Bounding brightly through into the kitchen Abby slammed the back door behind her but stopped dead in her tracks. Sat at breakfast bar only a few feet away from her was a long-legged, bronzed female with curly, peroxide blonde hair, opposite John Carter, the man supposedly in love with her.

Feeling flushed Abby flustered around for a moment before finally speaking, emphasising all her words with over the top hand gestures. "Erm, don't mind me, I'll be up in my room. See you later Carter." Nervously fiddling with her hair she scurried away, suddenly self conscious, wishing she could look that perfect that early in the morning.

Carter called after her, a note of despair mixed with anger in his voice.

"Abby..."

Sighing Carter gave up, she made it pretty clear she wanted nothing to do with him so why should he bother. He had to move on so spending the night with some random girl he met last night seemed the simplest way to do it.

Feeling extremely awkward, Crystal, the random girl, made her excuses and promptly left. Deciding to leave Abby up to her own devices Carter headed out into the yard to shoot some hoops, seeing as it was his day off today.

With every attempt the ball clashed off the metal rim, sending an echoing ringing through his head. The consuming sound prevented him from hearing

Abby creep out side and sit near by watching. Feeling a presence watching over him he threw the ball whilst turning, ironically it was the first time he scored that morning. His eyes came in contact with hers, a passionate anger flaring up in them.

"See Carter that's what I meant! I can't be the girl for you. You want some stunning beauty to hang off your arm at Carter family parties without asking you to help her to let the air out of someone's tyres, someone without problems, some one who wouldn't care if you hurt her! I can't be that girl

Carter and you proved it. You say you are still in love with me but you spend the might with some air head bimbo... you just proved my point completely!"

Abby yelled wishing she wasn't so angry, she didn't understand, if she really didn't care why did it bother her so much.

"If you don't care then why does it bother you so much?" asked Carter as if reading her mind. "Do you seriously think I care about her? Your right, she is some air-head bimbo and that's not what I want! That was my stupid way of trying to get over you! But now I realise I'll never be able to get over you, it's impossible! Believe it or not I want some one with compassion, someone who cares about things that matter, someone who understands what it is like to go into work everyday and not know what to expect. I want some one who is tender, loving, caring, compassionate, and intellectual. No I don't want someone like that I need someone like that. I need you Abby, and I know what you life is like I've been there through the past ten years of it. I love you Abby." He paused sighing slightly as he turned away from her. "But what's the point, you deserve better than some ex-addict who has put you through hell."

Not knowing what she was doing Abby walked over to him and put a tentative hand on his shoulder. The words came tumbling out of her mouth; she didn't stop to think she just released all the emotion that had been bottled up inside her in a jumble of tumbling words. "The point is you not the one who put me through hell, I did. You're the one who went through it with me, no matter what you were there Carter I could always count on you, and maybe I took that for granted. I never told you I found the ring, did I? That night when you booked the entire restaurant but never went through with it, well I guess it was down to my mother somehow, or something I said, but I found it nestled in your jacket pocket. Strange to think back. I can't deny it any longer. We've been through it all and come out the other side, so now maybe it's time to give it a fighting chance... I'm not even making sense any more am I?"

"Nope." He answered slightly bemused still not daring to look at her, this was to him as confusing as the chaos theory was to Abby.

"Well let me put it this way. Despite it all, I love you John Carter."

Shocked Carter spun round to face her fully, standing there in front of him so innocently was the woman he was determined to spend the rest of his life with. Their faces were only millimetres apart, slowly their lips brushed against each other which turned into a tender, loving kiss. A kiss of long awaited love.

A kiss that had fought temptation and won.

No matter what temptation is it can ruin lives unless you put a stop to it. Fight temptation and it will all work out in the end, but remember not all temptation is bad...