Keep My Secret | Pretty Little Liar FanFiction

The Truth Bites

"Did you do it?" I ask again.

He takes the last sip of his whisky and stands up for a refill.

"NO!" I say as I snatch the glass out of his hand and place it on the coffee table behind me, " You are not going anyway until you tell me the truth of what happened that night."

He just stares at me, "Aria, get out of my way." He tries to push past me but I grab his wrist, "Step out of my way before you get hurt."

"You gonna hurt me like you hurt Alison, huh?" I reply as I take a step back.

"IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!" he snaps back.

"THEN WHAT IS IT LIKE?" my throat is sore from screaming but I carry on anyway.

"She was going to destroy this family if I didn't do something."

"It was your baby wasn't it? You got her pregnant and then killed her. You know, everyone started to think it was Detective Wilden, but it's all coming together now, right?"

"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" He yells back

"An accident that you got her pregnant or an accident you killed her?" I ask still desperate for more answers about what happened that night.

"Aria. DON'T!"

"Don't what?"

He takes an unexpected swing at me but I dodge down, narrowly avoiding a blow to the side of my head.

"You know what makes me sick? You had an affair with one of your students after getting a 15 year old pregnant, which in itself is bad enough but she was my best friend! You then wreck my relationship, when I only was in the exact same position as you're student." I try to blink back tears that are burning my eyes. I can't cry, not now. "You know, you didn't need Alison to screw up this family, your doing a great job of that all on your own" I pick up the glass and throw it against the wall shattering it into hundreds of tiny crystals. I grab my bag and jacket then storm out the house, making sure I made a point of slamming the door.

I get in my car and start to drive, I don't know where I am going, I just know I can't stay in that house any longer. I park up outside the Rear Window Brew, go in and order an extra large black coffee to go. Caffeine is the only thing keeping me going right now, I just can't believe he would do that to Ali just to keep his dirty secret from getting out. As I'm walking out towards my car I hear someone shouting my name. I turn round to see Ezra walking after me in with a satchel slung across his body; he must have just left Hollis. I start to jog to my car because I can't deal with him not after what I just found out, I mean do I tell him or lie and wait to tell my friends or even the police.

"ARIA? Are you okay?" He yells after me, " Aria" He sounds more concerned this time, so around to find that I'm crying. "Do you need a ride home?"

"That's the last place I wanna be!" letting the tears really come down my face with no shame.

"Is there anywhere I can drop you off? Your moms' or?"

I shake my head dismally, "I can't face her right now, please."

"Can you stay at Emily's. Just tell me what you want."

"Can I just crash at yours tonight, please?"

He nods, "You're welcome anytime." He leans down and kisses me softly on my lips, he smiles, takes my hand and leads me to his car.

Back at Ezra's, we sit on his bed, me wrapped up in his arms, watching one of my favourite black and white movies with an empty pizza box lying in front of us. He's doing everything he can to cheer me up but honestly, I don't think anything is going to work. Tonight I found out something this whole town has been wanting to know for years, especially me and the girls. I thought I would have felt some closure by now but I don't, Ali's killer is still out there. For all I know he could be in Philadelphia by now, getting closer and closer to the state boarder, getting closer and closer to getting away with it. Getting away with murder.

I eventually fall asleep in his arms while the movies still playing, wishing that this was just a bad dream.

The next day I wake up to Ezra making scrambled egg in the kitchen, I look down and see I'm wearing one of Ezra's shirt instead of my clothes I came in yesterday. Ezra glances over his shoulder to check if I'm awake, when he realises I am, he comes over and kisses me on the forehead and whispers, "Good Morning," into my ear before going to finish dishing up the scrambled eggs. He sets the plates down on the table where two cups of coffee are waiting for us and signals me to sit down. After a few minutes of us silently eating our eggs and drinking our coffee Ezra looks at me and asks, "Aria? What happened last night?"

I place down my knife and fork and sit back in my chair, "Do we have to talk about this?" I ask using my sweet voice that I know he loves.

"Aria, listen. I don't want to force you to tell me anything you don't want to, and I know I've kept things from you in the past, but we've got through them so we can work through this too." He reaches for my hand and I take it cautiously.

"What I'm about to tell you, you can't tell anyone!" I say

He nods, "I promise!"

"I think my father killed Alison DiLaurentis."