Will

He quickly pushed her away and stared at her in somewhat of shock as well as disgust. "Helena, what the hell?"

"What?"

"What's wrong with you?" he spat back in shock

"What's wrong with me? I could say the same about you, YOU kissed me back!"

"I have a girlfriend Helena, just leave me alone" he started to walk away until her words stopped him.

"Well, I'm sorry but I was under the impression that you and Alicia weren't dating anymore especially because your girlfriend seems to be moving on already!"

"What?"

"Alicia and Chris. It's ironic right? I mean she's going out with mine and her best friends ex"

"What on earth are you talking about?" recognition surfaced through Helena's features and he watched her turn slightly red.

"You don't know?" she whispered, he shook his head. "Courtney said she saw them at the movies last night" she explained briefly and as he took in her words he felt his defences breaking all around him. It couldn't possibly be true could it? Although, there isn't any reason why she wouldn't; Liz had previously slept with Peter Florrick while Peter and Alicia were still dating, perhaps Alicia grasped some sick opportunity to repay the heartbreak, except as far as he knew, Alicia and Liz were on good terms (for some odd reason) and Alicia wasn't that cruel.

As he was still analysing the current topic, he sensed Helena's urge to continue the current conversation, until he gently shrugged her off. "I think you should stay away from me, I'm not interested Helena, why don't you go hook up with the next available guy" he said harshly before walking away, he knew he had sounded tough but his mind was currently running wild. He needed to talk to her.

He walked outside into the dark night and the loud noise of the crowd that came with it, he searched for her amongst' the bleachers but to no avail she was nowhere to be seen and he furrowed his brow confused. They were actually supposed to be meeting in this exact spot but as he gazed around for many minutes he discovered that she must have left. So much for wanting to talk.

He had searched around only to find out through a few friends that she and Liz had rushed out as soon as half time started causing him to shake his head defeated, already tired of the day's events. He left for home earlier than expected and decided that he was over it. He was going to talk to her the next day whether she liked it or not, if she wanted to make their relationship work she had to meet him half way.

Alicia

"It's okay Leesh, everything is going to be okay" Liz repeated as they sat on her bed, Alicia's head placed on her shoulder with tears running down her cheeks. "Just forget about him, he doesn't deserve you and fuck them, Helena is just a slut"

"You didn't see the way he was kissing her Liz….. They… they were all over each other"

"Are you sure it was him?"

"Yes I'm sure!" she rubbed the remaining tears away and glanced at herself through the mirror, astonished at the horrid mess she currently looked. "Why would he do that? Right before he wanted to talk to me, he was all over her" she repeated once again and covered her face with her hands. She felt an arm on her shoulder followed by gentle patting.

"One more week Leesh" Liz started off. "One more week until graduation and you won't have to face him or that ugly slut ever again" Alicia nearly laughed at her words; Liz was never one to use curse words but when it came to Helena Lenatta, she had every right to use anything against her.

"Thanks Liz, I think I should go home now, my mother is probably worried sick" she said as she glanced at the clock.

"Chris is coming over soon, we're going to the movies tonight, do you wanna come?"

"No thanks, and didn't we go to the movies last night?"

"Yes, but I want to watch the movie again and more importantly, I want to eat the popcorn again" she grinned but her smile soon fell as she took in her best friends form.

Alicia laughed lightly at her words. "Yea, well, have a great time, I gotta go" she mumbled

"He's not worth your tears Leesh, you've been through enough"

"I know, right now I just want to go home and climb into Owens bed" Liz giggled, walking her downstairs towards her car, she gave her one last hug, wishing her best regards.

As soon as she arrived home she past the kitchen where her father was sitting nervously at the kitchen table, as if he had been waiting for her to arrive home. She watched as he took in the sight of her face and moved closer grasping her forearm causing her to push him away.

"What are you doing here?" she spat back and took in the shock cross through her father's features. The irony in the situation was ridiculous, what was he really expecting? That she would run into his arms after three whole weeks of not seeing him.

"I've come here to talk. Your brother is going to stay with me next week at my new apartment and I was wondering if you'd like to come?"

"Too late, I'm going to Georgetown as soon as graduation is finished"

"You're what?" she heard her mother's voice behind her and turned to see Veronica standing in her robe, the lack of sleep clear in her features. She watched as her mother took in the sight of her face, primarily her eyes causing her face to falter. But before Veronica could ask Alicia jumped in.

