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- Beth

Newspaper clippings, pictures and a bottle of scotch littered the coffee table in front of Nathan. He picked up one of the clippings "NBA star's wife dies in plane crash…" He scanned down and a picture of him and Rachel caught his eye. He remembered the night it had been taken, one of the many charity dinners they had attended but he remembered that night because of the necklace she was wearing. He had given it to her for their first wedding anniversary. He threw the clipping back on the table and took a swig from the dark liquid.

He picked up his cell phone and dialed his voicemail, listening to the message for what must have been the millionth time, "I love you. I love you. I love you." Her words haunted him. Filled with rage he removed the phone from his ear and threw it against the nearby wall. He picked up a picture taken on their wedding day as he downed another drink. That picture quickly made its way to the wall, the glass shattering and falling to the ground.

He stood looking around his home, a home he remembered buying because his wife loved it so. Lies. Everything was a lie. He had known they weren't the couple of the year, but he never thought she was that unhappy. She had always told him that by him following his dream, he was making her happy. Hell it was his paycheck that allowed her to solely focus on her modeling career. A career that his reputation helped build.

He looked at the lies of happiness surrounding him. Photo's on the walls, her smiling face looking back at him. A smile in which he couldn't tell if it was a lie, he couldn't tell if it was love anymore, how long had she felt the way she had?

His thoughts ended by the pounding on his front door, "Fucking press…" He took one more drink and slammed the glass on the table. The pounding continued.

"Ya, ya, I'm coming…" He angrily opened the door and immediately softened. There she was soaking wet, standing in the rain.

"Why!?" She stormed in without being invited, "Why did you have to come and make me relive every decision I've made in the last 6 months."

"That was never my intention."

"What WAS your intention? Huh? What could you find out that could possibly make this better?"

"Don't you ever wonder?"

"Wonder what?"

"Wonder when the last time your marriage was actually true? Wonder what moments actually meant something?"

Haley said nothing as his words sunk into her.

"I can't stop until I know when the last time I looked into my wife's eyes and she wasn't thinking of your husband."

"Nath-"

"No." He wasn't angry or mean, just to the point, "You may be able to go to sleep at night not wondering, but I need to know."

Haley's voice softened, "I don't have any answers for you Nathan…I'm just as hurt…I'm just as confused, but I refuse to live through their mistakes. Their infidelity. Their lies."

He moved closer to her, "I found this." He pulled a key ring from his pocket that held two gold keys."

"What is that?"

"I found this in her jewelry box" He snidely chuckled, "Filled with the jewelry I bought her."

Haley took the keys from his hands, "I don't understand."

"I'm thinking they had an apartment…no hotels, no receipts you know?"

"How could they have done that with neither of us knowing?"

"Well my side's pretty easy, I'm away…a lot."

"Yea, I saw in the papers you play for the Knicks right?"

Nathan laughed and kind of enjoyed that she had no idea who he was, "Ya the Knicks."

Haley sat on the couch looking at all of the articles and pictures, "She was beautiful."

Nathan sat down next to her, "Ya, she was…"

Haley sifted through more paper clippings about the crash, "This is too much, I don't know why I came here." She quickly stood.

"Haley…"

His voice stopped her in his tracks, "I keep going back, trying to figure out when it was I lost her. When she wanted out…"

"Nathan don't. Don't do that to yourself. This isn't OUR fault."

He stood walking towards her, "I need to know…"

Haley looked at her feet, "He started working later and later…" She wiped the tears from her eyes and quietly laughed, "I was actually proud of him…"

"Like you sai-"

"If they had an apartment, it would have had to been by his office. He may have been a lying son of a bitch but he did his job and he did it well. If he was going to-" She took a deep breath, "If he was going to sneak off…I'd imagine it would have been close."

Nathan took a moment and watched the young blonde before him, "Well I think we both deserve a drink, don't you?"

Haley politely smiled, "I think so."

A few hours later the two sat in Nathan's living room, Nathan on the couch and Haley sitting on the floor beside the coffee table. Two empty bottles of wine stood on the table, Haley took the last sip in her glass and put the glass down, "Looks like we need another bottle…"

Nathan laughed, "Luckily for us, Rachel loved her wine…" He stood up and walked into the kitchen. When he walked back out, wine bottle in hand, "You know I've never really been able to touch the stu-" He looked over at Haley who had a distant stare, "Hales you ok?"

"You know what kills me…" She didn't wait for him to answer, "That they did this and we don't even get to confront them about it..."

"Haley" Nathan put the wine on the table.

Haley grabbed it and poured more into her glass, "No. I know I had my chance…and maybe that's what's really bothering me. Why didn't I say anything? Why did I let him get away with it? Why-"

"Why did you…if you don't mind me asking."

She plopped down on the couch next to him, "I don't know…maybe I didn't want to believe it. Maybe I thought that if I didn't bring it up, then maybe it didn't happen."

Nathan chuckled, "Looking back I guess there were signs for me too…Rachel always said she was "hanging out with the girls"…but in our entire relationship I had yet to meet one of them."

Haley took another drink, "Love is blind my friend…love is blind."

Nathan stopped and turned to look at the woman before him. She was undeniable gorgeous. Rachel was a pretty girl, beautiful even, but there was something about Haley that mesmerized him. Her long blonde hair, her big brown eyes…he could get lost in her eyes.

Haley noticed his stare and immediately became self conscience, "Wh-what?"

"Nothing."

She shifted in her seat, "Well…" She looked at her watch, "I should go." She stood and brushed off her pants to smooth them out, "Thanks for the ah- wine…"

Nathan stood to meet her, "Haley."

She turned around, "Wha-" Her voice was cut off by his lips pressing against hers. Her arms wrapped around his neck and the kiss deepened, he pushed their bodies up against a nearby wall and his hands made their way from her hips up to her face.

Neither knew what was happening. Was it because they were angry? Was it revenge on the two people that hurt them the most? They didn't care. In that moment, nothing else mattered but them.

The loud ring from the phone broke them. Nathan pressed his forehead to hers, their breath heavy and eyes dark.

"I should go…" Haley softly spoke.

"Haley.."

The phone continued to ring.

"You should get that…I need to go."

He watched as she grabbed her coat and quickly walked out the door. He hit the wall in frustration as he made his way to the kitchen and grabbed his house phone, "Yah!?"

"Nate, there you are…I tried your cell but it went to your voicemail."

Nathan sighed, "Luke, bro…You have impeccable timing." He sarcastically responded.