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really hard to see where the pupil ends and the iris begins. His hair is also dark, but in a brown chocolaty way, and is slightly long on top, but clipped close to his scalp on the bottom half. He has very definite features. Compared to Marcus, Theo is all hard lines and angles. But he’s still beautiful, despite the anger he seems to direct towards me.
    Seemingly of it s own accord, my hand reaches up, and I lightly touch my fingertips to his dark stubbled jaw.
    The moment my fingers connect with his ski n, a shock flies up my arm. He flinches his head back, confusion flashing over his face, briefly dissipating the hard set of his features before he regains his composure almost immediately.
    “I’m sorry,” I whisper .
    “So am I,” he says, pushing his way past me and into the room with everyone else.
    Slightly rattled from the interactions I just had with the Bailey brothers, I stay just outside the door and peer inside. There are plenty of faces in there I don’t know, and in true Marcus fashion, he has a random girl hanging off his arm already.
    I just stand and stare, my emotions rolling around inside of me. I’m not really sure what I should be doing right now.
    “Naomi,” a voice calls to me from inside the room. I turn my attention towards it and see Stephanie and Gary smiling and waving at me.
    I can’t help but grin back and head over to them, wrapping my arms around them both as they congratulate me on my performance.
    “It was so wonderful Nomes. We loved it,” Stephanie gushes.
    “Yeah, you were great kiddo,” Gary tells me, his balding head showing small beads of sweat from the heat of the room. Gary is a few years older than Stephanie and I. She met him at a nightclub almos t as soon as we finished school. He must have a thing for curvaceous redheads, because they haven’t been separate since then. But his thinning hair makes him look much older than his twenty-eight years, as well as the fact that he has a habit of calling anyone younger than him ‘kiddo’.
    “Naomi! Well done tonight. ” Both Amy and Erica call out together as they bounce over to me.
    “We’re so glad you decided to play with them. How great is it that you’re all together again?” Erica rambles.
    My brow creases slightly. What does she mean ‘all together again’? I’m just about to ask them when they bounce off again, and I’m pulled into a conversation with Lachlan and Jack as they introduce me to some other friends of theirs.
    I mingle for maybe an hour, before I decide I need to go home. I’m struggling with the fact that Marcus is having his ear cleaned by th e tongue of some random girl, coupled with Theo’s animosity towards me – it’s like I can feel it radiating out of him from across the room.
    “Do you mind if we go?” I ask Stephanie and Gary , who are standing quietly in the corner talking to a man with spikey black hair.
    “Thought you’d never ask,” Gary tells me, leaning close to my ear before he speaks again. “To be honest with you, this scene is making me feel really old. I don’t think I have it in me to party anymore,” he laughs. “Not when we have a one year old to wake up to in the morning.”
    I mention to Jack that I’m going home, and he gives me a big hug and once again tells me how great the show was tonight. I simply nod and smile, then collect my things and follow Gary and Stephanie outside.
    “What’s wrong?” Stephani e asks, once we’ve stepped out onto the quiet of the street. “You seem really down for someone who just put on such a fantastic show.”
    “Oh, I don’t know,” I reply, shaking my head. “It’s just… I don’t know if I can do this.”
    “What do you mean?”
    “I don’t know if I can watch Marcus with a new girl every night. And then there’s Theo,” I explain.
    “What about him?”
    “I just...I don’t know if I can handle working with someone who hates me as much as he seems to. I don’t know if it’s worth it,” I