Stella's phone lit up early the next morning…" Hey beautiful, just wanted to say hope you have a great day and I'll talk to you tomorrow so we can set up a time for dinner." She smiled reading the text from Clay and responded that she also hope he had a great day and that she was looking forward to dinner. She knew Clay was going to be busy with work all day and that she wasn't going to hear from him until the following morning. She set her phone down and continued on with her busy day.

When she checked her phone a few hours late she was surprised to see so many texts.

"Hey babe."

"I miss you so much."

"Stella?"

"Hello?"

"Are you ignoring me?"

"You bitch."

"You are such a slut. Does that other guy know about me?"

There were more but she stopped reading at the one. Does the other guy know about me? How the hell does he know about Clay she thought?

After thinking about it for a few minutes, she decided not to text Mike back which only aggravated him more.

"You tell your new boyfriend I'm gonna fucking kill him! If I can't have you then neither can he."

She called Kate, filling her in on the messages from Mike and then asked if she could stay at her place for the night. Kate said absolutely and even invited Molly over for a girl's night full of nothing but wine, movies and chocolate.

"So are you going to tell Clay about your creepy stalker?" Molly asked.

"I don't know." Stella thought for a minute. "I feel like Mike's just having a hard time accepting the break up and keeps thinking I'll give him another chance. I'm hoping if I keep ignoring him he'll get the hint."

"Stella! You guys only dated for a couple weeks. No offense but he should be way over you by now." Kate chimed in.

"Some people fall really fast. Obviously Mike's one of those people."

"Why are you defending him? He's been harassing you all day and uhhhh did you forget that he threatened to kill Clay!? Don't you think he deserves a heads up? How did he even know about him?" Kate said becoming slightly annoyed that Stella was defending Mike.

"I'm not defending him. I just don't think he's capable of hurting anyone. He's all talk."

The three girls continued on with their conversation about Mike for a little longer before dropping the subject and watching their movie…unknowing to the fact that Mike was sitting in his car right outside Kate's house.

Clay arrived at Stella's on Sunday evening around 4:00 to pick her up and take her to dinner. It was their first official date. He decided to take her to one of the best steakhouses in town that had excellent views of the ocean.

"Wow. You look gorgeous." Clay said as Stella opened her front door.

"You don't look so bad yourself." She winked at him.

"I made reservations 6:00. I thought we could maybe walk around on the boardwalk before we eat. Maybe catch a few rides, play a few games."

"That sounds perfect. Let me just grab my purse."

They got about halfway down the stairs when Stella realized that she had left her phone on her charger.

"Oh crap. I forgot my phone. One second." She said as she turned back around to go grab it. Once she grabbed it, she stuck it in her purse, locked her door and rejoined Clay, who remained in the middle of the stairs waiting. They walked to his car where he again opened the door for her.

They got to the boardwalk around 4:30. They went on a few rides then decided to play a couple games.

"Hey. Let's play this one." Clay suggested pointing at a gun range looking game.

"I have no idea what to do. I've never even shot a gun before." Stella said giggly.

"It's easy. Here, I'll help you." He said as he put the gun in her hands then stood close against her back with his arms around her and hands on top of hers helping her aim. They did pretty well, hitting the target every time and winning a stuffed animal.

"Let me see how good you are when you're NOT helping someone." Stella challenged. She knew he had to be good. He wouldn't be a SEAL if he wasn't, but she wasn't expecting him to be that good. He hit dead center of the target on every shot allowing them to upgrade her stuffed animal to one of the bigger ones.

"Remind me to never get on your bad side." She joked.

"Oh that was nothing." He said casually and winking at her.

"It's almost 5:30. Think we have time to drop all this stuff off at the car before dinner?" She asked.

"Yeah. Absolutely. Let go." He said.

They got to the car and put all the things they won in the trunk. They then made their way to the restaurant where they arrived just in time to be seated at their table.

"This has to be the best table! Look at that view." She said impressed.

"That view is nothing compared to you." He said as he was looking at her.

"You're the sweetest. You know that? How'd you even manage to get reservations here? It's like impossible!"

"One of the guys on my team has a sister who just so happens to be the manager. She was able to hook me up."

"You guys are pretty close aren't you? The guys on your team." She asked.

"Super close. I'd die for any one of them and I know for a fact they would do the same."

"Hopefully it never comes to that." Stella said. "Tell me about them."

"They're awesome. He said. Then proceeded to go into detail about each of the guys on his team. He got about halfway when Stella's face went blank, almost as if she had seen a ghost. "Everything ok?"

"What? Yeah sorry. I just thought I saw someone I knew but I think I'm just seeing things." Except she knew she wasn't seeing things. She was listening to Clay talking about his teammates when something caught her eye off to the side causing her to take a quick look. As she looked she swore she saw mike walking by, staring at her, but when she did a double take he was gone.

"Are you sure? You look a little freaked out? He said beginning to worry about her.

"Yeah. I promise I'm fine. I think the weekends just catching up with me and making me tired."

"We can head home if you'd like?"

"Are you sure you don't mind?"

"No. Not at all. I had a long day yesterday and am pretty tired myself." He assured her.

Clay payed the bill and the two of them walked hand in hand to the car. Right as they walked up to his car they noticed broken glass all over the ground and his windows smashed out. Stella stopped in her tracks and covered her mouth.

"Are you fucking kidding me!?" Clay said putting his hands on his head and looking around to see if anyone else's cars had been broken into or if he saw anyone that looked suspicious. He opened his car door to check what was stolen and was surprised to see everything was still where he left it. All that was left behind was a post it note stuck on his steering wheel with the words "She's mine. Back off or else" on it.

"This can't be happening" Stella said as tears started rolling down her face. Clay pulled her in for a hug trying to comfort her. "Clay there's something I need to tell you. I know who did this."