~*This chapter is dedicated to Gracefall, for being a wonderful fan. Also I need a beta reader if anyone's interested, in this or anyone of my other stories, please let me know*~

A few weeks later Larissa and Adam alone Banks' room, Adam was laying on the bed studying the cracks in the ceiling, while Rissa kneeled on the hard wood floor next to bed and played with his sandy hair. Charlie and Guy could tell something wasn't right between their friend and his girl and had no objection to give them some alone time.

"What are you thinking about?" Her gentle voice pulled him from his thoughts had her fingers continued to dance around in his hair.

"What?" He blinked focusing on Larissa pale features

"What are you thinking about? You haven't said two words to me all day."

"Nothing really." It was a lie but still it was better then hurting her, better then saying 'Veronica'

"I can tell something's up with you Adam. Why won't you just talk to me?"

"Rissa, it's nothing, don't worry about it." He reached out and tucked a stray hair behind her ear.

"Do you still love me?" She asked him bluntly

The only problem was he had no idea how to answer the question. He thought he did, the boy couldn't picture his live without her. But in truth if he really loved her he wouldn't be getting the butterflies in his stomach whenever Ronni was around.

"Of course I love you Larissa! How could you even ask me something like that?"

"It's wasn't hard, you haven't exactly been going out of your way to make me feel desired recently." She sighed and got up from the floor to head to the door.

"Oh no you don't." Banksie caught her around the waist, pulling her onto the bed

"Adam let me go. I'm going back to my dorm and you can call me when you're ready to be honest with me." Larissa squired free from his grasp

"What are talking about, I'm always honest with you. I don't lie Larissa you know that."

"Is that so?" She raised her eye brows

"Yes."

"Good then you'll answer this question truthfully. Do you have feelings for Veronica?"

Banks closed his eyes and drew a quivery breath as if answering sincerely was causing him physical pain.
"I don't know."

That however wasn't the response Larissa had been looking for however.
"Okay, would you ever leave me for her?"

"No, no, Larissa no matter how attracted to Ronni I am, I'd never give up what we have." It seemed as though there was an air of doubt in his voice, as if he was trying to convince himself as much as her.

Larissa didn't say anything else she simply picked up her jean jacket and walked out of his dorm. She didn't know where she was going, or even what she'd do when she got there, but she had to leave. She wound up where she always does when she down in the dumps, the campus rink. It was at that rink that she first met the walking, talking, breathing heartache. She had been an entirely different person before Adam, strong and feisty, she didn't rely on anyone but her and didn't need a guy to make her feel whole. Then she met him and it just seemed like her world was turned upside down, like she needed him more then she needed air. Banksie was a part of her now, an important part that was slipping away and she was so powerless to stop it.

She pulled her skates from her rink locker and opened the door to the ice. There was already a happy couple breezing across the smooth surface, when she got there. A couple she knew farley well, Fulton and his new girlfriend Hannah Maras, Rissa knew her pretty well, they were in the same Geography class. In fact Larissa had got them together a week earlier after Hannah spent a week straight talking about her Bash Brother obsession. They looked cuter together tough, even Hannah wasn't the type of girl you'd think of with Fulton. She was a cute girl with dark hair and eyes, tall for 15 at 5'9" and the only biracial girl in all of Eden Hall. And Fulton loved her because of that, because she wasn't like every other girl in school. Larissa wished things were like that with Adam still.

Larissa sat on the bleachers and waited for the two to leave the ice and as they did Hannah noticed her, sitting there in the dark. She told her boyfriend to go on ahead and settled down on the bleacher beside Rissa. She didn't know what to say, but it didn't matter because Larissa spoke first.
"You and Fulton look really good together."

Hannah smiled the light reflecting off her braces
"Thank you so much for getting us together, I really like him a lot."

"He's a good guy." Rissa responded quietly

"Yeah, but you've got a great guy too. I mean Adam Banks, every girl in school has the hotts for him. Myself included."

"Hmmm." Was her reply not even words

"What's wrong?" Her friend tipped her head to the side and studied Larissa's face

"I think Adam's cheating on me. I mean I have no real reason to think it, I just have this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach, that there's something going on with him and Veronica Broadbent."

"Oh her, I don't think there is I mean if there was I think Fulton would've told me. Besides Banks would have to be stupid to wreck what you guys have."

"I guess you're right, come on let's go." Larissa didn't honestly feel any better but there was no use in beating a dead horse. She was certain her relationship was falling apart.