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Cosmo didn't even care. She continued to kiss Seth as she could feel him starting to get weak. God help him that he wanted to kiss her right back. He missed her kissing, her touch. He missed everything about her.

But he couldn't tell her. He couldn't do it. In that moment, he had to be the one to break it as he pushed her off of him.

"You are only embarrassing yourself." He shoved her, to which she almost stumbled. Cosmo looked at him carefully as he looked distraught, not expecting her, not expecting that wonderful kiss. Not expecting her all together for that matter.

"I thought I made it very clear to you that I wanted nothing to do with you. Leila is my fiance and we are working on our relationship. What we have is real."

"No what you have is nothing but lies." She argued. She took Seth's hand into hers. "Seth...I know you. This isn't what you really want. This isn't like you. I remember when you told me that you loved me and that you wanted to build-"

"I lied alright?" He swallowed hard, trying to keep up with the charade. "I only did it because I felt sorry for you after the accident."

"What about the time when you and I made love...before..."

"Before Dolph walked in? I only used you for my benefit alone, Cosmo." He said coldly. "I wanted to get revenge on him and using you was so easy. I know how much you love to open your legs a lot."

It killed Seth inside for him to say that. He wished he could just tell her the truth. But it wouldn't do any of them good. It would only make things worse. The only way he would even make everyone happy is to keep withholding the truth.

"I know you are only saying this because of Leila. I know it. You can go ahead and try to insult me or hurt me as much as you want but we both know this isn't you." She cupped his cheek. He wouldn't meet her eyes though.

"Seth...look at me." She encouraged him. "I want you to look at me right now.."

He slowly met her eyes but not all the way. The first sign that something was wrong. That something was off.

"What has she done to you.." She spoke softly. "Let me help you, my ninja."

Seth didn't say a word as he looked at her, his eyes filled with anguish.

"You are pathetic." He shoved her once again, trying to hurt her on purpose. He wasn't sure how much longer he would be able to keep this up.

"You know what, Seth? Why don't you step up and be a man and talk to me? Why don't you stop running away?" Cosmo argued, clearly frustrated.

"Honestly, I don't know what happened to you but I know one thing; I remember when you would openly tell me what's on your mind. I remember all the things you have done for me. And in no less than 24 hours when you told me that you loved me. I remember how you use to be. I remember when everyone else gave up on me with my drug addiction, you stayed with me until I was able to break through the addiction. I remember the man who made a romantic setting for me because I had never experience it before. I remember when you encouraged me to go back to school, to get my degree and graduate. The man who would stay in the hospital with me day in and day out when I was in that accident."

"That man was nothing more than an act. Like I said, I felt sorry for you." He repeated his words, trying to get it through her head. Damn, this woman was stubborn. Why couldn't she leave this shit alone?

"I want the truth, Seth. Tell me what Leila has done."

"That is the truth!" He screamed at her, throwing his glass of scotch across the room, his anger taking over. "Now get out. You're ruining everything."

He grabbed her arm as he snatched her up, trying to throw her out but she fought back, even as he continued to shove her, she pushed him right back.

"Just get out!" He cursed at her. "Get the fuck out right now!"

"I said, no!" She pushed him back as she slammed the door. "You are not going to fight me anymore. And I'll be damned if I let you marry someone else, when you know you don't even love them, when you sure as hell don't even love Leila. You never have."

Seth finished getting dressed, ignoring her. But Cosmo wouldn't stop her argument from there as she snatched his drink from his hand.

"Damn it Cosmo.."

"Seth will you please stop this? Stop all of this.." Her eyes laced with tears. "You are not this horrible."

"How do you know what I'm like? Don't you remember when all those times where I have emotionally hurt you? How I.." He balled his fist in anger, not wanting to relive that memory.

"How you what.." She took her hand in his.

"...How I had raped you that one night.." He whispered to her.

She closed her eyes, remembering that night when it was her, Dean and Seth. When Seth fucked her anally without lubrication. She begged him to stop but he wouldn't and it was only until Dean got him off of her. She was bleeding for two days and her ass hurt for almost a week.

"Seth...I know what happened..." She cupped his face again. "But that doesn't matter to me because I still love you.."

"Shut up." Seth sounded weak. It was as though instead of warning her he was pleading with her but it was a lost cause.

"It's true. I wasn't sure what I wanted. I admit all I had wanted was sex from the beginning and I was letting everyone get inside my head. But you've made things clearly now. I just need for you to talk to me."

"You are not a monster. Right now you are but you've never been this way before."

