AN: THX for the lovely feedback in the previous chapter! Here we go!

They remained in their position for a while, taking each other in.

As he feared she might get uncomfortable beneath him, he rolled them over, still holding her close to him, while pulling a sheet over them.

They remained cuddled together, starting to talk about this and that.

After some time, he felt he definitely had to ask her about what she said before.

"Jen, I know it is kind of a nosy question, but as your friend, I am concerned about you... in all those interviews we did, you always told everyone that you couldn't wait to start a family. And now you, you know, tell me that you are still on birth control... that kind of contradicts itself... and I mean, this whole situation here right now kind of is another indicator for that... are you happy with him?"

She remained silent for a moment.

"You know, I always thought that we were perfect, but somehow, I feel a distance between us now, that was not there before. That has been going on for a couple of months now. I mean, obviously I have some serious issues myself" she pointed out the obvious.

"But he is hardly there, and if he is, he still isn't in a way, if you know what I mean. I don't know what this is about, but somehow it did not feel right to get pregnant under these circumstances... that is why I decided..." she let out a sigh, showing that the did not want to dig deeper on this topic.

After assuring her that everything would sort itself out, they kissed each other briefly for a few more times before drifting off to sleep.

When he closed his eyes, he inhaled the scent of her hair for one more time, as he, knowing her, was quite sure she would sneak out on him before he woke up.

He then made a promise to himself: after all the things she said tonight, from being in love with him to telling him she was having second thoughts about starting a family with Brad, he sure was not going anywhere. He was going to fight for the woman he loved.

...

Jen woke up when the sun started to rise.

She looked over to David, who was still out. She could not help but smile at how cute he looked with his ruffeled hair, light stubble, mouth slightly open in his sleep, long eyelashes shut over his beautiful eyes.

She did not for one second regret what they did. Whatever may come at her now, it would have been worth it. For her.

But what she had achieved with this was being thoroughly confused. And she feared to cause HIM heartbreak in the aftermath of this.

She had been totally honest to him last night. She loved him, she always had. And she still loved her husband, even though she felt like he was drifting off into another direction. That was why she honestly thought it was not the right time NOW, to be having his child.

So here she was, loving two men: the one she married, promised to have a family with and grow old with, but about who she did not know if he still wanted all those things with her. And the one that she now knew would gladly do all those things with her in a heartbeat, if she asked him to.

She felt like a fool. Because this really did not sound like a hard decision to make.

So the decision she really had to make was: Did she see herself as a person who threw her marriage away at the mere sight of the first bump on the road to ride off into the sunset with another man, or was she a person who did everything to save her marriage, risking to break the heart of the one person that mattered the most to her as a friend?

Overwhelmed by her own feelings and knowing that it would help neither her nor David to confront about this now, she let herself slide out of bed, quickly picked up her clothes and left.

She had a LOT things to figure out.

...

David woke up when the rays of sunlight started to fall through the blinds infront of his window.

He did not even have to open his eyes or touch the bed next to him to know that she had, as he had suspected, snuk out on him.

He only felt bad because he would have enjoyed to spend more time with her, but he understood why she did it.

Because she was confused, and afraid to hurt him in the process.

Infact, he really had every reason to be hurt by all of this, and feel used and whatnot.

But instead, he felt better than he had felt the night before. Because now he knew that there was hope. He knew she loved him back, and he knew that her marriage was not all rainbows and sunshine like she wanted people to believe.

He would sure give her the space she needed to figure herself out, and of course he would be the better man himself when it turned out that she really wanted to keep up her marriage, but he would not accept this as a sure fact. He would stay in LA for now (happy he did not have any new commitment) and make it clear to her that he would be giving her everything she ever dreamed of when she decided to leave Brad.

"Oh Buddy, you don't even know what you got yourself into" he thought.

But this was not just some ego thing between to men. It was obvious to him that Brad did not make Jen happy right now, for whatever reason he did not know, and that the man better figured that out and got his act together or let her go and be happy. Her happiness was really all David cared about in the end.