He looked up from the girl with a look of total confusion on his face. Kierstan turned to make her way out of the room but bumped into Nick.

"Where are you going K?" She jerked free from his grasp and began to run out of the room.

"Kierstan wait!" AJ didn't even bother to excuse himself from the fan he had been talking to. He got up and ran after her. He would not let her get away that easy. He could only imagine what she was thinking right now. They were in the hallway now, Kierstan was running from him.

"Leave me alone AJ" He finally caught up to her and grabbed her arm.

"K, Please, just wait. It's not..."

"Do you love her?"

"What?!? Who...what are you talking about?"

"That girl AJ, the one you were talking to. Do you love her?"

"Kierstan, that was just a fan. What's going on...you have never gotten so upset over me talking to fans before."

"She told you she loved you AJ. I saw her. And..."

"No, she didn't"

"Don't lie AJ, she did. I saw her!"

"That's not what she said K, and that's not what you saw! You should know by now the only woman I love is you. Please K, just hear me out. God...I can not loose you."

"AJ...you just did."

"Why? Why are you doing this to me...to us?"

"Because I know AJ. I know that your in love with her. I know that she's in love with you. I don't know why your here, just go. Go back to her, I'm sure she's waiting." "KIERSTAN! I don't even KNOW that girl. I LOVE YOU!"

"Stop it."

"No, you stop. Just stop and listen to me. That girl is only a fan. I was talking to her about YOU. I was upset. Today has been hell for me. What she said was "she loves you AJ" not *I* love you."

"What?"

"I was sitting in the corner, by myself. She came over to see what was wrong. I told her you broke up with me. I started to cry. She wiped the tear off my face and told me it'd be okay. That you loved me. That's it. End of story. Nothing else happened. Dammit Kierstan, can't you see your tearing my heart out here?"

"AJ, Oh God...I'm...I'm so sorry."

"What I don't get is why this is bothering you anyway. You broke up with me this morning."

"It just all happened different last night, and when I saw you with her, I could see it all over again. Like I was back there...like it was really happening. I knew that you were gonna kiss her. Like last night..."

"Kiss her? I didn't kiss her last night Kierstan. I just met the girl...I swear!"

"No, I know. I mean..." Kierstan looked down at her hands and knew that there was no way this was going to make sense to AJ. It didn't make much sense to her either. "...last night. In my dream...the same exact thing happened. Only...only instead of you coming after me...you...kissed her."

"What?" AJ was so confused. Had she really broken up with him over a dream she had? "AJ, I'm sorry. I know this must not make sense. But you've got to understand that it was so real. I...and then when I saw you with her...I just knew...but...but you came after me. I feel so stupid. It all made sense this morning."

"You broke up with me because of a dream?" He could not believe what she was telling him. Was she for real or was she just making up another excuse to get out of telling him the real reason again? She seemed to be telling him the truth.

"I'm sorry."

"Why didn't you just tell me about it? Kierstan, I've been going out of my mind all day long. Do you have any idea..."

"Yes. It's not like it sounds AJ. I didn't just wake up and think to myself 'oh AJ cheated on me in my dream. I'm gonna break up with him and make sure he really is faithful. Test him and make sure he really loves me' This dream was so real. When I woke up all I could think about was you kissing her. And, that I couldn't take it if something like that ever really happened."

"So, you thought you'd beat me to it? Basically what your saying is that you don't trust me."

"No! AJ...I do. I just..."

"Go home Kierstan."

"What?"

"Go home."

"NO! AJ please. I'm sorry, I...I love you."

He stood there for a moment thinking about how he should respond to this. Nothing made sense right now. He just needed to clear his head. He needed to be away from her and think for a while.

"I love you too, Kierstan. I do, more than you could know. I thought I could deal with anything you threw at me. That I could make you see that I loved you and that we could get threw anything. But Jesus, do we really mean so little to you that you can throw it all way over a silly little dream?"

She began to cry harder and could only shake her head as he turned his back and walked away from her.
         

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