A/N: Sorry for all the errors =/

"Wow, that sounds better than a Soap," Spencer commented as the four of them sat in the nurses office. Aria had just gone over the whole conversation between her and Jason, along with the epic kiss.

"So you guys are back together now?" Emily wondered, "or were you guys not broken up?"

"Whether we or weren't, I can safely say we are together again," Aria smiled.

"And Caleb?" Spencer asked to Hanna.

"Was actually in the bathroom at the time I was freaking, so I'm sorry about that," Hanna said pointing to Aria's ankle.

"Oh, it should be fine," Aria brushed off. "I'm just glad he's okay."

"You and me both," Hanna grumbled.

"So is anyone else curious to why Noel was looking for Caleb?" Spencer questioned.

"I feel like kicking him where it hurts," Emily admitted while sitting back in her chair. The girls all looked at her surprised before giggling. "Its true," she blushed. "He can't just get away with this. First the fashion show and now hurting Aria? There is a reason why I hate him."

Trying not to let her friends get any further, Aria loudly cleared her throat as she saw Jason and her mom enter the room.

"How's it feel?" he wondered to her.

"Numb," Aria stated after sitting on the nurse's table with ice around it.

"Good, just how it should be," Wren announced coming in with a bag.

"Wren?" Spencer asked surprised and confused.

"I thought it was best to call him," Ella admitted as he removed the ice to check Aria out. Hissing, Aria tensed as he touched her skin. "Well definitely no heels again," he announced as he studied it with his gloved hands. "I don't think you broke anything but something definitely could be torn."

"Great," Aria groaned.

"You must have stretched something too far which caused all this swelling and pain. Its best to get you x-rayed as soon as possible."

"She's missing truth day?" Hanna exclaimed in an unfair tone.

"No," Mr. Tamboreli announced standing near the doorway to the room. "To graduate, Ms. Montgomery has to attend this. That's why this is mandatory Ms. Marin," he said. "If we were to allow Aria to leave, then anyone who came to us now with an ache or a pain would want to be dismissed too. That wouldn't be fair now would it?"

Both Ella and Jason were ready to give Tamboreli a piece of their mind but Aria interjected them first with a question to Wren. "I'll be okay to get it checked tomorrow afternoon right?"

He hesitated, taking off his gloves with a smack. Glancing to his girlfriend looking for an answer, she glanced up at Mr. Tamboreli and the ones who were going to argue with him. Not a good idea to fight – Wren clearly got the message.

"It should be fine, but try to alleviate the blood flow by propping it up and keep icing it. That is very important."

"Okay," Aria said clearly relieved.

"I'll see you in the afternoon Aria," Wren told her before secretly glancing at Spencer and leaving the room. Ella and Mr. Tamboreli went to go outside and talk anyways, but before Jason could join them, Spencer grabbed his wrist and made him sit near Aria.

"We don't need you in that dispute too," she claimed.

"Too bad you couldn't bust out of here early," Hanna mumbled. "I would have sprained my arm for that." Cracking a smile, all of them chuckled at Hanna's words.

"I can't believe she gets a bed," Hanna claimed after they were kicked out from staying with her.

"It's the nurses table. I doubt it's that comfy," Spencer claimed as she kept pushing Hanna forward.

"Still, it's a bed," she stated.

"Hanna, we get out of here in less than 12 hours. I think you will manage on the floor for a little while," Emily said.

"Just wait till you can't fall asleep because the floor is so uncomfortable Emily and then tell me that again," Hanna grumbled back. Since Aria needed to keep her ankle up and propped, along with making sure that no further damage would happen to it like someone accidentally hitting it or running into it, Tamboreli approved to have Aria stay in the nurses office.

Jason had helped her get everything all set up to make her as comfy as possible while Tamboreli kicked all her friends out in the meantime.

"You're not leaving me too are you?" Aria wondered after Jason was done.

