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The next few days were terrible. Every time I thought about James, I was filled with anger. I am packing my bag for my lsat class of the day. christmas break and thankfully, Grayson was going to drive me; just like he had been for the last couple days.

The door finally opened and Grayson walked through. If I'm home during the day, I didn't really bother with locking the door, seeing how Grayson has been spending some more time with me lately.

"Hey Gray, are you ready to go?" I ask him.

"Yeah, let's go."

I grab my bag and follow him out the door, locking it behind me.

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"Thanks, see you later" I shut the door to Grayson's truck.

I walk through the doors to the lecture hall. I knew it was just minutes before the class was going to start. That would explain why their were hardly any seats.

A pair of blue eyes caught mine. James had no expression, but I did. I glared at him and he gave me a surprised look. If he really thought I was just going to let this go then he has another thing coming.

Their were two seats left; one beside my stupid boyfriend and one beside Grant, the boy I supposedly cheated with. The choice was obvious, sit beside the douche? Or sit beside the guy who was lonely from missing his beloved girlfriend?

I walk up the stairs, passing James. Thankfully, Grant was on the end of a row, so I didn't have to climb through people.

Just as I sat down, Grant gives me a questioning look.

"What are doing? James is going to kill me."

I chuckle at him, "No he won't. If anything I should be killing him" I tell him.

"Why?" he asks.

I shake my head, "He thinks that I cheated on him with you" I tell him.

His jaw drops, "But you most certainly did not" he tell him.

I nod my head, "I know that and I told him that, but he didn't listen" I tell him.

He pinches the bridge of his nose in frustration. "I am so sorry I have put you in this position," he apologizes.

I shake my head, "It's not your fault he's a complete idiot." I tell him.

He nods, "I'm sorry this happened, if you didn't come over then we wouldn't even be here right now; you would be sitting with James, not me," he tells me.

I smile at him, "Well then I guess it's a good thing that James is a idiot then" I tell him.

He smiles and nods at me, "It's nice to finally have a friend like you, Vena."

"Today class, we will be talking about why humans react to specific situations" My professor tells his class.

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After class, Grayson drove me home and he went home too. I really wasn't in the mood to socialize. After seeing James, all it did was make me mad. I unlock the door and walk in and close in behind myself.

I turn around and see James sitting on the couch, startling me; I scream.

"What the hell?! Dammit James!" I yell.

He raises an eyebrow at me, "I told you I was coming back in a few days, you should have expected it," he tells me.

"No I shouldn't have, James. God, you piss me off. You can't just walk in here and expect everything to be perfect" I tell him.

"It should be, I mean you had your time and I had mine" He walks closer to me.

"Are you a dumbass?!" I yell, "I told you that I love you and then you take off, did you even think before you said anything?" I ask.

"I just needed a break, Vena. I didn't know what you did was true or not" he tells me.

I throw my hands up, "James! Why would I cheat on you when I know terrible it feels to be cheated on?" I ask.

That shut him up, he didn't say another word after that. Maybe that finally got the message to his brain.

"Vena, I-"

"No, I don't want to hear it" I tell him, "Just leave me alone, James" I tell him, walking away from him and right into my room.

As soon as the door was shut and locked he was banging on the door. "Vena, please let me in" he pleads.

I chuckle to myself. He's just going to have to deal with the consequences.

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I was just hoping to god that James would leave the apartment, but he didn't. He told me that I would have to come out sooner or later. He was right. I was majorly hungry, in which the food was in the kitchen; where James was.

I sigh. When I'm hungry, I'm hungry.

I quietly open the door, trying to be quiet as possible. I walk into the living room and see James sleeping on the couch, I roll my eyes at his sleeping figure and go to get something out of the kitchen.

I was looking through the cupboards for anything at all to eat. I suddenly felt a pair of hands on my waist, making me jump a bit. I was suddenly turned to face James. He trapped me between the counter and himself.

I look at him with no expression.

"Vena, I'm sorry" he tells me.

I glare at him, "Shut up" I tell him.

He shakes his head, "No, I know you're mad, I understand, but I'm not going to fight with you, Vena."

I don't say anything.

"Y'know, I knew I had to come back today because one: I couldn't sleep at all with out you there and the second is because when I saw that you would sit beside Grant, rather than you own boyfriend. I knew that if I didn't come back soon, you would move on" he tells me.

"I do love you, Vena" he tells me.

"You are unbelievable James. You don't trust me one little bit, so much that you think that I cheated on you with Grant! I mean it's Grant James! I'm not some slut" I tell him.

He nods, "I know Vena, and I'm sorry" he apologizes. "Ever since I moved into this apartment, I knew that I was going to fall in love with you and then I did, now I'm completely terrified that someone is just going to swoop you up and take you from me."

What he was saying made sense in a way, but in the another, he sounded like a complete lunatic. It did't make sense. He thinks I cheated on him, so he leaves. He says that he's afraid to lose me, yet he is the one that leaves.

It just didn't make any sense.

I shake my head, "No, I don't want to hear it" I snap at him.

He bites that inside of his cheek.

"Vena, you have to know that I am sorry" he pleads.

