A/N:

Next chapter for you guys, another short one so don't get too excited.

The next should be longer.

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2 weeks later

Aria seemed to be getting back to her old self. She had started eating properly again and she had started coming back to school. We had even gone out on a date last weekend. It was the first time she had wanted to spend time with me outside of her house. The next step was getting her to start sketching and painting again. She hadn't done any new pieces since the last one she added to her portfolio for Yale.

May had just begun and the end of the school year and our high school careers was right around the corner. Hanna and Emily had spent so much time trying to find classes and courses that Aria could take over the next year. They were about to give up until Hanna found a visual arts course that was starting in October and ended in April. It seemed perfect for her and after we told her, she seemed excited enough to be taking it.

We all knew that it would never be anything like Yale, and it wouldn't mean that much to her. But even though we knew this deep down, she never let us see that she wasn't totally happy about going to Hollis.

The end of the week rolled around very quickly and we had all made plans to have dinner and catch a movie. We wanted to try and get things back to normal for Aria as fast as possible.

As I got ready to go out to dinner with my friends I heard my phone beep to signal I had a new message. I walked over to my bed and picked up my phone to read it, it was from Hanna.

Hanna: Oh my god! I have such a surprise for you guys tonight! :D :D Hurry up and get here! Xxx

Spencer: Someone's happy :P I'll see you soon, really interested to see what it is. P.S: If it's another picture of a cat hugging a dog I will be very unimpressed. X

I threw my phone back on the bed and finished getting ready. I grabbed my things a few moments later and made my way to Aria's house to pick her up. When I pulled up she was sitting on the porch waiting for me. When she saw my car she lit up and a large smile graced her lips. For those first few days after her letter came, I thought I would never see that smile again. I don't think I'll ever take that smile for granted ever again, and every time she smiles from now on, my response will always be the same.

"You look so beautiful when you smile." I said as she got in the car, and I leaned in to kiss her. She kissed me back passionately before pulling back slightly.

"You say that every time you see me smile."

"I know, I just like seeing you happy." She blushed at this and took my hand in hers as I drove us to the restaurant where we were meeting Hanna and Emily.

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We got to the restaurant a short while later and were led to our table, where Hanna and Emily were already seated.

Hanna had a huge grin on her face and Emily wasn't looking us in the eye when we sat down.

"Okay, what's this surprise you were talking about?" I asked.

"Surprise!"

"OH MY GOD!" Aria yelled jumping up out of her chair and running across to the source of the surprise that had just jumped out from under the table. None other than Mr. Lewis Duncan himself.

"What are you doing here?!"Aria asked as she hugged him.

"Well, Hanna and I have been talking every day for the past month, and I've always wanted to visit the states, and now I have a perfect reason to." He said smiling widely at my blonde-haired friend.

"He said he wanted to come and visit, and today when I got home from school, there he was sitting at my kitchen island having coffee with my mom." Hanna said happily.

"Oh my god I can't believe this." Aria said as she sat down next to me once more.

"That's great Han, I'm so happy for you." I said as Lewis took a seat between Hanna and I.

"It's so nice to see you Spencer." He said.

"You too, how have you been? How's the gallery doing?"

"It's great, we just had our final show of the semester last week so that's it now until the summer showcase at the end of July."

"So you have some time off now?"

"Yep pretty much, I thought what better to spend it than here with Hanna." He took her hand in his and they smiled at each other, Hanna blushed furiously.

"It's so great that you two found each other." Aria said happily.

After we ordered our food we spent most of the evening catching up and getting to know Lewis a little better. He couldn't have had better timing either, because Aria seemed to be back to her normal self when she was talking to him which was great to see.

After dinner, we went to the movies. With a lot of deliberation, Lewis, Emily and I got our way and The Heat was our chosen movie for the night, by a majority vote. Having him around to balance the odds in our favour was pretty great, since Aria and Hanna were always against what Emily and I chose, and we never ended up getting to see what we wanted because I always had to give in to Aria since she was my girlfriend. But now there was no excuse. Moihaha.

The movie went by pretty quickly, the combination of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy was absolutely hilarious as predicted. And it even made Hanna and Aria laugh. When the movie ended we made our way outside the theatre, where I had to get them to admit they enjoyed it.

"Fine okay, it was hilarious!" Hanna said reluctantly.

"And will you now give our choices a fair chance since you know that we pick good movies?" Emily asked laughing.

"Yes…"

"Good. Now let's go home."

We said our goodbyes to Hanna and Lewis who wanted to walk home-how romantic-and I brought Emily and Aria home.

I was really glad to see the back of the past few weeks. Aria was finally moving past this bad stage and the future was looking bright. I was so excited to graduate and finally start the next chapter of my life.