"Well then do what you've always been doing. Go to someone who really is in love with you. Why are you even here? Why are you trying to convince me otherwise?"

"...Because I am going to find the man who done so much for me. Who let me even sleep at his place, who would care for me when I was broke and down on my ass with no income. When I was bloodied and bruised, on the verge of death in the hospital. When you talked to me when I was almost brain dead."

"In fact.." She went into her purse as she dug out a special box to give to him. "Do you remember this.."

He opened the box as it was the cotton candy color carnation he gave to her on that Valentines day.

"You brought me that bouquet when Justin and I were fighting and he forgot about Valentines day. You bought those flowers for me so that I wouldn't feel so alone.." She wiped her tears away. "I'm going to figure this out and I will not give up until I find out what Leila has done."

She brushed a piece of her hair back that was falling over her face as she grabbed her purse. She found herself once again, kissing Seth as he was not expecting her to continue holding on to him.

In that moment, Seth found himself kissing her right back as he pulled her close to him, enveloping into each others embrace as if time had stopped for them.

"Seth hurry up already! I'm waiting!" They both heard Leila's voice screeching, worse than the Wicked Witch of the Oz.

God help him but Seth never wanted that kiss to end. He had to do it though.

"You need to leave." Seth's eyes turned dark. "If you don't stop this right now, I will file for a restraining order. Don't make me do this."

Cosmo got up, as he tossed the box on the bed. They waited until Leila had left, not knowing that Cosmo was in the room with Seth.

Before she left, she looked at him once more. "I am never going to give up on you. You are in for one hell of a fight, Seth Rollins."

And she finally left him by himself in his room as he had to recollect his thoughts. He looked at the small box she gave to him as it still held that pink multicolored flower in it. He remembered how happy she was to receive a gift such as that.

Now it was too late. Even though Leila was blackmailing him, he knew in retrospect, that he might as well be dealing with the punishment anyway. Not a day goes by that he didn't think about all the times he's hurt Cosmo and then when he raped her. He was not himself. He was aware of his actions but he continued and he hated himself for that.

He was a sorry excuse of a man and being with Leila was indeed the punishment he would have no choice but to deal with. Marrying her would be his punishment.

However, unaware to both of them, someone had been watching the scene before them and heard everything.

A FEW DAYS LATER

Cosmo was working a tedious job through a temp agency as she was working at a call center for AT&T. She had two weeks left of school and as boring as it was, at least it would help her with some sort of income.

It was then her phone vibrated as she saw the text message on her phone.

"Meet me at Starbucks.

I have the answers you are looking for."

Cosmo suspected it would be no more than a trick. She didn't recognize the number as it was unknown and had added it up to believe it could have been Leila or a stalker. But she decided to take a shot in the dark and meet up with whoever it was.

As soon as her lunch break hit, she clocked out and she decided to head up the street to the Starbucks. She could go for a White Chocolate Mocha anyway.

A soon as she stepped in, she saw Seth there as well. God he looked so damn good. But she could see from the dark circles he was losing sleep and he didn't look happy anymore. He was more agitated and angry with everyone and everything.

When he looked up to find Cosmo, his face twisted up.

"Why are you here? Did you send this text message?"

"I got it the same thing you did, so chill out." She assured him. "I was asked to meet here as well."

"Good. You guys are here."

They looked up to see it was none other than Leila's friend or in this case, her minion; Marybeth.

Cosmo's eyes furrowed in suspicion. "You're the one that texted us?"

"What the hell do you want?" Seth hated Marybeth as she was always on board with Leila's actions and would even lie for her when he knew she was cheating. She was as despicable as Leila.

"Look, I know the both of you hate me, especially you Cosmo. But I'm here because I have something to share with you both. Something that may help you."

"Weren't you suppose to go dress shopping with Leila? The wedding is tomorrow."

"I told Leila that my daughter had to go to the hospital because she wasn't feeling well. As much as she threatened me, I was able to convince her to go without me. I don't have much time but this is important." Marybeth twirled her dark hair, her nerves shaking her all over.

"Look, Marybeth, whatever lies you are about to tell me, it won't work and you can bet the fact that I am not afraid of Leila. I love Seth so much." She forced the tears back down. "I'll do anything for him."

"I'm not about to sit here with this crap. Both of you can go fuck off." Seth got up, aggravated, wanting nothing more to do with any of this.

"So then I guess neither of you want to know what happened the night Cosmo got hit by that car, almost causing her death..or how about the fact that she was drugged to set up the accident..."

Seth suddenly turned around and Cosmo looked at her carefully.

