Run In

Janie ended up staying the night. Neither one of us got much sleep at all.

In the morning, I called Reed to see if he spoke to Devon at all but he hadn't heard from him since the day he left my place with Janie. When I told him what Janie told me, he was stunned.

"No way!" He exclaimed. "He's my best friend Amber, if he were going to pack up and leave, he would tell me!"

"Well his condo is empty and his parents don't know where he is. What else could that mean except that he left town?"

"No," Reed insisted. "He would've told me! You don't keep things like that from your best friend!"

"Don't yell at me," I told him. "I'm just telling you what I was told."

"Sorry darling," he sighed. He told me that he didn't believe for one second that Devon would leave town. "Everything he wanted is here," he told me. "He wouldn't give up like this, especially when he got Janie to give him...well..."

"Well what?"

"I was going to say a chance to explain but I guess they didn't do much talking."

Although Reed insisted that Devon wouldn't leave town, with the evidence that we had, what other conclusion were we supposed to jump too? And after making a few calls and talking to some people, Reed was starting to second guess himself.

"He couldn't have left town," he told me Sunday night as we sat on the couch together. "It doesn't make sense."

"But Reed things haven't been going that well for him lately, maybe he just needed some time to figure out what he was doing? He did have three weeks booked off work for the honeymoon, maybe he decided to get away?" I frowned and then added. "But that wouldn't explain where his stuff went."

So as far as I knew, Devon had left town.

At least that's what I thought.

I was waiting at the meat counter at Sobey's for the people ahead of me to finish when I spotted Devon pushing a shopping cart...with Annette by his side! Or I guess I should say Kelly! I couldn't believe my eyes! I thought for sure I was seeing things but they were still there when I rubbed my eyes and looked again.

Stepping out of line, I quickly rolled my cart in their direction, stopping only when my cart was directly in front of theirs. Devon was saying something to Ann - Kelly, he didn't see the cart and was visibly shocked when his cart stopped short.

"Amber!" He shot me a questioning look. "Did you lose control or something?" I glared at him. "Oh," he glanced at A - Kelly and shrugged. "How are you doing?"

"How am I doing?"

He nodded slowly. "Yes, how are you doing?"

There were so many things that I wanted to say to him at that moment but I just called him a jerk and walked away.

"Amber!" There was a hint of laughter in his voice as he called out to me. "Wait a minute!" I didn't stop but I did slow down and before too long he was walking along side of me. "You are mad at me?"

"Jerk."

"What did I do?"

"Jerky things, you jerk."

"Amber," he grabbed hold of my arm and stopped me. "We could do this all day but I'm sure that you have better things to do; people who are waiting for you at home. Tell me what you are mad at."

I stared at him for the longest time, I was debating what I was going to say first.

"Well?"

I yanked my arm out of his hand and glared at him. "I thought you were different, I even told her that you were and she should give you a chance but you aren't, are you? You are still the same heartless bastard who played with her hopes and dreams; you'll never change." As I turned away from him, I told him I didn't want to see him again.

I was so mad, I didn't even bother to head to the check out with the stuff I had in the cart, I just abandoned the cart in the middle of the aisle and walked out.

Devon followed me.