Aria dropped Sophia off at Hanna's. She didn't stay, she couldn't stay, and she needed to be alone. Aria drove home and got in bed. She had cried herself to sleep and it was only 1 in the afternoon. She fell asleep for 3 hours and by the time she woke up there was 10 missed calls, 4 text messages.

"Ar, you okay? –Hanna Marin"

"Ar, you busy? –Emily Fields"

"Hey where are you? You home? -Spencer Hastings"

"Are we still on for tonight? –Wesley Fitz

Aria forgot all about her dinner with Wes and his girlfriend. She immediately texted Wesley asking if they could reschedule because she wasn't feeling well. It wasn't the whole truth but it partially was. After texting Wes, she sent Hanna a text asking if Sophie could spend the night with her. She would explain what was going on the next day.

It was now 3 and Aria still hasn't eaten so she decided to go the bar and grille where Noel worked at. It took her 15 minutes to get there.

Aria walked straight to the bar and asked the bartender Aaron if he knew where Noel was at. not long after Noel came out of the kitchen.

"Noel!" Aria shouted

Noel turned around.

"Hey momma A! What are you doing here?" He asked

"I just needed to talk to you, I haven't seen you for a while." Aria said

"Sorry, I've been busy with this place." He apologized

Aria told Noel all about the day she was having. Noel couldn't believe what he was hearing.

Aria was at the bar for 2 hours and had downed 7 shots of tequila. She rarely ever drank like this.

Noel couldn't take seeing her like this anymore so he fought her for her keys and carried her out to her car and placed her in the passenger seat. Noel drove Aria home and placed her in bed after giving her water and 2 pills of Advil. Tomorrow was not going to be a pretty day.

Noel sat downstairs and called Mike he knew Aria shouldn't be home alone. And he needed to get back to work.

"Mike get home now! – Noel"

A second later Mike replied

"On my way. - Mike

Mike got home in 7 minutes, Annabelle didn't live too far luckily.

Mike rushed into the house and asked, " What's wrong? What happened? Who is it? Someone hurt?"

Noel updated Mike on everything and this caused Mike to get angry. He hated hearing what happened to his sister. He was protective like a big brother. Mike went to check on his sister after Noel left in the cab. Mike sat in his sister's room watching her sleep. A part of him wanted to go out and find Ezra and make him pay but a part of him knew his sister still loved him so he couldn't.

After sitting in Aria's room for a while it was 8:30 and Mike had made dinner. Aria smelt the food and descended the stairs.

"Mike, your home?" Aria said

"Noel told me everything. But I don't understand why you didn't tell me?" Mike said a little hurt

Aria didn't say anything; just the look on her face said it all.

Mike made Aria a plate, she needed to sober up and bread was what she needed. Mike made spaghetti and garlic bread with a side of salad. The only thing Aria could eat was the garlic bread. Everything else didn't want to stay in.

Weeks have past now and still no call or messages from Ezra, Aria was a little hurt by this but a part of her didn't care. She was good without him before, so she would still be good without him now.

Tonight was the night of Sophia's birthday she was now turning 5. Aria decided to throw her birthday party at Wes' house because it was big. The party was a princess themed party; with a princess bounce house and a castle bounce house for the boys and lots of tiara's for each girl and knights helmets for the boys. There was also a face painter. (Kind of like the party from despicable me 2)

Aria, Spencer, Hanna, Emily, and Alex spent weeks planning the party. They wanted Sophie's fifth birthday to be perfect. But what they didn't know was that Ezra would show up.

Ezra walked into Wes' house as if he was invited. Wes ran up to Ezra and asked him, "What are you doing here bro?"

"I came to see if you wanted to go play pool but it looks like your having a party without me." He said

Wesley hasn't spoke to Ezra since before he hurt Aria. Wesley didn't want to get on Aria's bad side because he wanted to be a part of niece's life.

"Sorry bro, it's a kids party." Wesley said

"Oh, for who?" Ezra asked

Wesley hesitated, he didn't know if he should lie.

"Uncle Wes! Can we please blow out the cake now? I want to open pwesents now!" Sophia said excitedly. Sophia didn't even notice her dad standing there. She didn't really remember him because she didn't really get to meet him the last time they were together.

Wes picked Sophia and told her, "Yeah sweetie in a minute."
Sophia kissed her uncles cheat and ran out to the backyard.

Ezra looked at Wesley with a WTF look.

Aria came in and called out for Wes, "Wes hurry up. Sophia's getting tired of waiting for you." Aria walked in more and stopped talking. She didn't expect to see him.

"I didn't invite him Ar." Wes defended himself

Aria didn't say a word. She just told him to hurry or they were going to blow out the candles without him.

Ezra couldn't stop staring at Aria and thinking of Sophia and for how stupid he was for the way he acted that day at the grille. He missed Aria and wanted to get to know his daughter.