Colin thanks Gwen for coming as Luke, Alison, and Jade all stare on with disgust. Colin eventually provokes Luke into a fight and Aaron, defending his little brother, punches Colin out cold. Gwen's horrified and as people start coming in for the party, they all stare at Aaron as the bad guy. Aaron gets heated and leaves with Alison chasing after him. Casey sees it all and manages to pry Gwen away from Colin. He convinces her to not let Colin's insistence in going home ruin her night of fun. Colin abruptly leaves in a huff and Jade halfway smirks. Later, after a few drinks, Casey and Gwen bond over their old times together, choosing to reflect on the positive and not the negative. With a little alcohol in their systems, Casey and Gwen share a brief kiss, but both pull away once they recall what happened the last time they got drunk together at a party.

Jade and Luke find Alison trying to talk Aaron into returning to the party. Luke thanks his brother for standing up for him, but Aaron grunts that he wouldn't have had to had it not been for Jade. Without Jade here, Colin would have never come to town. Feeling guilty, Jade decides to go back to her empty apartment. Once she's there, she gets spooked by a loud noise and calls up her aunt, asking if she can crash at Lily's for the night. Holden doesn't like the idea, but Lily reminds him that she promised Rose she would look after Jade and that's what she's going to do.

Will comes by the penthouse looking for Barbara but she's already left for her meeting out of town. Noah answers the door shirtless and when Carrie emerges from her room watching television in her robe, Will gets the wrong idea. After he collects himself, he sees Gwen inside the party at Donovan's. He loses it again and starts to run off, but Carrie heads him off at the pass. She explains that Noah was suffocating her and she needed to get out for a while. She heard there was a party at Donovan's tonight and hadn't planned on stopping until she saw Will outside. Gesturing towards the door, she suggests they go in. Will voices his reluctance in going into the party, but Carrie eventually convinces him to just do it. Seeing them enter out of the corner of her eye, Gwen decides to make her exit. Will stops her and tells her not to leave on his accrod. Without saying a word, Gwen walks right past him and gives Carrie a quick glance-over. Carrie reminds Will that he and his wife are both hurting right now; the best thing to do is just shrug it off and don't worry about it for tonight. Just have a good time, she says. Across the room, Alison notes the tension between Gwen and Will and shrugs that she was almost sure that what Will and Gwen had would last forever. She finds Aaron drifting asleep and immediately becomes alarmed. She takes him to the hospital reluctantly. Once there, Bob informs them that during the fight, Aaron hit his head pretty hard and has a mild concussion, so they're going to keep him overnight just to be safe. Back at the party, Noah comes in and finds Carrie and Will talking with some friends of Will's. Noah pulls Carrie aside and asks her to come back to the penthouse. Finally having enough of his clingy behavior, Carrie takes a stance and sternly replies that she's staying with Will and she'll come back to Barbara's when she feels like it. Defeated, Noah walks outside.

Lucinda catches Emily doing last minute Christmas shopping in Old Town and reminds her rival to keep her mouth shut about her past with Clark Allan. Emily irritably replies that she is. After Lucinda asserts that Emily has a had a problem with keeping her lips sealed in the past, Emily tells her off. Wanting to blow off some steam, Emily seeks out Susan at the house. Susan's on her way to the hospital to check on Aaron and Alison. Emily hoped the two of them could talk and Susan obliges, sitting down on the front porch. Susan coldly remarks that Michael has returned to his position with the cancer center and she can barely stand to look him in the face when she passes him in the halls now. Emily's outfit catches her mother's eye and Susan asks where she found the money to afford one of Fashions' more pricier wardrobes. Emily makes up an excuse, but Susan isn't buying it. Emily refuses to reveal where she got the money and Susan warns her to not get in over her head like she always does. Returning to the office, Emily grows agitated when she recalls her mother's warning. Dusty comes in, apologizing for running off earlier and the two decide to ehad to Donovan's to close up for the night. Once there, Dusty and Emily dance in the dark to a romantic song on the radio. Dusty apologizes for accusing her of blabbling Lucinda's secret. Emily, agitated, hisses for Dusty to quit worrying about it and never speak of it again. Although initially shocked and confused by her outburst, Emily quickly apologizes and the two continue dancing. As they dance all alone in a dark, empty Donovan's, we hear Dusty ask if she'll do him an honor and be his fiancee again after he was so stupid to call it off. Emily gladly re-accepts, smiling and signaling that she never took off her ring.