I bite the inside of my cheek, thinking. He was driving me crazy.

I turn away from him and continue looking for something to eat.

"Vena, please."

"James, you can't really expect me to just forgive you after you think that I would do something that has happened to me before? Are you an idiot?" I question him.

"I-" I cut him off.

"No, I told you that I don't want to hear it, do you got that?" I snap.

He nods and runs a hand through his hair.

I shut the cupboard door and head for the door, as I look up I see Ryder standing there.

"You guys should really learn to lock this door" he tells me.

I shake my head and slip on my shoes and coat. As I am about to leave I hear Ryder say one last thing.

"Wow man, You've fucked up."

I slam the door in anger and pull out my cell phone.

I hit the number and put the phone to my ear.

"Hello?" A worn out voice answers.

"Grayson, can you do me one more favour today?" I ask him.

He clears his throat, "Sure Ven, What is it?" he asks.

"Can you drive me down to my parents house?" I ask.

"Yeah sure, I would sure love some of your Mom's shortbread cookies right about now" he chuckles.

"Okay get dressed" I tell him.

"How do you know I'm not dressed, Y'know, I could be dressed. You don't know" He chuckles.

I laugh, "Oh yes I do, Grayson, it's Saturday morning, there is no way that you are dressed" I argue.

"Okay fine. Come over" he tells me.

I say okay and hang up.

As I was talking to him, I was already walking to his place, so he better dress real quick.

I walk up to the door and knock and the door opens within seconds after my knuckles hit the wooden door.

I expected to see Grayson, but nope. It was his frazzled looking girlfriend, Leah.

I smirk at her, smiling. "What a surprise to see you here, Leah."

She blushes and steps aside, "Hi Vena. Always a pleasure."

"Grayson! I made your girlfriend blush! She's so red" I laugh.

He rounds the corner to the living room, fixing his sleeves on his button up.

"That's not much of an accomplishment, Vena" He chuckles, "Just mention the word 'sex' and you'd think she turned into a strawberry" he smiles at her.

She smacks his arm and glares up at him, "Don't tell people that" she scolds him.

"It's okay, Babe. It's just Vena and if she laughs at you, its alright because she laughs at everyone" he laughs.

"He's not wrong" I smile, "Anyways, can we go now?" I ask him.

He nods and grabs his keys off the ledge, "I'll be back in a few hours or so, Leah." he kisses her lips.

She kisses him back. "Okay" she pulls away from him.

"Alright, let's go" I tell him again.

"Okay okay."

He says bye again and shuts the door behind him.

"Okay, now why did you need to go to your parents so urgently?" he asks as we walk to his car.

"James."

"It really only takes one word to understand" he smiles.

I nod, "That's kind of sad ins't it?" I ask him.

He nods, "It is."

My parents lived pretty close to James' parents, so it was going to be a long drive. All the way across the river.

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Grayson pulls up to the house and turns off his truck and gets out as I do. I shut the door behind me and walk up the path that I recognized so well.

I walk in without knocking.

I take in the scent of home, somehow it made me feel so much better than before.

"Luke, Is that you?" My mother asks.

She comes around the corner, drying her hands with a tea towel.

"Vena?" Her eyes zero on me.

"What a surprise, both of you too" she says.

"Hey I just came along for your cookies" he smiles.

She smiles, "I'm glad to see that college hasn't changed you at all, Grayson."

He smiles and slips past my mother and I to the kitchen.

"What's wrong, Honey? Is school going alright?"She asks.

I nod, "Yeah, It's great" I tell her.

"Then what is it?" she asks.

"James" I say that one word.

She smiles slightly, "We have a lot to catch up on, don't we?" she asks.

I nod, "You have no idea" I tell her.

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"Well, I don't think you should break up with him over this, Vena" she tells me once I'm done explaining. "I know that you're mad. I do, but just from hearing this whole story, I think that you should hold on to him."

"But he's an asshole" I argue.

"All men are assholes. Get used to it now, sweetheart."

"I want to know one thing, Dear. Would you rather been accused of cheating or would you want to find out that he cheated on you? It's obvious that he cares about you, or he wouldn't of accused you of such a thing. He wouldn't of cared if you were cheating if he didn't care." she tells me.

I nod, "Okay, Mom" I tell her, "I'll forgive him".

She pulls me into a hug, "Good girl" she pulls away.

She smiles, "You must be real tired after all that talking. Let's get you a cookie." she stand up and I follow her to the kitchen.

It was unbelievable what I was seeing. My eyes dart to the empty jar as soon as I saw Grayson rubbing his belly.

"I think I'm going to need to go to the gym now" she says before my mother has a chance to.

"If I had known you were coming, Grayson, I would of baked double of what I did" she smiles.

I was actually looking forward to one of my Mom's cookies.

Not anymore. Grayson is like a fucking potato.

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Hi guys, I'm sorry I haven't updated in so long. I just haven't been up to it. Anyways, how did you like this one? I don't know If I feel very proud of it.

Yeah. I just hit 2M so thank you for that, it's great.

Remember if you are kind to one and another, it will come back your way. I promise you that.

Thank you,

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