A Love We Deserve-Toby & Aria

Chapter 20

Toby's POV:

*A couple of hours pass by & it's now dark outside*

I invited Aria back to the loft, I didn't want her going back to her house all alone. We both felt weird about going home alone after everything at Spencer's house, she has barely said a word since. I asked if she wanted me to make her anything for dinner and she just shook her head no. She's curled up on the couch under a blanket facing the back of the couch, just staring at it. She's been like this for about three hours now. I'm sitting in the kitchen, trying to eat just a slice of bread to have something in me, but I can't seem to eat anything. I look over to see if she changed positions, she hasn't but I can see her facial expression it looks like she was crying. I walk over to the couch and sit next to her back. "Hey" I say softly. "Do you want to talk?" I continue. She turns onto her back, it's the first time I've seen her move since she shook her head. "She must hate us" she says in a raspy voice. I stoke some of her hair and she smiles slightly. "She's angry at us, but if she hates someone out of the two of us it would be me, not you. You're her best friend, she could never hate you." She sighs. "Come on, you look like you are about to pass out from hunger" I help her off the couch. "Let's go out." "Wait like, out in a public place?" "Yeah, we have to tell everyone else about us sometime." She hesitates before talking again "Alright". We walk over to the door and puts her shoes on while I grab our jackets and my keys to the truck, I stop what I'm doing and just stare that them. "Everything okay?" she asks me. I turn and face her "Yea" I assure her. She smiles, I take her hand and we walk out the door together.