Ezra let all of his body weight fall on top of Aria as he stopped moving inside of her. His sweaty body fell on top of hers as both their chests heaved in unison to catch their breaths. Aria smiled widely as she ran her hand through his sweaty hair moving it away from his eyes, an action both of them were familiar with. Ezra chest shook with laughter. He peeled himself away from Aria just enough so that he could look down at her flushed face.

"I'll get a haircut soon, I promise," he breathed out quietly. Aria smiled sweetly up at him and shook her head. She still hadn't regained her breath from their extraneous activities.

"N-no. I like it," she moved her hand that was resting on his ass up the sweaty muscles of his back and into his curly hair. With both hands in his hair, she pulled him down into a lazy kiss, loving how his warm hands caressed her spent body. Ezra broke the kiss and rolled over on his side, off of Aria, leaving her feeling empty. The couple laid in bed for a while focusing on regaining their breath. Aria sat up slowly and moved her legs so they were hanging off the side of his bed. She felt Ezra's hand lazily paw at her side pulling her back into bed. She encased his roaming hand in one of hers and laced their fingers together.

"I need to pee," Aria explained pulling away from him and removing her self from the bed. She could feel Ezra's eyes staring at her naked body. Before, she would have been self conscious knowing that a man was looking at her in such a way, but this was Ezra. Her Ezra.

"Haven't you had enough, babe?" Aria teased.

"Never," he answered seriously. Aria rolled her eyes. She bent over and picked up her discarded shirt and threw it back at him continuing the teasing once again.

"I'm going to the bathroom," Aria stated again before walking toward the bathroom. She saw Ezra reach down and start pulling off the now used condom.

From inside the tiny bathroom she heard her boyfriend call, "Hey, Aria, do you want me to change these sheets?"

"Your call" she answered walking out of the bathroom. Ezra was lounging in the middle of the bed looking exhausted, but happy. His eyes were closed and a small smile played on his kiss stained lips. He was clearly too lazy to change the sheets, not that she really minded. She noticed that he had put on his boxers so Aria walked over to his dresser and pulled on a pair of his boxers for herself along with one of Ezra's t-shirts that lay scattered on the ground from earlier that day. She smiled at herself when his t shirt fell down to her mid thigh.

"God, you're tiny," Ezra spoke from the bed. He had opened his eyes and was watching her dress, a huge smile on his face. Aria rolled her eyes and smiled back at him.

"Scoot over, idiot." Aria replied as she walked over to their bed. He quickly moved over to make room for her as she rejoined Ezra on the bed and snuggled into his warm arms. She was incredibly grateful with how tonight had turned out, even if they still hadn't gotten around to talking about Corrie.

She had been worried that her mother wouldn't have let her out of the house, but after some careful convincing, she finally let Aria out under the pretense that she was spending the night with Spencer.

Ezra had been a great sport about the whole thing and had dropped her off at Spencer's so that she could run in and take a few pictures of her with Spencer as 'photographic evidence' in case her mother wanted proof as to where Aria had spent the night. The couple had then quickly drove to Ezra's place and, very shortly after, had ended up in his bed. She didn't regret just having sex with him at all, but it was harder to remember why she was mad at him when memories of them entwined together were so fresh in her head.

"Will you give me a massage?" Ezra requested.

"I don't think I'd be very good,"

"Please?" Ezra asked again.

"Roll over," Aria commanded after considering the idea for a few seconds. Ezra smiled excitedly before kissing her quickly on the mouth and rolling over so that the muscles of his back were exposed. Aria felt herself blush as she saw the red trails that her fingernails left on his skin.

"Do I hurt you?" Aria asked slightly alarmed.

"What?" Ezra asked, he lifted his head and turned to look back at her, confusion clear in his face.

"Your back... It's all red from where I scratched you... During sex," Aria said awkwardly worried that the whole time Ezra had been secretly in pain but hadn't told her.

"Oh... I didn't even notice," Ezra said, not bothered at all.

"I guess I'm not very gentle-"

"I don't want you to be gentle," Ezra cut in, "don't worry about it, if you did something I didn't like I would tell you."

