Disclaimer: I don't own Flawless. If I did, you'd know. I wouldn't be able to keep that quiet x3 Rob is mine though. Enjoy!

Let's Go West

"He says he loves her," Cha-Cha cried, collapsing onto Amazing Grace's shoulder. Her friend held her tightly, rubbing her back. Cha-Cha still had the phone in her hand, ignoring it as it began to beep, letting her know she should hang up. Her voice was muffled by velvet. "What can you say to that?"

"Oh honey..." Amazing Grace was just as surprised. The two of them had been having a pleasant evening together. They'd gotten pizza from Carmine, had a movie that starred Patrick Swayze in drag...yes, a very good night.

Until Cha-Cha's boyfriend Rob called informing her of his new love interest. Apparently his one night stand meant more than their two years.

"What can you say to that?" she cried again, rolling over to land in her friend's lap.

Amazing Grace looked into the devestated eyes below her. She didn't mean to be harsh, but all she could think to say was, "He's made up his mind, honey. No matter how much you hate it, and there ain't nothing you can do." She wiped at a few tears trickling down the Hispanic's face. She wanted to say something like, 'If he can just forget you, you can just forget him,' but she didn't think that was what Cha-Cha wanted to hear right now.

Cha-Cha swallowed hard. She knew she was right. Didn't want to admit it, but she knew it. "Everything was going so well," she insisted. "Rob never even hinted that he was losing interest, or that anything was wrong, or...or anything...we were fine...if only I'd gone to his place last night," she sobbed.

Amazing Grace nodded and listened as Cha-Cha eased from depressed into enraged. She ranted about how much of a jerk he was to just up and walk away. Two years down the drain. But soon enough she was too exhausted to yell and reverted back to crying. Amazing Grace wished Rusty were there, she'd know what to say.

"Cha-Cha, maybe getting out of the city for a bit would help you get over this. You know, a breath of fresh air, get you away from familiar things and just take it easy."

Away from everything? Did she want to run away? Then again, he was the one who ran.

A vacation. That wasn't retreating, just regrouping. She agreed. She did need to get out of New York for a while.

"That's a good idea, Gracie." Her friend, who absolutely hated the nickname, let the it drop this time. "Just drive until I break down or run out of gas."

"You don't have a car."

"I will by midnight."

"Color doesn't matter," she was saying. "No, I don't need leather seats." Cha-Cha felt fortunate to have found a dealership just before closing time. The salesmen had the easiest sale of his career. "All that really concerns me is speed." Just had to out run his memory. She took the first used car he showed her. She thought she might regret blowing the money she'd been saving for this year's Flawless contest, but as she handed over a check, she didn't care, overwhelmed with the need to escape.

She didn't want to stop until dawn. Heading west, she drove all night in silence thinking about Rob, trying to figure out where the whole thing started going wrong.

Six and a half hours later, the sun was up and she got off on a random exit.

Welcome to Garland, Pennsylvania.

She checked into a falling down motel whose exterior mirrored how she felt inside.

She spent a week there, wandering the downtown shopping areas and trying a new club every night. Rusty and the girls didn't hear from her the entire week, and they hadn't really expected to, but when they did, they were shocked.

"I've decided to stay here," Cha-Cha announced in her first phone call home. "When Rob and I would go on trips, we'd joke about never going home. When I have someone with me, I can laugh about it. But when it's just me...I can just give in to the idea. No one's here to talk me out of it."

They had her on speaker phone so all three could hear. "You have us to talk you out of it," Amazing Grace begged. "You have us to come home to."

"I know..."

"I'll go with you!"

"Don't be silly, Ivana," Cha-Cha chuckled. "You'd miss New York before you could unpack." Ivana knew she was right.

The two continued to offer alternatives, but Cha-Cha had made up her mind before she called, and had braced herself for their pleading. She would stay put in Garland.

Rusty was the only one who told Cha-Cha she thought it was a good idea. "She needs the change, girls. She'll come back when she's ready. Won't you, Cha-Cha?"

"Right," she smiled. Rusty knew everything. "I'll be back Friday to get my stuff."

"You're ready for it already?" asked Rusty.

"Yeah, they're practically giving away apartments here, it's ridiculous. And I've looked into working at a club near them, too. It's not as fabulous as Ma Vie En Rose," she teased, referring to Rusty's club, "but it sure is something."

"We'll be sad to see our best dancer leave."

Cha-Cha giggled. "Gracie was gonna pass me up any day now. I gotta leave while I can still say I'm number one."

They all laughed. "Well, we'll be waiting for you on Friday."

"Love you all."

"Love you, too," they said together.

It was quite a job getting Cha-Cha's things together. None of them had realized just how much stuff she had.

Everyone had showed up to say goodbye, and as an afterthought a few helped. There was the usual group of Amazing Grace, Ivana, and Rusty, along with Pogo, Walt, and his cop friend Tommy. Gypsy was disappointed her little hispanic hotcake wouldn't be in the contest this year, and Mr. Pim and his wife would be sad to see her go as well. Even Tia, who Cha-Cha had only recently befriended, was a little put out that she wouldn't be able to get to know her better. They'd finally stopped fighting over Walt when Rob had entered the picture, and had slowly grown interested in each other.

They made it an all day event, hurrying to pack everything so they could call Carmine for pizza, who was then invited to join them as they partied, giving Cha-Cha a merry farewell.

She spent the night at Rusty's, and in the morning left again for Garland.

Cha-Cha was happy with her apartment. It was about the same size as her previous one, but had a better view. Instead of a trashy New York alley, it overlooked a small, man made pond. It had a very uplifting feel to it, and as she plopped down on her bare mattress, she smiled as she took it in.

That was when she realized how quiet it was without the two girls running around, and Rusty chasing after them. But she liked the new sound. She could hear herself think.

She hadn't been able to get Rob off her mind. Completely, anyway. He'd get pushed to the back, but always popped up at the most inconvenient time. Like now as she tried to relax.

Thinking over her relationship with him, all the small things seemed to stand out. She hadn't noticed how quickly everything had started. She couldn't remember a time when she'd known Rob but hadn't been dating him. Was there a time like that? She sat on her bed trying to recall a day when they had just been friends, but couldn't think of any except the day she met him. She'd never known him as anything but a lover. And in the silence, something begins to unravel. She never knew him like she'll be knowing him now.

A/N: This is a four part deal. Each are pretty short, but different enough to be separate chapters. I'd just like to say that Garland is actualy six and a half hours from New York City. I checked MapQuest xD I spent half an hour or so trying to find some place that would be about a night's drive.

Something in my defense, if I may. I'm not from New York, so I don't know how quickly you could get a car. I'm from the MotorCity, and we have car dealerships on everyt street, open all the time. So if Cha-Cha couldn't have found one that fast, deal with it xD cuz a Detroiter wrote this, and she says that a dealership was around. xD Love you!