Warning: Unedited because my hands are cramping up. I fixed a few things but its pretty much unedited so sorry about the mistakes
Aria POV
After a few drinks at the bar with the girls, I head home, dreading the conversation I'm about to have with my husband. I have to tell Jason that my ex-husband got his little sister pregnant at 15. He already hates Ezra enough as it is, but he just might actually kill him now. I don't get how Jason can have so much hate for Ezra. I cheated on Ezra not Jason. It's like that fact just isn't important to my husband. I just know that Jason, being the hot head that he is, will completely consensual, its still considered rape and thats exactly how Jason will see it. Hopefully I'll be able to talk him down from trying to send Ezra to prison. I really hope that when Toby finds out, that he can ignore the fact that Ali was only 15 and Ezra was in his early twenties. Toby is a cop after all. I need to stop stressing over this, Ali can him. Its her mess, let her clean it up. I have enough of my own problems.
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I park my 2015 Ford Explorer in my driveway, grab my briefcase and head inside my home. When I get inside the I take of my coat and drop it and my briefcase next to the couch. I don't want anyone to know I'm home yet so I quietly creep into the kitchen to grab some Tylenol and a glass of water to cure the hangover I feel coming on. Driving myself home after drinking that much alcohol probably wasn't a very smart choice. Thank God nothing bad happened while I was on the road. Due to my lightheadedness, I subconsciously let the glass slip out of my hand and shatter on the tile floor.
"Aria! Is that you!" Jason calls out
"Damn it. You weren't supposed to know I'm back yet." I mumble
"Aria!" he calls again
"I'm in the kitchen!" I call back
I guess the sound of the glass breaking had him worried so he came running down the stairs with Lily in his arms.
"Aria, are you ok? What happened?" he asks
"I'm fine. I had a few too many drinks with the girls tonight and I was feeling a little lightheaded. I drop a glass on the floor and it broke." I explain, walking over to get the broom and dust pan
"Don't worry about, I'll clean it up. You should go lie down." He says, taking it from my hand
"Jason, I'm fine. I took some Tylenol so the headache should be gone soon. There's nothing to worry about." I try to reassure him
"Fine, but I can still clean this up. You look like you've had a rough day." he says
"Detective Lane and his team, including Toby, showed up today and raided the office. They think the killer is this kid Rydar Laykins, he was fired around the time of the murder. He unemployed now and no one seems to know where to find him. Lane is convinced that someone at S&E is helping him hide." I explain
"Alright thats it! I'm talking to Toby tomorrow and telling him to keep his men away from S&E. They harassed you all enough for one lifetime. Its bad enough that my two little sister and my wife are being harassed, but its another that my brother in law is the ringleader."
"Jason, just leave it alone, ok. Spencer can handle Toby. How was your day?" I ask, changing the subject
"Really good actually. My boss retired, and he left the company to me. He didn't have any kids or siblings to take over, and he knew that he used to work from my mom with her Real Estate business, so he left me his."
"Babe that is amazing! I'm so proud of you. You worked so hard for this."
"This promotion also means more money, which means a bigger house. Don't get me wrong, I love this place, but Hadley and Lily can't share a room forever. We need something bigger then this three bedroom house. Don't you agree babygirl?" I'm pretty sure that last part was meant more for Lily then me.
"I totally agree. We need more space, and we could both use a home office. When do you wanna start looking?"
"I was actually talking to Caleb about it earlier. I know you wanted a house on the beach like Hanna's, so I had some guys from work help me look. When Caleb and I were talking earlier, he said their neighbors are selling their house. We could be living next door to the Rivers if you wanted."
"I've actually been thinking a lot about that. Hanna really wanted a beach house at first, but she said she'd rather not live there full time. She said she loves being able to just go out to her backyard and be on the beach anytime she wants, but the girls are getting tired of it. She hasn't told Caleb yet, but she actually wants to move. She doesn't want to sell the beach house, she just doesn't wanna live their full time. Spencer and Alison have been thinking about buying their own share of the house. Now any of the three of them can use it whenever for whatever."
"Is that something you might wanna do? We can definitely afford it, but if you don't wanna live there, where do you wanna live?"
"Hanna's moving into the same neighborhood that the other girls all live in. I think we should move there too. Plus they have pools their and I really want a pool and I know Hadley does too. Ty and Lily prefer staying will Em and Maya just because they have a pool. And if we live there it would be so much easier with all the back and forth with them."
"We can start looking tomorrow. When Emily and Maya come to pick up the kids, we can ask if they know about any house for sale."
"Perfect. What's wrong with Lily? Why is she being so quiet?"
"She's just tired."
"Hi babygirl! Come here, Mommy will go put you to bed." I say, extending my arms for Lily
She removes her arms from around Jason's neck and reaches toward me. I carry her upstairs and into her room. Hadley is already fast asleep so I grab a book off the shelf, check to make sure Ty is sleeping, and head to my room to read her the story. After just three pages she's fast so I carry her to her room, and put her in her bed.
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After putting Lily to bed, I walk back down the stairs to find my husband. Jason is lying on the couch in the living room watching Family Guy.
"I thought you hated that show?" I ask
"No, I hate The Cleveland Show, I love Family Guy." he corrects me
Before I get a chance to reply, I feel my phone buzz in my pocket.