Aria believed that he would and resigned herself to giving him a back massage. She quickly straddled his thighs, loving the way it felt having her legs wrapped around him. Her eyes fell on his boxer-brief covered ass and she couldn't help but stare. Corrie's previous comment about how he had a nice butt played in her mind. She always enjoyed looking at his butt, especially while he was writing on the board during class, but she never obsessed over it. Knowing that Corrie liked his ass only made Aria like it more. She found her self running her hands over the toned surface before squeezing her fingers into the muscle.

"Should I have clarified that I wanted a back massage?" Ezra teased.

"Sorry, couldn't help myself," Aria joked before moving up on his body to straddling his butt and move her hands to the muscles of his back. His body was still warm but was no longer covered in sweat. She moved her hands up to his shoulders and began to kneed the muscle there. Aria wasn't lying when she said she didn't think she would be very good, she hadn't given many massages before, but by the soft sighs admitting from Ezra's mouth, she assumed she was doing a relatively okay job.

After a minute or so of her running her hands over the muscles of his back, she broke the silence, "Can we talk about Corrie, please?"

"Okay," Ezra responded wearily.

"Ezra," Aria snapped back, hurt by his reluctance to talk, "she flirts with you."

"Aria, she has a boyfriend. She's not interested in me. Regardless, I don't flirt back so it shouldn't be a problem."

Aria was tired of massaging his back and she could tell that he was no longer into it anyway so she slid off of him and laid on her side facing him. He picked his head off the pillow and turned so he was facing her. Aria reached out for him, she wouldn't to feel his body press against hers, needed to feel his arms hold her in close.

Ezra saw the look on her face and quickly wrapped his arms around her. He peppered the top of her head in a million little kisses. He heard her voice muffled by his shoulder, "I trust you. And I trust that you love me. I just don't trust her... And I wanted to let you know."

"Thanks, for letting me know," Ezra said sincerely, "I'll keep that in mind... You know you really shouldn't hate Corrie as much as you do, she's the one who made the decision to cast you."

Aria's head popped up a tentative smile building in her lips. When she spoke her voice was full of excitement, "I got the part?" She asked in a hushed whisper.

Ezra clamped his lips together refusing to say anymore, but the smile in his eyes gave it away.

"Ezra?" Aria asked excitedly. He simply shook his head no, saying he wasn't going to talk, all the while a smile playing on his lips. Aria tackled him so he was lying on his back her body covering his, "Ezra? Tell me!"

He still made no attempt to give her a straight yes or no answer, but he looked up at her adorably trying not to laugh.

"Ezra," Aria said with warning and a devious smile, "I can make you tell me."

Her hands ran up his naked chest and rested on his sides. Ezra nodded his head no again causing Aria to resort to tickling him. Ezra shrieked in protest but Aria continued her torture, laughing at him as she did.

"Stop! Stop! You got the part!" As soon as the words left Ezra's mouth, Aria's fingers stilled on his sides.

"I did?" She asked incredulously, the biggest smile on her face.

"Of course you did, you're absolutely amazing."

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"Welcome to the first rehearsal of Rosewood High's production of RENT!" Corrie said excitedly. Ezra looked up at her from where he was sitting, a bag of scripts on his lap. The cast had gathered around in a circle on stage and Corrie's boyfriend, Matt, sat in the corner by the piano. Ezra wanted to go over and say hi to Aria when she walked into the theatre after school for rehearsal, but she was having a deep discussion with her friends so he decided to stay put and just give her a small smile when she looked his way.

Currently his gaze was rested on the cast list making sure that everyone in the cast was in attendance to the first rehearsal.

Cast List
Mark: Lucas Gottesman
Roger: Noel Kahn
Mimi: Aria Montgomery
Maureen: Hanna Marin
Joanne: Paige McCullers
Benny: Toby Cavanaugh
Collins: Nicodemus Smith
Angel: Holden Strauss
Chorus and Minor Parts TBD:
Mona Vanderwaal, Mike Montgomery, Caleb Rivers, Spencer Hastings, Emily Fields, David Collins

All day long Ezra had overheard bits of students conversation about the cast list being put up. He had posted it on the schools bulletin board that morning. Corrie and him had worked really hard on putting together the perfect cast so he really hoped that people were happy with it, especially Aria since-

"Ezra!" He heard his name shouted very abruptly and he looked up alarmed. He saw Corrie looking down at him expectingly.

"Sorry, um can you repeat that?" Ezra apologized.

