Bell ducked her head and went down an empty hallway before walking to lunch, beating herself up for talking to Lena, "Just because I can trust her daughter doesn't mean I can trust her. Stupid." She kept muttering until she ran into her friend.

"Hey Bell, you ready for Lunch? Are you okay?" Aria asked her friend noticing that something was off with her.

"Yeah, fine. I just had class with your mom." Bell laughed awkwardly, "That was kinda awkward..." She stopped mid sentence realizing how weird she must be sounding.

"Hey, think how I must feel! I have my mo... I have her teaching me, it's so awkward, its not even funny" Aria said trying to lighten the mood.

"Yeah well, sucks for you." Bell teased, smiling slightly, "Shit. Look out, mother alert." Bell looked around trying to find a place to hide.

"Fuck" Aria said as she lightly pushed Bell into the bathroom.

"Hey Aria" Lena said.

"Ummm, Hi Lena" Aria said as she tried to think of a good excuse on why she wasn't at lunch after only a yogurt for breakfast.

"Why aren't you outside eating lunch with the other kids?" Lena asked as she started leading her to her office so they could talk.

"I just don't feel like eating outside" Aria said. "I was just gonna eat, just not outside" She quickly added as soon as she realized where her mom was taking her.

"And now you are going to be eating in my office with me today" Lena said as they approached their office.

"Okay" Aria agreed realizing the quicker she got this over with the quicker she would get out of there and be able to see her friends again.

"Mom is going to be joining us as well" Lena added as soon as she opened the door to her office.

"Hi Aria, What are you doing here?" Stef asked her daughter as she came and sat down next to her.

"Lena wanted me to come here for some reason" Aria answered.

"Mom and I wanted to talk to you about a few things, one is you skipping breakfast and now trying to skip lunch" Lena said as she sat down next to Aria.

"What about eating thing? I mean I had something for dinner and breakfast" Aria said.

"You had an apple for dinner and a yogurt for lunch. There's no way that you can that, that's considered eating enough." Stef's tone revealed her inner aggravation. "You cannot honestly tell me that you've been eating if an apple and yogurt is your main meals."

"To be fair, thats what my diet was when Callie was in juvie and would not jump down my throat for not eating" Aria said trying to defend herself. "And the way I see it, as long as I don't go 36 hours without eating again i'm fine" She added.

"To be fair," Stef said mimicking, "when Callie was in juvie and you were in a different foster home who didn't care, isn't a good example."

Shocked, Lena jumped in before Stef could say anything that would make the situation worse, "Stefanie! That's enough!" Lena shot her wife a look that made Stef realize she had crossed a line, and would hear about it later. Lena turned her attention back to her daughter, "Love, we don't want you to feel like we're jumping down your throat, we just want to make sure you're eating enough for your body to stay healthy. And we're worried about why you're not eating..." Lena didn't directly ask her daughter the question but the lack of an ending to her sentence was a question enough.

"I have eaten less and have been fine" Aria said wishing that the lunch period would end already and this conversation would be over.

Lena placed her hand on her daughter's knee, hoping that she would somehow get Aria to talk to her. "Is there anything going on? Any reason why you're not hungry lately." Before she gave enough time for Aria to answer, Lena spoke again, "Love, please talk to us, we just want to make sure you're okay..." Before Lena could finish or Aria could answer, the bell dismissing lunch rang.

"As much as I would love to continue this conversation" Aria started sarcastically as she got up and headed for the door " I have to get to gym" She finished as she ran out before her moms could stop her, not caring that she might get in trouble later on for leaving right away with permission.

"Hey Bell, sorry I ditched you at lunch" Aria said as she caught up wit her friend in gym.

"What happened?!" Bell was worried when Aria wasn't in the hallway after she had heard Lena walk off, and then when Aria didn't show up for the rest of the lunch period, "Did she see us?"

"No, but Stef was there and they started talking to me about my eating habits... I might of ran out of the office as soon as the bell rang...shit... I just remember how much Stef hates when we leave when they are in the middle of talking to us...how much trouble do you think I will be in?" Aria explained to her friend the jist of what happened in Lena's office.

"And what did you tell them?" Bell avoided the question about how much trouble her friend was going to get into, because from what she had heard about Stef, Aria was going to be grounded forever, "Did you actually tell them why you haven't been eating?"

"How much trouble do you think I am gonna be in?" Aria asked again before continuing "And how stupid do you think I am. I avoiding answering as much as possible."

"Well. Hopefully Callie can talk them out of grounding you for a month?" Bell tried to joke, but there was a lot of truth to the statement, "Maybe if you make something up and go talk to them now, and apologize to Stef she'll let you off easy with only being in trouble for a week or two?" Bell tried suggesting.

"If you didn't realize, we are in class and stef went back to work." Aria said. "I am fucking screwed" She added.

"Well," Bell thought, there really wasn't a way Aria was going to win from this situation, "Maybe the real problem you should focus on is how you're going to get them to stop worrying about you not eating?"

"Yeah, I mean I can always sneak out if I get grounded" Aria said already forming a plan in her head.

"With a mom as a cop?" Bell raised her eyebrows, "Damn, you've got some guts. Just don't get yourself into too much trouble, more trouble means more attention which means your moms will notice more things you've been keeping secret."

"Fuck, youre right!" Aria said. "I will just say that I really didn't want to miss gym and that I had to get changed." She added.

