The next morning Ezra and Aria were awoken by the smell of coffee and pancakes. Aria got up slowly from the bed and made her way over to the playpen that Lila had slept in the night before. She picked up Lila who began to fuss at being awoken from her sleep, but quickly stopped when she realized it was her mother.

"I guess your mom made us stuff to eat." Ezra said as he came over and wrapped his arms around Aria.

"Yeah, she knows we have a long day ahead of us and she always says that breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Aria told Ezra as she sat down against the headboard to begin to feed Lila.

"I think Lila would agree." Ezra said glancing at the obviously happy baby.

"Oh she does trust me." Aria said with a semi-pained expression. "What time do we have to be at the funeral home?"

"Your parents said it would be good to be there about an hour before the viewing starts that way Wes and I can get everything finalized." Ezra said as he went through the bags of new clothes they had gotten yesterday. "So I'd say here in about two hours."

"Ok that gives me plenty of time to get ready then, and get little Miss Princes her ready as well." Aria said looking down at Lila who was too busy eating to even care. "I really hope the dress my mom brought me fits because I didn't bring anything else."

"I'm sure it will." Ezra assured Aria as he went over to the closet and grabbed the dress. "You will look amazing and everyone will be jealous that I have you and they don't." Ezra said as he laid the dress down on the bed and sat down next to Aria.

"Well I just hope it fits because id not then I don't know what I'm going to wear." Aria said with a defeated sigh.

"It will be fine." Ezra said wrapping a reassuring arm around Aria. After about twenty minutes Lila was finished eating and Ezra took her to change and burp her. Aria then began the dreaded process of seeing if her dress fit. She pulled it off the bed and starred at it for at least five minutes before pulling it over her head and successfully zipping it up the side. The smile that formed on her face was one of pure joy.

"I told you there was nothing to worry about." Ezra said from his place in the doorway. He walked in to see Aria admiring herself in the mirror.

"Yeah I guess I was overreacting a little bit." Aria said walking over to Ezra to take Lila so he could get dressed. "I'm going to get breakfast and let you get ready. Tell daddy bye." Aria said to Lila who just looked at her like she was crazy.

"Good morning sweetie." Ella said once Aria and Lila had entered the kitchen. "I'm so glad that dress worked for you, Ezra said you were freaking out earlier." Ella said as she handed a plate to Aria and took Lila from her arms.

"Yeah, I still feel fat and out of shape but I guess I'm not as much as I thought I was." Aria said taking a bite of her pancakes.

"Well if anyone thinks you are fat then I must be obese." Wesley joked taking a huge bite from his stack of pancake.

"That's his third helping this morning." Ella said laughing at Wesley.

"Hey these are amazing Mrs. Montgomery.

"Please call me Ella. We are practically family now." Ella told him as she started to rock Lila back and forth.

*PLL*

Aria and Ezra stood in front of the funeral home. Ella, Byron, and Ella had already entered but something kept Ezra's feet from moving forward. Ezra held Lila close to him and kissed the top of her head. She was wearing a black and white polka dotted dress and Aria had put a cute bow on her head that she kept fidgeting with.

"Ezra you have to go in at some point in time." Aria said putting her hand on his back.

"I know it's just hard." Ezra said looking at her.

"I'm here and Lila is here for you and that's all you need." Aria said slightly pushing Ezra towards the door.

Ezra stepped into the funeral home and looked around the entry way. There was settle music playing, Ezra assumed so that people wouldn't have to deal with awkward silence. Ezra felt someone wrap around his arm and looked down to see Aria pull close. They walked through the other doorway and saw Ella, Byron, and Wesley talking about 10 feet from the open casket.

"We wanted you and Wesley to say good-bye first." Ella said to Ezra as she walked up to him. He only shook his head in response and made his way to the casket. Wesley went first standing there and saying a few words to his father before bending down and kissing his forehead one last time.

Ezra walked slowly with Aria still attached to his side and Lila snuggled against his chest. He looked down into the casket and let a tear run down his face as he looked at his lifeless father. He looked different to Ezra but maybe that's what death did to a person. Maybe one of the things that made a person look a certain way was the life within them.

"Good-bye dad." Ezra said as he leaned down and kissed his father and looked over to see Aria do the same thing.

"I think I will take Lila and walk around a bit." Aria told Ezra. "You and Wesley need to be close so that you can greet people."

"Yeah." Ezra said as he reluctantly gave Lila to Aria and walked over near the casket to where Wesley was standing.

An hour had passed and the funeral home was filled with people. Aria had no idea who any of them were so she stayed out of the way with Lila. Her parents had left for a bit to get some food for everyone leaving her alone in a sea of strangers.

"You look great Aria." Aria head and turned around to see Dianne Fitzgerald standing in front of her.

"Why are you here?" Aria snapped back holding Lila as close as she could.

"I came to pay my respects to my late ex-husband." Dianne told Aria looking over at Lila. "How is my granddaughter?"

"She is fine; I think you should leave now because I am positive that Ezra and Wesley don't want you here." Aria said turning around to leave.

"You know Ezra would never tell you this but you ruined his life." Dianne started making Aria stop in her tracks. "He was on the fast track to becoming a Dean or a President of whatever college he wanted then you came along and you two started this relationship. And if that weren't bad enough you two made the stupid mistake of having a kid, pretty much killing the chances of Ezra becoming anything other than a teacher." Dianne spat at Aria.

"First of all this." Aria said pointing to a sleeping Lila. "Is not a mistake and you have no right to be here so I suggest you leave before I call the police because this is a place to remember Matthew and not cause trouble." Aria spat back.

"Just know that if he leaves you it's because you held him back from being the best possible Ezra that he could be." Dianne said before she walked out of the funeral home.

