"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No. Alexis, we are friends. Friends should never work together."
"Too bad. We are."
"Alexis.." Sam and Alexis had been arguing for hours about her becoming Alexis' paralegal. Sam loved her job and she worked hard to get where she was, but she didn't want to hurt their friendship.
"Sam, I talked to your boss he said you were the best in the west. Well, now you are going to be the best in the east too."
Sam sighed. She wasn't going to change Alexis' mind. Alexis never changed her mind about anything except about Ric. Thank god, they were getting re-married, for the 3rd time. Sam couldn't mentally go to the first two weddings, she wasn't ready to go back then.
flashback
"Are you cheating on me?"
"No."
"No? Would you?"
"Never."
end flashback
"Looks like you broke your promise." Sam mumbled.
"What?" Alexis questioned.
"Nothing." Sam replied, placing herself in the chair so that she was sitting on one of her legs while the other hanged down. She looked at her puzzled friend, "I'm thinking about when.." Sam paused, she didn't know how to describe it, ".. the reason why I left town."
"Sam, it wasn't your fault. He cheated on you." Alexis knew it hurt, ever since then Sam never had been the same. The light in her wasn't as bright and her will to live wasn't that strong. Jason hurt her, badly.
"Because he thought I was cheating on him!" Sam screamed.
Alexis walked out from behind her desk and hugged her, "But you weren't, you weren't. You loved him and you were honest with him. He chose to not trust you and hurt you."
Sam sank down into the chair more and cried softy. Alexis sat on her desk, in front of the crying Sam. "It's going to be okay. Look at your life now. You have a great husband, a great job, and great friends, if I say so myself."
Sam looked up and laughed away her tears. "You're right. I have no reason not to be happy."
Alexis hugged Sam after she had stood up. "I'm always right." She laughed. "But you alright?" Alexis said as she pulled back looking at Sam.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm alright." Sam smiled as she wiped away her remaining tears. Knowing full well that she wasn't and even thought she had no reason to, she wasn't happy.