"This is the best English class I've ever had." I murmured against Ezra's lips.
He wrapped his arm around my waist before pulling away for a moment and resting his forehead against mine.
"Your parents would kill me if they knew what most of your classes actually consisted of." Ezra smiled, before I pressed my lips to his once again.
"I swore to that oath that your classes would actually be classes. There better not be any hidden cameras in here, or else we're completely screwed." He laughed, before pulling my face back to his and kissing me hungrily.
A loud buzzing suddenly warped us out of our little fantasy.
I let out a groan as Ezra pulled away from me and grabbed his phone from the coffee table.
"It's Jackie." He said, surprised.
"Are you going to answer it?" I asked, secretly hoping he wouldn't.
"Should I?" He pondered, as he looked at the ringing phone in his hand. "It could be about Maria."
"Then answer it." I closed my eyes, a little frustrated.
"Hello?" Ezra asked, as he put Jackie on speakerphone so I could listen to the conversation.
"Ezra?"
"What's going on?" He asked.
"Ezra please, listen to me when I say this. I'm so sorry for kissing you. I don't know what I was thinking. I see now how much you love Aria and I'm sorry for trying to ruin that." Jackie apologized. I looked at Aria, whose eyes were looking a little wet.
"You don't realize what kind of hell I went through the other night because Aria suddenly disappeared." Ezra ran his fingers through his hair in a frustrated manner.
"I'm sorry Ezra. I promise it won't happen again. I realized, that if you were mad enough at me, you might not want to ever see me again. And that would mean never seeing Maria again, and I didn't want to be the reason she never saw her dad ever again."
"I love Aria. Not you. I need you to understand that, before we can make things right between us again." He told her.
"And that's why I want to take you and Aria out to dinner tonight. To apologize and see if we all can just be friends."
He looked at me, awaiting my response.
"Um, well let me see what Aria-" He started to say, but I interrupted.
"Listen Jackie. I saw you and Ezra together, and I agree that yes, it would be a big burden for you to carry if Maria never saw Ezra again. But if you ever try and make a move on Ezra ever again, when he doesn't want you to, I will personally hunt you down and kill you."
"Well that doesn't sound very nice." She replied.
"It isn't. But you kissing my boyfriend isn't very nice either, now is it." I replied swiftly.
"You're right. And I'm sorry about that." She said. "I hope you'll forgive me and that we can all be friends."
"At the moment, I can't say the same. But I will say that time will tell what will happen between all of us." I sighed.
"Then I'll see you tonight at 7? We can go to this nice restaurant I've been to a few times. I'll text Ezra the address."
"Okay. We'll see you tonight." Ezra told her, before hanging up.
"Uh, wow." Ezra said, clearly not knowing what else to say.
"Did we seriously just make plans to go to dinner with your ex?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think we just did." He nodded.
"This… is going to be a long night." I mumbled as Ezra straightened out the papers lying on the coffee table.
"Here's your actual homework." Ezra chuckled as he grabbed my laptop, which lay forgotten on the floor from earlier.
"Do you really have to give me homework?" I whined.
"I'm not giving it to you, the computer is!" He put his hands up, defending himself. "Besides, it's just a worksheet. You'll probably finish it in two seconds."
"You know…" I told him as I crawled onto his lap. "If you do it, you could finish it in half a second." I said in a voice I knew he couldn't resist.
"Aria. There is no way you are going to get me to do your homework."
"Aw come on. Wouldn't you rather be kissing me than watching me do English homework?" I leaned towards him and gave him a kiss. He kissed me back for a moment before pulling away.
"No." He crossed his arms together and looked away. "You really need to do your homework."
"Fine." I surrendered, as I grabbed my laptop and set it down on my lap.
"After you're done, we can do whatever you want."
"Whatever I want?" I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Whatever you want." He replied.
…PLL…
"This is crazy." I stated, as I got out of the car.
"Why?" Ezra asked me, genuinely confused.
"We're about to have dinner with your ex-fiancé, who still wants to be with you." I reminded him.
"Well, said ex-fiancé, promised that she'll be good and stop threatening to destroy our relationship."
"Yeah right." I muttered.
"Hey," Ezra said softly, as he stroked my cheek. "I love you, and Jackie will never be able to do anything to change that."
He gave me a kiss before taking my hand as we walked into the restaurant together.
Ezra looked around the restaurant for a moment, looking for Jackie and Maria.
"Is that Hanna?" Ezra whispered in my ear.
