Leon's POV:

I don't know how long I stood on the driveway for, watching after Jamie's car, the feeling of her lips on mine lingering in my mind.

"What the fuck are you doing out here?" Letty called from the front entry way.

I shrugged. "Thinkin'."

She smiled, crossing the grass. "Go get her, Romeo."

I looked up at her. "You think?"

Letty nodded. "You obviously still want her, Lee...do yourself a favour..."

Ok, I'll do it.

Letty threw my keys at me and I scrambled for my car, climbing in, excited.

I don't even know how I got to the Paige place, or how I got out of the car and rang the doorbell.

"Leon," Jamie said as she opened the door.

I opened my mouth to say something back, but she pulled me inside forcefully, shutting the door and pressing her lips to mine in an ardent kiss.

"Shit, girl..." I muttered as the kiss broke. "What about your parents?"

She smiled. "They're in Maine for two weeks..."

I groaned. What was this girl gonna do for me.

My hands massaged her waist. "Jamie, we need to talk..."

She nodded. "I just want to say I'm sorry..."

I kissed her softly. "Don't be...I understand..."

Jamie shook her head, her beautiful blonde hair bouncing. "I treated you like an asshole, I'm sorry Leon...I was just so confused..."

"No...I was pressuring you, Jamie...I shouldn't have done that..."

We talked fast as we got to the living room, sitting down on the carpet.

Jamie sat silently in front of me, her hands in her lap.

"I've made a lot of bad choices in my life," she began softly, looking away.

"Like what?" I responded, tipping her face back to me.

"There's a lot about me you don't know, Leon. Things I threatened Vince not to tell you, or anyone ever."

I stroked her face. "Tell me, Jamie. I'm here for you."

"I had a baby when I was 16...I gave a tiny baby girl up for adoption when I was just 16..."

Tears rolled silently down her usually bright cheeks, pooling on her collar.

"I'm sorry," I murmured, brushing the tear away.

She shook her head. "Don't be...I want to tell you this."

I nodded, encouraging her to continue.

"I was such an idiot, the first time I had sex- unprotected sex- I got pregnant. I couldn't raise a child, so my parents helped me get through the pregnancy, I was home-schooled when I started to show, and then when my baby was born, I gave her up for adoption. To a real nice couple. They send me letters all the time, with photos. Her name is Emma. She's 6 now, she started school this year...she has blonde hair and green eyes..." Jamie paused, a sob escaping her lips. "And her front tooth is missing..."

I held out my arms for her. She fell into them, sobbing loudly. Sobbing for her daughter. Sobbing for all the fucked up decisions she'd made in her life. And I felt like sobbing with her.

"Have you ever met her?" I asked softly, smoothing Jamie's hair back.

"It's discouraged, but the couple, Trevor and Becca have invited me over a few times over the years...I haven't gone. I don't think I could see her without crying. I cry when I look at her photos..." she said, sniffing.

I kissed her hair. "I'm proud of you for telling me this..." I said softly, my hand caressing her arm.

She sat up. "So, you know my big secret now."

I nodded. "I do, and you know what? I think it makes me like you even more. You're human, Jamie. You feel, and that's what I love about you..."

Jamie smiled. "I think about her everyday, about what she's doing, about how things might have been if I hadn't given her up...about what kind of mother I'd be like..."

"You'd be a wonderful mother...any kid would be damn lucky to have you as their mom..."

"You are so good for my ego." she said reaching up and knotting her fingers through my hair. She gently pulled on me, the pressure was enough to inspire me to lean forward and press my lips against hers. My lips, pressing onto her soft lips, now slick with whatever lip gloss she'd been wearing.

As her arms wrapped around my neck, my eyes dipped closed. I parted my lips ever so slightly pulling in the sweet taste of her mouth. She pulled back, her eyes searching my face. Her face was so clean and so smooth, her eyelids pale, paler than the rest of her face. The skin looked so fragile and translucent. Her eyebrows pulled together and her eyes fluttered opened, her eyes glowing with fire.

"What?"

"I want this to be memorable..." I said, my hand moving away from her face and down onto her neck. My mouth following close behind. I left a hot trail of kisses along her jaw, my lips closed around her earlobe. Her eyes again fell closed as a small catlike sound escaped her. "I want you, I want to be a part of you."

"Oh, Leon." Jamie said as I began to kiss her again. My mouth descending hard onto hers. My tongue moved against her lips almost forcing itself into her mouth. Her tongue felt cool, refreshing like a cold glass of water dribbling over his mouth. Their kisses melted between them like chocolate. She moved her hands from my hair, down to my back. Jamie's hands pulled at my shirt, her fingers surprisingly cool against my warm back. Her fingers splaying across my back, the muscles moving in their own subtle dance below the skin as I moved over her. She tugged at my t-shirt and I sat up, pulling it over my head, my chest and stomach smooth, the taught muscles expanding and contracting with each breath.

