I knew I shouldn't have done it, but I couldn't control myself. I gave him plenty of time to stop me and if anything he only encouraged me more. His eyes swirled with conflict as I pulled him closer for that first kiss. My first kiss.

But then he was out of control. The hunger in his eyes when I pulled away was so overwhelming, and then he kissed me deeply and passionately. Both of us likes it for sure. I couldn't believe it. I was so happy in that moment.

Then, he left me.

He got up, grabbed a sweater, his keys and left to go 'somewhere important'. I felt rejected. It just didn't feel good to be left there like that. I tried not to cry, tried not to let it get to me, but I failed.

I brushed out my hair because it was a mess now after our kiss and the tickling that came before it. Then, I went to meet Remi in his room like he said to in his birthday card.

"Hey, Cupcake. What's going on?" Remi asked, opening the door and seeing my teary eyes.

"Remi. I... I don't want Vivi to be mad at me." I cried, throwing my arms around Remi and hugging him tightly.

"Hey, what's going on? What happened?" Remi asked me, pulling me into the room and shutting the door behind him.

"I m-messed up." I sobbed.

"How? What did you do?" He asked me.

"I kissed him." I cried.

"Aw, Cupcake that's perfectly ok. I'm sure he liked it, I don't think he's mad." Remi told me.

"He is. He left." I cried.

"He left?" Remi asked.

"Yeah. He pulled away and he left." I said, unable to control my sobbing.

"Sh.... I'm sure everything is ok. Come here. Sit down and I'll call him and see where he went." Remi said to me.

I sat down on Remi's bed with the cupcake pillow in my lap. I just ended up laying down while Remi paced back and forth in the hall outside the room.

He eventually came back in and he sat on the bed beside me, brushing my hair back and playing with the ends of it.

"He's not mad at you, Kiara." Remi told me.

"Where'd he go? Did he go alone?" I asked.

"No. He took Gabe and Papa Teo with him." Remi told me.

"What're they doing?" I asked.

"They're making it so that Gabe is your caregiver. I think..." Remi said.

What? Vivi doesn't want me anymore? He doesn't want anything to do with me anymore?

This is horrible. I never should've kissed him. I was probably a bad kisser and that's why he wants to get rid of me by giving me to someone else.

But Vivi isn't like that. He wouldn't do that!

"No... I want Vivi back now.... please." I cried.

"He'll be back, Kiara. I promise." Remi said, helping me up and hugging me. "Come, let's go out on the balcony for a while and hang out there. We'll get some fresh air, and I have some chocolate strawberries for us to enjoy."

I let Remi lead me to the balcony, but I just wanted to talk to Ari about this. She would know what was wrong. She had more experience with these things.

"Remi. I want to talk to Ari... I don't feel good." I cried.

"Alright. I'll go get her." He said and he ran off, bringing Arabella back to me.

The balcony was set up with cushions everywhere and fairy lights on the railing. It looked really cute and pretty.

When Ari and Romeo came back, she sat down beside me and hugged me while Remi sat beside me on the other side.

"What's wrong, Kiara?" She asked me.

"I kissed him and he's gone." I cried.

"He just left?" She asked in shock.

"Yeah. He left me there so quickly." I told her.

"Was the kiss bad?" She asked me.

"For me it was good." I sobbed, holding my head in my hands.

"Hey, don't be so upset. It's going to be ok." Ari said to me.

I shook my head and she hugged me tightly, Remi rubbed my back as I cried.

"He's just going to make Gabe your caregiver, Cupcake. It's all going to be ok." Remi said.

"Oh, is that where he went?" Ari asked Remi.

"Yeah. That's all.... there's no need to be upset, although I will smack him for you if you want." Remi said.

I shook my head. I didn't want them to smack him. He didn't deserve that. Although he was dumb to leave me like that after kissing the life out of me.

For the rest of the night, I sat on that balcony trying to figure out what I did wrong. I just didn't understand why he would make Gabe my caregiver. The only explanation I could think of was that the kiss was bad or it scared him and he wanted me out of his life.

He had never explained the caregiver thing to me, but I never cared. All I knew was that he would be able to kiss me when I got completely better and I felt completely better. I didn't understand the problem. I was just confused.

Ari eventually went to bed and Remi decided to stay with me all night. I sat down and I made an Instagram account while I waited for Vivi to come home. I wanted to start looking for Mabel soon.

"Cupcake, you should get some rest." Remi told me, but I refused. I couldn't sleep at a time like this.

Remi got a call at a little past midnight and he answered it, seeming concerned.

