**Last Chapter- As Ezra leaves, he can hear Aria calling his name, asking him to wait, to forgive her. He gets in his car, and drives to Snookers, the Hollis Bar & Grill. He parks his car, walks into the bar and sits down. The bartender asks what he would like to drink.
"Straight bourbon, no ice," he says. The Bartender brings him the drink, and someone plays B-26. He quietly cries into his cup, at the same time someone places their small hand on his shoulder. **
Meanwhile
The ambulance got Wren to the hospital as she explained to the police that it was just a robber trying to steal their money. When they asked about what she was doing in this hotel room with Wren she just said he was a friend of hers. She walks alone and heads to the bar. She knows that's where Ezra would be. A smile grows across her face as she remembers their 'first date' in the women's bathroom, and wishes to go back to that night.
Once she is there, she sees him at the bar, and recognizes Happiness by The Fray. An ache takes a smirk out of her when she sees the tears streaming down his face. She puts her hand on his shoulder and sees his eyes close with pain.
"I don't know where that leaves us. And I honestly feel like it is beyond me." She whispers as he turned his face away from her. She starts rubbing small circles into his shoulder blade with her little thumb.
The teacher drinks his entire glass of bourbon in one sip, and ignores Aria's touch. Can she not see how much pain she's put him through? The bartender brings him two more glasses, and he drinks them both before he even acknowledges Aria. "What do you want from me?" He asks, not even trying to hide his pained expression.
"I'm not even sure anymore." Aria gives up and decides to let him deal with her betrayal. As she gets up from the bar, Jackie Molina pushes into her. Aria runs out of Snookers, before Jackie can even start anything between them about Ezra, and as soon as she exits the Tinted, glass, double doors, she starts to sob, uncontrollably. She goes to hospital to check on Wren.
Tears stream down Ezra's face as he watches the love of his life leave him here, alone, and he orders three more bourbons as Jackie decides she's going to sit next to him. She tells him about the new job opening at Rosewood High School, and that they'd be willing to accept him right away. Ezra contemplates chasing after Aria, but then corrects himself saying that it's only making things worse between the two of them. After his 12th bourbon Jackie orders him a coffee, so he can sober up, and they discuss what had happened just an hour before.
At the Hospital
Wren wakes up with puffy eyes, a swollen lip, and a broken arm. But even with all the pain, he smiles at the beautiful hazel eyes staring back at him.
"Let me guess... -A ratted us out?"
"How did you know?" Aria replies faking a laugh. She looks at him right in the eyes but quickly looks away. She looks down and sighs heavily, as he reaches for her arms with his unbroken one. "I'm sorry Wren, I did this to you. I'm such a bad person. You're in this hospital for the wrong reasons. You should be helping people, not being the one needing help. I am just so sorry Wren I swear I didn't want any of this to happen!" Aria sobs loudly, bursting into tears. Her tears stream down her face as if they're two, giant, raging rivers.
"Aria don't cry. You're too beautiful for that. Don't regret what your heart feels because I don't regret us... Although I could have done without the blows to my manhood, the most important thing is that you made your choice." He averts his hopeful chocolate eyes to hers for clarity. "You did choose me right?"
"I don't know who I'm choosing; I'm too lost for now. I just need some time to get my head clear." I love Wren and I wish things could be simple but I love Ezra too. How did I get myself into such a mess?
"I am sorry to put both of you through that. I'm such a mess why do you even love me?"
"What's not to love about you, Aria? You're such a beautiful and unique girl. You're funny, outgoing and creative," Wren gloats, attempting to smile despite his bruised face. "And you're very colorful," he laughs in reference to her pink highlights that she once accessorized her appearance with. It was the first thing he noticed about her when he first met her and he instantly conjured what an extraordinary girl she was.
Aria smiles too, but her true emotions are far from bliss. Tears filling her eyes, she can't control the waterworks. Things were really messed up, beyond either of the members of the love triangle knowledge.
"Aria, as much as I hate to do this," Wren solemnly begins.
Aria enclosed the distance between them, standing directly against the frame of his hospital bed, anxious about what he was about to entail.
"I have to ask you a direct question. Do you want to agree that certain things between us never happened?"
Aria's pink painted lips began to part to provide him with a reply when her phone chirped in her jacket pocket.
Oh, Aria, you've been such a bad girl. You just can't get enough of older guys, can you? Well I'm here to help you with that problem. That's what BFFs are for, right? Whichever guy you don't choose, I will make him go away—forever. –A
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Aria opened the attachments. The first two were saucy photos of her rendezvous. The first picture was of her and a shirtless Ezra engaged in a heated make-out session. The second was a picture of her and Wren while she straddled his lap wearing her lingerie in the hotel room just moments ago. The third picture was a picture of Rosewood's Police Station.
Aria gasped. Whoever she didn't chose, -A would forward the picture of them to the cops and have him arrested for being sexually involved with a minor.
Aria fell on the floor shaking and sobbing uncontrollably. How could she make this decision? What did she do? She ruined their lives, she broke their heart and now she was sending one of them to prison. It was too much to handle for her! On the floor, her crisis only got worst and worst. Wren pushed his button and a nurse immediately came in the room.
