After quietly releasing his tears for a couple min William finally breaks the hug looking into my eyes. I'm guessing he was waiting for my reaction as he just let himself be so vulnerable.

I don't have any more words for William in this moment just my eyes filling with tears of their own as I am feeling his emotions being transferred to me. Instead of paying attention to my own emotions I lift my right hand to his right eye and use the backs of my fingers to slowly wipe his still falling tears away. This is my way of telling him without words that I value his openness and trust and have nothing but love and care for him in his time of need.

Tristan's POV:

I feel a couple more tears land on my cheek, Lisa's tears are gaining speed and size. I break the hug and motion Lisa to take care of Melissa for a moment, she leans and kisses a tear from Melissa's outer cheek as she wipes a couple of tear streaks from her other cheek with her thumb going from the inner corner to the outer corner.

I use that small break to send a quick text to Enid, letting her know that the issue between Lisa and I has been resolved. As soon as she receives it she calls me, I hear her voice thick with tears as she begins to apologize, my eyes fill with tears, I wish I was with her to wipe and kiss her tears as well as give her a comforting hug and a reassuring pat on her breathtaking thigh. As Enid continues to tell me she misses me through a wavering, breaking voice I tell her I'd love to see her at the airport. Tears sting my eyes fighting to escape.

Lisa is still taking care of Melissa's tears (the call lasted around 2 minutes), I softly wipe a tear from Lisa's outer corner of her eye and I let my tears to peacefully slip out of my eyes, marking a single thin streak down the middle of each cheek. Melissa quickly turns to look at me.

Rachel's POV

'Your organiser sent you a text' Kate called as I was in the kitchen grabbing a can of Coke. 'You've got £7650 left of your £10,000'

'Perfect' I replied returning to my girlfriend and giving her a kiss. She then mentioned that one of my rivals (who had been so arrogant in his press conference at the beginning of his challenge) had been caught up in the storms at Seoul and had got absolutely drenched

'I'm broken up' I informed her. Kate got a fit of the giggles so bad that tears streamed down her face. I wiped them away for her and gave her another kiss and we started to watch our movie

As I am lovingly wiping William's tears I feel his right hand on my left cheek. I didn't even see him move it as I was so focused on his emotions. I then feel him softly brushing the pad of his thumb under my eye from the inner corner to the outer corner. I feel my tears pushing to get out and I think he saw it too as he softly brushed his thumb under my eye again. I decided to stop fighting it. If he was brave enough to let me see and take care of his tears the least I could do was give him the same.

I shut my eyes for a moment letting two tears fall unchecked over his thumb and down my cheek. I could feel myself blushing as I opened my eyes again.

Tristan's POV:

Melissa gasps when she looks at me, guess she's surprised that I am allowing my tears to fall unchecked in front of Lisa. Mel focuses on me as she brings her right hand to my right cheek, wiping, with the back of her fingers, my tear, lovingly sliding up, drying my thin tear streak. Melissa gasping and focusing on me makes Lisa turn to look at me as well, surprising me when she doesn't even hesitate to bring her finger pads to my left cheek, softly drying my tear streak until she catches the tear before it reaches my chin.

I smile at them: "Care to see a sad movie, maybe to all have a reason to cry?"