Title - Ezria in LA.
Characters - Aria and Ezra
Story Summery - Following the adventures of Ezrias life as the years passed by. Starts 10 years after Arias High School Graduation. Ezria is married and they live in a big house in Los Angeles, California. Ezra is a teacher at LAs most known private school and Aria is a singer still struggling to become famous. Can they balance their relationship and a family or will their marriage fall apart when Aria gets offered an opportunity of a lifetime? Ezria's Relationship and Family Life is tested. A mix of Ezria and Jaria. Read and Review or PM with thoughts, and story line ideas.
Author Notes: I know some readers were not happy with some of the story lines I have chosen to write. I am reminding you that this is my story and I can write it the way I want it to. Please be nice in the reviews. I don't like reading "You are ruining your story" or "I hate this story". A better review would be "I think your story would be better if you did this ..." or "I think this should happen ... instead of this ...". Please give this story more of a chance as it only can get better.
I am still fairly new at writing and I can only improve with each chapter. For those of you that wanted Riley biological father to be Ezra, I think you will be happy in the end. Like I mentioned in a previous chapter. "DNA doesn't make a family, Love does." This quote was taken from another ABC Family show "The Fosters".
I made this choice to make Jason the biological father of Riley because I wanted Jason to be a important part of this story. I still want and plan to keep Ezria together even though there will be some bumps along the road with their marriage and other things that might happen to them in the future.
Just a little clue on what might happen in upcoming chapters or later on in the story: Ezria might get into another fight that causes Aria to maybe make a decision she regrets which Ezra may find out about. Ezras mom comes into town for about a month to celebrate Christmas and the New Years holiday with her son and granddaughters that may cause another strain on Ezrias relationship. Old feelings between two characters might resurface but they won't last very long. Aria may think she is pregnant but it might just be a false alarm. Aria will get a offer for a tour but will she take it? Jason offers to manage this tour for her but Aria and Ezra have different opinions about what that means.
Welcome Home Riley
Riley's POV
Things were going to be hard for me now but at least I could go home. I was actually really happy to leave the hospital. I was still on hospital grounds but I was outdoors.
"What am I supposed to do about school?" I asked
"We are going to hire a private tutor for you and when you feel ready to go back you can go back to school." My Mom said
"But I miss school and all of my friends." I said
"School is important but right now you need to focus on other things besides school." My Dad said
General POV
Aria and Ezra got a wheelchair lift put into the SUV. They also got some other things done around the house to make it easier for Riley to get around. Lucy was at home and Jason was watching her. Also at the Fitz residence were some of Riley's friends to welcome her home. Riley had no idea that her friends were waiting to welcome her home. When Riley got home she was surprised that her friends actually cared.
"Mom, Dad, did you do all this for me?" Riley asked
"Actually it was Jason's idea to have a welcome home party." Ezra said
"Your dad and I helped him with the planing plus we bought the welcome home Riley banner and the balloons." Aria said
Riley's welcome home party was mostly just food and talking with friends.
"What's wrong?" Jason asked Riley
"Thanks for planning all this but I really just want to be alone right now." Riley said
"Why don't you go talk with some of your friends. They all missed you." Jason said
Riley went to talk with her friends especially her best friend Maya. That left Aria, Ezra, and Jason to talk.
"When is the next time that I can have Riley come over to my apartment?" Jason asked
"I think it will be easier if you just come over here to see her on the days that she would of normally gone to your apartment." Aria said
"I told you that Aria and I are Riley's parents. Jason you are getting way to involved in her life." Ezra said
"I'm the one that gave her one of my kidney's. Without me Riley wouldn't even be living anymore." Jason said
"Jason, Now is not the right time to argue about when you can see Riley." Aria said
"You won't be able to see Riley for awhile because my mom is coming in to town for a month and she can't find out about you being Riley's Biological father." Ezra said
"I'll get my Lawyer and we can take this to court." Jason said
"Jason, We don't need to go to court to get this settled. I will talk to Ezra and get him to change his mind." Aria said
"Riley doesn't need you Jason, Riley needs Aria and myself." Ezra said
"Riley is 11 so I think she should decide that herself." Jason said
"I think that seems fair." Aria said
"You didn't raise her Jason so it's obvious Riley is going to chose me over you." Ezra said
A short time later the welcome home party for Riley was over. All of Riley's friends got picked up by their parents. Jason was still there to help clean up.
