A/N: Okay guys, we're back with another one-shot! :) This is personally, one of my favorites. It's really flashback heavy, so everything thats italicized is a flashback moment! Make sure you review!

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She Is Love- Parachute

I sat in the padded wooden barstool in old dilapidated bar with my best friend, sitting beside me. He was drinking Coke while I was on my 6th tumbler of scotch. "Another scotch?" the bartender asked. I nodded. I had been in this bar for a little over three hours. Although I've had six tumblers full of scotch so far, I wasn't drunk. I could tell you that today was April 19th, 2010. If you asked why I was in the bar, I could tell you. I was in that bar, on that 19th of April, because I just might have lost the love of my life. She was everything, and I might have blown it, because I didn't tell her about my ex. It was so stupid!

Aria had opened up the front door, answering to the bell. I watched her gracefully walk up to the door and quietly open it. I couldn't help but lust after her and love her. She was otherworldly in her beauty and was incredibly mature. She stood there, gawking at whatever was right in front of her. What was there that was so bad? Aria said something, and then I heard a voice at the other side of the doorway. Aria seemed scared, but angry also; almost hurt. She quickly ran up the steps, which I guess led to her room. I walked over towards the stairs and the door. I looked over and guess who I saw smiling and waving back at me? Jackie, my ex. I turned away and ran up the steps without as much as a wave or glance back at Jackie. I was determined to find Aria.

I arrived at a door that had a picture of a butterfly on it. It had to be Aria's. I opened the door and saw her. She was putting stuff in a bag, the bag she always brought when she spent the night at my apartment. "Hey," I said, trying to get her attention. She looked over at me in the doorway. You could tell she had been crying, there were tears on her face. I had done this, I had made her cry. I walked over to her, and I was going to wipe her tears off, but she pushed me away.

"What were you thinking? It didn't occur to you that she'd be here tonight?" She asked, obviously jealous and angry. I didn't though, I never thought that Jackie Molina would show up at the faculty mixer because I didn't know what she was doing with her life, and I didn't know that she had gotten a job there. I thought that she would have gone off, to New York with her family. I never thought that she would stay in the small town of Rosewood, PA. It wasn't like her... Unless she stayed for me, which was very like her.

"No Aria, I haven't seen her since last summer and she was a TA then." I told her the truth. I haven't seen Jackie since a week before I met Aria. I didn't want Jackie anymore. Aria was the only one for me. I wished that I could shout it to the world. I WAS IN LOVE WITH ARIA LUCILLE MONTGOMERY!

"But I can't help but think that you still have feelings for her. There's no other reason for you to keep that from me." There was a reason. The reason I hadn't told her was because I knew that it would get like this. I'm not the kind of guy to put things that didn't work out on my resume.

"Aria, she is not a part of my life now." My voice was cold, and stern like I was her teacher correcting her.

"Yes she is. She's downstairs having wine with my dad." Aria started to walk past my towards the door. I couldn't let her leave me, not yet at least.

"I screwed up, okay!" I practically screamed and Aria turned around right in my face. I had thought she was going to kiss me, or forgive me, but neither actions were done. Earlier she had planned to give me the tour, which really meant her room, so that we could be alone. This wasn't how I pictured alone time in her room.

"Not telling me about her was a lie," she said, right in my face. Yes, it was a lie, but I did it for Aria. I did it so that we could work out. I never wanted any of this to happen.

"I'm sorry."

"Until today, you had been the one guy who had never lied to me." She walked out the door, leaving me stand in the middle of her room.

The bartender sat my scotch in front of me, and I downed have of it in a couple seconds. Hardy looked into my face, "Dude, you really messed up, didn't you?" Yeah, I did mess up. I screwed my whole life up. No, I take that back, Jackie screwed my life up. I can't even remember why I even got with her in the first place. Why did I ever get with Jackie Molina? All she did was ruin my life, then and now.

I gave Hardy a nod. "Yeah, I messed my whole life up." I did. She was my entire life. She was all I had, and I messed up. I had my reasons for not telling her about Jackie, and they were all in vain. She had waited patiently for me; she didn't mind that we had to sneak around, or that she couldn't show me off to her friends. She waited for the day that I would no longer be her teacher and she could show me off to the world. That day, I screwed up. I sat my ice-filled tumbler back on the counter and just stared at it.

Hardy took me by the shoulder and made me face him. "You really loved her, didn't you?" I thought strongly about this question. I did love her, beyond compare.

"Love," I quickly corrected him, "not past tense." It was more then that for her and I though, we weren't just lovers. We were soul mates. I would never find another soul mate, another true love. I could try, but I would never ever succeed. "Hardy…she is my soul mate," I told him and all he did was nod. He didn't understand what I meant. I had to explain that she was everything to me. So I continued. "I've been beaten down, I've been kicked around, but she takes it all for me." My mind instantly flew back to February 16th.

Aria burst in my door, and saw me sitting on my couch, curled up like a coward. I had a beer in my hand, and sat it down when she saw me. "Ezra, what's wrong? What happened today?" I got up and walked over to where she was standing, in the middle of my apartment.

"It's over, Aria. The hiding, the sneaking around, it's over."

