** Rated: STRONG PG-13: b/c I don't go in depth for the beach/love scene like I usually do.

Chapter 6: Pains
"We are meant to be Ethan!"
"Teresa, please. Just leave me alone. I want to be with Gwen."
He started to walk away from her when she grabbed his arm and pulled him close to her. "When are you going to accept that this is fate Ethan?"
"Fate? Teresa, you are CRAZY!"
She pulled him in again to kiss him. He fought it and pushed her away and she pulled him close again and he gave in. He wanted nothing more but that one kiss from his beloved Teresa. He had hurt her so bad and he knew it and he had to make it up to her. He pushed her body against the walls in the gazebo and she slowly slid down it. With Ethan on top of her she knew that this was the moment and that Ethan was the man she'd give her self to. She wanted him so bad and he wanted her.
He asked, "Do you want to?" "Definitely." "Are you sure?" "Yeah." "Meet me at the beach in an hour. We can't do this here." "Okay, an hour."
He got up and left the gazebo with Teresa in shock, "I've got him! He's all mine in an hour and he'll never go back to Gwen! He's mine."

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"I've waited so long for this Ethan."
"I've waited so long to be with you Teresa that it drove me crazy."
He moved around a bit inside her and asked, "Are you okay?"
"Um, yea, wait hold on," she moved around a bit and giggled with pain, "yea, there."
He looked down at her and said, "I love you, Teresa."
She again giggled with pain, "Shut up and kiss me."

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Teresa was walking on the wharf a day after she had "been" with Ethan. She saw Noah and her heart sank. She had totally forgotten about him and that she WAS dating him. She walked up to him and he saw her from the corner of his eye. He turned around and he hugged her and pulled her close as he leaned against the wharf. He kissed her forehead and she started to cry.
"What's wrong Teresa?"
"Nothing. Just hold me."
He held her close and rubbed her head and her back the best he could while standing up. He pulled her from his chest and asked, "Teresa, what's wrong? Why are you crying?"
"I did something awful!"
"Like what?"
"I can't tell you!"
"Teresa, you can tell me anything, you know that."
"You'll get mad, I know it."
"No I won't."
She looked him in the eyes and said, "I cheated on you, with Ethan."
"What? What did you do to cheat?"
"We had sex."
"WHAT?"
He pushed her off his chest and started to pace around the wharf, "YOU DID WHAT?"
Teresa tried to calm him down because he was making a scene.
"Teresa you wouldn't even let me, your boyfriend for four or five years, make love to you and you let ETHAN CRANE, above all people make love to YOU! Teresa, didn't he hurt you enough?"
Teresa was crying, "Noah, please. Don't throw five years down the drain!"
"NO TERESA! YOU THREW FIVE YEARS DOWN THE DRAIN! Not me!"
"Noah, please." She started to walk towards him but he walked away, "No, Teresa, there is only so much someone could accept and sleeping with Ethan Crane isn't on my list of things. I'm sorry Teresa, this relationship is over!"
He walked away and left Teresa standing there on the wharf in shock. She kept saying to herself, 'Over? Over? This cannot be over. Noah, if you could only understand!'

*~*~*~*~*~* Diary Entry *~*~*~*~*~*
Diary,
I've lost Noah because of my stupid actions with Ethan. I slept with him. Why am I so stupid? I don't have anything solid in my life and I have a feeling that Ethan will go back to Gwen. I need to hold on to the one thing that I deserve. Ethan.
Teresa.

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Noah was sitting in his bedroom crying while looking at a picture of him holding Teresa while at last year's Fourth of July picnic. They were so happy and he was so thankful that he finally found someone for him. He really thought that Teresa was the one for him, but he knew he lost her to a Crane. He said to himself, "I need to leave Harmony, it's only for the best." He took out a piece of paper and wrote a letter to Teresa:
Dearest Teresa,
I need to leave Harmony because everywhere I look, I see you. Walking away from you on the wharf reminded me of all the times we spent there talking and eating. Getting in my car reminded me of all the times I gently kissed your lips before walking you into your house.
I wish I was in your arms, but I know I'll be in your dreams tonight as you'll be in mine. I wanted nothing more than for this to work but what you did, Teresa, I could never get over.
Hopefully, one day, we'll speak again and see each other again. I will miss you and I hope you can move on with your life just as I hope that for myself.
I love you Teresa Lopez-Fitzgerald.
Noah.

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Teresa was sitting in a corner in her room crying because she had just read the letter Noah left for her. She felt so bad that she had "driven" him right out of town. Her cell phone rang and she answered it and it was Fox.

"Hello."
"Hey Resa."
"You know, you always seem to call at the right time."
"Oh really? Spill the beans, what happened?"
"I cheated on Noah with Ethan," she started to cry, "and now he's dumped me and left town. Oh Fox! It was horrible!"
"Oh Resa, I'm so sorry."
"That's okay. I deserved it."
"No you didn't."
"Trust me, I did."
"Well, I called to tell you that I will be in town starting tonight."
"Tonight?"
"Yeah, I should arrive in Harmony in about an hour."
"Thank gawd there will be someone I can talk to."
"What happened to Whitney?"
"Tennis."
"Hah, no need to say more."
"Okay, I'll be at your house in an hour and half or so okay?"
"Okay. Bye."
"Bye."
They kissed through the phone and hung up. She said to herself, "I'm going to see MY FOX!" He said to himself, "I'm going to see MY TERESA."

** R&R. Next Chapter: Fox comes to town and decides to stay and help Teresa through this "hard time".