"I'm sure I can stay with you," he smiled as he pulled up a seat. As much as Ella wanted to stay with her daughter, Mike had been off with his dad for the night and was now home alone. Shutting off the lights, Jason propped his feet up on the edge of the bed where Aria wasn't near and tried to fall asleep.

"This reminds me of when I was in the hospital with Mike," she stated in the dark. Thinking back to the memory, she ran through it in her head. "He felt bad because he kept his window open and thought the accident was his fault. I also think he didn't want me to be alone but I'm sure he wouldn't admit that now."

"Do you remember everything about that night?" Jason wondered tentatively.

"Yea," she stated in confidence. "At first it was pretty foggy, but it cleared up fairly quick."

"Have you…talked about it?" he asked uncertainty again.

"There isn't much to say about it," she shrugged, "it wasn't Mike's fault for leaving the window open or my moms for not being home. It just happened. Someone came in and someone went out. I just happened to be the collateral damage." She tried to keep the hesitance out of her voice. If Jason had any idea it wasn't really random, they would both be in trouble.

"I was worried, when I heard about you," he stated as he looked up to the ceiling. "I mean, I didn't even hear much except that you were in the hospital. I probably looked like a crazy person as I went to throw my stuff down and rush over to you." He inhaled deeply. "And then Spencer told me the whole thing and I freaked out even more. I wanted to be there, right by your side – forgetting about what previously happened. But somehow she convinced me not to," he sighed. "I don't know if it was her words or her tone of voice. She was so calm and I remember hearing her repeatedly telling me you were fine – that you were going to make it."

"You never really do give up do you?" Aria asked as she thought about it. He was always there for her no matter how many times she pushed him away.

Bringing his feet back down to the ground, he set his elbows on his legs and looked at her. "Why would I?"

"Some people do," she shrugged, "not many people stick around and have the patience like you do."

"Well that's good news for you," he smiled as he brushed a strand of hair away from her face, "because I'm all yours."

Perking up at the statement, Aria's face broke out into a smile. "I like the sound of that."

"Good," he murmured as he leaned over and began kissing her.

By the end of the whole 'truth day' event, Aria and Jason had come back together as a couple. There was no more baggage about what happened before and all was forgiven. Caleb was doing okay, no longer bringing trouble for the girls. They all seemed to make it through the morning without any more problems and enjoyed seeing a pissed off Noel.

"Definitely sprained some ligaments in the ankle," Wren confirmed as he held up some of Aria's x-rays to the light. "Unfortunately for you, the damage was more severe than when you originally fell, so I'm recommending crutches for a while."

"You're kidding," Aria flat lined as Wren sat in front of her.

"I wish I was," he sighed, hating to give bad news. "But you're lucky, if you had torn the ligaments, you would of had to have surgery. Now, as for the crutches, you can pick them up from any local drug store or even here at the small clinic, but I do suggest you get them as soon as possible," he said to Ella.

Aria still seemed in shock by the medical advice she was getting. She almost would of had to have surgery? And crutches? They weren't even a thought for her. "The quicker you get off your ankle the faster it will heal. I doubt you will be on them for a long period of time," he stated looking back to Aria. "I'll get you a doctors note so someone can help take around your stuff for school and you should be all set to go home."

"Thank you," Ella told Wren stepping up to shake his hand.

"Of course," he partially smiled

"Thanks," Aria said glancing up to him now as she broke out of her reverie.

"Sorry I couldn't give better news," he murmured before walking out of the room to attend to his next patients needs.

"Its only for a while," Ella said as her daughter went gloomy. Limping on it, Aria and Ella made their way to check out and back home, with a run to the drug store for crutches.

"Wow, now I really want to kill him," Hanna stated as the girls came over to the Montgomery's. "Seriously, lets go," she told Emily.

Emily seemed to be shaking her head silently fuming. "I can't believe he did this to you."

"There isn't much we can do about it," Aria shrugged.

