Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold

 That night Eric was at the pub for the quiz, he thought he might be smarter when he was a little intoxicated. He actually got five answers right. Of course, that meant another White Russian. He could hardly walk when he got up.

Of course, it made him forget his troubles with Alex too. He wasn't quite as worried as he thought he should be. Why did something about his relationship with Alex have to hurt so much? Of course, he was probably more angry with himself than with Alex.

He'd told Derrick all about it on the way home. "Why couldn't I have been enough?" He thought he could be there for Alex, no matter what. But evidently, Alex didn't think so.

"Stop beating yourself up about this kid," was Derrick's response. "He's got to figure this out on his own. Maybe he or she doesn't even know what they really want." Derrick went on to say there was a lot more mental to it than anyone would probably ever know. "And god knows, what might influence Alex. Just leave that high schooler alone." After all, Eric was twenty-one now.

"We all have a lot of growing up to do," Derrick said. "You can wait on love. Just..just love yourself."

"Is that what you're doing?" Eric sighed thinking it was weird that Derrick was actually here. He knew Derrick only took that job because he knew Pixie was here. "You just came, because of her." He remembered his history with her. He was quite the fanboy.

"No," He shook his head and smiled as he drove him home. "That's not true. Sure, I think an awful lot of her. But I wanted to have this chance." He said he'd grown up a lot. Sure, she was his crush and he owed her so much, helping him become the dancer he was. "I will always think of her as my teacher. I just needed a change."

"Is that why you haven't even seen her yet?" Yes, Eric remembered the question clearly. 

"Nothing is going on between us. I don't plan on anything ever going on between us," he said as he helped Eric out of his car. "Don't you understand that?"

Eric squinted as he stumbled and fell right to the ground. He thought he heard Derrick say something else, but he couldn't remember.