Aria and Alison were lying down on the bed in their room. Alison had her arms wrapped protectively around Aria's waist and Aria was resting her head on her girlfriend's shoulder.

"I never got the chance to tell Mike I loved him one more time." Aria whispered.

Alison pulled the distressed girl to her tighter and began to stroke her long dark brown hair.

"He knew Aria. I promise you, he knew how much you loved him." Alison promised comfortingly.

"I never thought anything would ever happen. I just kind of assumed h-he'd around forever y'know?" Aria sniffled.

"I know sweetie, I know." Alison said softly.

"It hurts s-so much Ali. I feel like I can't breathe." Aria chocked out, her body beginning to shake subtly.

"Shhh, it's okay Aria. Relax. I know it hurts now but time heals all wounds." Alison promised, gently stroking Aria's back in a soothing manner.

Aria sat up and moved away from Alison.

"I don't want to talk about this anymore, can we go do something?" Aria asked, desperate to forget about her brother's untimely death.

"Yeah we can do something else." Alison nodded, getting up and walking downstairs. Confused, Aria got up and followed her.

The couple walked down the stairs and into the living room. Aria went to sit down on one of the chairs but Ali beat her to it, pulling the shorter girl onto her lap and wrapping her arms around the brunette's waist.

"I was thinking we could talk." Alison said quietly, as she began to run her fingers through Aria's hair.

"Sure, what do you want to talk about?" Aria asked, so lost in Alison's blue eyes she didn't even know where she was.

"Us. I don't want to lose you Aria; you're so special to me." Alison murmured sincerity visible in her voice.

"You won't lose me Ali! I'm sad, I mean my brother died and that's hard to me to handle but you couldn't lose me." Aria denied, clearly confused.

Alison let out a sparkling laugh that made the shorter girl's hear flutter.

"Good to know, but not what I meant. Before we left, you were so angry with me that you would've dumped me right there in Spencer's house. I know that it's hard for you, keeping 'us' a secret. And I know hard it is for you to watch Emily be in love with me." Aria finished, trying to read Aria.

"Ali do you know how hard it is for me? I wake up every day, terrified that you've changed your mind and you want Emily or someone else. You could have anyone in Rosewood and I know you want me, right now in this moment but what about tomorrow? Or next week? Or next month? I never know how long I'll have you for and it terrifies me." Aria said slowly, trying to keep her voice from shaking.

"Aria, look at me." Alison commanded.

"Ali…" Aria began but Alison cut her off.

"I love you Aria. You're my girl, my only girl. And just because I'm not ready to go public doesn't mean that I don't love you. It's you, it's always been you and it always will be. No one is going to take me away, not Emily, no one. You're the only one I'll ever love okay?" Alison confessed, holding Aria's gaze the whole time.

"Oh Ali, you're so sweet. I love you too, you're the one." Aria said with a smile, giving her girlfriend a quick peck on the lips.

Alison smiled back.

The sweet moment between the couple was interrupted the annoying ring of the phone. Alison got up, pulling Aria with her and keeping one arm around her brunette girlfriend's waist. Aria followed the blonde, equally annoying by the interruption.

"Hello?" Alison asked, irked.

Aria could hear a muffled male voice on the other end.

"Actually, she's in the shower right now but I can pass along the message." Ali said with a wink to Aria.

Aria bit her lip to keep from laughing.

Suddenly Alison's expression saddened.

"Yeah she's doing better. I'm taking good care of her." Alison promised

"Tomorrow? Wow that's soon, okay we'll leave tonight and I'll have her back in the morning." Alison promised, beginning to pout.

Alison hung up the phone and Aria gave the blonde a questioning look.

"Your Dad. Mike's funeral is tomorrow and well, you need to get back for that." Alison said gently, pulling Aria tighter to her.

Aria nodded mutely, wrapping her arms around her blonde girlfriend's neck and resting her head on the blonde's chest.

"Tomorrow is going to be a long day" Alison thought as she held Aria close.

Well tomorrow is the funeral. Sorry it took me forever to update, my mind has been on my other stories and kinda forgot about this one. I've always loved the idea of Alison with Aria, I think they'd work well together. Anyways, thanks for reading and please review what you liked/ would like to see. Again, thanks for reading. And I'll write more next time!