Diane closed down the files she was working on and proceeded to shut down her laptop. Running her hands through her messy hair, she closed her laptop and placed it on the bed. She stood up and walked towards the dressing mirror. Peering at her reflection, she took in her appearance – the messy hair, her shirt pajamas that was sliding off her arm, her swollen eyes and the bags under her eyes that screamed sleeplessness. She had woken up since three o'clock in the morning and had been unable to sleep bag. She had tossed around on the bed, trying to get herself to sleep but she couldn’t. Instead, images of her special moments with Nicholas kept flashing in her head and it annoyed and saddened her at the same time. Desperately wanting to put her mind off Nicholas and her marriage, she had sat up, picked her laptop and started working on some certain files she needed in the company. It had helped but she couldn’t sleep again. Now, it was six o'clock in the morning

Diane sat on the couch in Jayden’s living room, a couple of files and papers spread across the center table in front of her. She crossed her legs and tucked it underneath her, then, spread few more papers and files on her legs. She had a pen in her right hand while her left hand adjusted her glasses.As she flipped through the files, her mind and thoughts wandered aimlessly, distracting her from her work. She shook her head, trying to refocus her thoughts but that was hard as she found it hard to concentrate. She found her self staring at a particular page in a file for more than ten minutes without actually reading anything. Then, when she caught herself, she would have to start over again. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t concentrate. Her mind kept wandering back to the events in her office.Derek Hale. The name popped into her head and she unconsciously gritted her teeth as she thought of him. That bastard of a man. He had resorted to threateni

Diane sat close to the window in the cafe, a cup of coffee in front of her. Her arms were folded across her on the table and she tapped her fingers rhythmically on the table. All she could think of was Jayden’s confession last night. She couldn’t believe it? How did she not see it? He was in love with her! How could she not know? Damn it. And all these while she had been pushing him to her sister. Shit.After his confession last night, she left him in the living room and bolted to her room. She needed to think and having Jayden in the same house as her did nothing to help matters.All along, all she could think of was how broken Jayden had looked when he confessed and when he noticed her leaving. He had been nice to her and is this how she was going to repay him? By turning him down? But she knew she couldn’t accept him especially because she had no feelings whatsoever for him. So what could she do?Her phone beeped with a message and when she

Jayden pushed the door to his house open and he walks in with Diane right on his heels. As soon as he stepped inside the room, he whirled around, grabbed Diane by her waist and slammed his lips across hers.Diane, resisting the urge to cringe backwards, reluctantly raised her hands and wrapped it around his neck. She forced her lips to move in sync with his. As he kissed her, parting her lips with his tongue, all she heard was her own even breathing and Jayden's pants. He seemed to be more into the kiss than she was – actually, he was more info the kiss than she was, grabbing her waist, skimming his hands across her bare it. Even as his hands slid up from her waist to her neck, angling her head to deepen the kiss, all Diane could think of was Nicholas’ tearful face as he pleaded for her to come back to him.Did she do the right thing? Did it make sense to be dating Jayden, someone she obviously considered as nothing more than a friend? No of course not. Yet

Half past five in the morning and Diane was awake, seated on her bed with her laptop on as she scouted the internet for houses available for rentals. She rubbed her forehead, sighing tiredly, as she strained her eyes to read the words on the computer. It was almost Dawn and Jayden wasn’t back from wherever he went to. It felt like he had simply disappeared from the world because she had no idea where he went. She even tried calling his phone but it went straight to voicemail and after several trials, she simply gave up.Thinking about it, she felt bad of course. She had led him on and then broke his heart. Why couldn’t just be in love with him? Everything would be so simple. He would love her, care for her and all she had to do was date him and not compare him to Nicholas but even that in itself was almost impossible. She could not not compare him to Nicholas and she couldn’t stop thinking about Nicholas.Diane sighed again, burying her head in her ha