"We should at least try," Emily argued.

"Em, its not a battle worth picking," Spencer sighed as they sat around Aria's bed.

"Are you looking at Aria right now?" Emily exclaimed with her hand out to her friend who was lying on the bed with her foot propped up. "He almost made you need to have surgery!"

"Em, its fine. Wren said I almost would of had to. And i'd rather pick a battle where I could punch the guy myself," Aria grumbled with a scowl.

"Good point," Emily sighed as she reeled in her anger.

"So how's Holden?" Hanna questioned out of the blue. "I saw him with his mom earlier. She looks like a real tight ass."

Aria shrugged, "she can be sometimes I guess. Where was he?"

"The grocery store – they were shopping in the organic section," Hanna shivered.

Aria gave a chuckle at that. Mrs. Strauss was always into that healthy stuff. She remembered the one time the woman tried to feed her family with non-starchy or excessively sugared foods. It lasted for over two weeks. Needless to say, Aria bought Holden his own private stash of gummy bears to hide in his house.

"What does Jason think of him?" Spencer asked casually.

"He's cool with him. I don't think they officially met yet, but Holden is just a friend so Jason shouldn't have a big deal with it."

"Why is it every time I walk into a room or up to you guys that my name is repeatedly brought up?" Jason asked lightly as he came into Aria's room.

"Hey!" Aria beamed, straightening herself to give him a kiss when he came walking over.

"So what were you all talking about," he wondered as Aria tried to make room for him on the bed.

"Aria's friend Holden," Emily answered with a small smile.

"He's the kid you told to get back to class," Aria supplied for him.

"Oh, he's in your grade?" Jason asked.

"Yea," she smiled, "Our families used to hang out with each other a lot when we were little which kind of bonded us together into really good friends. As we got older though Holden's family started traveling a lot so I didn't get to see him for years. But he recently came back from Portugal and we've been hanging out."

"Cool," Jason commented while analyzing Aria. She seemed to have a shine in her eyes when she talked about this Holden guy, but it didn't seem to be in a romantic way. When she lit up about him, it was more like she was happy to have her friend back, not like she wanted to be with him.

"So what are you doing here Jason?" Spencer wondered.

"Just coming to see Aria. I wanted to see how the doctors went but I heard that it didn't go so well."

Aria's friend all gave each other a look, which made Jason become a bit curious to what they were hiding. He could observe Spencer well enough to tell when she wasn't telling him something, and it was easy to read Emily Fields. So what was going on?

Deciding to keep the looks to himself, he noted it to himself and made sure to try and look around for anything else suspicious.

"So not to go way off topic here, but I think that Aria here, should sing us another song," Hanna concluded.

"No," Aria said shaking her head. "You guys come on," she whined as Emily went to search for her guitar around her room. Finding it with ease, she handed it to her friend and sat back down waiting.

"Hey, this is what you get for hiding the secret from us," Spencer said disapprovingly.

"And it could have been a lot worse," Hanna noted with a double meaning entering the phrase. All went quiet for a second and Jason took that in too. What was the innuendo supposed to mean?

"Fine," Aria cracked trying to get rid of the silence. The way Hanna left the conversation hanging rose suspicions and they didn't need any more of that. Situating the guitar in her arms, she inhaled a few times and began strumming.

Aria had the hardest finding something to sing when everyone was watching her. It was beyond unnerving – especially when she could glance at them all.

"Okay, no," Aria sighed as she stopped playing and began pushing her guitar away.

"Hey!" the girls exclaimed.

"I can barely think when you all are sitting here," she said as she glanced at everyone.

"Just pretend like we're not," Hanna shrugged. Rolling her eyes, Aria didn't even know how she was supposed to respond to that.

"Come on, can't you just try? Start over," Spencer pleaded. Groaning, Aria glanced at her guitar and didn't know what she wanted to do. Try again or take the easy way out? Stage freight seemed to be her worst enemy at times. And even though she played in front of Jason it was hard for her to feel so exposed.

