Hey guys, I'm really going to try to do a chapter every day, but don't hate me if I don't. How I wish I could just write all day. Enjoy!

Chapter 10

Tyler had just gotten home after bringing Adriana to school. He sat down on his couch thinking about all that had happened yesterday. He had met this amazing, sassy, hot girl, gotten rid of her boyfriend, and had sex with her. All in one night. God, Adriana was really easy, and she had pleased him, she had given it her all to please him last night. He smiled as he thought of it, she wasn't that experienced, that Tyler had noticed. But he didn't mind, for the first time in a while he had been attracted to somebody other that Chloe and he had noticed that there were girls out there, not constantly telling him how they wish he was gone. His feelings for Chloe weren't gone though, he wanted to keep her around. She just had to back off a little bit. Tyler's eyes fell on the beautiful diamond earrings Adriana had left at his house. Maybe they would make a good gift for Chloe, he had been planning on ending things with her for a while now but first he had to make sure that she wouldn't get back with that stuck up rockstar Eddie Duran.

"Tyler? Are you in there?" Tyler heard Chloe's voice say from the hallway. Her voice sounded like she had been crying. Tyler got up and opened the door.

"Hey Chlo." he said and motioned for her to come in. Chloe was surprised, he hadn't even tried to kiss her. She had to admit she was a bit disappointed by his lack of affection, she needed someone to comfort her. She had hurt her foot while stepping on Eddie's heart, and the little kid in her wanted somebody to tell her it was going to be okay. Chloe needed her mother, no, why the hell would she think that? She didn't need Jackie Kowalski in her life. She had done everything to leave Cynthia behind, she was not going to ruin that by needing her mommy like a little kid.

"Hello, Tyler." Chloe answered with annoyance in her voice.

"What's wrong, babe?" Tyler replied as he casually sat down on the couch, he wished that he could control Chloe sometimes. She was so unpredictable, he never knew when she would show up, he never knew what she wanted. It wasn't always like that, back in Fresno, Tyler could always tell exactly what Chloe, still Cynthia back then, was thinking. She hadn't changed that much though, she was still able to manipulate any man with her body. She was still not able to accept she lost and move on, she was never able to do that. Truth be told he didn't care about her problems, they were always about Eddie. Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, that was all Chloe could think of.

"Why didn't you answer the door this morning?" Chloe stood in front of Tyler and crossed her arms over her chest "I know you were in here. I heard you talking, who was in here?" Chloe continued and she looked down at Tyler, waiting for him to reply.

Tyler had been prepared for this, he wasn't going to tell Chloe the truth. He had mentally slapped himself at the thought of telling her the truth. "Well, Chloe, there's no reason to be worried. I didn't answer the door because, I got you a little something and didn't want you to see it." Tyler got up and grabbed Adriana's earrings. He held them behind his back.

Chloe was instantly excited, she hoped it was something expensive. No, Tyler couldn't afford something like that. Could he? "Really?" She said happily "What is it?" She tried to see what Tyler was holding but he wouldn't let her.

"Close your eyes, you'll love it." Tyler said, Chloe instantly closed her eyes. She was still smiling, Tyler knew how much she loved presents. Tyler put the earrings on Chloe, he was surprising himself when he had felt guilty. The earrings had looked a thousand times better on Adriana.

Loren had crawled up on the couch, she was trying not to cry but she couldn't help herself. Her arms hurt, her head hurt and she was shaking. She didn't want anybody to see her like this but she hadn't called Eddie to cancel. Loren wanted to see him so badly, she would probably scare him away if he saw her like this. Eddie could get every girl he wanted, super models, rockstars, every girl he wanted. But he wanted to hang out with her, Loren Tate from the valley. Loren wanted Mel here to slap her out of this downwards spiral. Loren hated bringing herself down too but she couldn't help herself. She heard somebody knock on the door, she assumed it was Mel, who was already checking up on her.

"It's open, Mel" Loren jelled. She jumped when Eddie walked in. What was he doing here? No, he couldn't see her like this.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you" Eddie said, he smiled at the sight of Loren. Sitting on the couch still hugging a pillow. "Mel did tell me to check up on you, what happened?"

"I should have known" Loren said as she returned his smile. Her best friend always knew what she needed, Mel was Loren's bold side, the side who didn't over think things. Mel wasn't afraid to take chances, Loren loved her for it. She wanted to tell Eddie everything that had happened, but could she do that? "I... Something happened today... And I..." Loren was fighting the tears but lost the fight. She started sobbing, she heard Eddie walk up to her. Eddie pulled her on her feet and hugged her tightly, she was sobbing in his arms, he was amazing. How had she gotten so lucky to meet him up on that hill? That was just yesterday, Loren had the feeling as if she had known Eddie forever.

"Shh... Loren, it's okay, I'm here" Eddie whispered as he kissed the top of her head, comforting her. "I'm not going anywhere" He continued.

Loren slightly parted from him and looked up at him, searching for a sign that he was lying. No man had ever said that to her, after her dad. He had left her. But something told her Eddie was not like her dad. Still she had to be careful with trusting men. "Do you mean that?" Loren asked before she could think it over

"Why wouldn't I?" Eddie replied, he looked down at Loren and saw hurt in her eyes. "Loren, I am here for you, I'm not going anywhere. Unless you want me to." Eddie continued. He wasn't sure why Loren didn't believe him, somebody must have hurt her very badly in the past. Eddie sat Loren down on the couch, he grabbed both her hands and looked into her eyes "Tell me what happened, Loren." he said, his voice was full of concern. Loren knew he hadn't seen the bruises on her arms, she kind of wanted him to see them. She wanted him to tell her it was going to be okay.

