Pretty Little Lovers

Author's Note: Hey, look, another chapter. Soon as I finish this, I'm gonna work on a Hannily fic. But pleeease keep reviewing. :D Oh and maybe check out some of my other stories.. Most of them are Buffy.. But there's other stuff too. Lattta.

Chapter 25

Spencer walked down to the old playground that they all used to play on. It was in pretty bad condition and the slide was all graffittied and most of the swings were broken.. But not all of them. She sat down in one of the two that remained and swung slowly.

She felt heartbroken and lost and she had absolutely no idea what to do about it. It was really hard staying away from Aria because all she wanted to do was take her in her arms and make love to her again. The entire movie, she'd sat in the chair and did her best to will herself to think about anything but Aria. At least not like that. Not in that way. But it had been a lost cause. She wanted Aria so bad it was driving her nuts!

While she was swinging, hands landed on her back and gave her a push. At first Spencer stiffened, worried about who had just touched her. But the breeze brought the scent of Aria's perfume and nature smell to her nose and she relaxed.

"Why are you here?" she asked, an odd calm washing over her.

"I don't like being away from you," Aria admitted. "We really need to talk," she said. She waited but when Spencer didn't say anything she went on. "I'm sorry for what it looked like was going on with Ezra, but I promise all we did was hug."

"Okay," Spencer said, but she didn't sound like she believed it.

Aria searched her mind for a way to let Spencer in. She wanted her to trust her, and stop acting so cold, but she didn't know how without revealing what Ezra was going through. And he'd told her not to, hadn't he? She pinched her nose between her eyes and wondered if keeping his secret was really worth hurting Spencer. Finally she decided it wasn't. "I'm going to tell you something that you can't tell anyone else," she said.

Spencer got out of the swing and the two of them walked to the jungle gym. They both sat down on the stretch of metal bars that weren't completely rusted and then Spencer turned to Aria. "Go ahead."

"Ezra is a dad," Aria told her quietly. "He just found out. He has a young son that he had with a girl he went to high school with. He just found out. And he's given me the option of being with him, or else he's going to be with the boy's mom and we'd be done forever."

Spencer wanted to yell "Tell him no!" but she knew that she couldn't. It was up to Aria to decide. She would never have forgiven herself if she'd made Aria choose. So she just said, "I understand if you choose Ezra. Ezra could give you a normal life."

"Well," Aria looked out at the dark sky. "I haven't made up my mind yet." She was well aware that life would be just as hard with Ezra as it would be with Spencer. Aria definitely wasn't ready to be a step-mom, and essentially, that would be what she was agreeing to if she got back with Ezra. "Can I have time? Will you give me time?"

Evevn though Spencer felt like she was tearing in two, she tried to stay strong. "Yes," she said, "I can give you time."

Aria jumped down from the jungle gym and pulled Spencer down too. Then, without a second though, she yanked the girl against her and kissed her sweetly. She kissed her with all she had in her and then held her close. "Can we at least enjoy tonight?"

Spencer knew that it would completely kill her if she gave Aria tonight and then she ended up choosing Ezra anyway.. But looking into her friend's dark eyes and remembering the drawings, and the way they'd fit togeher.. She couldn't resist. And so she just nodded. "Yes," she said, "We can have tonight."

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