Pretty Little Lovers Untamed

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Chapter 16

The second Aria opened her eyes she groaned. Being awake just meant that she had to get through the day. She rolled over looked at her alarm clock and saw that it was after eleven in the afternoon and she groaned again. She was still exhausted but it was already late. For a minute she entertained the idea of just pulling the blanket back over her head and sleeping the rest of her Saturday away. Her father wouldn't be home until that evening anyway, so there would be no one to boss her into getting up.

Then she saw her phone laying on the nightstand and for the smallest of moments she had hope. She had hope that Spencer may have texted her. But of course, when she unlocked her phone and checked it.. There was no text from Spencer. Just one from Ezra. It said:

"Aria. I'm sorry about how weird it was last night. But I really want to talk more. And see you again. Can we have lunch today at noon at the bar where we met?"

Aria wanted to say no. Honestly, she did. She wanted to tell him that it wasn't a good idea that they started talking again, that it was still a fresh wound for her. And she wanted to tell him that she was involved with, maybe in even in love with, someone else. But she couldn't do it. She couldn't push him away when he needed her as badly as he did. It hurt her that he was hurting and if it was true that he was only sharing his new information with her.. Then she had to be there for him. At least until he understood what was going on himself. She sighed and respoded:

"Yes. But give me until 12:30 because I just woke up."

She climbed out of bed and headed to the bathroom, letting her robe slide off her shoulders and hit the tiled floor. She made the water run hot and then she stepped in, the steamy liquid scorching her skin. She didn't care. She washed Spencer off of her and afterward, stood naked in front of the mirror and tried to figure out what she wanted. Were there any parts of her left that Spencer hadn't touched? Aria let her hands run over her own body and remembered the night before once again. She sighed and then leaned over the sink and cried.

After what seemed like hours but must have only been a few minutes, Aria made her way back to her room and dressed in a grey and pink striped dress and some gladiator sandles. Then she headed downstairs to make sure the house looked okay before she left for lunch.

Mike was sitting on the couch playing his gameboy and when Aria came into the living room his looked up at her. "Hey," he said. "You look nice. You going out?"

"Yes, to lunch." She frowned at him. "I didn't hear you come in. When did you get here?"

"About two hours ago. I headed up to see you but you were out. You stay up late?"

"Restless night," she admitted and smoothed down the front of her dress. "Did you have fun at your friend's house?"

He shrugged. "Yeah. We played basketball and his xbox. Did you have fun? Didn't Spencer come over?" He looked at her curiously. "Wait, wasn't she supposed to stay the night? Where is she?"

Aria really didn't want to get into it but she couldn't see a way around it. "We got into a fight. She went home last night at like three in the morning."

"Yeah?" He closed his gameboy and stood up and headed to the kitchen to get a soda pop. "What did you two fight?" he asked, coming back into the room, and popping the top on the drink. "I thought outta the four of you, you and Spencer were the closest."

Aria tilted her head to one side, surprised. "Really?"

"Really. Me and some of my friends have a bet goin' on that you two are actually involved."

Aria's cheeks burned red. "What!? Well tell them that we're not! That's absolutely not true."

"It's not?" Mike laughed. "Man, you're pretty offended, aren't you? You're blushing pretty hard."

"Yes, I am!" Aria put her hands to her cheeks. "Because it's ridiculous and you need to tell your friends to stop with the lesbian fantasies." She turned and headed out the front door without another word. She felt kinda guilty because Mike's friends were definitely not having as many lesbian fantasies as she was.

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