"I've decided to head to college after graduation, start early on looking for apartments" and get out of here as soon as possible.

"When did you decide that?" her mother asked

"Uhh, about an hour ago" the shock in her parents features was clear enough except Alicia no longer cared, it was a decision and when she had her mind set on something, nothing was going to get in the way.

"Oh" Veronica looked hurt. "Are you sure?"

"Yeup" she said, slowly backing away. Avoiding the eyes of her father and the hidden hurt clearly visible to his eyes. "I'm going to sleep" she mumbled before rushing up the stair case.

Brushing straight past her own bedroom she headed straight for Owen's, opened the door only to be met with the sight of him, lazily splayed against his bed, asleep. She shook him by the shoulder, hard and abrupt causing him to groan in annoyance. "Piss off" he mumbled.

"Owen" her voice broke from the oncoming tears. "Move over" she instructed

His eyes shot open as he took in the sound of her shaky voice and softy shifted over to the other side of the bed. Rubbing his face in annoyance. She rested her head on his pillow and uncontrollably cried into his shoulder, grasping his hand for support as she whimpered hysterically.

"What did you and Will argue about this time?" he groaned

She shook her head and cried more, eventually Owen awoke somewhat fully and took in her form. She figured by the way his brows fell that she looked like the living dead which in retrospect, it was the perfect way to describe how she was feeling.

Owen shook his head and sighed "What happened now?"

Will

He walked through the halls of school, feeling the overwhelming sensation of knowing that it was his last week to ever walk the halls of this school. His sleep last night wasn't exactly the best, his thoughts kept traveling to Alicia and the conversation they never had. He kept wondering why she had left so abruptly, family troubles? Maybe something possibly to do with Chris? He hoped for the former.

As he reached the end of the hall he could clearly recognise Alicia's backside facing him, while she seemed to be in a deep conversation with Liz and what looked like Chris holding Liz's hand, confusing Will to the point of having to stop and gather his surroundings. Whoever said Liz and Chris were no longer an item was obviously, deviously wrong judging from the way he had his arm wrapped around her waist, shielding her bare stomach. But then again, whoever said Chris and Alicia were an item, were completely and utterly mistaken, he silently cheered but couldn't help wonder what was going on.

He also noticed how Liz seemed to be putting on a few pounds but discarded it and took in the real matter at hand, Alicia. Alicia was actually in same proximity as him. He moved closer. "Alicia!" he called out her name and watched as she turned to face him. His relieved smile lightly dropped as he recognised her pink, cried out eyes. Something was obviously wrong.

And that's when his blood ran cold, Alicia gave him a bitter, glacial glare that could easily have caused the whole universe to freeze, before she hastily brushed past Liz and marched outside. He furrowed his brow confused, etched with concern and turned to see Liz, also glaring at him as if she were fighting the urge to strangle his throat.

Before he could even respond to her glacial look, she jumped in first.

"How could you!"

Will was taken aback by her sudden icy attack. She moved closer, shrugging Chris away and standing up against Will.

"What?"

"Oh, don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about! You know what? You two deserve each other!"

He shook his head, baffled. What the hell was she talking about? "What?... Am I supposed to know what you're talking about Liz?"

"Don't play dumb Will! Alicia saw you making out with little miss short skirt last night, do you have any idea what you've done?" Her words sent his blood going below zero. She saw him? Yes, that was the only possible explanation to why her eyes ran cold as she made eye contact with him, only a few minutes ago.

"I have no idea what exactly she saw Liz but…"

"Let me make this easy for you, Alicia saw you all over Helena last night, so I think its best you just stay away from her now okay ass?" she spat back

Chris interfered "Liz come on, calm down" he grabbed her hand

"Stay out of this!" she pointed her finger towards him

"It's not good for the baby" he said softly, his gaze falling on her stomach.

Will took one glance at her form and felt his eyes fall in plain shock and realisation. Liz was pregnant and having a baby with Chris. That explained everything; the reconciliation of Alicia and Liz's friendship, the fact that Alicia had been spending so much time with Liz and also the secrets, he knew she had been hiding.

He wasn't sure if what hurt more was that Alicia hadn't felt compelled enough to tell him or that she didn't trust him enough.

