Ethan sighed and knocked on the door or Rebecca Hotchkiss' mansion. The butler answered and escorted Ethan in. A few minutes later he came down the stairs with Gwen behind him and as soon as Gwen saw him she turned around and walked back to her room. "Gwen, come back." Pleaded Ethan as he ran after her. He heard a door slam and went towards it. He stood in front of Gwen's old room and knocked on the door.
"Go away." he heard her say.
"Gwen we need to talk." Said Ethan.
"If it's about the divorce settlement you can have everything, the mansion, the cars, everything if you just leave me alone. Please."
"Gwen, we can work this out, please open the door."
"No we can't. You love someone else, you cheated on me!"
"I didn't, I swear. When you heard me talking to Theresa I only meant as a friend. I swear Gwen nothing has ever happened between her and I. She's like a little sister to me. I love you with all of my heart and I don't want a divorce. Please just open the door so we can talk."

He waited a few minutes and then the door opened. He walked in and Gwen was sitting on her bed. "Gwen, I love you so much." He said handing her a single white rose.
Gwen looked up at him with a tear in her eye. "Ethan, do you really mean that?"
"Yes Gwen, I only love you." He said although part of his heart screamed at him that his heart also belonged to a beautiful brunette with chocolate colored eyes.
"Okay, maybe we can talk."

Theresa sat in the car with Sheridan and Luis up in the front as they drove her home the next day. "Theresa, I have something I want to ask you." Said Sheridan smiling.
"What?" asked Theresa.
"I don't have a lot of close girl friends and you are like a sister to me so I was wondering if you would be my matron of honor at our wedding?"
"Please little sis?" asked Luis smiling.
Theresa looked down at her legs that sat there un-moving and then at the hopeful faces of Sheridan and Luis. "I guess I could." She said smiling.
"Thank you so much." Said Sheridan smiling as they pulled into Theresa and Chad's driveway. Sheridan got her wheelchair out of the trunk and Luis picked her up and deposited her in the chair. There was a makeshift ramp over the stairs and Luis pushed her up it and into the house.
"Are you sure you don't want us to stay?" he asked looking around.
"I'm fine, Luis, really." Said Theresa trying to smile as she pushed herself towards the sofa. "I'll just watch TV and work on some designs."
"Okay, if you need anything I only live two minutes away so just call." Said Sheridan smiling.
"I will, Chad will be home in a few hours so don't worry."
"Okay, bye." Said Luis kissing the top of her head as they left.
Theresa looked at the clock and it was six o'clock, she hadn't seen Chad in more than 24 hours but she new he had needed his rest. She impatiently waited for him to get home. She had just got done drawing a light yellow dress with matching accessories when she heard Chad at the door. She wheeled her chair around so she was facing the door and waited for him.

Chad walked through the door and the first thing he saw was Theresa's smiling face. He ran over to her and hugged her. "I'm so glad you're home!" he said lightly kissing her,
"So am I. You don't have school tonight, right?"
"Right, but I do tomorrow, two weeks and I'll have my diploma and then it's off to college."
"I'm so happy for you. While I was gone have you decided what college you want to go to?"
"I'm thinkin the University of Maine so I'll only be a few hours away so I can drive back in forth, ya know."
"Yeah, do you want to order some take-out and then maybe I can help you study."
"Sure, that be great, what do you want pizza? Chinese?"
"I don't know I haven't had real food in so long everything but Jell-O sounds good." She said smiling.
"How about Pizza, I can get your favorite, extra-cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms and sausage, and for desert, chocolate swirl ice cream. I can also pick up 'Gone With the Wind' at the movie store. I know you really like that movie." He said smiling.
"You know what, that sounds like the perfect thing to welcome me back." She said smiling.
"Okay, I'll be back soon." He said as he grabbed his jacket and left.
The smile on Theresa's face instantly disappeared as soon as Chad left. She didn't feel like celebrating at all but she knew she couldn't let him down. She rolled into the kitchen and gathered plates, bowls and spoons, sat them on her lap and rolled back into the living room where she sat them down on the coffee table She couldn't help but wondering what Ethan was doing.

"I love you so much, Gwen.." said Ethan rolling over and kissing her.
"I love you too, darling. I'm so sorry I over-reacted to the Theresa situation, I was under a lot of stress and I've been very emotional, I'm sorry."
"There's no reason to be, so are you moving back into the mansion today?"
"I don't see why not. Will you help me?"
"I have something to do later but yeah I can help a little."
"Good." Said Gwen kissing him again. "I love you."

Chad got home with the pizza and movie and he popped it into the vcr. Theresa was thinking about Ethan as Chad sat down beside her. She still loved him but he made her so mad, she wished he would just come back and ask her to apologize for her meanness the other day and she would apologize if it helped her have a chance with him. For the first time she realized her was single. Really single and she wouldn't have to do any scheming things to get him to love her because he already did, he loved her and they could be together. For the first time that day she really smiled. Her and Ethan had a chance.
"What are you thinking about?" asked Chad noticing her smile.
"Ethan." Said Theresa without thinking because she was so use to telling Chad exactly what she was thinking.
Chad frowned, he was under no illusions that Theresa had been faking her smiles and happiness earlier, and now she smiled for Ethan not for him, Ethan had ripped her heart up over and over and she was still dreaming about him. He felt hurt and angry and he exploded.
"This is all a joke to you. What am I? One of those-those rebound relationships? Am I sitting here just to make you forget about Ethan because if that's the reason we were better off as friends. I thought that you had had enough of Ethan after the accident, I thought maybe things had changed.
Do you think that if you never would have gotten in that accident that you would ever see Ethan again? He felt guilty, Theresa that's why he's not shunning you, he blames himself for the accident. He would still be with Gwen if he had a choice and you know it. Well I'm tired of this, I'm tired of always picking up the pieces of your broken heart and putting them back together again. This last time your love for him almost cost you your life and you still don't get it do you?" asked Chad as he was now standing up. He stomped out of the house and slammed the door.
Theresa thought about everything he had said and most of it was true but her heart couldn't or wouldn't let go of Ethan. She was trying to clean up when there was a knock at the door.
Theresa sighed, she didn't want to act happy in front of a guest. "Come in." she said as she wheeled towards the front door and Ethan was standing there.
"Ethan." Said Theresa her heart fluttering. "Come in, sit down." Said Theresa following him to the sofa. "I want to apologize for getting mad at you, I'm just missed you, I hope you won't hold it against me."
"Theresa, I have to tell you something." Said Ethan seriously.
'He's going to tell me he wants us to be together!' thought Theresa excitedly. "Yes?"
"Gwen and I have decided… we've decided not to get a divorce, I realized I really love her so I asked her to take me back. I just wanted to you know tell you before some one else did." Said Ethan looking down.
"Get out. I just ruined a relationship, a friendship, because of you, I want you to get out right now!" said Theresa with tears in her eyes. Ethan looked down and left. Theresa went into the kitchen angrily. She calmed herself down and went to grab the coffee pot for some coffee when her hand slipped and the scorching liquid fell onto her lap. Theresa screamed in agony as the hot liquid hit her legs sending pain from her ankles to her thighs. It hurt so bad. She grabbed the cordless phone as she sobbed with pain and called Sheridan. She then went to the refrigerator and grabbed the first cold beverage, which was thankfully a jug of ice water and she poured it on to herself.