"Hey, what's wrong, Sweetheart?" He asked, making me look up at him to try and see if I could hear anything.

He seemed very, very concerned.

"Is she? Do I need to come over?" He asked, and I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Alright, it's ok. Hey, don't cry. Wipe those tears, Beautiful. Now go give her the phone so I can talk to her." He said softly, he was being so gentle and caring.

Remi could clearly be responsible when he needed to be. Even though he was usually crazy, he was super gentle and sweet all the time and he could take care of everyone.

"Relax, Juliet, I've got this." He said to the woman.

He sat up straighter, her frown deepened and then his features softened all at once and he smiled, a look of pure love and affection crossing his face.

"Hey, Cutiepie... what's going on? Why won't you sleep?" He asked.

He waited for a response and then he chuckled.

"Aw, Baby, listen to me. Momma is having a hard night, alright? Why don't you be a good girl and go to sleep, and Remi will take you out tomorrow."

He chuckled and then he looked at me with a smile.

"We can do whatever you'd like. But Remi only takes good girls out. If Momma tells me that you didn't listen and you gave her a hard time, I don't think I'll be able to go anywhere with you tomorrow." He told her.

He relaxed into a pillow he had beside him and I could hear the conversation he was having now.

"What are you doing, Daddy?" A small voice asked.

"Sitting on a balcony with my little sister." He said.

"No! No, daddy! Don't sit with girls! Only me and Momma!" The cute voice said.

"It's my sister, Cutiepie. She's my little sister. I'm gonna sit with her sometimes. But one day you can meet her and Momma can meet her too, and then you can sit with us on this balcony." He told the little girl.

I smiled. He was such a good father. I just wondered if it was his kid or just the daughter of the girl he liked.

"Daddy, I wish you was here." The little girl said.

"One day... but remember what we said? I'm not daddy yet... Momma doesn't want you calling me that just yet, Cutie." Remi said, a pained look crossing his face.

"That's not fair. I choose, not her." The little girl said.

"Hey, that's not very nice. Momma only wants to protect you, baby. You wait for Momma to give us permission, ok?" Remi told the little girl.

"It's not fair." The little girl said.

"I know it feels that way. But it's ok. Sometimes we have to do things slowly." Remi told her.

"But you promised... you promised that you would make the bad man go away, and then you could be my daddy." The little girl said.

"I did make the bad man go away. And I will be your daddy, once Momma says I can be." Remi said.

"But how come bad man still—" the girl started.

"What did I say?" A woman's voice interrupted the girl, cutting her off.

"Juliet!" Remi yelled through the phone, standing up and beginning to pace.

I couldn't hear the conversation anymore.

"Tell me what happened, right now. I'm not kidding." Remi said.

He waited and listened and then he sat back down and relaxed.

"That's my kid whether you want to accept that yet or not, Juliet. I don't do well with that man being around you or my kid. You know my feelings very well.... so tell me why I didn't hear about this from you?" He said harshly.

"It's not like that, Romeo." Juliet said through the phone.

"If he gets within five hundred meters of you or our kid... he's breaking the law. Now did he or did he not get that close to you?" Remi asked, he was angrier than I've ever seen him.

"Romeo, we're ok. He's just trying to get in my head." Juliet said.

"Well don't let him. And tell me about this next time, I'm tired of hearing about it from my kid." Remi said, sounding hurt.

"She's not your kid, Romeo." Juliet said, getting frustrated.

"Then why did you call me? If you don't want me near you, why can't you just say it to my face? I love you both and you keep pushing me away. I just want to take care of you. Why won't you let me do that?" Remi said in annoyance.

"She's my daughter, Romeo! Not yours! And you don't know what we need! I'm grateful to you for getting rid of him for us, but I never asked you to burrow your way into our lives!" Juliet yelled through the phone.

"Fine, then I'm done doing that. I only ever tried because I love you both, but clearly you don't feel the same. So do me a favour and never call me or talk to me again unless it's for work, and tell your daughter the news, because apparently she's not my kid, so why should I explain?" Remi said angrily, hanging up and throwing his phone aside.

"R-Romeo..." I said softly, watching him pant angrily beside me. I took his hand and he pulled it away, looking in the other direction even though I knew he was crying already. "Remi, talk to me."

"There's nothing to say." He said, looking away.

"Is she your kid?" I asked.

"She's Juliet's daughter, I'm not the biological father, I'm not the father at all... but she calls me daddy, Kiara... why can't that be enough?" He said, his voice shaking.

"It's ok. She'll come around." I said.

"She won't. She just won't." He sighed.

"She will." I insisted.

