Steph arrived in Europe and met up with her mom at the hotel. She went over to Linda and hugged her. "I really need to vent to you."

Linda hugged her back, "Sure Steph, what's going on?"

Steph sat down. "Well, Brock and I have some slight issues when it comes to each other's ex's, but the difference is that I'm not as jealous as he is. I feel insecure when it comes to Nicole and he has no time for Paul. I went to the hospital with Paul last night, and we talked and we straightened everything out between us. But, the part that I didn't tell Brock is that I sat and hugged Paul for a long time."

"Hon, hugging is not cheating." Linda interjected.

"I know, but I still feel guilty. So I told Brock all about how Paul and I are friends again and Brock was so mad! I couldn't believe it. So I brought up about how I knew that Brock has been talking to Nicole in the middle of the night. She calls him on his cell and he'll leave the room to talk to her for awhile and then come back to bed and toss and turn. I told him that I respect him enough to not panic when he talks to her because I trust him."

Linda nodded her head. She knew that Stephanie was a very independent, head- strong woman so when things got to her, you just had to let her vent and then give advice.

"So Brock gives me the line of "it's not that I don't trust you it's that I don't trust him, you know what kind of a guy he is." And I lost it! I told him not to feed me that line, it was obvious that he was jealous of not only him but he didn't have faith in me, and he was using that as a cover- up of him and Nicole and that he was the last person on Earth to tell me what kind of a guy Paul is. So, I told him that while I'm in Europe, we can both sort through everything, cool down and work on being happy as us again."

Linda looked at Steph, "Do you still love Paul?"

Steph looked down, "Yeah mom, I do. But I'll always have a spot in my heart for Paul. Right now I've been falling in love with Brock, and that's where I'm happy. I don't want to leave Brock for Paul. Brock is amazing. I'm really, truly happy with him."

"Does Brock still love Nicole do you know?"

Steph nodded, "Yeah I know he is. We've always been open and honest with each other in our relationship, and that's why we've taken it slow. We both know that we want to be with each other but we're harboring these feelings for other people."

Linda looked at Steph in her eyes, "Honey, I'm going to give you my opinion and if you choose to take it great if not, that's ok. I think that you two should use this time to figure out who you want to be with more. Tell Brock to either talk to her on the phone a lot more or to go and visit her. You do the same. If need be, I'll let you go a few days early and you can visit with Paul. With love, sometimes you have to set it free to see if it is truly where you belong. If you both come back from these two weeks apart, knowing that you want to be with each other, great. If not, then you know that you're destiny lies elsewhere."

Steph looked at her mom, "Well, I told Brock almost the exact opposite, so I'll talk to him and see what he says. How long till we have to be at the business dinner?"

"An hour and a half."

"Ok, I'll meet you down there, I'm going to my room to call Brock and take a shower."

And Steph left.

She called Brock and went over everything and they decided that that was a good idea. But if they needed something from the other, then they would page each other to let them know.

"Brock, I just want you to know that I miss you already." Steph said quietly into the phone, as he was about to hang up.

"I miss you too Stephie." Brock said quietly back. He loved calling her Stephie even though she always said it made her feel like she was 2.

They both hung up the phones crying.

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