Mr Wolff, Juanita and Nat went to went to visit to Alex. They noticed he was still in the straight jacket, but Mr Wolff remembered Alex saying 'couple of weeks'.

"Hey dad, I'm still hugging myself," Alex said with the same mischievous glint in his eye as last time.

Mr Wolff smiled, at least Alex was still making light of the situation.

Nat slightly grimaced, but didn't say anything, his dad had told him, he wasn't allowed to speak unless he was going to be nice.

"Alex?" Juanita said slowly, "If you're hugging yourself, how are you going to hug me?"

Alex looked at her for about half a minute as though she was demented, he was scared she wouldn't like him because she thought he was crazy.

"Ha ha you have to hug yourself for me" Alex said finally before laughing quietly.

Juanita laughed and hugged herself.

Alex laughed harder. He didn't think she would actually do it.

"Having fun Alex?" Nat asked sullenly.

Alex suddenly stopped laughing and stared at Nat.

"Are you going to let me?" Alex asked seriously.

"I suppose…" Nat said forcing the words out of him.

"So Alex, Whatchya been up to?" Juanita said squeezing him as she hugged him.

"Stuff…" Alex said vaguely, as he kept looking at Nat.

"Like what," she asked trying to get more information.

"Stuff stuff," Alex didn't want to say until he was sure it was working.

"Hey I can show you my room!" Alex said excitedly standing up.

"Are you sure your allowed?" Mr Wolff asked looking at Alex, he was pleased to see he had some bounce in his step.

"Yep," Alex said smiling a bit lopsidedly. "And who cares if I wasn't."

Alex started leading the way, and one of the caregivers started to follow although they kept their distance.

"It's cool here, they let you do a lot, unless your too much of a pain in the ass then they put you in another ward.

Alex showed them one of the rooms.

"I used to be in here," Alex said showing them a room. It had a sort of cell feeling, with just a tightly made bed and a toilet.

"Used to be?" Mr Wolff asked quietly.

"Yeah, when they put me in this," Alex said moving his arms around a bit as a gesture, "They moved me down the ward," Alex said leading them further.

Juanita just smirked she hadn't seen Alex like this in so long and it reminded her of why she liked him in the first place.

Alex led them to a room further along, the plaque by the door simply read.

'Alex Wolff'

The room was completely empty, but they all noticed that the whole room was padded.

"They put you in here?" Nat said almost cynically. He thought it was as bad as the room Juanita's aunt had locked Alex in.

Alex looked at Nat and could see some uneasiness in him.

"Yep, it's a whole lot more fun and interesting than the other room," Alex said with a sparkle in his eye.

"Interesting?" Mr Wolff asked curiously.

"Fun?" Juanita asked the same way, "There's nothing in there."

"Yeah fun, I couldn't do this in the other room," Alex said before he ran in and threw himself against the wall before bouncing off and landing on the floor laughing.

With abit of difficultly Alex climbed to his feet.

Juanita Nat and Mr Wolff all just looked at Alex with a blank expression.

Alex shrugged before throwing himself against the wall again. He was laughing when he stood up again.

"Go on Juanita, you have a go," Alex said urging her on.

"What do I do?" She asked a little perplexed.

"What? You just throw yourself at the wall" Alex said as he did it again to show Juanita.

Juanita walked in uneasily, on the uneven floor. She was surprised at how soft it was. She lightly threw herself at the wall. She hesitated and mid jump used her arms to cushion the impact, she merely bounced off and landed on the floor. Juanita lay there laughing.

"This jackets good… it's stops my arms getting in the way," Alex said laughing at Juanita.

The caretaker stood on the other side of the corridor looking into the room. They carried a highly amused smile on their face, Alex was one of the few people who had turned the room into a game.

Alex and Juanita kept throwing themselves at the wall for another couple minutes while Nat and Mr Wolff watched.

Soon Nat could take no more, he run inside Alex's room. Alex saw him running and dived to the side of the room. He was surprised to see when he turned around that Nat was lying on a heap on the floor laughing. Alex just looked at him uneasily.

"Wow Alex, you really have been bouncing off the walls," Nat said laughing. As much as he had tried it had been impossible not to be infected with Alex's mood, which seemed to contagious.