I moaned softly in her ear as she moved beneath me, raising her knee between my legs, resting her thigh firmly against the crotch of my jeans. Her hips moved in small tight circles as her hands slid down into my baggy jeans, cupping my ass through my boxers.

"Jamie, are you sure you want to do this?" I asked as she pulled my earlobe into her mouth.

The proximity of her body, the heat emanating from her, the sharp natural odor of her arousal combined to make me dizzy. I knew that this woman beneath me was my best friends' sister and vulerable, and yet, I wanted to crawl under her skin, to discover all of her secrets, find out why I never saw her with another boyfriend, find out why she was so sad.

"Leon, I want this." Jamie said watching my face. "You make me feel so real."

"You are real." I said rocking back onto my heels.

I undid the button of her jeans and shimmied them down her hips. I leaned forward and placed a single gentle kiss on the flesh between her bellybutton and the top of her panties. I felt a surge in my cock as the smell of her sex surrounded me. I leaned back up towards her, pressing our bodies together. Jamie pulled my head to her, seeking my lips, drinking me in.

Our kisses were soulful, filled with a searching, an ardent need. I kissed her, moving my hand under her shirt, my strong fingers rubbing her stomach. I unbuttoned her shirt, taking my time, kissing the flesh I exposed. With each kiss, she sucked in her breath. Undoing the bottom button, I pulled back one side and then, the other, almost as if I were unwrapping a present. Her body was simply perfect, a pale ghost of Jamie Paige laying on the floor of her living room. He liked this version, a vulnerable girl without her toughness or sarcasm. Her nipples puckered in the cool air of the room.

"Wow, you are so beautiful," I said, slipping my hands under the shirt at her shoulders and gently sliding it down her arms, her skin beginning to tingle. I kissed her lips, her neck, her collarbone, moving down her body to her breasts. Gently, I placed a hand on her breast, massaging it, rolling the nipple with my fingers, repeating my ministrations on the other breast before replacing my hand with my mouth.

Dom's POV:

I sat in the back of TK's Eclipse, trying to slow the thoughts in my head.

"I knew you'd come back..." TK said, her voice ripping into my thoughts. Her hand ran up and down my thigh as her lips caressed my neck, in an attempt, I assumed, to turn me on.

"No," I said. "No..."

I got out of the car, my head suddenly perfectly clear. Why the hell would I want to jeopardise what I had with Letty for 3 minutes with TK?

"What?" TK demanded, angry, as she climbed out after me.

"I got a girl at home, TK, who's a thousand times the woman you'll ever be..."

With that, I got into my car and tore out of the parking lot, satisfied with my control and handle over the situation. What I had with Letty was fucked up, no doubt about it, but, for some reason, it was normal to me. I wasn't gonna fuck TK and screw up what I had, even though I probably had to tell Letty that what we had wasn't good, for either of us. She deserved to date a high school boy who'd spoil her and take her dancing...I was poor and had two left feet. It was hopeless.

I stopped in at a bakery and bought some crossiants, and picked up a bunch of flowers from the shop next door. What the hell was happening to me? I had sex with Letty and I was turning into a sap.

I smiled to myself as I climbed back in the car, to my ringing cell phone.

TK. I turned the phone off with satisfaction as I turned onto my street, amazed how the leaves were slowly turning brown and that, before long, they'd drop off and settle at the bottom.

Woah.

I pulled into the drive and shut off the engine, and Letty came out to greet me.

"Hey papi..." she said, smiling.

I handed her the bunch of flowers. "These are for you..."

"Aren't you sweet?" she asked, sniffing the boquet before drawing me into her arms.

We walked inside, my arm wrapped around her waist.

"Why do you smell suspisciously like a female's perfume?" Letty asked as they were in the kitchen.

I laughed. "Mrs Vasquez," I said. "She called me while you were in the shower, asked if I could come and take a look at her engine...God only knows why it had to be this early..."

Letty laughed too, and I was relieved. I hated to lie to her, but it was either that or telling her I was a verb away from cheating on her with TK.

"Tell me you missed me..." she said sweetly, sidling up to me.

I smiled down at her. "I missed you more than you know..."

She smiled. "That's what I like to hear..." she placed a sound kiss on my lips.

It was heaven. That's why it was gonna be so hard to tell her that we weren't such a good idea.