A/N: I've got an update for you all! Loved all the guesses about who is at the door and well let's find out right away!

Oh and not my characters…

Chapter 16- Heard it All Before

-- Harborview Towers, Penthouse 2 --

"Surprise Jayssson!"

A complete expression of shock, mixed up with a lot of displeasure appeared on Jason's face. "What are you doing here?"

"Wow, nice welcome. You were happier to see me last time I dropped by." The visitor expressed in a low and raspy voice.

"Which was months ago. What do you want?"

"Just feeling like a little fun. So are you going to let me in or do I really have to force my way inside?" The shorter woman said dancing her fingers across his bare chest.

Jason quickly brushed her hand off of him. "Not going to happen. You'll have to find someone else to entertain you."

"Oh come on, let me in. I came all the way; you're not going to turn down a little action." She said insisting on the last word.

"I am not interested. Good night!" He started shutting the door but the woman blocked it with a hand.

"Who is it Jason?" Elizabeth spoke from behind him, unable to get an image of the woman talking. She had decided to throw on a robe and come downstairs to check what was going on when Jason didn't reappear fast enough.

"No one, don't worry, she was just leaving." Jason told Elizabeth then turned to face the other woman once more. "If you want to talk to me about anything, you can call my assistant and make an appointment like everybody else."

The woman laughed at his attempt to get rid of her. "Right your assistant, or matchmaker. Oh but I get it, you're not alone. You should have just told me that… we never promised to be exclusive."

"We never promised anything because we are nothing." The man hastily set the woman straight.

Elizabeth was following the exchange very closely, trying very hard to come up for a plausible explanation for the woman's presence. She couldn't find any. "What is she talking about Jason? Do you know this woman?" She asked with worried eyes.

"It's not what you think." He told her, but she didn't know what to think.

The brunette at the door was wearing a very short form fitting black dress with a plunging neckline; the perfect attire for a seduction act. She pushed Jason aside and entered the penthouse while chuckling annoyingly. "Know is an understatement. Well, Jason probably never said anything about me but I'll be glad to introduce myself." She extended her right arm to Elizabeth. "My name is Sam McCall."

Elizabeth who was trying to make sense out of the surreal situation only frowned in response. She wasn't amused, at all.

"Don't listen to her; she has nothing to do here. Actually, she's leaving now." Jason pointed towards the door but was ignored by the audacious woman.

"Hey, I just got here!" She exclaimed then turned to Elizabeth. "Anyway… I was in the neighborhood so I thought I'd visit an old friend. Right J.?" She said insisting on the word friend, and then went straight for the kitchen acting like she was right at home.

"What is this about?" Elizabeth was still in shock and could barely utter a word. She threw an angry questioning look at Jason. He seemed as taken aback as she was and left her with no answer.

The busty woman popped out with an empty glass in hand interrupting the pair. "Babe, what happened to your ice machine?"

It was way too much for Elizabeth to bear; she sighed noisily then went straight upstairs to gather her clothes.

Jason ran after her begging her not to leave. He explained that he barely knew that woman and that it was not what it looked like; a bunch of excuses she had unfortunately already heard before.

"You know what, I don't know who she is or what she is doing here right now but I am sure you and your old friend have a lot to discuss; starting by getting your story straight!"

Jason sounded as serious as ever. "Elizabeth please let me explain. You know you can trust me. Don't you get it, she is just trying to cause trouble between us, don't listen to her."

"I just need to get the hell out of here!" Elizabeth angrily let out.

All the words he was speaking where way too familiar as she had heard similar excuses when her last relationship had crumbled. Never again. She had promised herself that she would never be taken for a fool again. She got dressed as fast as she could and in a flash was out of penthouse two, leaving Jason alone with his so called friend.

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Jason stood still, his bare back against the cold wooden door. He was furious. Sam that he hadn't seen in months had perfectly chosen her moment to come back into his life and had ignited his first argument with Elizabeth. He was fuming and could sense the rage rapidly building up inside him.

Jason Morgan wasn't used to caring that much about a woman and certainly not used to getting all riled up about it. They usually came and went in and out of his life and when they became a nuisance, he would simply break things off and never see the person again. But that day his past literally came back to haunt him.

"You might need that." The impertinent brunette told Jason handing him an empty glass and a bottle of whiskey.

"SAM!" Jason yelled in extreme anger, startling the short woman. Her arrogant expression was replaced with worry. He continued. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh relax!" She distanced herself from his wrath and poured some liquor in her glass. She took a light sip and placed the bottle on the coffee table. "You are better off, believe me. Right now you're mad but you'll thank me later, you'll see."

"You did not answer my question." He said observing her with extremely cold eyes.

"You know exactly why I'm here, for the same reason I was the other times I came up to your penthouse… and usually straight to your bed but…"

"Enough! If you came here to piss me off well you did, so now leave." He sternly rejoined.

"Hey, calm down. It's not my fault if your little girlfriend is getting her panties in a bunch over nothing. I mean, look at her running out of here with her ridiculous I'm so hurt act. Gosh, she should know who she got involved with, why is she acting surprised all of a sudden? And by the way that should tell you something if she doesn't even trust you one bit."

Jason couldn't bear to hear another word coming out of her disrespectful mouth. "Get out! And don't even think about stepping foot in here again!"

"Are you sure? We could ce-le-brate…"

"OUT!"

"Ok fine! I'm leaving now."