Biting her lip, Aria made her decision. "Can you reach me that book right there?" she asked Jason, pointing above her on the shelf to a hard cover journal.

"Sure," he said with bewilderment as he got the small book she needed. Taking it from his hands, she opened it and flipped through the pages carefully.

"Wait, you have a song book?" Spencer exclaimed.

"Seriously Aria, how long have you been singing?" Hanna asked her.

"I can't believe we didn't know this. How come Ali never knew?" Emily asked her. All went quiet then when she was brought up. Facing her friends and Jason she tried to shrug the words off. "It never came up. It was a secret I didn't share with anyone."

"But why?" Emily asked.

"Because its personal," she admitted, "Its bad enough to freeze up in front of you guys…I couldn't imagine if I had to deal with others."

"But you have a good voice," Hanna stated.

"Yea, everyone likes hearing it," Spencer seconded.

"it's beautiful," Jason added.

"And unique," Emily smiled.

"Thanks," Aria blushed, "but you are all bias." Turning back to her journal, she looked through it till she could find a song.

"You're wrong you know," Jason said as she picked up her guitar to play for them. Looking up, Aria moved some hair away from her eyes and gave him an arched eyebrow.

"I think anyone who gets the chance to hear you sing is lucky. You don't realize how good your voice really is and not everyone may like it, but I'm positive many would if you showed it to them."

Glancing away to think about his words, she slowly shook it off for the time being. Her friends were all quiet looking from her to Jason and it was starting to become nerve-wracking too. Picking up her guitar again, Aria strummed the strings again and began to sing. [On the ride – Aly & Aj]

She finished breathlessly and glanced up at her friends.

"Yea, we are getting you published," Spencer said as she reached over and took Aria's songbook.

"Hey!" she protested, trying to reach over to get it back.

"Sucks to be crippled," Spencer joked as she flipped the pages. Her friends came over, joining Spencer by reading over her shoulder "Okay, you have like most of these pages filled."

"So?" Aria challenged, moving the guitar onto her lap to cross her arms freely.

"So its shows you have talent," Emily said gently. Encouraging smiles went all around the room and made Aria uncomfortable.

"Can I please have it back?" she asked. Each of her friends peered at her for a while before caving in.

"But if we ask you to play us another song, you have to play," Hanna bargained by holding the journal just out of her friend's reach.

"That's ridiculous," Aria claimed.

"Its seems pretty fair to us," Emily said batting her eyelashes. Grunting in unjust, Aria nodded while murmuring a "fine" and swiped the book back from Hanna.

"This officially sucks," Aria groaned as she made it to her locker with Hanna. It was Aria's first day back with crutches and it sucked. She felt sweaty her arms and ankle were killing her; not to mention she was the talk of the school.

"At least people haven't tripped you yet," Hanna said helping her exchange her books.

"Thanks Han," Aria groaned. Slamming her locker shut, Aria took in a breath and leaned her forehead against her cold locker.

"Your day doesn't look to be going to good," a voice said behind her with a hand on her back. Knowing exactly who it was, Aria felt a bit better.

Jason planted a kiss to her temple and took her books from Hanna so she could move along.

"I honestly don't think I'm going to get through the day on these," Aria fretted as she lifted her head to look at him. "I can barely get anywhere, my ankle is throbbing and do you know how short I feel without heels?"

Chuckling a bit, Jason shook his head and cupped his hand to her face. "You look beautiful no matter how tall you are." He kissed her then, leaning forward so she wouldn't have to.

"I love you," she murmured as they parted.

"Love you too," he smiled, kissing her forehead in comfort before moving back so they could get to her next class. "Come on, just try and focus on something else."

Muttering curse words in her head as Jason walked beside her, Aria continuously had to look down to see where she was going and making sure the ground was clear to put her crutches in front of her. Glancing up for a few seconds, she noticed Noel by the lockers with his friends. He seemed to be studying her.