"Just stay away from her, she's been heartbroken enough" Liz finished with a short sigh, followed by one more glacial, pathetic looking glare as she hastily turned around, rushing off, leaving Will completely dumbfounded.

Chris sighed, shaking his head in exhaustion as he began to follow his girlfriend, until Will gathered his baring's and quietly pulled him back.

"Chris man, what's going on?"

"Look dude, I don't know" he threw his hand in the air. "All I know is last night, I went over to Liz's and Alicia had been balling her eyes out on Liz's lap. I try to stay away from their stuff. I think Alicia just needs some time alone, to clear her head before leaving for Georgetown next week"

"Next week?"

"Yea. She's leaving after graduation"

"She's what?" he gaped in shock "She's leaving next week? As in moving to Washington next week?"

"Yes, yes, look. I'm not stepping into the middle of this, talk to Alicia about it" he pushed away, frustrated

"How am I supposed to talk to her about it if she won't even communicate with me?"

"I don't know, she's your girlfriend not mine. You deal with it" he said before walking away, leaving Will baffled as well as frustrated all in one.

He had some kind of sensibility in the way his feet moved, as if he were running but in reality, was marching forward trying to search for the only girl who could reduce him to this, it took a while, he searched amongst the field, the bleachers set, her classrooms but to no avail, she was nowhere in sight, until one idea popped into his head and as he walked into the gym, his corrections were right. She was currently perched onto the top corner of the seats above the gym bleachers sets.

He noticed her urge to try and conceal her appearance by stuffing a book in front of her face but that kind of stupidity never worked for Will. It was safe to say he could probably immediately spot her amongst a crowed of brunettes.

"You're leaving?" he said as he reached the bottom of the stair case and gazed up at her.

She took one look at him through her glasses, throwing them off and giving him a chance to look at her broken eyes and wore one look that could have easily made his body shiver.

"What?" she said sharply

"Georgetown, you've decided to leave early?"

"What do you care?"

"What do I care?" he said almost in shock. "That wasn't the plan Leesh, we weren't supposed to leave home until our courses were supposed to start. That was the plan" he said, the hurt conveyed in his voice and features.

He watched her scoff in fake laughter. "You don't get it don't you?"

He figured by the expression on his face that she received her answer by her next sentence. "There is no US anymore Will, it's over, it was over the minute you started hooking up with Helena, only a couple of weeks after you broke up with me. As far as I can remember that wasn't the plan, or was it your plan all along? Hook up with me, before dumping me and joining Helena Linnatas fan club of boys"

He shook his head, utterly frustrated and perplexed. "Okay" he sighed "I get why you're pissed Alicia, but me and Helena, there isn't anything there, there never was and I am deeply sorry that you saw that… last night, but it didn't mean anything, you have to believe me. I don't know what you saw but she kissed me and yes, I kissed her back but it only lasted a minute and I pushed her away…. Where are you going?" he said as he noticed her stand up and gather her belongings.

She sighed deeply. "I'm not in the mood to listen to your excuses Will, I'm really tired and I just want to go home and sleep"

"Well too bad because we're talking about this" –he really had no idea where he had found the strength to stand up against her.

"Will…" she shook her head

"We're talking" he stated sternly.

She sighed once again, before dropping her things on the seat and slopping down. Exhaustion written all over her face. "Fine, but keep your distance, I don't want to touch you right now"

Even if her request was reasonably understandable, it still didn't surface the hurt that struck him, especially because she didn't really seem to care that he was hurting too. "I didn't kiss Helena, she kissed me and it only lasted for a moment. I wanted to talk with you; that was why I had been waiting in the locker rooms for so long. I was trying to come up with the right things to say and then she came in and she was going on about you and I and how she heard we had broken up. And then she said something about you and Chris and that you two hooked up"

He watched Alicia take in the depth of his words, anger as well as shock forming in her eyes. "Chris?! You thought?..."

"Yes, yes, I know, it's stupid but at the time it seemed right and Helena kept going on about it, pointing out the facts and what not. It was when she said that she had seen you and Chris at the movies, I knew she wasn't lying so I thought the worst but then that all changed a half a half an hour ago when I found out that Liz was pregnant with Chris's child, which, brings me to my next question. Why didn't you tell me Leesh? I thought we had promised each other a long time ago that honesty was the best policy?"

