Aria POV
I sat there for who knows how long just thinking. I was thinking about the world around me. About how miserable going back to Rosewood High would be. I thought about how could I look at them together. I was taken out of my thought process by the sound of The Ready Set blaring from my phone. My ringtone. I looked at the number and I saw that it was Mike. I got up before I answered the phone. "You ready?" I asked as I turned around. That's when I saw him. He was sitting by the grass.
"Yeah." Mike said on the other line before I hung up. I just stood there watching him. I knew in my heart that moment that I loved him. I still loved him. I never really blamed him. I blamed Jenna. I blamed Allison. I blamed myself for leaving him alone when he was drunk. I never blamed him. I watched as he looked up at me. I felt frozen as his big blue eyes looked at me. I just wanted to be in those arms again. But, I knew that it could never be the same again. Or could it? I had to walk passed him to get to the car. But, how could I?
"Aria." He said as he got up. For every step he took towards me my heart started to race more and more. I could see the pain in his face. I always was good at reading him. "I am sorry." He said softly as he moved a piece of hair out of my face. I waited a year to hear those words.
Part of me wanted to jump into his arms and kiss him. Part of me wanted to say I love you. But, somehow I went with the tiniest part of me. My head.
"It's too late for sorry." I said as I looked at him. Tears ran down my face as I looked down at the sand. I started to walk away. I was surprised when he grabbed on to my arm. I always wanted him to do this. I was the type of person who needed to be stopped. I wanted to hear all the right words. I wanted to have my movie moment.
"Aria, please hear me out." He said as he looked at me. My phone went off again. I just let the music play as I looked at him. She's got a love like woe. I kind feel like it don't make sense. The lyrics that used to make me smile made me just look down at the ground.
"Give me a reason to." I said as I looked at him.
"Because I still love you." He said as he looked at me. I just stop and stared up at him. "That whole Jenna thing was nothing, but a mistake. A terrible mistake. I know that saying I was too out of it to know what was going on isn't an excuse." He was rambling. Just like he used too. Why did he have to be so damn cute?
"Allison was the one who did this." I said as I looked at him.
"Then why can't we try one more time?" He asked me. Why? Why? Because I still see them together every time I closed my eyes.
"I just can't pretend that nothing happened." I said as I walked away. I turned to look at him. "If it counts for anything I still love you too." I said before I walked away. I drove to the high school parking lot tears in my eyes.
"Aria." Mike said as he looked at me. "Just talk to him." He said as he looked at me. Mike was the only one who knew what happened. The only one I told about it.
"Mike just let it go." I said as I pulled out of the parking lot.
"You talked to him?" He asked. I just turned the radio on and tried to forget about his question. "Super Bass isn't going to make me shut up." He said as he turned the radio down. "Just take him back. You still love him."
"Mike that's enough." I said as I looked over at him. It wasn't long till I was back home sitting on the sofa ignoring the fact we were back home. Just letting myself travel back to Iceland. Letting the new Aria control my body as the old on controlled my mind.