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I hate to say it again but shit.

"Liana," I say and I somehow manage to pull a smile onto my face. I hear Issac fall silent behind me. He knows the name Liana. I've mentioned her before and how she makes me uneasy, that I don't care for her all that much. He's obviously interested in finally getting a picture of the girl.

Liana placed one of her charming, almost enchanting, smiles on her face and took a couple steps my way. I had to purposefully try to not take a step back. She was an intimidating girl. 

"Fancy seeing you here, Monty." She chirped, but her gaze wasn't quite steady on me. It wavered over my shoulder to where Issac stood.

"It's a small town, not that hard to believe." I replied nicely, but there was a nervous bite to my words.

I was getting a bad feeling.

Liana had just seen Issac and I in a very intimate position.

Not that we are intimate in anyway because I have Harrison.

Oh damn.

Shit.

Harrison. She could tell Harrison what she saw and he would get angry, ask questions, and probably, mostly likely, leave me.

This situation was bad.

Very bad.

I heard Issac snort behind me at my comment and Liana's brown eyes darted to him, they narrowed slightly and Issac covered his amusement with a cough. She pursed her lips and then her face softened. The look in her eye turned for annoyance to intrigue. She had seen his eyes then. She thought he was attractive.

Possible new meat.

At that thought an unfamiliar fire burned through me. It was hot and heavy and I didn't like it.

Not on my watch.

I snapped in my head, surprised by my own lack of patience of sheer annoyance at the thought of her checking Issac out, which was crazy because I had Harrison and Issac was hot as hell. It was only natural for girls to check him out.

I had no reason to seem... what was it? Jealous?

"Yes well it's still surprising," Liana said after she had finished studying Issac. She looked back it me, obviously unaware of the awkward silence we had all been in. She smiled a little cheekily, but there was an edge to that smile that made me want to wince, "in some ways."

When she raised an eyebrow her meaning was clear. She was telling me she had seen what Issac and I had been doing.

Correction.

What she thought we had been doing because honestly we weren't doing anything.

My cheeks still burned slightly.

"I don't know why, Issac and I were just talking."

"Just talking," she nodded "Is that what its called now? I didn't get that memo." 

I was embarrassed and angry and nervous. Her smile only brightened as my emotions became clear to her.

"Liana-" I didn't get to even start my sentence before I felt an arm drape over my shoulders in a casual manner. 

I stiffened under it. 

The warmth of the person's limb was comforting and I longed for my jacket inside the café, but Liana's eyes only sparkled with interest at Issac's gesture. I didn't know what she was thinking, but whatever it was it wasn't anything good.

"Just some talking between just some friends." Issac's voice was deep and sexy and I wasn't the only one who noticed.

The way he emphasised the word just multiple times also sounded suggestive and I winced. 

I looked up at Issac, surprised he was joining the conversation. Although I had to admit I was a little relieved because now I didn't have to do all the talking. I wasn't much one for confrontation, but on the other hand I was begging him to shut up and stay quite. I didn't need him to give Liana the wrong idea about us. 

Issac didn't know I was seeing Harrison. He still thought I was single from the last time he asked if I had boyfriend. Since the art trip he hadn't asked again and I hadn't brought it up. Similar to the name thing it had never seemed like the right time to do so, but now here I was almost being forced into telling him the same way I was with my name. I had to come clean because he was going to be at school with me and now I was thinking I might have to tell him about Harrison before Liana beat me to it.

Then to my horror Issac smirked and winked at me. He was obviously referencing what we had just been talking about. He was teasing me like he had been before about us being just friends, but the pleased laugh that Liana gave out was nerve racking. It made me want to be sick and my eye twitched.

"Oh this is great!" she said and then shook her head as though she had been talking to herself. "I'm Liana Davis by the way, I go to school with Monty." She said, her smile charming and less menacing as she put a hand out for Issac to shake.

He did shaking, it have been just my imagination, but it looked as though he shook it a little rougher the necessary. Liana didn't mention it though, didn't react so it must have been my imagination.

"Issac. Friend of Monty's." he said. I noticed how he only gave her his first name and not his last, perhaps he didn't want her to recognise him.

"Funny, didn't know Monty had any friends outside of school. Have we met before? You do look a little familiar."

"Never seen you in my life," Issac said easily "I've just got one of those faces I guess." 

Liana looked unconvinced.

She did recognise him. I mean he was Issac Rush for christ's sake. What girl our age hadn't seen him before at some point? As of right now thought she didn't know where she knew him from and his attractive looks were distracting her from looking any deeper than his appearance.

"I guess." She echoed.

"Well Montana and I are going to head back inside. We left our coats and it's a little chilly out."

A little? I thought to myself. It was freaking freezing!

Issac's arm dropped from my shoulders, but his hand took mine instead before I could identify the lump of disappointment at his body not touching mine. Just as we were about to pass her, Liana grabbed my other hand.

"Wait." She said and Issac stopped, turning his head over his shoulder, but not facing her fully. "I just want to talk to Monty for a moment, if that's alright?" she asked and I tried to not to wince. I didn't want to talk to her. 

I didn't want to talk to her alone.

Last time we had done that she had told me that she didn't want Harrison and I together. She basically threatened me. Since then she had been a little off with me. Not ignoring me or being outright rude, but bordering on the two. Of course she was rude in a way that most people didn't pick up on such as a compliment that could be taken as an insult too or something like that.

