Chapter Six

Aria woke up in her bed. She was sprawled across Kendall with her head on his chest. Aria was just lying there, listening to the sound of Kendall's heartbeat. "You're awake aren't you?" Kendall asked breaking her concentration.

"No." Aria groaned.

"Well, that was convincing. Good Morning." Kendall said shooting her that dazzling smile.

Aria groaned. "I don't want to get up." She said as turned over onto her back. Kendall got up.

"Come on, I'll make you breakfast" he said grabbing her wrist and pulling her towards him. She stood up next to him. "How'd we get in my bedroom anyways?" Aria questioned him as they walked into the kitchen.

"We both fell asleep on the couch watching TV, So I just picked you up and carried you. You sleep like a rock…" he chuckled. He proceeded to make her waffles.

They ate their breakfast and chatted. Kendall started to clean up. "You don't have to clean up, I can do it." Aria tried to stop him.

"No, I want to. Now sit down." Kendall said placing with hands on Aria's shoulders and pushing her back down in her seat. He cleaned everything while they talked. "I should go back to my apartment, my Mom's probably worried." Kendall said.

"Okay, I'll miss you." Aria said getting up and wrapping her arms around his waist.

"I'll miss you too." He said kissing her forehead.

Aria had been going upon her daily routine when her phone rang.

"Hello?" Aria said.

Kelly's voice came on the line. "Hi Aria, I'm sorry to bug you on your day off but Gustavo needs you in after all. Can you make it?"

"Yeah, I'm not busy. I'll be there ASAP." Aria replied.

Aria called a cab and made her way to Rocque Records.

She was walking in the building and over heard what sounded like Carlos, James and Logan discussing something with Gustavo. "So you guys leave for the 5 week tour in two days. So make sure you're packed and ready for the car at 7:30 AM. Let Kendall know too." She heard Gustavo say.

"Tour? Kendall never said anything about a tour…" Aria said out loud, a little too loud actually.

"Aria?" she heard James say opening the door.

"Hi." Aria said with an embarrassed wave. "Sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I was just heading in and I overheard you guys. "She said walking into the room. "What tour are you talking about?" she questioned.

"Kendall didn't tell you that we're going on a five week your?" Carlos asked.

"No…" Aria said.

"Oh, well this is awkward…" Logan said.

Aria suddenly felt over whelmed by emotions. She ran to the bathroom as fast as her feet would take her and locked herself in a stall and began sobbing uncontrollably. How could I have been so stupid and fallen completely in love with a boy she hardly even knew? She thought.

"ARIA!" she heard multiple people yell as they banged on the door. "We're coming in!" Logan, Carlos and James entered the woman's restroom.

"Go Away!" Aria yelled between her sobs. She really had no idea what emotion she was feeling, it was completely foreign to her.

"Aria, come on, just talk to us." Carlos pleaded.

"I don't want to. Please… just go." Her voice cracked.

"Fine." The boys left the bathroom. Aria grabbed her cell phone out of her bag and called another cab. There was no way she could sing at a time like this. She tried to clean herself up but her eyeliner and mascara was everywhere. She poked her head out of the bathroom to see the boys standing there.

"Now you have to talk to us." They said.

"No, I don't." Aria said walking past them. She headed straight for the cab out the door to find the cab sitting there waiting for her. She went back to the Palmwoods and into her room. She couldn't believe Kendall didn't tell her. Her phone rang she looked at it. It was a text from Kendall. "Hey, I need to talk to you about something."

Aria tossed her phone on her nightstand and began to sob all over again. She didn't even know why she was so upset. It's not like they were dating. But right now, she didn't want to talk to Kendall at all. She didn't even care if she never talked to him again. Aria tried to talk her mind off the situation. She curled up in her bed and fell asleep.

Aria felt like she had slept for years. She woke up to the sound of her phone ringing like crazy telling her she had text messages. She grabbed her phone. She had 8 from Kendall, 4 from Logan, 5 from James, 3 from Carlos, 4 from Camille and 5 from Jenna. Most of them were them asking her where she was and telling her Kendall needed to talk to her. Once she has read them all. She heard a pounding on her door. She got up and looked through the peep hole on her door. She saw Kendall standing there.

"GO AWAY." She yelled at him through the door.

"Come on Aria! I need to explain this to you!" he yelled through the door.

"I don't care." She yelled back.

"I'm not leaving until you talk to me." He said sitting against the wall behind him.

Aria rolled her eyes and walked away. She turned on the TV and started watching it. Every 2 minutes Kendall would kick her door and make tons of noise. After about an hour of this Aria got fed up and angrily stomped and whipped the door open. Kendall was sitting there with a smug look on his face. "Hi." She said smiling at her.

"What do you want?" she asked annoyed and choking back a whole new batch of tears.

"Can I come in?" he asked, noticing she was about to cry.

"You can't tell me you here?" she asked looking down trying not to cry.

"Nope." Kendall said as he stood up, entering her apartment and closing the door.

He turned to her and just grabbed her into a hug. She started sobbing into his chest.

"Why didn't you tell me?" she sobbed.

"Because I didn't know how." Kendall said. "And I know what sounds really stupid but I didn't want you to be upset. I didn't want to lose you."

"What?" Aria had stopped crying and she looked up at Kendall.

"I didn't want you to be upset?" Kendall repeated.

"No, the other part." Aria said confused.

"Oh, I didn't want to lose you." Kendall repeated himself.

"Why would you?" Aria questioned.

"I don't know. I was afraid that if I left for five weeks that you'd find some other guy to fill my place and then when I got back you wouldn't care about me anymore." Kendall said looking down shyly.

"Kendall! That would never happen. I was more afraid that you'd find another girl and just forget about me…" Aria told him.

Kendall took off the bracelet he was wearing and put it on Aria's wrist. He looked her straight in the eyes and said "I'm yours."