"Aria!" someone called behind her in the hallway. Stopping, her and Jason both looked for the voice.

"Oh-…hey," Holden said appearing in front of them.

"Sorry. I uh…"

"Holden this is Jason. Jason, Holden Strauss," Aria introduced.

"Nice to meet you man, heard a lot about you," Jason said shaking the kids hand.

"Yea, you too," Holden said, although not knowing really anything about him. With an awkward pause, Aria wondered why she was still in the middle of the hallway. "Did you need something Holden?"

"Huh? Oh…" he said breaking his stare away from someone. Furrowing her brows, Aria looked as best as she could over her shoulder and saw Noel with his head down, occasionally sneaking glances at them.

She was wide eyed when she turned back around and both Holden and Jason caught it easily.

"I'll just catch you later," Holden stated. Giving both her and Jason a wave, he headed off into a different direction for class.

"What was that all about?" Jason wondered as they began walking again.

"Who Holden? I'm sure he was just intimidated by you," Aria claimed.

"No, I'm talking about Noel and the look you three seemed to share," he stated.

"It was nothing," she shrugged avoiding Jason's eyes. Skeptical, Jason didn't even try to go along with what she was saying. There was something there. Something he didn't know about.

"Can we talk about this later?" she whispered when silence set in.

"Yea," he confirmed with determination. Dropping her tings off and at her seat, Jason kissed Aria's head and left for the rest of the day.

After school, Aria spent her day in her room on her bed again. Ella had come home from one of her shifts to see her and help her set up her spot for the night. There was a cold ice pack on Aria's ankle and the home phone on her nightstand in case anyone called.

Mike was away at practice for the time being and her dad was supposed to pick him up.

"Hey," Jason said standing at the doorway of her room.

"Hey, come in," Aria said setting her guitar down by her side. Ever since her friends and Jason had figured out she played, she felt the urge to play more and more in the free time she had.

"How was your day?" she smiled as he came and kissed her.

"Alright," he sighed as he sat by the end of her bed.

"What happened?"

"Just kids," he sighed. Running a hand through his hair, he glanced out into space. "Its hard sometimes, to hear what teenagers go through. I mean I got off easy. I don't even remember half of my high school days."

"But a lot do," he sighed. "A lot live with this baggage and memories that can't be put away or dealt with. They get bullied or have hard family lives. Some even get blackmailed or into the bad stuff like me," Jason sighed. Aria swallowed hard as she listened. "It seems to never go away for them."

"You're doing your best," Aria said in a shaky voice.

Glancing up to her, he gave a small smile and nodded. "Yea I am." Taking a deep breath, he went and switched gears. "How's the ankle?"

"Swollen," she answered when he picked up the ice pack to see. Fiddling with her hands, Aria shrugged, "but I made it through the day so I can't ask for much more."

"Did Hanna come and get you after class?"

"Every single one of them," Aria confirmed, "and sometimes with Caleb too."

Gazing at her, Jason marveled Aria's beauty. She was so perfect and pure. He wondered how she could be with him, or why she would even choose to be. He was this messed up kid with a long past and she was like a light at the end of the tunnel. What was with that?

"Come here," she instructed, patting the other side of the bed. Smiling, Jason carefully maneuvered his way towards the other side of Aria and laid down beside her. Wrapping her in his arms, Jason stared passionately into her eyes.

She ended up breaking into a bright smile, because of whatever she was thinking about. Feeling it was contagious, Jason smiled back and both leaned in for the kiss. The make out session lasted for a while with each of them moaning and breathing heavy. The two were wrapped up in so much passion and love; it was like nothing was there except them.

"I love you," Jason murmured when they lay back against each other. He picked up her hands and began kissing each finger softly.

"I love you too," she giggled, watching as he played with her fingers.