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Chapter five
He smiled a slightly crooked smile. He combed his dark, curly hair with his perfect hands. His light blue eyes stared into hers. His fingers brushed against her cheek. He breathed slowly, his breath smelt sweet. He leant forward and kissed her. His muscular arms wrapped around her waist. He held her close, hugging her. Protecting her. He pulled away, slowly, still smiling. "I love you." he whispered. Ezra.
Aria couldn't breath. She let out muffled sobs, trembling. She remembered the coffin, the people. Ezra. The kiss. Her whole body shook, and she began to scream, in between long, loud sobs. Everything was wrong - how was she supposed to just carry on with her life when this was happening. She thought of Alison, her beauty, her smile, her laugh. She though about what Alison would say about Ezra, if she was still alive. But she wasn't. She was dead.
"Aria!" her mother cried, rushing into her room. "It's ok! Stop shaking honey, you're home. You're in your bed."
"M-"aria started, but her voice wouldn't work. She took a deep breath. "Mom!" she finally screamed. "Mom. Mom. Mommm..." she started to cry.
"Aria! Calm down, please. It's ok. I'm here."
Aria clenched her fingers into fists to force her hands to stop shaking.
"I know. I... I had a bad dream." Aria lied. It was a beautiful dream. It was the real world that she was crying about. Aria breathed slowly.
"I'm ok." she said. A lie, again.
"Aria, you know, if you want to take a day or two off school, I'm sure your head master will understand..."
"No, mom, it's fine, I'm cool. Seriously, I can handle school." aria replied quickly. The truth was she wanted to go to school. She had a few things to sort out, and she had first period English.
"It's going to get better Aria," Ella said with a smile, reaching for her hands. "Right now, you just stay strong. You have your friends, and your family to help you through this. But you need to be strong and carry on, like Alison would."
Aria blinked and looked up at her mom. "I just..." she started, but she soon snapped out of it. "No, your right. Thanks."
"Right, well do you want a lift?" Ella asked. Aria nodded slowly, wiping her tears with the back of her hand.
"Ok, well, just be ready in like, five minutes. I'll meet you downstairs, there are muffins."
Aria sighed, and got up, staring at her puffy eyes. She reached for her miracle drug - foundation.
Aria walked into school quickly, practically sprinting through the corridors to her English classroom. She didn't bother knocking; she just stormed in, right up to Ezra's desk. "Aria!" he said with a smile.
"Ok firstly; I'd appreciate it if you would stop leading me on. It's driving me crazy, and to be quite honest, it's not working. Secondly, you're my teacher, ok? You can get like, fired for kissing a student. I don't want that on my shoulders, so stay the he'll away from me. Thirdly, I don't know who you think I am, but you can't... Play me along" Aria breathed quickly, not paying attention to Ezra speaking her name. "Please, go down on some other high school student. Or call into a brothel. Is that your type, student?" aria continued. "Ok, ew. Don't answer that. I don't even want to know, just, I don't want to be in your class anymore..."
"Aria!" Ezra cried. Aria peeked up at his face, he looked hurt. Even though that was what aria wanted, she didn't exactly get a cut of satisfaction.
"I wasn't using you for sex! Who do you think I am? And I'm really sorry about yesterday, and just, everything. I understand why you don't want to see me, but that was kinda mean." Aria's face lit up. So Colin was wrong...
"Do you like me?" Aria asked timidly.
"yes! God yes! I don't even know why you're asking me that!"
"But it could never work, right..." aria sighed. "I am so sorry. Some one said that you, um."
"Yeah, I heard that rumour too," Ezra giggled.
"Can you, err, transfer me out of this class then?" Aria asked.
"You were serious about that, huh?" Ezra mumbled.
"Yeah. I think it would be for the best..."
"I can keep my feelings in check."
"I can't." aria replied. "And even if I could, I don't want to! It's way to hard to sit in this classroom every day and call you 'Mr Fitz', ok? Please."
Ezra sighed. "I'll see what I can do..."
"Thank you," aria whispered. By this time, people were filing into the classroom, so Aria took her seat next to Emily.
"Hey, Em. You ok?" aria asked.
Emily laughed. "No, not really."
Aria sighed and reached out to hug her. "Hey, Emily. You are one of the strongest girls I know. And I'm telling you now, Ali wouldn't want you moping about her for the rest of your life," Aria said, remembering what her mom had told her. She grabbed Emily's hands and smiled, "Alison would want you to get a tan by the pool with that hot life guard."
Emily giggled. "Save me!" she said, imitating Alison's voice.
Just then, Ezra walked up to them. On instinct, aria dropped Emily's hands and smoothed down her hair.
"I'm really sorry about your friend, girls." he said. He froze for a moment, gave a crooked smile, and walked off. 'WOW' Emily mouthed, whilst sitting herself down. Yeah, aria thought. Wow.