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Aria rushed towards the girls bathroom. She locked herself in the furthest cubicle from the door and brought her knees to her legs and held them tight. She felt trapped in the small four walls, but at the same time safe. That safety net soon broke when her hands pulled out the cell phone she was hiding in her pocket. 2 unread texts. Both from A and a few missed calls from the girls. She sighed, fingers shaking she clicked on the texts, closing her eyes she took a deep breath before she read the first one.

'Everyone has secrets...and soon everyone will know yours...A'

The same text that the rest of the girls had got. She sighed and clicked delete straight away. Her whole body went rigid when she saw there was an attachment to the second text message. She clicked on it; her eyes going wide when she saw a photo of Ezra and herself kissing in his car. She felt sick. She stood up, pulling open the toilet seat she held her stomach as she threw up. Her body was shaking. She didn't have hardly anything inside of her to throw up, but her body gave it her best shot.

She flushed the toilet and walked shakily to the sink, she rinsed her mouth quickly before walking towards her History class. She was late, she crept in and slid in her seat at the back. She took out her text book but had no idea where they were in the class, pulling out her safety blanket she put 'To Kill A Mocking Bird' between the pages and started to read that instead.

Feeling lost even as she read the book that normally ground her she pulled her phone back, she felt a little relieved that there was no texts from 'A'. She opens a new text and finds Ezra's name in her contacts and starts typing, her hands shaking. 'Hhey ez x'

Less then a minute later her phone vibrated quietly in her palm. 'hey x. how are you feeling?x"

'Good. I...sorry about not doing the work in your lesson...doing it now.' She pulled out the questionnaire he had set in the lesson and put it on top of her History assignment.

'Don't worry about it. Shouldn't you be in a lesson?'

'Am'

'You should be doing that work instead.'

'You...you don't want to talk. Kay' Feeling rejected Aria put her phone in her bag and stared down at her work. The lines once again blurring together.

'I do. Always want to talk to you.'

'but you...'

'I said you should be doing that work. Not mine.'

'Oh...you...prefer yours...'

'I know but don't fall behind in other classes'

'too late' Admitting that it really was too late for her in most of her lessons made her head spin. She had always been on top of everything. The fact that everything was so behind her made her hate everything even more.

'can help you get back on track' Aria sighed. She loved that Ezra wanted to help, but she didn't want a teacher right now; she wanted a boyfriend.

'No point.'

'Yes. There is.'

'Not'

'There is. Really'

'Tell me what it is'

'There are a lot of reasons.'

'Can't think of one' Aria felt her eyes well up as she typed that. She really couldn't think of one reason to keep focussing on school. Everything was falling apart around her. Why should she focus on something so mundane as school?

'Don't throw your life away, Aria'

'She's already doing that' the words were sent before Aria could even breathe. She felt her world spin faster as she gave a part of herself away to him. Her body shook more as her phone vibrated.

'who?'

Biting her lip she text the one thing she could think of. 'You should be teaching'

'I have a free'

'oh'

'Yeah'

She could feel the conversation coming to a close and she didn't want that. Couldn't have that. She needed to feel him close. She couldn't keep pushing him away. 'miss you'

'miss you'

'Feels too long since I was in your arms' She tightened her jacket around her, remembering when it was his arms. She'd felt so much safer then.

'tonight you will be'

'promise?'

'promise x'

'x'

'x'

'bored Ezzy.' She smiled as she sent it. He hated it when she called him that; he never admitted it, but she always knew it.

"Aria? Is there something you would like to share with the class?" She pocketed her phone quickly when Mr Jordan stalked over to her. Seeing the work in front of her he sighed and took it from her. "If you're not going to pay attention to my lesson and do other work, you might as well leave my room."

She nods slowly and gets up quickly. Everyone's staring at her. She never gets into trouble. She doesn't know where she's going. She walks back to the girls bathroom and sits back in the cubicle. Not feeling as safe.

'do some work then? :)' She sighed when she saw his message.

'He took 'To kill a mocking bird''

'You shouldn't have been reading it in his class' Teacher mode again.

'calms me down'

'Come read it in here later'

She smiled at the text, her fingers rubbing the screen softly. 'nnow?' was he going to push her away? Turn her down?

'Course'

Of course he wouldn't turn her down. She flushed the toilet in case there was anyone outside before heading to his class quickly.