I took a deep breath as I walked in to the gym the next night, and I'm pretty sure that Marek was surprised to see me. He walked over to me when I came out of the change room. "Can I have a word?" He asks gently. He looks nervous and I suppose it's probably because he aired a lot of dirty laundry in the middle of his workplace last night. He was probably embarrassed.

"Sure." I nod my head and follow him in to the office.

"I just wanted to apologize for all those things I said last night. Not that they weren't true but it was unprofessional of me to do that here." He says slowly and looks down at the ground. I wasn't expecting him to be so upset to be honest and he's so cute and cuddly that I just wanna hug him. So I do.

I wrap my arms around his torso and lean my head against his chest. "I appreciate you sticking up for me but its fine. I've done a lot of thinking in the last twenty four hours, I spoke to Sophia about everything and I have a clear head now. Everything is fine and the next time I see Colby I'm gonna talk to him about it." I tell him. I smile at how cute Marek is and eventually after the initial shock he wraps his arms around me and hugs me back.

"I thought it was a good idea to confront him at the time." He grumbles.

We separate when the door to the office opens and Colby walks in and ignores Marek. "Hey Georgia." He says casually.

"Hi Colby." I look at him curiously, he's acting a little bit like Marek and he's not looking directly at me.

"You got a minute when you're done with him?" He asks and looks up at for a second and then glances at Marek before looking back down at the ground. I don't like this, these guys are best friends. They opened a business together because they are passionate about the same thing but now Colby couldn't even address Marek by name.

"You know what? No. Not until you two apologize to each other, this is ridiculous!" I stand my ground and look directly at Colby because he had been nothing but hostile since he walked in to the room.

"Fine." Colby grumbled. "I'm sorry for being an ass, M." He says with his arms crossed over his chest.

"I'm sorry too." M says a little more sincere than Colby sounded.

"Good now hug it out." I instruct.

They do as they're told and mumble things in to each others ear and pat each other on the back. "I'll leave you guys to it." Marek says when they part and leaves the office so I'm left alone with Colby.

I take a deep breath and look up at Colby he's looking a bit nervous and like he doesn't know what to say so we just stand there awkwardly until he takes a deep breath and starts talking. "I'm sorry." He starts and runs his fingers through his hair. "I didn't mean to, ok I did mean to kiss you last week and I'm not apologizing for that, but I didn't mean fuck up so royally. I brought Zahra with me last night because for some stupid reason I thought it would make you jealous." He mutters he looks really disappointed with himself. "I fucked things up with both of you, she knew there was something up when I asked her if she wanted to come and now she won't even talk to me. Look I'm really sorry about everything. And I know that you know that I lied about the Chicago thing and I'm sorry about that too, to be honest I just wanted to get to know you." I just stand there and stare at him like he's stupid and he frowns and looks at me. It looks like he waiting for me to leave or slap him or something.

"It's ok." I tell him.

"But I didn't mean to- hang on, did you just say it's ok?" He squints at me in surprise and I have to have a bit of a giggle, he looks incredibly confused.

"It sounds stupid but I had a lot of time to think about things last night. I gotta get warmed up but thanks for apologizing." I tell him and kiss his scruffy cheek before walking out of the office and over to Lara who is stretching. "Hey." I smile brightly at her and she smiles back completely unaware of what happened last night.

"Hey girl. How are you?" She asks with a bright smile.

"I'm good, how are you?" I ask her as I stand next to her and start stretching as well.

"I'm great babe, you seem chirpy. Does it have anything to do with you just coming out of the office?" She stops stretching and turns to face me and looks at me curiously.

I shrug my shoulder and then take off in a jog around the gym. I lock eyes with Marek and he raises his eyebrows at me and I smile back at him. Now that things were ok with Colby I felt a lot better and less stressed. It's amazing what a letter from your dead husband telling you to be happy can do.

When the class is finished I pack up my things in the change room and head towards the door. "Georgia?" I stop in my tracks and turn around and see Zahra Schreiber coming out of the office closely followed by Colby and Marek. I take a second glance at the guys because Colby is holding his face.

"Oh hey, I didn't know you were coming in to today." I smile politely at her and turn around and walk towards her. I hope I'm not walking in to a swinging slap but she smiles at me so assume that the only person she was slapping tonight was Colby.

"I wasn't meant to I just had some business to take care of. I was wondering if you wanted to get a drink." She says as she glances over her shoulder and smirks at Colby before turning back to me. I glance at Colby and he looks a little terrified but I have to laugh. Of all the things he had done at least someone had the calls to slap him.

