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Author's note: Special shoutout to LauralovesPLL who said: "hire a child actor to play the role of his son". I'm not Marlene King, lol.
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Ezra walked into the living room and saw that Aria was on her phone. Aria told the person on the other side of the phone, "Thanks for understanding. I'll see you next week", and then hung up. Ezra looked at Aria questioningly and asked, "Who was that?" Aria jokingly replied, "My secret lover", but as she noticed Ezra's frown, she continued, "It was my boss. I told him that I can't come in for work this weekend." Ezra smiled faintly and said, "That's good." Now it was Aria's turn to frown as she asked, "What's wrong?" Ezra looked a bit uncomfortable as he replied, "My mom just called…" Aria looked worried as she asked, "Oh?" Ezra explained, "She called to apologize… She also invited us to a charity gala this Friday night. Apparently she wants to apologize to you in person and get to know you better…. I don't know how much of that is true. I know she's my mom, but she's not exactly a nice person. She's always got some hidden agenda and I don't want to see you get hurt."
Aria said sarcastically, "Well, if you put it like that, why wouldn't I want to go?" Ezra had a troubled look on his face and then said, "I'm just going to text her, telling her we can't make it." Aria took hold of Ezra's arm to stop him and said, "No… If you do that, then she wins. Let's go to the party on Friday and show her that she's wrong about us." Ezra looked at Aria warily and asked, "Are you sure about this?" Aria was confused and she asked, "Don't you want to prove her wrong?" Ezra shook his head and replied, "I don't need to prove anything to her. I know how I feel about you and nothing that she says or does is going to change that. But what I'm scared off, is that she's going to say or do something so mean that you'll leave me because of it." Aria placed a hand on his cheek, caressed it with her thumb and said, "Nothing that your mother will say or do, is going to make me leave you." Ezra smiled faintly, doubt written all over his face, so Aria decided to lighten the mood. Aria looked him straight in the eyes and jokingly said, "Trust me… If I ever leave you, it'll all be on you."
Ezra chuckled and said, "Mrs. Montgomery, you are hilarious." Aria grinned and replied, "I know, I can't help it. I'm too funny for my own good." Ezra looked at Aria mischievously as he said, "Well, let's see if you think this is funny…" Aria looked at Ezra with bemused curiosity and then Ezra started tickling her sides. Aria let out a squeal and then she started laughing as Ezra continued tickling her, even though she pleaded him to stop. As Aria tried to get away from Ezra, he caught up with her by the couch and gently pushed her onto it. As Aria turned on the couch to face him, she pretended to be appalled at his recent action. He returned her look with a boyish grin as he got on the couch with her and pushed her down onto it, continuing his torture. Aria started squirming under him, pleading him to stop, with tears in her eyes from all the laughing. When Ezra stopped tickling Aria, he looked at her very seriously and asked, "Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?" Aria reached up with her hand, rested it on his cheek and caressed his lower lip with her thumb as she said, "I am." Ezra kissed the pad of her thumb and then he said, "Okay. I'll text her we'll be there." Aria smiled and replied, "Good. Now kiss me." Ezra grinned and said, "Yes ma'am", and then he bent down and kissed her.
The next morning, Aria was sleeping in Ezra's bed, when she awoken softly as Ezra placed kisses all over her face and neck. He said, "Wake up, princess." Aria moaned because she didn't feel like waking up just yet, then she moaned in contentment at Ezra's kisses. Ezra smirked and asked, "Are you deliberately not opening your eyes, so I won't stop?" Still not opening her eyes, Aria lightly shrugged with a little playful grin on her face. Ezra kissed her on the lips once more, before saying, "Hmmm…that gives me an idea. Don't move and don't open your eyes." As Ezra moved from the bed, Aria heard glass and metal cling against each other. She was curious to see what it was, but she did as she was told and kept her eyes closed. When Ezra got back onto the bed, she heard the same noise again. Aria frowned a little and asked, "What is that?" Ezra replied, "Breakfast. Now sit up for a bit, but don't open your eyes."
Aria sat up and Ezra brushed some of her hair out of the way before he blindfolded her, so she wouldn't be able to see. By the feel of it, she assumed it was one of his ties. Ezra then put up the pillows against the headboard and motioned her to sit back against it. Then Aria heard Ezra pick up a plate and what she assumed was a fork. He told her to open her mouth, which she did and then he brought the fork to her mouth. Aria closed her lips around it and when Ezra removed the fork, she started chewing her food. Aria had a big smile on her face and after she swallowed, she asked, "Are you feeding me chocolate cake for breakfast?" Ezra smiled and replied, "Well, seeing as we were too…preoccupied yesterday to finish the cake, I got up this morning to do it. And I thought it would be a nice idea to have it for breakfast, yes. And also this…" Ezra took something of the tray and put it between his lips, then he brought it to Aria's mouth. Aria took it into her mouth and ate it. She licked her lips and said, "Strawberry."
