"Hi, I'm Maya." Maya said and sat down next to Emily. It didn't take long for her to spot Emily when she walked into class, she was one of those who sat at the middle row but far out to the side so the she could sit sideways with her back leaning against the wall.

"Yeah, you're the one who went out with Daimon last night right?" Maya nodded. "I'm happy for you and Josh." she smiled at Maya, but it never really reached her eyes. Maya being the expert on fake smiles had no trouble recognizing one up close.

"You're not doing so well are you?" She asked her and Emily shook her head.

"It sounds stupid, but I really thought that he'd stopped playing these games. I thought that he was finally the guy that I fell for." Emily wiped away some tears that had started forming in an attempt to keep herself from crying. Maya caugth the attention of her teacher and gestured to Emily and then the door. The teacher nodded and Maya took Emily's hand leading her out of the classroom.

"What do you mean the guy that you fell for? I thought that he was the one who fell for you?" Maya asked sitting down outside the classroom with her back aganst the wall.

Emily followed suit before continuing;

"I met Daimon a couple of years ago, I sat at a café, trying to do homework, but I had a bad day and couldn't focus on anything. I probably looked a lot like this." she said gesturing to her face where fresh tears were streaming down. "Anyway he walked towards me on his way out of the shop with a coffee in his hands, but then he stopped in front of me. He asked me why I was crying and when I told him that it was none of his business he sat down. He told me that when someone is crying it's just men to walk by them pretending like they don't exist. He seemed so genuinely concerned for me that I ended up telling him about it. You see, for most of my childhood my best friend was this guy who lived across the street. We'd known each other since we were little when I accidentally stumbled into his house instead of mine because I'd mistaken them. I won't tell you all that happened there, but I basically made a fool out of myself. To this day that has to be the most embarassing thing I've ever done, but I got a good friend out of it. Our friendship lasted until the day when I met Daimon. My friend had gotten together with one of the girls in our class whom I absolutely despised, apparently he'd also decided that he'd had enough of me so he'd gone and told his new girlfriend about how we met. Needless to say I hadn't gotten much free time that day with all the people who wanted to make fun of me. I'd lasted until 4th period before running out of the school to escape. I ended up at the café where I met Daimon."

"So how did Daimon react to your story?" Maya asked.

"He didn't care at all about the story he just blew it off, he told me that if my friend was any kind of sensible guy then he wouldn't leave a good friend like me alone for long. I asked him how he knew that I was such a good friend and he looked at me for a while before answering: You haven't said a single bad thing about the guy that stabbed you in the back, heck you haven't even said a bad thing about the girl who tld your story to other peple either. You couldn't even say that you hate her, a girl like you can't not be a good friend. No one had ever listened to me like that before, he seemed lie he saw me in a way that no one had ever done before. I fell for him right there. The last thing he told me to do before he left was to forgive my best friend when he came back to apologize."

"How did he know whether or not you best friend would apologize or not?" Maya asked, Daimon didn't know Emily's friend so it didn't make any sense.

"I don't know, but it didn't take more than ten minutes before my friend sat down next to me. He started rambling on and on about how he was sorry and that he'd broken up with the girl after he realized what she'd done. I didn't even let him finish before standing up to give him a hug."

"After everything he'd done you just let him off the hook right away?"

"Yeah, he'd done some bad things but it wasn't like it was all his fault and besides, Daimon had left me in a really good mood and that made me able to forgive him."

"Okay, but that was two years ago right?" Maya asked and Emily nodded. "At that time Josh was still complaining about his roommate, Daimon being a player. Are you really sure that it was him?"

"Yeah, I don't know why he let up the facade that day, but I think I was the first person to ever see the real Daimon. The first girl to fall for the real Daimon."

"Okay, but how come Daimon didn't recognize you when you first started here then?"

"I don't know, it was two years ago and I'm sure I've changed a lot since then. He sure has."

"You know that that's not true. He was being genuine with you that day two years ago and he was genuine with you now. Daimon is a good guy, he just took it one step too far."

"You know what separates a good guy from a bad guy Maya?" Maya shook her head. "One mistake, he made it."

"That's not true either, he was just playing along so that Josh wouldn't think it was a setup."

"He told me that he was going to stop the acting once he got Josh to ask you out and he did. What he did afterward wasn't acting then."

"You really think that he would have made such an effort to talk to you if he didn't care about you?"

"He obviously just wanted to prove to himself that he could pick up any girl, no matter what kind of methods he had to use."

"Please Emily, what can I say, no what can he say to prove that he genuinely liked you?" Maya asked, this wasn't going at all how she planned it to. People were starting to come out in the hallways and she was nowhere near a solution.

"I don't think that there's anything that you can say that wll fix this, I just don't thik that there's any way I'm going to be able to trust him again." Emily stood up to leave.

"I love you Emily!" a voice called out from behind them. Everyone in the hallway turned around to look at the one who'd spoken. In the middle of the crowd stood Daimon.

Wellthat just happened, sorry about not updating earlier, I kind off planned to do it yesterday, but I kinda (celebrated?) me not being a teen anymore. hope you enjoy this chapter and sorry for the cliffhanger (I'm really not) tell me what you think see you on Monday.