"I love the angle this picture was taken at," Laura said pointing to one of the pictures. "One day I'm going to be taking pictures for all of these magazines."
"That will be so cool, you'll get to travel all around Europe to Paris and Italy and meet movie stars," said Bianca.
"Yeah, I can't wait. I'm going to college soon, I don't know when but as soon as my heart is better I'm going to start making some major plans, maybe I can wait a while and we can take some classes together. Bianca, when Leo was in my room, you know when he thought I was unconscious, he said some things…"
"Like what?" asked Bianca.
"He said he really did love me and that Greenlee was a mistake and that he wants to be with me."
"Laura--" said Bianca totally surprised.
There was a knock at the bed room door and Leo walked in. "Zora told me to bring you your pills," Leo said handing her the medication and a glass of water. He was about to leave when Laura stopped him. "Leo, wait," he stopped and waited while she took her medicine.
"Thank you, Leo," she said smiling at him.
"Laura, I want you to take it easy, David said no stress," said Leo running his hand through his hair.
"Maybe I should leave you two alone--"started Bianca.
"No, Bianca, I want you to stay. Leo I just want to tell you that you are the most wonderful husband I could ask for and I love you."
Leo smiled, kissed her on the forehead and left.
"I-I thought that you and Leo were finished."
"I thought we were too but I love him and despite Greenlee's plots he loves me too, you don't have a problem with that do you?"
"Of course not, I just want what's best for you." Bianca knew she couldn't tell Laura about Greenlee and Leo sleeping together not now, not ever.
"I'm sure you do," Laura said sharply and then went back to looking at the pictures.
Bianca closed her eyes for a second to get her emotions under control. "You're right, that is a great picture, I wonder who took it," she said trying to even out her voice. If Laura wanted Leo there was nothing that she could do about that and the tone of Laura's voice had made it obvious the discussion was closed.
Laura sat in the dark all by herself listening to the crickets chirp outside. Bianca had left a couple of hours earlier and Leo was visiting Ryan. Her and Leo had talked, really talked and she was positive that he loved her. She really loved him more than anything and he was all hers and God help anyone who tried to take him from her because they would pay, oh they would pay so bad.
Bianca nervously clenched and unclenched her hands. This was way harder than she had anticipated. She knocked on the door and it was replied with a 'come in'. She slowly opened the door and walked in.
"Hello, Bianca. Is everything okay with Laura?" asked Brooke.
"Yeah, I was just over there a couple of hours ago and she's well… okay from what I can tell but I did come here to talk about her."
"Bianca, if this is about her relationship with Leo-."
"It is, but you need to here this. Just a few days ago Laura wanted an annulment."
"What are you talking about?"
"Well I guess I better start from the beginning, the night before you found Laura I had went over there to apologize about my doubts about Leo's feelings for her but I found her crying and she told me she wanted an annulment and that Leo really didn't love her. Before I left I gave Laura her meds but I didn't see her take them."
"Bianca, I do not like what you are implying, Laura explained how tired she was--"
"She wasn't tired, she admitted to me that she wanted to hurt herself to get back at Leo but I promised not to tell, I'm breaking that promise because I care too much about her to let this happen again. Ever."
Brooke just sat there and Bianca could see that she was adding everything up and starting to understand. "Thank you Bianca for telling me. I'll make some calls in the morning."
"Thank you, I just want Laura to be well."
Bianca went home and fell into her bed to worried to sleep.