Alana stares at the dance floor where her friends were happily dancing away while she was brooding over what happened between her and Richie. Touching the cut mark on her wrists she sighs.

"Trouble in paradise?" Spencer's voice makes Alana groan.

"You truly are shameless are you not?" she sighs making him grin.

"That I am" he winks as he sits beside her.

"What do you want?" she questions moving away from him and he pouts.

"You know ever since you have been marred you have gotten rude to me"

"Finally you noticed but just for you small brain I have always been rude to you"

"Yes, but now it has started to hurt my feelings"

"Then please by all means go rub the balm between someone else's legs" she crudely states making him laugh.

"This, this is why I love being around you. No buttering or polite straight to the point Alana" he chuckles as he puts a drink in front of her.

"Sometimes, this does helps" he smiles as he stares at the dance floor.

"I don't want help" Alana sighs refusing the drink as she tries to get up but he stops her.

"Stay Alana, I am not up for something tonight. Maybe just someone to stay beside nothing else" he sighs gravelly and Alana frowns as she has never heard him speak so sadly before.

"Not that I am interested but you seem a bit down tonight. I have not even seen you flirt with anyone" she points out making him chuckle.

"Good to know I have been watched" he grins and she rolls her eyes.

"Whatever" she states waving her hands in the air.

"Have you ever felt so helpless Alana?" he questions and she turns to eye him.

"What?"

"The thing that's right in front of you, you never see it until it's taken away you know"

"What are you talking about?" she asks not understanding him.

"All my life I thought I can get anything I want and I did too but what I never cared is the thing I have right in front of me"

"Did you lost something?" she asks and he shakes his head no.

"Someone, I just lost someone dear to me"

"Is everything okay?"

"All my life I had taken her for granted thought she was not worth but how stupid of me, she was right there, my everything...

And now she is lost to me"

"What happened?"

"She got married to someone else and that, that fact made me realize how important she has been to me and all the other girls I have chased were nothing compared to her"

"Did she love you?" Alana asks curious about it.

"She does but now I don't know if that love s enough for her to leave everything and be with me"

"Well, you have always been stupid so" she shrugs her shoulders.

"Yeah" he sighs before gulping the drink he got for her.

"You will find someone else to forget about her" Alana states and he raises his brow.

"I cannot forget her Alana and that's the problem"

"Well lover boy I cannot do anything on it"

"I know or maybe you can"

"What?" she frowns.

"Just stay here with me for a while, I just need a shoulder and few drinks" he smiles.

"I am not carrying your drunk ass home" she warns as she calls for few drinks.

*******

Lena knocks on Richie's door and waits for him to acknowledge her, she smiles when he does before speaking.

"Rick is asleep" she informs him.

"Okay thanks" he replies easily dismissing her but she steps in the room.

"Your dinner"

"I am not hungry, you can have and go to bed" he sighs.

"Well, umm I am not hungry either" she states making him frown and stare at her.

"What is it?" he asks making her shuffle in her feet.

"Uh, it was my idea you know to go for camping in the forest" she starts making him sit straight.

"Lena you..."

"I want to share the story with you Rich, it has been hard for me to try forgetting it. My parents would have been alive if I had not been so stupid...

I just thought it was a great idea that we all go camping before I left for college but now" she stops taking a deep breath.

"I am sorry for your loss Lena" Richie sighs as he gets up from his chair.

"I don't know why you brought me here though, you saved me that night but you did not have to bring me here" she states.

"But you are here"

"But why did you?" she questions but he just shrugs his shoulder.

"Rich..."

"Lena it's late you should go to your room" he interrupts her.

"When is Alana's coming back? I made dinner for her too so" she states.

"She will be back when she has to" he replies and she nods her head as she turns to leave but stops turning to face him once more.

"Can I join you for some drinks though?" she requests and he frowns.

"No" he refuses.

"I am old enough to have one, just one drink. I just feel like..."

"I am not drinking with you Lena, plain and simple" he refuses as he turns around to get back to his work.

"Fine then I will steal and go drink myself" she grins mischievously making him sigh.

