"I've seen plenty of broken hearts, never ones like this." "No, not broken," Spencer corrected, "Bruised." AU: Aria's reaction when her friends tell her that Ezra is A.

Ezra leaves Rosewood like Aria asked him to, but that doesn't mean he has to stop thinking about her. Eight months later and he still can't get her off of his mind. Ezra's POV.

I'd like to think that we are soul mates who just happened to meet at the wrong time. I want to believe that our story doesn't end the moment I finish this book. This is not some story about the loss of love, because I still have love for you—the kind that I only care to admit at three in the morning when I'm still awake and staring at the ceiling. / 4 years after 4x24

"They came together at a time of desperation and sorrow; both searching for the same answer as to why the person they loved most was now gone. It's Scott and Lydia's own way of mourning Allison, finding comfort in trying to feel what she felt for the other." Scott visits Allison's grave on her birthday.

"I woke up this morning with the most brutal hangover I've ever had, and for about fourteen seconds I forgot that you were gone. It took me another twenty-six to realize that you were never coming back." Ezra's POV

When the time came for Aria to see Ezra Fitz waiting for her at the end of the aisle she was supposed to be wearing white not black.

"They were already lost causes when they met, with absolutely no desire to fix their lives or become better people, but they quickly realized that paving the path to their own destruction was more fun and far less lonely with someone at their side."

Youth lacks consistency, and maybe that's what broke us—ripped us apart little by little until the feelings we once had for each other dwindled away and the sparks burnt out.