Rome was great, as Jay promised it'd be, but Emma missed Jay more than ever. The different time zone made it hard to call sometimes but when they finally reached another, they caught up on everything.

But by the second month, it was getting harder, her and Manny have met people and had started going out, so Emma started missing his calls.

He was becoming paranoid, Emma would try to calm him down but the pictures he sent him she was always with Manny at beaches or parties surrounded by guys. How could she not be interested in ONE?

Simple, just like he hasn't been interested in one girl.

Jay worked at the auto shop when his friend Tyler kept bugging him about barely hanging out anymore.

"Trying to get out of that scene." Jay admitted, cleaning his tools with a wrench

"What scene?" Tyler asked bitterly, "The ravine, or your friends?... or both?" he crossed his arms.

Jay bit the end of his tounge, I guess it seemed that way.

"Dude I just got a girl friend who doesn't approve at all of that place." Jay said, remembering Emma even use to have an environmental club that went down with her there to clean the place up.

Jay snickered shaking his head. Such a goody two shoes.

"Girl friend or new mom?" asked Tyler.

"Watch it Tyler." Jay snapped with a glare

"Where's your thrill anymore?" Tyler asked, "You used to be crazy with parties and with me man. Who says you still can't have fun if you have a girl friend?"

"I went to Towerz's party last week!" Jay exclaimed

Tyler rolled his eyes, "That was a poker game get together, I mean legit a party." He then eyed Jay, "are you afraid of being around other girls?"

Jay narrowed his eyes at him, "I may seem not the same anymore, but trust me, I'm still me and one more comment like that sparky? I'll rip your head off."

"No harm." Tyler said, lifting his hands in defence, "I think your getting mad because it's true. Your so use to cheating on girls, and now your dating what you seem to think is the perfect girl, yet .. you hide yourself away. If she's truly the perfect girl you have nothing to be afraid of, you won't feel any temptation when around girls."

Jay threw a tool into the tool box and avoided Tyler's face. Why was he hiding from his friends and usual hangouts since Emma left?

"Fine." Jay snapped, "whens the next stupid party?"

"Tomorrow night." Tyler said with a grin.

A jeep slowly approached in the garage, "Hogart, got you a new project." Came Tony's call.

When the jeep stopped, a brunette came out. Tyler whistled lowly behind Jay who turned to it.

Jay grabbed a clip board with a legal sign paper and walked over to the driver.

"Just need you to sign this." He says and went to look at her damage on the front bumper.

The girl nodded and took the board after she did a double take at him, wow, he was gorgeous.

"It's Jay right?" the girl asked.

Jay looked up from her car and at her, a bit confused. His mouth shaped into a 'o' and squinted his eyes as he tried to figure out how he knew her.

"Sorry, you don't know me, I'm one of Alex's friends." The girl said, "Melissa."

Tyler was smirking holding a tool in his hands and sitting up on a table as he watched the scene. Melissa was hot, tall, hour glass skinny, long long dark brown hair, pale milky skin and wore jean shorts with a ripped up shirt purple shirt. She kind of looked a little punk, but a sexy one at that. Like a girl who crawled out of a tattoo magazine. The girl also had tattoos on her, some words on her wrist, a sparrow on her left arm and a rose on the back of her neck. She also had a little diamond stud on her nose.

Jay made a bit of a tsk sound, "That can't be good." He had to admit. Anyone who knew him by Alex probably wanted him dead.

"No, no. Well I mean I heard a lot about you but hey, people have heard shit about me too. Don't worry." Melissa joked and admitted, "Some girls were shocked why you were with her in the first place."

Jay just nodded with a big of a friendly grin, not noticing her eyeing him up and he went back to looking at the damage at the front of the car. As he bent his knees to see closer, she stood behind him.

"So, got a new girl friend?" Melissa curiously asked him.

Tyler grinned.

Jay tried his all not to make a sly comment, "Yeah I guess." He said. Though she's busy, partying with other guys.

Tony looked up, glancing at Jay from his desk. He knew about Emma, guy never shut up about her, even if he was mad and paranoid about her now, he still didn't shut up about her.

She finished the chart and handed it to him, "Well if you guess, then maybe you can come to a party tomorrow night?"

"He's already going!" Tyler said excitingly behind them.

Jay narrowed his eyes and looked back at Melissa, she may be pretty... but she was no Emma. So no harm right. Plus, it was a party, not like he'd be alone with her.

"See you there." Melissa said with a wide white smile before walking off.

Jay couldn't help it, it was the old Jay just trying to get a peek. It's been a long time, him and Emma haven't been together for 1 month, 3 weeks and two days. He hasn't had sex or anything close to it in THAT long. Jay watched Melissa's ass for a second. A SECOND, ok? Could you blame him.

Tyler put an hand on Jay's shoulder, shaking it while grin.

"Saw you check her out." Tyler said and Jay yanked his hand off, getting back to work.

Later, Jay found himself actually REACHING Emma tonight.

Emma: Two more weeks til I'm home.

Jay: Are you even wanting to come back?

Emma: Jay?...

Jay: I'm sorry.

Silence.

Emma: I miss you a lot.

Jay: You too.

