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It was hard. Especially, since the sudden realisation that Avery still liked Jason. She sat brooding at the lunch table beside Emily. A new day always promised a new beginning, but Avery was still hung up over what she had seen. Even with her best efforts to forget about it, she found herself darting back to what had happened the previous night. Namely, the kiss Aria and Jason shared. A lot of questions burned her mind but mainly she wondered who initiated the kiss. Emily silently observed the Parker girl, contemplating whether she should inform her about the latest discoveries, before she noticed Aria making her way towards the two girls.
Emily frowned, as she watched Aria take a seat opposite her, "Why is your phone turned off? I was trying to reach you all night."
"I'm sorry", Aria apologized, before rolling her eyes, "I was avoiding someone's call."
"I need to talk to you about Jason", Emily said, her voice dripping with urgency. Avery perked up when she heard his name, wondering what absurd theory they had made up this time.
"Well, I need to talk to you about Jason", Aria sighed, "I kissed him."
"Aria!"
"Wait, YOU kissed HIM?", Avery reconfirmed.
Aria rolled her eyes, "If he kissed me, does that change the fact that it still happened?" Avery wanted to reply with a 'yes', but stopped herself from doing so. Aria exhaled, "I know, it was a mistake. Look, I was trying to figure out a way to tell you guys. I totally don't know how to tell Ezra. Do I even tell him?"
"Aria", Emily worded carefully, "Jason had pictures of you. Creepy pictures."
"What?", Avery and Aria exclaimed in disbelief.
"Spencer and I found a darkroom in his woodshed. He developed photographs of you sleeping-"
"Sleeping?!", Aria exclaimed wide-eyed.
"...Sleeping or drugged."
"There's no way that's true", Avery chuckled somberly, "I know Jason."
"Good", Spencer piped up, as she took a seat beside Aria, "Atleast you've come to terms with it", Spencer shot a disapproving look at Avery, "And for the record, I never bought Jason's whole act, Hanging around here, pretending to be concerned about at-risk youth, using Mike to get to Aria-"
"Hold on", Avery interjected, "He really did help Mike."
"So he could get into Aria's house", Spencer countered, in an all-knowing tone.
"And kiss her!", Emily added.
"Wait, what?", a surprised Spencer exclaimed, turning to look at Aria, "You're kissing him now?"
