I'm sure we can call someone for that," Aria said not wanting to be trouble.

"Seriously I don't mind at all. Just wait for me here when you're out from school. I shouldn't be too late. As a matter of fact, I'll go pick up the glass now, that way I don't have to make a stop for it after school."

"Yea?" Aria asked, feeling a small smile creep up on her. Jason was unbelievable. Just how far was he willing to jump through hoops for her?

"It's no trouble," he said taking her by the waist and bringing her to him.

"Okay," she murmured, kissing his soft luscious lips. Making out for a while in the open kitchen, they finally gathered some sense and parted from each other. With Aria swiping the keys from the counter, Jason followed her out helping her into her car.

"I'll see you later."

"'kay," he murmured against her lips as he bent down for another kiss. Grinning from ear to ear, Aria shook her head as Jason shut the car door and watched as she drove off.

"There you are!" Spencer called as Aria rushed up to them in the courtyard "I know, I'm sorry. You guys wont believe what happened…"

"And you wont believe what we found out," Spencer said in a very serious tone.

Aria was suddenly very puzzled. "Wait, what do you mean?"

"Toby and I were going through Ian's things, packing the crap into boxes when we found an old yearbook." Not catching the drift, Spencer continued. "Inside was the graduating class Ian was in. Did you know Jason and Garret graduated then too?"

"Really?" Aria asked, perking up at the sound of Jason's name.

"They belonged to a club called the N.A.T." Spencer stressed.

"N.A.T? What is that? Do we even have a club like that?" Aria asked, glancing over to her two other, fairly quiet, friends.

"No, it wasn't labeled in the yearbook. But I remembered that Ian had a shirt with the beginning words of N.A.T. Aria, in Latin it stands for 'we see all'." Spencer was now in her overly stressed and concerned mode.

"Okay so…what? You think that this club means they made a pact to stalk the hell out of us and possibly kill other people for the fun of it?" Aria asked with sarcasm.

"No," Emily spoke up, "what we think Aria, is that the N.A.T club's members are the ones that took that video of Ali."

"They could also be the ones to have stalked us too," Spencer added.

Aria opened her mouth to protest. "But…" That didn't make any sense. Why would Jason be apart of that? Why would he want to stalk his sister and her friends?

"Aria, it makes total sense now. The pictures we saw in Jason's shed and how Ian and whoever else wanted that video. They are all on there, that's why they want it back."

"No," Aria said visibly shaking her head. "No you guys, you have parts of this wrong. I was at Jason's last night. He explained it all. Those pictures-"

"Wait, what?" Hanna said wide-eyed.

"You were at Jason's?" Spencer asked with a disbelief of anger.

Aria sighed, knowing what was about to come. "You guys…Jason and I are a couple now."

"What?" All three of her friends said with mouths agape and bulging eyes.

"It happened last night," Aria said a bit quieter.

"Aria! He could be a killer!" Spencer protested a bit too loud. Making her quiet down, Aria shook her head. "I don't think so you guys. There are more and more things that are not starting to add up."

"Wait, okay hold up, I'm extremely confused," Hanna said. Deflated, Aria went over the quick version. She told them about the kiss in the park between her and Jason, and then the fiasco with Mike and her mom. Then she went over seeing him again at the drug store, obviously running into Hanna, then the unexpected trip her parent's were taking with Mike to New Jersey and over the whole thing about Jason's place and the texts from 'A'.

By the time Aria was done explaining, they were at her locker, trying to process it all before heading off to class.

"So…wow," Hanna spoke first.

"I can't believe you are now a couple Aria," Spencer said beyond mad.

"Spencer, there is nothing wrong with it. Nowhere do we have hard evidence that Jason is tied to 'A' or the killings. I don't want to jump to conclusions yet," Aria justified.

"We have a lot of proof!" Spencer protested. "There are the pictures, the N.A.T club thing…"

"I explained the pictures," she spoke up. "I'm not sure about the N.A.T part yet, but I'll ask him today after school."

"Wait, you're seeing him again?" Emily asked slightly surprised.

