Aria lay in Ezra's arms as she felt him shake awake. He stood up and walked into the bathroom to take a shower. When he got out, he came out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist. He laid out his suit for the funeral. He was still only in his towel as he walked over to Aria. He put his hand on her shoulder and gently shook her awake.

"Aria, sweetheart, you need to wake up, your parents are going to be here soon, and we have to get ready for the funeral."

Aria got up a few moments later, still tired. She was about to go to the bathroom, but then walked into Ezra.

He didn't know that she was following him.

"Ezra?" Aria said quietly he turned around to see Aria standing there with tears forming in her eyes.

"Yes?" Ezra said as he brought his hand to her cheek and wiped away a stray tear.

"No matter what happens today, I want you to know that, I love you." Aria reminded him.

"Aria, I love you more than anything, I don't think I could have made it through any of this if I didn't have you by my side. You know that I love you right?" Ezra said.

"Yeah." Aria said, as she put her arms around his waist. He wrapped his arms around her as he held her close against his chest. She began sobbing into his chest. Aria pulled away a few moments later.

"I have to go take a shower." She said in a faint whisper. But just before she reached the door, Ezra grabbed her hand and turned her around.

"Come on, just a little longer." Ezra said, as he pulled her back into his embrace.

"Thank you Ezra, I needed this."

Ezra spoke up after her. "Me too Aria, me too."

It was about 3 minutes later after their long hug that Aria pulled away again.

"Ezra, I have to take a shower." Ezra finally let her go to the bathroom. Another ten minutes later, Aria emerged from the bathroom, when she looked up, she saw Ezra sitting on the bed crying, holding the picture of his father. She walked over to him and sat down beside him.

"Ezra, I am so sorry, I know how you feel." Aria began.

"No Aria, you don't." Ezra spat at Aria.

"When I was born, I had another brother, Ezra. I lived and he didn't because I took too much of the oxygen supply. So yeah, I think I know a little something about your loss." Aria said as she got her clothes. She was about to leave before she looked back at Ezra, and he didn't say anything, so she continued out the room. She came to the stairs but slipped on the third step and fell down the staircase. "Ezra!" She screamed. By the time that he came out of the room she was laying at the bottom of the stairs. He ran to her side, as she sobbed. Ezra picked her up into his arms, and held her, he yelled for his mom and she came running around the corner. She saw Ezra holding Aria and ran to his side.

"Ezra?" Aria said in a hushed tone

"Aria, are you ok?"

Between sobs Aria managed to say, "My shoulder is killing me." Ezra moved his hand away from her shoulder and saw it was bleeding. Ezra helped Aria up and helped her slide on a pair of jeans and slide a tank top over her head. He held a towel to her shoulder as he helped Aria into the car to go to the hospital.

When they arrived, Aria had gotten ten stitches on her shoulder, a sling to hold her arm and an ice pack for it. Other than that she just had a few bruises. They were in the car on there way home.

"Aria, I am so sorry about before." Ezra said quietly.

"Ezra, it's ok, you didn't know, it doesn't matter now, lets just focus on today, ok?"

"Ok, but Aria I am sorry and you don't know how much I love you and could never make it through any of this without you. Please forgive me."

"I forgive you Ezra." Aria said as she tilted her head up and Ezra placed a soft kiss upon her lips. When they got to the house, Aria's family had arrived and was settled in the guest room. When they saw Aria and Ezra they all hugged but when Byron went to hug Aria, she let out a shriek of pain and her father backed away. Ezra went to her side and pushed her jacket out of the way, the stitches were still intact, but Aria was in a lot of pain. While Ezra went to get Aria an ice pack, Aria explained about what happened and how she had gotten the stitches. When Ezra returned he gently placed the ice pack on her stitches as she leaned into him. They all talked then it was time to get ready for the funeral. Aria and Ezra went to their room and got ready, He helped her slip her dress over her shoulder and made sure that it was comfortable. When everyone was ready they went to the church. Aria's family had entered but Aria and Ezra waited outside for a second.

"Ezra, we should go in."

"Ok."

When they walked in the door the coffin was open and Aria and Ezra's eyes were already filled with tears. Ezra put his arm around Aria's waist as they walked to sit by his mother and brother.

"Ezra, do you want me to sit with my family?" Aria asked nervously.

"Aria are you kidding, I can't do this without you." Ezra confessed. "Okay." Aria said as he took her hand. After they sat down, they had about 10 minutes until the service started. Ezra got up and walked up to his fathers coffin. He looked down and pulled a rocket ship out of his pocket that John had given it to him when he was just a child. When Julie and John separated, he kept it forever, and now he wanted his father to have it because his father meant the world to him, no matter what happened with his mother. Ezra held it in his hand and a few tears fell from his eyes, down his cheeks. Aria watched him from her seat. Next, Ezra took his fathers hand into his, it felt cold, and soulless, but Ezra knew it never would be. He placed the ship in his father's hand and closed it around it and put his fathers hand back down into his coffin. Then made his way back to his seat. He sat down and Aria reached for his hand but he pulled away. He looked out the window, ever so often glancing at his father. Aria didn't know what to do, she didn't know weather to try to hold his hand again or not, so she didn't, she knew he needed space. When the service started, at first it was just the preacher talking about what he knew of John and what a wonderful man he was. Then they had Kayla come up and say a few words.

"Thank you everyone for coming, it means so much to me, writing this was harder than I though, I was asked to share a memory that I shared with my dad, so I picked the best one. It was when I was about seven, Ezra was eleven, it was morning on a summer day. Dad had said that he had a surprise for us, he told us to close our eyes, so we did, but Ezra peeked. He pulled out a locket with a picture of him and I in it and a small rocket ship that he gave to Ezra. The thing is, that it wasn't the items that we got, it was the fact that our dad would go to the ends of the earth to make us happy, he could make you laugh with the lamest joke, he never put himself first, he put us first and that's what I admire about him so much. I miss him and I'll miss him forever, I love him."

She looked towards her father. "I love you daddy."

She went back to her seat. Johns dad went up to talk, and Ezra eyes were glued on his grandpa, not even noticing the fact that Aria was sitting next to him crying. She wanted to be in his arms but after he wouldn't hold her hand, she wasn't going to try to get his arms around her. Her shoulder medicine was wearing off and the pain was increasing. As Ezra's eyes wandered around the room, he saw Aria sitting with tears in her eyes, holding her shoulder as if she were in pain. He put his hand out for her to hold, she took it with her free hand and laid her head on his shoulder. He placed a kiss on her head.

Next was the burial...

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