Aria woke up in an unfamiliar bed the second day in a row with Jason gently shaking her.

"Good morning," He smiled at her, and handed her a cup, "I poured you a cup of coffee."

Aria sat up and took the cup from him, "Thank you Jason."

He sat down on the bed next to her and watched her sip the coffee. Aria smiled at him as their eyes met, and she lazily ran her hand through her hair, trying to smooth it out.

Jason cleared his throat, "So um, when do you need to be at school?"

"Doesn't matter, I'm not going." Aria shrugged

"Don't be ridiculous," Jason said sternly, "You have to go."

"Not really. I can show up late, I have English first period."

"Get up." Jason frowned, "I'm driving you to your house so you can shower and get dressed and then you're going to school or I'm calling your parents."

Aria pouted, "You wouldn't actually call my parents, would you? Are you really going to make me go have class with him today?"

Jason cupped Aria's cheek in his hand, "You have to face him eventually sweetheart. Better make it now and be the bigger person."

Aria sighed and came out from under the warm safety of the blankets on Jason's bed. He smiled knowing that she got up because of him. Then his eyes wandered to her very exposed leg. His shirt didn't even go halfway down her thigh, and when she walked, it threatened to reveal even more, taunting him as she moved. Jason gulped as Aria turned back and walked towards where he sat, and she straddled him. Her lips met his briefly, and Jason's heart skipped a beat in that moment.

"Thank you." Aria looked into his eyes, "No matter what happens, just remember that you're the one I came to last night."

Jason kissed Aria back, slower this time. They lingered on each other's lips for a while, until Jason mustered up some self control. He stood up, pulling Aria with him.

Jason eyed Aria, "Remind me never to give you one of my shirts again, you're too tempting in it."

"Maybe that's a good thing." Aria smiled.

Aria was pulling out her notes for English class, trying to process her emotions. She was torn over Ezra's sudden hatred for her, but at the same time a door had been opened for her and Jason. It would be easy for her to say she loved Jason; she'd known him for so long and the feelings she had for him had always been buried in the back of her mind. But it didn't feel right to say that she loved him.

"Hey, Aria." Hanna leaned over, "Did we have homework last night?"

"I honestly don't remember Han," Aria sighed.

Spencer shot them a look, "Of course we don't have homework. We have that book report due Friday, remember?"

Aria and Hanna groaned in unison, and a look of worry grew upon Emily's face.

"I have an important meet this week," Emily said, "I wish it was next week instead of this week."

"I wish it was never." Aria made a face.

"Someone forgot to drink her coffee this morning." Spencer joked.

"You okay Aria?" Emily asked, noticing the distant look on Aria's face.

A wave of silence washed over the chatting classroom as Mr. Fitz walked in. He wrote the date up on the board behind him then turned back to face the classroom. Aria looked at him, and he glared back at her.

"Do his eyes look red to you?" Hanna asked in a hushed voice.

Emily shushed her, "It's probably just allergies."

"He looks hungover." Aria commented bitterly.

"Don't say that." Spencer warned, "He could get in trouble."

Aria rolled her eyes, "Yeah well, maybe it's true."

"How would you know?" Hanna asked.

All three girls turned to Aria who was staring blankly back at them. Ezra cleared his throat at the front of the classroom.

"Well class," He said, "Your book reports on the Great Gatsby due this Friday, which I'm hoping means you all have read it by now."

Murmurs echoed throughout the classroom before he continued to speak, "So I've decided we're going to watch the movie today. Don't write your report on the movie, I will know."

After students all gave their unneeded approval and the movie was playing, Ezra sank down in his seat. Aria searched his face for any sign of forgiveness, but all she saw was exhaustion and anger.

Hanna leaned over in her seat, "Sounds like someone was too drunk to even make a lesson plan last night."

"I told you so." Aria said.

Ezra looked at Aria, "Miss Montgomery, if you're not going to pay attention in my class then get out."

All eyes turned to Aria, and she glared back at Ezra with a fury much too great to even be able to form words. Once everyone else in the class seemed to experience short term memory loss, the girls looked at Aria for an explanation.

"What was that all about?" Spencer whispered.

Aria shook her head in confusion, trying to hold back the tears in her eyes. She concentrated on the TV screen, not really processing the movie but needing something to focus on other than the humiliation and anger she felt. Finally, after what seemed like the longest period of her life, the bell rang. Aria barely waited for her friends to leave before turning around to face Ezra.

"What the hell was that?" Aria hissed, "You don't get to act like an asshole towards me, not after what you did."

"After what I did?" Ezra said, "You fucked Jason DiLaurentis."

Aria fumed, "No I didn't."

"Then how do you explain this?" Ezra pulled his phone out and showed Aria the picture that he could not bring himself to delete.

"Ezra. . . who sent this to you?" Aria stammered, even though she already knew before asking.

"It doesn't matter!" Ezra said, "You lied to me, even after I opened up to you."

"I didn't lie to you Ezra! I never slept with Jason, I left seconds after that picture was taken." Aria tried to explain.

"Then why would someone send it to me?" Ezra asked, sounding defeated.

Aria took a breath, "I don't have time to talk about this right now."

When Aria turned to walk away, Ezra grabbed her arm.

"Don't walk away. Tell me what this is about." His voice was low.

"I can't talk about this here!" Aria plead.

"Why not?" Ezra asked, "Is someone threatening you?"

Aria shook her head, "I'll tell you everything but I can't do it here and now. We need to be somewhere alone, and I mean really alone."

"Come to my apartment tonight, please. I know somewhere we can go."

Aria nodded and then walked out of the classroom. This time, Ezra let her go. As she left, Ezra thought about A for the millionth time and realized that maybe he wasn't the primary target of these messages. Whoever A was, they had tried to break up the most important relationship of his life, maybe even succeeded, and he was not okay with that.

A/N: How do you guys feel about this chapter? I had trouble writing it, but I think it says what I want it to. Next chapter is so so so exciting. If I get 5+ reviews I'll update by Friday. Kisses! Xx