After feeding Aria some more chocolate cake and strawberries, Ezra said, "Every time you lick those lips…you have no idea what that does to me." Aria smiled and said, "Kiss me." Ezra replied, "Gladly", and leaned forward to kiss her. Aria took his head into her hands to deepen the kiss and when they pulled apart to get some air, she tugged at his lower lip. When she released it, she said, "I like being blindfolded." Ezra smirked and replied, "Everything is more intense that way, huh? When you lose one sense, the other ones become stronger." Aria thought about it for a second and asked, "So the more senses you lose… the stronger the other ones get?" Ezra shrugged and replied, "I assume so? Where exactly are you going with this?" Aria explained, "Well… there's sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. So if you eliminate everything but touch…"
Ezra frowned and replied, "Sight and hearing, okay. Taste, I guess that only works when you're drinking or eating something. But smell? You do realize you also use your nose for breathing right?" Aria said without hesitation, "I can breathe through my mouth." Ezra was taken aback by her reaction and replied, "Why don't we just take it one sense at a time, okay?" Aria kissed Ezra on the lips and then whispered against them, "Sounds like fun." Ezra shook his head bemused and said, "Never in my life did I suspect you to be like this." Aria frowned and asked, "Like what?" Ezra smirked and replied, "So kinky… So bad." Even though he couldn't see her entire face, Ezra noticed that Aria's face fell, so he quickly added, "Not that I'm complaining… it's a nice surprise. A very nice surprise." Aria smiled shyly, said, "Well, for some reason you bring it out in me. You make me a bad girl", and then she scraped her teeth along his jaw line.
Ezra groaned, forcefully kissed Aria and then said, "You're a very, very bad girl." Aria threw her head back as Ezra started sucking at her neck. Aria replied, "Very… Maybe you should punish me." She could feel Ezra's smirk against her body as he said, "Maybe I should." Ezra pulled Aria down so she was now lying on the bed instead of sitting, then he pushed up her top to just under her breasts and licked from her bellybutton up to her stomach. Aria smirked as she said, "Too bad you didn't bring the spatula." Aria got goose bumps when all of a sudden she felt the cool rubber trace from her stomach to her belly. Ezra replied, "Well, you did say we needed to bring this into the bedroom, so I did. Now… what do you want me to do?" Aria swallowed hard as Ezra started circling it around her belly button, waiting for her answer. Aria took a deep breath and said, "I want you to spank me."
Ezra smirked as he said, "I figured as much, but how exactly? Do you want me to put you over my knee?" Aria shook her head as she bit her bottom lip. Ezra asked, "Then what do you want?" Aria was slightly hesitant telling him what she wanted, she didn't want to scare him off. Ezra could feel Aria's hesitation and said, "It's okay, you can tell me whatever you want." Aria felt more at ease now and replied, "I want you to tie up my hands, to the bed…" Ezra nodded and said, "I'll go get another tie. In the meanwhile, take your top off." When Ezra came back with the tie, Aria had taken her top off and she was now sitting on her knees. Ezra took her wrists in his hands, kissed each one and then tied them together with his tie. When he was done, he turned Aria to face the headboard and Ezra tied her hands to it. Ezra stroked her naked back with his hand and when he got to the waistband of her pajama shorts, he pulled both her pajama shorts and panties down to her knees.
Ezra stroked Aria's behind with his hand first, then he picked up the spatula and started tapping her behind lightly with it, over and over again. After a few times of tapping her behind lightly, he smacked her ass with the spatula once, but hard. Aria let out a shriek at the contact and Ezra stopped to ask, "Everything okay?" Aria nodded and replied, "Yes, please, don't stop." So Ezra didn't and he repeated his previous actions. First teasing her slowly and then letting her have it all at once. Aria felt herself get more and more aroused each time, holy hell this was hot. Aria started pulling at her restraints out of frustration, she wanted to climax so badly. Ezra picked up on Aria's needs and started tapping lightly against her opening. Aria moaned loudly, loving the way it felt inside of her. Ezra continued this delicious torture and Aria felt the pressure build and build inside of her. She pulled her restraints hard one more time, ready for a release and Ezra took that as his queue and smacked her hard once. Aria screamed loudly as she climaxed and Ezra pushed two fingers inside of her, pleasuring her that way and making her orgasm a second time.
