A/N: This chapter…*sigh* I can't tell you how any times I've written and re-written and re-written this thing. I'm so sorry if it comes out wrong, but nothing would flow and I stayed up till 3:00 in the morning these past few days trying to get the right words unto Word…but I just can't help but thing how bad this chapter came out. I'm so so sorry if this isn't as good as the other ones, but the complications of Ezio and Amalia's relationship just can't get to me...and I just can't write it the way I want to. Stuff didn't come out properly and it's just UGH! So I had to cut the chapter short because I got fed up with writing it, and I needed to continue on with the story, so I'm sorry about this again.

Also, I changed up the point of view, so sorry if it's weird that I use I like every other word. I find it harder to write in this point of view, hence why I don't do it often.

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"Is there something the matter?" Leonardo asked me, placing a hand on my shoulder. I shook my head because I didn't want to bother Leonardo with my problems at all. It seemed that he already had enough trouble with Ezio so bothering him with my problems wouldn't be fair to him. "You can tell me anything."He said, trying to make me feel a little bit better. "Well…" I started, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear. "There is this one problem that I have."

"And what would that be my dear." Leonardo said sitting down on the bed next to me. "Well..."I said scratching behind my head. "Ezio and I have a…um…how do I say this. We both have a complicated relationship."

"What do you mean?" Leonardo asked, his eyebrows creased in confusion. "I have feelings for Ezio, and he confessed to me that he also has feelings for me, but watching how he acts around other woman, I feel like he lied to me. We aren't really exactly dating because of that, but still…"

"Ezio's not the best person to date because of his ways with woman, but if you truly like him then nothing should stop you from that. I believe that it would be best to take a break from him and see what happens."

"You really think so?" I asked looking up at him with hope in my eyes. "Or instead of sitting here, you should find him and talk to him. It is best to talk things out." I sighed and put my head in between my knees frustrated with myself. "How can I talk to him now? I gave him the dirtiest look I could muster when he was talking to you, and I even cursed him out when coming down here. I can't possibly face him."

"Yes you can!" Leonardo said, patting me on the back and flashing me a huge smile. "I'm sure that if the both of you talk then everything will be solved and the both of you will be back on speaking terms."

"And what makes you so sure about that."

"I've known Ezio for quite some time now, Amalia. He doesn't know how to express his emotions properly and he's a very stubborn person. Both you and him fit perfectly together because the both of you are complete opposites."

"And how does being complete opposites help?" I said, my voice muffled a little by my knees. "Well they always say that opposites attract!" He sounded a little un-sure on the last part, but I figured that maybe talking to him won't hurt that much. Maybe then we'd be able to get all of our thoughts out into the air and get everything off of our chests. "I guess I could try it…" I sighed and stood up stretching out my limbs a bit. "I'm sure he has much to say to you." Leonardo told her getting up as well so that he was now standing next to her. "Do you really think that he would actually listen to me, and what I have to say?"

"I'm sure that if he likes you then he would not have a reason to not listen to you."

"You're probably right." I said, placing a hand on my chin. "Do you know where he is right now?" I asked, walking towards the door to leave the room that we were currently occupying. "Uh..I believe that he is still on the top deck. That was where I last saw him at least."

"Thanks Leonardo! That helped a bit." I quickly hugged him and then ran out the room to go find Ezio. On the way to the top deck I started thinking of what exactly I should say to him. It was kind of hard to think of something to say seeing as how he was clearly wrong in this situation, but maybe if I decided to be the bigger person and apologize everything would go back to normal…somewhat at least. I opened the hatch that led to the upper deck trying not to make too much noise as I pulled myself up and out of the opening. I was greeted with darkness that surrounded the entire ship and twinkling stars that shone in the sky. The night sky was beautiful at this time as no cloud blocked the moon from shining down on the ship. It was actually quite romantic if you think about it.

Not that I'm thinking about that. I was just here to talk to Ezio. Nothing more.

"Ezio..." I called softly, looking around to see if he was actually up here. There was movement in the corner of my eye and I turned around to find Ezio with his back turned to me. I walked up to him slowly trying to be quiet as possible, but the creaking of the ship's deck gave away my location. He turned his head to look back at me, but once he saw that it was me he turned back around and paid me no mind.

