William's POV:

After feeling Jarrod wipe a second wave of tears rushing down my cheeks I break the hug and finally dare to see Camilla's eyes, was I seeing them watery? maybe it was my eyes the ones who were watery, I see Jarrod placing his hand on my puddle of tears. I try to be honest, and brave dare I say, I said to Camilla: "I'm sorry you had to see me like this, I don't know why I didn't keep it in. On the other hand, I... I... I can't leave without saying thank you, thank you for holding me, thank you for not judging." And I thought but there was no way I would admit it loud, thank you for wiping my tears.

"Jarrod, I have something to do in a couple of hours, can I see you tomorrow, or is that too much to ask? You can stay in my apartment if you like."

I go and compose myself, make sure no trace of tears are visible, go change, a casual green, long sleeve silk shirt, brown, cotton pants and brown suede shoes. Go to the address Caroline gave me. I speak with her, she says she doesn't want to break up my marriage, that I have to think about it twice before making a mistake, I think I saw her eyes filling with tears...

William thanked me for holding him and for not judging him. I knew what that meant. He was basically thanking me for wiping his tears without actually saying it.

"I'm happy I could be there for you. And besides we're kind of like family now seeing as how I'm dating your brother I kind of look at you like my brother now and I couldnt leave my family hurting like that." I began quickly before William interrupted what I was going to say next.

He told us he had so.mething to do so he had to get going, but he would like to see us again tomorrow if we were going to be around. He even so much as told us we could stay in the guest room in his apartment.

As nice of a gesture as that was we had already booked a hotel for the night so we politely declined his offer hoping that would give him some private time with his wife to discuss things with her.

We then parted ways and drove back to the hotel. As soon as we got back to our hotel room, barely even having time to lock the door Jarrod quickly asked me if I was ok. He then hugged me and thanked me for what I did for William. With that I could feel my breath becoming more ragged.  I tried to steady my breathing but I think Jarrod knew. He broke the hug and began staring into my eyes.

"Are you sure you're ok?" Jarrod asked me again in a concerned tone never taking his eyes off mine.

"Well it's just that..." I begin taking a deep breath trying to get the words out before my sobs take over my body. "I'm an empath (as you know) and seeing your brother like that really made me feel what he was feeling. I couldn't even imagine what he must have been feeling. Having his wife go through a miscarriage and him feeling the need to be strong for her instead of letting himself greive too. It must have been awful."

Gemma's POV

I closed my eyes and fought back the tears that were threatening to overflow as Sadie got sentenced.

I still had a job to do so using online banking, I transferred the necessary funds from my account to hers to pay her fine

As I was leaving I saw Jarrod and presumably Sadie's sister. She was screaming at her mum saying all of this was her fault and if it wasn't for her stupid homophobia Sadie wouldn't have done what she had done on that fateful night.

I walked quickly back to my car, got inside and drove home. I parked opened the front door, closed it behind me and only then did I allow my devastation to rise to the surface.

I broke down in tears as great hacking sobs shook my body. I buried my face in my skirt and wept as my heart broke into pieces.

I heard the doorbell rang. I took a few minutes to compose myself and opened the door. It was Caroline, checking if I was okay. I said I was but she saw right through me

She took me through to the living room and the tears soon came back streaming down my face.

"I knew what she was going to do" I sobbed. "I just never expected it to be like this. I feel like someone's hit me with a ten ton weight and I don't know what to do"

Caroline pulled me into a hug as I sobbed brokenly on her shoulder

As I was explaining to Jarrod how I was feeling I finally broke down sobbing. I was trying to control my emotions only so I could finish telling him how I was feeling, but it was no use. As soon as my sobs started Jarrod immediately gave me a tender kiss on my lips.

Never breaking the kiss Jarrod guided me to the bed but just before we reached the bed I felt a warm tear escape my left eye only to see it land on Jarrod's lips. That pushed him to start caressing my hair as he finally reached the bed and set me down on the bed with him. As he set me down he patted my thigh with one hand while he took is other hand that was caressing my hair and moved it to my cheek. He traced the tear streak down the length of my cheek finally catching the tear.

Jarrod then finally broke the kiss. He looked lovingly into my eyes on!y for me to see in my now blurry vision what appeared to be tears swimming in his eyes. Maybe it was my tears playing tricks on me I wasn't sure, but I had to find out.

As my sobs were finally starting to die down I took a deep ragged breath and finally whispered "Thank you. I think I'm starting to feel a bit better about the siituation now, but how are you?" I just couldn't see how he could be fine after hearing what both Anna and William told him. I mean that was his brother and sister in law after all. I mean I know he's not an empath or anything, but I just can't see how he could hear what he did and still be unmoved at least a little.

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Caroline's POV

I put the key in the lock and opened my front door. It had been a really emotional day.

First I'd seen William and he talked me through his marital problems and how they started when he and his wife had a miscarriage. I was already thinking in my mind that having an affair was wrong even before this but I didn't want to break up William and his wife not like this. My eyes filled with tears and I told him I couldn't have the affair and I left.

Then I went to see Gemma. Sadie had just been sentenced and I wanted to see how she was. I could tell she had been crying because the hem of her skirt was wet and there was a tear track on one of her boots. She sobbed on my shoulder and my heart went out to her

Although I had been jealous of the fact that nearly all the boys fancied her, she was still my friend and it was very upsetting to see her just so broken

I asked what she was going to do now. Wiping her streaming tears she said she was going to wait for Sadie. She wouldn't listen to any of my pleas so I just left her to it for now.

Kicking off my shoes and removing my top coat I moved over to the small glass cabinet in the living room which housed my Transformers collection. Taking out one of my seven combiner teams in the case and the bits that went with them, I sat down at the table and built the Technobots into their combined form of Computron.

I had been a fan since childhood but my two brothers hadn't understood.

"Go buy some My Little Pony" they'd said. Once I became an adult though, I could buy as many as I liked. It was just a small collection of just 36 robots but strangely I found building a super robot to be very relaxing and helped me decompress

I'd just finished building when the doorbell rang. Through the eyepiece I saw Eliott with a pizza. I was grateful to see him and opened the door to let him in