"I'd love to but I've gotta get home to my kids." I say with a frown, I'm beginning to like Zahra.

"Oh that's fine, maybe next time." She nods.

"You know what, I've got a cupboard full of drinks at home, why don't you come over." It's weird to invite a girl you've just met to your house for drink but I don't really care about that.

A loud snort from Marek was followed by a loud slapping sound and Marek's whine of disapproval. "Bye guys!" I smiled brightly at them and Zahra and headed for the door while Colby just stood there with his jaw on the ground.

Sophia was in bed when I got home so I directed Zahra to the kitchen and we sat down at the island and poured some drinks. "I'm so sorry you had to hear all that stuff last night." Zahra started.

"Hey that's alright; I didn't exactly want to leave you alone to deal with that yourself. It felt a bit weird that Colby thought it would make me jealous." I tell her as I take a sip of my Jack Daniels and coke.

"Yeah I sort of had a feeling it had something to do with a girl. He pretty much called me and made me come to Davenport to see him but he was in such a foul mood that I ended up ditching him most of the day and booked in at a hotel. If it's any consolation he really does like you. We spoke about it last night when he was driving me back to the hotel." She says and takes a sip of her own drink.

I snort loudly. "I bet that was a fun conversation." I giggled.

"It was anything but fun, I think I'm just gonna stay away from him from now on. It's getting a bit silly; last night was the night that I found out that he was still with Leighla last week." She says and my eyes widen. This guy just can't tell the truth can he? I frown but every body deserves a second chance. "I have to ask, how do you feel about Colby? He's kind of smitten with you. Says you're the whole package." She adds and I tilt my head to the side curiously and she laughs.

"I don't really know how I feel about Colby. At first I thought he was a little pushy and then when he kissed me last week I didn't want anything to do with him because I freaked out. I didn't think I was ready for it." I assumed that Zahra had no idea about Declan so I proceeded to tell her about Declan and how he had died but still encouraged me to follow my dreams. About four drinks later and I was pretty sure that poor Zahra was about to cry. "I'll be right back." I tell her and sneak off to the bathroom and to check on the twins. I came back with the letter that Declan had written me because I had told her about it.

After watching Zahra read the letter I had to giggle because she was a bit of a sap. "Oh my god that's actually heart-wrenching. You poor thing and now you have to deal with Colby." She sobbed before stumbling off of her seat and walking around to hug me. I smiled brightly and hugged her back.

The last thing I thought I would be doing tonight was getting drunk with Zahra Schreiber and having it end well. Well as well as it could end for two drunk girls. Zahra pretty much passed out of the couch after a few more drinks so I decided that I'd better call Colby. "Hey."

"Hi." I say in to the phone.

"How did you drink go with Zahra?" He asks curiously and I want to laugh because it wasn't a drink it was some drinks.

"I made her cry." I giggle in to the phone.

"You made Zahra cry? Same Zahra that I know right? Zahra Schreiber?" He seemed completely and utterly shocked.

"Yes Colby, same Zahra. She's currently passed out on my couch." I tell him with another giggle.

"Georgia. Are you drunk?"

"Ha! No!"

"Don't lie to me." He says sternly.

"Why not you lied to me." I slap my hand over my mouth; ok I'm a little bit drunk.

"Ok I deserved that one," He chuckled. "How did you make Zahra cry?"

"Declan wrote me a letter before he died and I told her about it and then let her read it. She pretty much hugged me and started babbling about how I was so unlucky that I had to deal with you now." I tell with a wide smile even though he can't see it.

"Sounds about right. Do you want me to come and pick her up?" He asks.

"If you don't mind, the last thing I want is for Sophia to have a heart attack when she wakes up because that nude girl you hang out with is on my couch." I joke.

"I'll be there soon, when I drop her off do you mind if I come back so we can talk?" He asks.

"That's ok."

"I'll see you soon." He whispers and then the phone goes dead.

When Colby turns up I have a whiney Tynan awake, not even sure why, he never wakes up during the night. Zahra also woke up but she definitely wasn't as whiney as Tynan. "He's so beautiful." Zahra cooed slightly less drunk than she had been half an hour ago. "I'm so sorry for just passing out on your couch." She says as we walk to the front door where Colby has just knocked.

"Its ok babe, you're welcome to come back anytime and meet Isla too." I tell her.

Before I open the door Zahra stops. "I can see why Colby likes you so much. And just so you know, he's really great too." She smiles kindly and we hug before we open the door.

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