ARIA'S POV

I lay in bed thinking of everything that's happening right now. Byron -because of all the bull shit he's done I don't see him as my father right now-is threatening to send me to boarding school and got Ezra fired. Ezra. I smiled thinking of him and what we did earlier in the night. I thought of all his soft touches, caresses and kisses. We finally made love and it was amazing, I'm delighted he's the one I gave my virginity to.

I had just gotten to Ezra's apartment and was surprised to see him there since he was supposed to work late tonight. When he told me he got fired my heart instantly dropped, I threatened Byron so he turned around and got Ezra fired. Tears welled up in my eyes knowing what this meant; he had to leave and find a new job somewhere else.

The thought of never seeing him again scared me tremendously, I can't live without him. If we had to say goodbye for real this time then I will make sure it is the most passionate way; to show him how much I truly love him. I leaned forward on the couch and kissed him softly, I was nervous and hesitant but I have nothing to worry about because this is Ezra we're talking about. I moved to straddle him, kissing him more desperately. He held me close and picked me up by my thighs to walk us to his bed; my legs wrapped tightly around his waist. He sat me down softly and began slowly removing each other's clothes, before we knew it our clothes were discarded on the floor with me in my bra and panties and him in his boxers. He laid me down while kissing me reassuringly. I reached for his hand to help calm my nerves.

"Are you sure?" He asked softly while caressing my face with his right hand and holding my hand with his left.

I nodded slowly. "Yes... I want this, I want you. I love you Ezra." I whispered softly trying not to stutter.

"I love you too, sweetheart."

My thoughts were interrupted by Ella and Byron storming into my room and turning my bedroom light on, guess he's back from his 'conferences'. I have nothing to say to them so I just roll over onto my side to face the wall and pull my comforter over my head to block the light. Byron grabbed a hold of my comforter, as well as my blankets and yanked them off the bed.

I rolled over pissed off. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?" What is his problem its 1am I want to go to sleep, more importantly I don't want to talk to or see him.

"Get up lets go." He said sternly.

"Where the hell would we go at 1 in the morning? Besides I'm not going anywhere with you." I spit back harshly.

"Aria drop the attitude, your bags are already in the car now let's go!" Ella said sternly from the end of my bed.

Bags... What the hell are they talking about? Wait unless... "You've got to be kidding me, you're seriously sending me to boarding school! For what? I sure as hell am not going and you can't make me!" I can't believe their doing this, if you love your child you don't send them states away!

"You are 17 you'll do as I say. You are not the daughter we raised, we never raised you to threaten us or act this way and we certainly didn't raise you to date your damn teacher you're going whether you like it or not! You have become such a disappointment to this family!" Byron's voice bombed loudly through my room.

"Ya like you're a good role model, dating an under grad!" I replied sarcastically.

His face hardened and he clenched his jaw, he walked over to me and pulled me out of bed by my waist. Shit, its times like this I hate that I'm so small. I started screaming and kicking him; like when a little kid throws a tantrum.

Ella walked out of the room first Byron not too far behind I looked desperately for something, anything to grab. When we walked out to door I quickly grabbed onto the door frame with all my strength, holding on for dear life.

"I. AM. NOT. GOING!" I screamed.

Byron kept his left arm around my waist while his right was trying to pull me from the door.

"Aria stop it now! Your acting like a baby, let go now!" Ella said firmly.

"I don't give a damn, I am not going!" I screamed back.

I was losing my grip on the door frame, maybe Mike can help he doesn't hate me right? "MIKE? MIKE I NEED YOU PLEASE!" I just kept screaming over and over again while trying to kick Byron away.

All of a sudden Mike came out of his room. "What is going on?" He asked surprised and frantically, of course he's surprised. His sister is screaming and holding onto the wall, his dad is manhandling his sister and his mom is yelling, who would be calm during this?

"Mike go back into your room, she's fine." Ella said trying to push him into his room quickly.

"No Mike please don't go!" I begged with tears running down my face.

"I'm not going anywhere. What is going on?" He demands firmly.

All of a sudden Byron pulled me back with so much force I lost my grip on the wall. He quickly held me up right, with his left and around my waist and right arm was under my chest holding my torso in place with my arms pinned against my body. The more I struggled to more he tighten his grip.

Both Byron and Ella were ignoring his question so I spoke up. "They're sending me to boarding school, in Vermont!" Mike's jaw dropped and looked back and forth between Ella and Byron waiting for them to say something. "Tell him! Tell him that you're sending me away because I'm disappointment and I fell in love with an amazing guy who has done nothing wrong!" I yelled at them.

I could see Mikes breathing become rapid. "You- you can't send her away! What about me, huh what am I supposed to do without her! She's my big sister I need her, she's been more of a parent to me than you two have over the last few years." Mike yelled with tears in his eyes.

I was struggling to get out of Byron's tight grasp; he squeezed me so tight to keep me in place it hurt. "Ow! Stop it let go you're hurting me!"

"This is your fault you could have gone the easy way and just walked to the car. Ella lets go." Byron said flatly and started to head for the stairs.

I looked at Mike desperately, fearful and tears streaming down my face. He gave me a knowing look. All of a sudden Mike ran up to Byron and gave me a look that says Move! With all the strength and fight I had left, I moved my body to the side right when Mike punched him in the face. I quickly kicked Byron as hard as I could in the balls which resulted in him dropping me to the ground with a loud thud.

"God damnit!" Byron yelled furiously.

Within a second Mike quickly picked me up and pulled me into his room, immediately slamming the door shut and locking it. I looked at Mike and burst out into tear, sobbing harshly.

He wrapped his arms around me softly. "Hey it's ok, you're not going ok I will make sure of it."

"Thank you Mike, I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't come when you did." I whispered slowly calming down.

He pulled back from the hug. "Come on we need to leave before he breaks down that door, he's pretty pissed." He gave me a sweater of his and pulled me toward the window. "It's kinda cold out." He said handing me the shirt and gesturing to my tank top I had on.

I pulled the sweatshirt on over my tank top and climbed out the window; Mike right behind me. Once we got to the ground I turned to him.

"So where are we going?" I asked confused seeing how it's about 1:30am and there's nowhere to go.

"Fitz' apartment."

"Really?" I asked hopefully.

He nodded. "But- how come you're ok with us? The other day you thought I should break up with him."

"I can tell he makes you happy. As long as he makes you happy and keeps you safe I'm ok with it. He does take care of you like he should right?"

I smiled and nodded. "He does whatever he can to protect me and make me happy."

"Well you obviously know the way so let's go before they come out here and find us."

With that we quickly were on our way to Ezra's apartment.

I will hopefully have the other chapter up by this afternoon or tonight, it depends. 2x24 was definitely my favorite episodes so far (and no not just because of the Ezria sex) it was just so good! I can't believe Byron got Ezra fired! Can't wait for the slow dance next week at the Masquerade! Thanks for reading :)