"Hmm, let me guess, Spencer?" Jason asks
"Nope, its your other sister this time." I reply
"Did you talk to Jason about Caitlyn yet?- Ali"
"Nope. I think he should hear it from you. -Aria"
"What does Alison want this late at night?" Jason asks, but I ignore him
"He's gonna be pissed that you knew and didn't tell him" she replies
"Then come over and we can both tell him."
"Aria please don't make me do this. I can't look him in the eye."
"Fine, but you owe me. Big time."
"Aria, what are you two texting about?"Jason asks, trying to sneak a peak at my iPhone 6 plus
"Ok, um, there' something you should know." I start
"What? Did something happen to my sister? Or one of the kids?" he asks
"Funny you should mention Ali's kids."
"How is that funny?"
"Well um, Ezra sorta got Alison pregnant when she was 15. She has a 16 year old daughter named Caitlyn and she's now living with Ezra here in L.A."I blurt
"Give me your phone." Jason says through gritted teeth
"Why?" I ask nervously
"So I call Toby and tell him to arrest Ezra for raping my baby sister!" he shouts
"Jason calm down, that was nearly 17 years ago!"
"She was just a kid and he was a grown man!"
"He's just a year older then you are and we have a kid together." I try and reason with him
"Yeah, but you got pregnant we were both adults. That wasn't the case with your ex-husband and my baby sister!"
"Jason think about Caitlyn. Think about your niece. Do you really wanna deny her the chance to get to know her father? He already missed out on the first 16 years of her life. That is his oly child, don't take that away from either of them."
"Fine, but I am only doing this for her. I don't want her to hate me before she ever gets the chance to know me."
"Thank you. I'm gonna go up stairs so you can call your sister."
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"How'd it go?" I ask when Jason crawls into bed with me
"We, are not, gonna talk, about this, right now." Jason mumbles while placing soft kisses on my neck
"Jason, stop. This is important. Ezra dated Ali, got her pregnant, and married me years later, and now you and I are married. Stop being so selfish and think about how the rest of us feel. I'm sure Ali does't want him back in her life, I know I don't, and I know Andrew especially won't." I argue pushing him away
"I said we are not gonna talk about this right now!" he shouts
"Keep your voice, the kids are asleep." I scold him "Why don't you wanna talk about this? My best friend/ sister-in-law has a 16 year old daughter with my ex-husband. Do you have any idea how hard this is for me to comprehend?"
"I get that, but it for me too." he argues
"Then we should talk about it? What is so bad about talking?" I ask
"Aria, its late." he says
"Oh, so what, its too late for me to have a conversation with my husband, but its not too late for me to have sex with him? Really Jason?"
"Ok you and I both know that this will be a fight, not a conversation!"
"Not unless you make it into one!"
"Aria, I don't want to talk you about this! I will talk tomorrow, but with anyone except for you!" he shouts
"Why? Why am I so impossible to talk to?" I ask, with hurt in my voice
"Its not that, its just-"
"Its just what Jason!"
"He's your ex-husband! You've been in love with him since high school and now he has the one thing with my sister that the two of you never had. You always said he would make a great father and now he is one and you have to sit there and watch because his child is your niece. What if you realize you made a mistake leaving him? What if you realize you wanna go back to him?"
"Jason that will never, ever happen. I love you and I love this family. I will never leave and I will never tear this family apart. If you only believe one thing that comes out of my mouth, believe that." I reassure him
"I love you too." he replies and begins kissing me passionately
The Next Day
"Tyler Jason! Lilian Kate! Hurry up, its time to go!" Jason yells up stairs
"We coming! We coming!" Ty sighs, dragging his little sister down the stairs
"Ok, Ty and Lily are here, the bags are in the car. We're for a pool party at Auntie Ali's house." I say to myself
"Alright kids, lets go!" Jason cheers
"Wait, where's Hadley? Ty, Lily, where's your sister?" I ask
Ty and Lily both shrug their shoulders
"Had! Hadley Montgomery!" Jason calls, searching the house
I walk through the kitchen and ut the back door, in search of my missing child. I look around the backyard and there she is, playing in sandbox, which Ty filled with water last week. Now the sandbox is pretty much a box full of mud.
"Hadley! Now your all dirty!" I exclaim
"I sowwy Mommy." she says, poking out her bottom lip
"Just c'mon so we can get you changed. I'll have to call Alison and tell her we'll be late." I sigh
Jason walks into the kitchen and sees his daughter all covered in mud shakes his hand, and takes her hand and carried her up the stairs.
"Thats your daughter!" I call after him
"Only when she's bad huh?" he asks
"Only when she's bad! I'm not capable of passing down these traits to her!" I tease
Jason wasn't thrilled to learn his wife's ex-husband impregnated his 15 year old little sister. How will Andrew react to the news of his stepdaughter, and will Alison get slut shamed by the rest of her friends? Guess you'll have to wait and find out. Lucky for you, I'm almost done with chapter 13 so it should be up within the next few days but it's written in Hanna's POV and we won't get to meet Caitlyn until Alison's POV which will be chapter 14. Bye my lovelies!~Stay Weird