"Ezra, you have to tell me what happened. Maybe I can fix this!" There was no way she could fix this, unless she suddenly had some super power to erase something from someone's mind.

"Aria, what we have is the most…real and honest thing in my life and that's something I hope you remember. Whatever happens tomorrow, that won't change." It would never change, no matter how hard I tried.

"I know how you feel about me." She looked at my face and brought her hand up to my cheek. Then she pushed a lock of my hair out of my face. She stood on her tip-toes and planted a kiss on my cheek, right beside my lips.

"I'm not going to change Noel's grade. We may not look right, but this has always felt right, and I won't let him change this into something that feels wrong. I just can't, and I won't let him hurt you." I looked into her eyes and took her hand in mine. "If I resign tomorrow, and get the hell out of Rosewood, he won't have any reason to say anything about us." I didn't want to leave, but I knew I had to, to save both Aria and myself.

"Ezra, I love you," her voice said as her lips melted into mine. The kiss increased with more passion. That could have possibly been the last time I would ever kiss her, for a long time.

"Hardy, she was willing to take on Noel Kahn, a football player and a world class douche bag, to save our relationship. She was a lot braver then I was at that moment." Hardy looked over at me and started to shake his head. What was his problem? Did he not understand that Aria was important to me?

"But Ezra, man, you can't let a girl control your whole life. Especially when she is a high school girl and your student!" I was about ready to slap Hardy. Aria wasn't just a high school girl, and as a matter of fact, she wasn't my student anymore. Aria was much more then that, and I had lost her.

"Hardy. She's not my student anymore, so please let that go! Secondly, she is more then just a high school girl. And when I lost my faith, on my darkest days, she made me want to believe…that everything would be okay. It was all the same, all my pride and shame, but she put my back on my feet." I finished my statement, and my mind drifted back to October 6th.

We had just gotten back from the bar with Hardy. What Hardy had told me, about an hour before, was still stuck in my head. I let Aria in and closed the door behind her. "Okay, Ezra stop. Did Hardy say something, about me or about us?" I couldn't tell her, could I? I couldn't tell her that I was thinking about ending this.

"No, why would he? I was just having fun in a bar with a high school student." Crap, I shouldn't have said that. Aria is much more mature then a high school student. When I met her, I though she was like twenty-two.

"You make it sound so awful." She was looking at me like I was crazy. Maybe I was crazy. I mean, I was dating my student! How much crazier could it get?

"Well maybe it is." What the hell, Ezra? Why did I just say that? Stupid Hardy making my mouth have a mind of its own. I didn't want to say that aloud.

"Did I act like a high school girl? Did I do anything to embarrass you, or take away your pride?" No, she didn't embarrass me...she could never embarrass me. She was sometimes more mature then me, myself.

"It's not about that."

"Then what's it about? Is this Hardy's problem? Or is it yours? Age is never an issue when we're together." Yeah, when we're in my apartment… If she acted like she did tonight in school, it would definitely be an issue.

"Yeah, when it's just the two of us, but when were in the world, people notice." People noticed now, but maybe, in five years, it wouldn't be such a difference.

"No, Hardy noticed. Ezra, he's your friend. If your okay with it, I doubt it will bother him…" She took my hand in hers.

"Aria, lets get real. In reality, we are a lot more wrong then we are right," I said, pushing a piece of hair out of my forehead.

"You want to be real? Well, forget reality. It's overrated." She looked me in the eyes and pulled me off the couch. "What does it feel like, when we're together?"

I knew the answer to her question right away, but I pondered it a little. "Good. It feels right. I want to be with you. I want to hang out in a bar, share a plate of fries like everybody else, but I don't think we can do that! When I'm with you, I don't care about anybody else…"

"Are you talking yourself into this or out of it?" She asked, with a puzzled glare.

"Yes….no…I don't know." I started to stumble with my words. I didn't know what I was doing. The only thing I knew is what I wanted, but my brain just couldn't comprehend that.

"Then let's review. We're here right now, just the two of us, and it feels good. So let's not care…together." She left a lingering kiss on my lips, and the night continued from there.

"She's the one, who set me straight that night. I had almost lost her that night, but she taught me that we're meant to be," I told Hardy. He still just nodded. I had to keep going. "Hardy, listen. The heavens have a name for Aria. They call her love... She is love. She is all I will ever need. I can't live my life without her."

Hardy looked at me and smiled. "Well man, we better get a move on if you can't live without her!" He grabbed me by the arm and pulled me into the passenger seat of his car. "Where would she be, besides her house since that's out of the question, at ten o'clock at night?" he asked, looking at the watch on his right arm.

"Umm, I don't know? Hanna Marin's?" I told him, not exactly knowing. She was usually at my house on Friday nights. Since I knew she wasn't there, I said the person that was usually her alibi.

Hardy pulled out his iPhone and messed around with it for a little. "Yes! Off we go," he said as we pulled out of the parking lot.

A/N: Okay, it's .stars here, I wrote this for the collaboration story, and I really liked it.
I sort of think that I'd want to continue it? Thoughts? Ideas?
Let me know in a review if you'd want me to continue it on here or on my own account.
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