NO MORE LIES

　　Ethan gently pulls her arms away and makes her stare into his face. "Camilla, I will never ask you to leave. If it is in my power, you will never leave..."

　　Camilla is blushing so much, she is no longer acting. She is genuinely happy about the way things were turning out. She could hug Ethan to herself out of excitement.

　　"Thank you," she whispers.

　　"You are welcome,"  he says sweetly.

　　They both starts gazing at one another each not knowing what to say until it got awkward real quick.

　　"I should get going," Ethan suggests and Camilla nods her head.

　　Ethan gets up from the bed and walks to the door. He pulls it open and pauses turning back to her, "oh and you can ask her to visit whenever she wants to."

　　Camilla is beyond herself in joy, she squeaks but muffles it with her hand to her mouth. Ethan smiles at her excitement, Camilla is truly very cute. Never has he met a girl like her. She has everything he has ever wanted on a woman.

　　"Good night Camilla," he whispered before pulling the door closed gently behind him.

　　As soon as the door locks, Camilla throws a punch in the air in excitement. Everything is finally falling into place. The time is fast spent or she would have called Lisa to tell her the good news. Now Lisa could come openly into the house and she could show her her room and other things in the house. They could both laugh at Jessie and even that uptight classy Sandra. She will never be lonely again.

　　Camilla slumps on the bed with excitement. This is the best news she had ever heard in her life. Aside from having Lisa around, now she can always go out and lie that she is going to Lisa's place. She can go see her father whenever she wants and most importantly, they can exchange any item she steals from the house without the fear of being suspected.

　　As sleep comes to her, she happily succumbs with a smile on her lips. Tomorrow will bring its threat for she has to go see the damn doctor but she had already told Ethan about getting a part of her memories he won't be surprised when the doctor says she is doing fine.

　　Ethan on the other hand also moves to his room with a large smile. He didn't get enough of her as usual but the little he got, was very satisfying. He will sleep with an image of her pretty smile and cute blush in his head.

　　He is about to pull his bedroom door open when he sees Peter moving from the direction of his room towards the visitors' room down the hall.

　　"Peter?" Ethan calls and Peter raises his ridden eyes to him. Ethan frowns seeing the anger and frustration on his friend's face.

　　"Peter is something wrong?" Ethan asks as he moves closer to him.

　　"No, it's nothing," he grumbles as he finally succeeds in opening the door.

　　Ethan's frown depends even more. Peter is never the type to close upon a situation. He only does this when the matter is very disturbing and he doesn't want Ethan to get involved.

　　"Peter you are leaving your bedroom in the middle of the night and moving into the guest rooms that I am very sure haven't been cleaned in a while now, and you expect me to believe you when you say there is no problem?" Ethan asks him.

　　Peter drops his head in shame. "It's a very shameful thing Ethan, I don't want you getting involved."

　　Ethan takes one of the bags from him.

　　"Let's go to my room, we can talk there."

　　Ethan doesn't even wait for his approval before walking away from the door and heading to his room.

　　Peter has no other choice than to follow him to his room. The room where he planned to stay was not clean, just like Ethan had pointed out. Though Peter could sleep anywhere at that moment, even in a toilet as long as he wasn't going to be spending one more second with Sandra.

　　Ethan gets to his room. He unlocks it and he walks in. Mary and her team had already gotten it cleaned up, so there was no fear or worry of getting tangled with cobwebs in the middle of the night.

　　They get in and Ethan moves to his wardrobe, he shifts some things together, hence creating space for Peter and his belongings.

　　"Why are women so complicated?"  Peter says the moment he settles into Ethan's large bed.

　　"I have tried everything to understand Sandra, but I have never seen a woman as hard as she is! I give her everything, yet she still requests for me. To top it up, she never gets the point. She thinks she is right about everything."

　　"Did she argue with you again?" Ethan asks him.

　　"I confronted her about the happening in town and she denied it. I am tired, Ethan. I know she is lying. I have seen her true colors yet she still denies it! " Peter says placing his fingers at his temples.

　　"You took my point seriously?" Ethan asks him.

　　"Why won't I take it serious Ethan? Everything you said is practically true. Sandra is a power-hungry person and she has been using me to climb the ladder all along. She never actually loved me, that's why I have always been the one making stupid mistakes!" Peter cries out.

