A/N: Here's chapter 8. Life has been extremely crazy (tenneesseegirl24 knows what I mean); my life has had way too much drama to last a lifetime. It sucks. Oh well life goes on. Please review. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Chapter 8

All during the night I cried. I cried myself to sleep. I cried when I woke up. I had kept telling myself that it was a dream and that when I woke up I would no longer be a mother and my best friend would still be alive. But I had to realize that is wasn't a horrible dream that I could just wake up from, it was now my life.

I had to be strong for Anna and so Greg wouldn't see me like this. I couldn't cry anymore. I had to wake up and realize that my worst nightmare had just become reality.

When we woke up the next morning we started planning Becky's funeral. At first I wanted to shut everyone out and do it by myself. Then I realized that I couldn't do everything by myself and that I needed people there for me and to support me.

"Okay it is all set. It will be this Friday at 10 o'clock."

"Sounds good Care bear, so what are you going to do now?"

"I was thinking of going to Becky's place and going through her things and getting all of Anna's stuff shipped to Greg's house."

"Okay sounds good. I would stay and help but me and the guys got to get to work now. So it is just going to be you and Greg, is that okay?"

"Yeah James its fine."

Later at Becky's

"What about this? What use is it for?"

We had been at Becky's house for about an hour now, and every time he started to out something in the trash pile I would always come up with a lame story as why we could not throw out that object. We had already finished packing all of Anna's things and had gotten them ready to ship back to Vegas.

We were in the middle of trying to go through Becky's things when my phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Kayleigh its Nick."

"Oh hey Nick, what are you doing?" I had walked over to the couch and sat down while Greg continued to go through stuff.

"Nothing much, just called to see how things are going on there." He probably emphasized things wondering about me and Greg.

"We're good now Nick. OH and you don't have to talk in code; he is in the other room right now."

"Okay I am glad that everything worked out between yall. How is your friend?"

"I don't think that Greg and I would have worked things out if it weren't for you Nick. No, Greg that is not trash!" He had walked into the room asking me about some clocks that could actually have been considered trash, but still I didn't want to get rid of anything. He turned and went back to going through Becky's things.

"Oh nothing…we are just going through Becky's things."

"Um…okay why?"

I had started telling Nick the story of how everything went from being ok to totally crappy in a matter of minutes. The reality of everything that has happened started to finally hit me. I then realized that I couldn't put on this act anymore, the tough guy act was starting to get trying. I knew that I wouldn't be able to keep the act for long, but I had to try and keep it for as long as I could. Apparently I had had enough of it and was about to break.

"Kayleigh if you can't do this then it is okay."

"No I need to talk about it. It had gotten worse Nicky. I never…never got to introduce Greg to her. She would have loved him."

"Oh Kayleigh I am so sorry."

By this time I was weeping uncontrollably. Just then Greg walked in to ask me another question about something else when he saw that I was crying. He immediately dropped whatever it is was and gathered me in his arms and just rubbed his hands up in down my back in a comforting way. He just let me sit there and cry while he kept telling me that everything was going to be okay.

That is when I completely lost it."No everything is NOT going to be okay!! My best friend is dead; I am a mother now, so no everything's not going to be okay. In case you didn't notice my life is completely changed and never going back to the way it was." I kept hitting his chest even after I was done speaking. After a while I just gave up and went back to crying.

Greg picked up my phone and started to talk to Nick. "What did you do!?"

"What-nothing man she was just telling me what happened to Rebecca, and then she started to cry. I wouldn't have said anything if I had known."

"No its okay Nick, I needed to talk about it. After all you guys get to meet my daughter when we get back to Vegas. I said as I took the phone away from Greg as he continued to hold me in his arms.

"WHAT!?"

"My goddaughter Nick."

"Well I am glad you still have a sense of humor, as odd as it may be but still. I'm glad you had the chance to talk about it. If you want me to I'll tell the team for you."

"Thanks Nicky, you're a great friend. And since you are going to do that for me I figured I would tell you something in return. But you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone."

"Okay sure. Of course I won't tell anyone."

Okay since you forced me and Greg to talk about our issues we got over them and are now dating."

"Wow that is great Kayleigh!! Tell me when he doesn't treat you right and I will kick his butt right out of Vegas."

"Okay Nick, you're the best Nicky."

"Um Kayleigh where is your goddaughter?"

"Oh she is with my friends Jackie why?"

"Oh I was just wondering. So when are you coming back?"

"Um…well the funeral is Friday so probably Friday night of Saturday. Why you miss that much?"

" Oh yes I do miss you so much I just don't know if I can wait three or four days to see you again. Nah, I was just wondering, but I do miss you."

"Okay sure, how is Conrad treating everyone?"

"Like we're dirt, actually I think he even treats dirt better than he does us."

"Oh Nick I'm sorry. If you want I can call him or something."

"No it is okay you don't have to do that."

"Good because I didn't really want to."

"When you get back we are going to have to work on yours and Ecklie's relationship."

"Sure thing Nicky, whatever you say."

"Okay well I was just calling to see how things were going. I'll talk to you later then."

"Sure thing, tell everyone that we said hi."

"Will do and take care of Greg for us girl."

"Right now he is the one who is taking care of me. Bye"

"Bye"

After I got off the phone with Nick, I continued to stay wrapped up in Greg's arms taking in his sent. I couldn't help but wonder that if Becky had not died, would we still have ended up this close to each other. If I could have frozen time so that we could stay wrapped up in each other's arm forever, I would have.

Suddenly, there was a banging noise at the front door. We looked at each other both realizing that the person knocking at the door did not know about Becky. That means that we would be the ones to give that person the bad news. Since neither one of us wanted to give the bad news or move from our current position, I was all for just ignoring whoever it was on the other side of that door. However, that person seemed to be on a mission and would not stop the constant banging on the door.

Finally we both moved to go answer the door to whoever was knocking; both secretly dreading what was to come. We got to the door, but neither of us wanted to be the one to open the door, even thought we knew we needed to.

The next thing I knew Greg had reached out to open the door. Standing there was a person I thought was out of my life the moment I landed in Vegas. But no, there he is again back in my life. All I could do to keep myself from punching him was to lean on Greg for support.

"You. What are you doing here?"