A/N:

Just wanted to let you guys know that this chapter as well as the next few will just be fillers, I'm trying to get to a particular point in this story so just bare with me :)

On the upside that probably means more frequent chapters until I get there. I already have the next one pretty much done, but I won't be able to post it for a few days because of work and such.

So I hope this short update is enough to keep you guys going.

Happy weekend :)

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Nearly a week had passed since Aria had gotten her rejection letter from Yale. I spent every day after school at her house; she hadn't been able to get out of bed to go to school. I would just sit with her and hold her. She had barely eaten anything and she had barely said anything at all.

She had been in a daze for a week and it was time to start doing something about it, so Hanna Emily and I were going over to the Montgomery's to talk to Aria about her options.

"Remember guys, we have to be supportive, whatever she wants to do or wherever she wants to go we have to respect it." I said to Hanna and Emily as we walked up the steps to the front door.

"Of course, we just wanna be there for her." Hanna said.

I knocked on the front door and was greeted by an exhausted looking Ella Montgomery.

"Hi girls, come in, she's in her room." She said sadly.

Hanna and Emily walked up the stairs toward Aria's room while I stayed behind to talk to Mrs. Montgomery.

"How is she today?" I asked.

"Pretty much the same, she's eaten a bit more today which is good."

"Well, we're gonna talk to her about what she wants to do now. We know she's still hurting but if we're going to get her into something we have to do it now before it's too late."

"That's great, I just hope she's willing to listen and at least try. Thank you for everything you've done this week Spencer, I don't know what I would have done if she didn't have you." She gave me a weak smile, and I pulled her into a tight hug.

"We're family, and family are there for each other when things get hard."

I gave her a reassuring smile and squeezed her hand tightly before following the girls upstairs and into Aria's room. When I walked through the door she gave me an attempted smile.

"Hey Ar, how are you feeling?" I sat down next to her and kissed her forehead.

"Okay I guess… better now that you guys are here…" she said taking my hand in her free one, her other already in Hanna's.

"Aria, we wanna talk to you about what you wanna do now, after what's happened." I explained carefully.

"There's nothing to do." She said simply.

"Of course there is, we can look at the other college's you've applied to and we can see what else you can do next year." Emily said smiling.

"That's not possible." She whispered.

"What do you mean it's not possible?" I asked confused.

"I… I never applied to any other colleges." Her voice cracked and I watched the tears forming in her eyes.

"You never applied to any other colleges? Aria, why would you only apply to one college?" I asked, Emily looked distraught, Hanna looked like she didn't know what to think.

"Because Yale is all I've ever wanted! I've never wanted to go anywhere else! If they don't want me then I don't want to go to college, there is nowhere else for me! If Yale don't want me then that's the universe telling me that I'm not meant to go to college." The tears spilled over and slid down her cheeks, one at a time. I pulled her into my side and held her tightly.

"It's okay, it's okay." I said stroking her hair and holding her close to me. Hanna and Emily slid in beside us and wrapped their arms around us, sandwiching us in the middle as we held Aria there while she cried.

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Aria had eventually calmed down and fallen asleep, Hanna Emily and I went to sit downstairs and talk about what we could do for her.

"She only applied to one college… I can't believe it." Emily said.

"All the deadlines have been passed, what are we gonna do? She doesn't have anywhere to go? She doesn't have any other options…." I said, panicked.

"There has to be something!" Hanna yelled.

"Han, there isn't anything else. Every application that has been sent out by students has already been answered. All the places have been taken, and there are no other options. All we can hope for is that there might be some classes in Hollis that she can take part-time."

"I'm gonna go and see if there is, and check out other courses that she might be interested in." Hanna said frantically, before grabbing her things and running out the door.

"Spencer, even if she gets something… we're all going to be leaving, and she'll be staying here. Especially you, I mean she doesn't even know you got in... That is going to kill her…"

"I know. But I can't think about that right now. She's so fragile because of this rejection, if I tell her that I've been accepted to Princeton and you're going to Danby… I don't know what it could do to her."

"Let's just focus on making sure she's okay. I'm gonna go and help Hanna see if we can find something. Anything at all." She hugged me and quickly followed after Hanna.

I walked up the stairs to Aria's room. She was still asleep. I walked over to the bed and lay down beside her, careful not to wake her up. I slid in behind her and pulled her gently into my arms.

I don't know how things could get so bad so quickly. A few weeks ago we were in London, we were having the time of our lives and we didn't have anything to worry about. How can things get so messed up that easily?

Aria is the most amazing person I have ever met and she doesn't deserve this to happen to her.

I didn't know how I was going to make this better, or make it go away. I'm the one who always has a solution to the problem, I'm the one who can always fix things and I'm the one Aria depends on the most.

How can I tell her that I'm out of ideas? How can I tell her that there's nothing I can do to help her?

I can't tell her that. And I can't give up. There has to be something. And we can figure it out. Together.