Story Title- Ezra and Aria: Double Infinity

Chapter 28: Formalities Are a Killer

Summary: Sequel to Ezra and Aria: A Romance to Last a Lifetime. Ezra and Aria have been living in New York for six years with their children and their dog. What happens when something throws a wrench into their nearly perfect lives?

Disclaimer: If I owned PLL, 217 would be tonight and 224 would be right after. Who else is extremely excited for 217? I know I am!

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Hanna nervously drummed her fingers against the granite counter as she waited for her friends to end their previous conversations, "I have something important to tell you." She glanced at each one of the girls before taking a deep breath and saying, "Do you guys remember when I said that I never really wanted a kid of my own?" Her eyes shifted to Aria, "Because borrowing one of Aria's four is fine with me? Or babysitting Xavier for Spencer and Toby while they go make monkey in the bed of his truck?"

Spencer and Aria's cheeks stained red and Emily just giggled, forcing herself to hide her smile with her hand, "Hanna!"

Hanna ignored the scolding and continued, her own face starting to flame, "Well, Caleb and I decided that it was finally time to try and have a baby."

Aria's hazel eyes widened and she gave her friend a one armed hug, "Are you serious? You guys were always so set against having a kid running around!"

"Well, that's because that neither of us was ready to raise another human being. Because unlike you, Aria, my husband isn't six and a half years my senior." After that statement, she recoiled and quickly apologized, "I didn't mean it like that. I intended to say that Caleb and I thought when we were first got married that twenty two was too young to have a kid running around."

Spencer finally cracked her lop-sided smirk, "And suddenly all of that has changed?"

"Well, if you would let me talk, I may be able to finish my statement." Hanna shook her blonde head in good humor, "So, Caleb and I agreed that it was time to start a family of our own. And I got permission from him before I came over if he'd allow me to tell you about our newest member."

All of the girls squealed like they were sixteen year old teenage girls again and the three children sitting at the kitchen table glanced up from their coloring books, alert from the new noise in the atmosphere. Kenzie piped up the courage and asked, "Do you guys see a mouse? Why don't you just get Snoopy to kill it like he did the last one?"

Aria laughed and shook her head, "No, sweetheart. No mouse right now."

"Oh. Well, Snoopy is right over here with us if you need him."

Hanna narrowed her eyes, "You guys have mice?" She glanced around her feet, as if she literally felt the rodents crawling over her skin, leaving behind an array of diseases.

"So not the point right now, Han." Spencer rolled her eyes and then gave her blonde friend a tight hug, "How far along are you? Have you seen a doctor yet? Have you been taking vitamins? Do you have morning sickness as bad as me and Aria did?"

"Wow. Let me breathe, will you, Spence?" She laughed and shrugged off her friends' constant hugging, "But to answer them: thirteen weeks, yes, not yet, and yes. The last one is a very big yes. I'm surprised I was even able to leave the bathroom this morning. It's where I seem to be spending a lot of time these days." Her hand began to caress her almost unnoticeable baby bump, "The first sonogram is in three weeks and I'd really like for you guys to be there."

In unison, Spencer, Aria, and Emily exclaimed loudly, "Of course we will!" They all exchanged glances before laughing and sharing a tight group hug. Aria looked over her shoulder, watching Kenzie and Andrew from the kitchen table. She couldn't believe that Kenzie would be seven in January and Andrew was in kindergarten. She could remember their firsts so easily; their first words, their first steps, their first days of school. Heck, she could remember the days they were born; Kenzie on January 8th and Andrew on June 21st. They were such good kids and Aria knew that their little brothers would have two great models when they needed them.

My babies are growing up too fast. Can't they just stop and be my little joys for a little bit longer?

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Ezra fought to ignore his mother's constant nagging as he led her down the main path into Central Park, "Where are you taking me, Ezra? Ezra, do you need your hearing checked? Why are you wearing that tux? Why are we going into the park at eight at night? Why aren't you answering your mother?"

When he finally heard Daniel's gently strumming of the guitar coming from the direction in front of him, he turned to Sarah and looked her in the eyes, "Me and Danny have a big surprise for you."

"A big surprise? Did you get me a new photo studio? Gosh, Ezra, I know I complain about mine being too small, but you two didn't to-"

"No, Mom." He rolled his dark blue eyes and took a deep breath before continuing, "It's not just for you. It's for you and Dad."

"Me and Isaac?" Sarah sighed, "Ezra, I know you are searching for a new hobby but fixing up me and your dad up on a secret date isn't going to make anything better between us."

A deeper voice came from ahead of them, "So, I can go home and take off this goofy suit then?" Isaac appeared from behind a thick bush, his one-sided smirk blinding against the late evening light, "I thought our boys did pretty darn well."

Sarah looked at Isaac up and down before rolling her eyes and smiling her own blinding grin, "Isaac, you were behind all this?"

The man shook his head, "Daniel dragged me out here a little while ago and then he told me to stay there and hide until I saw you coming. When he called Ezra a bit ago, I heard him say something about everything being ready. Then I smelled Italian food. So, I put two and two together and came up with the fact that the two hopeless romantics we have for sons prepared a romantic dinner in the moonlight for you and I this evening."

Sarah stared wide-eyed at him, her mouth hanging agape, "Our sons did what?" She averted her gaze to Ezra, who was now smiling from ear to ear, "Ezra, you and your brother did all this?"

Daniel stepped out from his hiding place, his guitar in his hands, "We sure did. We wanted to give you two some time together. In a romantic Fitz manner, of course."

Isaac took a few strides so then he could extend his arm to his ex-wife, his smirk widening into a full-blown grin, "Shall we, my lady?"

Sarah shook her head in exasperation but willingly took Isaac's arm, looping hers around and under his, "Let's go do this thing."

An extremely short chapter but I needed to get updated before all of you on Twitter officially tweeted me to death, begging me to update. And you've got to give the Ezria family what they want!

So, I will be updating (I hope) by this weekend before the big episode on Monday. Then I am hoping to update If I Knew Then by tomorrow. I have a lot of it written already.

Y'all will be happy to know that I am planning to end this fanfic at about 30-33 chapters, including a two part epilogue, which I am already outlining. And I will make sure that we end on a good note.

Wow, this story has turned out way better than I thought it would and I would love to give thanks to, yet again, my wonderful 'unofficial' beta, also known as my Yoda, h8atedit. A fellow writer and spiritual warrior! You rock, girly!

My favorite part about writing this story is definitely you guys cheering me on. You guys review, PM, tweet, and send me messages on Tumblr. That all makes me more encouraged to continue writing. You guys are the reason I didn't stop nine months ago, with just the ten shot I had planned on. It turned into a 52 chapter story, much to my surprise. Then it grew into this sequel. You guys convinced me to come this far. So, thank you so much for being there. I mean that, from the bottom of my heart.