Bella 17

It was the middle of the week and Sam had gotten back to her normal routine, she was supposed to be meeting Casey for lunch. Her heart was heavier than any weight than she had ever carried. Gemma came in and told her that she had a call on line one picking it up it was Casey confirming that he would be there in an hour to pick her up leaning back in her chair she looked over the itinerary for the next two weeks. She hadn't heard anything from Jason and wasn't sure she would or not. The day at the airport had thrown her for a loop. Needless to say, she was enjoying the absence of drama right now, she needed to just relax and let go.

Jason was at the hotel and had nothing but her allover his mind. He was going to ask Courtney for a divorce, he just couldn't stand being here with her so close and maybe that is why he had ended up here against his will, he was being forced to make a decision that had long term consequences, but more than that for Sam he needed to make the choice. She was torn up and with good reason, in her eyes was so much pain and when he saw her at the airport a few days ago, he could hardly keep eye contact with her, knowing that he had done that to her, he had lost sight of all that was important to him the day he married Courtney. Looking down at his watch he decided to go out for a bit. Courtney and Abigail had been gone for about an hour now and he wanted to take a walk near where Sam worked. He didn't know why, but he felt that he needed to go, grabbing his hotel key he left and getting on the elevator he took it down to the bottom floor making his way out the doors and headed to the right and walked along the street until he came to the fork in the road and walked along the old cobblestones in a hurry to get to her.

"Hey there I am down here waiting for you." Casey said

"Oh, sorry, will be down there in a minute, I am coming."

Sam got up from her desk and grabbed her backpack then headed out the door and down the hall and out the front door where Casey was waiting for her.

Jason was just coming up the sidewalk when he felt her presence he looked across the street and saw her laughing and giggling.

"Casey put me down." She said as he lifted her up and spun her around.

"I can't do that beautiful," he said as he leaned in to kiss her she got an overwhelming feeling that Jason was nearby, she pulled away from him and looked around and saw him standing across the street watching her. She was happy and not with him and he knew why all of a sudden why he needed to be here, to make the decision before this went any further, because if he didn't she wouldn't be his and there would never be anything more he could do about it. It pained him to see him holding her, kissing her, even that he was making her laugh.

"Hold on Casey." She said as she had him put her down

"Where are you going?" He asked her as she ran across the street she saw him walking away from her.

"Jason!" She yelled out but he continued to walk away without looking back and that tore her apart.

"Hey who is that?" Casey said wanting to know.

"No one never mind." She said "Come on let's go." She said trying to change the subject.

"It didn't look like it was no one."

"Don't worry about it." She said but he did, because he seemed very familiar, he had seen him before….somewhere.

Jason walked around the city and ended up back at the hotel. He could hear Courtney and Abigail from the other side of the door. He didn't want to be here, he wanted more than anything to be with Sam.

"Hi daddy look at what mommy bought me." Abigail said running to him showing him the little trinket that she had gotten.

"That is very pretty."

"Where did you go?"

"Just out for a walk." He said as Courtney looked at him seeing that there was something wrong she had Abby lay down and rest for a while. Walking outside she met him on the veranda over looking the street below. His eyes were fixed on Sam's place and he longed for her in a way that he had never experienced before. Just seeing her with another man had torn him up one side and down the other.

Courtney watched him as he stood there not even acknowledging her.

"She's here isn't she?"

"Yes." He said as tears slid down his cheek.

"Her name is Samantha isn't it?"

"How do you know?" He said looking at her with curiosity in his eyes.

"I have heard you call out her name in the middle of the night. You're in love with her aren't you?"

"Yes." He said.

"You know I used to think it was me why you just never loved me the way we once were. For five years Jason, I have blamed myself on more than one occasion for having you marry me. We should have ended this a long time ago, actually we should have never married to begin with, why did you?"

"Because the day that I was supposed to marry you, I had a run in w/ Sam in town and when she found out that I was supposed to be taking you as my wife, she told me that her and I would never have a chance. That I had promised myself to another and she didn't want to stand in the middle of that and she told me that she didn't want to have anything to do with me."

"How did you meet her?"

"It doesn't matter."

"It doesn't matter or you just won't tell me?"

"Both."

"So have you seen her since we have been here?" She asked wanting to know but he wouldn't answer her.

"I take that as a yes."

"Why does it matter?" She is supposed to be getting married.

"When?"

"Next week. I saw her today with him and….."

"And you wanted to kill him didn't you?"

"Yes." He said nodding his head, " I havehurt her so badly….She means everything to me and I never thought it would come to this."

"How did this start, if you don't mind me asking."

" We shared one night together six years ago and I fell completely head over heels for her, and she did for me and we knew it that night."

"So what happened?"

"She made me promise I wouldn't pursue her."

"Why?"

"Because she was very independent and had worked hard to get where she was in life…. Any way, the problem was that neither one of us could stop thinking about the other one, we never have been able to.."

"Jason, you need to go to her….You need to be with her. I don't want to stand in the middle between the two of you. So I am asking you for a long overdue divorce, You have been my savior for far to long." She said as he looked at him.

"I don't know what to say, I never thought that you would understand."

"Jason even I have a heart, but more than that I can see what is in front me, you're deeply in love with another woman and the two of you have been through hell and deserve the chance to be together."