The next morning Elizabeth woke up beside a still sleeping AJ. She leaned down and grabbed her clothes from the pile on the floor and quickly made her way to the bathroom attached to his bedroom. By the time she came out AJ had woken up.

He rubbed at his tired eyes and then spoke "I thought you left."

"No."

He would have said more but there was a knock at the door.

"AJ?"

"Emily." Elizabeth whispered "She can't know that I'm here."

"Go in there" AJ said with a nod towards the bathroom.

He got out of bed and opened the door to his sister.

"Good you are up." Emily spoke "Why don't you come down stairs and have breakfast with the rest of us?"

"Em, I..." He tried to think of an excuse he could use to avoid a family breakfast.

"Come on AJ, it's not like you're doing anything else."

"Alright, Emily. I'll be down in a minute, just let me finish getting dressed."

"Ok." Emily agreed and closed the door behind her.

"You can come out now."

"Sorry AJ."

"It's not your fault, listen I think they are all in the dining room, I can probably get you out without anyone seeing you. Let's see." He suggested.

They made their way down the stairs and to the front door, Elizabeth was about to leave when she heard a voice call her name. It was Emily.

"Elizabeth. Hey! What are you doing here? Wait, are you coming or going?" she asked.

"Coming, coming." Elizabeth assured her.

"Yeah Coming" AJ said with a slight laugh which earned him a glare from Elizabeth, Emily didn't notice.

"I'm glad you're here actually." Emily commented "Saves me a phone call."

"Oh, yeah?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yeah. I was hoping you and I could do something tonight."

"Um, Yeah sure. Of course."

"Do you want to stay for breakfast? I'm sure there's room." Emily suggested.

"No that's ok, I'll call you later Em, we'll work out the details." She said and made a quick exit through the front door, grateful that her friend never thought to ask her what she was doing there in the first place.

(Later that night)

Emily and Elizabeth entered the same club that AJ and Elizabeth had been at a few weeks ago. When Elizabeth excused herself to use the restroom, Emily spotted someone she knew on the other side of the dance floor and made her way over.

"Courtney. Hey."

"Oh Emily, Hi! It's really great to see you. Are you here with Zander or…"

"No." Emily cut in. "Zander, he's working, Ned is starting to give him some more responsibility I told him to stay."

"Oh, that's great, Emily. So then, are you here alone?" Courtney asked, but she didn't have to wait for Emily to respond, she got her answer in the form of Elizabeth herself.

Elizabeth saw Emily from across the room, she was talking to someone, a blonde someone, but she couldn't quite make out who it was. As she got closer she realized who's back she was seeing. She waited a moment, contemplating going back to the bathroom and waiting it out. When she realized how ridiculous her thoughts her, she let out a groan and decided to grin and bear it.

"Courtney." She sighed.

"Elizabeth." Courtney returned the formality snidely.

"I know you two don't like eachother. But you can't even stay civil for one night" she questioned.

"NO" Elizabeth and Courtney said in unison.

When Elizabeth turned to look at Emily, Courtney, as a last act, grabbed her hair.

"Oww" she yelped, batting her hand away "Hair pulling? I feel for Jason." She commented running her hand on her hair smoothing it out again.

"I don't know why you think so much of her anyway. She used your brother." Courtney commented to Emily.

"You know Courtney, Elizabeth and Jason, - she, she didn't used Jason" Emily said searching for the right words.

"I'm not talking about Jason. I'm talking about AJ."

"Ok now you're not even making sense. Elizabeth and AJ, they barely know eachother"

"Yeah, well you've obviously been deceived, Emily. How sad is it when you can't even trust your best friend."

"Shut up, Courtney" Elizabeth cut in.

"What is she talking about, Elizabeth?" Emily asked.

"I'm talking about, how Elizabeth pretended to date AJ to make Jason jealous." Courtney answered for her.

"Elizabeth?" Emily asked again, she didn't care if Courtney gave her every single detail, direct quotes, and drew out a plan, she wasn't going to believe anything until she heard it from Elizabeth.

"Emily. I. She's right. I did - AJ and I we tried to - listen, but it's not…" Elizabeth stumbled over her words "It's not like that. He's my friend, and it's over now. I mean Jason. I'm not trying. I didn't…. I'm sorry."

"I can't believe you. You tried to break up Jason and Courtney. You used AJ to do it?"

"Actually, we used eachother." She let out a quiet laugh. "I'm sorry that's not funny"

"Why would you do that?" Emily pressed.

"I'm sorry Emily, please don't be mad. I know it was wrong. I just let my jealousy get the best of me."

"I don't want to talk about this right now. I don't want to talk to you."

"Oh, too bad Elizabeth, Jason doesn't want anything to do with you and now neither does his sister."

"You know, I really don't want to hear from you either Courtney."

"Hey I'm not the one who's using your brother."

"Yes you are. Just a different brother."