It's always been you

Dinner Invite

Aria's POV

When I get home I hear my mum and dad making a list of names so I go into the kitchen to see what they're doing. As I walk in my mum looks at me and I must remind her of something as she clicks her fingers and writes down another name.

"Mr Fitz, he's new too so it'll be good to get to know him." What is she saying about Ezra, I look at my dad confused as he smiles at me. 

"What's going on?" I say curiously, I look down at the list and see different teachers from school, and some from Hollis, where my dad works. 

"We're throwing a dinner party." My mum says and I freeze. 

"I'm going to e-mail everyone know." Oh God, I need to talk to Ezra about this, and I want to see him anyway, so I tell my dad I'm going out and he doesn't even ask where, which is pretty unusual for him. I park my car just round the corner from Ezra's apartment just in case anybody saw it, and I ring the buzzer for him to let me up. 

I walk straight into his apartment and sit down on the couch and he's laughing a little. I look at him confused and he shows me his laptop with my mums e-mail on it inviting him over for dinner. 

"Well that's what I came to talk to you about." I say looking at him concerned. "Do you think you should go or not?"

"Why wouldn't I, as far as your mum's concerned I have no reason not to, and as far as your concerned I have every reason to go." I can't help but smile, I guess nothing bad can come from this. In fact it would be more suspicious if he didn't come. He sits down next to me and I place my head on his shoulder, I have nothing else to say but I don't want to go so we just sit, in silence enjoying each others company as he replies to my mum's e-mail saying he'd love to come. Then he looks down at me and smiles.

"What?" I ask.

"I got you a key, so you don't have to keep waiting for me to let you in." He said handing it over, and I slipped it into the pocket of my jeans before I decided to kiss him, which is shortly interrupted by my phone ringing. I check it and it's Spencer. I have to get this, so I walk into Ezra's kitchen to take it. 

"Hi, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I was just wondering if I could come over?"

"Uh no, I'm not home." I say looking at Ezra, I need to be brief enough so he doesn't find out Spencer knows about us. 

"What, where are you?"

"Erm-"

"Oh my God are you at his place?"

"Yes, I'm going now bye." I hang up and leave my phone in the kitchen in case she calls again and join Ezra again. I explain to him that Spencer wanted to come over and he doesn't ask anymore about it. I can tell he has questions about Spencer but I don't think they're about us being together, I'm not sure what they could be about. 

Ezra's POV

After a nice, surprise night in with Aria, I see her out and kiss her goodbye. When I'm with her I really forget about everything else I need to do, like have dinner, and mark my classes books. I go into the kitchen and see she's forgotten her phone, again. It's like she forgets about everything when she's with me too. I turn it on, not to intentionally be nosey but to check the time and see a text from Spencer reading -Have fun with Fitz 😉- I can't believe she's told her friends about us! I really thought she was mature enough to know the consequences of us being together, and people finding out. How am I supposed to be with someone when I can't trust them, argh. 

Laying in bed I try to think about it again, and I try to convince myself I'm overreacting but this isn't okay. I try to think any possible explanation but there isn't one. I don't want to lose Aria because I've never connected with someone so quickly but I can't be with her knowing that she's told all her little friends, who I teach. They probably sit in my class judging me and thinking I'm holding something against her. I really don't want to end things, but I'm going to have to. Maybe it's for the best.