Apollo treated her like a queen for the rest of the vacation, wining and dining her, taking her where she wanted and keeping her away from Klavier as much as possible. They switched rooms with a young couple staying across from the hall who had a bedroom as well as the double bed in the main area. Ema stayed in the bedroom and on one night Apollo did let her sleep beside him because she was so upset.

-x-x-

The morning after they had returned from France Apollo found a strange letter in his pile. It was from the local, and very popular, daytime chat show that was broadcast all over America. Run by a couple called Matt and Amy Kyle their show was appropriately named 'The Kyle Show'. Apollo took the letter to his desk and sliced it open with his letter opener.

Dear Mr Apollo Justice

A close friend of yours, Mr Klavier Gavin is coming on the show in order to save his relationship. Although he is not aware we also request you join. You will be notified of what to do when you arrive…

Now, a week later he was sat backstage on the show. He was in a booth on his own and was told not to go on stage over fear of his safety and because he was an unknown guest.

"Mr Justice…" A man from the security crew slid the door to the booth open.

"Yes sir." Apollo spun the chair around.

"Could you take a lie detector to verify the results given to us by Miss Skye?"

"Sure."

"Oh my, Mr Justice…you look in a bad state." The lady running the lie detector test could see the bandages under his shirt.
"I'm alright." She explained the test and he happily answered all of the questions.

Afterwards he found himself back in his little booth watching the show on the PC screen and listening to the show via the headset microphone he wore.

"Ok, first up this morning we have the famous rock star Klavier Gavin – the lead singer of the band the Gavineers." Amy began.

"He's here to try and eliminate accusations of cheating in his relationship." He pointed to the door. "Let's welcome him to the show!"

He stepped on to the stage in his familiar purple and black outfit.

"Mr Gavin as far as we were aware your relationship is perfect."

"Ja, it was until she accused me of cheating…" Klavier said it with a smile. He went on about what Ema had said. "Then I think she was cheating on me with my best friend while staying in France."

"Didn't she throw you out of the room?"

"Ja she asked me to switch with this man."

Apollo watched as Ema came on, screaming and crying at him. Apollo shunned not being able to rush out to her rescue.

"Ok, now…" Amy looked to the screen to the left of Ema who was sat on the far edge of the stage. "We have two people backstage, first we have this young lady…"

A blonde girl about 23 blew an air kiss and waved with this malicious smile. Klavier waved back when Ema wasn't looking.
"Excuse me, why did you just wave at her?" Matt noticed.

"It's polite to wave at a fan." He lied.

"The next person is…" The cameraman signalled to switch the camera on in Apollo's booth. "…this young gentleman."

"Hey!" He waved.

"Apollo!" Klavier sounded shocked in an unhappy way, Ema the opposite.

"Ok, I'm sorry we have to take a quick ad break. We'll be back after these messages."

"Mr Justice can I ask a favour?" Amy opened the door to his booth. It was uncomfortable in there for him; there was only enough room for him and the camera man let alone Amy as well.

"Uh…sure."

"The lie detector results. I need you to read them out; you're far away from the main stage. Please."

"You don't need to explain yourself to me. I'd be happy to."

-x-x-

"Ok now it's time for lie detector results. Apollo, can you read Klavier's results first?"

"Yes ma'am." Apollo opened the envelope and a card wrapped in a sheet of paper.

"Oh my, Apollo read the paper please." He sensed the hint of excitement in Matt's voice.

"Um…this is a confession." Apollo unfolded it further. "He said that Ema had walked in on him having sex with the young lady in the booth next to me."

"How could you?!" Ema cried.

"Alright, alright Ema just calm down." Apollo soothed. "Ok…his confession makes the first three questions obsolete – right?"

"That's right."

"Ok, so the fourth question asked was 'Have you engaged in sexual intercourse with the person in question more than once?'. He answered no and he was lying." Apollo could see Ema getting more upset. "They then asked if he'd passionately kissed anyone else while in a relationship with Ema – he said yes, he had passionately kissed several fans."

"Fraulien if you'd have let me explain…" Klavier seemed smug.

"Have you ever had sexual contact with another person? – he said no – he was telling the truth. Have you ever had intercourse with anyone else? – he said no – he was telling the truth again." Apollo looked down at the last question.

"They asked the girl two questions to verify the details Klavier gave. Which were the sexual intercourse more than once and the sex one. She answered yes to both and was telling the truth."

"You bastard!" Ema screamed.

"Ah, ah, ah Fraulien, we need to see about you."

"Ok…the confession note here states that Ema did try to kiss me and put her hands down my boxers but I rejected her. So only three of her questions are necessary." Apollo flipped the card over. "The first was 'did you have sex with Apollo on the night in question in France?' She answered no and was telling the truth. They then asked 'Did you try to have sexual contact or intercourse on any other days.' She said no and was telling the truth. The final question was 'Do you have personal feelings for Apollo? – she said yes and she was…telling the truth…?" The last question was a shock for the attorney.

"They then asked me the same questions with regards to Ema and my answers were the same and I was telling the truth." Apollo looked at Klavier's face. "Not so smug now are you glamour boy?" Ema just ran off, sobbing her eyes out and ran backstage.