"Can you start handing out the scripts by number?" Corrie asked slightly annoyed. Ezra nodded his head before calling out names that matched to the corresponding numbers, feeling a bit guilty for spacing out the way he did. He quickly glanced over at Corrie and flashed an apologetic smile which she returned while mouthing an 'it's fine'. When Ezra got to Aria's name on his list of scripts to hand out, he watched her walk up and used a good amount of self control not to let all the love and admiration for her show on his face.

"Your script, Miss. Montgomery," he said coolly, smiling up at her. She reached for her script and let her hand fall on top of his.

"Thank you, Mr. Fitz," her teasing voice replied quietly. Aria leaned in slightly and lowered her voice to a quiet hushed tone, "check your phone."

Ezra watched as she walked away and found the task of handing out scripts more and more impossible now that his imagination was running wild on what his girlfriend might have sent him via phone. As soon as he had handed the last script to Holden he quickly pulled out his phone. He heard Corrie talking to the students explaining how today they were going to stand around the piano and simply song through all the musical numbers. Ezra felt like he was being rude by texting while she was talking, so he tried to be as discreet as possible.

New Message from Scarlett
Hey Handsome what are your plans tonight?

Aria had sent the message forty five minutes ago and he felt bad for not answering. He was a little let down, if not intrigued. He was hoping she was going to tell him that she was going to spend the night or send him another teasing picture. Instead she was probably just telling him that she was able to talk on the phone tonight, which he was excited for since he hadn't really talked to her since the amazing Friday night they spent together. He was intrigued that she texted him though, since she would usually just call without checking in with him, knowing that his social life was non existent. He looked up and saw that Corrie had Lucas, Noel, Toby, Hanna and Aria gathered around the piano, starting with the title song, "RENT".

Even though she wouldn't read the message until later, he sent her a text back.

Lay in bed entering in grades. We can still talk though.

After a few minutes of perfecting the song. Everyone sat down but Noel as they moved on to the next song, his big solo, "One Song Glory".

His phone vibrated in his hand and he looked down to see Aria's reply.

Is there room in your bed tonight for two?

Ezra felt himself smiling at her text. He looked up and saw her across the room smiling happily at him. With a boyish grin etched into his features he quickly replied.

Of course! How are you getting out? Are you not grounded?

He watched her look down and check her phone as his message arrived and tap back a reply

My dad doesn't know I'm grounded and I'm at his place this week. I'm gonna tell him I'm spending the night at Spencer's or something.

He wondered if he should feel bad about being so happy having an underage girl lie to her parents so that she could spend the night in his bed. Ezra decided not to think about it and was pleasantly distracted when Aria was called up to the piano to sing her duet with Noel. He really enjoyed hearing Aria sing and wish she would do it more when she was around him. He felt a little weird seeing as she was singing a song that's purpose was to seduce another man into giving her drug money, but he tried to but his negative feelings aside, however he couldn't help but notice how closely Noel stood next to Aria and how he kept giving her this...look.

'They're just characters' Ezra thought to himself, chalking up Noel's look to be a character choice. He tried to focus on just the singing and tuned in to listen to Aria song about how 'she has the best ass below 14th street'. However, when Ezra saw Noel grab Aria's butt, causing her to yelp and pressing his lips down to hers, he felt white hot anger burn through him and his automatically balled in to fists. He wanted to walk over there and punch Noel in the face for groping at Aria the way he did. He was about to shout at Noel, but Aria quickly pushed him off of her and looked at him shocked.

"What the hell was that?" Aria asked angrily. Arias anger feed into Ezra's making him grown with even more fury.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Noel said sounding very honest, " I-I just thought after you asked him to check out your ass he would." Noel sounded sorry, but Ezra was still furious, especially when he saw the bit of mischief in Noel's eyes that could only mean something bad.

Matt has stopped playing piano a whole agp as he starred at the two teenagers. Corrie's eyes widened in surprise as she tried to think of the smoothest way to transition from the awkwardness that had fallen over the group.

"Um, why don't you guys do it again from the beginning. Just- without the kiss this time," Corrie's voice rang out over the silence that had fallen over the group. Matt quickly began to play the intro to the song as Aria started singing again, only this time Ezra didn't focus on her singing and trying to enjoy it, he focused on the smug smile that was on the face of Noel's Kahn as he gave Aria a frightening look of desire that made Ezra so full of anger he was surprised he hadn't exploded.

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