Both Aria and Ezra's eyes shot up to meet Mike's, their faces masked with confusion. His voice wasn't gentle, it was stern. Mike wasn't asking, he was telling.

"I'll go get some coffee..." Ezra trailed off, quickly leaning down to press a kiss to his girlfriends lip before slipping from the bed. "I'll inform the nurses that you're awake too." A reluctant Aria tried to keep a hold on his hand, but he gave her a reassuring nod, and she reluctantly let go, and Ezra disappeared out of the door and down the hall in a hunt for some coffee.

"Hey, Mike." Aria said with a weak smile, raising a hand into the air to wave at him. Mike, who seemed less than amused; Just bobbed his head in a nod. "Have I done something wrong?"

"What the hell were you thinking?"

"I'm really not in the mood for this..."

"Mom and Dad haven't been here to see you properly yet. They can't even look at you right now." His words struck Aria like a ton of bricks, making her feel the exact same as she did four days ago when all of this happened.

Aria did feel terrible about it. She hated what she had done, and if she could go back and change it all, she'd do it all in a heartbeat. She'd of never left Ezra's. In fact, she wouldn't of let Wesley through the front door in the first place. Slammed it straight in his face and gone back to doing her business.

"If you've come here to try and make me feel horrible and guilty, congratulations, your plan worked." Aria turned on her side, purposely trying to get her point across that it was Mike's cue to leave. He didn't take it though, instead he took a seat in the chair Ezra had sat in for four days straight.

"That's not why I'm here, Aria. I actually came to see if you were okay." He took a deep breath, fumbling around with his fingers as he continued to speak. Mike had waited weeks to tell Aria this, it was now or never. "I have to tell you something."

The slight edge to his tone scared Aria to a great extent. Mike was usually a confident guy, and wouldn't hesitate.

She turned around in the bed, arching a slight brow as she watched her brother intently.

"What's going on?" She was answered with moments of silence, and then a shake of his head. "Mike?"

"I missed you, a lot." Mike said without thinking, backing out of what he was going to say. It wasn't like he was lying though, of course. He had missed his older sister, they were close and barely fought like usual brothers and sisters would. They were like best friends.

"I'm right here, I haven't been anywhere." Aria said in a soft whisper, smiling as widely as she could, trying her absolute hardest not to make it look as fake as it felt.

"No, I don't mean that. You're barely at home anymore, or school. It's like you've disappeared off the face of the earth and then when I arrive home after staying over at Connor's, Dad has to tell me that you came home and tried to kill yourself, what am I supposed to think about that?"

"I didn't purposely try to kill myself. I mean, yes. It did pass through my mind but I wanted to take away the pain, if only for a few hours." Once again the emotions rushed back to Aria once again, wound on her wrist beginning to sting.

"You should've said something, Aria. I've always come to you, when I needed something. You could've told me about Ezra's brother. I could've helped you through it."

"You know too then?"

"Ezra told us all. Don't blame him though, Dad practically put a knife to his throat and threatened to kill him." Mike joked, letting out a weak laugh. "I think... I think that Mom and Dad won't visit you here is because you kept sure a big secret from them...-"

"I kept it a secret from everyone until recently, Mike. It's not like I didn't want to tell them, I couldn't. It was to hard. I only told Ezra because he found out. Even Spence, Hanna and Emily don't know. Well, they didn't."

"We'll it's hard on them too, to cope with all of this." They stayed silent for a few minutes, letting Mike's words set in. "I did bring you this, though." Mike reached into his cost pocket, pulling out a small and tatty teddy bear, setting it down on the bed beside Aria.

For the first time in weeks, Aria genuinely smiled, reaching over to play with the small Teddy bear, whom she had named Alfie when she was younger's ears.

"I love you, you Muppet." Aria said with a light laugh, in which Mike returned. He grasped her hand in his own, giving it a light squeeze.

"I should go, I didn't tell Dad I was coming here. I'll be back tomorrow, okay?"

"Promise?"

He locked his pinky finger with hers.

"Pinky promise."

Aria couldn't help but smile at their childish actions, waving at Mike as he made his way towards the door.

"I bought coffee!" Ezra announced, holding out his coffee proudly, only for it to be snatched from his hands a second later by Mike as he walked out the room. "He stole my coffee..." Ezra faked a sniffle, glancing down at the floor to act upset. "Your brother stole my coffee, that is not okay." He paused, raising an eyebrow as he glanced back up at his girlfriend. "... And I'm wearing no shoes."

Aria pushed her lips out in a playful pout, stretching out her arms towards him. "You didn't buy me coffee, I deserve cuddles"

"You're not allowed coffee."

"But..." She wobbled her bottom lip, her craving for coffee becoming stronger by the minute. It'd been a week since Aria had drank a cup of coffee, it was her fuel. "I'm craving."

As much as Ezra felt bad for denying Aria of her daily coffee intake, he knew the doctors wouldn't be pleased if they found out Ezra had snuck her some coffee in. "I'll sneak you some in later, if I can."

He gave into her way too easily.

"I still expect cuddles." Aria said seriously. Ezra's reply was cut short by the ringing on Ezra's phone. He pulled it from his back pocket as he climbed back onto the bed, an arm wrapping around Aria's frame, playing with the ends of her hair whilst the other as the other held the phone to his ear.

There was something about the change in Ezra's expression that worried Aria. He stayed quiet, listening intently to whoever was on the other end of the line, not glancing at her for a second as Aria took ahold of his chin, guiding his eyes back to meet hers.

The phone line went dead, and Ezra placed the phone on the table beside the bed, turning to face Aria.

"What's wrong?" She whispered, leaning up to press a long lingering kiss to his lips.

"That was your Dad.." Ezra began, letting out a small sigh as he continued. "He thinks that it'd be best if you stayed away for a little while, stayed with me. He thinks it's best for you."

"Dad doesn't want me to go home?" She asked him, closing her eyes as she sighed, laying her head on his chest.

There wasn't a point lying. "No, no he doesn't." Ezra shook his head as he spoke, the next few words coming from Aria's lips making Ezra want to travel back in time and undo it all.

"I've messed up again, haven't I?"

He stayed completely silent, pressing a kiss to her forehead before wrapping both of his arms around her body.