"Bree, this is Brian, Leon, Jesse and Vince." Mia said. Bree waved hi to everyone. "I'm going to go check on them and see if I can patch Letty up before she leaves." Mia said getting up and disappearing into the kitchen.

"That was some first punch. Where you learn to punch like that sweetheart?" Vince asked.

"I took martial arts in high school and I'm not your sweetheart." She said leaning against the wall and surveying the group. Vince looked like he was about to say something before Bree cut him off. "Sorry, I've had a long, bad day." She said realizing how bitchy she sounded. She slid down the wall and rested her head on her bent knees.

"That bad, huh?" Leon said.

"Yeah." She said raising her head to look at him and then put her head back down. She could feel the tears prickling at her eyes but she was determined not to cry. She could feel everyone's eyes on her and felt their inquiring looks. Silence filled the room and was broken by a door slamming and car screeching off.

"Now the question is whether that was Dom or Letty." Leon stated and they all began to watch the kitchen door. Finally, Mia came out, Dom following behind her and went straight to Bree, crouching beside her.

"Hey, you okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry about that. I had no right to start crap." Bree said looking up.

"No, it's not your fault. You were just defending yourself. Letty should know better. Did you meet everyone already?" He asked running a hand over his baldhead.

"Yeah, Mia gave us a quick introduction."

"Alright, let's go get your stuff." He said standing up and helping Bree up.

"I don't know if this is such a good idea now." Bree said wrapping her arms around her again as if trying to keep warm.

"Why?" Dom asked with a frown.

"I don't want to cause trouble and me and Letty already seem to have a rocky start. I don't want to make trouble." She said looking him in the eyes.

"Look, with Letty, there's always some kind of trouble, whether it's me or someone else. She's just going to have to behave herself." Dom said, tired of Letty's childish behavior.

"Okay, but if this happen again, I'm out of here." She said checking her bandage on her eyebrow.

"Alright. Is that your only cut?"

"Yeah, my knuckles are slightly raw and I'll have a couples bruises tomorrow if they haven't already started to show." Bree running her hand over the bandage.

"Man, Letty had a black eyes, a cut lip."

"If I had really wanted to hurt her, she would have ended up worse than that." Bree said as they started to walk out to her car.

"And why's that? I still don't get how you got Letty like that." Dom said standing by her car.

"That's right you missed me telling Vince. I took martial arts in high school." She said popping open the trunk.

"Really. Why would you need to learn how to fight?" He asked grabbing a couple bags.

"To defend myself." She said grabbing the last bags and closing the trunk.

"To defend yourself?"

"It's a long, personal story." She said as she followed him into the house and upstairs. Dom understood that the topic was not something shared with everyone and he was really hoping to find out why. Guess Jesse would be busy later, Dom thought. He opened Mia's old room and flicked on the light.

"This is the room." He said walking in and putting the bags on the floor. Bree surveyed the room; it was plain white with a bed, a dresser, and a desk. She could see a closet in the far right corner and a mirror placed next to it.

"It's nice." Bree said with a smile and set her bags down.

"Well, it's better than nothing."

"I know and I am truly grateful. Thank you." Bree said sincerely.

"Um, bathroom's right next to you, Vince's room is the door on the left when you come out. My room is straight across from yours and Letty's room is next to mine. Mia and Brian live upstairs and Leon and Jesse share the basement." Dom said leaning against the doorframe.

"I guess your right." Bree said sitting on the bed.

"About what?"

"It's not as bad as it sounds." She said with an amused smile.

"Oh. Well, I'll let you get settled, come down to the kitchen if you still want those beers." Dom said leaving the room.

Bree fell back on the bed and thought about how screwed up her life had become in the last couple hours: found out her boyfriend was cheating on her with her best friend, become homeless, have a stranger take her in and get into a fight with his girlfriend. Man, life sucked. Bree thought about putting her stuff away but didn't really feel like it. She left the room and headed down to the kitchen. Mia and Dom were talking in hushed whispers.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'll just leave." She said backing out of the room.

"It's okay Bree, we're done, right Mia?" Dom said looking Mia in the eyes.

"Whatever." Mia said and turned to Bree. "How's the eyebrow?"

"It's okay. I've had worse before. Believe me, this is nothing." Bree said with what she hoped was a reassuring smile. Mia smiled at her and left the kitchen.

"So I'm guess you want that beer." Dom said.

"Yeah." Bree said with a sigh. Dom grabbed a couple Coronas from the fridge and sat them on the table along with a bottle opener. "You got a lime?" Bree asked as she opened one and grabbed the salt from the table.

"I think so." Dom said as he opened the fridge again. He grabbed a lime, cut a couple of wedges, and placed them on the table.

"Thanks." Bree said squeezing the lime into her beer, then added salt, and watched as it fizzed. Dom sat back down and grabbed a beer for himself. They drank in a comfortable silence until Bree broke it.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"What?" Dom said taking a swig of beer.

"You know my sob story, so what's up with you and Letty?" Bree asked leaning back in her chair. Dom gave a big sigh and slouched down in his chair. Dom looked at Bree and saw her studying him. He didn't know her that well but he got a feeling that she wasn't one to talk about people or judge them.

"It's long and complicated." He said and Bree nodded, thinking he wasn't going to say anymore but proved her wrong when he started to talk again. "We've been together for a quiet a while. Two years ago, I cheated on her with a business partner's sister. Letty found out and since then hasn't trusted me." Dom said and took a pause. He didn't know why he was telling her all of this but couldn't stop himself. It felt nice to talk to someone who wasn't really involved. "After that, I hadn't cheated on her, yeah I talked to girls but I didn't sleep with any of them. Every couple of months she would accuse me of cheating and sometimes I got so frustrated to the point where I left and cheated on her just so she would have a reason to be mad. I knew it was wrong but I don't know. That's why I was out there."

