Team Sparia

Chapter 6 - "I think you need to tell Aria."

Spencer's POV
I woke up feeling very disorientated. I blink away the harsh sunlight and become very aware that my arm was not resting on myself. I raise my head slowly and see that my arm was slung over Aria's waist and our legs were tangled together. Carefully, I untangle myself from her but not before I take in her adorable sleeping face. She looked so innocent and peaceful as she slept it took me a lot to draw my attention away from her. I stumble my way to the kitchen and start to make coffee since I had a slight hangover and I'm pretty sure the others will too. I see Hanna stand up and wobble her way towards me and sit down in one of the chairs at the island. "Morning sunshine." I say giving her a cheeky grin.
"Can you shut up, please..." Hanna moans while clutching her head.
"Kama is a bitch." I reply remembering the dare that Hanna had suggested last night. Hanna glances behind her before she looks back at me.
"Well it worked, didn't it?" She asks and I slide her a coffee across the counter.
"I have no idea what you mean." Except I do, because I had felt Aria kiss me back and I had felt her hands on either side of my face pulling me closer almost like she didn't want me to stop.
"Look Spence, I know you might not be able to see it because your... well... you. But I see the way Aria looks at you and it's in a way that is so much more than just friends." Hanna puts air quotations around the words 'just friends' and she lowers her voice to a whisper.
"How does she look at me?" I whisper back her comment catching my curiosity.
"Her whole face lights up and she becomes so happy, it's kind of annoying." Hanna says taking a sip of her coffee which she pulls a face at. "Jeez Spence are you trying to overdose me on caffeine?" I laugh at her reaction and notice someone else drift towards our little meeting.
"Hey Em." I say pouring her a cup of coffee.
"I don't know if I can handle one of your coffees right now." Emily says resting her head on the counter.
"How are you worse then me?" Hanna asks gaining a small laugh from me.
"Because she doesn't drink as often as you do." I reply and Hanna gives me a look that says 'ha ha very funny' which I respond with a grin.
"Well you better go get ready, we're leaving now." Hanna says nudging Emily who gives a groan of protest.
"Why?" She asks sounding similar to a child.
"Because I need some shopping therapy." Hanna says rolling her eyes like it was obvious.
"So take Spencer or Aria." Emily complains sinking her head closer to the counter if that was even possible. I knew what Hanna was insinuating she wanted Aria and I to be alone so I'd confess my feelings which I'd almost done last night when we had been sitting on the bed and Hanna had so rudely interrupted. "If you don't get up so help me God-" Hanna began but I swiftly covered her mouth with my hand.
"Em, just take a drink of my coffee it'll wake you right up." I say handing her the cup I had offered before. Once I was satisfied with Emily drinking coffee I leant in and whispered in Hanna's ear. "What are you doing?"
"I think you need to tell Aria." Hanna hisses back in my ear.
"Are you crazy?" I whisper scream at her.
"Not totally but-" Hanna begins but is cut off.
"What are you two whispering about?" Emily interrupts looking a lot better then she had a few minutes ago.
"Nothing." Hanna and I reply in unison and Emily raises an eyebrow in suspicion.
"Go get dressed!" Hanna ushers pulling Emily up the stairs with her. I let a small laugh escape my lips at the sight of them before drinking the last bit of my coffee. "I smell coffee." I hear a tired voice call its tone sending a shiver down my spine. Since when could her voice do that to me?
"You want some?" I ask already pouring a cup.
"Yes please." She says stretching and yawning. I cross into the living room and hand her the cup. "Did you make this?" She asks breathing in the smell.
"Yup and before you complain I've heard it all from Hanna." I lean over the back of the couch and fall over it, my legs hang over the back of it and I was upside down looking at Aria who was sitting upright on the floor still wrapped in a blanket.
"Speaking of which where are Hanna and Emily?" She asks taking a sip of the coffee which she shudders at and I smile amused by her reaction.
"Getting dressed their going shopping." I say grinning at Aria who returns it with a sly grin of amusement. Did I mention she has the most beautiful smile in the world? I hear the girls rumble down the stairs with a quick goodbye and they were out the door. "So, as long as my coffee is too much for you, maybe you'd like to go get some coffees from the Brew?" I ask beginning to feel dizzy from being upside down for so long.
"I could go for a coffee." She replies casually setting her cup on the coffee table. I smile and help her up off the ground before heading upstairs to get dressed.

I follow Aria into the Brew and find us a place to sit while she orders our drinks. I sigh trying to compose myself. My plan was to be casual, normal even, and then just slide into the conversation my feelings for my best friend. But as I watch Aria standing at the checkout counter I feel my pulse speed up and my throat close with nervousness. She starts to walk towards me and I see her dark brunette curls bounce as she does. She places a steaming cup of coffee in front of me which I take a drink of immediately hoping the liquid would loosen my throat. When I set it down and look at Aria I give her my most convincing smile at least what I thought was my most convincing smile. "What's wrong?" She asks and my smile falters.
"N-nothing." I say. Since when could Aria see through me that well?
"Hmm." Is all she says before taking a sip of her drink. "Much better than the coffee you gave me."
"My coffee is not that bad!" I protest, some people just wouldn't know a good coffee if it hit them in the face. Aria laughs which is the most amazing sound I've ever heard and I smile for real this time. I missed spending time with Aria it was so easy with her like conversation and even my messed up life seemed inexistent when I was with her. It was moments like this where I would let my mind indulge in the thought of Aria returning my feelings, I could see myself leaning across the table and placing a soft kiss on her lips and she'd return the kiss smiling into it and everything would be perfect. But then reality would kick in and I'd realise that I could never do that because I could never tell Aria and the fact that she would never share the same feelings. "Spencer? Earth to Spencer?" Aria's voice pulls me from my thoughts.
"Huh?" I say shaking my head.
"You've been staring at me for the past five minutes," Aria laughs and I blush at the realisation of what I had been doing. "is there something you want to say?" She asks. Yes. There's so much I want to say but I could never say it. Yet, for some reason my confidence was growing, I could tell her. I could just open my mouth and tell her, it's so easy. I open my mouth ready to say what I've been wanting to tell her for so long. "Aria?" A voice asks taking my words right out of my mouth.