Ezria: a new era

Reconsiliation Gone Wrong

Aria's P.O.V

After we'd finished, Ezra brought me into his arms and kept kissing me and touching me softly. I could read his expression, did my dreams become reality?

Oh, how they did. I kept asking myself that too. It didn't seem possible before, but now it was honestly 10 times better then what it's ever been before. Ezra ran his hand up the side of my body slowly and rested it behind my head in one final attempt to kiss my forehead before I fell asleep in his strong arms.

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Ezra's P.O.V

Aria laid next to me all night, curled up in my arms, sleeping peacefully. Honestly last night was amazing, something about this girl made me feel so... complete. I kept running my fingers through her gorgeous brown hair, twirling strands around my hands, thinking about how much I truly missed her. Making love to her last night was something I never even believed we would do again, especially not in a one night, but seeing her on that staircase only took a second to realise how madly in love with her I am. I'm a goner.

I fell asleep to Aria's steady heartbeat against mine, only to fall into dreams about her. It was the first time in a while my dreams haven't turned into torture. I could only hope that she'd still be there in the morning.

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This was too good to be true, as I opened my eyes, there was Aria, still in my arms, but awake and looking as beautiful as the day I met her. Not to mention, freaking hot.

She smiled as she saw I was awake, her eyes twinkling. "Good morning." Aria cooed, kissing my jawline.

I grinned and pulled her up to my eye level. "Good morning." I said as I ran my fingers through her hair again.

I find that I lose myself when I stare into Arias big brown eyes. They were so beautiful, I lose track of time. I kissed Aria playfully on impulse, seeing her smile back and cup my face, bringing me back for another kiss, like she couldn't resist.

"Last night was perfect." Aria bit her lip, like she used to when she wanted to hide her big grin.

"It really was." My grin kept widening, and I kept running my hands up and down her back slowly.

After a moment Aria started to move, sitting up and wrapping a sheet around her while moving to the side of the bed. She put her bra on as I moved behind her and began kissing her neck softly, making her bite her lip again.

This gave me more momentum, and I slid my hands underneath the front of her bra and began to massage. Aria pulled back after a minute, taking in a small gasp of air as if she was realising something bad.

"Ezra." She stopped me with that regretful tone, like she'll tell herself she shouldn't of said that later. "We can't. Not again."

"You're right." I said, letting her get her things and put them back on. I moved too and put my pants back on, not being able to find my top, and instead went to make a cup of coffee, seeing the time was almost noon.

"Why and when did you come back to Rosewood?" Aria asked tentatively. "Where did you go in the first place?"

I turned back around, bringing our coffee's over to the coffee table, where she was sitting patiently on my couch.

I sat down slowly, trying to soak up every moment with Aria. "I went to California, shortly after we... I came back virtually an hour before I saw you again. I went to go get the cake and frozen yoghurt for you, and then go see you." I looked back over at the frozen yoghurt on the counter, not being so frozen anymore.

Aria nodded, folding her hands on her lap. "So you came back to see me and then... are you going to leave?"

"What? No! I came back to fight for you. It was stupid of me to let go last time. I came back because I've been falling in love with you more everyday and I still can't fathom how much a love you even though I haven't seen you in 3 years." God three years. I couldn't believe how stupid it was.

Aria's eyebrows turned into a worried expression, her eyes tearing up. "Why did you start getting distant Ezra?"

I hated to see her cry. "Ar..." I wiped away her tears and went to hold her, but she brushed me off.

"If you aren't going to tell me still, forget whatever you had in your mind about getting back together." Aria put a hand up, meaning she was done.

I hesitated and tried not to remember that pain. Don't go there. I closed my eyes for a couple seconds, seeing Aria extremely worried when I opened them.

"I can't keep seeing you in pain, Ezra. I should've asked yesterday." Aria was crying now, her beautiful face resembling my miserable face last week. "Last night was a mistake." She quickly got up and headed for the door, grabbing her bag before I could catch her.

"Aria!" I yelled for her, running down the stairs after her. "Aria!" Damn, she was fast. I lost her as she rounded the corner of the street whilst I was just getting out of my building.

I turned on my heel back upstairs, feeling that slow burning feeling in the bottom of my stomach. Why was it so hard for me to talk about that pain? I needed to in order to get the love of my life back.

But by this rate all I'm getting back is my crutch for a bottle of scotch.

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I turned on the radio, and guess what would come on? You got it - B26. My sorrow turned into a bottle of whiskey, and I turned the radio to a different station, dancing drunkly and swishing the bottle around with my movements.

"I love you Aria Montgomery!" I yelled - or most likely slurred - to the world.

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Aria's P.O.V

I knew if I didn't run, he would persuade me into staying, despite me not knowing the reason that caused us to brake up last time. Seeing him in that condition last time was pain enough, I couldn't help him, and it didn't help me either. Not one bit.

The worst part was I was seeing somebody. And I knew if Ezra and I were to talk more we'd end up in a similar situation to last night.

I cried the whole way home, looking like a total idiot as I walked past people I didn't know. They'd class me as the "desperate girl who took the walk of shame and just gotten dumped the morning after".

I was a train wreck, and being with Ezra made me feel like I wasn't. And maybe that was the biggest misconception of them all.

We were train wrecks together.