Chapter Nine

The days seemed to go by slowly without Kendall. Aria had managed to get herself into a routine. She would wake up, shower, eat, go to Rocque Records, come home, eat, maybe hang out with Camille or Jenna or Vickie and then go home and do whatever she wanted until she went to sleep. She was comfortable with this routine for the first three and a half weeks. That is until she had a day off. Luckily that's the day her parents and sister were moving into their new house.

Aria was sitting at her kitchen table eating her lunch when there was a knock on her door. She opened it. "MOM!" she shouted hugging her mother.

"Hi honey! How are you?" her Mom said hugging her back.

"I'm good. A bit lonely but good." Aria replied.

"Well, are you ready to help us move into the new house?" she asked. "Your dad and Emma are waiting in the car."

"Yeah, I just gotta grab a sweater." She ran into her room and grabbed Kendall's hoodie off her bed. She walked out the car with her Mom. As soon as she reached the door she was tackled by her 11-year-old sister Emma. "ARIA!" she squealed squeezing her.

"EMMA! Oh my gosh! I've missed you!" Aria said hugging her back.

Emma looked at the Palmwoods. "You LIVE here?" she asked gazing at it in awe.

"You bet. You should come stay with me one night that I have off!" Aria suggested.

"CAN I MOM? PLEEEEASE!" Emma begged.

"We'll see." Her Mom replied.

Aria saw her Dad standing by the car. "DAD!" Aria squealed, running to hug her father.

"Hi Sweetheart." Her Dad said giving her a big hug.

They all piled into the car to drive to the new house. Aria talked about her life in L.A. She told them about her new friends and her job and such.

They arrive at the house. It was big. It had 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a gorgeous view of the beach. They had most of the boxes fed-exed to the house. The rest were in the trunk of the rental car. They carried the rest of the boxes into the house. They proceeded to unpack all the boxes. They had a lot of stuff.

By the time they finished it was around 5:30 and they were all starting to get hungry. Aria suggested they go out to dinner. They found a cute little restaurant and sat down to eat.

Emma was staring at Aria. "What?" Aria asked confused.

"When did you get that hoodie?" Emma asked her.

Aria looked around. "It's Kendall's." she said shyly.

"Like Kendall from Big Time Rush that you were telling us about?" Emma wasn't going to let this go. "Oh my gosh! Are you two DATING?"

Aria looked at her parents and then back at Emma. Everyone was staring at her. She knew if she admitted it, her family wouldn't let it go and tease her about it. She decided it didn't matter. "Yes." Aria stated proudly. Her whole family's mouths dropped.

"You're dating a pop star?" Emma asked.

Her family was just staring at her still. Luckily, the waiter brought them their food before anyone could say anything else. While they ate Aria was forced to tell them about Kendall. Once they finally finished, her family drove her back to the Palmwoods and she went up to her room. She cleaned up her apartment a little, got into her PJs, and crawled into her bed with a good book.

About an hour after she started reading, her phone rang. "Hello?" she said picking it up.

"Hey Beautiful." Said a voice on the other line.

"KENDALL!" she yelled sitting up in her bed.

"I didn't need that ear…" he said sarcastically.

"Sorry, I haven't talked to you in three and a half weeks! Give me a break." She giggled.

"I forgive you." He said with a chuckle. "So what're you up to?" he asked.

"I was laying in my bed reading. And now I'm sitting in my bed talking to you." She said smiling. "You?"

"I just got back into my hotel and I miss you so much so, I needed to call you to hear the sound of your voice." Kendall said sweetly. Aria could tell he was smiling.

"Kinda like the way I've been feeling for a week… but I didn't know if I could call you." Aria said.

"Yeah, sorry about that. It's hard to find time, let alone a phone to call you on. "he said.

Aria and Kendall talked until 10PM.

"You should probably get some sleep." She said after hearing him yawn.

"Yeah, I guess. You are coming to the show in L.A. right?" Kendall asked.

"What? You never said anything about a show..." Aria said confused.

"I thought I did. There's a show in L.A. that we're doing. It's the last one on the tour. I meant to ask you to come, I guess it slipped my mind. Camille knows what I'm talking about ask her."

"Okay. Get some sleep now." Aria said.

"Alright. Fine. Good Night Gorgeous." He said.

"Good Night, Kendall." Aria said with a smile before hanging up.

Aria got comfortable in her bed and drifted off to sleep.