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mean?”
    “Seriously? Now you want to talk about the big, fat, hairy elephant in the room?”
    “I haven’t gained that much weight,” Jensen deadpanned.
    “Fuck you, Jensen.”
    “I tried to do that last night.”
    “Jesus! I can’t sleep with you, okay? I’m not going back down that fucking road! You got to walk away, Jensen! I got to deal with the heartbreak!”
    “ I didn’t have heartbreak? Jesus, Serena! Why do you think I broke things off with you?”
    “You said I cheated!” I practically snarled. “I would have never fucking cheated on you, dammit! I loved you!”
    “I know,” Jensen said, quietly.
    Well, that got my attention.
    “What do you mean, you know ?”
    Jensen sighed heavily and dragged his hands down his face.
    “I know you never cheated on me, but I had to end it somehow. I had to make you hate me.”
    “Why? Just tell me why!”
    “Because I was going to rehab, okay?! I couldn’t let you see me like that! I wanted to come back to you when I was clean, but by the time—”
    “You asshole! How could you do that? Didn’t you know I’d be with you through it all?”
    “That’s why I had to end it, don’t you see?” Jensen took my hands.
    I yanked them away and backed into the door.
    “All this time…” I shook my head. “You didn’t trust me enough—or believe in what we had to let me in.”
    “Serena…please!” Jensen moved towards me and I opened the door.
    “Leave me alone!”
    I ran through the studio, trying to fight back what I knew was going to be a tsunami of emotions. How could he have lied to me like that? All this time I lived with the hurt of knowing that Jensen thought I cheated on him. I ran by Wyatt and I knew he called out to me, but I had to get outside, I had to get some air. My hands squeezed the drum sticks as I finally hit the coolness of outside. I dropped my hands to my knees and took deep breaths.
    “Son of a mother fucking bitch!” I yelled.
    A whistle to the right of me had me looking to the side.
    “Wow, only one man can make a woman that mad.”
    I stood up and stared at the red head currently smiling at me. Her knee-high skirt hugged her and stiletto heels covered her tiny feet.
    “Excuse me?” I tilted my head.
    “Like I said, only one man can make a woman that angry, and judging by the drum sticks in your hand and where you’re at, I’d imagine it’s my fiancé.”
    “Your…who?”
    “Jensen Pratt?”
    I nodded numbly.
    “Yes, my fiancé.”
    Well, my anger hadn’t deflated and now I was just downright furious. The door opened and Jensen ran out, sliding to a stop in between us.
    “Noelle?” he said in astonishment.
    “Baby, I’m back.” She cooed.
    I was going to be sick.
    Wyatt flew out the door and almost ran right into Jensen. He recovered and looked from me to Jensen to Noelle.
    “Hey, Noelle,” Wyatt half waved. “I didn’t know you were back.”
    “Just got here.” Noelle eyed Jensen, and then me. “Jensen?”
    “Yup.”
    “Are you irritating your student?” she asked.
    “Oh, he’s doing something all right.” I glared at him.
    “Well, I’m hungry. Why don’t you two join us for lunch? I like getting to know Jensen’s students.”
    What was it with everyone being hungry? It had to be the altitude.
    “Since when?” Jensen asked in astonishment.
    “Since now.” Noelle narrowed her eyes at me and I smiled.
    “Sure, why not?” I grabbed Wyatt’s hand and he looked at me in shock. “We should join them.”
    “We should?” Wyatt asked slowly.
    “Oh, definitely.” I shot Jensen a wicked grin.
     
    ~*~
     
    Jensen looked as if someone shoved a butt plug up his ass, he was so uncomfortable. I, on the other hand, was enjoying my margarita and chatting it up with his fiancé. Wyatt was putting on a good show by being very attentive to me. Poor guy, I really liked him, too. He was cute as fuck.
    That might be the margaritas talking. I was not sure.
    “So, Serena. You and Jensen went to high