"He kissed my lips, I taste your mouth. He pulled me in, I was disgusted with myself. 'Cause when I'm with him, I am thinking of you, thinking of you. What you would do if you were the one who was spending the night, oh, I wish that I was looking into your eyes."

[Thinking Of You - Katy Perry]

Caleb had breakfast at the NYU's bar. He was having class in a few minutes, but not with Hanna. While he was drinking his coffee, Dave came by his side. Caleb immediately noticed it, but he pretended not to have seen him. Of course he didn't want to spontaneously act so kind and everything in front of him when the only thing he wanted in his life was his girlfriend. But Dave noticed him as well, unfortunately for him.

"Caleb?"

Then, Caleb looked at him and pretended to be surprised, smiling.

"Hey... Dave, right?" he added.

"Right. How are you going?"

"All okay, thanks. You? And your girlfriend, how is she?"

"I'm fine, and Hanna too. I really don't know how to thank you for what you did yesterday..."

"No problem, really."

"What do you study?"

"Me? Oh, no, I... I'm an assistant."

"That young?"

"I've had a good offer and so much luck." Caleb smiled.

"Who's the teacher you work with?"

"The professor Edmond Norton, he teaches informatics. He gives classes to Hanna too."

"Really? It's weird that she didn't tell me you were her teacher's assistant..."

Caleb shrugged.

"Seeing you that young, I immediately assumed you were a student... How old are you?" Dave continued.

"I'm twenty, almost twenty-one."

"Well, I envy you, man!"

Caleb envied him instead, to death. Because he was Hanna's boyfriend.

"You, instead... What do you study?" Caleb said, kindly.

"I study architecture. Norton is not a teacher of mine, so I guess we're not gonna see each other in any class."

"Yeah."

"I have to leave, Caleb. I'm going to Hanna. Hey, keep an eye on her since you see her at lesson, okay? She's a little careless sometimes, but I guarantee you she's a good girl. I'm counting on you!"

Caleb nodded.

"See you next time, Dave." he added, holding back to say him that he knows so well, even better than him, how much Hanna was a good girl.

Dave waved at him and he disappeared through the students' crowd. And Caleb sighed deeply, finishing his coffee, more bitter than usual. Maybe because the girl who he was in love with's boyfriend had asked him to keep an eye on her, when Caleb had spent most of the previous night holding her in the middle of Times Square. Maybe because that guy's girlfriend was the girl who Caleb loved more than his own life.

Dave knocked on the room 209's door. After his yesterday's lunch with Hanna, the two had remained on that the next day he would have passed by her room and they would have gone walking through the campus before the beginning of the lessons. Dave was punctual, it was nine 'o clock in the morning, and for both of them, the classes of that day would have started at ten 'o clock. But Hanna didn't open the door, neither replied in any way. Dave knocked stronger, calling for her, but nothing. Then, he grabbed his mobile and called her.

Hanna woke up with the feeling of her mattress buzzing and the flash of her mobile's display pointed on her shut eyelids. She weakly opened her eyes, and in a second she understood that she hadn't set the alarm the night before. She read Dave's name on the display and she huskily picked up.

"Dave?"

"Hanna, I'm right outside here. I can hear your voice." he chuckled.

"What time is it?" she murmured, getting up from the bed.

Dave didn't reply, but he waited for her to open her room's door. Upon she did it, Dave smiled seeing her still half-asleep and with her hair messed.

"It's nine 'o clock in the morning, babe." he added.

"Shit, I didn't set the alarm! I'm sorry..." she replied, rubbing her eyes and ending the phone call.

Dave entered the room, laughing.

"I'll be ready in a moment, really!" Hanna said with a promising tone, throwing her mobile to the desk.

"A moment? Don't say bullshit! Plus, I see Brit is not here..."

Dave took her from the waist and he pulled her closer to him. Hanna looked at him perplexed. Dave started lifting her pajama shirt.

"We can't go for our walk through the campus in an hour time, but we can do something else..." he murmured, huskily.

Dave found Hanna damn irresistible even disheveled, make-up free, and with her light blue pajama on. He lowered his head towards her neck, brushing it with his nose, as his hands went to slip off her pajama shirt. Hanna closed her eyes, but what she felt as Dave's hands were rubbing her bare skin, was disguste. And closing her eyes, everything she saw was Caleb's face. Then she opened them, but the first thing that her gaze caught were the three roses which Caleb had given her the previous night, placed in a temporary glass full of water. Dave moved from her neck to her face, kissing her on the mouth passionately, but Hanna kept her lips closed, not able to react in any way. Dave's hands kept caressing her, and his tongue roughly slipped into Hanna's mouth. And she felt even more disgust at that contact. Then she pulled away, with decision.

"Sorry, I... It's not the moment now." she stuttered, nervously gesturing with her hands.

"Why? What's wrong?" he replied, raising his eyebrows and coming closer to Hanna again.

"I... I'm not in the mood, Dave."

"Hanna... What's the matter? You've been acting weird for days, I don't understand..."

"It's all okay. But it's not the moment now, fine? If you still wanna go around the campus, wait for me to get ready, otherwise... Otherwise we're gonna meet later." she replied with decision.

Dave sighed, nodding and biting his lip.

"Okay, I'm gonna wait for you at the bar. I might can keep chatting with Caleb..." he said, opening the door making his way to exit.

"Caleb?" Hanna asked.

"Yeah, the guy who helped you yesterday. Why didn't you tell me that he was your informatics teacher's assistant?"

"Oh, well... What's the importance of that?"

"Yeah, you're right." Dave smiled.

Hanna smiled back, trying to hide the awkwardness which rised in her talking about Caleb. Dave then noticed the roses placed on her desk.

"Hey, and those roses?" he said.

Hanna turned around and bited her lip.

