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Aria stood in horror as two of the officers walked forward and grabbed Ezra's arms, leading him toward the door. With a fierce scream she ran toward them, trying desperately to pry their hands off of him. Her efforts were in vain as another officer came up behind her and restrained her before forcefully seating her on the couch.
"Are you Aria Montgomery?" he asked her, peering down at her face.
"I'm not going to tell you a damn thing!" she growled, her chest heaving with every angry breath.
"Aria," Ella gasped but the officer raised his hand to shrug it off, apparently used to this kind of reception.
"How dare you come here and do this! I am a completely consenting adult, you have no right!" Aria continued, her anger mounting. She glanced over at Ezra to see he was being read his Miranda rights.
The officer ignored her and pulled out a picture.
"Do you recognize this?" he asked her. She could only stare for a few moments as fear filled her. It was a picture of her and Ezra being "intimate" but that was not what caught Aria's attention. What caused a lump to form in her throat was the little red time stamp in the corner, March 9, 2011. She had been sixteen when it was taken.
"How did you get this?" she gasped.
"That's not the issue here," he responded, his glance at Byron and Ella told Aria all she needed to know.
"Mom? Dad?" she said, tears starting to build.
"We found it on our car earlier today and immediately called the police," Byron finally answered.
"Why?" she asked, anger slowly filling her again.
"Aria, what he did to you was wrong. It was sick and illegal, and he needs to go to jail," Ella said glaring at the subject of her statement.
"Why didn't you talk to me first?" she cried.
"What could you have possibly said to make it better Aria? He was a teacher who was taking advantage of his student – a minor. Of course we alerted the authorities when we found out," Ella said exasperatedly.
"I could have told you that I love him with all my heart. I could have told you that I can't imagine my life without him." Her eyes brimmed with tears that threatened to fall; she fought against them, knowing that if she allowed them to fall that she would never stop. "And," she paused for a moment, regaining her composure, "I could have told you that I was pregnant." Silence fell over the room as her words began to sink in. "Now, because of you, he will miss the first few years of our child's life, something he can never get back and I will never forgive you for that."
She looked around at all the faces and was surprised to find that even some of the officers looked sympathetic, but they had a job to do and when the silence continued all but the one who was talking with Aria walked out the front door, with Ezra in tow.
The officer looked at Aria, clearly at a loss for words. He moved to speak in an attempt to cover some of the awkwardness of the whole situation.
"You will be expected to be at the hearing next week to testify." He informed her after a few moments of awkward silence.
"Like hell I will. I'm not testifying against him." Aria snapped. Without another word she bolted out the door after Ezra, desperate to see him before he was taken away.
She reached him just as the officers were about to put him in the back of the car, and kissed him as if she would never be able to kiss him again.
After they broke apart he whispered, "I love you Aria, none of this is your fault. I knew the risks going into this, you are worth it, I wouldn't take back a second."
"I love you too," she plastered a small smile on her face, determined to not let him see her pain. She brushed his hair in her signature way and gently placed a hand on his cheek before the officers separated them.
They put him in the back of the squad car, but before they drove off he leaned out the window.
"Aria, I know its going to be hard, but my apartment is paid off so you and the baby can stay there, and if things go badly, there should be enough money in my bank account to support you both until I get out. I promise I…" he told her, but the rest of his sentence was cut off as the engine started.
She watched helplessly as the police car drove away into the distance. "Ezra!" she screamed. Finally, something inside her snapped and the tears she had been fighting flowed freely down her face mixing with the rain. She fell on her knees and let the sobs overtake her body, not caring that it was midnight or that the rain soaked through her clothes chilling her to the bone.
She sat hunched over on the ground, the void in her body threatening to completely over take her as she stared vacantly at the space where the patrol car had vanished. The buzzing of her cell phone caused her to jump, pulling her away slightly from the void. Numbly she fumbled for it and read the message slowly not being able to see clearly through her tears.
Poor Aria, looks like baby daddy's gone for a while. Tell him I say hi when you visit him in lock up. Kisses -A
Ok another chapter down. Can you believe its only two days until pll comes back? Think of this as your count down. I will post two chapters a day until it comes back on. Please review.