Aimee POV

"Aims you've been hiding away for a week now" Stephanie sighs "You can't spend the rest of your life hiding under a duvet, I know this hurts and I know things are shit but this isn't going to make it better"

"How am I supposed to face him?" I ask removing the duvet from my face, I was all to aware I looked a mess, my eyes were red and sore from crying almost non stop, my nose was red raw and my lips were dry "I broke him Steph, I stood there in front of him and broke his heart and he cried, actual tears, how can I ever look at him again?"

"I wish I had an answer for you, I really do" she says sitting on the bed and brushing my hair off my face "did dad tell you who told him?" She asks

"No he said the how didn't matter why?" I ask "what don't I know?"

"The day he found out Joe came to speak to me, he wanted to talk to dad about the two of you" she sighs "some one was listening to our conversation, I know this because part way through the office door closed"

"So what you're saying is this is Joe's fault" I ask, at this point I was thinking far from clearly "if he hadn't come to you this wouldn't have happened, we'd still be together?"

"No that is not what I am saying at all" she says "whoever told dad is to blame and it wasn't Joe"

At that moment there is a knock at the door, I was in no mood to see anyone else, unless it was Joe I wanted to see him so bad right now. I watch as Steph walks over to the door and opens it, she steps aside and Shane walks into the room.

"Hey cuz" he says smiling softly "you weren't kidding about her being a mess" he says as he crouches down at the side of the bed.

"Thanks Shane I love you too" I say rolling my eyes

"Aims I want to apologise, when I told dad I had no idea how serious things were between the two of you and....."

"You did this!" Stephanie shouts "you're responsible for making them both miserable, the fuck were you thinking Shane? Have you any idea what you've done? Did you even hear everything he said?"

"Not everything your desk is quite far away from the door" he says "I just heard that they were seeing each other"

"Shane why would you do this to me?" I ask "I was happy, he was the best thing that ever happend to me and you took that away, why?" I ask sitting up

"To protect you, I was looking out for you" he says "I didn't want you to get hurt"

"Joe would never hurt me Shane, he's a good man" I say as fresh tears start to fall "I want you to leave and I don't want to see you ever again"

Stephanie POV

Escorting Shane out of Aimee's room I was more than livid, not only had he ruined our cousins happiness but he'd done it based on half the story and half the facts, how could anyone be so stupid.

"Do you think she will ever forgive me?" He asks as I close the door

"Not if she has any sense" I shout "for your information Joe wanted to talk to dad becuase he loves her and he wants a proper future with her and you've destroyed everything. I understand you and dad don't want to see her hurt but you can't see the only ones hurting her are you two"

"I really am sorry, if I'd know I never would have said anything" he says

"Just get out of my sight Shane" I sigh "I need to go, you better hope there is a way to fix this"

Aimee POV

Dragging myself out of the bed I head to the bathroom and take a shower, Steph was right I couldn't hide forever and now that I knew who was to blame maybe Joe and I could figure out a way to fix this.

I throw on some clothes and head to the arena and the wardrobe departmen, when I arrive the room is empty no sign of Sandra. As if on cue the door opens and in walks Joe with a pair of wrestling pants in his hands. We look at each other awkwardly for a moment before he places the pants on the table.

"How are you?" I ask but he doesn't look at me

"They need repairing" he says before turning towards the door

"Joe please talk to me" I plead but he keeps his back to me and reaches for the handle

"Nothing to talk about" he says and I feel my heart break all over again

"Joe I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry" I say fighting back the tears

"Sorry for what?" He says turning to face me "for breaking my heart or for not caring enough to fight for us? I've had time to think and I realised that this, us, didn't matter as much to you as it did to me becuase if it did you would have fought for us, you wouldn't have just given up"

"I did fight I swear......."

"I would have fought for us, I would have walked through fire for you, I would have done whatever it took to be with you and I would have never given up" he says and I can see the pain and sadness in his eyes, I understood just like me he needed some one to blame and for him that was me "but you didn't care at all, you just gave up, just like that, I gave you everything Aimee and you just took it all and walked away"

Before I can say anything he leaves the room slamming the door behind him. He was hurt and he was angry, I understood that, I was clearly the last person he wanted to talk to but I knew some one he would talk to, one way or another he had to hear the truth.