Chapter 10

Few weeks later

Arias pov

I was working on my worksheet Ezra gave us for today's lesson, as I started on the next question I felt like I was about to puke.

"Mr. Fitz, can I go to the bathroom?" I asked and he nodded. He handed me the pass as I walked out, looking around I saw that no one was in the hallway. I felt feeling again and I ran towards the bathroom, luckily I made to a toilet in time. I heard someone come in after me, and all of a sudden someone was holding my hair back.

"You don't want to get puke in your hair do you?" Mona asked sweetly after I finished puking.

"Um, no. Thank you Mona." I said flushing the toilet, why the hell is she being nice to me? We're not friends!

"I hope your not coming down sick, that would just be terribly timing with midterms coming up." She said as I went to wash my hands.

"No, I feel fine. I just must have had some bad eggs this morning, wouldn't be the first time my mom made bad eggs." I lied and everyone in town knew my mom wasn't the greatest cook.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about your bad eggs." She said and left. I took a deep breath, as I was about to head back to class my phone vibrated in my purse and I saw a text from my mom along with a blocked number text. Groaning I opened up the blocked number text first.

'You and I both know, it wasn't the eggs like you told Mona. Find out or I spill about your "extra credit" night with Fitz -A' I read before opening up the text from my mom.

'I need you to bring the divorce papers to Byron after school with mike. He can't drive himself, and I'm stuck with a few teacher parent meetings with some of mikes teachers.' She sent and I knew I couldn't argue with her. I quickly fixed my eyes, since I had tears in them from puking and walked back to class. I gave Ezra the pass back and went back to my desk to finish my worksheet.

"What did you get for the first answer?" I gave Hanna a look since we were suppose to be putting the answers in our own words.

"I'm not giving you my answers." I whispered and she sighed annoyedly at me.

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"Hey Mom, can I borrow a piece of gum?" I asked walking into my moms classroom during passing period. Spencer told me I had disgusting breath and I can tell that I do. Luckily for me, I know she'll write me a pass in case I'm late to my next class.

"Sure, it's in my purse... somewhere." She said as she looked through a small pile of papers from her last class. I pulled her purse out and opened it, as I dug through her purse my stomach dropped.

"What's this?" I asked holding up half a ticket to see the same artist Ezra and I went to go see.

"Oh, the school gave me a free ticket to go see some artist out in Philly." She said glancing up to see what I was holding. This is NOT happening, she couldn't have gone! I didn't see her and she would've said something... actually she would've had Ezra arrested!

"Oh, was it any good?" I asked as I finally found the gum and took a piece.

"I didn't go, my car broke down and then I ran into Daniel Cavanugh. You're going to be late for your next class, here." She said and wrote me a quick pass. I grabbed my backpack off the ground and left the classroom before I could freak out in front of everyone.

"Aria? What's wrong?" Emily ask when she saw me in the halls, without saying a word I pulled her into the bathroom and checked to see no one was in here.

"My mom almost went to the same gallery as Ezra and I! On the same night!" I said trying to breathe. As I pushed my hands up into my hair, she placed her hands on my shoulders and breathed in and out with me.

"Wait, how did she get a ticket?" She asked as I calmed down a bit. I love how she can calm me down so quick.

"She said the school... but I know that it was A." I said and Emily pulled me into a hug that I badly needed.