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"Oh my god, Rick, i'm so happy to see you. Where's Shane? He's with you, isn't he?" I ask Rick looking around for Shane, Rick gets an upsetting look on his face, staring at this little girl that he watched grow into a woman searching for the one person that means the world to her.

"Shane, he's umm...he's gone, Seanna," Rick tells me holding something back, I can tell there's something he's not telling me. I look around the crowd of people gathered around us, searching for that one fimiliar face. The one i've been dreaming of, hoping to see again some day. "Don't tell me he didn't stick around with you? You two were always stuck at the hip. Where's my brother, Rick?" I ask firmly, trying to get an answer. Rick was always an honest guy, when I was 14 and he was 19, I kissed him and he told my brother about it. I realized at that time Rick was more like a second older brother not the boyfriend type. As he looks at me, tears start forming in my eyes as I begin to think about the inevitable.

"I thought you were in New York," came out of his mouth instead of what I wanted to hear. "I came down to look for the only family I have left. New York is worst off than anywhere. I'm lucky as hell I made it out," I look Rick in the eyes, "Please tell me he's ok." I ask him determined, needing an answer for once. "He's not, i'm sorry." As I hear those words I break down into Rick's arms. I'm the only one left. I have nothing to live for. I remember the last time I saw him.

It was my last day in Georgia before heading off to NYU, Shane and Rick volunteered to bring me to the airport, my boyfriend Wes would've but I dumped him yesterday. He was going to Stanford, it would've been too complicated trying to do the long distance thing with each of us on different coast. One of us looking at the Hollywod sign, the other living near Broadway. Other than being my brother, Shane was my bestfriend, the one I turned to for advice, the one who's shoulder I cry on when my heart was broken, which was rarely most times I was the dumpee, etc... Rick on the other hand was my brother's bestfriend. So growing up it was like I had two brothers. "Before you go there's something, some things I want you to have." He tells me grabbing the cross chain he's been wearing on his neck since our father gave it to him and putting it around my neck, I hold onto the cross and look at him.

"Dad's chain?"

"I'm not going to let my baby sister leave without a piece of me," he says smiling, I look at him. "Are you upset i'm not joining the force? Gramps said he was a little disappointed but understood that I want to be a journalist." I can tell Shane just wanted me to be happy. "I want you to be happy at whatever you do." I look at my luggage, by the door. "Is Rick on his way? I just can't say goodbye to one brother?"

"Yeah, he's on his way, " Shane looks at me, he goes into his pocket. "There's something you need to have. You know how dangerous New York can be," he pulls out a pistol and puts it in my hand. This gun has been glued to my brother's side since he joined the force. As he places it in my hand, I look at him. "How am I going to get this pass security?"

"I'll take care of that, don't worry about it," he tells me just as Rick walks into my childhood bedroom. I rush up to him, sharing a hug. Thinking about how I used to crush on him as a kid and everything we've been through since. "I can't believe Seanna Walsh is going to NYU," Rick says with excitement in his voice, "I never in a million years thought a Walsh kid would even get into a University." He says letting go of me and playfully hitting me on my shoulder. "Shane taking good care of you?" He asks as I turn around and look at myself in the mirror, my black hair hanging loosely on my shoulders. I've always been a beautiful girl, with my green eyes and natural pink lips. Sometimes Shane and Rick would tease me and call me Snow White because of the small resemblence. I see the boys in the back of me chatting about something or another. I ask Rick about his girlfriend, "So Rick, how's Lori? You two still madly in love?"

I turn around and look at them, Rick looks at me as Shane grabs my suitcase. "I'll go put this in the car." When Shane leaves the room, Rick answers my question. "We're broken up, she said I was too distracted. Said it seemed I was in love with someone else," I look at him, "Am I the reason your distracted?" I asked point blank, it seemed like we both seemed more into each other. And it was hard because i've grown up with him. "Yeah, you've been a distraction." He answers honestly. I grab his face and kiss him, passionately, something i've been dying to do since that first innocent kiss. After I break apart from him, he grabs me close to him. "I don't want to ruin what we've got, your like family to me. But if I was to hear that you love me, you want to give this a shot, i'll go to New York with you." I'm shocked, I can't let him do that but... Everytime I saw his face, my heart leaped, nights when I tried to to sleep, all I could think about was him, when I was with Wes, I constantly imagined he was Rick. I know it sounds selfish and wrong, but I loved him... Before I can say anything Shane walks back into the room, seeing Rick giving me a hug goodbye. We let go, forcing tears back I carefully tell Rick, "You should go to Lori, make up with her." "Thanks for the advice," he tells me, looks at Shane. "I would go with you, but...something came up, sorry." He looked like he was taking this harder than me. Tears fall out of my eyes, Shane walks up to me, "What's wrong?"

"It's just sinking in, i'm leaving..."

I look at Rick, upset... My heart started hurting as he said those words, "he's dead." I held into him as tightly as I did before I left to go to New York, letting tears fall out of my eyes. Rick holds me with a little tension. "How'd it happen?" I asked with curiousity. "I don't think we should do this here. Why don't we talk alone?" He tells me leading me to the camper I just exited a few minutes ago, we walk inside and we both sit down on the couch and he begins to tell me everything...

From him being shot and the hospital, when the outbreak started. To Shane's affair with Lori, to my brothers well known hot temper attitude. And then the words i'd never in a million years expect to come from Rick's mouth, "I stabbed him, before he could do the same to me." Rick comes in to console me but I push him away. "You killed my brother..."

"I'm sorry, Seanna. He would've killed me. He wanted my wife and son for himself. You need to understand." I look at him trying to comprehend what I just heard. My brother, dead. I want to just slap him, how could Rick kill my brother, his bestfriend. I can barely even look at him.

"You know he can be a hot head and over protective. He was my only blood left. He was my brother, you know he helped raised me after my parents death."

"I'm sorry. But you still have me. Your my little sister, too." I look at him, still remembering our last official conversation. 'That's not what I remember,' I want tell him but he grabs me, bring me into him and hugs me, I give into him, cause even though he was the cause of my brothers death, he was right, he is my only family now. We let go and he asks me something...

"Why don't you join my group? We could always use an extra hand and I don't think you would want to be alone anyways." I look at him knowing he's right. I might've been alone on my way here but now that I actually found family, I don't want to be alone. "Sounds like something I can do. There's something else you need to know..." I begin to tell him something a little important when there's a knock on the door. Rick gets up and opens it, looks at Lori standing there. She walks in, talking... "I wanted to check up on you, what's going on?"

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