"Hi Ella", Ezra smiled as Ella climbed into the car with him. "Hi Ezra", "Have you seen Aria she was supposed to be by the steps waiting for me to get you two by now." "No I haven't yet sorry, she has maths though and sometimes the teacher over runs". "I'm just going to go in and find her if you don't mind Ella I'll be back soon". With that Ezra hoped out of the car.
Ezra walked through the corridor full of students giving their ex-teacher waves as he walked by them. As Ezra got closer to the maths room he could hear Aria's voice coming from inside. "I'm really sorry I just completely forgot, I've just been so tired and the book said it's normal for me to forgetful", Aria voice rang out through the door. Ezra knocked on the door not waiting for a response before walking into the classroom. "Hey Aria what's wrong", Ezra smiled looked at his exhausted fiancé. "I forgot to do my maths homework and I fell asleep in class". Ezra nodded before kissing her on the head. Mr Roberts the maths teacher looked at his ex co-worker in shock. "Ezra what are you doing here", Mr Roberts began, "I came to pick Aria up", "wait you're her fiancé", Mr Roberts continued. "Yeah Drew I wish I could stay and talk but I really need to get Aria to an appointment. Can she bring her homework in tomorrow?" "Urm sure", Mr Roberts shook his head in shock before shooting them both a look of disgust as they left the classroom. Ezra put a hand round Aria's waist as they walked through the corridor. The students around them staring and whispering, Aria just buried her head deeper in Ezra's shoulder so she couldn't hear the comments that were being made. As they reached the steps Aria clung slightly tighter to Ezra. When he noticed her sudden grip seeing her lids droop he scooped her up and carried her down the steps, not caring about any of the comments people made, he promised he would protect her. He popped her in the front seat carefully and shut the door as Aria did up her seat belt. "If you don't mind Ella, I'll drop you back at the school but I'm going to take Aria home." "That's absolutely fine Ezra, could I have my lunch now". Ezra nodded passing Ella a bag with her lunch in before pulling away from the school. Aria lay fast asleep in the front seat her baby bump lowering and raising as they pulled into the road.
Aria woke up as they began driving down the road. Medium sized white houses, with big front lawns and little white picket fences surrounded them. They pulled up alongside one of the houses in the road where there was a for sale sign and next to it stood the realtor. As they climbed out of the car Ezra raced round to help Aria out of the car. He gently lifted her out of the car setting her on her feet and steadying her. "Hello you must be Susan I'm Ezra, this is my fiancé Aria and this is her mother Ella", "yes I'm Susan it's lovely to meet you all so who exactly is looking to move", Susan checked with them. "Myself, Ezra and we also have twins on the way so it'll just be us four, my moms come for moral support". "Very good, ok well I'll give you a bit of background. This house is currently owned by a couple that have 3 teenage children, the husband has just been transferred to Chicago, and so they are looking for a quick sale. They are willing to go under the asking prize by quite a bit because his new job comes with a house. This area has an extremely low crime rate with only one incident of petty theft in the last 5 years. Hollis college is only 10 minutes drive and the high school is 5 minutes, as I know you mentioned in you're email that was important. In general this is a good area as far as local schools. The house has 4 bedrooms 2 and a half bathrooms with. One of the bedrooms is en suite. The back yard is quite sizeable and the garage can fit two cars. Based on the urgency although the house is on the market for $250k they have said they let it go for $190k which is a very rare thing". Susan went through showing them all the room and allowing them to then look around on there own. "Does the house come furnished", Ezra asked admiring the furnishings. "It does come furnished", Susan replied smiling. Ezra looked to Aria who was beaming they'd both fallen in love with this house and with out even bothering to speak to each other they smiled and nodded. "We'll take it", Ezra told Susan, Ella nodded approvingly as Ezra spoke. Aria walked over to the window gazing out over the little white fence that surrounded the front yard. She saw mother steadying her toddler as he rode his little tricycle, this was perfect she smiled to herself before turning back to Ezra. "Of course", Susan smiled pulling out a form, "this just gets the ball rolling have you thought about how much you're willing to offer"? "Yes we'd like to make an offer of $200k", "Ok I'll just phone the owners and hopefully they'll accept the offer". "Thank you", Ezra said as he and Aria read over the paperwork, filling it out. "Ella with we need someone to confirm that we are in a stable position to be buying a house please can you sign it," Ezra called across to Ella who was staring out of the window admiring the little apple tree growing in the front yard. "Of course, I'm just coming". Ella scanned over the paperwork before signing the bottom.
"Ok thank you I'll be in contact once I hear back from the owners, shouldn't be more than a week", Susan smiled at the young couple. "Thank you for all your help", Ezra said on him and Aria's behalf, as they climbed into the car, waving goodbye. "Oh dear look at the time", Ella sighed "I'm going to need you to take me straight to the school I have a class in 20 minutes and I'll need to tell the office Aria has gone home sick. Make sure you take her for some food, she hasn't eaten yet". "I'll take you straight there, don't worry I'll take her for some food", Ezra smiled squeezing a slightly dopey looking Aria's hand.
Ezra pulled up outside the school as him and Aria waved goodbye to Ella as she thanked him climbing out of the car. "Where to beautiful", Ezra chuckled. "Can we go and get pizza please, I've got a serious pepperoni and cheese craving", Aria's face lit up as she finished her sentence clearly imaging the food. "Of course, may be afterwards we can stop by Paula's and get some pie" Ezra laughed remembering the last time they'd had pie. Ezra pulled into the pizza that was almost opposite the school. He escorted Aria in getting odd looks from Rosewood students who were sat in the restaurant clearly on free period. Ezra asked the waitress for a more private seating area as she took them to a booth in the empty part of the restaurant. Aria and Ezra sat in silence as they looked over the menus. Once the waitress had come over taking their order for a large sharing meat feast and went to fetch them a jug of water they began to talk.
"What wrong Aria", Ezra sighed holding her hands in his, "I know it's not just about you're late school and being tired. I can tell there's something else bothering you." "It's stupid really. My year is going on an ice skating trip to the local rink and even though it's silly I'd really love to be able to join in. I don't regret getting pregnant and I want these children but I do wish I could join in.", Ezra leaned over wiping a tear that was falling down Aria's cheek as she finished. "It's not silly Aria I understand that you can't do what you want and I know it's hard. I'll make you a deal these babies are due in 3 months and once you've recovered, we'll leave the twins with their grandparents for the day and I'll take ice skating", Aria smiled at Ezra as he spoke. "I love you so much do you know that, scoot over", Aria sighed joining Ezra on his side of the table. Before Ezra had a chance to question it Aria pushed her mouth against his and began kissing him with more passion then he had ever been kissed. They could hear whooping coming from where Rosewood students were sat, but they didn't care they loved each other and nothing else mattered.