A/N: I am so sorry for not updating. Life got in the way and I just didn't feel motivated to write anything. But I am going to try to update a little more since it is summer and all.
"Yes?" Ezra asked as if he heard her wrong.
"Yes, Thomas raped me," tears were not streaming down her face and they mixed with the snot running out of her nose.
"Aria, are you being a hundred percent truthful? These are serious accusations. This could ruin his life, are you sure?"
"Wow Mr. Fitz, I didn't think you'd be one to think I was lying, thanks it makes me feel so much better about everything." Then Aria stood up and walked around the living room.
"Aria, that's not what I meant," Ezra readjusted himself once again as if it would relive the awkward floating around the room.
"Really? What did you mean? That maybe I was just imagining everything? Or how about that I fantasized about Thomas and that made me think he raped me. You know what would prove it? THE FACT THAT HE IS AMELIA'S FATHER!" In that moment, the room got extremely quiet.
Ezra stood up from the couch and walked towards Aria and hugged her, "I meant that if you are serious about this, we can go straight to the police and all of this can be over."
"I can't… I can't go to the police. This isn't the first time I have told someone that Thomas sexually abused me."
"If this isn't the first time," Ezra said as he guided the girl back to the couch, "then why isn't he in jail? Why isn't he rotting in a small cell?"
"Because nobody believed me! Everyone thought I was just doing that for attention. You know that everyone thinks that teen moms only got pregnant for attention. They never look into how they got pregnant or why they did. It isn't fair."
"Aria, I think we really should go to the police. We can make them do a paternity test to prove he raped you, it is as simple as that."
"EZRA! I CAN'T FUCKING GO TO THE POLICE ABOUT THIS! JUST RESPECT MY WISHES!" The girl stormed to the bathroom and slammed the door shut. Five minutes later, blood curdling screams permeated the apartment.
In the bathroom, the girl sat on the toilet with tears streaming her eyes. She looked for an escape, a way to leave this trauma behind her and just move on. Her eyes instantly went towards the shower, 'He has to have a razor in here somewhere, he has to,' the girl thought.
She peeked her head into the shower and there it was, directly across from her. She reached for it, and fell into the tub. She reached for it again and got it. She cozied herself in the tub and started grazing it across her upper thigh. The blood started to run down her leg instantly.
'Ugh, I should've thought about this more.' The girl thought to herself. She stood up and hopped out of the tub.
Aria cracked the door open to find Ezra sitting mindlessly on the couch while the tv blared some overrated competition show. "Uh, Mr Fitz… Er, Ezra, where are the towels? I want to take a shower, I feel disgusting."
"In the cabinet under the sink. There's also a bar of soap, you can just use my shampoo right?"
"Yeah, I guess. Thanks." Aria quietly shut the door and went to the sink. She pulled out the towel, but something caught her eye.
While Aria was in the bathroom, Ezra sat on the couch with his iPhone gathering his attention. He was busying playing Candy Crush Saga and texting his brother, Wesley.
The man heard the bathroom door open for the second time, "Uh Ezra, what is this?" Aria said as she walked out of the bathroom with a pile of Playboys in her hands.
Ezra lifted his head, expecting to see nothing of importance. When he saw what it really was, he jumped off of the couch and snatched them from her. "Oh shit Aria. You weren't supposed to see that. Crap."
"It's okay, I won't tell anyone at school that you have a pile of porn under your bathroom sink." Aria promised with a wink.
Then Ezra noticed what Aria was wearing, a towel, and nothing else. "Miss Montgomery," Ezra said while he swallowed, "Don't you think it is a tad bit inappropriate that you aren't wearing clothes?"
"Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that I wasn't wearing…"
Aria was cut off by Ezra, "WHY IS YOUR LEG BLEEDING? ARE YOU OKAY? DID YOU HURT YOURSELF?"
"Crap, you weren't supposed to see that!" Aria bent over and rubbed the self-inflicted cuts with her towel.
"Aria, what did you do?" Ezra walked closer to the bloody girl.
"I'm sorry. I am so sorry. You didn't sign up for this." For the second time that night, Aria was fighting her tears to speak.
Ezra put his arms around the timid girl, "Aria, I'm not gonna lie, I didn't sign up for any of this. Nobody just signs up for this. That's the thing about life, you get dealt things that you don't want to deal with, but somebody has to do it. I'm glad that I get to help you deal with this. I will help you with this, I promise you that. You need to have something stable in your life, and I figure that Amelia and I could be that. Now this will only work if you let me help you. This may sound like every cliché story about a girl that self-harms and then her Knight in Shining Armor comes and helps her to get better and get over her problems, but it isn't like that at all. It is going to be hard, I know that, but I can help. I really can."
"Ezra stop. You can't help me, nobody can help me."
"And you just said the most cliché thing somebody in your position could say."
"Want to know what is cliché? A teenage girl with depression, daddy issues, and they cut themselves. Yeah that is pretty fucking cliché, don't you think?"
"Okay, let's just stop with the whole cliché thing. Okay?" Aria nodded her head, "I just want you to feel better and be happier about yourself! That is my job as your provider and also your teacher that I help you!"
"OKAY! I GET IT! LET'S HELP THE LITTLE LOST TEENAGE GIRL THAT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE WANTS OR WHAT SHENEEDS! OKAY JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DILLWEED!"
"Did you just call me a dillweed?"
"Yes, matter in fact I did. Do you have a problem with that?" Ezra chuckled.
Somewhere, in the wild emotions floating around, Ezra got lost in Aria's beautiful eyes and leaned into kiss her. But it didn't stop there, and Aria didn't try to stop him. The kiss lasted for a minute before either one of them realized what they were doing.
"Uh. Well I am going to go take that shower now."
