A/N : Wow, thanx for the great response to the last chapter. I am always so happy when I see that I have so many reviews. Thanx to; macdeniken, BowlfulOfWisdom (you'll have to keep reading to find the answers to your questions!), Starbright Moonlight (I'm not sure how many more chapters there will be yet, but I have planned up to sixteen already...) XxArEULoStxX, Cassandra Anthemyst, MeLLoDraMatic, Azkaban Canuck, KrystinePotterLover, ndblue123, sophster - I'm glad you're all still enjoying the story.

Well, here is the next part, trying to understand why Diana and James did what they did...

(Disclaimer : see chapter 5)

Chapter 11 - The Morning After The Night Before

Diana didn't want to leave her room ever again. How could she face Phillippe or anybody else after what had happened with Jay? It had been a stupid situation really. Obviously Jay was attractive but she was engaged, engaged to the Prince Of Genovia. That was many girls dream and it was reality for her, but not necessarily for long. What would Phillippe say when he found out his fiancée had been kissing his cousin? Diana knew he would find out, whether she told him herself or not. Jay could tell him, or Nina, and even if they didn't actually tell Phillippe they could tell someone else who would.

What worried Diana most of all was not that Phillippe would find out, but that she wasn't even sure if she wanted to apologise for it. She was sorry that Phillippe would be hurt by her betrayal but if she was honest, this whole thing had served a purpose. What had happened between Diana and Jay had only gone to prove to her that she wasn't ready to be engaged, never mind married, to Phillippe or to anyone. She thought she was in love but was she?

Diana decided that she was going to have to tell someone about what had happened. If nothing else she needed help to decide what to do about now. The best person she could think of to ask was her mother, Jackie. No doubt she would understand, she always seemed to.

In a strange bed, in a strange house, in a strange country, James Pelkowski lay staring up at the ceiling. He hadn't slept all night for more than one reason. Worry, fear, sadness, and a hundred other emotions kept his eyes open and his mind active.

Life had been simple for Jay, in fact, life had been fairly good. He had decent parents, two younger sisters who adored him, basically a whole family who loved him. He had enough money, a good home, he was fairly intelligent and all in all he had been happy with his life. Then the trouble started. His parents started fighting and his near perfect life started to fall apart when he realised it was him they were fighting over. His father, Boris, might not be his father at all. He didn't tell anyone that he knew about it. He just started rebelling against his Dad, against his school, against his life in general. It was Jay's way of coping with it and it worked well for him, until the day he came to Genovia.

When Jay first laid eyes on Diana he liked her, and he was willing to admit he was jealous of his cousin for having such a beautiful girlfriend, who loved him. The girls that Jay knew, the girls that liked him and professed to love him, they were not like Diana. Sure, some of them were attractive, but usually they were completely shallow and only liked him for his looks or even occasionally because they knew he was related to European royalty. No one loved the real Jay because no one really knew him and no one understood him. Except Diana.

It had seemed like she understood how he was feeling and he felt that he understood her too, even though they had only just met. It was easy to talk to her, to be close to her, and too much of a temptation to resist kissing her. The only thing he truly regretted about it all was the pain he may have caused to Diana and Phillippe.

Normally, if Jay caused trouble, he loved it. He was in pain, why shouldn't everyone else feel the same? But the thought that he might have hurt Diana, it was strange, but that made him feel terribly guilty. It bothered him that he might have damaged the life of his cousin Phillippe too. He was a good guy when all was said and done, and he did not deserve to get hurt. When he found out what had happened, which he invariably would, he was going to be upset, more than upset, probably distraught. Jay didn't even want to think about it.

Jay had another problem. Nina Pelkowski now knew that her brother may only be her half-brother, same mother, different father. Jay didn't know how the young girl would cope with the news or who she might tell. She had bolted from the room almost as soon as he had told her, only stopping long enough to tell Jay what she had originally come to say, that Lilly and Boris were back together and happy. That was a comfort at least, but the question of who his real father was remained unanswered. Jay didn't go after his sister, when she ran, he didn't see the point. Instead he had gone to the bedroom where he was to stay and laid down on the bed to think and to eventually sleep.

Unfortunately, sleep never came. He had too many intense thoughts and emotions whirling around inside, and by morning, Jay had realised that, although his worries about Diana and Phillippe were justified, there was a possibility that his worries about his parents were unnecessary. It was about time he found out the truth, once and for all. Today he would finally ask his mother for the truth about himself.

After that problem was solved, well, then he would face the other. The fact that he had kissed Diana was a terrible thing in itself, and he would have to face it as well as face his cousin and the rest of the family, but what was going to be even harder to face would be the fact that, James Pelkowski was completely in love with his cousins fiancée.

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