I gulped and Issac looked to me for confirmation. He knew I didn't like her and wasn't going to leave me alone with her if I didn't say it was okay. I gave a subtle nod knowing that if I refused things could get worse and perhaps I could use this as an opportunity to ask her not to tell Harrison what she had seen. Then again Issac and I hadn't been doing anything wrong and trying to get her to cover it up could make her think she had something serious on me. I knew she was after Harrison in some shape or form, not that they had really been together before Harrison and I started dating.

Heck, Liana was the one who was seeing other guys right in front of Harrison's nose. I know she had a thing for Donny Mathews. I even remember her saying that Harrison was just there when she wanted him, or something like that.

She took Harrison for granted and then she tried to make him look like the bad guy and me look like a stupid girl for falling for him.

"Sure." I said and was proud of how calm I sounded. Issac let go of my hand and I shivered. He turned and headed back into the café while Liana and I faced off again. She wasn't smiling anymore. She had a thoughtful look on her face, the kind of face you have while trying to determine your strategy during a game, and I kept my face as unreadable as possible. That was my safest bet at the moment.

"I want to apologise, Montana. For what I said at the club and since then I've been a bit callous." She smiled a little wickedly "I don't know if you noticed." 

I shrugged, though I was shocked too.

Liana was apologising to me? Even if she was faking it, it was a bit odd to hear.

"I didn't." I said.

There, no she would think what she did didn't affect me and I noticed her face a little when I said that. She was disappointed.

Monty: 1 Liana: 0

"Well I have been and I'm sorry. I was just trying to help you out with Harrison."

"Harrison and I don't need help, we're happy as we are."

"You looked a little cozy with Emeralds over there." She said casually and my stomach flipped. It was like she was talking about the weather.

I didn't like that she called him Emeralds. That she'd studied him enough to comment on his eyes. 

"Issac and I are just friends. He's from out of town."

"Interesting. Anyway it's up to you what you do with Harrison, I mean I know you don't think that highly of me-"

I went to say that wasn't true, but she waved a hand dismissively

"Please I can see it every time you have to talk to me it's fine I don't care what you think of me. Truth is, Harrison and I well... we haven't dated in a sense you would find respectable, but there's a lot of history. Then again, I don't live my life to please you," she paused and she actually seemed serious, all anterior, calculated motives gone for now. "You know? Anyway I know how he is."

I watched her carefully. She wasn't as crazed and spiteful as she had been at JINX. Probably because she wasn't drunk. I wasn't sure what to make of that sincere expression on her face. As though she actually cared. 

Not about me. 

I was sure she didn't care about me, but perhaps about herself. Perhaps she was thinking about how she had felt with Harrison and something that had happened between them. Despite not ever being exclusive most of the school had just assumed they were together for most of our high school life.

"Thanks, I guess." I said and Liana nodded her head.

"I'm not one to judge Monty. I've done my fair share of sneaking around." She said and I shook my head.

Where is she going with this? I was hoping we were done.

"But if I see you with Emeralds in such a compromising position again, my tongue my just slip," she made a face of innocence as my face crumpled "for your own good." She said at last before blowing two kisses and brushing past me.

Monty: 1 Liana: 100

What the hell.

I feel so uncomfortable.

I feel sick.

Sick to my freaking stomach.

As I mad my way back into the café I tried to look as sick as I felt.

Liana's words were heavy and sour and I wasn't sure how to handle them.

Was she going to tell Harrison what she saw?

She was warning me to stay away from Issac now too?

And what was with that stupid name she was calling him, Emeralds.

The thought made my teeth grind together.

"Hey, you alright?" Issac asked snapping me out of my daze and poking my coffee closer to me. I nodded dumbly and picked it up, taking a sip. I was surprised it was still warm. It felt like we had been outside for hours.

"I can see why you don't like that chick. She just screams passive aggressive."

"The worst kind of aggressive if you ask me." I mumbled and it was true. 

I could deal with straight aggressive, like John. He never bothered to hide from anyone he didn't like me and even though he had made me cry a couple times I preferred his straightforward ways to Liana's hot and cold, or rather constant lukewarm.

"Well I guess my surprise got kind of shot down when she arrived, but it was a hit before that, eh?" he said trying to lift the mood. 

He smiled at me and I felt one tug at my own lips.

I swallowed my nerves and tried to get back into the good mood I was in before everything... went to shit. 

"You coming to Greyworth... is definitely a surprise. I would have never guessed."

"Now I get to meet all your friends." He said, seemingly excited.

"Mhmm." I replied, he and Finn would get on swimmingly. I still had to talk to Sarah and sort things out.

"Oh and I wanted to ask you," he said "this is my important question." He said and I nodded remembering he had something he wanted to ask me last time we spoke on the phone "I wanted to know if you would be in a video? With me? I thought I could introduce everyone to the Jenny Stew-" he gut himself off and the excited light in his eyes a dimmed a bit. The guilt hit me.

"Issac I... I'm really sorry about lying to you. I know it was wrong and honestly I don't even understand why you're talking to me right now. You have every right to hate me."

"I don't hate you Greyworth Girl, how could I hate that face?" he said and my cheeks blushed. I was always blushing it seemed.

"Well I am sorry and I would..." I bit my lip as butterflies took off in my stomach "I would love to be in a video with you."

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A/N- I'm so sorry for the late update, I missed TWO! What a disgrace. That's also why I'm getting this chapter up on a Tuesday, I have to catch up. I don't want to get behind on the schedule. 

I just have a really busy week and so much stuff to do for class. Expect some scattered updates, but I hope to get caught up on Friday. There might even be a double update in store! ;)

Anyway, thank you so much for all the love of this story! It means the world! Let me know what you think so much!