Falling In Love with Aria

Aria sighed, resting her feet up on the seat in front of her, letting out another irritated sigh. “It’s really not going to be that bad.” Her mom said for the hundredth time. Her dad had recently lost his job and apparently had some childhood rich friends who wanted to help the family of five. Several of these so called friends lived together in the middle of nowhere on some rich reserve. One of them owned a law firm and was going to give her dad a high paying job and let them live at their mansion as well. Aria thought it was strange that all these people just lived together when they were all rich and could afford their own place. “Yeah. They have kids your age.” Her dad said as if Aria wanted to make friends with some pretentious rich kids. “You should want to move after what happened.” Justin, her older brother stated. He meant after she had caught her boyfriend of three years sleeping with her best friend. “We just have to go to some rich kid school now.” Aria scoffed. “It won’t be that bad. I bet they’re nice if they’re letting us all move in.” Max, her younger brother said eagerly. Aria just looked out the window, her face blank and her brown eyes filled with unhappiness. She just wanted to disappear honestly, not start over somewhere new. It made it look like she was running away after what happened. Little did she know that her life was about to change forever. The car rolled to a stop at a large gate. Dad talked to a security guard who after confirming his identity opened the gate. They drove past a bunch of nice looking houses and pulled into a driveway of the biggest mansion Aria had ever seen. Several people walked out to greet the family. Selena got out of the car and stood in between both of her brothers, a bit overwhelmed by all the people. “Guys these are our old friends.” Arias dad spoke as he and their mom hugged each person in greeting. “I’m Kristen Jensen and this is Nathan Jensen.” A blonde woman greeted, gesturing to herself and her curly dark haired husband beside her. “I’m Anthony Leon.” The single Hispanic looking dad spoke up with a big bright smile in their direction. “I’m Lucille Stevenson.” A single curly haired blonde mom said. “We are Frank and Norah Cray.” A long haired man said, gesturing to himself and his brown haired wife beside him. “Come meet the kids!” Anthony encouraged, ushering us inside while the others helped with our luggage. He led everyone to the living room where several people were relaxing on the couches. He gestured at a tall brunette with guarded brown eyes. “This is Dana. My daughter.” He announced proudly. Dana met her brown eyes and gave a small nod in Arias direction. Her breath caught in her throat as the attractive brunette quickly looked down making Aria self conscious and also causing her to look away. “This is Nicole and Milly.” Norah Cray introduced her daughters. Milly was sitting on a guys lap and looked Aria up and down, barely glancing at her brothers although Nicole seemed interested in Justin as she gazed at him with open curiosity from where she sat by herself in the arm chair. Aria met Millys gaze boldly, refusing to be intimidated by the pretty brunette, figuring that Milly must be the guys girlfriend. She wondered if they were all dating eachother. Kinda weird but they were all good looking. “This is Nicholas and Jordan.” Nathan stated, gesturing to each. Nicholas was the guy Milly was sitting on. He gave a smile and waved. Jordan put a possessive arm around Dana and gave a pointed glare at Justin. Aria defensively stood in front of Justin, not standing for any jealousy. Dana was still staring at the ground. “Taylor and Tara are my twins.” Lucille stated, gesturing to two girls who despite being twins looked nothing alike. Taylor gave a small smile while Tara scowled and looked away, obviously not as enthusiastic about the strangers in her home as her sister. “Dana show Aria her room. It’s right across from yours. Nick and Jordan can show the boys their room while we catch up with their parents.” Norah said, waving them off. Dana looked like she wanted to refuse but just sighed and mumbled. “Follow me.” Aria followed the taller brunette up a flight of stairs and down a hallway into a large room with a bed, a study desk, a walk in closet and a bathroom that was apparently linked to Danas room next door as well. Aria stared in awe. The room was bigger than her old room. Dana cleared her throat. “I’ll leave you be. I bet you’re tired.” Dana said softly, again avoiding her gaze and exiting the room quickly. Aria again wondered what her issue was but just pushed it away with a small shrug. She was tired so she laid down on the bed hoping to get some rest, deciding to unpack later. A while later she woke up with a jolt when she heard a loud thump. It came from the door that connected the bathroom to Danas room. Aria rose quietly from bed and creeped over to the door in curiosity wondering if she should check on her. That’s when she heard loud moans coming from the room. For some reason this made Aria feel heat rush from between her legs while her mind battled with a little jealousy as to who was making Dana moan that way. Aria shook it off. She couldn’t like Dana. She was taken and Aria didn’t want another disastrous relationship anyways. She didn’t trust anyone anymore other than her immediate family. “That’s right baby. You’re so sexy.” A deep voice said from behind the door. Suddenly the thumping increased and Dana started whimpering. The whimpers sounded as if she was in pain. Aria couldn’t help herself, she shoved open the door revealing Jordan on top of Dana who was on her knees with tears in her eyes. Her hands were tied to the bed post, leaving her vulnerable to Jordans rough way of handling her. “Stop!” Aria exclaimed. Jordan jumped up in shock and anger. “Get out!” He snapped. Aria tried to avoid looking at his erect member and instead glared into his dark eyes. “No! She’s obviously not enjoying it anymore.” Aria snapped, walking over and undoing the ties from Danas wrists. Aria couldn’t help but gasp. Dana was covered in scars. Along with angry red gashes that appeared to be new. Obviously self inflicted if Aria had to guess. Demi quickly covered herself. “Do as he says.” She snapped, shying away from Arias touch. Jordan smirked but Aria refused to move. “Unless you want to join b***h then move.” Jordan hissed. Aria just shook her head, standing in front of Dana. “Whatever. I’ll just go get laid elsewhere.” Jordan snapped, grabbing his clothes and storming out of the room. “Now look what you did.” Dana said softly, her eyes wide and miserable. “He was hurting you Dana.” Aria protested. “That’s just Jordan. You have no business interrupting us like that!” Dana said in frustration. “Fine next time I’ll just let your boyfriend hurt you.” Aria snapped, throwing her hands up in exasperation. “He’s not my boyfriend. Not really anyways.” Dana said quietly. “Whatever he is. You can do better.” Aria retorted. “Oh yeah like who?” Dana snapped. “Like me!” Aria blurted out before she realized what she said. Her eyes widened. How could she be crushing on this girl who didn’t even like her and was so obviously straight. Arias eyes filled with tears as she realized that this was the first time she looked in someone else’s direction since her ex. She ran from the room, quickly closing herself in her own room allowing the tears to escape. Dana as expected did not go after her. Aria sobbed silently, replaying her ex and her best friend f*****g right in front of her. She had loved him and she couldn’t already be crushing on a stupid girl she had just met. Must be the hormones, she thought while she continued to sob silently.