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Aria POV:

The week after my family's visit passed by in a blur. Before I knew it, Emily had taken up my offer to rent my little apartment, and the 4 of us were packing up what was left of my former cozy abode.

Ezra had taken Clara over to Wayne and Gillian's early this morning so she wouldn't get hurt or in the way and was now supposed to be meeting with Lucas and Toby to get the U-Haul van. I had decided to leave my essential furniture for Emily to use, and the girls and I were packing away the few frivolous things that made my apartment "Aria-like".

As the few final items has been packed awa, my once-cozy apartment felt barren. The walls were deviod of any photos. Several pictures from Clara that once hung on the fridge were put into a folder and filed away. My enormous DVD collection had been alphabetized and put away by Spencer. Even every book in my bookshelf was missing.

"I'm really going to miss this place," I said looking around the the empty bed, which Hanna was lounging on and marking marks on a checklist to ensure I had everything. Spencer was laying on the ground, an arm crossed over her eyes, and let out a sigh.

"What's this," asked Emily, producing a giant locked box from the closet.

"It's...uhh...nothing," I quickly replied, trying to snatch it away from her arms, but Emily ran and jumped onto my bed, causing Hanna to bounce out of place.

"You know its not nothing, Aria," said Hanna.

"OOOH! Let me see," laughed Spencer, who immediately sprang up from her lathargic position on the ground. I tried to protest, but it was too late. Emily had somehow opened the lock and all 3 girls were looking into it.

"What is all of this," asked Spencer and Hanna with wide eyes.

"This isn't the-," started Emily.

"Yes! This is the Ezra/Aria collection," I exclaimed, a bright pink blush creeping to my cheeks.

"The Ezra/Aria collection? How could a spoon be part of a collection," asked Spencer.

"It was from our first coffee together," I said quietly. For the next few minutes, the girls rifled through my box, asking me what each thing had represented.

"This is so kinky," exclaimed Hanna, holding up a pair of chopsticks. She giggled, and set them back into the box and found a new item.

"So what are you going to do with it," asked an absentminded Spencer, who was flipping through the book on Ohio that Ezra had given me.

"I could keep it in the closet," offeref Emily. "That was Ezra doesn't ever have to know about it," she said smiling and giggling.

"Wouldn't want the sexy English professor to find your little stalkerish collection, now would we," joked Hanna, causing the 4 of usto collapse in laughter.

"Honey! I'm home," shouted Ezra as he entered the apartment. I ran to his arms giggling.

"You forgot the Luuucy part," I said before kissing him. (I Love Lucy reference, anyone?)

"Goodmorning," he said pulling away.

"You two make me sick," said Hanna getting up from the bed. Emily had put away the box just in time for his arrival. "Goodmorning, Ezra," laughed Hanna as she came in our direction. "Is Lucas here yet," she said patting Ezra on the shoulder. I couldn't help but feel jealous as her ring glimmered in the sunlight.

"He and Toby are getting the truck ready downstairs."

"In that case, I'll be back," said an excited Hanna as she left through the doorway.

"I'll be back too. I'm going to see Toby," said Spencer, also retreating from the room. That left Emily sitting alone on my bed.

"I'll...I'll just go down with them," she said rushing out to give Ezra and I some "alone time" for the big move.

"This is for you," said Ezra, handing me a large chai tea latte from Starbucks.

"Thanks," I said leaning up to kiss him. "You're a lifesaver."

"Hmm...I should really get your tea or coffee more if I get rewarded like that," said Ezra, smiling and pulling to his chest, once again, our lips meeting passionately.

"So was Clara ok when you dropped her off," I asked pulling away once more.

"She totally forgot about me the miute we stepped in the main hall. Mom was making cookies and she wanted to help." We both laughed and then kissed again, staying that way until my phone beeped. I picked it up and looked at the screen, gratefully thinking that I didn't have to worry about A texting me anymore.

Hanna: Can we come up or have you and Fitzy already ripped each other's shirts off?

Ezra had been reading over my shoulder and gave a snicker at Hanna's text. I made a mental note to strangle her later, and quickly shot her back a text telling her that it was fine.

In the matter of minutes, the 5 of them were back in the apartment, with devilish smiles on their faces.

"Let the games begin," shouted Lucas and a hazy rush of all my best friends around me caused my head to spin.

"Hold up! What games," I asked.

"My dear Aria," said Ezra, who was obviously in on this. "We are having a little competition to see who can get the most boxes into the van. A battle of the sexes, as you might say. We've gotten the U-Haul man to keep score."

"On your mark, get set, go," announced Toby and we were off. I scrambled to grab a small box, and charged my way downstairs and landed the box into the truck. I could see Hanna doing the same and when she reached me, we had a high five. Ezra had just come down with one box, and I stopped him in his tracks. "2 to 0, baby," I whispered in his ear.

"Oh, it's on Aria Montgomery, it's on."

"Bring it, Ezra Fitz," I said running back up and into my apartment.

It had taken us an hour and a half tops to get most of the boxes out of my apartment. And the girls were winning, probably because we had Spencer and Emily, the two athletes. Lucas was slumped against the van, breathing heavily, and everybody else was taking breaks. Ezra was no where to be found, and I decided to sneak up to my apartment and grab the last box, which would give our team the winning point.

I had stealthily ran into in my apartment, and was just picking up the last box, when two arms wrapped around my waist, pulling me off the ground.

"Not so fast, Miss Montgomery," said Ezra's voice in my ear.

"That's not fair," I said trying to get out of his grip, but it was near to impossbile. He held me up, even with the box in my arms and made his way out the room. I kept trying to wrench myself out of his arms; I really really wanted to win.

"Ezra," I whined."Put me down!"

He ignored my request, only chuckled and said, "And here I thought that you liked being in my arms." He didn't seem to pay attention to any of my protest, and carried me all the way to the outside.

"Look what I've got! Two points," he hollered, bring Lucas and Toby to attention.

"Two points! That would mean you win," said Spencer. "You only have one point, there's one box."

"No, two points. Aria was also the last thing we had to move out of that apartment," said Ezra planting his lips on mine. And in some way, he was right. It was time to start a new life.

Some much needed friendly competition. What do you all think? Next chapter I promise will be BIIG!

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