Sandy was the one who broke the kiss, Kirsten wasn't thinking straight and they will surely regret it in the morning if he didn't stop it, especially Kirsten.

Covering her face with her hands, "oh god! Sandy I'm so sorry, I didn't…"

"you should really get some sleep."

Kirsten dropped her hands and stared at Sandy, "will you please stay with me, just until I fall asleep."

Sandy slid under the covers besides Kirsten's right, both facing each other. Kirsten was the first one to speak, "about my question earlier, why weren't you married if you were engaged?"

Instead of looking at her, he adverted his gaze towards the portrait on the wall instead before answering, " she broke it off."

"Why? Did you have a fight?"

"No…Yes…She was my girlfriend in college, her name's Rebecca. We had plans, to have great careers and get married, but then she got pregnant while were still in college and that wasn't in the plan. I still wanted to do the right thing so I proposed to her and she accepted. Then after a month of our engagement she backed out of it, said that she wasn't ready, that I wasn't ready. That we both don't want it."

"Didn't you want it?" she whispered.

"I want the baby but not the marriage part. I mean, I love her but I had dreams and so does she and being married will just make thing more complicated."

"What happened to the baby? Did you…"

Sandy finally looked at her and shake his head, "we didn't terminate it if that's what your asking, she gave birth to my son, his name's Seth, he's 17 now and he's leaving with his mother in New York."

"My son's 17 too….Why didn't you get married now? Or after college?"

"after the pregnancy she moved to New York, wanted to start over again. She let's me see my son though which I'm very thankful for."

"do you still love her?"

"I love her as the mother of my son but that's it, not unlike before anymore. How about you? How did you and Jimmy got married? Did you guys fall in love?"

"the same as your story, I got pregnant while still in college, the only difference is Jimmy proposed to me because my father threatened his father who forced him to proposed to me. Not really a fairytale ending,"

"how long have you known him?" by this time they were already so close that their nose are almost touching.

"since I was a kid, we were a couple all through out high school, though we were sort of forced to be a couple." At Sandy's questioning look, she continued, "Our families are two of the most powerful in Newport and they didn't want that to change so they wanted us to get together. Crazy really and stupid."

"did you ever love him?"

"when I was in high school, yeah, but in college…I don't know anymore. But still I can't complain because now I have Ryan out of it."

"Yeah I know what you mean."

"You might think this is weird but…I feel so comfortable around you…even though I just met you. Like no matter what, everything's going to be okay and that I don't have to pretend around you, I can be myself and not be perfect, unlike what everyone expects. "

"That's because you don't have to pretend around me that you're perfect, because you are."

Kirsten stared at him, trying to see if he was just saying it to be nice, but his eyes show that he was sincere. With that everything else on her mind didn't matter, all that matters now is him and her, and it scares her that she could be attracted to someone so strongly and she has only known him for 8 hours. Without thinking she leaned into him and kissed him, this time neither she nor Sandy pulled away. It was slow and gentle as if concerned they might scare the other off. When they pulled away Kirsten placed her forehead against Sandy's and whispered, "just for the record, I'm thinking straight now."

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