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She just shakes her head, and as she straightens herself I see the determined look come across her face as she looks at me. "I--I can't be with you."
                  Mr. Wallace chooses that moment to come to the door and ask if Katy's ready to come into class now. When her and boyfriend guy go into the classroom, Mr. Wallace looks over at me with a knowing smile. "I'm sorry Mr. Warren."
                  "Yeah, me too."
     
                  After that disaster, I call my driver and as I am standing around waiting, I get an idea. Show her that I'm thinking of her, of us. I'll send her some of her favorite flowers. I bet the boyfriend doesn't even know what her favorite flowers are.
                  Smiling to myself, I call and make the order and think of one more way I can make her think of what we had.
                  I punch in my mom's cell number and wait for her to pick up.
     
                  "Hi honey." I hear her sweet voice and smile.
                  "Hey mom, uh, I have a question. Do you still have that picture I gave you for safe keeping of Katy and me in Vegas?" I ask her nervously.
                  "Yes, I believe I have it in a box upstairs. Why?"
                  "Is there any way you could fax it to my hotel?"
                  "And again Liam, I ask why?"
     
                  I take a deep breath and blow it out. Mom radar is hard to hide from. "I just really miss her Mom. I'd like to have it just to have with me, ya know?"
                  I hear a smile in her voice when she answers. "Ok sweetie, I'll fax it over to you. Love you, sweetheart."
                  "Love you too, Mom," I answer, and after giving her the number to the fax machine I hang up and climb into the limo to head towards set. I'm going to get that picture enlarged and send it to her with the flowers. She has to see what we had, what we've always had. One way or another I'm going to get through to her.
     
     
    Chapter 3
                  Later that night, I finish my scenes for the day when Scott and, unfortunately, Alexia, walk over towards me.
                  "Got any plans tonight, Liam?" Alexia asks me with her exaggerated smile, and I roll my eyes at her and give Scott a pleading look.
                  "I do. I have to go...take care of some things." I shrug and run a hand through my hair.
                  Alexia takes another step towards me and puts her hand on my arm. "Are you sure you can't skip whatever it is? I bet we could have a great time relaxing and catching up." She tucks her hair back and I take a step backwards when she tries to come even closer.
                  "I think he has some more important catching up to do today, Alexia," Scott tells her pointedly.
                   Her eyebrows draw together and an angry look crosses her face and just as quickly it's gone. "What do you mean? You can't possibly have already met someone here that you need to rush off to be with." She crosses her arms and looks at me expectantly.
                  "Actually, it's not that I've met someone. It's that I've found someone. My wife, Katy, she's here. She's a student on the campus we visited the other day."
                  Alexia takes a step back and I notice she purses her lips together before she puts on a smile. "Oh. Well that's really great. Good luck with that." She turns on her heel and stalks away leaving Scott and I shaking our heads.
                  "You really gonna go back to campus again? Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough?" Scott asks me as he tugs his jacket on.
                  I shake my head. "I have to get her alone, away from her friends and boyfriend." I groan that word out. "Have it just be us. Before she broke down by her class, I could tell she still