A little while later gym was over and it was time for Aria to go home and face the music...or yelling... whatever happened.

"Why are both our moms home?" Brandon asked as he and his siblings walked up to the house.

"I have no idea" Callie said as the other agreed. Aria just kept quiet.

"Hello my Babies" Stef said as soon as they walked through the door.

"Hi mom, Hi Momma!" The kids coursed.

"Do you think you guys could go to a movie and out to dinner tonight, like right now, while we talk to Aria for a bit?" Stef asked as she gave Brandon some money.

"Umm sure" Brandon said confused as he lead Jesus and Mariana out of the room.

"Callie, Sweets, she will be fine, Momma and I just want to talk to her alone for a bit" Stef said trying to reassure her that Aria would be in good hands. After a bit more persuading on Stef and Lena's part Callie finally joined the rest of the kids.

"Lets go into the living room to talk, yes?" Stef said as she lead Lena and a reluctant Aria into the living room. When they got there Aria sat in the middle of the couch with her moms on either side of her looking at her for a hint of what might be going on in their daughter mind.

"I guess we'll start then," Stef tried to joke to lighten the mood after a minute of silence, she felt really bad about what she had said earlier to Aria, "Why don't we talk about lunch today. Aria, love, you know the rules, none of you kids are allowed to just run away when you momma and I are talking to you, you know this, yes?"

"You see, I really had to get to gym and I didn't want to be late because you know how you have to change and everything" Aria tried. Hoping and praying that they would buy it.

"Really?" Stef raised an eyebrow at her daughter, her kids had tried to pull a lot over her through the years, but by now she expected a bit more of a story, "That's not an excuse, you know the rules and that is that you can't just walk away when we're talking. We'll let it slip this time, but don't think you can get away with it again. And don't tell your siblings because I don't want to have to hear about how I let you get away with it." Stef smiled again, trying to comfort her daughter.

"I won't, Thank you" Aria said gratefully. "Is that all" Aria asked hoping that there was not going to be a continuation of the lunch conversation. Luckily it seemed like to her that with all the talk they didn't realize that she didn't eat a thing.

"We still need to finish our conversation from lunch," Lena said softly,

"Damn it" Aria whispered to herself.

"Language," Lena warned but she didn't want to harp on it, she needed her daughter in the best mood possible while they were talking.

"It's not that bad of a word, I have said so much worse" Aria said trying to distract her moms from the looming conversation ahead.

Both women let it slide that their daughter was arguing with them, understanding that sarcasm was her way of dealing with difficult issues.

"You done yet?" Stef asked before continuing on.

"Done with what?" Aria asked. If her moms we're going to make her talk about this, she sure as hell wouldn't make it easy for them.

"Why are you skipping meals." Stef asked flat out, tired of the games her teenage daughter thought she could get away with.

"I am not skipping meals, Skipping meals would be me eating nothing at a meal, but you won't let me get away with that so I eat something, so that is technically not skipping a meal" Aria tried to reason, as she felt herself slowly shutting down.

"Fine." Stef sighed, "Why are you eating less, or in smaller amounts, smart ass."

Lena shot Stef a look, "Language?" She tried to scold again but from the lack of effort put into the scolding everyone could tell Lena knew she was fighting a losing battle when it came to swearing.

"I really don't know what you are talking about" Aria said, determined not to make this easy for her moms.

"This is going to be a lot easier for all of us if you just tell us one thing. Give us just a bit of information about what's going on, what has been going on since you got adopted, and we won't have to stay up the entire night, trying to get you to talk." Stef sighed, clearly exhausted, and clearly hurt that her daughter didn't trust her enough to talk about her feelings.

"There is nothing going on with me" Aria tried to say, this time all the emotion was gone from her voice. She could feel the depression swallowing her into a world of misery.

"You haven't made very many friends at school love," Lena tried to change the subject, maybe then Aria would talk a bit more, "You don't eat very much anymore. And you're even more sarcastic than your mom. We're just worried, we just want to help."

"I'm fine" Aria said in the same monotone voice with no emotion as before. "I can take care of myself" She added.

"We know you can take care of yourself, you and Callie have been taking care of yourselves for years, but you have a family now. We're your moms, it's our job to take care of you, we promised the courts when we adopted you, but more importantly it was a promise to you. And by allowing us to adopt you, you made a promise to try and let us help you."

"I am, I just don't need help with this" Aria said taking out her phone as she put one earbud in, as an attempt to block out the world.

"Aria. We let you get away with it once." Stef stated, "Trying to get out of talking again, is just going to get you into trouble."

"Okay" Aria said simply not caring anymore.

"Just tell us one thing," Lena pleaded, "One thing you've been thinking about and we'll stop nagging you for tonight."

"Depression" Aria stated simply.

Stef and Lena exchanged a glance, they were expecting something bad, but at the same time weren't entirely sure what they had been expecting.

"I told you one thing, now can you guys please leave the fucking hell alone?" Aria asked not caring about her language. All she could think about was how much she wanted to be alone.

"Uh," Lena paused, she went numb, how could she help her hurting daughter who didn't want to be helped, "Why don't you go to bed, we can talk more in the morning, okay love?"

"Whatever" Aria said as she put in her other earbud, blared the music as high as it could go and went to bed.

"We love you, Aria." Stef whispered as she watched her daughter storm out of the room. Stef and Lena stayed up for several hours later talking about what had been going on with their daughter and how they would be able to help her through it.