At first I was too shocked to respond. I had not been expecting this to happen but after a couple minutes I realised this was why she was here. After I got over the shock, I fought back. I realised what she didn't realise was that I had been completing training sessions in case I needed to defend any of the girls, luckily I had been to be honest otherwise I wouldn't have stood a chance against this bitch.

"Thomas was mine and you stole him from me!" she screamed before following up with more insults. "Thomas wasn't your's when I met him, I didn't even know who you were until the day we met, now get off me you dumb bitch!" Let's just say she didn't like me calling her a bitch let alone a dumb bitch but honestly she was, how can she say someone was her's when they hadn't even been together for years.

Thomas pulled her off me, and it was just as well because I was getting pissed off and quickly. I was actually about to lash out at her which would have met I won the fight.

By the time I had gotten up off the ground with Piper's help, Felicity had her arms around Thomas and he wasn't even pulling away. She turned toward me and was about to start throwing some more insults around but before she could I glared at her and then Thomas. "You know what Felicity, you want him so bad you can fucking have him. I deserve someone better, someone who won't hide the fact he slept with his ex and the fact he clearly is still in love with her. Enjoy yourselves." And with that I took my engagement ring off and threw it at both of them. "Hope you enjoy seconds Felicity because you can have that pathetic ring too!"

Thomas' eyes were wide as if he didn't know what was going on, but with that I grabbed my things, told Piper to get the girls home and thank the others for the tour and I took off. Thomas didn't come after me, probably because Piper may have warned him not to or because he was finally happy to be free of me and be with her.

I went to the only place I knew I could go to at this time. The gym I had been training at, I had become friends with the vampire training me. He was actually god looking vamp and unlike most others had no problem with what's so ever. The good thing was I was pretty sure Thomas didn't know where the gym was so even if he eventually came looking for me he wouldn't find me.

I arrived just in time as the last person was exiting and Dimitri was getting ready to lock up. He took one look at me and quickly shut and locked the door. He came over to where I had sat on the floor and sat opposite me.

By this point I was practically bawling my eyes out, of course he didn't know what was going on but he was that type of guy that would sit and wait until you were ready. "Sorry I didn't know where else to go I just needed to go somewhere no one knows so they can't find me." "That's okay Colby anytime you need you can come here you know that." I looked at him and nodded before lifting my hands to wipe my eyes, I felt a hand grab my hand and I realised I lifted the hand that no longer had the ring.

"Colby, this is why you came here? To get away from him?" I raised my eyes to his and realised he had moved closer to me when he grabbed my hand, I'd never really been this close to him before but for some reason it blew my breath away. Not trusting my voice I just nodded before looking away.

"What happened? You know you can tell me anything." And with that I told him what had been going on, he was just as shocked because even he thought Thomas was in love with me. "Thomas was never in love with me. How could he be when Felicity is amazingly beautiful and I'm this. I'm just some young, practically a virgin 18 year old half blood. I'm not beautiful and I never will be."

"Colby look at me." I knew I should because he was practically my instructor but I just couldn't, I hated him seeing me like this. "Colby. Look. At. Me." The tone of his voice sounded like he was pissed, and that was a basically a direct order so I had to follow it. He cupped my face to make me look at him but he didn't need to but he never pulled his hand away.

I looked into his eyes and inhaled his smell, I felt like I was in heaven. Ugh why was I acting like this? "Colby listen to me when I say, You are a beautiful and any guy would be lucky for you to give them the time of day. Don't you ever say you aren't beautiful ever again. You are the most beautiful young woman I know. What he did to you was wrong, even if you only have a photo that may not be a real after sex photo, he shouldn't have let her affect him, touch him or even look at him the way she has if he truly did love you."

I felt tears spring in my eyes and a couple fell down my cheeks, that was the most wonderful thing I have ever had a guy say to me. He wiped the tears on my cheeks away and in that moment I didn't think of Thomas or the fact we had only just broken up, I was thinking at all really as I leant forward placed my hands on his chest and kissed him.

His lips were so warm and soft, after a moment I felt him respond one hand wrapping around my waist the other moving down to my neck. I wrapped my arms around his neck as our bodies pushed together, the intensity of the kiss increased but then I pulled away. I pushed myself away from him realising what I had just done, I never thought he liked me in that way and he probably didn't he probably just returned the kiss for the sake of it.

"Sorry….. Um I don't know why I did that. Um.. sorry again." I stood up and grabbed my things, "um I should really go, Piper's probably worried about me. Um sorry again." I was saying all this as I quickly walked to the door, why had I kissed Dimitri what was I thinking.

