A/N: Sorry I didn't update yesterday, but it was my birthday and I was pretty busy. Anyway, enjoy!

“Skye,” Adam boomed into the empty hallways of our house jolting me awake.

I fell down onto my bed again and glanced at my alarmed clock. It was six forty. Crap, I was going to be late for my date with Chace, then he'd come inside and Adam would see him; meaning we'd never actually get to go on the date. We'd just me sitting with Adam for two hours talking about things, and I promise it wouldn't be romantic.

I groaned but was still unable to get up, “What?”

“Jake is here to see you,” he called.

I sprang forward again and began to change without even thinking about it. I was preparing myself to look nice while I completely forgot I had been secretly dating Chace. I'm the worst girlfriend ever, I thought as I brushed a hand through my hair until it looked decent and applied just a touch of lip gloss.

Exactly as I finished Jake burst through my door.

“Hey!” I exclaimed, “What if I was changing in here?”

He shut the door while he rolled his eyes at me with a weary smile, “I’ve already seen you naked.”

I put my finger to my mouth; the gesture was most likely way too over dramatic, “Shush!” I took it away and gave him a pointed look, “Do you want Adam to kill you?”

“I think I can handle Adam,” he laughed.

“Do you want him to kill me?” I whispered.

He softened his eyes and his smile faded, “Never.”

I crossed my arms and watched him walk to my bed. He plopped down in the sitting position. He was inspecting his feet, that were firm on the floor, very intensely and his arms laid limply at his side. In that moment I regretted not being able to tell Jake that Chace and I were dating. It would’ve made it much easier to avoid staring at Jake simpathetically and wanting to just pull him into a comorfting hug.

But if I told anyone besides Aaron they’d probably tell. And then Adam would kill me, or worse Chace. Wait how is that worse? It’s not like I really loved Chace. I liked him and he was attractive. We were no Romeo and Juliet though. I mean one day we might fall in love. I almost wished we were in love and- I snapped myself out of the thought.

I eyed him carefully. This was weird for me. Adam letting him upstairs with me, alone. That never happened. I wondered what lie he told to get up here. It must’ve been pretty big because Adam didn’t even care that my door was closed. I don’t think anyone ever got away with that besides Aaron. Maybe Chace. Maybe. It was great he trusted me the most with the guy I’d done the worst with.  Note the sarcasm.

“What do you want?” I asked before sitting on my computer chair. I swirved lightly back and forth because somehow spinning seemed inappropriate.

He put a hand over his hand jokingly, almost returning back to his old self. I smiled, “Skye, does everything have to have motives?”

I stopped rocking and crossed my arms, "Can you hurry this up? I kind of have somewhere to be."

"Really?" he arched an eyebrow, "Where?"

"None of your business," I snapped.

He sighed and let it drop, “Kelly has been begging to see you for a while now.”

“Kelly?” I asked sadly.

He nodded and my heart melted. I loved Kelly so much. She was eleven years old and going through all those preteen girl problems. It was adorable, but since their mom was never home she had usaully talked to me. I missed her too.

"Look, Skye," he said pointedly, "I want to talk to you about, you know," he gulped and I let shock color my face at the act, "Our relationship."

"Our relationship? Are we really doing this right now?"

He nodded, "I wasn't exactly honest with you before-"

"You think?" I interrupted.

He narrowed his eyes, "Will you let me finish?"

I nodded at his seriousness.

"What was I saying?" he mused and then rememberance slightly lite up his face, "Oh, yeah. I wasn't honest about the reason I left. My mom," he choked up, but then regained his composure, "She had Cancer and she really needed me to take care of her-"

"Had?" I whispered sadly.

He nodded, "Had. She died at the end of this summer."

I gasped and had to stop myself from crying, "Jake, I'm so sorry."

He gave me another weary smile, "It's okay Skye. You didn't know. That's why I had to leave. And I was afraid if I came to say goodbye seeing you would make me stay. Because I really did love you. Even though I never told you. I sent you a letter with-"

"The one I threw out with the flowers," I dropped her eyes to the floor.

