| "No I'm not. I'm miserable." "Well maybe you should start treating her like the woman you love instead of the woman you share your conquests with." "What are you talking about?" "Tamara is the woman you share a bed with now. She's not just someone you can run to and tell her all about the girl you met last night because she is the girl." "He does have a point D,"AJ agreed. "Just stay out of this Age,"Howie said "No. I'm involved in this." "How?" "Because you asked me to be." "You didn't look like you were arguing that night." "I did that because you asked me to. Even then, I knew she didn' t enjoy herself. Not with me anyway." "What's going on?"Brian interjected. "Nothing,"the two chimed. "I'll stay out of this one then,"he excused himself and moved to the front of the van. "What's going on?"Kevin entered the van. "I don't think we need to know,"Brian responded as Kevin joined him in the front. "If you say so." "You need to get it together D or you're gonna lose the best thing that ever happened to you." "I don't wanna lose her." "Then get it together. " "You what?"Liz responded in shock. "It just happened." "That does just not happen." "I know you find this hard to believe Liz but I loved him at one time too. Do you find it so unbelievable that I might weaken after what Howie's done to me?" |
| "What I don't believe is that you could weaken." "Liz I am human,"Tamara returned as she towel dried her hair."Do you think I'm that perfect? I did something with you and AJ that I thought they only did in porno movies." "And you hate yourself for that?" "I'm a nice girl. Nice girls don't do those things." "Nice girls do those things but they don't talk about them. Do you think any of the rest of them know what kind of sex life Age and I lead? No. Because it's none of their damn business. But Tam, this is your ex we're talking about. Your ex." "I know. He hurt me bad though." "Because he loves you too Tam and men do crazy things when they're in love." "So what do I do?" "I know this is a bad suggestion probably but I'm thinking maybe you should take some time off from both of them." "I love them both Liz,"she released the flood of tears being held back by what she didn't know. "I know, I know,"Liz consoled."Your heart needs the time off though." "I don't get it,"she removed her face from Liz's shoulder. "Sweetie, you need some time to find you. You literally went from Nick to Howie with no time in between for you. You need it. Maybe they need it too. They have to work together and this can't be easy on them." "Thanks a lot Liz. That was real comforting." "I've been there Tam. The same situation, everything. Age and I had our rough patches before. I loved a friend before and he couldn't accept the fact that I had fallen in love with Alex." "So what happened?" "I stood through the rough times because I believed that Alex would turn his act around eventually and I had to let Barry go because he thought that Age was gonna break my heart. He did more than a few times but the thing about exes being your friend, they have this tendency to get possessive when the guy you're in love with breaks your heart." "But isn't Barry still one of your friends." |
| "Yeah. Because I proved to him that Age wasn't such a bad guy after all." Tamara raised her brow. "He is. He's got his moments but generally he's good to me. You all don't ever see that. Howie tends to wear his heart on his sleeve when it comes to you. You've always been there Tam. He just needs to be reminded of it. Maybe you letting go is the best thing right now." "I need to do something." "What about the Nick situation though?" "I'm gonna tell him. He deserves that much before I go." |
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