"Jealous like crazy! It hurt enough to think of you dating someone else, but then to think that somewhere some other me had done something right and not lost you?" Momoko pressed her hand gently against him where he still held it. "I couldn't even get hugs and she had a whole family. I was burning to know what I had done wrong that she had done different. And to take her place!"

"But with my you, not hers." In case you worried she would run off with an alternate you, Jaime.

"And I wasn't mad at you, you know. Well, immediately after we broke up I was, yes. After that I was just..." She shrugged. "Totally sure that your feelings had changed. That somehow I'd done something or you'd gotten tired of me, us. Or, if my day was really bad, that your feelings had never really been there to start with. I didn't get mad again until you confessed everything in the hospital."