"But," he said suddenly cause me to look up. His face said everything he was feeling; I was crying. He hated to see me crying, "Skye, don't cry."

"No, I can't believe I threw the flowers out and I've been such a jerk to you this whole time you've been back-"

"Skye, this is not what I came here to talk with you about."

"It's not?" I sniffed.

He shook yhishead, "I want to ask you if you really knew Chace's reputation with girls."

"So he's dated a lot of girls," I shrugged. Maybe Jake did know about us. I felt oddly relieved.

"Adam told me that Chace, and I quote, 'likes his girls kind of like little kids like their toys. He wants something when some one else wants it and once he gets to play with it for a week or two he'll dump them.'"

"I-I," I stammered unsure of what to say.

"You don't have to say anything," he assusred me, "I just had to tell you."

A fresh wave of tears washed over me. I couldn't believe this. If he hadn't been so honest about his mom then I wouldn't have believe that. I knew if Chace or Aaron were here they'd be asking me why I'd even believe him. But they weren't here and I probably would've believe Jake anyway.

He stood up and walked over to me. He pulled me up and gently craddle me in a hug against his toned chest.

I sobbed. I was probably ruining his T-shirt. I'd have to buy him a new one.

I clung tight to him like he was my life support. And in the second he was. He'd been the one to tell me about Chace and he told me about his mom. I wasn't just crying for me, I was crying for him too.

"What's going on in here?" I heard Chace's hard, cold voice from the door.

I turned my head to view him. He looked great and as I took him in I realized I'd been late for our date.

"Is Adam still here," I hiccuped from all the crying. If he wasn't so angry looking I would've bet he'd had been surprise at me crying to say the least.

He shook his head 'no'.

"Oh," I whispered and Jake and I let go of each other.

"Chace," I spoke softly, "It's not what it looks like..."

"What does it look like?" he arched an eyebrow and leaned against the door like he had all the time in the world.

"Jake just told me about," I glanced up at him and his jaw was clenched. I was not going to tell Chace something so personal about Jake's mom so I choice the latter on what he'd told me a few moments ago.

"He told me what Adam had said about you and girls."

Chace stood up genuinely curious, "What did he say?"

By 'he' I wasn't sure if  he'd been speaking about Adam or Jake. But I decided to answer with Adam, "He said you play around with girls for a week or two then you'll dump them."

"You told her that?" he glared at Jake instead of denying it.

Jake nodded.

"I'm going to kill you," Chace charged at Jake.

I gasped as they hit the floor and began to beat each other. Both of them got in a few good punches before I screamed, "Stop it!"

They ignored me.

"Hey!" I yelled and they pulled apart slightly, "Get off each other!"

They stood up slowly, brushing themselves off and stepping away from each other.

I scanned them over once. Chace's lips was bleeding and a bruise was beginning to from on this check bone. Jake's eye was blackening with a bleeding nose right under it.

"Chace, what's wrong with you? You can't just attack people!"

"Wake up, Skye," he shouted, "Can't you see he's just telling you that so I'll go away and he can sleep with you?"

That struck home a little bit after what happened this summer.

"Hey!" Jake exclaimed on both his and my behalf.

"Are you that stupid?"

I winced Chace had never yelled at me before. At least not like this; like he didn't give a crap about me because I was so far below him.

"Seriously," he continued, "What's wrong with you? Is it your mission to become a slut?"

"Get out!" I shrieked, "Get the hell out and don't come back."

When he didn't move I walked up to him, put both hand on his chest and pushed. I was too weak though.

"Get out now," I hissed.

"Why should-" he began but was soon cut off.

"Chace, I think you should leave," Adam said calmly at my doorway.

Chace's head whipped around. The second he saw Adam he stepped away and brushed passed him to leave the room. Once he was gone Adam turned to Jake.

"I think you should go too."

Jake nodded, more willing to go than Chace. He walked passed Adam and left the two of us staring at each other.

"You okay, Skye?"

A/N: I totally hated Chace in this chapter. I tried to make it longer too since I didn't update yesterday. How are you guys feeling about Skye/Chace, Skye/Jake, and Chace vs. Jake now? Comment, vote, fan!