PROLOGUE

She took a step back, shaking her head, "I'm not crazy…" She began with a whisper, "I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy!" She kept going on and on, her voice getting louder, as he grabbed both of her wrists, holding them in place as he head began to move back and forth with her words.

"You need help!" He said, "And I'm not saying that to be a jerk! But look at you! You need to get help!"

"No, I don't!" She shouted at him, and he leaned back. "I don't need help!"

From the corner of his eye, he saw the nearly two year old boy, just sitting on the bed, looking up at his parents. "Yeah, you do." He spoke quietly. "For him." His voice broke, "You need to get help, for your son… who needs you."

She looked like she was about to say something, but shook her head. "I…I can't." She whispered. "I.." She pulled her wrists away from him, and looked at her son. "I…" She then bent down in front of him, as the toddler's body began to shake. She grabbed his small hands, and looked up at him, his blue eyes staring back at her, as her own violet ones filled with tears. "I love you," She said to him. "Don't you forget that."

"Mama…" He whimpered, and she shook her head, biting her lip. She picked him up and held him tight against her, as she looked at her boyfriend.

"What about school?" She asked him, "Don't I need to finish it?"

"Worry about that later…" He said, a bit relieved she was agreeing so easily to this. "Your treatment is much, much more important."

She nodded, and leaned her son back a bit, kissing his forehead. "Mama's going to go get better, okay?" He just looked at her, "I know it's hard for you to understand right now, but… you will someday."

"And with that, she lay him down gently on the bed, and kissed his forehead once again. She looked at her boyfriend, and took a deep breath. "Okay." She finally said, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Just… get me the help I need."

He nodded, "My mother agreed to take you, if you needed it."

"Why can't you?"

"Because… someone has to stay here with Bentley." He spoke firmly. "I know you want me to go but—"

"What? Now you're not going to—" She stopped speaking and looked up at him, disbelief in her voice. "I can't believe you! You had it all set up!" She picked up one of his numerous little league baseball trophies and threw it against the wall, causing her son to jump, and look at her.

"YOU NEED THE HELP!" He almost screamed at her. "I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing this for that boy there who needs his mother more than anything in his life… don't you want that?"

"I… I don't know what I want." She said, stepping back. "Right now, I'm not even sure I want you."

"What? No… don't say that." He said as she grabbed her things. She ignored him and went to go kiss her son again.

"Bye, Bentley. I love you… I'll see you soon." She choked up, and looked directly at him. "I promise you." She whispered and gave him one last kiss on the top of his head, before grabbing her things and leaving the room.

And all he did was just sit on the bed with his son, who then began to cry. He picked him up and cradled him in his arms, laying his head on top of his. "I know…" He whispered, "I miss her too."

Two years later…

Beck closed his locker, groaning as the cold metal met with his head as he had leaned against it, sighing heavily, his head pounding.

"What's up brother?" Andre asked, as he walked up to him a smile on his face, until it disappeared and was instead replaced with a look of concern. "Are you alright?"

Beck shook his head, "No. Bentley was sick last night, so I had to stay up all night with him." Andre nodded, and looked at him apologetically.

"I'm sorry, man."

"It's fine. His fever is down, so he's getting better, which is a good sign." Beck said as he yawned. "Have you seen Jade?"

Andre shook his head, "Not since yesterday. She hasn't called?"

Beck shook his head. "Nope, but she wanted to know how Bentley was doing, so I'll go see if she's in Sikowitz's class. I'll meet up with you later, okay?"

"Alright man, sounds good." Andre smiled, and patted his shoulder before he began to walk in the direction of the stairs. He was looking at his phone, texting when he bumped into someone, sending his phone sliding across the floor.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry!" He heard that familiar high pitched voice and looked up in shock. She seemed to be in shock too, as her expression went from worry to one of complete surprise. "Oh my god, Andre?"

"Cat?" He said, his voice sounded like one of disbelief. "Oh wow, how are you?"

"I'm… fine? You look… wow, you look good." She smiled, and leaned forward to hug him. "How are you?"

"I'm doing alright myself. Just getting ready for applications… you know, all that good stuff."

"Yeah I know." She squealed that high pitched squeal of hers and clapped her hands. "I can't believe it's almost time to graduate! I'm getting closer and closer to my dream!"

"Yeah, about a year left." He said, and she nodded, as the bell rang, "Well…it was nice seeing you." She said, and hugged him again. "I gotta go, but we'll definitely catch up later."

