Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or PLL….that belongs to the genius that is Sara Shepard. I do however own Miréad, Katie, and the plot…

Last time in Just Another Secret:

"Wait Aria. Can you come over to my place at 7? I really just want to talk to you. Alone. Not in school, not in a hospital, just us." Ezra said

"I would love that." Checking to make sure no body was looking at us from the hall, I reached up on the tiptoes of my good right leg, and kissed Ezra on the check "I love you Ezra" I whispered in his ear.

"I love you too Aria."


I reached up and hugged him. We just stood their crying in each others arm for a good 5 minutes. All my emotions just came to the surface all at once. My love for Ezra, the stress of keeping it a secret, the confusion of Ali having a sister, the sadness from losing our baby, the anger I have towards Noel. All of it just made me stand there crying in Ezra's arms not caring who saw us or what they thought.

"I have to go Ezra. Bye. Ill see you later" I began to walk away, but Ezra pulled me back into his arms for a kiss.

He finally broke the kiss saying "Bye for now Aria."

As soon as I got out of Ezra's classroom my phone buzzed. The text was from "A"…

Aria:

I saw that! Someone else did too….

-A

What the hell did that mean? "Someone else did too…" Did someone see me and Ezra? Shit.


After school that day me and the girls went to the Grille to talk more with Miréad.

"Hey Aria!" Hanna said "What's up?"

"Nothin."

"We know somethings up" Spencer said. "Nobody looks that upset and worried over 'nothing'"

"I was with Ezra in his classroom today. I just got really sad and hugged him"

"So?" Emily began. "You just lost you baby…"

"SHHHH!" Spencer interrupted.

"Anyways. "Em continued "You lost your baby, "A" is threatening you still, and you were probably still in shock from finding out about Miréad"

"Sorry I came here at such a bad time." Miréad said speaking for the 1st time.

"No, its fine Miréad, definatly not your fault."

"So what the big deal then?" asked Emily.

"'A' sent me this." I said showing them the text

"What does it mean?" asked Hanna.

"It means somebody saw me and Ezra." Just then I got a text. Everybody gasped. I looked at my phone.

"Guys" I said "Chill, its not 'A'"

"Then who is it?"

"I don't know. Who's number is 652-1167? (THIS IS A RANDOM PHONE NUMBER!)

Hanna began typing the number into her phone. "Its Katie Lowney."

"Who is Katie?"

"Shes in our English class. What does the text say anyway?"

Aria:

I saw you and Ezra today. Why were you hugging him! You cant be in a relationship with a teacher! I gonna tell someone if you don't explain.

-Katie

Hanna was looking at the message over my shoulder. "Great it said her name in the text! I just had to look it up for nothing! That was a waste of my time Aria!" Hanna said sounding angry.

"Oh so you don't mind walking around the mall in heels shopping for hours on end, but you simply cant look up a phone number for your best friend!" I asked in fake shock.

The four of us laughed for a few minutes.

"Hey Miréad! Why are you so quite? You seemed a lot more talkative at lunch." Spencer said.

"I was just…thinking." She said. "I gotta go. See you guys tomorrow!" And Miréad left.

"That was strange" Emily said.

"Yeah. I gotta go guys. I should probably call Katie too before she does something."

"What are you going to say?" asked Hanna.

"Ummm. I don't know." I admitted

"You could say you guys are related and someone in you family died." Suggested Spencer.

"Yeah, cause technically that not a lie" I said thinking of my dead child. "Thanks guys. I have to go."

"Bye"

"See ya"


"Hello?" Katie answered.

"Hi Katie its Aria."

"Aria. Are you going to tell me why you were huggin out English teacher and crying?"

"Yes."

"Explain."

I began the lie me and the girls came up with. "Ez….I meanMr. Fitz is my cousin. His dad is my moms brother."

"Okay? So why were you hugging an crying?"

"Well my mom and his dad had an older brother who had a son. He went off to the military and…we just found out he…"

"He…what?"

I faked a sob or two before continuing. "He died the other day." I put in some more fake crying here.

That stupid girl belived me. Idiot. "Oh, Aria! Im so sorry I accused you of seeing him! I had no idea that…..I mean your cousin…Im sorry! It's my fault! I..I mean…"

"Katie, it's fine. What's done is done. You didn't know."

"But I should have. You looked really upset today in school."

"Yeah. Its fine though."

"Im sorry Aria. Well I guess I'll see you in English tomorrow."

"Bye Katie"

"Bye Aria"

Damn that was a close call.


I went to Ezra's once I hung up with Katie. I knocked on his door.

"Hey, Aria! Whats up?"

"We cant do this anymore."

WHAT? Aria, are you breaking up with me?" he sounded really hurt.

"Oh, god no Ezra, that's not what I meant. I meant we cant like hang out together in school. Today, when we were hugging, Katie Lowney saw us."

He gasped. "And what did you tell her?"

"That we were cousins, and our other cousin died in the military recently."

"Oh. That…that's actually a really good lie."

"Thanks. I have to go. My dad wants me home for dinner."

"Are you sure you cant stay?"

"Yeah. Bye for now Ezra."

"Bye. I love you Aria."

"I love you too Ezra."


So sorry I took soooo long to update! I had my AP US History tests, and I had alottttt of model shoots I need to do, and I had a big music competition (I sing) the other day so I was preparing for that. ANYWAYYYS, my point id I will be updating a lot more now Chapter 12 coming soon!

-Lissa

Special thanks to

Katie for all the help (yes the character is named after her)

-and-

Becca S. (aka-author of Reunited) for all her help too!