Ezra walked into Rosewood High about twenty minutes after his interview, he walked down the halls which were full with teenagers since it was lunch. He had lunch duty today which basically meant that he would have to eat lunch in the canteen and make sure no fights came about which being in a school full of hormonal teenagers was extremely likely.

He walked over to the table on which were most of the faculty who were also on 'lunch duty' he took a seat opposite Ella and beside Sabrina.

"How did it go?" Sabrina asked as she took a bite of her apple, she looked at him and he responded very vaguely "Well I'm sure you charmed the pants off them." She said, making him and Ella laugh.

"I'm sure you did exactly that" Ella said, smiling forcefully unable to get the thought of her daughter hugging Mr Fitz out of her head.

She had to know what was going on and she knew exactly how to do it, it wasn't that she didn't like Ezra. She felt very maternally about him and had grown to love him and eventually came to fill up the spot that his mother had left empty but she just couldn't pretend like she was happy over whatever was going on between the two.

"So have you seen Aria recently?" She asked, curious to see what his answer would be. He cleared his throat and put down the bottle of water he was holding.

"Yes, I saw her today. She showed where Byron's office was" He replied, vaguely and gulped more water nervously. It was obvious he was hiding something, over the several years she had discovered things about him only a mother would know such as what he did when he was lying.

"Is that it?" Ella questioned, she wanted to scoff and tell him she knew he was lying but she didn't instead she asked more questions, he nodded "It's just I'm worried about her" She said without being asked.

"When I saw her, last Friday at dinner, she was telling me about this man – who's obviously a bit older" She saw Ezra sit up straighter and loosen his tie clearing his throat "And despite how mature Aria is, she's still young. She's turning twenty in a couple of weeks and she's got so much ahead of her, I don't want this man to take advantage of her or tie her down."

Ezra nodded, his heart beating faster and faster every second, luckily for him Ella didn't say anything else but Sabrina did.

"I don't think you have anything to worry about, Ella, when I was her age I went out with older men to feel secure and more sophisticated" She said with a giggle "The only reason she's doing this is because, well, have you seen college boys?"

"I guess so, I just hope this man, whoever he is, doesn't hurt my little girl or he'll have hell to pay for I don't care who he is" Ella said, looking straight at Ezra who was feeling more hopeless and trapped then ever

"I hate you"

Aria muttered as she walked side by side with Rebecca who simply laughed, they walked down towards her apartment. They didn't have any more classes for the day, well Aria didn't, and Rebecca didn't want to attend anymore.

"Breathe, Aria, it was just a joke" She said as she walked into the apartment building alongside Aria who was a couple of steps ahead of her "Plus he barely understood what we were talking about, I have to ask you a question"

She stared at the elevator sign, it was broken as usual. Why was nothing ever in her favour? She jogged up the stairs quickly wanting to get the excruciating exercise over and one with.

"Was he condom guy? I mean he checked off everything you said about the guy you were madly and irrevocably in love with" Rebecca questioned.

She wondered whether to tell her or not, she eventually decided against it. She would rather not have Rebecca tease when she saw him then feel a moment of relief because of the weight lifted. She turned the key and stepped into the apartment.

"He isn't, Rebecca, he's my high school teacher and a family friend. That's all" Aria said and gasped at the sight in front of her, Toby and Spencer making out on the couch only in their underwear. Rebecca made a whistling sound.

Toby immediately pulled away "Sorry" He mumbled and before he could do anything, he was pulled into the room by Spencer. Aria sighed, rolling her eyes; she stepped over the clothing and entered her room thankful that it wasn't next to Spencer's. Deep inside she was glad Toby and Spencer had made up although she would have been happier if they hadn't been making up on the couch.

"You know what you should do, you should get some like your friend is very wisely doing next door" Rebecca said, Aria rolled her eyes. Rebecca's life motto was that sex made everything better, which she honestly doubted. She always felt like such a prude next to her, ever since High school she had always been so reserved when it came to boys and experimenting.

Noel had even suggested a three some, which if she didn't recall incorrectly was the reason for their first fight in college.

"I need to break up with Noel"

"So what happened? You went over there, told her you loved her, she said thank you and Toby punched you?"

Ezra said, trying not to laugh at how absurd this whole thing sounded, Wren sighed as he drank some beer at the grill and nodded.

"She said thank you, not I love you too or I've been waiting to hear that my whole life but thank you. Then he came in and punched me" He touched his jaw and winced at the pain "You know what I realised throughout the ordeal, I realised that I don't even love her. I was just in love with the idea of her"

Now he laughed, unable to resist it "You didn't even love her and you went through all that" He chuckled.

"Set me up with someone" Wren asked, no, begged.

"No, I'm not going to set you up with anyone." Ezra said, rolling his eyes "No offense but you're a mess, the last thing I need to do is lose friends because of you"

"You know saying no offense before something offensive doesn't make it any less offensive" Wren said "So how's your love life? If it's better than mine, I hate you"

"My love life's also a mess, I thought just maybe I might have something with Aria but it turns out that never going to happen" He said, cynically as he drank the beer.

"Why?"

"Well, for starters she has a boyfriend, I'm six years older than her, I was her teacher and the last thing she needs is someone to tie her down" He mumbled and ordered another beer, giving up on the hope he once had about having a relationship with the woman whom he surprisingly enough had fallen head over heels over.

So Ella knows, do you guys think she gave him her blessing or was just warning him? Anyways i hope you guys liked this chapter also the other girls might find out about the love duo soon, i just want to know how you feel about that;)

xoxo Josie