He nodded again, and then numbly began walking to his first period with his crazy acting teacher, too in disbelief and out of it to realize he'd walked all the way there, and sat in his seat.

"Dude, you okay?" He looked up and saw Robbie was looking at him. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

"I guess in a way I have." He muttered and Robbie looked at him.

"What are you talking about?" He asked as the door slammed open, and Jade and Beck walked in, holding hands, and looking really happy… as they sat down and then kissed each other.

"Uh, why are you so happy?" Robbie asked them, as Andre couldn't seem to find his vocal chords.

"Look!" Jade said, wiggling her fingers in his face, and that's when Andre's eyes widened even more if that was possible. She had on a diamond ring… one that most people would get when they were to…

"You're engaged!" Andre blurted, jumping up. "You just proposed to her? At school?"

Beck nodded happily, "Yeah, man. Isn't it awesome? She agreed to marry me! And plus, it wasn't cheesy and stupid because it was… what was the word you used, Jade?"

"Not cheesy? I like different, and this… was definitely different."

"Yeah," Beck smiled, "Exactly. We'll have to tell you about it later."

"And to think you looked like you were gonna pass out just moments before." Andre mused, as Robbie then spoke.

"Yeah, you did too, like five seconds ago." Robbie told him as Andre took his seat again.

"Well, yeah, that's because—" He then remembered why he was so bugged out earlier, deciding then that he should probably tell Beck. "Beck, man listen—" He didn't get to finish, as their teacher then decided right then was the perfect moment to come into the classroom.

"HELLO, CHILDREN!" He yelled ,and then looked at his students, noticing how happy Beck and Jade were, "Well, well, is Hollywood Arts 'It' couple having a good morning?"

"Oh yeah." Jade said, not at all bothered by the fact that he was singling her out.. for once. "Look, Sikowitz! We're engaged!" She said as she wiggled her fingers in his face, just as she'd done to Robbie earlier.

"HOLY SHIT!" Sikowitz's eyes widened. "And to think Beck, I thought you were gonna marry your girlfriend from freshman year… I'm impressed."

"Yeah, well." Beck wrapped his arm around Jade and kissed the side of her head. "I got lucky with this one."

"Yeah, speaking of—" Andre was then cut off again, when the door opened, and everyone turned to see who was there.

Sikowtiz hadn't been paying attention and had been talking about the lesson for the day when he stopped abruptly, his eyes going wide.

Andre straightened himself up, and refused to look at Beck and Jade, Robbie's mouth was opened wide, and Beck looked like he was going to faint.

Jade on the other hand, had a look of confusion.

"Hey, Mr. Sikowtiz…" She said, shyly wiggling her finger sat him, her eyes didn't meet anyone's in the room. "What's up?"

"Wh—I can't believe—"

She stepped forward, and slowly walked to the acting teacher, handing him her schedule, "Uh, you need to uhm… sign this." She said, and he nodded, slowly going to sit on the steps.

"Beck, who's she?" Jade asked him, and he remembered that the two girls had never met before, since Jade had transferred there her sophomore year… when she was gone already.

"That's—" He got cut off when the door opened again, and Tori rushed in looking a bit panicked.

"I'm so sorry I'm late, my sister was running late, and you know how long she takes, like forever, and—" She stopped speaking too as her eyes landed on the girl who was standing in front of her, a shocked look on her face as well. "Oh my god." She said, taking a seat beside Andre looking as though she was going to faint. "What? Is this real?"

"Yeah, Tori." She smiled, somewhat shyly. "It's me."

"I can't believe… no fucking way."

"Tori, language!" Sikowtiz lamely scolded her, as he stood up, breaking out of his stupor. He handed the schedule back to the girl, and smiled, "Alright well, there you are, take a seat." She did was she was told, and ended up right next to last person she'd thought she'd sit next to.

"Oh my god." She said, and then looked at the other girl who was with him, glaring at her.

"Hi, Cat." Robbie said, and the redhead nodded.

"Hi, Robbie."

She then faced forward as Beck leaned over, "Cat? Why are you here? I heard you were never coming back." He whispered.

"Yeah, well, I had to." She said, her eyes narrowing. "And you know why."

"I do?"

She nodded, "You do."

And that's when he realized, now that she was back, his relationship with Jade was going to change… forever. She had just turned his perfect world upside down with her return, and it was only going to get worse.

Cat Valentine was a ghost from his past, and now she was back.

Fuck.

You say goodbye in the pouring rain and I break down as you walk away…

Should I continue?