　　Ethan stays quiet, allowing Peter to empty his emotions. He has been in a relationship with Sandra for years and knowing that the person you love is a cheat and a liar, hurts a lot. Ethan knows his friend is hurt. He for one never trusted Sandra to begin with. She is someone whose father never trusted, but he gave her the position of being a stakeholder in the town because Peter asked him to.

　　"Now look at all she has done! Innocent people are dead and more are still suffering! All because of my stupidity!" Peter continues lamenting.

　　"Peter," Ethan says holding him by the shoulder. "You need to stop being this hard on yourself-"

　　"But Ethan how can I not be hard on myself, I brought her to you! I gave her the power she is now abusing!"

　　"I understand that it is hard but you are forgetting that I also approved it. I also made a mistake but we can't start throwing blames around whose fault it is or isn't. What we have to do now is find a solution." Ethan tells him.

　　"Can't we throw her in the black hole as well? She is a criminal!" Peter snaps.

　　"No Peter. We can't just do that without concrete proof and besides, I want to use her as bait, whoever is in the game with her is bound to make a mistake but if we eliminate her we will never know because they'll retreat into their caves and wait out the storm."

　　Peter nods his head. The plan makes a lot of sense. Since they already know Sandra is somehow involved, all they have to do is trace her contacts and get the others. Once that's set, they can throw all of them into the hole like the worthless wolves they all are.

　　"That's what we will do. I will send my boys to start watching her moves now." Peter says out loud.

　　"That will be great," Ethan says moving to the other end of the bed. "I have to take Camilla to the doctor tomorrow, I should go to bed, " he says as he pulls off his t-shirt.

　　Peter remembers the little strange signs he has been seeing around Camilla.

　　"Did you ask her about her memories?" He asks.

　　"Oh, yes about that," Ethan says, getting up again. "She admitted remembering a certain friend of hers L-" Ethan tries to recall.

　　"Lisa Maurice?" Peter completes.

　　"Do you know her?"

　　As he mentions her name he feels a warmth in his heart and he grins. "Yeah, I know her."

　　Sleep seems to evade Ethan as he sees the blush on his friend's face at the mention of this Lisa woman. He has never seen Peter so excited about a woman, not even when they talked about Sandra, long before she showed her true colors.

　　"Where do you know her Peter and why do you have that face?" Ethan asks pointing at his curved slipped.

　　Peter's grin deepens. "I just do Ethan. You should go to sleep. You need to wake up early, you said it yourself!" Peter says trying to get Ethan to drop the conversation but the more he declines it the more interested Ethan becomes.

　　"There is no way I am letting this sweet topic go. Is there something going on between you and this Lisa?" Ethan asks. His face is also in a smile as he taunts his friend.

　　"No no way, I have barely even had a real conversation with her..." Peter defends.

　　"A minute ago you seemed to know her too well. Come on, Peter I know you have to differ around, who is she and why do you blush so much about her?"

　　"It's not a big deal, but... I felt a kind of connection towards her, so I dug around and discovers she is Damon's sister," Peter says.

　　"Damon? That human friend of yours that you said went missing?" Ethan asks.

　　He remembers how devastated Peter had been when he returned to his hometown and couldn't find his closest friend. He search everywhere but no news came up from the guy. Their parents had died and they had no family members to trace them from. After a long time, they all concluded he was dead and Peter had to morn for three days. He refused to eat and kept to himself. That was how he and Ethan became close friends. Because Ethan was the only one who didn't give up on him.

　　"That's great news, Peter! So is Damon alive? Did you speak to her?"  Ethan asks, excitement taking over him.

　　Peter shook his head sadly. "I haven't spoken to her ever since I found out but the first time I met Lisa, she told me her brother was dead. So I know Damon is dead."

　　"I am sorry about that Peter, " Ethan says his excitement dying due immediately. He was so happy that Peter will finally reunite with his long-lost friend but unfortunately, he was truly dead, just like they had thought.

　　"It's okay, we've always known that he was dead. I am just happy that I've found her at least. I have been checking her and discovered she says alone and lonely ever since Camilla left, and I want to help her. The help I couldn't give to Damon, I can at least give it to his sister."