But before I reached the door, Dimitri grabbed me, turned me to face him and pulled me to him with an arm around my waist. "Colby, don't be sorry. You're in a situation you haven't been in before and your head's all over the place but I want you to know that I have always thought you were beautiful, as hard as it is for me to say what I'm about to say I need to get it out in the hope that one day my dreams may become reality. Colby I've had feelings for you since a couple weeks after we met, I know I shouldn't given I'm meant to be teaching you and I've fought so hard against these feelings but I can't keep it from you any longer. When I found out you two were engaged I was devastated, that the woman I love was marrying another man and she didn't even know how I felt."

Before I could respond he pulled me even closer, cupped my face and kissed me. The kiss was intense more intense then the last one. I responded almost immediately, I didn't know whether it was because deep down I had feelings for him to but I never really knew because I was in love with Thomas or because my frame of mind was all over the place and I just needed to feel like someone wanted me.

The intensity of the kiss was picking up pretty quickly to the point where I honestly thought any minute clothes were going to start coming off but someone cleared their throat to my right and we immediately pulled away from each other, turns out in Dimitri's rush to come over to me to see if I was okay he hadn't locked the door properly like we thought.

I turned to the person and it was Carl. Shock and dread ran through me, Thomas' best friend had just walked in on me and another man kissing just an hour after I threw my ring back at Thomas. Oh shit, this was not good.

Carl didn't look happy but he didn't look angry either it was more shocked than anything. "Um sorry to interrupt but Colby you're needed at the tribunal building. Thomas has been looking everywhere for you." "Ha I'm sure he has." "Colby, trust me he has, once he got over the shock of what you said and what happened on campus and Piper telling him to leave you alone, he started looking for you, he's been trying to call you and then we got word we were all needed at the tribunal because of what Felicity did. When he couldn't find you he thought of this place but he didn't know where it was however I did."

"Why does everyone need to be at the tribunal, and why is the tribunal calling a meeting anyway? Like Felicity wanted Thomas and told me she was going to get him back so I gave him to her. He wants her, he's never stopped being in love with her it was obviously I just didn't want to see it until I just had enough."

Carl was staring at Dimitri and that was when I realised Dimitri had grabbed my hand as a sort of support gesture. Carl kept looking between our hands and Dimitri before he focused back on me, "Colby I honestly don't know I'm just follow orders. Something that Dimitri should have been doing."

"Carl don't say anything to the tribunal please it would ruin me." Now it was my turn to be confused. "What do you mean Dimitri?" "Colby, when I was given this assignment to teach you it came with orders that I could not let myself get close to you or the girls it was strictly an instructor type assignment and if I was to disobey those orders I would be sent away to live amongst humans."

I cupped a hand over my mouth, I couldn't believe they would do that to him. "I'm not going to tell the tribunal, I mean I was the only other person to know about the orders to begin with but you need to stop teaching Colby get one of the other guys who know Colby to teach her. Try and put some distance between you two. I don't know where is going and I'm sure Colby doesn't right now either but if it does eventuate into anything then you need to make it seem like nothing was going on beforehand."

"Understood, I'll speak with Phil tomorrow, Colby you should go, don't want to keep the tribunal waiting." "Thanks Dimitri, I'll speak with you tomorrow and we can go from there." I leant forward to give him a hug and kiss on the cheek something I never would have imagined I would have been doing.

"oh Colby there's one more thing. I didn't arrive here alone, Thomas came with me and well he saw you two kissing through the window and took off before I walked in the door. Just thought I'd give you both a heads up but mainly you Colby."

I just nodded, right now I didn't care I wish I didn't have to see Felicity or Thomas, I just needed to get home and have a talk with Piper about what's going on. I needed some girl time to work whether I really did have feelings for Dimitri or not.

Carl being the gentleman he was he sent a quick message to Piper letting her know I was okay and on my way to the tribunal as well as grabbing my things from me and carrying them for me. As we were about to walk out the door, Dimitri rushed forward, "Wait", he leant forward and gave me a long gentle kiss before pulling away. "Be safe Colby, I expect to hear from you tomorrow." I smiled back at him before walking to the car, getting in and checking my phone.

We were just parking at the tribunal building when I felt my phone go off in my hand. It was a text from Dimitri with three little words that honestly shocked me to the point I was frozen, Carl noticed the changed in my body language but I didn't respond to anything he said, in the end he look over at my phone screen and read the exact some message I had read.

Dimitri: I love you