Ezra POV:
As I passed a black figure I heard someone scream. I looked down to my left to see Aria sitting there.
"Aria?" I questioned.
Aria POV:
I new this voice.
"Are you okay? What are you doing here?"
"Ezra?" I asked relived. I tried to get up and hug him but my foot slipped from under me and I face planted at his feet. He sat me up against the wall and slide next to me.
"What happen?" he looked at me.
"I fell over and I hurt my foot" not to mention you stepped on it! But right now I wanted to console with him not make it worse.
"Why aren't you at home? And where's your car?"
"I ran my car out of fuel, I was driving around the park for hours. I was just thinking" I croaked.
"What where you thinking about?" he asked in a whisper. WOW that was bold for him.
"Everything… My friends, my parents, my little brother but most of all you." I trailed of in a whisper. He put his arm around my waist to comfort me. I looked up at his face and gave him a half hearted smile. I leant into him a little and we sat there for a while in a comfortable silence. I looked up into his crystal blue eyes, I leant up to kiss him. He put his hand on my shoulder in restraint and frowned at me like what I am about to say I don't really want to but here I got.
"Are you sure?" I looked once again into his eyes and smiled at the raindrops rolling down and falling of his nose. I nodded closed my eyes and waited. He put his and on my cheek to pull me closer then our lips finally collided. I opened my mouth and his warm sweet breath flooded in. I had my hands in his hair while his hands played with the bottom of my back. The kiss was full of longing, love and forgiveness I never wanted to let go! But he pulled back to look at my expression he still held my face in his hands. We looked into each other's eye and smiled for a little while but then the wind started to blow violently. We pull our eye away from each other to look up at the sky. A bright light appeared across the sky and despaired just as fast as it came, it was followed by a loud rumble of thunder. I hated storms the rain was fine but this was really scary. Ezra looked back at my face as if to say something but he must have seen the look in my eyes before he started. He rubbed my face with one of his hands to try and comfort me and then said calmly and sweetly as imaginable "can you walk?"
"I'm not sure but ill try" I barley whispered. He held my hand to pull me up. I got up on my good foot and gently place my left foot on the ground but brought it straight back up with a whimper.
"Are you okay?" he asked in a concerned voice.
All I could manage to do what shake my head. I bitt on my lip so hard that I drew blood but it wall all I could do so I wouldn't cry,
He put one hand around my waste and the other behind my knees and picked me up of my foot. He ran as fast as he could with me in his arms back to his apartment. When we got there he let us into the apartment and placed me on the couch and jogged over to his freezer and back again with a bag of frozen peas. I didn't even know he had ever brought frozen peas.
"Maybe we should go to the emergency room?" he finally broke the silence. To answer his question I nodded not trusting my voice. He picked me up once again and took me to his car with my handbag in my arms. He gently placed me in the passenger seat. Before I new it we were at the hospital and he was carrying me into the waiting room. The hospital was crazy probably because of the wether outside. There were ambulance sirens ringing, doctor's and other people running around, hospital beds being pushed around some even with people in them and the waiting room was extremely crowded. As Ezra walked over to the desk carrying me I realised we were both still in wet clothes. The nice old lady handed us the paper work. Ezra turned around to see only one seat free. He walked over to it and sat down still cradling me against his chest. We filled out the necessary paper work. Ezra got up leaving me on the chair and gave the lady our paper work. He came back to the seat and cradled me against his chest once again.
Ezra POV:
After the waiting room quieten down I felt Aria's little body fall limp in my arms as she slowly drifted of to sleep. Once her name was called I whispered "Aria" in her ear and gently shook her awake. "Mhhhhhhhm" she answered as if to say that was not the way I wanted you to wake me up but okay.
"The doctor's ready for you sweet heart" I whispered.
"Oh okay, let's go" she mumbled as I followed the doctor down the white hallway with Aria in my arms.
"Is she alright" the doctor asked once we reached the room.
