Nat was awoken at 2am by is phone ringing.

"Hello?" He asked barely awake.

"Nat I really need your help," Alex said crying.

Nat slowly got out of bed and stumbled to Alex's room, he was expecting him to need to go toilet. Instead he opened the door to see Alex half buried in empty soda cans.

"I can't stop!" Alex cried, he didn't want to drink soda anymore.

Nat couldn't bring himself to be angry at Alex. He had done what he had never done before and actually asked for help with his soda problem.

"How long?" Nat asked softly, clearing a space on Alex bed to sit beside him.

"A week." Alex cried. "I want to stop,"

Nat gently stroked Alex's hair.

"Is ok buddy," He said tenderly. "How many did you have yesterday?"

Alex held up 7 fingers.

"Seven, that's not so bad," Nat said softly.

Alex shook his head.

"Not can's…. boxes" He cried.

"WHAT!?" Nat yelled in surprise.

Alex cried more.

"Dad's going to be angry at me," Alex sobbed, he didn't want anyone to find out.

"He's not going to be angry. I'm not angry at you," Nat said quietly. He heard footsteps and assumed he had woken someone up.

"Your always angry when I drink soda," Alex sobbed.

"You asked for help Alex, I'm so proud of you," Nat said and tightly hugged his brother.

Mr Wolff walked in.

"What was the yelling…" Mr Wolff asked before trailing off at seeing all the empty soda.

"Why didn't I see this?" He asked himself quietly.

"I'm sorry dad," Alex cried.

Mr Wolff went and hugged Nat and Alex.

"No I'm sorry Alex. I should have seen this. It's my fault, I knew you were depressed and that you try to drink it away," Mr Wolff said trying to reassure Alex. He wished he had been more vigilant.

Alex cried softly as both his dad and brother hugged him.

Mr Wolff felt really bad, he knew how difficult things were already for Alex, and the added stress of trying to break his soda addiction would be too much for Alex.

"I'm going to talk to Abigail and put off our wedding, we need to get you clean." Mr Wolff said softly.

"No, I'm not going to lie to them," Alex suddenly said angrily.

Nat gave his brother a strange look.

"I don't want to drink soda anymore!" Alex said angrily, he was looking towards the corner.

"Alex?" Mr Wolff asked softly.

"I don't want you around," Alex said before he started crying, "Just go away,"

"Alex, what's wrong." Mr Wolff said really concerned now.

"He won't go away?" Alex sobbed.

"Who?"

"Me," Alex cried loudly.

Mr Wolff stroked Alex's hair.

"Just leave me alone!" He screamed.

"Nat could you go wake up Simon and John, I think Alex is hallucinating," Mr Wolff said concerned.

"I don't want the dogs to start talking again," Alex said.

Nat looked at his brother he was really scared and pretty much ran off to get John and Simon.

Simon came in and saw Alex yelling at someone who wasn't there. He could see that Alex was losing his mind.

"Alex, what's the matter?" Simon said softly.

"I don't want to drink soda anymore, but he won't let me," Alex said pointing to the empty corner.

"Who's there?" Simon asked softly.

"Me….."

Nat walked in followed by John, Nat had never seen Alex like this before.

Alex looked up and noticed his brother had a black eye, and it was very swollen.

"What happened to your eye?" Alex asked sobbing trying to ignore his other self.

"You punched me," Nat said to his brother.

"No I…" Alex began to say.

"Yes, you had a really good concert, you played well and I went up to hug you and you punched me," Nat said softly.

"No I sucked. I didn't get any of the songs right," Alex sobbed.

Simon, John, Nat and Mr Wolff all looked at each other concerned. Alex had played a great concert despite his inability to play well in practise.

"I'll show you Nat said, and they helped Alex into the living room. Nat turned it to CNN.

It didn't take long before they showed Alex giving Nat a strong right hook.

"No. That's not what happened?" Alex cried confused.

"Alex are you ok?" Mr Wolff asked

"I don't know what's happening anymore!" Alex cried.

"Alex, we are going to take you to the hospital and see if anything is wrong with you. Ok?" John said softly.

He could see Alex was ready to really freak out. They grabbed some clothes and quickly got dressed, Alex was still wearing what he had warn to the concert was yelling at his other self to leave him only. Once everyone was dressed, Simon scrawled a quick note and left it on the fridge.

When Juanita woke up and half past 7 she found Rosalina up and txting.

"Morning Rosalina, what's happening?" Juanita said as she slowly woke up.

"Morning Juanita… Alex is in hospital," Rosalia said quietly.

"Why?" Juanita said shocked.

"I'm trying to find that out… apparently he was hallucinating." Rosalina said quietly.

Rosalina's phone then rang. She picked up on the first ring and put it on speaker.

"Nat what's going on?" She asked urgently.

"I don't know, Alex had been drinking lots of soda and he was hallucinating really bad, he doesn't have an idea what's going on. They took him to have some head scans and dad's with him, but no one knows anything." Nat said quickly.

"You ok?"

"I'm scared, I can see Alex is, he thinks he's losing his mind." Nat said quietly.

"Can you tell us when you know something?" Juanita asked.

"I think Abigail is going to bring you down after breakfast," Nat said

"Ok, we will see you later." Rosalina said and hung up.

Rosalina and Juanita sat around quietly for a twenty minutes until Abigail came out.

"Hey girls… you look two look like you've heard." Abigail said quietly.

"Nat said they were giving Alex head scans," Juanita said quietly.

"Do you girls want to just pick something to eat along the way." Abigail said softly.

They both nodded and followed Abigail to her car.

It was half an hour later when they arrived and went and sat beside Nat, John and Simon.

"Have you heard anything yet?" Abigail asked Simon.

He shook his head.

Rosalina sat beside Nat and hugged him while Juanita sat beside her foster father.