"What happened with spending the day with Onyx?" Jason asked, meeting up with his friend. He had nothing planned, so getting out to spend some time with his friend wasn't unwanted, but he really thought he would be busy spending time with Onyx while he worked on getting the jazz club set up some more. That had been what he was told the night before hand, when his offer had been turned down to come out and help him get things fixed up. As he really didn't want to be playing the part of the third wheel.

"She had some sort of meeting," Clint shrugged. He hadn't been given the details of her meeting and he did trust her, that is something that he isn't worried about. And if he needed to know the details of the meeting, she would have told him. "Don't give me that look," Clint warned.

"What look?" Jason asked with a small chuckle.

"The look where you act all concerned for no reason at all," Clint told him. He didn't need anyone to be concerned for him; he wasn't rushing into anything with Onyx, as she wouldn't let him, not that he wanted to rush and screw everything up. He wanted to take his time to get to know her. He didn't want this thing with Onyx to end because they didn't take the time to build the foundation to build upon.

"I am concerned about you," Jason told him. "I may not have gotten on with Onyx, and she's a cool chick and all, but I think you've gotten ahead of yourself when it comes to her. What do you know about her, really?" Jason asked. He wasn't trying to run Onyx through the mud, as he has come to like her after getting to know her after that fateful night of him hitting on her, but he was trying to look out for his friend as he didn't seem to be doing it himself.

"Plenty," Clint responded. "I get your concern, but there is no need for it," he replied. "Are the others coming?" He asked, ready to be talking about anything other than what his relationship with Onyx happened to be.

"They can't make it on such short notice, as they all have plans they would rather not break," Jason told him. Clint got that and he didn't mind. He wouldn't have canceled his plans if given the choice either, as he would rather hang out with Onyx and learn more about her than do find trouble with his friends, when they've done plenty of that in the past. "What's the plan here?" Jason asked. He didn't mind the walk along the river walk to talk with his friend, but it would be nice to take a break along the way to wet his whistle.

"I figured we'd take a stroll along the river walk and grab a beer at The Luxury, if that is good with you," Clint suggested. It was one of his more favorite spots to stop along the river walk.

"Sounds like a plan to me," Jason agreed, with a head nod. "We need to be getting a move on with planning Phillip's bachelor party. Any ideas?" He questioned. The wedding was over a month away, and they hadn't even talked about the possibility of what they were going to be doing for a bachelor party for their friend. They have had the better part of a year to get a move on, yet they procrastinated about it and they were running out of time rather fast.

"I've been thinking about it," Clint nodded. "I don't we should do the whole cliché Vegas thing," he informed his friend. To him going to Vegas is played out, as so many people go there, and he thought about going to Atlantic City, but they didn't scream Phillip to him. "I was thinking that we sit down and take a look at the music festivals for the end of the month, beginning of August and make a weekend out of it," he shared, it was their shared love of music that brought them together, and they can go to any music festival and have the time of their life, without the strippers, because he wasn't going to be on the end of the wrath from his friend's fiancée.

"That could be fun," Jason nodded, thinking it over. "We'd still be able to get hammered off our ass's," he laughed. There wouldn't be any worry about any of them ending up married to some random stranger, because they were all too drunk to stop anyone from going through with it.

"That's a perk," Clint laughed, coming to sudden halt. He had to make sure that his eyes weren't deceiving him. "That is Onyx, right?" He asked, his eyes trained her.

"You'd be correct," Jason agreed, leaning against the bridge. "She's awfully flirty for a meeting," he stated, watching the interactions between the two of them. "What exactly was this meeting of hers for?"

"My thoughts exactly," Clint said through clenched teeth, watching as the guy handed over his phone. What they had between them came with no labels, but he didn't think she would be out, chatting it up with some other guy, and lying about it all. "She didn't say, I thought it was no big deal, but I guess I was wrong on that account," he said, his anger starting to rise within himself.

"Maybe we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves here," Jason told him. "We can go over there and see what's going on. I hardly doubt she would care if we did that," he tried to tell his friend. The last thing he wanted was for Clint to be sulking around because he didn't confront Onyx, like he should be doing.

"I think it's clear what's going on," Clint spewed out, he didn't need Onyx to tell him what she was doing. He could see that this meeting was a cover up for a date. "And two can play that game." If she wanted to be other going on dates with other guys, he could go out and do the same thing, fair is fair.

"I don't think it's a game," Jason tried to reason with him. Sighing heavily through his nose watching as Onyx hugged and kissed the mystery guy on the cheek.