"Mel had arranged a date for me... The night I met you up on that hill..." Loren started, she looked into Eddie's eyes for a moment, then looked back down and continued "I wasn't planning on going... I thought Mel told him, but apparently I blew him off. I knew he was angry... And he had every right to be." Loren wasn't sure how to tell Eddie the rest of the story, she decided just to tell it as it was, she took a breath and continued "Today at school, Mel and I ran into him this morning. I he wanted to talk, but I didn't really feel like it, he was really rude to me on the phone that night. That's when you texted me, he grabbed my phone and red your text" Loren stopped talking for a moment, hesitating, she felt Eddie squeeze her hands, encouraging her to go on. She took another breath and started talking again "He got angry and weirdly jealous, he grabbed me and kissed me..." Loren looked up at Eddie.

"He kissed you?" Eddie was spitting out those words. He knew that guy that had called Loren up on the hill was trouble. He wanted to punch him in the face. No, he wanted to kill him. How could somebody do that to Loren? He looked at Loren up and down, the bruising on her arms drew his attention. "Did he do that to you?" Eddie asked softly stroking the bruises. Eddie didn't want to show Loren how angry he was, he hated this guy.

"Yes... When he grabbed me" Loren swallowed her tears and looked into Eddie's eyes. The only thing they showed was concern and something that looked like anger or desperation. Loren quickly stood up as somebody walked through the door, which Eddie hadn't closed since he instantly ran to Loren. Eddie turned around to see what Loren was looking at.

"What are you doing here, Cam." Loren said, Cam was the last person she wanted to see now.

Mel walked into her house, she was relieved to see Lisa and Gus weren't home. She wouldn't want to explain why she wasn't at school. She got her laptop from her room and since nobody was home, sat down on the couch. She opened up her laptop and did her regular gossip site check. She was just looking at another article about the 'ChloEd' breakup, she loved reading that, when her brother walked in.

"Hello brother" Mel greeted him happily, before she noticed how pissed off Phil looked. "What's up?"

"Not now Mel." Phil snapped, he hated the way Mel was always that cheerful. He quickly glanced over at the screen Mel was focused on. "Why are you looking at a picture of him? Mel that's not funny, how did you find out?" Mel looked up from her picture of Tyler Rourke to give her brother a confused look.

"What do you mean? This guy?" She looked up at Phil and pointed at her computer screen. Phil was leaning on the couch and looked at Mel's laptop in total disbelieve. He was silent for a moment, no it couldn't be.

"Yeah... He was flirting with Aid, I got in a fight with him..." Phil carefully said, his eyes never leaving the picture on the screen "Aid and I broke up, I think she went home with him."

"Good to know you have finally come to your senses." Mel said and quickly continued "But, why was Adriana with Tyler Rourke? Where?" Mel asked as she looked up at her brother who looked a bit lost.

"At the cafe" Phil replied "Who is he?" Phil asked and looked down at his little sister, who appeared to know this guy.

"Only a total jerk who appears to have a thing for ruining relationships." Mel said, she quietly chuckled. Tyler did have a thing for ruining relationships, that appeared to be only if the girl was a total bitch. Like Chloe and Adriana.

"Yeah... Wait, he broke up Eddie Duran and that blonde girl?" Phil asked as he read the title

"Yes, he did." Mel answered, she was kind of happy that Tyler had broke up two horrible couples in one day.

"Loren... I hoped we could talk." Cam said, he now noticed Eddie who had stood up and was standing in frond of Loren. Eddie didn't want Cameron to even have the privilege of looking at the beautiful Loren Tate. He also wanted to protect Loren, this guy had already hurt her enough.

"Don't even look at her." Eddie said as he took a step in Cameron's direction, their faces were close to each other, Eddie, who was just a bit taller than Cameron, looked down at him, straight into his eyes.

"Was this the reason you blew me off?" Cameron took a step aside to talk to Loren.

"Go away, Cameron." Loren said in a determent tone of voice. Cameron took a step in her direction, Loren instantly took a step back. She sighed in relieve when Eddie pushed Cam back, if Eddie wasn't there she was sure Cameron would have hurt her again.

"Don't touch me, Eddie Duran" Cameron said as he pushed Eddie, who didn't move. Cam had spit out his name like he was the most disgusting thing he could imagine.

"Go, I don't want to hurt you. Leave Loren alone. You don't deserve to be in the same room as her." Eddie said, before Cameron could reply he continued "You hurt her, very badly. Did you see her arms?" Eddie took a few steps back and put his arm around Loren's waist. With his other hand Eddie gently grabbed Loren's arm and showed the bruises to Cameron.

"Oh my god, Loren I'm so sorry..." Cam started walking towards Loren.

"I said; don't come near Loren." Eddie said, he let go of Loren's waist and threw a punch at Cameron, Eddie hit him right in the face. Loren was surprised by Eddie's protectiveness. Never had a guy stood up for her, or even showed her he cared about her. Maybe Cameron had, in his own sick way. But the way Eddie wasn't afraid to show her how much she cared put her at ease. She just hoped Cam would leave.