She let the warm water wash over her pale was no comfort for the feeling she felt, abandonment. The water dripped down the glass walls around her, making pathways through the steam as they fell. She nuzzled her head under the stream of hot water, burying her sadness in the constant warmth. A door slammed, a sound Aria still wasn't use to. She sighed, she knew she could not spend the rest of the day in the comfort of the water, the fantasy of her perfect life. Alison, her parents, Ella...no, that was the old life.
Ezra turned the key on the dark green door in front of him. He tried his best not to slam it as he walked over to the kitchen bench and dumped the small white take-away boxes on the edge. The sound of the shower taps being turned off gave him a rough idea of how Aria felt. He had tried to be some sort of comfort for her,but she refused to admit something was wrong. The bathroom door opened and a pale skinned girl walked out, her tangled black hair fell over her shoulders and just touched the white towel, which covered the rest of her body. She smiled at him, that sweet smile he had always loved, but it was missing something. Her chestnut eyes were gleaming with love and...nothing. Some part of her had been stolen and he knew what was wrong. But for now, he had to concentrate on the small part that was happy part.
Aria dropped the towel, carelessly, on the floor and stood in front of the bathroom mirror. She had per purposely left the door open while she began to change into something for dinner, she knew Ezra would be watching. She could feel his soft brown eyes caressing her body, knowing she was loved made her feel good. After settling on a dark red dress with soft patterns on it, she wandered into the living room. As usual on a Friday night, Ezra had laid out the chopsticks on the scruffy rug and stood the two small boxes at opposite ends of it. He waited patiently by the box closest to his room,his hands folded in his lap and his head turned toward her. His smile encouraged her always, with every waiting moment and she loved him for it. That was something he would never know, but she would've always wanted him to.
Just as she stepped out of the bedroom Ezra heard his phone buzz. He fished it out of his back pocket and caught a glimpse of the text on the screen, before shoving it back in to place. He smiled at Aria as she walked over and did a parade of the new dress, before sitting on the rug in front of the takeaway. The made small talk throughout the meal and laughed when it was appropriate, but something wasn't right. Aria had plastered a smile on her face just for him and he knew it, but it was like their was a pane of glass keeping Aria's feelings separate from her body. She might think she could live like that, but Ezra couldn't. She frowned at him when both of the boxes lay empty on the floor beside them. "Something's wrong." he whispered this softly, praying she would realize it too. "What is it?" empty. Emptiness was all that lay in her voice. He looked deep into her chocolate eyes, always laced with love and beauty, but now that had faded and all that sat there was sadness, the happy glimmer no longer existed and he looked up from the rug toward her. He couldn't do it anymore. "Aria...Aria, I can't bare to see you like this!" the words were like tiny chunks of the small part of her salvaged life, caving in on her. All she could manage were the words "I don't know what you mean, look at me...I'm fine." she said this so quietly, but speaking these words was wrong. He shook his head and tried to hold it together as he said "I am looking Aria!I have watched you ever since you chose me, and I wish you hadn't!CANT YOU SEE WHAT THIS IS DOING TO YOU! BECAUSE IT'S KILLING YOU, AND IT'S KILLING ME TO WATCH!" he was standing by this point and throwing his arms in the air while Aria watched and tried to focused on the happy image of her old life. But Ezra couldn't take it anymore, that text had pushed him over the edge. He grabbed his keys and left the apartment, the text still fresh in his mind, "You can't fix what broken. Aria knows that, and soon you will too - A"
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