Ezra's POV
I was outside in the back yard with Lucy and Riley along with Riley's best friend Maya who was sleeping over. Lucy was on the swing set and I was pushing her since she hadn't learned how to kick yet.
"I can't believe I can never play on the swing set again." Riley said to Maya
"You don't know that for sure Riley, Miracles do happen sometimes." Maya said
"How can you still be happy after everything you went through." Riley asked Maya
"My life would be so different if I hadn't had to go live with my grandparents. You know if I hadn't moved here then I never would have meet you." Maya said
Aria's POV
Ezra was outside with Lucy and Riley so I figured now was a good time to talk to Jason without Ezra interfering.
"Thanks for helping clean up and I'm sorry about Ezra. I promise you that we will work something out so you can see Riley." I said to Jason
"I don't want to force Riley to see me if she doesn't want to." Jason said
"Riley wants to see you. When she was still in the hospital Riley would always ask me if you were coming to visit her that day but she would never ask or talk about you when Ezra was in the room." I said
"It seems like Riley is afraid of what Ezra will think if he finds out that she enjoys spending time with me." Jason said
"It's like Ezra refuses to accept that you need to be in Riley's life. It's not like you are taking Riley away from him completely." I said
"I understand that, I mean I've already lost two kids and I don't plan on losing another." Jason said
"Do you have any plans for Thanksgiving?" I asked
"No, I'll just stay home and watch football. I'm not dating anyone and my parents live on the east coast so I have no where to go." Jason said
"You should come over to our house on Thursday." I said
"Really, Are you sure Ezra won't mind?" Jason asked
"What Ezra needs is to see you interact with Riley more. Plus I'm sure he will be happy to watch some football with you." I said
"I think you are exactly right. I don't think he trust me around Riley. It's like Ezra is holding my bad past against me." Jason said
"I'm going to be singing at this "Wrapped in Red" charity event on December 6th and I would like you to come. It's a childrens charity and the money goes to buy holiday presents for kids whose parents can't afford to buy gifts." I said
"I will be there to support you." Jason said
"I really want to try out you managing my singing career." I said
"What will Ezra think about it?" Jason asked
"I don't care what he thinks. It's my career and my future so I can do what I want with it." I said
Jason left a short time later. Later that same night Lucy was already asleep. Usually when Maya slept over on a Saturday night I would take her and Riley to the mall or movies but this time they just stayed here to watch movies. After the movie Riley was tired so Ezra helped her get comfortable on the couch and Maya was sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor. Ezra and I told Maya that if Riley needed anything to go upstairs and wake us up. Ezra and I were getting ready for bed.
"Don't be mad at me but I invited Jason over for Thanksgiving dinner." I said
"Aria." Ezra said
"I'm sorry but I just figured since he had no one to spend Thanksgiving with." I said
"I'm not mad, I just wish that you would have asked me first." Ezra said
"So you could tell me no." I said
"I might of actually said yes to inviting Jason over. I agree it's a holiday and Jason probably doesn't want to spend it alone." Ezra said
"Thanks for understanding." I said
"Are you sure that you can handle taking Riley to physical therapy while I'm at work? She also has a doctors appointment on Wednesday morning." Ezra asked
"I can handle it. Maybe the four of us could go out to Lunch on Wednesday after Riley's appointment" I said
"Even though class are not in session there are teachers meetings all day on Wednesday but you and the kids could still do you to lunch." Ezra said
"Well have fun at your teacher meetings." I said
"There mostly just to prepare for exams. All the teachers get the Exam booklet for there subject and then we have to make an exams for our students. It's fairly complicated considering that I have to make tests for English 9, English 10, English 11, and English 12." Ezra said
"Well your a great teacher so I'm sure you will figure it out." I said
"As long as I don't have to fail any students this semester." Ezra said
"Have you failed a student in the last 10 years?" I asked
"No but I've had a few that just barley passed. " Ezra said
"I couldn't think of a better job for you other then parenting." I said
"Well before we met I almost went to cooking school." Ezra said
"What made you decide to be a teacher?" I asked
"I had this one English teacher in high school. He was the strictest teacher in the entire school. Halfway through that semester I had the lowest grade in the class and by the end I had the highest grade out of all the students in that class." Ezra said
"Wow." I said
"What made you want to become a singer?" Ezra asked
"Honestly I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up. I thought about it and I remember that I used to sing everywhere. It didn't matter if I was in the shower, car, or out in public somewhere whenever a song popped in my head or a song was on the radio, I would just sing. It's something my parents never understood because neither of them had a good singing voice." I said
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