"Apparently, it's nothing," Clint said, stalking off, his friend hot on his heels. He got that he was overreacting to what he witnessed, but he felt betrayed seeing her acting all close and flirty with a different guy. When it took him for what felt like forever to get that close to her, even if it was only about a month of his time. And now it might just be over with. If she wanted things to be like that, why couldn't he do the same?

"I think it's best if we talk to Onyx," Jason told him again. He hated seeing his friend looking so deceived. He truly believed that there was more to it than what they were seeing, he needed for his friend to see it like that as well.

"I think, no scratch that, I know I don't want to be seeing her right now," Clint snapped. He didn't want his anger to get the best of him. Part of him wanted to believe that there was nothing going on and they were being friendly, but he had never met him before and he thought he knew most of, if not all of her friends, or even heard about them. The one she was with today, she hadn't mentioned before.

"I think it's a mistake," Jason told him.

"Then you go talk to her," Clint seethed out, tired of his friend telling him what he should be doing. 'Want to hang before dinner?' "Seriously?" He muttered, shaking his head.

"It will give you the chance to figure out what that was back there," Jason told him, catching a glimpse of the message.

"Except we're going to the club tonight," Clint shrugged. 'Rain check? Hanging with the guys.'

"I'll get the rest of them to join us," Jason reluctantly agreed.

"Good," Clint replied, getting in his car. "Ya know for someone dead set against me being with her, you sure are on her side a lot in this. What gives?" Clint asked, unlocking his car doors.

"I'm not against your relationship with her. I can see how she makes you feel, I just want you to be happy and not end up hurt like before," Jason stressed.

"Look how that turned out," Clint snapped.

"And do you think that you're jumping to conclusions here?" Jason sighed. "I think you need to get her side of the story and learn the truth there before running off and doing anything stupid," he told his friend. Clint remaining mute. "Think long and hard if Onyx would be cheating on you and we both know that is how she would feel," he pointed out, walking the short distance to his car.

Clint got into his car, buckling up and starting it. And maybe his friend is right about Onyx, but it wouldn't be cheating as they're not a couple. And asking her to explain what her meeting was about only to hear the very real possibility of it being a date, wasn't something he wanted to be hearing. He headed home to get ready for the night ahead of himself and do what he could to forget about what he saw with Onyx. He would talk to her when he felt like it. He wanted the answers to what her so called meeting happened to be about, but for now, he felt it best to stay away from it all until he cooled down where he could have a level headed conversation with her.

He tossed his phone onto his couch reading her reply of 'Sure.' Moving through to his room to figure out what he would be wearing and getting a shower in. Tonight would be about hanging with his friends and not stressing over what he is going through with Onyx, she needed to remain in the far back corner of his mind.

"I feel like we should intervene," Vinny said, watching their friend on the dance floor, getting rather close to a few random women, pushing the limits with one of them in particular. "Or something."

The night started out well, with them sitting around and sharing laughs as they drank, but the more they drank the more restless Clint started to become and it wasn't long before a woman had came up and stole Clint away to the dance floor, where he has been for the better part of the last hour.

"I've tried, several times," Jason said, swallowing his mouthful of beer. "He's not in the listening mood."

"Do we even know the real story when it comes to Onyx?" Derrick questioned. "For all we know, it really could have been a meeting with someone that she is close to. It's not like she was out there hooking up with the poor guy," he stressed.

"You don't have to tell me," Jason sighed, shaking his head. "I was there and I get where wires were crossed when it comes to those two, but he didn't want to listen to reason, it's almost like he's trying to find a way out. To sabotage this thing, he has going with her," he sighed, rubbing his temple, feeling a small headache coming on.

"We all know he's not been the most level headed guy around when he sees red," Phillip pointed out. "Or rational for that matter," he tacked on.

"That doesn't mean we let him make a choice that he is going to regret come morning," Vinny stressed out.

"I think he needs to come to the realization on his own," Jason replied. He would stop his friend if he could, but there was no stopping him once his mind had been made up about something.

"Tonight's been fun," Clint told them, joining his friends, his arm draped over the red-head he had been getting close to all night. "But I'm calling it a night," he informed them, walking off, leaving his friends shaking their heads at his actions.

Once outside, he got the woman into a cab. His actions of going back to her place, it wasn't for him, not until he could get things resolved with Onyx first. He couldn't be the guy to go out and get it from somewhere else, when he didn't know what the real story happened to be. Going through with this would mean that he gave up everything he had going with Onyx, and that wasn't a risk he wanted to be taking. Despite what it looked like earlier in the day, he wouldn't be another one that cheated on her, if you could call it that, but he knew that was the way she would see it and he wasn't willing to hurt in that way.

