I just finished this big move from across the country so please understand why this took so long. I've been without wireless connection for so long and that isn't fair to anyone so please no mean reviews, just positive ones, and enjoy the update.

"I have to go back. Just to look upon her again. Just for a moment." Ezra mumbled to his love sick self quietly before ducking through the crowd outside and evading Hardy and Toby.

"Great . . ." Toby mumbled, "Great! Now we don't knew where he is, who he's with, we aren't even in our own turf!"

Hardy shook Toby's shoulders, "He probably just went home, dumb ass!" They both looked around, suddenly seeing the moon's reflection on Ezra's costume as he scaled an orchard wall.

"He's a mad man . . ." Toby shook his head, turning to Hardy, "Can you at least TRY to get him down?"

Hardy shook his head, cupping his palms around his mouth, "Lover Boy! Get your ass down!" he yelled. "Jackie wants to see you!" he tried.

"If he hears you, he'll be pissed." Toby sighed gruffly, shoulder deep in an ice chest of beer.

"No, what would piss him off is if Jackie was doing some guy in the pool house. I'm just saying her name to get his ass down!" He watched as Ezra dropped over the other side of the wall, "You can't look for someone who doesn't want to be found. Let's go." Toby handed Hardy a beer for the walk home.

Ezra ducked under ths shadows of the window panes. "They can joke. It's easy to joke about scars if you've never been cut." Suddenly he heard footsteps above his head and looked up to see Aria's shadow dark curls falling over the balcony. "She's so beautiful. Her light makes the moon green with jealousy. When the stars explode, her eyes are the temporary replacements. How I wish she knew how much I loved her. How I wish I were a glove upon her worried hand, so that I could rest upon her cheek."

Ezra smiled up at her, "She floats above me know, my own personal angel. Speak now, only for a minute to let me hear the most beautiful sound again." He whispered.

Unaware, Aria breathed in the dewy night air, sighing in discontent. "Why does he have to be a Fitz. Can't you just change your name? Or . . . if not . . . swear your love to me and I will no longer be a Montgomery." Ezra, below, contemplated speaking. Should he speak now, or keep listening. He chose the latter. "It's just your name that's my enemy. Not you. You'd still be you even if you weren't a Fitz. And unlike an arm or a leg or a heart . . . a different name you can live with. Call a rose a tulip, it will still smell as sweet as a rose. Trade in your name-which has nothing to do with who you are-and take all of me in exchange."Aria chuckled now, embarrassed at her long inner monologue.

Ezra smiled, jutting out of the dark. "Okay!" he called up.

"AHhh!" Aria screamed, slamming herself to the wall of her balcony. "Who's there. Who's there who has been listening to my private thoughts in the shadows like a creep?"

"I don't know how to tell you who I am without spitting the name of your enemy. I hate my name because it is your enemy."

"I recognize that voice . . ." Aria whispered, "Is that you? Are you not Ezra? Are you not a Fitz." She stepped to the edge of the balcony to look down upon him.

"I'm neither if you dislike them."

Aria neglected the swoop in her heart she felt. "How did you get in here? And why? Those walls are really tall. Not to mention my family! If anyone finds you they'll kill you for-"

"For my name?" Ezra finished. Aria nodded. "Those walls were nothing. A man in love's beloved will force him to do anything possible. So your family and the measly walls . . . no obstacle."

"They'll murder you, Ezra."

He smiled at the way she said his name, "An un kind look from you . . . oh that would worse that 20 bullets piercing my body at once." She smiled down at him. "That smile . . . that keeps me invincible from their hatred. And I'd rather die than live without your love."

"I can't believe this is happening. Do you really love me? Tell me the truth or so help me-"

"Yes. I swear by the sacred moon above that I-"

"Don't swear by the moon!" Ezra furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "The moon is always changing position and shape."

Ezra smiled, "Then what do I swear by?"

"Tonight . . . nothing. We haven't even had a chance to think what has happened between us. Our love is like a bud that could be a full grown beautiful flower by the next time we meet. But it's also been crazy. So, for now, goodnight my sweet."

"You would leave me so unsatisfied?" Ezra feigned hurt.

"What satisfaction could I give you tonight?" Aria asked.

"The exchange of your love for my own. To marry me."

"If I could give it to you I would. But I already gave it to you before you asked for it." She smiled down at him, his brilliant blue eyes shining back.

"Aria!" Simone called. Aria rolled her eyes. "I'll be right back." She turned quickly, only to have Ezra halt her.

"If you leave now . . . I will think this all to have just been a dream!"

"Just a moment more then it's good night for real! If you really want me and want to marry me . . . have a messenger send to me tomorrow where we are to meet to be married.

"Aria!" Simone called again, causing her to look over her shoulder.

"Just a minute!" she looked back to Romeo, "But if you don't have true intentions . . . just leave me alone." Ezra gazed up, how could one even fathom being untrue to her.

"Madam!" Simone yelled.

"Ugh!" Aria breathe out. "I'll send word tomorrow!" she ran into the house.

"My soul depends on it!" Ezra promised, ear-to-ear grin blessing his features. "Please don't send me away now!"

"If I could be with you now I would! But it's late and this is my home, my fathers home!" Aria called down, a pained voice finishing the words. Ezra nodded, understanding and turned to leave. "Ezra! Wait!" Aria yelled.

Ezra turned quickly, "Yes, my dove?"

Aria bit her lip lightly. "What time should I send my messanger?"

"By nine o'clock."

"I will, I promise. I've forgotten why I called you back."

"Then I'll stay till you remember."

Aria giggled, then clamped her hand over her mouth, the soft shoulder of her costume falling down in the process. "I'll forget and you'll end up staying forever because I wouldn't want you to leave me. Crap. It's almost morning now. I want to urge you to leave but I'd only let you get as far away as a cat does a mouse, letting you scurry away for just a moment, only to yank you back."

Ezra shook his head, boyish smile still on his lips, "I wish I was your mouse! Let me be your mouse, I beg of you." Another giggle leaked from her petal like lips and it was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

A small frown came to her face and it broke his heart, "You really do have to leave. I will say goodnight before it can become tomorrow. Goodnight, Ezra." She outstretched her hand to him several feet below before jogging back inside.

Ezra grinned, just now beginning to feel air fill his lungs again. Suddenly it dawned on him. "I have to go see the priest. If there is to be any union I must find him and tell him of my good luck and ask him for help!" He turned one more time to see Aria's silhouette in the curtained window. "Until tomorrow my love."

I know that this was a kind of crappy, dragged on for the longest time chapter but, im sorry, that is how the Balcony Scene is. Please review.