"So we were having a good time and then all of a sudden there was like this ripping noise and he told me he's slept with 6 women!" Theresa gossiped to Whitney over their coffee at the cafe.

"It doesn't surprise me." Whitney replied as she sipped her drink.

"6 women!" Theresa said emphasizing the 6. "I'm not interested or anything it just...thats a lot of women."

"Are you sure you aren't kidding yourself hun?" Whitney asked.

"Kidding myself about what?" Theresa said fidgeting in her chair.

"About not having feelings for this guy. I mean, you two seem like you're perfect for each other except there's a little glitch with the women thing." she replied smiling.

"Ok, so maybe I do like him a little." Theresa said surrendering.

Whitney raised her eyebrows not believing Theresa was telling her the whole truth.

Theresa sighed and gave Whitney a honest answer. "Ok, ok! So I like him a lot but-"

"But what?" she asked cutting her off.

"But he has like this bad boy image and I've always been the good girl." Theresa said pouting.

Whitney rolled her eyes and smiled. "So. If you two have feelings about each other, who cares about whether you're the bad or good guy!"

"Luis of course." Theresa replied with a serious look on her face.

Whitney looked at her and began to laugh.

"I'm serious! I can see it now," she said putting her hands in the air and faking to read a news headline. "Naive, Innocent, Angelic girl meets bad boy. At first she hates him then she starts to fall for him and he plays with her emotions, gets her in bed, and leaves her."

"That's a pretty long headline!" Whitney laughed.

"I guess." Theresa said playing with her coffee.

"I think that that's just what you're afraid is going to happen."

"I know, and I keep telling myself that it won't...but I'm just scared that I'll get hurt again Whit." she said worriedly.

"But what if it doesn't? What if you hold back on something that could be wonderful?" Whitney advised. "I think that you should give it a shot."

"And what if I do get hurt again?" Theresa asked uneasily.

"Then we'll both go kick his butt!" she joked.

"You're right." Theresa said after thinking for a while. She then stood up from the table. "I'm going to go talk to him so I'll see you later ok?"

"Good luck!" Whitney called after her.

Theresa smiled and took a deep breath, she needed all the luck she could get.

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Theresa spotted Fox at his usual spot at the bar and was making her way over to him when a man stopped her.

"Hey beautiful." he said greeting her.

"I'm not interested. Now if you'll excuse me." Theresa said trying to brush past him but he grabbed her by the arm.

"I can tell your interested and I know you will be after we get to know each other a little." he said smiling. "What do you say?"

"I say get the hell out of my face!" she yelled.

"Baby, what's going on here?" Fox said prying the mans hand off of Theresa's arm.

Theresa narrowed her eyes at Fox's greeting but answered, "I keep telling him I'm not interested but he won't leave me alone."

Fox turned his gaze to the man, "Back off, she's mine." He turned back to Theresa, grabbed her, and kissed her until the man was gone.

Theresa opened her mouth to say something but someone said something before she was able to.

"Ever since when did you two become a couple?" the voice asked.

Theresa turned around to see Ethan staring at them. "Oh, hi Ethan." she said coldly.

"We're not a couple." Fox said shrugging it off.

"Then why were you two kissing?" Ethan asked.

"Kissing?" Fox smiled as he looked at Theresa. "No, you see what happened was she threw herself at me."

"Excuse me?" Theresa said angrily.

"You keep throwing yourself at me like at the restaraunt the other day and the fireworks. You just don't know when to back off do you?" he said still smiling.

"I. You." Theresa was too angry to say anything.

"Ok, whatever. Just be careful around him." Ethan said, then he turned and walked out of the bar.

Theresa stared after Ethan angry at the lie that Fox had told him. Fox began to walk away but Theresa grabbed him and turned him around. "Oh no, don't you walk away mister."

"Why not, you want to throw yourself at me again?" he flirted.

"You think this is a joke don't you? Can't you see that you're playing with my emotions?" she said angrily.

"YOU have emotions?" he replied.

"Yes!" Theresa yelled. "And you don't seem to notice!"

"No, I do notice." he said grinning again. "I notice how much you want me."

"Want you?" she repeated, angry that he knew. "No, thats where you have it wrong, Fox."

"Do I?" he asked surprised.

"Yes! I wouldn't have you even if you were handed to me on a silver platter!" she lied.

Fox didn't answer her, he just smiled.

"Gosh, I wish you'd wipe that cheezy grin off of your face and say something!" Realizing that Fox wasn't Theresa turned to walk away.

"I know you feel something between us when we kiss." he yelled after her.

Theresa slowly turned around to face him. "Yeah, I do feel something." she said softly. "I feel a cold wall of nothingness with a person behind it who has no sense of someone elses feelings."

"I know that's not all you feel...I can see it in your eyes." he said staring into her deep eyes.

Theresa tried to break the gaze but she couldn't. "You don't care about me or anyone else. You just care about yourself."

"No, I care about you Theresa." he said gently touching her face but she pushed him away.

"Don't." she said.

"Tell me you can't feel anything when I do this." he slowly brought his lips to hers and kissed them with all the emotions he had in him.

Electricity ran through Theresa's body as she felt the warmth of Fox's lips against hers. Instead of giving in, she pushed away and looked him in the eyes. ''I feel nothing." she stated. She unwraveled her fingers from Fox's and walked out of the Blue Note.