Alex smiled slightly. He tried to walk on his knees to a corner, but kept falling down on the uneven floor. He then with a bit of difficulty stood up and put his back to the corner before he slid down until he was sitting down.

Mr Wolff came in and sat down. Nat and Juanita went and sat beside him.

"You seem… happy…" Mr Wolff said amused.

Alex started laughing and slid down the wall until he was on his side laughing.

"Seem," Alex said has he managed to stop laughing.

From the position on his side he could see the caretaker talking to Dr Stein.

"You can come and talk too," Alex shouted out to her. He knew his dad would have questions.

Alex then struggled as he tried to sit up right. Dr Stein walked in and pulled Alex back into a sitting position before sitting down herself.

"Your lucky you caught Alex on a good day," She said smiling to Nat, Juanita and Mr Wolff.

"Why what's he like on a bad day?" Juanita asked.

"Destructive and uncooperative" Dr Stein said simply, the straight jacket prevented Alex from destroying too much.

"Huh no different than before," Nat said quietly.

"Although he is now having as many good days as he is bad." Dr Stein added.

Juanita looked at Alex and gave a small smile.

"We are trying to wean him off some of the drugs, but so far we haven't had any luck," Dr Stein continued.

As Dr Stein talked to Mr Wolff, Alex started talking to Juanita.

"So what have you been up to?" Alex asked quietly.

Juanita looked at him.

"School... it's seems strange being back," Juanita said quietly.

"Hmmmmmm, I wouldn't know," Alex asked a bit bothered. He missed the old life, where it was just Alex, Juanita, Nat, The Band, Music and school.

"I'm sorry Alex," Juanita said, she could tell that as much as Alex disliked school he wanted to get some normalcy back into his life.

"I'll probably be stuck in school for ever..." Alex said, he knew or remember nothing of what he had learned, and he knew that he had only actually been at school for a month and a half, he had no hope of passing the year.

"Alex, you won't be stuck in school forever," Juanita said quietly.

"Don't they tutor you here?" Nat asked quietly.

Alex looked at his brother.

"They don't have the time, I'm too screwed up for them to," Alex said, he could feel his depression coming on.

"We'll help you get through," Juanita said giving Alex a hug, "I'll fail all my classes if I have to,"

Alex smiled weakly.

Dr Stein spoke up as she overheard the tail end of the conversation.

"How long have you been out of school Alex?" She asked, she could read his file, but Alex's treatment involved him opening up.

Alex shrugged.

"I don't know, I got suspended around the end of the second week back since summer," Alex said quietly.

"Why did you get suspended,"

Alex shrugged again.

"I thought everyone was against me, I thought Nat blamed me because our mom died," Alex said quietly.

"How did she die?" Dr Stien pressed.

Alex was uncomfortable with that question, but he wanted to get better and as his various counsellors said talking about things was one of the best ways.

"Giving birth to me,"

"OK so when did you go back to school?"

Alex shrugged.

"After 7 weeks" He mumbled.

"They suspended you for that long?"

"No he..." Juanita said cutting in.

"Please let Alex answer the questions, it will help him," Dr Stein said kindly but sternly.

"No, I think it was only supposed a week or something, but I kept blowing off the meeting I had to have... and then I got arrested."

"Why?"

"I beat up someone who was picking on me all year," Alex said quietly, he was happy to know the Ryan had been expelled the day he got out of jail.

"Then what?"

"When I got over all that I was back at school for a month before we had to prepare for our reunion concert. And then the 'it' happened,"

Dr Stein knew Alex was very slowly opeining up to what happened with his consellors and this was not the time to push futher.

"Ok, and did you go back to school at all?" She asked.

Alex shook his head.

"I was in hospital for a month and a half, and then when I got out, dad wouldn't let me go back... and then I came here." Alex finished.

Dr Stein though for a few minutes.

"Whats the date today?" She asked.

"April 17th," Alex said quietly.

"I think we could get you an excemption through Medical and Psychatric grounds" Dr Stein said quietly, she knew that Alex would if he was lucky be back just before summer started.

"Really?" Alex asked getting excited.

Dr Stein just nodded and Alex felt some pressure ease of him.