"I gotta get some air." Josh could not believe what he had just witnessed. He felt ill and as if he was going to lose his last hot dog at any second. His thoughts had wandered briefly back to a time in Germany when one minute he was talking on his cell to C.J. and the next he was watching some tall, dark and handsome Brit kissing his Donna and playing with her toes. He knew that right now the same shocked expression had overtaken his face. He walked briskly towards the door of the convention center, loosening his tie and attempting to take deep gulps of air as he waked.

"I cannot BELIEVE her." He thought to himself shaking his head slightly and feeling anger overtake the shock in his system. "No wonder she wanted me to hire that dumbkiss for the campaign trail: she didn't want to be without him. I can't believe I missed it!"Josh continued to go over the facts in his head as ifhe was conducting an investigation:"She doesn't seem particularly attentive to him at staff meetings. I have never seen them sit together or share a laugh, nothing. In fact she is usually sitting by me, sharing laughs with me! Perhaps she has been buttering me up in case I found out. They have been keeping apart publicly in order to hide their secret, but just in case and to cover her tracks, she has been distracting me with her charms!"

The paranoia in his thought process was lost on Josh who was now enthralled by the scenario he'd invented. "Well HA, I am on to her now. Ms. Donnatella Moss you cannot fool me any longer."

Josh was seriously ready to begin a second Spanish Inquisition, resolving to interview any and all staff as to whether they were aware of this secretive romance that was taking place right under his nose. He reached the glass doors at the back of the circular track in the convention center and slammed them open with one powerful push. He walked directly over to one of the guard gates set up earlier for crowd control and grasping it with both hands he leaned his head down below his waist in an attempt to relieve his nausea.

"Will Bailey?" He said with a scoff. "I cannot believe that she went for Will Bailey. Of all the smarmy little guys out there, she chose one that is obviously right on his way to succeeding me in the party when I am finally too old to do this anymore." Josh paused briefly to picture Will dancing on his grave.

Suddenly a thought occured to him that caused a slight loosening of the knot in his stomach:

"Oh!...Maybe it is just out of convenience!" The thought instantlybrought him comfort as heaudibly uttered this small prayer:"Dear God let it just be because he is convenient."

His reasoning contined that, "Of course Donna is just seeing Will because heis there, he has been present at all the events that she had attended since Lord knows when and sheis just using him because she can." For a moment he really did feel better, until it occurred to Joshjust what she could be using him FOR. A shiver went uphis spine and he stood to "shake off" the images that had unfortunately come to his head.

"No", he thought, "It can't be convenience, I was at all those events, I was with her for years before that and she never kissed me. Not like that anyway, not with her hand on my chest and her shoulders bouncing and her blonde hair swaying. She never kissed me and now she is kissing Will, and I know Donna is looking to fall in love….maybe she already has." His thoughts had been streaming a mile a minute but he paused now momentarily to allow this thought to sink in: "Maybe Donna had fallen in love and it was with Will Bailey."

"I can't take it." He thought, closing his eyes and again resuming his earlier position with both hands on the gate and his head bowed towards the ground. "I cannot support such a decison." He laughed at the thought of his opinon in such matters being considered by Donna.