Travis's mom stood beside Robbie looking at Travis with an awkward look on her face. She couldn't even begin to think of what to say to Travis.
"How'd this happen?" Travis's mom said looking at her with a nervous look in her eyes.
"Mrs. Strong. It's a long story," Lily started out as she looked at Mrs. Strong, "See, Travis and I, well you knew about Travis and I. And I guess, so did Ray. The thing with Ray is that he's liked me for a long time, but I didn't always have feeling towards him and he never made his move on me. So Travis did. I guess it got to Ray today because he purposely stayed after school, just waiting for us out around the back of school. And he barley said anything and next thing you knew, Ray was throwing punches at him… it was rough. And as strong and knowledgeable as Travis is, Ray still beat him up pretty bad."
Travis's mom looked at Lily for a minute before turning back to Travis, "I'm sorry that this happened Travis"
"It's okay" Travis managed to mumble out of his mouth before trying to cross his arms over his chest.
"I'm really sorry, but I have to go and pick your dad up from the airport. I will be back tonight though okay honey?" Mrs. Strong said as she softly kissed Travis's forehead, making sure not to harm him at all. She gave a smile to Robbie and a reassuring smile to Lily and left closing the door softly behind her.
"Where's your dad?" Robbie asked looking at Travis as he sat back down in the chair he had been sitting in.
"England" Travis said softly looking at Lily to give the rest of the explanation.
"He's there getting some of the stuff that the Strong's had to leave behind when they moved." Lily said smiling and taking Travis's hand softly in hers. She looked to Robbie who was nodding.
It was a few weeks later. School had been let out and even though Travis hadn't been able to get to school, because he was mostly at home, resting and healing, Robbie and Lily looked after cleaning out his locker and getting his homework back and forth to him. Robbie and Lily were doing the show by themselves most of them time, except for the occasional time Travis would phone in to wish them well and say he was having fun on 'vacation'. They had heard nothing from Ray for the longest time. On the show the explanation as to why Pronto wasn't there was because 'he had too much homework and too many exams coming up.' Lily and Robbie hadn't talked to Ray at school. He ignored them at lunch and in the classes he had with them. He didn't say anything when he passed them in the hall. And even though Ray's cheek had a nice bruise on it still, compared to the many Travis had, he didn't once ask how Travis was.
One night Lily was standing at Travis's door wondering if she knock or ring the doorbell. Travis was so sore, that he mostly stayed confined to his bed most of the time, or sat on a couch with the tv on, but not really paying attention to it. Whenever Lily came over, Mr. or Mrs. Strong had always taken care of it, and answered the door themselves, letting Travis stay where he was and he'd always send Lily to him. Travis's mom had explained to Lily before that she had taken off of work to take care of because when she was little her parents never took off of work to look after her when she was sick or anything, and that she never had for Travis up until that point, and felt horrible about it.
Lily reached out and rang the doorbell and stood at the door waiting for it to be answered.
Lily stood against the railing of the house just as the door opened. She smiled when Travis greeted her at the door.
"I didn't know your mom was letting you out of your bed, or off the couch or wherever to get the door and walk around your house!" Lily smiled as Travis backed away from the door to let her in.
"It just kind of happened a little ago. I tried to tell her if she didn't let me get up soon, that I would never walk again and my body's muscles would all form to there own shape, and they wouldn't heal properly" Travis said smiling a bit. He still had a brace on his jaw, but it was a different one that allowed him to talk more.
Lily nodded her head and laughed. Travis always found a way to explain things in ways no one else would, "You're right"
Lily and Travis walked over to the couch they both sat down and Lily swung a bag from around her back to in front of her.
"What's that?" Travis asked curiously peering down at the blue and white backpack that sat between Lily and him on the floor.
"Everything from your
locker, and some stuff from people at school" Lily said smiling as she
carefully opened the backpack, "Robbie and I cleaned out your locker today and
yesterday people gave us these things. There basically cards"
"Nice" Travis said as Lily handed him stuff from his locker. Some pictures he
had scattered on his locker door, fell out of his schedule. He smiled and
started to go through the rest of the bag. He found cards from everyone from
Audrey to Principal Waller, from Mickey to Kim Carlisle. He found a letter from
Robbie tucked into one of the side pockets reminding him of the torpedo game
they had that Robbie thought he had cheated during. He reminded him about Lily's
Think Pink campaign and how he impressed Waller during the time when he had a
supply for one of his classes.
"There's so much stuff… some of these people I don't even know" Travis said leafing through more stuff, cautiously putting everything in a neat pile, until he came across a slightly larger envelope then everyone else's, in Lily's script. He looked up at Lily and smiled then proceeded to open the envelope.