"Yer she fine just tired" I answered looking into her beautiful confused eyes. The doctor took a few tests.
" can you walk or do you need a wheel chair?" he ask his head buried in his paper work.
"I think a wheel chair would be better" Aria admitted sleepily.
Aria POV:
After the x-ray was taken I was wheeled back to the doctor office by a nice looking young nurse. She smiled sweetly at Ezra and I then said "the doctor will be with you soon" and with that she walked out of the room. Ezra and I sat there holding each other's hands. We didn't talk much just the occasional "are you okay" and "I'm fine". When the doctor finally came back into the room we looked at the x-rays. He told me I had a broken ankle. While he was putting a cast on my ankle he tried to make small talk like when you at the hair dresser and they try to talk to you.
"Aria what really happen? There is no way a person could be running steep on a foot and do this much damage." Then I realised I never asked Ezra is he was the one to stand on my foot! He got me some crutches and we filled out more paper work. When we finally were at home it was around 3am. Ezra carried me up the stairs because the lift was out of order. He went back down to his car to get my crutches and handbag. My phone buzzed in my pocket so I pulled it out thinking it was my mum wondering where I had gone. But no
"Aria you are about to find out how close I came to you twice tonight with out you seeing me."
-A
Where was Ezra? Had –A hurt him? But just then Ezra came through the door of the apartment with my crutches but no handbag in sight.
"Ezra where my hand bag" I asked concern.
"Its not in the car did you take it with you?" he looked around the apartment.
"Never mind it's probably at home." But I new it wasn't. That's what –A had been talking about. I couldn't tell Ezra he would be worried.
We sat there in a comfortable silence until Ezra looked at me and spoke.
"Aria who steeped on your foot?" he questioned.
"I through it was you!" I look at him surprised.
"Why would you think that?" he asked hurt.
"Because when I fell I crawled to the wall. When I herd foot steeps coming really fast so I closed my eye. I… I didn't see who steeped on my foot but I only saw you so I assumed that it was you. I thought you didn't see me. I'm sorry." I answer kind of ashamed.
"I promise you I didn't do it." He sounded sincere.
" But someone did run past me maybe they did and didn't realise."
OWWW MY … it was –A that's what "shim" meant when they said I had come close to it tonight and didn't even see. I felt Ezra's eyes on me. He was kneeling in front of me with his hands gently around my leg and turned to a pillow on his coffee table and back to me again. I smile at him to reassure me. Ezra picked my leg up and gently sat it on the pillow. I went back to thinking after he walked away. –A was the one that had steeped on my foot and I blamed Ezra. I was mad at myself, he would have said sorry even if he didn't know it was me. He heard me scream and rushed over to me not knowing what was wrong. –A had my bag! What was in that bag? I tried to list them: My purse, Photos, sunglasses and all the junk that is at the bottom of everyone's bags. Could –A find all that much out about me? I would have to get a new licence before I could drive again but that was all. Who was this creepy person? I felt the tear well up in my eyes. –A was trying to do anything and everything she/him/ it could think of to scare me. This could push me over the edge if I didn't have Ezra back but I do. Speaking of he came back up to me and raped a new pink blanket around me and handed me Pigtunna. The he looked into my eyes.
"Aria are you in pain? What can I do? Do you need anything?" it all fell of his mouth in a muddle.
I put my cold pale finger on his lips to shush him.
"I'm fine. Don't worry." Then I lent up to once again to kiss him. This kiss quickly turned passionate but I had to pull away and remind Ezra of the semi fragile state my left foot was in. I ended up sitting side ways on his lap continuing to kiss him. He pulled back and then began to kiss along my jaw down to my neck. I had enough of his teasing and pulled his face back to mine.
It was around 4AM when we finished.
"Are you ready to sleep?" he whispered seductively into my ear, I shivered at the warmth of his breath only just noticing we were still in our wet clothes.