"That's why I have few bottles missing" he speaks making her laugh.

"Hey a girl do have needs"

"Drinking should not be one of them" he argues making her groan.

"Just one, Rich. I just want to have someone I can cheers my drink with. My dad and I, we used to sneak away and drink sometimes and I always loved when he raised his glass to cheers with me" she smiles sadly making him nod his head.

"You are not drinking any hard drink though" he warns and she grins.

"Thanks"

"Go get a bottle out of the cabinet" he orders her and she jumps happily to do so.

*******

Alana clutches her head as she feels weak as she steps down the bed, she looks around to find she was not in her room but in an unfamiliar one.

She stumbles out of the room and starts to search for a way out before sighing in relief as she sees her friend.

"Hey you are awake" her friend calls.

"How did I end up here?"

"We all were pretty much drunk, so Spencer booked a hotel room nearby"

"I did not do anything stupid did I?" she asks and the girl laughs.

"Is vomiting all over the car is stupid enough?" the girl asks and Alana groans.

"Anything else"

"We took you to the hospital"

"A hospital, why?" she frowns as she touches her body.

"Relax, we just took a trip to hospital for some medicines. All of us were pretty much drunk out of our limits and the sane Spencer got us some aspirin...

There's one on the table if you are feeling that monster headache" her friend points out and Alana sighs walking to get one.

"The breakfast will be here in few minutes, go freshen up and we can go back home with happy tummy" her friend informs.

Alana checks her phone and grits her teeth as she do not have even one missed call. She puts her phone back in anger before closing her eyes and taking deep breath.

Images of her son makes her feel guilty as in all of this she had abandoned her only child, so she hurries to get back to her son.

*******

Walking inside of her house, Alana finds it strange as no sounds is heard. She hurries to her son's room to check on her only to find the boy asleep, taking a deep breath she walks towards her son's bed and kisses on his forehead whispering her sorry.

She looks around to find their dog staring at her quietly before he turns around and puts his head on his paws, closing his eyes. Wondering if Richie was even home, she makes her way towards his office first to find it empty.

So, she makes her way towards their room, not knowing if he was in better mood. Alana stands still not knowing if it was by shock or by hurt as she stares at the couple in the bed, her bed, one she shared with her husband, the same said husband who had another woman wrapped in his arms.

She should have known better, she should not have fell for his charms. And now here she stands paying for the price to fall for the man that never deserved her love or trust, wondering if this was the first time or perhaps many times that he did this to her.

If she was another woman she would have shouted, screamed at the scene in front but she knew better, she was not someone to react in that way, she was smart enough to do the right thing first.

So, without a second thought she makes her way towards her closet, silently pulls her clothes out, put them in her bag before collecting few of her son's toys that laid around before she drags the bag out of the room.

Making her way towards her son's room she packs few of his clothes as well, checking on him she cannot be more thankful that he was still asleep.

Once she gathers everything she needs she once again makes her way towards the room, where her husband and his lover were asleep, this time she makes her way towards his closet and pulls out a gun she very well knew he kept for emergency and if this was not an emergency then she does not know what is.

Standing away from the bed she fires the first shot making both the couple jerk up with the loud sound along with her son who loudly cries from another room.

"What..." Richie groans as he clutches his head before his eyes lands on the woman next to him and then towards his wife.

"Al..."

"Good morning before you start saying you don't know how it all happened and bla...bla, I am taking Ricardo with me to my father's house and the only talking there will ever be between us will be through our lawyers" with that said she makes her way towards her son's room to calm him down.

*******

"Alana" Richie shouts as he follows her but she does not stop.

"Wait a damn second woman" he snaps as he runs and stand in front of her.

"Why? So, you can fill me up with your lies?" she asks.

"No, no this is a big mistake I..."

"Yes, I can feel it. Now before I start to create a drama in front of our son who has known nothing but the sweet side of his mother I ask you to step and stay away from me" she warns.

"You cannot take Ricardo"

"Oh yes I can and I will"

"Alana"

"I am sure she can give you few of your own kids if you are so desperate for a son" she snaps as she pushes past him.

"God damn Alana" he shouts as he clutches his head before following her.