Aria sagged against her restraints, feeling like all the energy had been drained out of her. She felt Ezra untie her wrists and then he took her into his arms. She rested her head against his bare chest as she tried to catch her breath and Ezra pulled the bed covers over them. Ezra said, "Keep your eyes closed", and then he removed the tie that he had used to blindfold her. Ezra kissed Aria softly on the lips and then whispered, "Now slowly open then." Aria opened her eyes and blinked a couple of time as her eyes adjusted to the light in the room. Ezra searched Aria's eyes and asked, "So, how do you feel now?" Aria had a goofy grin on her face as she confessed, "Sated." Ezra chuckled and asked, "How's your behind?" Aria giggled and replied, "Deliciously sore."
Ezra shook his head as he grinned and then he said, "You know, I've never done anything like that before." Aria kissed Ezra on the lips, looked into his eyes and replied, "Could have fooled me." Ezra smirked and said, "I guess I'll take that as a compliment." Aria nodded and replied, "You should." Then she shrugged playfully and continued, "Although… I don't really have anything to compare it to." Ezra seemed jealous as he said, "And let's keep it that way. I don't like sharing." Aria frowned and replied, "Relax. You've got nothing to worry about here. You're all I need. All I want." Ezra seemed to be lost in thought as he murmured, "You say that now…" Aria got Ezra's attention back to her by putting her hand on his cheek and saying, "Hey! Don't…" Ezra asked, "Don't what?" Aria raised an eyebrow in a don't-play-dumb-with-me kind of way and Ezra said, "Fine."
Ezra tried to change the subject as he asked, "So, what are our plans for the day?" Aria laid her head back onto Ezra's chest as she thought to herself for a minute. She replied, "Well, I kind of need a dress for tomorrow night. I don't actually own any formal wear." Ezra smirked and said, "It's settled then. We'll go shopping for a dress and I can watch you get undressed again and again." Aria jokingly nudged Ezra in his side as she replied, "You wish!" Ezra grinned and confessed, "Very much so!" Aria giggled and said, "You're such a weirdo! But I still love you." Ezra's eyebrows raised in surprise at Aria's words. When Ezra didn't say anything back, Aria looked up at him and realized he was staring at her. Aria looked warily at Ezra and asked, "What?" Ezra smiled shyly as he explained, "You just said you love me." Aria's eyes widened as realization struck her. She felt vulnerable in that moment, so she tried to play it off cool, avoiding all eye contact whilst saying, "So what if I did?" Ezra forced Aria to look at him and he said, "I love you too." Aria smiled and placed a gently kiss on Ezra's lips, then she snuggled up to him.
Hours later they finally managed to get out of bed to go shopping. Ezra took Aria to a fancy boutique his mother had dragged him to a couple of times to buy him suits. He didn't mind wearing dress pants and a button down shirt, but he never really liked wearing an entire suit and tie. Much to his mother's displeasure when he had to accompany her to an event. So his mother brought him here, chose his suit and he resentfully wore it for one night. When they walked into the shop, an older woman greeted them heartily and asked them what she could do for them. Ezra looked at Aria lovingly as he said, "A dress for the young lady right here." The woman smiled, said "Follow me", and led them to the back of the store where the dresses were. The woman pointed as she said, "On the left we have the cocktail dresses, in the middle there are long evening gowns and on the right there's the wedding dresses. I'll leave you two to choose, call me if you need anything."
Ezra caressed Aria's cheek with the back of his hand and said, "How about you choose one of those dresses on the right and we elope?" Aria's eyebrows raised in a mocking way as she asked, "How about I say you're crazy?" Ezra smirked and replied, "But you love me nonetheless." Aria smiled and said, "I do." Ezra jokingly replied, "See, you even already know what you have to say." Aria playfully rolled her eyes and said, "Let's just focus on picking a dress for tomorrow night, okay?" Ezra lightly tapped the tip of Aria's nose with his index finger and said, "You got it!"
Aria walked over to the long evening gowns and started looking through them. When Aria got to a light pink ball gown, Ezra said, "That's the one. You're a princess, you should dress like a princess." Aria frowned as she looked at the dress and said, "I'm not going to prom…" Aria continued going through the dresses until she said, "Now this is more like it!" Now it was Ezra's turn to frown as he said, "That's uhm… pretty revealing…" Aria shrugged and replied, "So it's got a bit of cleavage, who cares? I can handle it." Ezra said, "I'm sure you'd look ravishing in it and I know you can handle it… I'm not so sure the men at the event would be able to… not to mention, it's got a low cut back… how does that thing even keep together?" Aria couldn't help but giggle at Ezra, the look on his face was priceless. She replied, "You tie it at the back of your neck, I'll go put it on right now and show you."