"She begged me not to say a word to a single soul! What did you expect me to do? She's my best friend!"

"Yea, and I was your boyfriend!"

Silence soon filled their presence and he flipped his head down, leaning against the wooded chair and sighing in exhaustion. Alicia's voice brought him back to reality.

"Liz is pregnant, she's is growing an actual human being inside her and she's one out of a few people that I am sure I can trust with my entire life, including all my secrets. She knows things about me that I haven't even told you, so I figured the least I could do was keep this one secret from the world but seriously Will? What difference would it have made if I had told you? Regardless, you still would have dumped me"

"So we're going into that scope now? The break up stage?"

"Call it whatever you want, All I know is, you break up with me, explicating that you thought we needed a break before ignoring me for two whole weeks until you had some sudden urge to talk to me again, only to find you hooking up with the one girl in this school, that I can't stand. What kind of concept would you call that now? The heartbreak stage?"

"How many times do I have to say it Leesh? It didn't mean anything!"

-"That doesn't make it any better Will, that doesn't justify it. It still happened; you still kissed her back and as hard as I try, I can't get the sight out of my head. I don't think I ever will"

As he looked at her, she looked like she was suffering through some internal battle and he figured, she probably was. The sudden wave of realisation hit him as he recognised that he was the guy who damaged the love of his life's tears and heartbreak; it was then, that he hated himself more than ever.

She looked exhausted, that was evident and he felt truly sorry, but he wasn't ready to let her go home, just yet. He swallowed thickly. "I know you're leaving for Washington next week but I hate this Alicia, I hate arguing with you, I hate leaving things unsettled and I hate the fact that bad timing seems to be our worst enemy at the moment. I just want to sort things out between us before we leave for college, which, you and I both know, we don't need to leave until another month or so"

"I've made my mind up Will" she said softly "And I have forgiven you, but I'm just over it" she shrugged, sighing in deep exhaustion.

"We've just caused each other so much grief in the last month. Yes, the time we spent together were probably the happiest I've ever been but I think you were right in saying that we needed a break. I realised that last night. And it took me a while to realise what you meant, we were too wrapped up in each other and fighting half the time about our future that we had completely missed the headline. We're going to law school" a small smile formed on her lips.

"We have probably dreamed about this ever since we were kids, not much people have the opportunity to actually say they're studying law, not many people have the opportunity or the energy to work as hard. When I told you that I had gotten accepted into Georgetown, did I jump up and down in your arms? No, instead I bursted into tears because I was too fastened up into what life would be like without you. When you told me that you received a letter of confirmation from Harvard, I didn't jump up and down in excitement for you, but instead I ignored you for the whole day. That's what I'm talking about; we were too focused in each other that we completely dismissed the fact that law school is around the corner, law school mixed with years of exhaustion, student loans, bills to pay. Everything that revolves around becoming an adult"

-"You sound like my father"

"That may be, but I've come to the knowledge that some things have to change, I need to grow up and stop living In this bubble of paradise" he noted her stand up, start to gather her belongings once again, causing him to stand up and gaining her attention.

"So what you're saying is that you're all grown up now and that what we had was just a simple faze you were going through?" the hurt was clear in his features and he watched as she shook her head, almost in pity.

"No. What we had was special, and I loved you, I still love you, so much, but that doesn't necessarily mean that love will get us through years of being away from each other. In fact, I'm sure, one day, you will meet somebody that will win your heart over and I can't wait to see the day where you kick ass in court" she grinned, but he noticed that the smile hadn't reached her eyes.

She walked towards him, leant over and brushed her thumb against his cheek, the soft texture of her skin causing him to brush against it. She leant forward and placed a soft kiss against his cheek before whispering in his ear. "You'll always be my first Will, always"

Followed by gazing into his eyes, throwing him a sweet smile and walking away. Her boots echoing against the wooden floors as she walked out.

I know, I know, this is not what you were all expecting but it is far from over between them, in fact, it's just starting. The next chapter, is where the story kind of really picks up, which in a way, it was the intention all along. Please stick with me, see you all again in two weeks! (Wont be able to update anytime soon - that time of the year in uni, *sigh*)

And I think I should warn you in saying that, the next chapter kind of picks up in the future if you know what I mean;)