fresh after her breakup with Ezra, her school teacher, aria falls into a depression. She's starting to drift away from her best friends Spencer, Emily, and hanna and is slowly losing herself. with her mom drinking day and night, and her father starting a new family, she's lost. she doesn't want to be aria anymore. thats when the drugs and the drinking started, but there will always be one person to remind aria that she's aria. A.