Darren chases me up the steps. I️ can hear his heavy footsteps following me up. I️ sit down on my side of the bed and grab my knees to hold them close to my chest as I️ cry.

He crawls on the bed and wraps himself around me. It only makes me cry harder. "I thought I had everything figured out. And then he showed up." I admit.

Darren nods and squeezes me tighter. "I feel confident enough in our relationship to know you won't leave me."

I shake my head. "The problem isn't you. It's that I don't know what I'll do." I want to be completely honest with him or this relationship will not work.

"Ciara, honey. Believe me, I know you. I love you and I know that you love me. No one is going anywhere. We are too in love to be able to fall out of it this quickly. I'm not going anywhere." Darren strokes my hair as he delivers some famous words of encouragement.

I shrug. I'm not so sure that is true. "He said almost the same thing to me seven years ago before he left me." When you've had a terrible track record with love, I guess you stop believing love exists at all anymore. Maybe Darren is just going to end up leaving me too.

"That was a whole seven years ago, Ciara. You are a totally different person now. He is a totally different person now too. And where was he all this time? Oh right, he was off getting famous while you needed help. Where was I this whole time? Helping you." He lifts my face so he can look directly into my eyes.

I nod and wipe some of my tears away. He is right. The love I have with Darren is a lot different than my love I had for Chris.

"Your brain is telling you not to go back to him because you know he is just going to break your heart again but your heart still loves him. That is why this is so hard for you. I understand."

I smile. "Stop going all psychology on me D." I close my eyes as he wipes my tears away. Looking at how proud he is for making me stop crying makes me laugh. He never misses a chance to use his profession to help me. He loves his job and he loves how it helps me even more.

"I just can't help it, babe. I love picking apart that crazy, beautiful mind of yours." Darren smiles as he watches my smile grow larger. "That's more like it. I love it when you smile, baby. I don't like seeing you sad."

"Well I don't like being sad either." I mention the fact that my sadness doesn't affect just him.

Darren lifts my chin and looks me in the eyes. "I am going to do everything in my power to make sure you aren't. Okay baby?" He asks.

I nod as my response. He really does try really hard to make my life as great as it can be.

"Okay good." He smiles and slides over to his side of the bed. "Now get some sleep, we have a big day tomorrow."

"What do you mean?" I ask. "What are we doing?"

"You and me are going down to the concert Chris is playing at tomorrow. I'll get us some front row seats." Darren admits to his plans.

I sit up straight. "What?" I ask. "Why would you want to go see him again? Don't you remember how it went today? I don't want to go through that again. I think we should just avoid him at all costs until this problem goes away." I am actually shocked that he would even suggest something as crazy as this.

"You need to face him so he can see that he holds no power over you anymore. Remember how we fixed all of your other problems by facing them head on? That is how we are going to fix this one too." Darren reveals his reasoning behind this plan of his.

I take a deep breath and nod. I guess we are really going to do this then. "Okay. I'm in."

AN: do you think Darren has the right idea by going to this concert? Or do you agree with Ciara and think she should just avoid Chris at all costs?