Emma:... Well, um.. what are you doing this weekend?

Jay: Some party with Tyler.

Emma: Whose Tyler?

Jay: A friend.

Emma: Oh. Whose party?

Jay: I don't know.

Emma: Are you going with Tyler only?

Jay: What's with the 21 questions?

Emma: I'm trying to make conversation because you won't?

Jay: I don't know what to say! The how are you's and how's Rome? Is getting old okay?

Emma: Fine. Don't call if you have nothing to say then.

Jay: Emma, it's not that I just-

Emma clicked off.

Jay sighed, closing his eyes. He was just feeling a little lonely was all. But thanks for staying on the phone and hearing that out!

Now she was mad at him. And now she was probably going to go out with those lovely guy friends of hers.

Jay yanked the phone out of its plug and whipped it at the wall.

He rubbed his forehead, awfully sick and tired of this. He missed her, he was ACHING for her, it wasn't fair, it was too long. She was drifting from him

BACK IN ROME.

Manny had walked into the room and over heard Emma before she hung up on Jay.

"Trouble in paradise?" Manny asked as Emma was shaking her head at the phone like it had done something to her personally.

"He hasn't talked to me in a week and a half and when we finally get a hold of another, he has nothing to say?" Emma asked, turning her head to Manny like that was insane.

Manny sat on the couch with her, "Maybe he's just .. missing you?" she guessed.

"If he missed me, we would of spoke to me and said he missed me back. I got back 'yeah you too'." Emma mocked and threw the cordless phone on the other couch and huffed madly.

She knew this stupid Rome thing was going to do something.

"He's changed." Emma said quietly and painfully.

Manny sadly watched Emma and admitted, "When so far apart for so long, things change...people change..." she didn't want to say it but sometimes it was true.

Emma just shot up from the couch, "I'm going to skip out on tonight, sorry Manny." With left, she went into her room upset.

The day of the party, Jay walked into the banging house with Tyler. Music was pumping, house was trashed, girls were making out with another.

"Lets grab some beer!" Tyler yelled over the music, guiding Jay.

They both popped open their cans as Melissa spot Jay and came on over.

"Goddess with the ass to your right." Tyler said to Jay, nodding infront of him. A confused Jay gave Tyler a look and looked to where he pointed.

Melissa smiled being trailed by her friends, "Hey Jay, Tyler. This is Eve and Rachel."

Eve and Tyler seemed to smirk at another immeditatly.

Melissa smiled to Jay who was already on his second beer. It's been a while okay?

"I was just telling my friends how brand new my car looked after your hands were on it." She teased.

Jay looked at her other friend, Rachel, who was nodding and giggling. He coughed awkwardly and nodded back to Melissa.

"Glad you like it."

"You want some shots?" Melissa asked, raising her own bottle of Jack Daniels.

Towerz came up from behind and laughed, patting Jay's back, "That's Jay's favourite!" he declared.

Jay bit his tounge but just nodded, couldn't lie, it was.

Melissa handed him a shot and poured her own, he went to take it until she held hers out to him. He eyed her, and then the shot. What the hell, Emma was 1000 miles away doing the same thing like every other weekend. He cheered her and took the shot.

Then two more.

Then maybe another two more.

Tyler laughed taking photos off his phone of Jay trying to fight Towerz but tripped over his own two feet, the guys falling onto the floor laughing. The girls around yelped but giggled uncontrollably too. Tyler then watched Jay get up with the help of Melissa. He eyed the scene before slowly taking a picture of that too.

Then another picture of Melissa smiling up at Jay.

"Your very drunk!" Melissa had to insist to Jay.

Jay snickered, well, he had a bad week! So yeah, he was very famous on drinking shitty times away.

"Come on, I'll drive you home." Melissa said, taking his hand and guiding him out.

Eve was macking on Tyler's arm, but Tyler couldn't miss the chance to take a picture of Melissa's hand in Jay's, leading him out

He smirked and went back to making out with Eve.

Jay blinked hard, trying to see straight. He removed his hand from Melissa's once he noticed it was in it and rubbed down his face.

They made it to the porch when he did that and he sighed, "I'll just catch a cab" he said. He knew Melissa had been flirting all night and the attention again was nice but.. he'd never betray Emma. Even if she hated him probably right now, he'd never.

Melissa eyed him and said, "But we were having such a good night?"

"Melissa, your hot and all, but I got a girl friend." Jay informs and grinned a bit drunkenly, "And she can be hot and beautiful at the same time." He shook his head viriously, "Not a lot of girls can do that."

Melissa then smiled and stepped closer. He coughed, noticing that and backed up on the porches rail until she had him up against it.

"Girl friend, Melissa." Jay reminded again, more serious now.

Melissa sighed and rolled her eyes stepping back, "Who I hear, BARELY talked to you all summer. Leaves you high and dry."

"She can leave me anything, as long as she comes back." Jay bittered, glaring at Melissa.

Melissa crossed her arms, "Your passing up a girl who can finally let out all the frusterations build up in you." she confirmed.

Jay snickered, and just walked down the porch steps, muttering out loud, "This was a mistake." He should of never come.

"JAY!" Melissa yelled but he didn't come back.