Elisha was surprised. She had expected him to at least give it some thought, he was still with her after all. "So why do you stay with her?" she asked, gently.

"I don't know!" Nick stood and refilled his glass. "She puts up with me I guess."

"She puts up with you!" Elisha sputtered. "Oh Nick, something is seriously wrong here. You are putting up with her and her behaviour!"

Nick looked sad. "I didn't want to fight today."

Elisha kicked herself, this wasn't the way she wanted this conversation to go. She didn't want to play a bitch. "I'm sorry Nick." she apologized. "I just don't see how someone has handsome, talented, funny and smart would stay with someone like that."

He sat there with his elbows resting on his knees, drink in hand. "You think I'm smart?"

"Don't look at me like that!" she thought. "I'll jump you right here and now!" To him she said "Of course, you are! And everything else I said too. I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it."

He considered this. "Mandy's always telling me how stupid I am."

Elisha snapped. "Well that just shows how stupid she is! I swear Nick, let me alone with her for 5 minutes! She'll never know what hit her!"

Nick laughed. "So tell me how you really feel about her! Seriously though, you hardly know her, how can you judge?"

"Anybody who hits somebody and then tells them they love them is not worth spitting on." Elisha told him.

Nick sighed. "She never tells me she loves me, just asks me to, excuse my language, fuck her."

She took his face in her hands. "Nick, I'm telling you right now. You are a special person. You are talented, and smart, and funny, and gorgeous. You deserve better than her. You deserve someone who appreciates you and all you have in you to give."

Her heart was breaking for him. Here he was all of 20 and the only girlfriend he had ever had only wanted him for his connections and because he was an easy lay.

Nick put his hands to her face and pulled her towards him. "Do you know anyone like that?" he asked softly.

He began to kiss her passionately and Elisha returned his kisses with equal fervor. They were both running their hands up and down each other. She felt Nick's hand slide under her shirt. She was the one to break the kiss this time.

"Oh Nick!" she breathed deeply. "I think we should go a little slower, don't you?"

"I only have until Sunday!" he protested.

Elisha sat up and laughed. "I think if we are supposed to be together, we will find a way to be together."

"I want to be with you." Nick said, holding her hands.

She paused. She wanted him so much. They seemed to be a perfect match and the age issue didn't bother either of them. What about other people though?