The next couple of hours passed by without incident. Morgan and Amity danced a couple of songs together out on the dance floor, much to the surprise of Amy and Billy. Soon after that, Morgan excused herself from Amity, saying she had better go and have a talk with Joel. Amity gave Morgan her mother's phone number and also, after Morgan requested it, her flight details for the next day. Morgan promised that if things went well with Joel tonight, that she'd see Amity off tomorrow. She said it was the least she could do after being such a bitch to her for so long. Amity had drinks with both Billy and Amy, and let it be known to them both, that tomorrow she'd be leaving to go home for a while. They were both a little surprised and disappointed, and when Billy asked her what brought all this on, she spun out her pre-planned explanation

 "Without going into too much detail, a couple of things have come to my attention over the past couple days and the more I think about them, the more I feel that my place is back home with my family"

Amy, who seemed satisfied with her answer, took down her number and address and promised to fly out to see her sometime next week. Billy, on the other hand, although he didn't let it show, instantly knew that something was seriously wrong and intended to get to the bottom of it before the night was out.

Once Amity had said her goodbyes to Billy and Amy, it left only Paul, Joel, Dusty and Benji to go. Since Joel was nowhere in sight, probably with Morgan, and neither was Benji, whom she really didn't feel like talking to anyway, that left only Dusty and Paul. Amity knew that saying goodbye to Paul would be pretty hard, since she had met him first and therefore known him the longest, she decided to leave him till last and made her way over to Dusty.

A brief explanation of why she was leaving, followed by a quick kiss and a hug, wrapped things up between her and Dusty. He said he'd call her if he was ever in town, but Amity decided she wouldn't hold her breath for that one.

"You haven't seen Joel or Benji around have you?" She asked, trying her best not to stumble over the second one's name.

"Nah I haven't sorry. Oh I saw the back of Benji as he went off somewhere with Morgan, but I haven't seen Joel since we arriv…"

"What? Morgan and Benji?" Amity was shocked and made no effort to conceal it.

"Yeah, uh" He looked around.

"They went out the back about…*phew*…" He blew out a breath as he tried to put a measure of time to what he had witnessed.

"Amity you know I'm pretty wasted eh? So I'm gonna say about 10 minutes ago but you should add on about an hour" He laughed but Amity didn't find any of this funny at all. What could the two of them possible be talking about?

'Oh yeah….ME!!!!' Amity thought and after quickly excusing herself from Dusty, made her way briskly over to Paul. She didn't have time to dally anymore. She wanted to get out of there, and fast!

"So you're just up and leaving?" Paul asked, getting up as she neared his table.

"Paul…" She knew he'd take it hard.

"No! Don't Paul me Amity; you owe me an explanation and a damned good one. And, if you think that I'm gonna buy what you told Billy and Amy then you're wrong" Which of the two had told him? Amity's guess was Billy, he had gone into one of his 'deep Billy modes' when she had delivered him her news.

'That little…'

"Well? Aren't you gonna say something? I thought we we're friends, then, I thought maybe we were more than friends, and then at the start of the night we were back to 'just friends' which I was cool with, but now…"

"We're still friends" Amity had to raise her voice to penetrate his babbling.

"No, I don't think we are. Friends don't treat friends the way you've treated me"

Amity couldn't believe her ears. Obviously Paul had been suffering for ages. She'd been so caught up in herself and her problems with Benji that she had failed to see it.

"Oh Paul, you're right. I'm so sorry…" Amity broke down, much to Paul's surprise. He quickly grabbed her a napkin off the table.

"Thank you" Amity took it and wiped her eyes.

"I'm sorry you had to feel that way…I'm sorry that I couldn't have been a better friend to you and I'm sorry that I…" she sobbed.

"Rubbish, you've been wonderful to me. I was just pissed about you leaving, you know you shouldn't take any notice of me when I get like that" He smiled at her, and through tears she smiled back. She still wanted to get away from it all, this place, the staring people who surrounded her, and yet, she didn't want to be alone tonight. She needed a friend, a shoulder to cry on…

"Paul, will you please take me home" She asked, sniffling back the last of her tears.

"Will you tell me the real reason you're leaving?" He tested.

"I will, I promise" Amity said, and she meant it.