The woman disappeared as furtively as she had first materialized on his door step. Jason hoped strongly that this would be the last time he would have to deal with her as he wondered what he had ever seen in her when they had hooked up a few months back. The blond man dropped on his sofa in desperation, both hands covering his face. Why was all this happening to him? Was he being punished for all the times he used women to the benefit of his image? Now that he had found the one, the only one with whom everything finally made sense.

Jason was falling hard for Elizabeth. He loved how she could be a dedicated designer and businesswoman one minute, an irrational firecracker or a sexy kitten the next; all these personalities hidden behind a particularly angelic smile but ready to surface at any time. Alas, something had to mess things up.

Jason jumped on his phone trying to get through to Elizabeth; He couldn't let her go to sleep thinking that he had been playing her all this time. He was aware of her insecurities when it came to men and it pained him to imagine Elizabeth thinking he didn't care about her because he did. It wasn't right that her heart had to ache because a stupid ex-conquest had decided to mess things up in his present relationship.

He called her five times, in vain. She was ignoring his calls. Rightfully so he thought. Her last relationship had been disastrous and from the beginning she had been reticent to jump into a serious romance by fear of having her heart broken again. Jason prayed he didn't rupture the trust that was steadily building between the two of them.

Elizabeth wouldn't answer the phone so Jason decided to drive up to her house. She would have to listen to him once he was there. He would scream if he had to but she would hear him. He just needed to talk to her.

-- Elizabeth's House --

Jason arrived at 132 Magnolia Avenue and knocked frantically on the door. He couldn't see any lights coming from the house. She might have gone to bed already he thought. He pleaded for Elizabeth to open the door but was ignored. He knocked some more calling her name frenetically. Jason stopped as he thought he heard steps. Maybe she had heard him and finally decided to listen to him. Silence was his only response. The blond man knocked on the door one last time with his closed fist in frustration. He went back to his penthouse defeated; it would be harder than he thought to get through to her.

-- Kate Howard's Mansion --

Elizabeth arrived at Kate Howard's imposing house still extremely mad at what had just happened. She had been convinced that getting with Jason was a terrible idea and that it would end up badly like it always did, and this night had proven it. The last thing Elizabeth wanted was to go home and be alone; she needed to talk to someone so asked the cab driver to take her to her mentor's house.

Kate had let her protégé in without asking any questions. The two women were now quietly sitting in her ivory theme living room.

Kate who was wrapped in a silky robe finally broke the silence. "What happened?"

"We finally made love tonight." Elizabeth simply offered.

"So why are you here? Did something go wrong?"

"No there was nothing wrong there, it was great actually, no it was perfect, everything I thought it would be. Until later, when that girl barged in…"

"Wow, hold on… what?"

"Yes you heard me! One of his other girlfriends came by tonight acting like she was right at home! I cannot believe I was that stupid to actually believe he was different! That I was the one lucky girl who was able to steal Jason Morgan's heart! How could I be so dumb?" Elizabeth wondered running both hands in her messy chestnut locks.

The young designer went on. "He has another girlfriend… or more! Who knows at this point? Maybe one in each city he visits… he travels so much and I have no clue what goes on when he leaves Port Charles. But now I think I have a pretty good idea!"

Kate filled a glass of water and slid it in her friend's hand. "So this girl just showed up in the middle of the night while you were there?"

Elizabeth stood up and started pacing restlessly across the room. "Yes, exactly… one minute it was me and him in each others arms and the next this stranger is in the middle of his living room insinuating crazy things!"

"But are you sure it's not a simple misunderstanding?" Kate tried to appease her friend's mind.

"Kate… If she was a colleague or something he would have said it. But it was like he got caught off guard and had no real justification for her presence. And what friend I never even heard of shows up at his place like that in the middle of the night. And she said something about the fact that they never promised to be exclusive!"

"Well… indeed…"

"How could he do this to me? I can't believe I actually thought that a man like him was going to be faithful… I knew it, from the beginning! I knew all about his reputation and I simply chose to ignore it! Why do I always make the same mistakes when it comes to men and why do I always fall for the biggest jerks? Why?"

Elizabeth took a sip of water before continuing her rant. "He told me so many times that I could trust him, that I was the best thing that happened to him in so long and that he wouldn't mess things up for anything. And I believed all these lies and fell right in his bed! So was that the plan all along? He didn't even wait for me to be out the door before switching to the next woman. Urgh! I'm such an idiot!"

"Elizabeth… stop beating yourself up ok! I know things look really bad right now but maybe there is an explanation to all this. Don't condemn him until you at least talk to him."

"You are defending him? I cannot believe this, you don't even know him and you are taking his side?"

"It's not about sides. I'm trying to be objective here and Jason has been so good to you, nothing indicated he would turn out to be such a dog, that's why I think you should at least hear him out."

Elizabeth closed her eyes for a few seconds, pondering over Kate's advice; but an image of the slutty bimbo appeared in her mind. "And if you saw her with that! She looks like a hooker, no taste whatsoever! I can't believe it! I can't believe he would ruin a good thing like this… for that! We were going somewhere… or at least I thought we were. I thought that this time was the real deal, that he would be the one."

Elizabeth dropped back on the couch next to Kate with tears about to storm down her face. The older woman placed a comforting arm around her shoulders and spoke to her with authority. "No no, don't cry! Remember, there is no more crying over a man!" She took the younger woman in her arms. "Come on, you can stay here tonight, I set you up in a guest room. And don't worry, whatever happens, remember that you'll be ok."

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A/N: Next on A Fashion Affair: Mixed Calls