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Jesse sighed. Mac was driving them back to the Scorpio/Jones house for dinner. The thing is, Jesse didn't do little 'meet the family' get togethers. He was breaking every rule he made for this girl. Catching the smile she sent his way through the rear view mirror, he knew she was worth it.
"We're here." Mac spoke, breaking the eye contact.
Maxie sighed before opening the car door. "We'll be there in a minute, dad." She said as she wrapped her arms around Jesse's waist.
Mac narrowed his eyes. "Don't do anything stupid." Was all he said before walking into the house.
Maxie smiled as she leaned up to kiss him. Once the kiss broke, their foreheads rested together. "You ready for the Scorpio/Jones /Spencer clan?" She asked, laughing slightly.
Jesse rolled his eyes before nodding his head with a smirk playing on his lips. "Yeah, let's go."
With that, Maxie grabbed his hand as they walked through the front door. Inside was Georgie, Dillon, Diego, Brook Lynn, Lucky,
Liz, Bobbie, Lucas, Felicia, and Mac.
Jesse looked around the room, shocked. More than half the people in this room hated him.
Maxie leaned up and kissed his cheek before whispering in his ear. "Okay, I lied. I called a few more people than I said."
Jesse laughed slightly. She was insane. He didn't know half of these people.
Maxie took charge walking around the room, as she clinged to his hand. "Bobbie, Lucas, this is Jesse." She said as she pointed to her boyfriend.
Bobbie smiled warmly. "Hi, I'm Bobbie Spencer." She said as she held her hand out.
"Jesse Boudrey." Jesse spoke as he took the older woman's hand.
"Jesse!" A voice spoke.
Jesse looked in back of him over and saw Lucky waving him over. Turning back over to Bobbie, he spoke. "Excuse me. It was great meeting you." He said as he walked towards Lucky.
Maxie just stood there and watched him in awe. Bobbie's voice broke through her thoughts. "He's quite the looker." She said smiling.
Maxie felt a tiny blush creep onto her cheeks. She couldn't deny that. Keeping her eyes transfixed on him, she spoke. "He's amazing." She smiled.
Bobbie touched her arm. "He's a keeper." She said winking. With that, she walked away.
Jesse made his way over to Lucky. "Hey, man." He said as he reached his partner.
Lucky smiled. "I'm glad you're better. I want you to meet my fiancee',Liz." He said as he pointed to the tiny brunette standing next to him.
Jesse smiled. "It's great to meet you. All Lucky ever talks about are you and Cameron." Jesse said with his signiture smirk playing on his lips.
Lucky looked down in embarrassment. "I'm soo gonna kick your ass, Boudrey." Lucky said laughing.
Jesse laughed back, but then feigned serious. "That's DETECTIVE Boudrey to you, Spencer."
Lucky laughed, as did Jesse and Liz. Suddenly, the smile dissapeared from Jesse's face.
It was replaced by a large frown. He was looking past Lucky now.
Lucky turned around to see what his friend was looking at. It was Maxie..and she was talking to Diego.
Back towards Maxie, Diego walked over to her. "Hey." He said smiling.
Maxie gave him a small, forced smile. "Hi."
Diego cleared his throat. "I miss you, Maxie."
Before Maxie could speak, Jesse walked right between them and stood next to Maxie. "Diego, ole' buddy. Get lost." His voice was firm and mean.
Diego nodded his head before turning to Maxie. "We'll talk later."
Jesse shook his head. "No you won't. You're gonna leave her alone."
Maxie put her head in her hands. She KNEW she was right when she told her father NOT to invite Diego.
Diego smirked before speaking. "If that's what Maxie wants." He said as he snaked his arms around her waist.
Maxie attempted to push him off, but didn't have to because Jesse beat her to it.
Pushing Diego firmly off of Maxie, Jesse spoke. "Don't touch her again."
Diego laughed again. "Why don't you let her make her own choices? Cuz' I'm pretty sure that's not what she was saying a few nights ago."
With that, Jesse punched him square in the jaw. Diego fell to the floor, shocked.
Lucky was immediately there to hold Diego back from attempting to hit Jesse. "Why don't you go take a walk?" Lucky asked Jesse.
Every set of eyes in the room were on them. Jesse nodded his head as he began to walk away. Maxie attempted to grab his arm,
but he angrily yanked it away.
Mac walked to the center of the room. "Just let him cool down." He said to Maxie, who was staring at her boyfriend's retreating form.
Maxie nodded her head before turning to Diego. "We. Need. To. Talk." She spoke in a firm voice.
Diego nodded his head as Maxie lead the way to the front yard.
Once the front door closed, Maxie began feverishly pushing, shoving, and hitting Diego. "What..the..hell...?" She asked between hits.
Diego grabbed her hands to stop her from hitting him anymore. With his arms fixing hers to her sides, he spoke. "I'm sorry,
but that guy is NO WHERE near good enough for you. I'm not going to apologize for saving you from a lot of heartache."
Maxie wriggled out of his grasp. "You know NOTHING about my relationship, Diego. You don't even know Jesse, and what you did tonight was awful. His first night back, he gets into a fight."
Diego let out another sigh. "That's his fault. Not mine. I don't know, maybe he has...rage issues." Diego finished, shrugging his shoulers.
Maxie scoffed. "Yeah, only cuz' you made it sound like we slept together. Look, just stay out of my life...for good." With that,
Maxie began walking towards the docks. She knew that's where she would be able to find Jesse.
Once she arrived, she sat down on the bench next to him. It was silent.
Finally, Jesse spoke. "I'm done." He said standing up.
Maxie looked at him confused. "You're done? Done what?"
Jesse pointed his finger back and forth between them. "I'm done with this. I'm done with us." He began walking away, but Maxie grabbed his arm.
He could hear the tears as she spoke. "What? Why? I swear, Jesse. I didn't sleep with him. Please believe me."
He looked at her. "I believe you. But we're can't be together. Not anymore."
"After everything we've been through, you're just going to throw it all away cuz' some asshole tells you some stupid lie about me?" She asked him, not believing what she was hearing.
Jesse shook his head. "Maxie, it's not about the lie. It's about everything we've been through. It shouldn't be this hard.
Quite frankly, I'm tired of fighting. Diego wins. Tell him to give himself a pat on the back for me." He walked away, but
Maxie continued yelling at him.
"That's it! You're just going to give up on us? Just like that? You are SUCH a coward." She attempted to get him to turn around, but he continued walking.
Maxie sat herself down on the bench as she began to cry. If she thought back to a few weeks, when she was sitting on this very same
bench, crying over this very same boy, she would have taken that heartache over this one in a heartbeat. Before, she was in deep,
deep like with Jesse. Now, the tears weren't because he dumped her, they were in fear. Fear that she lost him...for good.
-'There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it'.-- Shaw