"Can we talk?" I asked, walking over and leaned on the rail next to him. He glanced at me from the corner of his eye, but didn't make any indication that he had heard me. "I guess I'll take that as a yes then." I mumbled.

"Do you like me or not?" I asked, now turning so that I was looking at him and not the ocean. "Why do you ask?" He voiced, not even having the decency to turn in my direction to acknowledge me. "Well I kind of assumed that you didn't any more. I mean if Caterina interests you that much then by all means go after her, but…"

"Why are you being like this?" Ezio asked, now turning towards me with his arms crossed, and a scowl lining his face. "I'm sure you just enjoy arguing with me. Is that right?"He pushed getting closer towards me. "Why are you trying to turn the subject around! I just asked you a simple question and here you are trying to turn it around and act like it's my fault."

"So it's my fault then?" Ezio questioned, his tone getting angrier by the second.

"Actually yes it is." I cannot believe that he is trying to pin all of this on me. Just the nerve of him to do something like that. Does he like arguing with me? Because I will seriously yell at him until I have no voice left in me. Gosh! It seemed like we were such a married couple.

And we weren't even technically dating. Imagine if we actually were. Geez, I don't think the both of us could take it. Maybe Claudia was right. Maybe I should've just forgotten about my feelings for him in the first place, then none of this heartache would happen. My god, I'm so damn confused at the moment. What was I supposed to say to him now? I doubt that he would want to talk to me at all considering how ridiculous I was acting.

Ezio cleared his throat a little to get my attention back to him. "What!" I asked, glaring at him from under my hood. "I'm just waiting for your apology." He told me, a smirk lining his face. "You have gotta be kidding me." I said throwing my arms into the air. "What the hell should I apologize for?" I screeched turning back towards him to hit him on the chest.

"For jumping to conclusions," He explained. "What?" I asked, now a little confused. "Well for starters…" He said rolling his eyes, "I told you that I'm already falling for you. What would ever make you think that I would want someone else?"

"Hmm…let me see Auditore." I said tapping my fingers against my chin. "You said something about her being your next conquest, and all those other times you looked on other woman when I was…right…there." I uttered through clenched teeth.

"But I didn't do anything with them…right?" He mentioned, trying to make himself seem like he hadn't done anything wrong. "Well…no." I mumbled angrily, realizing that he did have a point there. So maybe he hadn't exactly had sex with them or kissed them or anything, but still. He had said that he was falling in love with me, and yet he goes and does that stuff. It's still unacceptable in my book. "So…" He trailed off stepping a little closer so that our faces were inches apart from each other. "I still think what you did is wrong." I told him. "What will it take for you to forgive me then?" He asked, wrapping his hands around my waist.

"For one…don't do that," I mentioned, taking his hands away from my waist. "Two, I won't forgive you until you do something so nice that it makes up for it."

"What could possibly make up for all of this?" He questioned. "When we land you owe me anything that I ask for."

"Isn't that a bit much Amalia?" He stated looking anywhere but her eyes at the moment. "I told you what could possibly make up for it and here you are questioning me."

"Look, you know how I am. I can't help but always question what you do because most of your comments and actions are questionable." I huffed and turned my head to the side with my eyes closed. Just his voice at the moment was pissing me off. He just couldn't learn to keep his mouth shut and not say certain things, but Ezio being Ezio….Well he was definitely unpredictable.

"I'm still not happy about what you did though." I mumbled trying to ignore his warm hands that were wrapped tightly around my waist. Wait a second. Since when did his arms get back there? That sneaky little bastard. He thinks that putting his strong muscular, well built arms around my waist will change my mind. It was kind of hard to concentrate on being angry at him when he had his arms wrapped around my waist, and I didn't want to look like a bumbling idiot who couldn't get anything out of my mouth, so I opted for keeping my mouth shut and glaring at him.

"You wound me signorina."

"I'm glad my point's getting across then."