"What? Where?" I spun around to see Hanna sitting at a table at the far end of the restaurant with Caleb, Lucas, and a brunette girl.
"Yeah, it is! She didn't tell me she was dating Caleb again!" I exclaimed.
"There's Jackie and Maria." He gestured to a table near the windows. "Let's get this over with." With his hand still in mine, we walked towards the table where Jackie and Maria were sitting.
"Hi daddy!" Maria squealed as soon as she saw Ezra.
"Hey Maria," He gave her a smile before sitting down across from Jackie at the table. I sat down next to him across from Maria, who was coloring on a piece of paper.
Our waitress came over to our table a moment later. As we were all ordering our food and drinks, I looked over to Hanna's table to see Hanna, Caleb, Lucas, and the brunette girl walking over to our table. Caleb was holding hands with Hanna and Lucas was holding hands with the brunette girl.
"Mr. Fitz! I didn't know you were married!" The brunette girl exclaimed as the waitress left our table.
"Why is Aria having dinner with you, your wife, and daughter?" Lucas asked.
"Actually Danielle, I'm n-" Ezra begun to say, but Jackie interrupted.
"She's a f-family friend." Jackie replied sweetly, answering Lucas' question.
"Shut up." I groaned at Jackie.
Caleb, Lucas, and Danielle looked at me with surprise written all over their faces. Hanna however, had a smug look on her face.
I took Ezra's hand in mine and held our hands up for Caleb, Danielle and Lucas to clearly see.
"Ezra and I are dating. Jackie is Ezra's ex, and Maria is Ezra and Jackie's daughter." I explained.
"Wow." Lucas replied.
"That's creepy." Caleb commented.
Danielle just looked at me with an extremely confused expression on her face. She was probably thinking about what a freak I was for dating my ex-teacher. However, I really didn't care.
"So you guys made up and are happily in love again?" Hanna winked at me.
"Han…" I groaned. "Wait, but you and Caleb? Are you back together?" I questioned her.
"Uh-" Hanna glanced at Danielle who was watching her, awaiting her answer.
"Yeah, yeah we are." She said sweetly. "Come on guys, we'll let them be." Hanna led everyone back to the table. However, as soon as the group was halfway back to the table, Hanna turned back to our table and spoke.
"Just so you get your facts straight, Caleb and I aren't together anymore. We just came for moral support for Lucas. We're his… wing people." She said uncomfortably.
"Why?" Ezra asked.
"He's a mess." She said simply, before walking back to her table to join Caleb, Lucas, and Danielle.
"Look what I drew!" Maria exclaimed, as she held up a picture of four people.
"This is mommy, this is daddy, this is me, and this is Aria." She pointed to each person on the picture.
I snuck a glance at Ezra, who had confusion written all over his face.
"She put you in the picture." He stated quietly to me, dumbstruck.
"I know. That's… weird." I looked at Maria, who was marveling over her work.
Ezra opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted when the waitress came with our food.
The actual dinner part of dinner was mostly a quiet affair, with the occasional small talk between Ezra and Jackie.
"Are you enjoying your classes so far Ezra?" Jackie asked him. She had not taken her eyes off of Ezra all night and I started to wonder if she was actually being truthful on the phone earlier, or if it was all just an act.
"Yeah, they're not bad." He conversed. "How are yours?"
"They're all really good." She smiled.
I twirled my spaghetti around on my fork, extremely bored of their "conversation."
Twenty minutes later, the most awkward dinner I have ever had to endure was over with, and I was free!
"That was… the weirdest hour I have ever had to sit through." I told Ezra with a sympathetic smile on my face, as we left the restaurant.
"I completely agree." He said, as he got into the car. "At least it's done. Jackie behaved, and-"
"Except for that one comment." I snarled, remembering Jackie's comment about me being a family friend.
"That you were a family friend?" Ezra chuckled.
"Please tell me what makes that comment so funny. Because I'm completely lost here." I demanded.
"Because she's trying so hard. It's pretty pathetic." Ezra said.
"That it is, Ezra. That it is."
I love Hanna! Even though she didn't have many snarky comments in this chapter.
I wish this baby would just be born already. I already have one chapter of their birth finished. Anyways, thanks so much for all of the reviews! I've already planned out all the drama I want for this story, but if any of you have any ideas for fluff or happy things that you want to see in this story, just let me know and I'll write a chapter of it! All suggestions are very welcome! Review please!