She did, she looked at him and smiled. "Where's Gabby fit into this?"

"She's going to be what you can't be for me. Her and I are going to give it a shot, or at least that's the way it seems. She's never going to take your place, there's just something about you that no one can replace. I don't know why I need you so bad. I don't mean she's second best, I guess you two are like air and water to me. I need you both, but one isn't better than the other. Like salt and sugar."

Helena walked over to Jesse and wrapped her arms around him. Jesse put his arms around her, and let her squeeze him tight. "Can I be sugar?" she asked in a voice ringing with loneliness.

Jesse smiled and tightened his arms around her, "you always will be." He inhaled her perfume and wanted to cry, but knew that he couldn't. His feelings for Helena had to be in the past now.

Nothing would make him happier than to look into her eyes and melt away, and for her to do the same, and to mix together and be stay like that forever, to be with her forever...together forever. But Jesse knew that if he melted, he'd just be a puddle on the floor and she'd only step over it before walking out the door.

He squeezed harder and then relaxed his arms and she backed out of the hug. She looked up at him spoke softly, "not a day goes by when I don't miss us. The old us, when we were happy. When we were young and in love."

Jesse wanted to say a million different things, he wanted to seize this opportunity and tell her everything and say how things could work this time, but he knew it would never work. He knew she wouldn't feel the same. He forced out the only words that he could say that would fit with the moment and not be a lie, "you're beautiful."

Helena's eyes danced over his face, studying him, like she was looking for the words he wasn't saying, the words she knew were there but weren't coming out. "That's why I need you."

She took a step closer to him and stood on his feet to get at eye level to him. She held his hands at her waist and started to move closer him. Jesse leaned in too, their eyes staring at each other's. When their lips met they both blinked liked they couldn't believe this was happening. Tears were falling from Helena's eyes and she was gripping his hands tight. Jesse was holding back the lump in his throat and trying without success to not enjoy this.

The warmth of her lips and her citrus flavor of her mouth was all he could feel. He wanted to put his hands on her hips and to make this into something passionate, but he just squeezed her hands back. He couldn't believe he was going to let this go. The girl that had been his world for as long as he could remember, he couldn't believe that he was going to try to get over this.

Helena's tears were still flowing and Jesse could taste them, taste the sadness flowing from her, he knew what she was feeling. She missed him, but she knew as well as him that they could never be together again. This was it, one last kiss to mark the end of something that had been the greatest time of both their lives.

Helena closed her eyes, took her mouth away from his and put her head down, but still held onto his hands and stood on his feet. She looked back up at him and whispered, "I'm going to miss that."

"I miss it already."

"Sometimes I wish we never ended, but we had to. And I'm happy now, I mean, there are some things that don't feel right, but....Jess I can't, I can't, I can't..."

"What's the matter?"

"I don't know...I still love you, and I'm happy where I am now, but what I have with John isn't anything like what I had with you."

"Helly, we made the right choice. We can't be together. It wouldn't work out." The words killed him, and he couldn't believe that they were coming from his own mouth.

"I know, I just wish we could be like what we used to be."

"Me too."

They hugged again, but no words had to be said, this was the end.