"mmmhhm" was all I could say. I watched him as he grabbed my crutches and pigtunna and wondered of into his bed room. He came back out got two glasses of water and took them back to the room. I watched on with that "what in the world are you doing" look on my face but all he did was smile at me. He came back over to me and picked me up in his strong arms and took me into the bedroom sitting me carefully on his bed. He went over to his draws and pulled out some clothes.
"Here put these on your still in the wet clothes" that wasn't true the clothes we almost all dry but not that comfortable. He walk out of the room and into the bath room. After I herd he had come back out I yelled out "Ezra I'm kind of having some trouble. Can you please help me?" I had got the shirt on but I didn't know what to do for the pants. I herd him pad lightly over to the door and knocked.
"Yes Ezra you can come in!"
He looked at me sitting on the bed in an awkward position and smiled.
"Come here honey?" he reached his had out and pulled me to the edge of his bed. He hovered me above the bed with one had and undid the zipper on my skirt with the other and slide it off of my legs and put me back down on the bed. He went over to his dresser and got out a pair of boxers. He looked at my face and I blushed a deep scarlet. He chuckled a little but slid the boxer over my feet and lifted me of the bed again to pull them up to my hips. He put my legs under the covers and went out the door to lock up and turn the lights of. He came back into the bedroom and got in his side of the bed and put his arm around me. He held me there and I felt safe, felt like this was my safe landing place where I could always come be myself with the man I loved. We both slowly drifted of to sleep.
For the next week I stayed at Ezra's only going home once to get clothes to wear.
Flash back:
"Aria? Is that you?" Ella called out frantically.
"Um yer its me." I answered as I hopped up the stairs. She came out of the living room and rushed over to me after seeing I was on crutches. She held on to my arm until I finally got up the stairs and shook her off. I continued on to my room but Ella was close behind me. I Grabbed my silver bag in one hand an hopped over to my wardrobe. I grabbed hand fuls of cloths and shoes until the bag was full. I didn't even bother to check if they matched. Ella cleared he throat as I hopped on to the bathroom grabbing toiletries. I turned around to go out the bathroom door but Ella was standing in the way.
"Aria can we please talk?" she asked seriously. To be honest I really didn't feel like having a heart to heart with my mum right now.
"no" I tried to push past and succeeded. She held my arm once again as I jumped down the stairs. This time I didn't need to shake it off, she got the message the first time.
Hanna was waiting outside to take me back to Ezra's apartment. As I left the drive way my mum called out "Aria where are you going? What's wrong? Whom are you staying with?" it sounded like she was crying. I wanted to shout all of my feelings out at her but I restrained myself and got into Hanna's car. The drive was silent but Hanna helped me up to Ezra's apartment and left before he came to the door. For that short second I was "alone" in the hallway it scared me. The tears streamed down my face and the door of 3B swung open. He saw my tear streaked face and pull the stuff out of my hands and me into a tight hug picking me up of the ground. Once he put me down on the couch, handed me coffee and sat next to me putting has arm around me I started to talk.
"I wanted to scream at her!" I sobbed; he lent in and took the coffee from me, putting both of them on the table.
"Why?" I didn't look at him.
"Because sh...she needs to make up her mind! If she loves my dad then she should forgive him but if not just leave. I really don't want her to leave Ezra, but right now what she's doing is worse!" I lent into him a little more."
"Aria I think it's a little more complicated then that!" he whispered and I immediately I understood. My dad could have lost more than just his family but everything loosing his job or worse going to jail.
"I'mmm not saying that is was right! I hate him for it. I hate that I kept it from Ella but… but." He pulled me close and sat there and comforted me. He could tell I wanted to get away from it and in this case talking about I was hurting and not going to make me feel better. When dinnertime came we ordered chines and watched movie. He carried me to bed and helped me change again. He held me as we both went to sleep.
It was around midnight when we were both woken by the ringing of Ezra's home phone. He got up to get it. Who would call at this hour? Once again I was alone in a dark room. Could it be –A on the other line? I listen in on the conversation.
"Hello" said a sleepy Ezra.