"Jamie, I am so sorry."
"Why are you apologising? You weren't the one that hit me."
"I knew we should have stayed away." Abi pulled Jamie down into a chair so she could clean him up. "Those Mitchell brothers have such bad tempers on them."
"And you went out with both of them?" Jamie laughed. "They don't sound like your kind of guys."
"Well," Abi sighed. "I was going through a difficult time."
"You're telling me."
Abi stood back to inspect her boyfriend's face properly. She'd done her best but Jay had messed him up pretty bad.
"I'm sorry," she said again bringing the cloth to his cheek.
"Stop apologising, will you?" Jamie laughed and kissed the palm of her hand."You're too nice."
Abi had to restrain herself from apologising again and giggled.
Jamie stood up and tucked a bit of hair behind Abi's ear. He was almost a head taller than him and she had to stand on her tiptoes to reach him.
"Listen to me," he told her. "You are the most beautiful girl I know."
Abi looked down, embarrassed. "I'm not-"
"And you're smart, and intelligent and the kind."
She looked up at him again. "Where are you going with this?"
"The bedroom, hopefully."
Abi giggled. "Well, its working."
Abi hadn't had sex with Jamie yet. She hadn't wanted to. She didn't want to rush into anything, but that was exactly what she had done with Jay and look how that turned out. So she thought it was time now. Over two months into their relationship and she was ready. At least she thought she was.

Jamie pushed Abi against the door as soon as they got into her bedroom. His tongue attacking hers, he began to tear of her clothes. Thank God dad isn't here, was all Abi could think. Before she knew it, they were on top of her bed.
"I love you."
Abi leant back. "What did you just say?"
"I said I love you," Jamie repeated.
"Erm, how much did you have to drink tonight?"
Jamie sat up. "I'm being serious Abs, I think I love you." he smiled. "No, I do. I love you Abi Branning."
Abi looked deep into Jamie's eyes, as if she was trying to find the source of the lie in them. How could he love her after what had just happened? They'd only known each other for two months and their relationship hadn't exactly been intense so far.
Jamie took her silence to mean something different.
"I've just embarrassed myself, haven't I? The feeling isn't mutual."
"No." Abi took his face in her hands. "No, of course not."
"Really?"
Abi nodded. "Really."

"Toast? Cereal? Fry up?"
"A coffee is fine, Abs."
"I can't send you to work on an empty stomach, can I?"
"I'm not hungry. Besides, you've done enough for me already." Jamie twirled Abi around so she was sat on his lap. "Last night, last night was enough."
"Abi pecked his lips. "I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." She stood up. "Coffee it is then."
Abi was filling the kettle when the door bell rang.
"Who's that at this time in the morning?" Jamie demanded, looking at his watch.
"It's probably just the post man," Abi shouted over her shoulder as she went to answer it. "Oh. Jay, hi."
"Morning." He gave her a small smile but stopped when he realised what she was wearing, or lack of. Abi had slipped into Jamie's shirt that morning without bothering to put on anything else and it only just covered her modesty.
"It's early," Abi spoke, distracting him from her bare legs. "What are you doing here?"
"I, um, I wanted to apologise for my behaviour last night, but if you're busy I can go."
"No, I'm not busy. Come in."
Abi closed the door behind Jay and they stood awkwardly in the hall. "Go on."
"I can't really remember what happened last night, but from what Lola told me I was bang out of order."
Abi folded her arms. "Yeah, yeah you were."
"I'm sorry for beating up your boyfriend."
Abi glanced to the floor when he said that.
"It was uncalled for and I'm sorry."
"You sound like you just read that from a text book," Abi giggled.
Jay smiled. "Did you expect anything more?"
"Of course not."
"Babe, who is it?" Jamie came out into the hall and slung his arm over Abi's shoulder.

Of course he was here. It made sense now that he had turned up half naked. It was his shirt Abi was wearing. He'd spent the night, and that only meant one thing. It was game over for Jay.
"Jay came to apologise, didn't you?" Abi eyed him as if to prompt him.
"Oh really?" Jamie smirked.
"Yeah, I'm sorry for punching you last night. I just had to much to drink and I lost my temper."
"I've heard you've got a bit of a habit of doing that."
"Well, it looks like I did a good job, doesn't it?" Jay gestured to Jamie's black eye.
"Yeah, thanks for that. Just what I needed for this important meeting I've got today."
"Jamie," Abi warned.
"Shouldn't you be getting off then?"
"And leave you alone with her? I don't think so."
"You haven't got trust issues already, have you? That won't get you very far."
"It's not her I don't trust, it's you."
"Really? I wasn't picking up that vibe."
"Cut it out, both of you," Abi interrupted. "I thought we were sorting things."
"Well, we're not going to become the best of friends if that's what you mean," Jamie said.
"No, Abi's right," Jay added, attempting to seem like the bigger person. "I came here to apologise so that's what I'm going to do."
"Well, you've done it so you can leave now."
Jay held up his hands. "Alright, I'm leaving."
"Jay...wait."
He paused, his hand on the door handle.
"Go on, Jamie."
"What?"
"Apologise."
"What for?"
"You were the one that wound him up," Abi whispered urgently. "Apologoise."
"Okay. I'm sorry for antagonising you last night, it was uncalled for." Jamie held out his hand to shake. Jay took it, not wanting to upset Abi.
"Sorted?" Abi questioned.
"Yeah," Jamie agreed. "We're good."
"I'll leave you to it then. See you around"
Jay turned to close the door behind him, but he wasn't quick enough to miss Jamie leave a trail of kisses down Abi's neck.
That was it. Jamie had won, and man did he know it.