When Aria walked out of the fitting room, Ezra's jaw dropped as he saw her in the light silver floor length dress. When he finally managed to speak , he said, "Wow! You look… way too naked for my taste." Aria jokingly replied, "I thought you liked seeing me naked." Ezra answered her, not joking at all, "Yes, for my eyes only. I don't want other men seeing you like this." Aria raised an eyebrow in annoyance and said, "Are you kidding me? You're overreacting… It's not like I'm actually naked, I'm wearing a dress!" Ezra frowned as he replied, "Barely…" Aria sighed in exasperation, but then she looked resolute as she said, "You know what? I think I look amazing in this, so I'm buying it." Then she turned around and went back into the fitting room to get changed. When she got out of the fitting room again, with the dress draped over her arm, Ezra wasn't there anymore. Aria was confused and walked around to look for Ezra.
Aria found Ezra standing in front of the ties, studying the silver ones. She smiled, walked up to him and said, "The second one from the left." Ezra took the tie, turned towards Aria, held it against her dress and said, "You're right." Aria smirked and jokingly said, "I usually am." Ezra grabbed Aria's chin between his fingers and gently kissed her on the lips, then he said, "You looked transcendent in that dress. I'm a lucky man." Aria replied, "That you are, Mr. Fitz." Ezra took the dress from Aria and said, "Come on, let's go pay for these." Aria nodded and headed to the counter with Ezra, who handed their things to the woman. After the woman rang up the dress and tie, she was presented with not one, but two credit cards. Both Aria and Ezria had offered the woman a credit card and she looked uncomfortable as she didn't know what to say or do. Ezra frowned as he looked at Aria and he asked, "What do you think you're doing?" Aria replied matter-of-factly, "Paying." Ezra shook his head as he said, "No you're not." Aria replied, "Yes I am." Ezra gave Aria a stern look, so she continued, "As you may recall, my ex bought me expensive things… that didn't work out well."
Ezra seemed to be thinking it over, when all of a sudden his cell phone started ringing. He excused himself and took the call. He replied the person on the phone, sounding slightly irritated, "What do you mean "we have a problem"? … I see… I'll be there in fifteen." Ezra turned his attention back to Aria and said, "I'm sorry, that was work… I have to go in right away. So I guess this time you win." Aria grinned victoriously as she replied, "I already paid while you were on the phone." Ezra shook his head in exasperation, but decided to just let it go. Instead he just said, "I don't know how long I'll be, but I'll try to come back as soon as I can. I'm going to take a cab, so you take my car. My driver will take you anywhere you want to go, okay?" Aria smiled, nodded and said, "Okay, thanks." Ezra kissed Aria and then left to go to his company.
When Aria walked out of the boutique, Ezra's driver came up to her and took her purchases from her to put them in the car. She told him she was going to check out the shoe store across the street and then she'd be back. Tristan nodded and went back to the car. Aria went into the shoe store and soon found amazing open toe silver glitter pumps. When she got back into the car, she told Tristan to go to her apartment. She hadn't been there since the incident, but Ezra had only brought a little bit of her things and all of her beauty supplies were still there. Tristan looked a bit uncomfortable as he said, "I'm sorry, ma'am. I'm not allowed to take you to your apartment." Aria was confused and asked, "What? Why not?" Tristan just replied with, "Boss's orders." Aria, still not understanding any of this, said, "But all of my stuff is there!" Tristan asked, "If you want, I can send someone over to your apartment to collect your things and bring them to you at Mr. Fitz's apartment?" Aria was getting seriously annoyed with this. She was a grown woman, no man was going to tell her what she could and couldn't do… not even one she loved. She needed to find a way to show him that… Aria shook her head and replied, "No, never mind. Just take me to the mall, please. I'll go and buy some new things." Tristan nodded and drove to the mall.
When they arrived at the mall, Tristan parked the car and Aria got out. Aria went into the mall through the front entrance and headed straight for the back entrance. When she walked out of the mall, she got into a cab and headed for her apartment. When she was standing in front of her apartment door, Aria felt a bit hesitant to enter. She had no idea how the place would look like, seeing as she left Matt bleeding on the floor. Aria took a deep breath and unlocked the door. She exhaled as she walked in and saw that the place was spotless. Everything was cleaned up, not one trace of her struggle visible. It didn't take a genius to figure out who could have done this. Well, hired someone to do this. Aria headed over to her bedroom and got a suitcase out of her closet. As she was putting clothes into her suitcase, she found herself wondering why she was doing this. This was her apartment… this is where she lived. Why was she packing her things to go back to Ezra's apartment? It wasn't like they lived together.