"You mean on the beach?"

"Yeah, I went to go think, try to figure out what to do." Dom said as he swirled his beer around.

"Dom, if she doesn't trust you then why are you with her?"

"Because I love her; we've been together a long time."

"Are you sure you're still in love with her and not just staying with her because it's familiar?" Bree asked finishing her beer and grabbing another. Dom glared at her, mad that she was questioning him but she didn't cower under his gaze.

"So you think that I'm just with Letty because she's familiar?" He asked calmly but Bree could see he was mad from the bulging vein in his neck.

"I didn't say that. I just mean that it's possible. I started dating a guy in high school that I had been friends with all my life. I knew I didn't love him like I should but I stayed with him because I felt safe; he was familiar to me and that made it safe. It wasn't till I met Daman that I realized what was missing and how the relationship was not doing either one of us any good. The breakup was still hard but it was the right thing to do. I couldn't keep using him. With Daman, love wasn't always about being safe; it was also about taking risk and enjoying every moment of it. I don't know, it's kind of hard to explain." Bree said and guzzled down half the contents of the bottle.

"And if I am with Letty because it's familiar?" Dom asked quietly.

"You know, maybe take a break and figure out everything. You need to think about how you really feel towards her. A life with someone should be liberating and not full of doubt. No relationship is going to work if you don't trust each other," Bree paused taking a deep breath. "Maybe that's my problem, I trust too easily." She said looking at the bottle in her hand. Dom looked at her but didn't know what to say to her. "Well enough of the doom and gloom. It's depressing." Bree said looking up and gave him a sad smile.

"Well, I going to go to bed, I have to work tomorrow." Dom said finishing his beer.

"Okay, night."

"Night." Dom said as he left the kitchen. Bree wasn't alone for more than a few seconds before Mia came in and threw her arms around her. Bree was startled and didn't know what to do.

"Thank you." Mia said when she pulled back.

"For what?" Bree asked confused.

"I've been trying to talk to Dom forever about him and Letty. He never listens but you somehow got him to listen. I've been trying to give him the same advice for a while, and you'd think that he would listen if it was coming from his sister but no, it doesn't." Mia said rolling her eyes.

"I'm surprise that he didn't get more mad when I suggested that he was only with Letty because she was familiar." Bree said with a small chuckle.

"Yeah, me too." Mia said sitting down. The two girls talked for a while about everything and it was about two hours later when Mia asked the tough question. "So what happened that you don't have anywhere to go?" Bree looked at her for a while and figured that it would be okay to tell Mia.

"I found out my boyfriend was cheating on me with my best friend."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Mia said sympathetically.

"It's okay. There's nothing I can do about it." Bree said.

"How long were you guys together?"

"Three years."

"Wow." Mia said wide eyed.

"Yeah, and it's all gone down the drain." Bree said sadly.

"Was it the first time he cheated?"

"Actually, it was the second. When I caught him the first time we still lived in Oregon. Then we moved out here a couple months ago and I gave him a second chance. I told him that if I caught him cheating it was over and I would just take my stuff and go. It just pisses me off because I left everything for him and I don't really know anyone here."

"You gave him a second chance, why?"

"Because I loved him and I didn't want the whole relationship to be wasted. That and I believe in giving almost everyone a second chance."

"So how are you?" Mia asked studying her eyebrow.

"I'm okay, I think I am going to go to sleep though." Bree said and swallowed the last of the beer.

"Okay, let me know if you need anything." Mia said as she started to clean the kitchen.

"I will. Thanks." Bree said and left the kitchen. She walked past the living room and saw that the three guys were still up watching a movie. She quietly walked past them and went upstairs. She quickly used the bathroom and then headed into the room. She shed her clothes and put on a pair of black shorts and a white tank. She turned off the lights and slid in between the sheets. The pale moonlight flooded the room. She lay staring out the window and cried herself to sleep.

A few hours later she woke up and started to panic: this wasn't her room. She threw out her hand across the bed to find Daman and when she turned up empty handed she remembered the events of the night. Sadness washed over her and she began to cry. Curling up into a little ball, she cried her heart out. Sobs racked her body and shook her. She clutched the pillow as if she were hanging on for dear life.

Dom had got up to go to the bathroom and stood still in the hallway as he heard a strange sound. It took him a second to realize it was coming from Mia's old room. He walked to the door and listened. He could hear Bree muffled crying. He slowly opened the door and looked in. She was curled in the middle of the bed, her back facing him. He could see her huddled form shake with each sob. He entered the room and slowly closed the door. Dom walked over to the bed and sat down. Bree turned towards him when she felt him sat down on the bed.

"Sorry if I woke you. I didn't mean to." She said in a small voice.

"You didn't wake me." He said brushing back the stray strand of hair that fell across her face. Her hair was silky between his fingers and he longed to run his hands through it.

"Oh." She said wiping her face with the back of her hand. Slowly Dom lay down and hugged Bree to him. She took comfort within his arms. Dom looked down to see her starting to drift off and promised to leave the room when she fell asleep but when her steady, even breathing began to glide across his bare chest, he fell asleep.

Hey guys, hope you liked and don't forget to review. Just a little note that I have highschool and college starting up this week so updates might be once a week again. But I hope you stick around and keep reading.