As much as Aria disliked Dianne she knew she was right. Aria should have stopped everything knowing that she was holding back Ezra, but instead she was selfish and held him back. She looked over to the man she loved and saw him greeting people and being strong something that she was not right now.

"I really did ruin daddy's life didn't I? Aria asked Lila and kissed her on top the head.

*PLL*

Twenty minutes later Ezra had, had enough of strangers telling him how sorry they were or how amazing his father was and decided to go in search of Aria.

"Ella do you know where Aria is?" Ezra asked once he saw Ella holding Lila.

"I don't know, she handed me Lila and said she had to go do something and then left the room." Ella said.

"Thanks." Ezra said as he went to look for Aria. Five minutes later he came across her sitting in a side room. It was a room for morning family members to get away from everything but he knew she was there for another reason.

"Aria what are you doing in here?" Ezra asked as he walked over to Aria who was sitting in the corner chair and sat down beside of her.

"Thinking." Aria said in a low voice.

"About what?" Ezra asked as he looked at her.

"Your mother came today."

"So you're thinking about my mother?" Ezra asked confused.

"No about what she said." Aria said looking down at her lap.

"What did she say to you?" Ezra asked as he put a hand on hers to have her jerk it back.

"That I ruined your life." Aria said.

"Aria you didn't. . ." Ezra began but was cut off by Aria.

"Oh please if it weren't for me you would be head of something at Hollis or principal at Rosewood or Dean at some prestigious college in New York. I was selfish when I stayed with you even though I knew it would hurt you more than it would hurt me. Then we slept together and I got pregnant forever hurting your chances of having a great life. So please Ezra just admit it I ruined your life." Aria said as she began to cry.

"Aria, I don't care about any of those things. The only thing that I want in my life is you and well Lila. I don't care about being a principal or a dean or a president of a university. If I were those things then I wouldn't have you and I would be lonely. My mother was just telling you a bunch of bull. You Aria Montgomery are my life and if I didn't have you then my life would be ruined." Ezra said as he pulled her face to look at him and for the first time in the weeks they had been together he saw the love in her eyes that she once had.

"I'm sorry I ever doubted it, your mother is just so." Aria began trying to think of a word.

"Manipulative, convincing, evil?" Ezra threw out a few choices.

"All of the above." Aria chuckled leaning into Ezra.

"Can we stay here for a few minutes I am tired of talking to people I don't know." Ezra asked as he wrapped his arms around Aria.

"Yeah but only for a little bit because I am sure that Wesley will lose his mind soon." Aria chuckled tracing lines along Ezra's chest with her pointer finger.

"He can deal with it." Ezra said looking down at Aria who gave him the 'you are wrong' look. "I'll go back out there but just give me five more minutes with just you."

"Of course." Aria said closing her eyes and smelling in the amazing scent of Ezra Fitz.

True to his word five minutes later Ezra got up with Aria in hand and made his way back to the main room of the funeral home. He found Ella and took Lila with him and met up with Wesley. The amount of people that came was starting to die down but there were still a good 20 people around.

"Ezra, how are you doing?" Ezra heard and turned around to see his Aunt Kathy there. She was his father's youngest sister and had acted like a second mother to him when he was growing up.

"Aunt Kathy." Ezra said as he embraced his aunt with his free arm. "I'm doing okay. How are you doing?"

"I'm okay, sorry I didn't make it in until today but my flight from Toronto got snowed in and we were stranded there for three days. I really would have loved to see your father one last time." His aunt said with sadness in her eyes.

"It's okay he knew you loved him." Ezra said wrapping an arm around his aunt.

"So who is this little cutie-pie?" Kathy asked looking at Lila who gave her the best attempt at a smile she could muster.

"Well this is your great-niece, Lila." Ezra said as he sat the girl up a bit in his arms so she could see her aunt.

"Oh my gosh, Ezra why didn't you tell me?" Kathy asked in awe at how adorable the girl was.

"Well to make a long story short my mother knew about my fiancé being pregnant before I did and lied to me, well both of us and I didn't find out until a few weeks ago that I had a daughter." Ezra said as he let Lila play with his fingers.

"You're engaged too? I knew you went to California but that doesn't mean you get to keep stuff from your favorite aunt." Kathy said shoving Ezra's hand out of the way so she could play with the little girl.

"Speaking of my beautiful fiancé here she comes." Ezra said as he saw Aria walk up to him. As soon as she reached him he wrapped the arm that was previously around his aunt around her. "Aria I would like you to meet my favorite aunt, my Aunt Kathy. Aunt Kathy this is the love of my life Aria Montgomery."

"Aria nice to meet you, I see now where Lila got her good looks from." Kathy told Aria as she embraced her in a hug. "Are you by any chance related to Chad Montgomery the lawyer dad hired a while back?"

"Yeah he's my dad's brother. I don't really get to see him that much though because he lives here."

"He's a good man." Kathy said with a smile. "Well I am going to go find Wes; I'll see you two soon." Kathy said before waltzing away in search of Wesley.

"I think my aunt has a crush on your uncle." Ezra told Aria.

"I think so as well." Aria said with a laugh as she wrapped her arms around Ezra's waist.

A/N: Thank you guys for all of the reviews they mean so much to me. This chapter came at such a weird time for me to write it because the day I am writing it is the anniversary of when my aunt passed away. So the emotions and stuff is very real. The part where Ezra talks about his dad looking lifeless is how I felt. I wasn't going to have him have an aunt or any family member but I thought what better way to honor my aunt then to have a character named after her. So Ezra's Aunt Kathy is named after my Aunt Kathy.

I will be leaving Tuesday for California and I will be gone for a week an di won't have my laptop so I won't be updating for about two weeks after this so it would be amazing if you guys gave me lots of reviews lol. If you need more or have ideas or whatever you can reach me on twitter.

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