-x-x-

Two days later Apollo had still heard nothing of Ema. Lana had contacted him to say she was getting over it but other than that there was no news.

"Hello?" Apollo held his cellphone to his ear.

"Apollo I need you to get Ema out this house before she wastes away." Lana sounded very concerned.

"Why, what's up?"

"For two days she hasn't left her room, we've had to leave all her food and drinks outside her door and when I went in…" Lana paused. "…she was just lying on the bed naked, covering the most intimate areas of her body and listening to sappy sad music which doesn't suit her."

"What makes you think I can get her out?"

"Because she's fallen in love with you."

"Hm… I'll be right over."

"We're going out. Do you have a key for my house?"

"No."

"We'll leave the door unlocked."

He turned up at the door within half an hour. He opened it, threw the teddy bear Trucy told him to give Ema on the sofa and made his way to her room. He heard a groaning sound on the other side of the door. He listened intently to make sure he wasn't mistaken. It was dark in the rest of the house and probably just as dark in Ema's bedroom so he carefully opened the door. He clicked on what she was doing when he looked at the position she was in and heard the moan that escaped her lips. She kicked her legs out in a violent jerky movement then her eyes snapped open.

"Apollo!" She grabbed the edges of her sheet. "Did you…see that?"

"I opened the door a second ago." He replied honestly softly closing the door as he stepped in. She turned her head away as he circled the bed. "I'm sorry…"

"For what?"

"For walking in on you." Apollo crawled up on the bed alongside Ema. He moved the cushion to the left and sat back against the headboard. "Lana said you haven't been out since the show…do you know why?"

"I don't want to be humiliated as I walk through the streets…"

"How?"

"I can imagine people saying 'You can't give good enough sex so Klavier Gavin cheated on you.' You know I've probably fucked all my chances of getting another guy." She took her nightgown which was by Apollo's foot and threw it over her head.

"Only naïve morons would say that. There's more to a relationship than sex." Apollo helped her sort out her nightgown.

"I wish I picked one of the other men who wanted to date me." She crawled out from under the sheet and sat cross legged in front of the attorney.

"Some of us may still be interested." Apollo forced himself to stop blushing as the nightgown clung to her figure and her room smelt of sex.
"Are you just trying to make me feel better or are you being serious?" Apollo reached into his pocket and produced the card with his lie detector results.

"What does it say there?"

"You still…really!?"

"Uh-huh. I don't really care what Klavier thinks of you. Or anyone else for that matter." She crawled up, resting between his legs and rested her head on his shoulder.

She looked like an innocent child.

"In France…I wasn't intending to have sex with you…"

"Then what were you doing?"

"I wanted someone who wasn't so extroverted as Klavier to see if I could…"

"Could what?" Apollo rubbed her back with his left hand, he didn't mean it in a sexual way, he just wanted her to relax.

"I wanted to excite Klavier by taking lead in the bedroom…I figured I could use you to learn how…"

"Wait that means…you were…"

"No trust me I wasn't. I wanted to just…feel you…" Ema moved so she was facing him and holding herself upright by gripping the headboard on either side of Apollo.

"Do you know how…immature that sounds? I love you Ema but…I want you to realise that just like you – I won't live with a cheater."
"So if I'd…then you'd think I was a cheater?"

"I'm sorry but I shouldn't think like that now…" He kissed her tenderly. "It's the past…I don't want to rush you into anything you'll regret…" He expected her to agree but instead she pushed herself against him and kissed him roughly. Her back arched at his touch as he broke away. "Are you sure you want this?"

"I just want…" She pulled him into another kiss. "…to…" She moved her hand to the zipper of his pants and rubbing.

"Nngh…Ema…really…is this what you want?"

"I just want to feel…what you're like." Apollo pulled her into another deeper kiss and as she opened her mouth to gasp he pushed his tongue into the warmth of her mouth. Their tongues wrestled and Ema used this sign of passion to gain dominance over him.

She'd wrestled off all his clothes in record time and she began to stroke him in a slow yet fluid motion.

"This…was what I wanted." She looked into his eyes as he squirmed.

"Well…" He let out a murmur of pleasure as she slowly sped up. "…Don't think you can use me as a tool for sexual pleasure."
"Wouldn't dream of it…" She rubbed herself against his chest. Again she picked up the pace and he was wriggling and groaning.

"Ema…I…" She knew what to do now. She picked up the speed again and when he released she a wave of satisfaction pass through her body. She scampered over the rest of the bed and grabbed a tissue. She cleaned off his legs and chest and shared a more intimate kiss with him.

He couldn't resist returning the favour to her and by the end of the evening, her back in her nightgown and he in his boxers, he moved to climb off the bed.

"You're not going to…leave me are you?" She climbed up behind him and clung to his back.
"Hm…well I have to go home."

"Please…" She purred. "For me?"

"Alright." He reached out for his cellphone and text Trucy to say he wouldn't return home.

"I love you." She pulled him back down on the bed.

"I love you too." He stretched his limbs and curled up with her in his arms on the bed.

He made a personal note that it was a good thing she just looked like an innocent child.

-x-x-

On the other side of town, completely recovered from the ordeal of the daytime television show, Klavier was about to receive the news he did not want. The girl he had been sleeping with not only had another boyfriend but had also fallen pregnant with Klavier's child.