"Do not for a second think you can make everything between us better Richie, I hope she was worth, she was worth loosing me and Rick" with that Alana gets in her car adjusts her son in the seat and drives off.

*******

"Richie" Lena whispers sacredly as she stands at the door wrapped in a cover making Richie sigh closing his eyes.

"What the fuck happened Lena?" he asks not knowing how he even ended in bed with her.

"I don't know, all I know is you were stressed and asked for a drink and..." she cries making Richie groan in frustration as he runs his hands through his hair.

"I am sorry, I am so sorry" Lena cries and Richie turns back to stare at the road his wife drive through praying she was driving safely.

"Leave me alone" he sighs as he walks inside of the house.

"But..."

"This was a mistake Lena, a very big one, one that should never ever repeat. I am married for fuck's sake" he groans.

"I did not..."

"I am not saying it's any of your fault Lena, it's all my fault. I should have known better" he sighs as he rushes towards his room to take a shower before he go and checks on his wife and son.

********

"Mommy" Ricardo calls as Alana pulls his seatbelt off before carrying him inside of his grandparent's house.

"Alana?" her mother calls surprised seeing them.

"Play with him" is all she says passing Ricardo to her mother as she rushes towards her room before she ends up kneeling on the bathroom floor hurling out everything she had in her stomach.

"Alana" her mother worried voice makes her get up fast and lock the door.

"Go away" she asks.

"What happened? Are you all right?" her mother asks.

"I am fine, just not feeling so well, will be back soon please take Ricardo away" she asks and her mother sighs before she walks away.

Alana splashes water on her face to push the images of her husband in bed with another woman vowing she will not shed a tear for that man.

Drying her face she makes her way out of the room only to stop on her tracks to see her husband playing with her son.

"Mommy, daddy" Ricardo cheers as he smiles widely and Alana cannot help but smile back at him.

"What are you doing here?" she asks him but Richie just stays silent.

"Is that any way to talk with your husband?" her mother chides her but Alana ignores it and if Richie thought she would keep quiet about their situation in front of her mother then he was wrong.

"Soon to be ex-husband" she speaks and her mother gasps.

"Alana" Richie warns her but she raises her chin higher challenging him.

"Alana enough of this childishness" her mother sighs but she just shakes her head.

"I cannot stay with a man who cheats on me" she drops the bomb and Richie sighs as he let Ricardo get down and play with his toys.

"What?" he mother gasps.

"Let's talk privately" Richie requests but she shakes her head no.

"Any talks between us will be through our lawyers" she finalizes.

"What is going on here?" her mother asks clueless.

*******

"I found him in bed with woman that was not me and I am not going to pretend it never happened or the fact he broke my trust"

"Let me explain"

"Explain that it was a mistake and you did not meant to hurt me? Save it, I am not interested, I will not have my son be raised under the same roof with a man that can easily break his vows"

"Alana, listen to him" her mother sighs but she shakes her head.

"I am not, ask him to leave" she asks before calling for Ricardo who frowns cutely as he runs towards his father thinking it was funny.

"Ricardo" she shouts at the boy startling him.

"Don't shout at him" Riche scolds her as he picks up his son who sniffs a telltale sign he was going to cry anytime.

"I will do whatever the hell I want with my son"

"He is my son as well"

"Not for long, I will ask for his full custody" she states.

"Over my dead body" Richie glares at her.

"This is insane, both of you" her mother starts.

"Stay out of this mom, I am not backing out of it. Now give my son back to me I do not want him stay long in your presence"

"For now, I will leave but I will be back and you will have to listen to me" he sighs before he walks towards her with their son in his arms.

"I am not going to listen to any lies" she stops as he drops a kiss on her forehead.

"I love both of you" he whispers and she stiffens before he hands their son to her.

"No" Ricardo shouts as he tries to hold onto his father.

"Hey champ, be good to mommy, I will be back soon okay?" he ruffles his son's hair who pouts.

"Don't let her cry too much okay?" he smiles as he kisses on his son's forehead but before he could say more Alana walks away with Ricardo in her arms who cries for his father.