"He's my boyfriend you guys," Aria said tiredly. She hated going through this repetition with her friends. Why couldn't they just trust her? "So yes, I am. The windows in the kitchen are completely gone. 'A' shattered the glass and I'm left with an open house for anyone to enter. Jason offered to fix them when he walked in the place with me and I decided to take it."

"Why don't you just hire someone?" Spencer snapped.

"Because it's going to be faster if Jason does it. And I trust him Spence."

"Well I don't," she rebutted.

Sighing, Aria tried to reason with her friend. "Spence, remember when you were like this when Emily befriended Toby? He ended up not being guilty of anything and now you two are going out! This could be like that."

"Its not," Spencer declared. Aria pushed away the anger that she felt stirring below. "Well then look at Hanna and Caleb. We accused him too and in reality he's a good guy."

"He was spying on our best friend for Jenna. That doesn't make him a good guy."

"He broke it off when he realized he had feelings for Hanna. And she's forgiven him for that," Aria snapped. Now Spencer was just being unreasonable.

"Spence, Aria does have a point," Emily concluded. Hanna silently nodded.

"Thank you!" Aria cheered exasperated.

"That doesn't mean he isn't hiding something or is being fully open. I think you still need to be careful around him Aria," Emily warned with a pointed look.

"And I will," Aria mended, "But I also want you guys to be happy for me. I really like Jason. He's really sweet to me and he gives me a reason to get up from these miserable days."

The bell rang, each girl parting her way. With a hand to Aria's arm, Hanna gave the girl a smile, Emily doing the same, while Spencer just stormed off. Throwing her head back, Aria let out a groan and went to class.

The day was going horribly slow and by the time lunch came around things weren't any better. Spencer was stuck on her opinion of Jason, clearly not happy that Aria was now dating him. Hanna and Emily seemed to be feeling awkward as they gave each other stares every so often.

"So do you think we are being stalked?" Aria asked in a hushed tone as she picked at her food.

"I think you might be," Hanna spoke.

"Who could be behind all this you guys?" Aria wondered to her friends.

"Who do you think?" Spencer snapped. Aria rolled her eyes, trying to ignore Spencer's immaturity.

"I think that you shouldn't be alone tonight," Emily spoke. "Until your windows are fixed and we know that 'A' hasn't messed around with anything else in your house, you should stay with someone else."

Aria slumped in her seat. Hanna's was out of the question. Mrs. Marin already had Emily as a houseguest; she didn't want to be an added one. And Spencer's was out too. She couldn't hang around her for too long of a time period or she might do something she would regret. So who did that leave?

"I'll see if Jason will stay with me or we could go back to his place."

Both Hanna and Emily looked to each other while Spencer's eyes lit on fire. "No."

"Who would you like me to stay with then Spencer?" Aria snapped.

"Someone besides him."

"Well he is all I have right now," she barked. "I obviously can't crash with Emily or Hanna for the few days my parents and Mike are gone, and I obviously wont be staying with you since we can't seem to get along, so that leaves Jason."

"Aria! You're being so–…"

"What?" Aria challenged as her friend stopped herself.

"If you do sleep over his house again, keep your phone on you?" Hanna butted in. "We can check in on you from time to time," Emily added peacefully.

"Sure," Aria smiled simmering down.

"I can come back to your house after school today Aria, that way your not home alone while waiting for Jason," her blond friend added when she glanced at the tense Hastings's girl.

"Thanks Han," Aria smiled, pushing her food around.

"This is ridiculous," Spencer protested, pushing her chair back and grabbing her food on her way out.

Looks like someone doesn't approve of your choice in men either Aria. Be careful with my brother's heart –A

Aria showed the text message to both Hanna and Emily, and began looking around. Too many people were on their phones. Pointing out to them again it said 'brother' not 'Jason'; they were mildly interested in that technicality too.

"Like 'A' is saying, you need to be really careful Aria," Hanna warned as lunch finished.

Nodding – a quirk she was starting to pick up from Jason – she stood up from her seat and threw her lunch away.

A/N: So as I'm writing this and trying to get ahead with my chapters, I'm finding this is actually going to be a pretty long story. Hopefully you all can give me some reviews and stick with the story? Is it okay that this is going to be long or should I start cutting it down? Please let me know. Thank you!