It wasn't like she thought what she was doing was right, it was that she had nothing else to turn to. She'd been sober for nearly four years but right now she didn't care.

When LJ walked into that bar he sighed. After seeing his uncle in the distraught way he was he checked the only places Michael absolutely refused to believe she would be. It wasn't like he didn't know she was there it was just he was scared for her.

When LJ sat down next to Sarah he didn't say anything, instead he just took her glass and drank it himself. After a strained silence LJ spoke up.
"My uncle is a good man" Sarah nodded.
"That's why I love him." LJ let her have a minuet before he spoke up.
"Why didn't you tell him you were falling off the wagon again?" Sarah scoffed,
"I didn't want the lecture or the disappointment" LJ smiled.
"Did you know I used to take drugs?" he asked.
"I know you tried to smuggle them" she replied. LJ looked at his hands.
"Nobody except Uncle Mike knew I was actually taking them. I got high at a party and got arrested, Uncle Mike payed my bail, I found it funny how none of my parents knew what had happened. So he payed my bail and took my back to his place, after sobering me up he put me in his bed whilst he slept on the couch." Sarah let the information digest, not really understanding the point of the story. LJ just smiled.
"He told me it was our little secret and to my surprise he knew how long I'd been on the hard core stuff for. He said he wasn't disappointed just annoyed that I hadn't thought of the long term effects. So he told me I needed help, he said it had to be my decision though and if I was going to carry on and needed a place to sober up then I could come to his apartment, he actually gave me a key. When I finally realised I was going to kill myself I rang him up. He was in the middle of a meeting but he left halfway through, when I read the papers a week later if found out he lost a bid that he needed. He told me he didn't care, said he'd give everything up so long as I was ok. So he got me into these meetings, I had to talk about my feelings and stuff. The meeting were every Friday and to get my mum off my back he told my mum he was going to spend every Friday and Saturday with me, doing guy stuff. At first I was reluctant to talk so he talked about himself for a bit, he told the lady who ran the club that he wanted to stay to support me. So he talked about himself and after a while I got better and he told me he still wanted to spend every Friday and Saturday with me, so we did and I really enjoyed it." Sarah looked at the young man in shock. She never knew how bad he had gotten. She began to feel sympathy for him, he was too old for someone so young.
"I guess what I'm trying to say is, Uncle Mike is the one person who can get you through it. He helped me he can help you and trust me when I say he wants to help. I think that he's going to run himself thin if you don't come home before midnight." LJ then hugged Sarah and began walking away. She grabbed his hand,
"Does your dad know?"
"No, Uncle Mike said he wanted me breathing. He's a good man Sarah…. Please don't break him."
"You got a car?" she asked. LJ nodded and held out his hand, she grabbed it and together they walked to the car.