"Can we forget about all this?" He pleaded, taking both of his hands from around my waist and clasping them together in a prayer like fashion. "You may forget about all this Ezio, but what about me. I'm not one to easily forget things like this. Especially if they hurt my feelings a lot…" I quietly whispered, looking away from his face. He really should've gotten the message so far that I was sad about all this, but instead he thinks that this is some joking matter.

Having feelings for someone isn't something that you can just toy around with. It really does hurt when I see him doing all this stuff with these different people. I may be tough on the outside, joking around and teasing him, but I'm actually quite a delicate person. There are certain things that I like and certain things that I hate when it comes to guys. Well to tell you the truth I'm not really an experienced person when it comes to dating. I've never dated anybody in my entire life…well what I remember of it, and I've never kissed anybody either. I wouldn't just willingly give myself away to anybody at that, so when I fell for Ezio and his…charms (damn him and his way with words), I kind of fell hard.

He always makes me laugh, and cheers me up whenever I'm down, so it would be fitting that I fall for him…right?

Wrong!

Falling for him proves that both he and I have many issues that we need to discuss. For one, his whore problem, and fucking anything that has two legs and can breathe. Two, for me and my possessive attitude and my jealousy towards all these girls, but you'd think that that would be the right thing to do. Me be angry at the guy I like because he always flirts with these different girls and fucked them before he and I became…something.

Not really saying that we are something, but it could potentially happen. Anyway, I feel like I'm just confusing myself trying to talk this out in my head. "Can you be serious for once?" I asked, once again trying to remove his hands from around my waist. "I am!" He defended. "I'm asking that we just forget about this and move on."

"Ugh!" I said rolling my eyes. "I'm not talking about what happened idiota. I'm talking about our relationship. I feel like we need to discuss this and get it all out in the open."

"Okay. Then you tell me what you want this to be." He asked stepping away from me a bit to cross his arms. "I feel that we shouldn't pursue our feelings for one another. I think that it'll cause too much heartache and that someone, preferably me, will get hurt."

"So you're going to side with Claudia, and try and dismiss your feelings for me." He said, sadness lacing his voice. "Well...now that you put it that way." I scratched behind my head, now realizing how much of a douche I sounded right there. "Okay. Then how about we start from scratch!" I suggested, my face brightening up a bit at the idea I came up with.

It would be perfect.

If we both start with a clean slate, then we'd be able to move on and try and get our relationship started.

"Didn't I suggest that before?" He asked a little suspiciously.

"Well…technically no. You kind of implied it though."

He sighed and shook his head. "Okay. Then I believe that I did not get your name signorina."

"Not THAT type of start!" I yelled, even though I was laughing on the inside. This man never ceases to amaze me. "Okay. Then how about…"

"No!"

"But I did not say anything yet, how do you know that I won't say..."

"No!" I repeated.

"But..." I gave him the evil eye quickly shutting him up. "You and Amanzio are one in the same."

"How so!" He asked, turning to stare at the ocean. "Well…the both of you flirt as if you won't be able to live if you don't."

"True."

"And the both of you are handsome." I smiled evilly as Ezio smirked at me. "I see. But aren't I more handsome than he is."

"You could say that."

"I see." Ezio said nodding his head a bit. "Don't worry, when we land I'll show you."

"Show me what?" I asked as I watched him start to walk away. "Don't worry about it."

"What the hell are you talking about Auditore!" I yelled, now utterly confused on what the hell he was talking about. "S…"

"What! I can't hear you."

"E." I strained my ears to hear the last of what he was mumbling. "X." He disappeared and left me standing there, wondering what in the hell he had just said. "Wait a minute..." I grumbled, counting off the letters he had spelt on my fingers. "S...E…" My eyes widened as I just registered what he had spelt.

"AUDITORE!" I screamed.

His laugh filled the air making me angrier at the fact that I hadn't gotten that before. That damn Ezio had nothing else on his mind did he. I swear that he's addicted to it. They should come up with some diagnosis for him or something. I swear that there really is something seriously wrong with him though.

"Oh just you wait." I mumbled as an evil plan formed in my head.

This was going to be one helluva trip.