The next day, at the Masons' house.

Stella's alarm goes off, the night before as she had been drinking a lot, she just left the party and threw herself on the bed and she fell asleep instantly.

She still had her makeup and dress on, she ignored the alarm and turned to the other side of the bed, turning to the pillow with Ben's shirt on top of it that he had left behind.

Stella ends up resting her face on the shirt, she frowns and opens her eyes.

She lifts her head a little and picks up the shirt, trying to understand when it came out from under her pillow where it had been left.

She can smell his perfume on his shirt, his perfume is so strong that not even the pool water could remove the smell completely.

Stella sighs, closing her eyes, putting the shirt aside, she stares at the ceiling for a few seconds, keeping in mind that when she gets out of bed it's time to move on.

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Stella takes a shower and wrings her clothes and goes down to have breakfast with Aston, Jenna and Richard.

"Good morning sweetie" Jenna says "Good morning...where are the others?" Stella asks, taking a piece of toast.

"Will and Joanna just left, Gail and Mark left in the morning and Ben..." Jenna pauses, Stella looks at her "He left yesterday during the party" Jenna says.

"Oh" Stella says buttering the toast "Did you talk to him yesterday, about the job?" Aston asks.

Stella takes a few seconds to respond, with an upset look "yeah...it was about that" Stella says.

Richard looks at her with pity, Stella prepares toast and puts juice in a glass.

"So...Dad, what did you and Mark talked about yesterday?" Richard asks Aston "we sorted everything out" Aston says

Stella looks at him confused "Really?" Stella says "yeah, I finally explained everything..." Aston says as Jenna pours him coffee.

"I said that his father only left his business to me because, he saw that at the time I was in debt and broke, I had your mother and you were just kids and I barely knew if I would be able to keep you in school" Aston says.

"It was all a misunderstanding then?" Richard says "yeah, he had one version of the story and I had another, just because we argued and I put an end to it without explaining anything to him... This resulted in years of hurt" Aston says.

Stella looks away from her father to the table, thoughtfully.

"I mean, I really tried to resolve things with him for years, I went after him after that fight to try to explain the situation but...he took it to heart and didn't want to listen to me because he thought everything that came out of my mouth was a lie" Aston says gesturing with his coffee mug.

"I remember you were upset when you stopped talking to each other" Jenna says "of course you're upset, the guy was my best friend forever, his father was a hero to me, and he was no different" Aston says.

"I'm glad you guys figured it out" Stella gives her father a forced smile "Yeah...too bad we'll never get back the years we lost" Aston says, Jenna puts her hand on his shoulder.

Stella takes a deep breath, "But you're part of the same family now, you can see each other more often" Richard says to Aston "yeah let's go fishing next week" Aston smiles, Jenna smiles at him.

Stella slowly chews the toast in her mouth thoughtfully.

"Are you okay, little star?" Aston asks, Stella takes the glass of juice and the rest of the toast and gets up "I need to do one last video meeting for the law" Stella says.

"Now!?" Richard aks "I want to resolve all this as soon as possible" Stella says heading towards the stairs.

"I thought about taking a walk in the park today, a family walk" Jenna says "yes, I'm just going to have this meeting and read some emails and then we can go" Stella says quickly.

Jenna hears Stella close the bedroom door, she sighs "Again" Richard mumbles.

Jenna looks at him irritated "I wish she would work things out with that boy, he's cute" Jenna says upset, Richard chuckles sarcastically.

"I like him, he reminds me of me when I was young" Aston says, Jenna smiles at him "really? You guys support them" Richard says.

"Don't you want to see your sister happy?" Jenna says, Richard thinks.

It's undeniable for anyone who sees it, that Stella will always feel a strong bond with Ben, even if they hate each other, even if they love each other, there would always be something.

They would never be "Nothing"