"What..." Cosmo blinked, not believing what she was hearing. Seth wasn't sure if he heard her correctly. How did she know about the accident.

"You two may want to sit down for this." Marybeth pulled out her phone as she held up the record app.

"On this player is everything that happened that night; and who was behind the accident."

As Seth and Cosmo looked at her then each other for a moment. It was either believe her story or not.

"Play the tape.." Seth told her.

...

Needless to say, it was Leila confessing to everything and every little scheme; From making Cosmo lose her job, from the hit and run and all the times of stalking Seth, threatening Cosmo and the whole plot to fabricate the story of Seth raping her.

As the recording ended, Cosmo looked at Seth, all of this coming to realization. "So that what was she held over you.."

"I didn't remember anything that night..." Seth spoke quietly. "Then she said I cut her skin..that I had a knife, cutting her all over as I was sleeping with her. I was so fucking drunk that I almost forgot when I was born.."

"That was the plan. She knew a guy and used Justin, your ex. " She said looking at her. "To get you two to hate each other. Justin and Leila were in cahoots with the whole thing. Leila warned me that if I ever spoke a word about this to the cops, she would have my daughter and I not only on the street but she would become a young woman "early" if you know what I mean."

Cosmo was horrified and needless to say, he didn't think Leila was capable of doing some fucked up shit like that. Leila wasn't the girl he met in college when he first fell in love with her. Now she was nothing more than some psychotic bitch.

"...And you knew about this the whole time and you let her get away with it?!" Seth raised his voice, Marybeth frightened as everyone stared at them.

"Seth please.." Cosmo tried to calm him down. "It's not all of her fault."

"But she was the one that-"

"I know." She agreed with him. "But she came to us and she told us everything..."

"Cosmo...I am so sorry for everything.." Marybeth started to cry. "I know me and my daughter will probably be out on the street now that the both of you know but I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't take anymore of Leila's abuse and with Seth being unhappy. Cosmo, you really are a good person and I know I don't-"

"I forgive you..." Cosmo shocked them both.

"What?"

"I forgive you, Marybeth." She went over and hugged her. "And don't worry, you and your daughter will not be going out on the street."

"How? Leila is paying for the rent and I was forced out of three jobs because of her. She's powerful."

"You leave that to me." She told Marybeth, holding her hand. The young woman was indeed frightened of Leila and was easily manipulated and controlling and abusing her. Marybeth looked as though she wanted to cry. "I promise you, that you and your daughter will not go out on the street."

Marybeth swallowed hard as Cosmo indeed promised her and she seemed like a woman who would keep her promise.

"I am so sorry Seth. I just couldn't let you go through with it. I'm sorry I was part of that reason."

"It's ok. Me and Cosmo have a lot to talk about though but just go to Leila and send that recording to me, so she can't find any evidence through your phone. Just pretend that everything is normal ok? We never even met.

Marybeth nodded following Seth's orders as she grabbed her purse and walked out. Cosmo knew this was a lot to process as it was to Seth.

"Come with me.." Seth took her hand.

Since Leila was gone for the whole day with her maid of honor and bridesmaid, Seth and Cosmo were back in his bedroom.

And it was just as passionate as the other times where they didn't want to come up for air with all the making out they were doing, with Seth on top of Cosmo, loving the look in her eyes. Cosmo was so happy to have him back that it was unbelievable. He was smiling again.

"I can't believe how much of a piece of shit I've been. And you still wanted to help me...you -"

"It wasn't your fault." She touched his cheek, her small hand running up and down his arm as he was bare chested as she was only in her sundress, barefoot. She missed this; She was so blind to all of this.

"I was so blind and stupid. My head was so far up my ass that I really didn't see how much my feelings for you changed as time went on." She kissed him once more. "But now I see it."

"I've always been in love with you. But when Leila threw in the deal to marry her or go to jail, I didn't have a choice and I felt like I deserved it." He sighed heavily. However, he became angry at the fact that Leila attempted a hit and run, damn near killing Cosmo and wanted to strangle the bitch himself.

But one look at his Tinkerbell and he was calm.

"What do we do? Now that we know the truth? You can't continue to go through with the wedding tomorrow."

"Oh the wedding is going to continue as planned.."

"What? I don't understand.." Cosmo looked at him confused.

"Just trust me. Leila is going to have that wedding she will have always dreamed about."

He kissed her knuckles and Cosmo read him carefully as she smiled herself, knowing that Seth had a wicked plan in motion.

It was time to end Leila once and for all and this time, they would do it together with nothing getting in their way.