Echoed Corridors

The Truth

"You left your phone in my car." Liam blocked the door as I went to head out, it seemed like today I was never going to be able to get a break.

"Thanks, it must have fallen out of my pocket. I didn't even notice it was gone." I went to grab my phone but quickly the man moved it away from my reach, an action I was easily confused by. "What's wrong?"

"I don't know what's worse, you lying to me or you're still sleeping with your English teacher."

The words swallowed me whole and I couldn't even process one single thought. This couldn't be happening right now, I knew eventually this day would come but I had tried to push that day so far to the back of my mind.

"Liam I can explain-"

"Aria, I know what's going in your mind, I'll clarify what's going on in your mind." For the record, when anybody states that they have an inside view of your brain, unless they are performing an x-ray they will always be wrong. "You saw him as a High School crush. He was the one person you could trust in and I understand that but you were so young then, times have changed."

I was completely shocked at what he assumed my mind was full of, he never knew me in High School and it seemed as if he didn't actually know me now because everything spilling out of his mouth was information so far off it was laughable.

"You're really being ridiculous Liam-"

"You're not good enough to be with me let alone have an affair Aria, you're a girl who's not very special but keeps pining over her English teacher? Its barbaric. What I have offered you should have been enough and you throw it back in my face?"

"I'm not good enough to be with you? I'd like to know exactly what that means."

"I didn't mean that I'm sorry-"

"No. I'm sorry for sleeping with someone I have loved. Ezra was much more than my teacher and the things you've come out with now are more hurtful to me than they would be to him."

I wanted to walk away now but what was the point? The only person who I wanted to see in this exact second was Ezra, but I couldn't. He was with Nicole and that was his life now, I'd even pushed him in that direction. Why could I not carry on my life without him? Why am I still to this very second so in love with him?

"Aria, you're the one in the wrong. Stop turning the tables." I turned on my heel because having another second in his home was too much for me. I could not share this house with someone I was quickly growing to despise so I headed for the room we shared and like a puppy Liam was following at my heels.

"Are you going to keep ignoring me?"

"What do you want me to say Liam? I'm sorry I gave you fake hope that we could work but this isn't the first time things have gone downhill." I quickly began to grab some of my clothes throwing them not very neatly into the nearest large bag I could find.

"Wait till I tell everybody about this. Wait till everybody at work knows about this."

"Go on then. Like you've stated before, in your mind I only have you but then again you only have me. So go and tell everyone I'm a bitch but don't expect to come crawling back to me when you've released your anger like you do every other time."

Things had calmed down and in some sense I felt a bit better that I was leaving this place, I had been kicked to the floor so many times when it came to Liam and I know that what I did was bad but the amount of actions he had taken in order for this to happen seemed to make it a little bit better. Anyway, in a few days he'll be ringing Spencer or even Hanna trying to redeem his actions and saying that he wants to get back together.

But not anymore.

I'm not that stupid anymore.

I headed for the door the second time tonight and Liam was quickly following me, his anger had died down and it actually looked like now he was quite sad I had decided to leave his toxic torture that he had put me through -it wasn't anything physical but mentally I felt as if I was constantly being suffocated.

"Aria, I can forget all about this. We can forget all about this, just don't walk out that door."

I looked at him and tried to hide the slight smirk on my lips.

"Don't let the door hit you on my way out."

Question for this chapter : What's your feelings on Aria? Were you rooting for her this chapter? And how do you feel about Liam?