After a few moments Aria could hear Ezra crying and his dad trying to calm him down. Aria turned and saw Ezra's father hugging Ezra. Both men were in tears. Aria looked away; she couldn't handle watching Ezra when he was hurting.

Aria knew she had to talk to Ezra, she had to know how he was dealing with all of this, then one other tho g went through her mind, what if he didn't want her help, what if she lost him over this. Aria just wanted to help but she didn't know how, but she had to talk to him.

Aria didn't notice when both Ezra and his father entered the room. She looked up as she heard a voice speak.

"There's a parade downtown today at around three. I'd love to take you guys to it." Ezra's father john said. A chorus of "okay's," followed.

"Then it's settled, we're going," Ezra said.

About 2 hours later everyone had gone to the parade. Ezra was laying down the blanket for him and Aria to sit on while everyone else was setting up chairs.

"Aria, do you want to go and get something from the store with me?" Ezra asked.

"I'd love to." Aria replied. Ezra helped Aria up from the blanket and took her hand in his.

They walked to the shop and bought a soda for each of them. They walked back to the blanket they had placed near Ezra's family. Aria sat down and Ezra sat down beside her. Aria leaned her back against Ezra's chest and he wrapped his arms around her.

As the floats began to go by, Aria was smiling brightly. Ezra looked down at her gorgeous smile, happy that she was having such a great time.

In the middle of the parade, a float went by with Golden Retrievers on it. Ezra knew that they were Aria's favorite.

"Aria?"

Aria tilted her head up so she was looking into Ezra's eyes. He leaned down and pecked her lips. Aria smiled, before turning back to watch the rest of the parade.

They arrived home at about 4:30 and they all made sandwiches and ate outside. When Ezra was done, he sat patiently and waited for Aria to finish. When she was done, he asked her if she wanted to go on a walk with him.

"Sure." Aria replied as she got up and took Ezra's hand in hers.

"Just make sure that the two of you are back her around 6, we're leaving for the fireworks at 6:30." Ezra's mom Julie said.

Aria and Ezra nodded before walking away with there hands intertwined.

"Ezra where are you taking me?" Aria asked, as she realized that she didn't recognize the path they were taking.

"It's a surprise." He replied, winking at her.

Ten minutes later, they came across a small pond. Aria could hear frogs croaking, and she saw lily pads floating around the pond. It was beautiful.

She spotted a bench a few feet away from the pond.

Down the hill, one could see a view of most of the town.

Ezra led Aria to the bench and wrapped his arms around her as she leaned her body into his.

"Ezra, are you okay?" Aria asked quietly, looking up to meet his eyes.

He looked down at her and remained silent, not knowing how to answer her question.

"I don't know." He finally said.

"You know I'm here if you need to talk." She reminded him.

He took a deep breath before replying. "Yeah," He said softly, staring off into the view of the city.

"Hey, we should go." Aria began, as she checked the time on her phone.

Ezra got up from the bench without another word and silently walked to the car.

Aria scrunched her eyebrows together at him in confusion, wondering why he didn't take her hand in his or why he didn't say anything.

She followed him to the car and stayed quiet when she got inside. Ezra drove away, the silence in the car taking over.

"Ezra, what's wrong?" Aria asked, unable to handle the silence anymore.

"Nothing." He muttered. Aria noticed the way his knuckles turned white as he gripped the steering wheel tightly.

She knew he was lying.

"Ezra, there's something bothering you, now what is it?" Aria pressed.

Ezra suddenly slammed on the breaks, causing Aria to let out a shriek from the sudden stop.

"What's bothering me?" Ezra asked angrily, turning to Aria in disbelief. "What's bothering me, Aria? Well for one, I just found out my father has cancer. Secondly, who knows how long he's going to live before it kills him!"

"You don't know that he's going to die, Ezra! He might survive this!" Aria said.

"And you don't know that he isn't going to die. You can tell me that it's all going to be okay as many times as you'd like, Aria, but it's all just lies. It's never going to be okay." Ezra said thickly.

Aria looked at him, her expression full of hurt. "Well then, as your girlfriend, I'm sorry for trying to make you feel better!" Aria spat out at Ezra, before getting out of the car.

Aria felt tears building up in her eyes as she realized that Ezra hadn't even gotten out of the car to follow her. She didn't know if he even cared about her anymore.

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