"I think they're Brit's, I haven't any idea..." she murmured.

"And why are there on your desk?"

Hanna shrugged.

"You know how Brit is, she places everything on the first place she finds... I'm gonna meet you downstairs." she cut.

Dave, only then, got out of the room.

Hanna got ready quicker than her usual, and she went down to the bar searching for Dave. She had a little fear of finding him with Caleb. Seeing them together in front of her put her inconvenient. Luckily for her, when she arrived, Dave was alone, any Caleb's track. Even if, actually, seeing Caleb again it might wouldn't have been a displeasure for her, anything.

"Wow, I have to admit that you've been quick." Dave smiled.

Even though her harsh rejection of a few minutes earlier, Dave was smiling at her like nothing had happened. He really cared a lot of her, and she knew it. Hanna nodded, smiling back.

"Caleb's gone?" she asked.

"I haven't found him again when I came... But don't worry, I've thanked him again for what he did yesterday."

Hanna nodded again, so she had a coffee and she went out with Dave to walk around the campus.

Caleb spent his morning and his afternoon running about the classrooms with Norton. He had the whole day busy, even though he didn't do so much during those lessons, just slide some presentations through the projector which he always had to connect and disconnect from the laptop, continuously. He did nothing but think about Hanna. About their night in Times Square, about how much he had been good. During the day, he felt more than once the strong desire of texting her, but then he said to himself that he would have become intrusive and he thought that she could have been with Dave. With her boyfriend. So, he held back, sombrely hoping that she would have been the one who texted him.

Hanna came back to her room at ten 'o clock in the evening. She had spent the morning with Dave, then she had had classes until seven 'o clock pm, so she had had dinner again with Dave, and she had eventually come back to her room. She closed the door behind her and sighed deeply.

She had been with Dave, but she thought about Caleb for the whole time. Even when Dave has started undressing her, Hanna had felt the strong desire of having there Caleb instead of him. And that spoke for itself.

Dave, on the other hand, hadn't insisted again with her since he came to wake her up in her room, but Hanna had perfectly felt that he has understood that something was wrong.

She said to herself to text Caleb more than once, but then she thought that she didn't know what to say. What she could have said him after he and her boyfriend have friendly talked sitting accross a bar counter? What she could have said him when she loved him to death but she couldn't leave Dave for him? What she could have said him when the night before she was into his arms and the next day she spent most of the day with Dave? All of this questions' flow was blocked by Brit entering in the room, who was exiting the bathroom.

"Han, how was the dinner?" she said.

"Good, thanks."

"So you chose Dave?"

Hanna snorted and climbed on the bed.

"I have no idea." she murmured, when she knew that her heart had all the answers she needed.

But she didn't have the courage to look inside herself. Because if she did it, she clearly noticed the fact that the feeling she had for Caleb was pure love, while that for Dave was just affection. But she didn't want to turn her back at Dave. Because Dave had helped her to get up after an awful fall, from which she really thought she couldn't get up anymore, never, and she couldn't do this to him. Even because she feared that if she broke his heart, he would have fallen again in temptation with his demon, the alcohol addiction. Hanna knew what meant 'broken heart'; right this had thrown her for the second time into the bulimia's abyss, her demon. And she didn't want that the same thing happened to Dave, because he cared of him and the last thing she wanted was hurting him. Nor that much.

"What can you say about the roses?" Brit continued.

Hanna sighed again, biting her lip.

"I went to Times Square with Calvin yesterday, and... And he bought them for me."

"What a romantic guy..." Brit said, with a dreamy expression.

"Okay, Brit. No more questions, I have to Skype with the girls or they'll kill me!"

"Don't worry, I'm gonna go straight to bed, I'm exhausted." Brit smiled, then she lied on her bed.

"We have the honour of having Hanna with us tonight..." Spencer started.

Hanna, Spencer, Aria and Emily were all four together on a Skype videocall, from three differents placed, since Spencer and Aria shared the same room at the UPenn.

"Yes, you guys have this honour." the blonde said, motioning a smile.

"It's obviously Dave's romantics dinners' fault if you give us such a little importance lately, not study or pc's problems..." Aria said.

"Actually, between Dave and me things aren't going too well anymore." Hanna admitted, even though she didn't want to reveal the real reason, or at least not yet.

"Why, Han?" Emily asked.

"Well, it's just not like before between us."

"Did you guys break up?" Spencer asked.

"No, things aren't going well, but I would never do this to him..."

"Yeah, because if it wasn't for him, you would still be crying over Caleb..." Aria blurted out.

Hanna froze and bited her lip, closing herself in a deep silence and lowering her gaze.

"Aria, slow down..." Emily said, knowing the girl was touching still one of Hanna's weak points.

"No, it's fine, just... I'd rather avoid to mention him, okay?" Hanna continued.

"Sorry, Han, I didn't want to..." Aria apologized, before being interrupted right by Hanna.

"Don't worry, it's nothing. But tell me how are you guys doing now!"

At that sentence, Hanna attached a smile. And the girls started distracting her with their chat.

A/N: Sorry if this wasn't a very dynamical chapter and there wasn't any Haleb interaction, but I have to give the right space to everything in the story, so even to Dave, even though I know he's not one of your favorite characters (neither one of mine!) :) Anyway, I hope you liked the short appeareance of the other three liars (of course they will be again in the future) ;) ...So, let me know your thoughts about everything :) I'm really glad to read your opinions... Thanks to sarahschneider2012, OceanSky9, britneymartina, treaanne (don't worry, you don't have to apologize^^), p3paranoid1329, Smileyface2508, and all the lovely guests who left some words to this story! I'm really happy to see that's appreciated :) The next chapter will be... Uhm, let's say "wow" ;) I'll update ASAP! Love you guys! xx -Atramea.