"I can't fight her anymore. I do love her, I do. I desperately want us to be a family and I know she's scared, but I can't take this much of her fighting." He said.

"Remi, can you listen for a second?" I said, noticing how he was just too stuck in his head about how she didn't want him.

"What?" I asked.

"She has a kid.... and I don't think you know the details of how that happened, do you? Her daughter calls him the bad man, which means that Juliet is deeply hurt by what he did to her. She's just afraid of having a repeat of the past, ok? And like you said, she's trying to protect her daughter." I told him.

"She already knows I love that kid more than anything in the world. She knows I love her with all my heart, but she won't let me get close to her. Her kid is a plus, but what I want is her. I'll take care of her kid because I love her kid more than anything. But she's the one my heart wants more than anything. She still doesn't understand that though." He said.

"You're Romeo. Be a Romeo! Get your girl no matter what stands between you because I know she's just scared. And she has every right to be scared. You're moving too fast for her, maybe that's it, and I don't think it's your fault. It's just that she has a kid that loves you.... So things have moved quicker than she's comfortable with. Go take the girl out tomorrow ok? You made a promise to that little girl, so keep it, don't let her down. And take it really slow with Juliet. She can't trust in only a few months, she needs you to take it really, really slow." I told him.

"Ok. I will.... I'll go over there tomorrow and take my baby out... but you have to make me a promise." He said to me.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Don't tell anyone about this yet, and also, don't give up on Vidal. He's difficult to understand and he does stupid things like kissing you and leaving. But he's just dumb like that sometimes. Don't let it get to you, I know he loves you." Remi said to me.

I nodded and he smiled, wiping away his tears.

Then I heard his phone ringing again. I looked over and saw a heart and I looked up at his pained expression.

"She's too stubborn to call again after that... unless it's the little munchkin." He said, grabbing the phone and answering it.

"I need you." I heard Juliet say.

"Why?" He asked harshly.

"B-be-because... because I do." She said.

"Is Nora sleeping?" Romeo asked.

"She is... she thinks your taking her out tomorrow if she sleeps. I tried to explain but she doesn't get it." Juliet said.

"Why'd you call me then?" Remi asked.

"Because this is out of my control now. I know that you want nothing to do with me and that's fine. Just come take her out tomorrow. Don't hurt her." Juliet said.

"Don't mix up your facts, Juliet. I'm not the one who said I didn't want you in my life, it's the other way around and I'll respect that. From now on you can only call me if my daughter needs anything and I'll take her out. But don't call me because you're tired and need a rest or something, you didn't want anything to do with me and I won't be used. If Nora wants to speak to me, fine, but other than that, leave me out of it if you don't want me around." He said.

"I n-never used you." She said, sounding hurt.

"Then if you don't want me in your life and you don't want your daughter calling me dad, why do you treat me like I'm a babysitter you can call whenever you need to rest?" He asked her.

"That's not.... you're the only one she'll accept." Juliet said.

"Well work on that. Because I have a demanding job and as much as I'd like to take care of her, you don't want me to be her father." Romeo said.

"You're making this about us and it never was." Juliet argued.

"Really? To me, it was always about you. Never about anything else. I love Nora, but you're the one I want to spend the rest of my life with, Nora is just a kid I want to take care of because she's an extension of the woman I love. You just don't understand that for some reason." Romeo said with a sigh.

"So then you don't actually care for her... she's just a burden you have to bear because I have a daughter. Which is exactly why you're not fit to be her father." Juliet said.

"Is that what you heard? Because it's not what I said." Remi sighed.

"Whatever. Just... hurt me all you want, but don't hurt my kid." Juliet said.

"I'm tired of this, Juliet... I'll see you in the morning to pick her up." Remi said softly and I heard her agree, then he hung up.

"See... she's not ready to let you go, that much is obvious. She said she needed you, and then she twisted it and made it about her daughter, she's confused, Remi." I said, rubbing his back and forgetting my own problems.

"We'll see what happens. It just hurts to love so deeply and not be loved back." He said to me and boy did I know that exact feeling.

"I know. It'll get easier though and she'll understand her own feelings one day." I explained.

"Alright." He nodded. "I hope you're right, Cupcake."

I smiled at him, resting my head against his shoulder. He went off to bed and I sat on the balcony, unable to sleep for the entire night.

The next morning, I saw Papa Teo arrive home and go straight to bed, and then soon after him Gabe and Vivi came home. I ran to the bedroom before I had to face Vivi and hoped things would be ok.

It was time for me to face this issue and just hoped Vivi wasn't angry that I'd kissed him and that he still wanted me around.