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How could Fox have been so stupid! He thought he knew what love was when he fell for Whitney Russell. He tried everything to get her to see him as more than just a friend. He managed to break up Whitney and her long time boyfriend Chad. All he needed was a way to make her jealous. He knew the best person to use would be her best friend, Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald. He knew she was too in love with his half-brother Ethan Winthrop so he knew it would be perfect to convince her that they should move on together. The only problem was that he was the one who ended up moving on. He didn't know it at the time but he was falling hard and fast for his former step mother. If he had known perhaps, things would be different now. But as luck would have it, he didn't fight to stay with Theresa, instead he climbed into bed with the woman he thought he was in love with, her best friend Whitney. That relationship lasted longer than most, three months, but he stayed with Theresa longer. He never realized that what he felt toward Theresa was more than friendship or even admiration. It was love. But it was too late for them, he had slept with her best friend and she vowed to never be hurt by love again, closing her heart from hurt and pain forever.

Fox sat up in his bed and remembered the six months he spent with Theresa, trying to make another woman jealous. They told each other everything during that time - their hopes, their dreams, their fears. 'Hmm,' he thought to himself, 'if only I had noticed my feelings for her before I went to Whitney for comfort. I should have told her that there was hope for finding love after the pain that she had endured with Ethan.'

"Fox, how can you say that?!"

"I just believe that love brings nothing but suffering to those who try to make it last. I mean look at everyone in town, even the most pure and special love has its obstacles. There is just so much anyone can do before its time to move on. That's why I go from girl to girl."

She looked at him with those dark eyes and tears began to form. "Are you saying that eventually you'll just leave me once things get complicated?"

He looked at her as he thought of the night he heard Whitney sing at the Blue Note. "Yes, if I found someone else."

She stared at him with contempt in her eyes. "Go to hell Fox Crane! You've been stringing me along for six months. Well, I hope you DO find love, and I hope she breaks your heart."

Fox blinked the tears forming in his eyes as he remembered those words. He had gotten the object of his affection, Whitney, but it lasted until he realized that what he had felt for her was nothing more than pure infatuation. His thoughts once again returned to Theresa.

That day had been the last nail in the coffin of Theresa's heart. She told herself she would not be allowed to be taken by a man ever again. She would give up on love, on fate, on everything. She had lost her son to Julian and Rebecca, and Ethan to Gwen and her best friend betrayed her. She would never let love back into her heart again. She would become like her mother, waiting for someone who may never come back.

"Fox how could you have been so foolish!" he screamed aloud. "She was right there in front of you the entire time and you let her slip through your fingers. You gave up on her before you even had a chance to love her." Her promise had come true. He had fallen in love, but it was her heart that had been broken. "I'll try and make you open your heart again, let love in and be happy," he cried before he finally succumbed to sleep.

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