Zoe arrived at Cal's house. She looked at the clock. It was only 5. It felt later. She stepped out of the car and walked to the front porch and fished for the spare key she kept in her purse. In case of emergencies. Emily answered the door as she put the key in.

"Mom?" Emily asked confused. "What are you doing here?" God, I hope they're not still randomly sleeping together. They both feel like crap every time. Why do they keep doing it? She felt annoyed at that thought. Does dad really not notice everytime they have sex it just happens to be on the same night Gillian has a date? Why doesn't he just man up and ask her out already?

"I need to see your dad," Zoe said as she walked in the house. Emily really doesn't need to know about any of this.

"He isn't here," Emily stated. "Mom, is everything ok?" Emily felt worried.

"Yeah honey don't worry." She forced a smile

"Do you really think you can pull a fake smile on me? You do know who my dad is right?" She smiled. Come on mom, give me that much credit.

"Fine." Zoe looked at her sadly. "It's not really ok but it will be, but that doesn't mean you need to worry, ok? Aren't you spending the night at a friend's tonight or somethin?" Zoe asked avoiding the subject.

"Yeah, I was just getting some stuff from my room real fast." Emily saw that her mother was deflecting, but didn't want to push it in fear of getting yelled at.

"OK, then, well I'm just gonna wait here for your dad, then." Zoe walked over to the couch and sat down.

"OK, then, well I'm gonna grab a couple things from my room." She walked up stairs, glancing at her mom downstairs. She's acting totally weird. Whatever. She walked in her room and grabbed her bag and walked back downstairs. "Well, I'm going out then. Tell dad I love him and I'll call tomorrow." She smiled and walked out the door and yelled, "Bye I love you."

Zoe sat on the couch just thinking about everything. How much she screwed up. How much she hurt him. Hurt Gillian. She heard a knock on the door. She looked at the clock it was now 7. How long was I just seating here thinking for?She got up and answered the door. It was Alec.

"Hey. He isn't here yet is he?" Alec asked as he walked in awkwardly. He never felt comfortable in Cal's house.

"I know, he's at a bar... he was talking to a woman," she stated annoyed at the thought.

"Ouch that's... sorry. He's dealing with it the way he knows how." Atleast he's not 'doing' Gill. Alec felt slightly happy at that thought.

"She was some fuckin' slutty Brazilian chick too," Zoe said growing angry.

"Wait, what bar was he at?" Alec asked.

"The one a couple blocks from his office," Zoe said.

"Oh, she's just a hooker that's workin' the bar," Alec told her. Her eyes grew large.

"WHAT?" she yelled. "How do you even know that?"

"I went in there before I came to the office this morning. Needed a drink. She talked to me then told me her rate." He laughed a little at that. Zoe didn't. She had tears in her eyes. She burst into tears and held onto Alec. I guess I said the wrong thing.

"He finds out I cheated and the first things he does is go and finds some fucking hooker." She was crying hard. "I don't even fucking blame him. We're shitty people." She let go of his shoulders and folded her arms over his lap and cried there.

"No we're not..." he stated. Yes we are, he thought.

"We're shitty people," she cried out as she nodded her head up and down. Alec placed his hand on the back of her head in a comforting gesture.

Cal opened the door and walked into his house. He looked in the living room to find Zoe with her head buried in Alec's lap.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" he yelled out. She pulled her head away from his lap. "Oh do you want me to leave so you two can finish?" he said his voice full of disgust and anger.

Zoe sat back in the couch, wiping the tears from her face. "So, did you do her?" she asked bitterly.

"Do what?" Cal asked. What the hell is she talking about?

"Did you and your Brazilian hooker do it!" She yelled the last bit.

"She prefers to be called a call girl." How dare she get angry when she fuckin' cheated? And we aren't even together. What the hell is she doing in my house anyway? He walked further in the room.

"How dare you get your panties in a wad when it was you two that screwed things up to begin with!"

"Cal I know your mad at me and you have every right to be... but did you have to find some Brazilian
skank to get back at me with!" she yelled again.

"Get back at you? Is that what you think I was doing? I wasn't even thinking about you, darling..." he paused, "and do you have any idea how good that felt?" he paused."And no we didn't. We just talked actually. She told me how f'd up what you and Alec did was and that Gillian and I deserve a lot more respect then that. That the both of you must never really have cared about us to do this." He waved his hands in the air.

"I cared about you Cal. I care about you," she said as the tears pooled again.

"Then you never really loved me. You don't go out of your way to hurt someone you love...I loved you" he said to Zoe."and Gillian...she loved you" he said to Alec, even though it hurt to say." we deserve people that love us"

Zoe and Alec didn't speak. Didn't know how to respond to that.

"I love you Cal," said a low, lust filled voice behind Cal.

Zoe and Alec glanced up to see Gillian standing behind Cal. Both their mouths dropped as they took one look at her

TBC... short chapter sorry, REVIEW!