Aria put everything back in her closet, walked over to her desk in the living room and opened up her laptop. She checked her e-mail and saw that there were a lot. Most of them were from Ryan, who had sent her notes from each class she had missed the last couple of days. Even from the classes he didn't take himself. Aria sent him back an e-mail thanking him for everything and that she'd be back on Monday. Aria realized that since she had met Ezra, her life had been thrown completely upside down. She hadn't gone to school in days, hadn't seen her friends, had hardly spent any time in her own apartment… not to mention, she felt different. All of a sudden her phone rang. When she picked up, the voice on the other side sounded pretty upset as he asked, "Where the hell are you? Tristan called me saying you disappeared on him." Aria replied very calmly, "I'm at home." Ezra said, "No you're not. I'm at home right now, first place I went looking for you." Aria replied annoyed, "I'm not at your home, I'm at my home", and then hung up on him.
Fifteen minutes later Aria heard knocking on the door. She didn't bother checking who it was, because she knew exactly who… Ezra. Aria opened the door and Ezra stepped into the apartment, clearly still upset. After she had closed the door, Aria turned to face Ezra, waiting for the inevitable fight. Much to Aria's surprise, Ezra calmed down completely as he saw Aria was fine and he hugged her tight. He confessed, "I was so worried when Tristan called. He said he couldn't find you anywhere… I was so scared something had happened to you." Aria looked up at Ezra, looking confused as she asked, "Like what?" Ezra looked guilty as he didn't reply her. Aria freed herself from Ezra as she asked once again, but more forcefully, "Like what, Ezra!?" Ezra looked troubled as he admitted, "We can't find Matt anywhere…" Now Aria was even more confused, "I don't get it… What do you mean, you can't find him? What exactly happened that night after he attacked me?"
Ezra explained, "He was out cold and bleeding when my security found him, so they removed him from the apartment and left him at the entrance of the nearest ER." Aria was shocked, "They what!?" Ezra said, "Aria, this man attacked you! He's lucky they got to him first, because I would have left him to die." Aria gasped and replied, "Don't say that! You don't mean that!" Ezra ignored Aria's comment and continued explaining, "After he was released from the ER, my security tracked him down and warned him to never go anywhere near you or your apartment ever again. To make sure he had listened, they kept an eye on him. He had pretty much the same routine each day, so keeping tabs on him wasn't a problem…until today." Aria looked at Ezra questioningly, so he continued, "Last night he went to the same bar he goes every night. He usually leaves the place early in the morning… but he never came back out. My security checked the bar, checked the alleys at the back… they found nothing. They checked every other place he usually frequents, but he's disappeared altogether. That's why they called me today, to tell me they lost track of him. That's why I got so worried when Tristan called to tell me he couldn't find you."
Aria stood there, at a loss for words, trying to take it all in. Ezra looked worried as he said, "Say something." Aria looked up at Ezra and replied, "I don't know what to say…. I wish you or your security would have handled things differently… If you would have brought him to the police, then none of this would be happening. He'd be locked up… he'd be punished for what he did to me." Ezra said, "I know and I'm sorry… my security is there to protect me and they didn't think reporting this to the police would have been good for my reputation, so they didn't. But it's my fault for not correcting their mistake afterwards. All I want to do is keep you safe, so if you want to go to the police right now, we'll go together and explain the whole thing." Aria shook her head and replied, "No… what's done is done."
Ezra looked at Aria warily as he asked, "So what now?" Aria sighed and replied, "Now… now you go home and have someone bring me my stuff here. You can text me tomorrow to tell me at what time you'll be picking me up for the charity gala." Ezra looked lost as he heard Aria's words. He asked, "So I won't see you until tomorrow night?" Aria shook her head. Ezra's heart was breaking as he said, "But… you said you loved me…" Aria placed her hand on Ezra's cheek as she replied, "And I do… I just need some time to think this through. It's not like I'm breaking up with you, I'm just asking for some time… and you'll see me tomorrow night." Ezra nodded and headed for the door. Before he closed the door behind him and left, Ezra asked, "If you're not breaking up with me… then why does it feel like you are?"
So… that happened… tell me what you think, please? Am I still keeping you interested? Please review!