I’ve thought about it and I want you to keep it on…for now.’ Her request confused me. We had discussed the rings before we met this weekend. I t...old her that I felt the ring was a symbol of my belonging to another – that it showed a possession by someone else. ‘I thought we’d discussed this before’ I said softly. ‘I thought we agreed we’d remove the rings once we arrived. After all, we came here freely. We left our spouses behind in order to be together. We came here to give ourselves to each. ..How did you? There's no way you could've known..." Finn stumbled through his speech."Known what?" Chris smirked, slinging an arm around Jackie. He knew alright, but he kept mum."These are cinnamon tea cakes...I would know them anywhere," Finn's eyes filled with tears and he turned his head to hide his face."What's wrong?" Remy swooped in and squeezed the smaller man's shoulder. The Sheriff set the box he held next to him, bringing his free hand to turn Finn's face to his."We'll be in the back. Boy, it was a good thing Melissa hadn't opened her mouth. Patty really hated her."Actually" Becky continued, "we were about to tell Eva about a party at Jason's house tonight. His parents are out of town for the weekend, but they're leaving early today." She paused. "Tom should be there" she added to me."Cool" I said, "thanks for letting me know. I'll think about it."Becky glanced over to Melissa, and the two of them left the bathroom together."Fuckin' skank bitches" Patty muttered. Emily was. And yes, I know the concept of “true love” is also trite. But it was made that way by frustrated people who refused to forge a loving bond with someone because they kept thinking, “I can do better.”Phoebe could have done better. My ‘rap sheet’ as a human being was extensive, literally as long as my arm, if you put the pages end to end. My relationship with Hannah was something the vast majority of women could never have gotten past.But the hunger in Phoebe’s psyche, the hunger for the kind of.