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A/N: This week's worth of episodes of Hollywood Heights managed to make me both frustrated and exhilarated at the same time. Frustrated because Eddie just needs to drop Eddie already (don't think I would loathe her quite as much if she actually cared about Eddie and not just her career) and exhilarated because of the moment in Friday's episode between Eddie and Loren showed Eddie's feelings for Loren transitioning slowing from little sister and friend to something more.

Here's the chapter let me know what you think. I want to make sure that I stay true to Eddie and Loren's characters. Also, I am going to deal with Chloe, I just want to strengthen the relationship between Eddie and Loren first. Give Eddie a chance to see what it looks like when someone really cares for him and not what he can do for them.

Holy Crap! Eddie just ended things with Chloe, I think the processor in my brain just shut down! I need time to reboot. I was expecting it to happen just not so soon.

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The next morning found Eddie and Chloe seated at a small French themed café. It was Chloe's scene but Eddie insisted that the two meet here. Eddie's mom used to take him here when he was a child after he had a bad day. The hot chocolate here was simply divine and the perfect cure to a bad day at least according to his mom. Eddie suspected that the fact that he felt better after they would leave from a visit here had more to do with the comfort that his mom would give him. He really did miss his mom and longed to hear her voice and ask her advice on how to deal with this whole mess concerning Chloe. Since he couldn't he decided that he would settle for the next best thing, the familiarity of a place where he had made some great memories with his mom and still feel connected to her. Eddie had hoped that visiting the café would give him the strength he needed to deal with Chloe. Eddie was pulled from mind where torrents of thoughts of his mother had begun to flash to play like those silent films that he liked so much by the sound of Chloe's voice.

"Eddie please talk to me, I can explain everything but I have to know that you're willing to listen" Chloe begged in a desperate attempt to make Eddie believe the ever growing web of lies that she had spun from her tongue.

"What is there to talk about Chloe? Or is It Cynthia now?" spat Eddie, "You lied to me. What kind of a person lies about their mother being dead. Was this all part of some scheme to get me to fall for you?"

"Eddie, please listen to me. I only lied because I'm ashamed of my past and I was afraid that you wouldn't want to be with me if you knew about my past. My mom did awful things to me Eddie. I didn't want to relive that part of my life so I kept it a secret but now I'm ready to tell you the truth." Chloe begged Eddie to listen with tears streaming down her face.

While Eddie didn't doubt that the tears were real, he just had to wonder about the reason behind the tears. He wondered if Chloe was crying because she was truly sorry that she hurt Eddie or if she was crying because she was afraid her ticket to fame as an actress was unraveling as quickly as her lies. She's a better actress than she gives herself credit for Eddie.

"The truth? Now you want to tell me the truth. I'm not sure if you even know how to do that anymore. I'm not sure if you were ever capable of telling me the truth. How am I supposed to believe anything you say anyway since practically everything that you've told me so far has been a lie?" Eddie asked in a detached manner that startled Chloe as she begun to see her hold on Eddie slowly sleeping away.

"Eddie the truth is that – Chloe started but was interrupted by her mother Jackie (sp?) who proceeded to aide Chloe in her deceit of Eddie by telling Eddie that she was a drunk who used to leave Chloe alone to fend for herself. Eddie didn't completely buy it but he wasn't ready to give up on the idea of Chloe. Eddie was slowly coming to the realization that he wasn't in love with Chloe so much as he was in love with the idea of Chloe.

Even after hearing Jackie back up her daughter's reasoning for not telling Eddie the truth, the story still doesn't sit right with Eddie. Although some of her story does seem to have some truth to it, Eddie feels like this is yet another instance of Chloe twisting the truth so that it is convenient for her. But Eddie still can't help but hold on to idea of the fairytale that he and Chloe once had (Before he discovered that she was a lying, manipulative snake in the grass who behaved like a spoilt brat when she didn't get her way (case in point: her behavior during Eddie's video shoot)). So instead of breaking things off, Eddie decided that the two should . . .

"Take a step back from our relationship. What does that even mean Eddie?" Chloe asks in that desperate pathetic tone that Eddie has come to know well during their interactions these last few weeks.

"It means that you aren't the person that I thought you were and I need time to adjust to this new person and get to know her to see if the real you and I would be good together in a relationship. Relax Chloe; I'm not saying that we break up. I'm just saying that I think it would be a good idea for us to hold off on getting married and date some more" Eddie explained, hoping to placate the near hysterical Chloe.

"What about our weekend trip together?" Chloe asked her voice small. The question may have seemed innocent, a concerned girlfriend who is trying to hold her relationship together. It was clear what Chloe really wanted to know.

"The answer to your question is yes Chloe. I will still take you to meet with the director to help you get the role" came the clipped reply from Eddie.

"That's not what I said" Chloe said, her voice continuing to grow smaller under Eddie's scrunity.

"It's what you meant" was the last thing Eddie said before her walked away leaving his still full cup of hot chocolate and enough money on the counter to cover their tab.

A/N: I know it's short. There is a second part to the chapter but I have to get up really early in the morning for work. But I promise another update before Saturday. Planning to stay up late to make it extra long.

A special thanks to everyone who reviewed, favorite and followed after the posting of the last chapter. I'm so sorry that I do not have time to make individual shout outs.

I hope that I'm living up to ya'll expectations. Next half of the chapter will feature pure Eddie and Loren interaction.