Team Sparia

Chapter 8 - "I think you're right."

Spencer's POV
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Hanna pushes her way past me and makes her way into my kitchen.
"It's great to see you too Han." I say sarcastically and close the door. Hanna was giving me an intense stare and I knew that Aria must have said something. "Don't look at me like that." I say picking up my pen and and looking back at the work I was doing. Trust my dad to finally accept that I didn't want to go to college but still give me work to do.
"Why didn't you tell her?" Hanna asks her voice lowering only ever so slightly.
"Because Mr Fitz showed up." I counter trying to catch Hanna off guard. "Actually, she's probably on a date with him around about now." I say and I hear Hanna scoff.
"She is not on a date with him." Hanna says with a certainty I couldn't ignore. I set my pen down and look at the blond haired girl standing across from me.
"How do you know?" I ask curiously.
"Because she came to me and asked me what to wear." Hanna said and I still didn't see how that told her she wasn't on a date with Ezra. Hanna rolls her eyes at my silence probably realising that I didn't understand. "She asked if I had anything that said I'm totally over you and I don't want to get back together."
"That doesn't really mean anything with Aria and Ezra, she's said that before." I say dismissing the small amount of hope that Hanna had just built up inside me.
"But this time I believed her." Hanna says leaning across the counter, she had a small smile on her face.
"Why aren't you with Caleb?" I ask changing the subject completely.
"Because he's not in town, why aren't you talking to Aria?" She narrows her eyes at me and I have never seen Hanna turn a conversation right back to what we had been talking about. She's smart, in her own little way.
"Because she wants me to apologise." I say stubbornly.
"Oh my God, Spencer! So what if she wants you to apologise? By the story she told me you were really rude to her." She did have a point. I had been short and cold to Aria and it had hurt me to do that to her but jealousy was a consuming emotion and at that time that's all I felt. I chew on the inside of my mouth thinking about what Hanna had told me. So maybe it wasn't a date but that didn't change the fact that Aria had been crazy about Ezra and those sort of feelings just don't go away. But neither were my feelings. "I think you're right." I say and Hanna turns to look at me.
"You'll have to be a little more specific, I'm right about a lot of things." Hanna jokes.
"You know what I'm talking about." I say clenching my jaw it was really hard to admit that she was right and I was wrong.
"So go tell her." Hanna urges pointing at the door.
"It's not that simple." I say sighing.
"The hell its not!" Hanna yells back at me.
"Okay, alright!" I try to calm Hanna. "I'll go talk to her." I pick up my keys and start to make my way outside when Hanna moves to come with me. "Umm, why are you following me?"
"To make sure you go and don't I get to see how this works out?" She asks raising her eyebrows.
"Most certainly not." I correct and Hanna sighs.
"Fine. I should go home anyway." She walks out my front door and I watch her pull away. I sit in my car for a few minutes trying to figure out what exactly I was going to say to Aria. I figured the best way to start off was to tell her I was sorry.

I must have just been sitting outside of Aria's house for about an hour before I plucked up the courage to go knock on her door. It was a cold night and standing on Aria's porch I really wish I had brought a jacket. The door swung open and I jumped at the sound that cut through the night's silence. Aria looked stunned that I was standing there, her mouth was open slightly and her eyes were wide. I try for a smile before I start my apology. "Aria I am so sorry. I was so rude to you before and you deserve an explanation for the way that I acted and I- Aria?" I stop my rambling when I see Aria's eyes well up with water and her bottom lip tremble slightly. "Are you okay?" I ask softly. She breaks down right in front of me sobbing and crying it was the most awful sound I had ever heard. I pull her immediately into my arms and hug her tightly to my chest the cold night air soon forgotten. After a few minutes of me hugging her, Aria seemed to calm down to a few sniffles. "Hey?" I say and Aria pulls away from me.
"I'm sorry." She mutters before turning around and going back into her house leaving the door open for me to follow. The Montgomery house was like it usually was which was warm and bright. I close the door behind me and drop my bag on the couch. "You don't have to be sorry." I say. "That's why I came here."
"You don't have to say you're sorry either." Aria was checking herself out in the mirror making sure her makeup hadn't ran when she had been crying.
"You're not expecting me to forget about what just happened, are you?" I ask the whole scene was something I never wanted to witness again, seeing Aria look so hurt was heartbreaking for me.
"I guess not. But I don't want to talk about it right now." Aria says going into the kitchen. I follow her like a lost puppy even though I probably knew this house like the back of my hand.
"Aria, what are you doing?" I ask watching her from the doorway.
"I'm making coffee, want some?" She asks a smile plastered on her face, a fake smile. I nod in response but I can see just how upset she is, what happened? I couldn't just ask Aria out front or she'd get defensive and not tell me so I had to play the waiting game and I'd wait until she was ready to tell me. She crosses back into the living room a steaming coffee in one hand on the way she passes me a cup and I join her on the couch. She switches the light off and turns on some old black and white movie that I couldn't care less about because right now all I could think about was Aria. I watched her from my side of the couch. She was acting differently in small ways that if you didn't know her like I did then you probably wouldn't have noticed, but I did. I scoot along the couch and pull a blanket over the top of us almost sighing with pleasure from the heat that radiated off of Aria. Once the movie finished I noticed that Aria was playing with her fingers a sign that she was about to tell me what was on her mind. "I went out with Ezra." Aria states and I tense. I really couldn't let my jealousy get in the way this conversation it was too serious for that.
"What happened?" I echo my words from before and feel Aria take a deep breath.
"H-he..." Aria trails off looking around the room anywhere but me.
"Did he hurt you?" I ask my anger evident in my voice. I swear if he even touched a hair on her head I will kill him.
"No!" Aria bursts out distracting me from my hateful thoughts. "He told me something and I think he's right about it."
"Are you two getting back together?" I ask trying to hide the disappointment in my voice.
"God no. I- I like someone else." Aria stutters. I smile my mind slipping to the thought that maybe Aria could mean me but then I realised that that couldn't be possible.
"You know I love you, right?" I ask and Aria meets my gaze with an intense look I've never seen her have before.
"I know." She whispers. And that was it. I couldn't hold back my need, my want for her. I leaned in and kissed her gently on the lips. It was very short because I realised what I had done.
"S-sorry." I say trying to move away from Aria and make a quick escape but when Aria grabs my wrist I look at her quizzically.
"Don't be." She says before cupping her hands on either side of my face and pulling me in for another kiss. The kiss was a lot more forceful this time. My ache for her lips on mine being transmitted to her with the force I was putting into the kiss. I push her back lightly so that she falls backwards on the couch not once breaking our fierce kissing. A small moan escapes Aria's lips which brings me back. I break away from the kiss gasping for air my lips still tingling with the ghost of Aria's lips. "I like you, Spence." I hear Aria whisper and I look back at her.
"I like you too, Aria."

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Well look at that, two updates in one day and Sparia are finally together. Will it last though, hmmm?