"Is there a reason you're sitting outside my door?" Clint asked, coming to a stop seeing Onyx sitting on the floor next to his apartment door.

"Dude, you've been ignoring me for the past week. I had to do something to make you talk to me," Onyx replied. "What did I do to make you go all rogue on me?" She questioned getting to her feet. She couldn't say sorry if she didn't what she did to piss him off.

"I haven't been ignoring you," he said weakly. He couldn't argue against her. He had no valid point as he had been ignoring her. "Why aren't you with your boyfriend?" He quipped out, unlocking his door.

"What are you talking about?" She asked, confused on what he was talking about. She thought they were moving in the right direction. That within the right amount of time that he would be her boyfriend, she had no intentions of dating any other guy, not when Clint had been the main guy in her life that didn't involve Seb or her brother.

"Playing stupid doesn't suit you," he retorted, stepping into his apartment. "Come back when you're ready to admit that this thing between us is nothing more than you biding your time," he said, shutting and locking his door.

"Clint, let's talk about this," she sighed, her head falling against the door with a thud. "Shit," she cursed, hearing no noise from inside the apartment. She reclaimed her spot on the floor next to his door. She couldn't make amends if she didn't know what she did wrong.

"Is there a reason you're stalking my friend?" Jason asked, leaning on the wall across from her. He is surprised and even relieved to see her trying to make an effort on fixing things with his friend, only if he could get that point across to the stubborn friend of his.

"I get he is your friend and whatnot, but other than that why do you care?" She asked politely. She wasn't being mean about it, but out of his little group of friends, Jason had been the one she hadn't really clicked with, not like the others. And she wanted to think that him hitting on her that night at the bar might have been the thing standing in their way on building a better friendship.

"Because I know how much he cares about you and the second he thinks he's making progress you're out on a lunch date, which you told him was nothing more than a meeting. I don't want to see him hurt if I can help it," Jason told her.

"I didn't want to believe that had been what this is about," she sighed. "And as much as I would enjoy explaining that situation to you. I need to tell him first. But you need to believe me that it was nothing more than a meeting," she stressed.

"I want to believe you, Onyx. I really do. But you have hurt him twice now. I can't see him go through that again," Jason sighed, standing up.

"Please," she begged getting to her feet. "Help me. I swear I didn't mean to hurt him either time. I'm not lying about my meeting with Rory. Help me, and you will see," she pleaded with him.

"Okay," he relented. "But this is for his benefit," he warned, knocking on his friends door. "Dude, it's Jay," he said.

"You're welcome, but she's not," he said, a few minutes later, opening the door.

"I am not okay with that," Jay said, gently pushing Onyx into the apartment before him. "I am sick of this pouty, pissed off thing you have going on. The only way to sort this out, is to hear her out," Jason pointed out, giving his friend no room to disagree with his statement.

"Fine, what's the excuse you're going to go with, Onyx?" Clint asked, leaning against the back of his couch.

"It was a meeting," she told him. "I have dated Rory in the past for like two months, before I dated Hunter, but nothing happened between the two of us, we went on a few dates, and learned that we are better off as friends," she quickly explained to him. "We were friends before and we are friends now," she stressed, not giving him a chance to say anything. "You know Jeff is selling the bar wanting to do something else?" She questioned, feeling as if she isn't getting anywhere with either of them.

"And how does that have anything to do with this Rory, guy?" Clint asked, feeling the fight leave him, seeing that his friend had been right all along. And that he had been stupid to think anything of the sort about her cheating on him.

"Rory works as a radio DJ, Jeff wants to try his hand at being a radio DJ before he fully sells the bar, I asked Rory to met up when he had a spare second, to ask if he could help Jeff out. I gave him Jeff's number, so I don't have to be in the middle. If you would have came to me and asked point blank what was going on, we could have avoided this whole mess," she told him, slowly walking backwards to the door. "When you're ready to be a mature adult male, we can revisit this thing between us," she told him, leaving him alone with his friend.

"I told you the day we saw them together there was a reasonable reason they were meeting up. I told you to go over there and see for yourself, you were the one to hide behind this mask of yours afraid of getting hurt," Jason told him.

"I was a dick for not talking to her and trusting her, I get it," Clint snapped at him. "But from where we stood on that bridge, it looked every bit like a date," he reminded his friend.

