Gavin checks on Chloe

Hearing his friend obviously crying in another room wasn't something that Gavin could just ignore, no matter how bad the situation. So, he passed the bathroom and instead approached the door to the room that Chloe shared with Heather.

He knocked and heard her squeak behind the door. When she didn't say anything, Gavin reached for the door handle and carefully eased it open, peaking his head round before entering.

Chloe's face was red, almost as bright as her hair, and her eyes were puffy. She glanced at him and bit her bottom lip, ashamed of being seen in such a state. Gavin, however, didn't judge, and was nothing but sympathetic, and upon seeing her immediately walked over and sat beside her on the bed, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.

"I've ruined everything." She turned her head into his chest.

"No, you haven't. Things were already kind of fucked up before you did anything." Gavin rested his chin on top of her head and rubbed her arm. "If anyone is to blame for the destruction of my relationship, it's me."

"Maybe, but you didn't need me making things more complicated," Chloe insisted. "And for what? Because I couldn't go one morning without cock. How pathetic."

"You're not pathetic. Or a slut. Or a whore. Just because you want to have sex doesn't make you a horrible person," Gavin retorted. "I have no will power either. You saw me last night, jacking off into my girlfriend's panties when she was right down the hall. Isn't that just as pathetic?"

"No. I completely understand why you did that." Chloe sat up and looked Gavin in the eye. "You're smart and capable. You could go on to be really successful at what ever you put your mind to. Of course, you have to think of your future."

"Even at the sacrifice of my girlfriend and her needs?" Gavin smiled. "They talk about not seeing the forest for the trees, but I think the opposite is also possible. To be so concerned with the big picture, you miss the minute to minute details, and who wants to be like that?"

"But I wasn't even thinking of you. I could have ruined your whole life by letting you cum inside of me." Chloe said. "Everything I did this morning was all because of me and my needs. It was completely selfish."

"Well, maybe Victoria should have been a little more selfish. For all my talk, when you were on me, I wasn't pushing you off or stopping you. The risk obviously didn't bother me enough for me to actually do something about it." Gavin reflected. "If I hadn't wanted any part of this morning, I would have said something."

"You...wanted..." Chloe bowed her head, her hand fidgeting with the duvet they were sitting on. "Does...that mean..."

"I...I honestly don't know, Chloe." Gavin sighed. "I don't know what I want."

"I...I don't think I can. The last friend I had wound up fucking someone else even while I was offering myself to him completely-"

"Chloe, I would never-" Gavin cut in, but was interrupted.

"-I know, but my own trust is shattered. The only person I trust right now is Kurt, as perverse as that is, because I know all he wants is to fuck and nothing else. He wants me sexually and it's nice to feel wanted, even if it is just physically, after how Zack treated me." Tears began to well up in Chloe's eyes again. "But I can't bare to lose two friends."

"Chloe...you need to know that you deserve better. Everything you said about me applies just as much to you." Gavin said, taking her hands in his. "You're smart and capable and can do anything you want with your future. And you're beautiful to boot. If Zack can't match up, there will be a guy out there who can give you what you need, emotionally and physically."

Before he had even finished his sentence, Chloe's lips were on his, pressing hard against him. They both felt an intensity surge through their bodies at the contact, the heat of their lips igniting a fire in their senses. Chloe's lips parted and instinctively Gavin opened his too, his tongue moving to meet hers, swirling around, licking at each others lips. And then, as suddenly as it had happened, Chloe pulled away, panting and furrowing her brow.

"Shit," she said to no one in particular. "Why did it have to be good?!"

Gavin couldn't speak, the remnants of her taste and heat still tingling on his lips. Behind him, he heard the door open and craned his neck around to see Lisa standing at the threshold, smirking and cocking an eyebrow.

"We...uh...we were just talking," Gavin said, not knowing quite why he felt like he had to defend himself.

"This doesn't look like peeing...or talking." Lisa teased him, then turning to walk out the door announced, "Heather's back and she wants everyone in the living area."