So this is what Aria is wearing. A magenta lace-top chemise like a hooker would wear, under a leopard cardigan, which I mean, with some belted black leather mini-shorts, fishnets, and knee-high boots. Only one necklace, but it weighs about six pounds. Of all the Aria outfits, this is the Ariest. How can people even look at you? How can people even deal with you, sitting in the music room playing plaintive tunes on the keyboard and staring wetly into space and waiting for somebody, anybody, to come and ask what's wrong? You'll wait forever, dear. Nobody cares. We've all got our own stuff to deal with, on any given day, and when we see something like you coming, with your ten-pound bag of bullshit, we know to run the other way.

But not Noel. No, not Noel. He just wants to find out if Hanna's okay, if they caught the guy, if he is going to jail, if those strange feelings about the other boys on the football team are ever going to go away. Aria asks him why he was glamping and lying about it, and Noel explains the pretty adorable truth that he followed them into the woods to scare them, but then he saw Aria getting in Ezra's car, and it hurt his little gay heart and that rather than writing I SEE YOU on the window he should have thrown a rock. Just scare them, and that was what ended up happening. Poor fellow.

...Or not. He immediately starts in about how he is going to have Ezra put in jail and "what did he promise you to get in that car" and "what he made you do" and all of this shit and it's like, yes, he's older and technically in a power position, but really don't you think you should ask Aria what she thinks about all this? Not only is it fairly insulting but if there is something hinky going on, making her feel powerless and creepy about it is probably not a better plan. You know how pretentious she is: It's not like you're going to convince her she wasn't having the greatest love affair of all time. Anyway, Aria makes him promise not to take action by swearing on his feelings for her, which is just so Aria, and he goes through with it, because that is his entire personality.