"I know, I was there, man," Jason sighed. "But we all know not everything is as it seems. And this is where you need to figure out if she is truly worth it. If she is, you have some serious graveling to do. If not, then you need to move on," he said. "But if I were you, I would do what I could to make amends. She's worth it and are you really going to meet another woman like her?" Jason told him, making his exit, letting his friend have the time to really think about the answer to what he wanted to be doing when it came to Onyx.

It took him very little time to know the answer to the questions his friend asked him. He shouldn't have jumped to conclusions; he should have let her explain and trusted her when she said it was a meeting. In the short amount of time of knowing her, he knows how she feels about cheating and that she wouldn't put him through that. It slipped his mind when he saw red.

"I shouldn't be surprised," Jeff chuckled, pulling his apartment door open to see Clint stood on the opposite side. "Onyx was furious when she showed up here," he commented, stepping aside to let him.

"Is she here?" Clint asked nervously, looking around before fully entering the apartment.

"No," Jeff assured him. "But I know why you are here and I want to say sorry for causing this little rift between you guys." When Onyx ranted to him about what was going on with Clint and why, he felt guilty over it, even if it wasn't his fault to begin with, he should have been there to ask for the favor and not have his sister do it for him.

"You don't have a reason to be sorry. I should have trusted her a bit more and not jump to conclusions the way I did," Clint told him. "I need your help in getting back into her good graces. Any ideas?"

"She'll kill me," Jeff sighed. "But it will be worth it," he settled on, fighting his dilemma on it. "This happened before she became best friends with Sebastian, so she'll know where to come," he informed him. "When she was 12 this boy in her class that she had a crush on asked her to the school dance."

"I'm not going to like the outcome of this story am I?" Clint asked, clenching his jaw.

"No," Jeff sighed, shaking his head. "The boy ditched her an hour into their date for her best friend at the time. She left the dance early going home crying instead."

"Do you really think she'll forgive me if I recreate that night?" Clint wondered.

"I can't say," Jeff frowned. "Maybe you should change it up, like a lot," he said having second thoughts about it. "Change the outcome of that night for her, she can't go back and change it, she would if she could, but give her a do over of that night," he thought out loud. If anything like that happened to him he would like to have a do over and this would be her chance at having that do over. "Look, Clint, she may not seem like it but she is does like some romance."

"I've learnt most women do," he nodded, licking his bottom lip. "I might have a plan, but I do need for you to be available, along with Sugar, Sebastian, Mikki and a few others. I know I am not going to gain her trust back easily, but I need to start somewhere," he said.

"Let me know when," he told Clint. "But do, tell her this as she is the one you need to be telling," Jeff informed him.

"I'm headed over there now, do you think Seb will even let me in so I can talk to her?" He asked starting to worry about being able to actually have a talk with Onyx.

"You'll never know, as I have heard he didn't make it home last night," Jeff smiled. He was pulling for Clint in this. He has seen first hand the effects it has caused for his sister not only when she was with Hunter but so far with Clint and the bond she has with Clint is a much stronger bond in such a shorter period of time than she ever had with any of the exes she has.

"Have you came to your senses now?" Onyx questioned opening the door to let him in.

"I'm sorry that I jumped to such a conclusion. But from where I stood it really looked like a date, and I know I have no reason to be jealous as we haven't really defined what this is between us…"

"You have every right to be jealous," she quickly cut him off. "I would have been jealous if our places had been reversed," she let him know. "I was going to explain things afterwards, as I didn't have time beforehand," she sighed, feeling horrible about that.

"And I wouldn't let you," he chuckled drily. Onyx nodded. "I know I messed up, but seeing you being like that with another guy, it didn't sit right," he sighed.

"I get it," she shrugged. "We are trying to figure out what's between us and you thought I didn't want to be with you because you saw me with someone else, but how was I being?" She smirked, raising an eyebrow at him.

"Don't even," he warned with a chuckle. "I have a way to help make this up to you tomorrow, tell me you're free?" He pleaded with her.

"I'm free," she laughed. "Will you tell me what it is?" She asked.

"Uh no," he smirked. "But there is a dress code," he informed her. "Do wear a dress," he said.

"That isn't very clear, as there are a ton of different types of dresses. Which kind do I wear?" She teased.

"The kind one would wear to a dance," he laughed. "And that is all the information you are getting," he informed her.

"Okay," she smiled. "Do you want to say and watch a movie?" She asked him, pointing to the movie she paused when he knocked on the door. Getting back to normal with him sound like heaven to her right now.

"As much as I would like too, I can't if I want to get things set up for tomorrow night," he said, kissing her cheek and making his exit, leaving a giddy Onyx behind.