The next morning Eric woke at 6:30am, Lux was still asleep in bed curled up next to him. Eric couldn't believe she was really there; it hadn't all been a dream. Last night he was afraid to fall asleep that somehow she would disappear. Eric stared at her for a few moments before carefully rolling her over and climbing out of bed. Eric quietly got dressed. He hoped he could take Rosie for her morning walk and stop by and pick up some coffee and bagels for breakfast before Lux work up.

Coming back into the apartment as quietly as possible, Eric didn't hear any noises he proceeded down the hall to his bedroom and found Lux waking to the smell of the coffee and to Rosie jumping on the bed. "Good morning, I bring coffee and bagels" Eric says. "Good morning, that smells like heaven." Lux says.

"Breakfast in bed madam"

"Wow a girl could get used to this"

" I called work while I was out and told them I was taking the day off. We can do whatever you want today." Said Eric.

"I should probably call Cate and Tasha this morning since I forgot to last night"

"Yeah, yeah and Jones too." Eric said. Lux looked as if the air had just been sucked out of the room. "You said his name last night in your sleep." Eric stated.

"Oh, I should go" Lux said getting up from the bed. "I should have never come here in the first place."

"Don't say that, I want to talk about why you came and I want to know all about your life now."

"You want to know about my life now. My life now is a mess. I didn't go to school at all last semester. I didn't do much of anything really. I am broken inside and I just was trying to think back to a time when I was really happy and I just keep coming back to you." Lux said crying.

"Hey, shh come here" Eric said pulling her closer into his arms. They stood like that for a few minutes, holding onto each other.

"Why don't you get dressed and call your parents and Tasha and then we can talk." Eric offered. "Okay" was all Lux could manage.

Coming into the living room Lux saw Eric sitting on the sofa. "Cate says 'Hi', I left Tasha a message." Lux came over and sat on the other end of the sofa. "You know when you told the truth and everything went to hell I was left all alone. Ryan and Cate split up and I tried to talk to Tasha but they wouldn't let me at the juvenile detention center. Jones tried to be nice to me. He said if I ever needed anyone to talk to about you or anything that I could talk to him. Tasha and Jones broke up shortly after she got out of juvey. It wasn't long before Jones and I were seeing each other again. We were King & Queen at the senior prom. Jones told me that his mom was bipolar and that his greatest fear was turning out like her. Things were perfect when we first went away to college. We were so happy. And the night Jones gave me this ring was one of the best nights of my life. I feel like I didn't savor the moment enough, you know. Jones started experiencing these episodes of acting like his mother. He couldn't stand the mood swings. He couldn't stand the way he treated me. One weekend Tasha and I went out of town with Cate to a concert in LA. When we got back I found his body in his apartment. He had taken a whole bottle of pills. The letter on the nightstand said that he couldn't stand what it was doing to him, what it was doing to us. He would rather die than go on living that way. That was nine months and fourteen days ago. It took me weeks even to get out of bed. I couldn't even go to the funeral because it hurt so much." Lux was now in a full stream of crying tears.

"I am so sorry Lux. I can't imagine what you must be going through. Jones was a good guy. I always knew that. I had no idea, I'm so sorry. You have to remember all the good moments you shared with him and you can't let the bad that has followed color the good memories. Jones did what he did because he didn't want to hurt you. I get that. I respect him for that. I'm just so sorry that you had to go through this." Eric said.

"I shouldn't have came here and laid all of this on you, I just don't know what to do next. I feel lost and somehow that let me to find you." Lux stated.

"I'm glad it did." Eric reached out and took her hand. "I don't want you going through this alone. I know you have your parents and Tasha but sometimes that isn't enough. I'll do anything I can to help you Eeyore."

Lux and Eric decided to take a walk and clear their heads. As they walked Lux admitted this was the most she had been outside in months and it felt good. Eric took her all around the city showing her different buildings architecture. He had loved growing up here and finally coming back had felt right. They stepped into this little local bistro for lunch. Lux realized that this was the first time they had ever ate lunch together in public. It was nice not having to hide.

On their way back to the apartment Eric's cell phone rang and it was his mother reminding him about dinner tomorrow night. Eric told her something had come up and he was not going to be able to make it.

Walking back in the apartment door Lux was telling him for the tenth time that he should go to dinner at his parent's house. "I don't want to leave you alone, assuming you'll still be here tomorrow night." Eric stated.

"Yeah, I guess, I mean I haven't really though about it." Lux said as honestly as she could be.

"Well would you want to come with me? I don't want to go without you." Said Eric.

"I think that would cause more questions that we have answers for right now." Answered Lux.

"You're right, I don't know what I was thinking. That settles it I'm not going. I want to spend as much time with you as possible. I want to hear all about college and Cate & Baze, everything." Said Eric.

After watching a movie. Eric and Lux ordered take out and Eric went to take Rosie for her walk. He said he would stop by Lux's hotel and pick up her bag while he was out. Lux called the hotel and told them to be expecting Eric and that she was checking out. There was no need to pay for a room when she could just stay with Eric.

There was a knock at the door and Lux assumed it would be the takeout. She grabbed some cash and opened the door to a woman who definitely did not have any takeout.