"You look nice." Byron said as he ran into his daughter hurrying out of her room. She was wearing a red plaid dress with black boots and a black leather jacket. Her hair was up in some sort of messy bun style with her bangs loose. She looked her age and yet, at the same time, she looked much older. "Where are you going?"

Aria blinked at him. She knew she had told him. Had he not been listening? "I told you when I got home that I have a date."

"Oh that's right." Byron said, smiling. "I'm sorry. I've been busy lately."

"It's okay Dad." She said, trying to get passed him. She was meeting Jason in Philadelphia and she was going to miss her train. "I should get going."

"Wait a second, Aria." Byron said as he grabbed her arm. "Who are you going out with?"

She understood that he was her father and all fathers wanted to know who their daughters were seeing. She also understood that he may not trust her after Ezra. The doorbell rang and she hoped it wasn't anyone that would keep her any longer. She really had to get going. "Jason."

"You're going out with Jason DiLaurentis?" Byron was surprised. He wasn't sure if he was okay with this or not, but at least he wasn't her teacher.

"Yes, Dad." She said impatiently. "I'm going to be late. Can I go now?"

He didn't like her haughty tone, but he let her go. "Don't stay out too late."

"I won't." she promised and practically flew down the stairs, yanking the door open and yelping when she ran into Jason. "What are you doing here? I thought we were meeting up in Philly."

Jason smiled at her and glanced at the top of the stairs where her father was standing. He waved at Byron and swept Aria out of the house. "It's our first real date. I thought I should pick you up."

She liked the fact that her date could pick her up without having to worry about being seen. She liked that she didn't have to hide her relationship with Jason if she didn't want to. She liked that she didn't have to worry about him being sent to jail if anyone found out. She felt bad for thinking these things because it sounded like she was comparing Jason to Ezra and that wasn't fair. She had loved Ezra more than anything, and she figured she would always love him a little, but Jason was Jason and she couldn't compare him to Ezra. That wouldn't be fair.

Spencer felt bad about not telling Aria that she was seeing Ezra. Of course there was nothing romantic about it, but didn't Aria deserve to know? Would she feel betrayed when and if she found out? Would she feel anything at all like Spencer had felt when she had found out that Toby had kissed Aria?

She decided that she shouldn't worry about it now as she stepped off the train and made her way out of the station. Ezra had driven down and was waiting for her outside. He greeted her with a smile and she returned it. "Sorry I'm late. My dad started asking questions and I almost missed the train. Luckily it was running late too."

"It's okay. I wasn't waiting long." Ezra said. "What was your dad asking about?"

Spencer couldn't help but wonder if Aria had ever been in a similar situation with him. "The usual suspicious father questions. Where are you going? Who are you meeting? My parents have been a little more protective since Mona started hanging out with us."

"What did you tell him?" Ezra asked.

"That I just wanted a night to myself, with no drama." She said. She had thought about saying that the events of the last few years had taken a toll on her grades and that she was meeting Ezra for a tutoring session, but her dad would have wanted to know why they had to go all the way into the city to do it over dinner.

Ezra realized that this was the second one of his students that had been forced to lie to their parents to meet him and couldn't help but wonder if his mother had put some sort of curse on him.

"So, um, what do I call you?" Spencer asked suddenly. She hadn't really called him anything outside of school since he had been back. In fact, she had never called him anything other than Mr. Fitz to his face. Even when she had ambushed him in the park she hadn't said his name.

"I think Ezra would be less awkward." He said.

Spencer nodded as they turned a corner. They were almost at the restaurant and she happened to glance down the sidewalk toward it. She froze when she saw who was coming from the opposite direction. She would have turned and ran or ducked into the nearest store, dragging Ezra with her, but Aria had seen them at the same time. They had no choice but to keep going and confront the awkward situation they were about to walk into.

Ezra saw the other couple moments after Spencer did, having looked for the cause when she suddenly tensed up. His first reaction was to run to Aria and beg her to take him back. Then he saw Jason with his arm around her and he wasn't sure if he wanted to hide or hit him.

Jason and Aria were just as surprised to see Spencer and Ezra and Aria quickly broke away from Jason and grabbed Spencer. They walked off a little way, leaving the men to stand and stare at each other awkwardly.

"What the hell, Spence?" Aria demanded in an angry whisper. "Is this some kind of revenge for what happened with Toby?"

"No!" Spencer said, a little too forcefully. "No, of course not."

"Then what the hell are you doing with Ezra?"

"Having dinner with him." Spencer admitted. "But I swear there's nothing going on. He's just helping me deal with…everything."

"So what? You two are friends now?" Aria asked.

Spencer shrugged, looking confused and a little scared. "Kind of. Look, after you and Toby told me what happened I was a wreck for a couple of days. That on top of everything else probably should have put me back in Radley. When you mentioned Ezra forgiving you for the thing with Jason, I got the idea that maybe he could help me deal with it."

"So you went over there?"

"Yes. I went over there and I cried my eyes out." Spencer said. "I probably shouldn't have, but I told him everything. Everything. I couldn't stop the words once they started."

Aria was shocked when she realized what everything meant. She glanced over her shoulder at Ezra, not even seeing Jason. He knew everything. She turned back to Spencer. "Everything? What were you thinking?"

"I wasn't thinking, Aria." Spencer hissed. "I was upset! Kind of like you were when you kissed Toby."

Spencer's words stung and sobered Aria quickly. She took a breath and made herself calm down some. "Okay. But why didn't you tell me you were seeing Ezra?"

"First of all, I'm not seeing Ezra. This is totally platonic." Spencer reassured her. "I would never do that to you. Never. And I knew you were hurting from the break-up and it wasn't easy for you knowing that Hanna was babysitting for him. I just didn't want to upset you anymore. If I had known where you and Jason were going tonight, I would've meet Ezra somewhere else. I'm sorry."

Aria sighed. "It's okay."

The girls shared their first hug in a while, realizing how much distance they had put between them and how much they missed each other.

Spencer smiled down at Aria. "Are we sill Team Sparia?"

Aria smiled back and slipped her arm through Spencer's. "Of course. We always were."