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Codie POV

I was driving out to god knows where when my phone rang. It was Nikki's house phone... "Hello?" I answered it trying to pull myself together.

"Hello Codie. Can I talk to you?" It was Mrs. Lapaya, Nikki's mum.

"Hi there Mrs. Lapaya, yeah I can talk. How can I help you?"

"I assume you've heard about Nikki?"

I could hear the sadness filled in her voice, "Yeah, I heard. I'm so sorry. I've meant to call you as soon as I heard but I just haven't had the strength to do it. Ut was rough going throughs school today and facing everyone on my own. I'm so sorry for your lost, I miss her so much already."

"It's okay Codie, its not your fault at all. You tried to help her overcome all of this so please don't blame yourself. Her death is hard on all of us but we all have to be strong for her. She would have wanted us to be. Could you stop by the house though? We have something to give you from Nikki, she left quite a bit behind for you."

"Of course I can. I'll be over in about five minutes, I'm only about two blocks away."

"Okay dear, see you soon. Drive safely."

Ideas were running through my head as I tried to think of what Nikki could have possibly left for me. Nothing could come to my mind, there wasn't anything I needed or wanted. Before I could even think of anything I found myself sitting in her driveway perfectly fine. Even in death she was looking out for me, I'm going to miss her so much.

Slowly I got out of my Jeep and made my way towards the front door. Before I could even knock Mrs. Lapaya opened the door and took me in her arms. I noticed how puffy and red her eyes were as she said, "Codie I'm so glad you came. You were Nikki's only true friend, more like a sister to her then anything. She left you a bunch of things through so please do come in." I smiled sadly as I followed her inside, "she was the only person who truly understood me. The only one who knew how I actually felt. She was the only one who actually cared how I felt. I never thought of her as a friend, she was my sister. She was more like family then my own family ever has been or will be."

We sat down on a couch in the living room, which was currently full of boxes. Mr. Lapaya smiled sadly at me, "Hi Codie. Okay so we had no idea that Nikki had any of this saved up, but we do know that its all for you. So I guess go on ahead and open them." I looked at them with confusion riddled in my eyes, I had no idea what could be in any of these boxes. The first box I grabbed contained a giant metal lockbox that was in fact locked. Why would Nikki give me a locked box with no way of opening it? Wait, she gave me a key necklace a couple weeks ago and made me promise I'd always have it on me. I guess this is why because the key fit perfectly in the lock when I tried.

I slowly opened the lockbox to uncover a letter sitting on stacks of one hundred dollar bills. We all gasped at the sight of all that money. There had to be at least fifty thousand dollars sitting right there in front of me. Now I guess its time to read the letter and stop staring at all of this money sitting on my lap. I picked up the letter and began reading, "Dear Codie, if you're reading this right now then I might have finally been able to end it. I'm sorry I did it; I just couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't ignore society and it beat me. That's where you and I are different. You're strong Codie, strong enough to take on the entire world by yourself and beat it. You can take it all and I can't. Well the contents of this box are my life savings really. I want you to take it and use in on your upcoming adventure. Yes I did say upcoming because you do have an adventure coming up pretty soon. Remember the My Chemical Romance tour starting up in Bellieville? Yeah well look in the envelope in this letter before you read any further."

Mrs. Lapaya handed me the second envelope as I stopped reading. I think my heart stopped for a moment when I realised what was inside. The envelope contained a VIP pass and a ticket that read all dates to the My Chemical Romance tour that started in three weeks. I couldn't believe this! Nikki and I had talked about going to this show since we heard rumours about it. We'd also talked about maybe following the tour and go on an adventure. This tour was going to be amazing! It had all of our favourite bands like My Chem, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Used, and who could forget about Blink-182. Oh god I could not wait for this show.

With half a smile on my face I began reading the rest of the letter, "You're welcome and have fun. I bought you a VIP pass and ticket that will work on every single stop of the tour. So pack your bags Codie because you are going on an adventure. Go have a good time but don't do anything stupid. Well don't do anything too stupid. I'm going to miss you and I know you're going to miss me, but remember that I will be watching you. I'll be keeping my eyes on you as I party with Kurt Cobain and all the other amazing musicians that have past away. Now don't you dare make the same mistakes I have, you're stronger then me. You're stronger then all of this and you will beat it all. Now I have to go but I want you all to know that I love you all so much and I will always be keeping my eye on you. Love You all so much and I'm so sorry I wasn't strong enough to beat all of this. With love, Nikki."

After reading the letter I put everything on my lap next to me and got up to hug Mr. and Mrs. Lapaya. We sat there in silence just hanging on to each other for a couple of minutes. It was going to be hard without Nikki here but like she said I was strong and can do it, I have to be strong for her. I have to be strong for all of us. Mrs. Lapaya handed me the next box as I sat back down on the couch.

I opened it to discover that it was full of her band stuff. Posters, shirts, shoes, hoodies, books, etc. basically anything and everything that had to deal with music. The next couple of boxes contained inside jokes between us and tons of pictures, she had made an entire scrapbook full of all of our adventures. The last box I opened was much smaller then the rest. It held this beautiful necklace that incorporated a rose, key, and music not. I actually remember Nikki drawing something very similar to this a while back. When she saw me watching her draw it she flipped out and told me not to look because it wasn't ready yet. Well I guess it was finally ready for my eyes to see now. I immediately put it on and squeezed the pendant as hard as I could in my hand. I then spent the next half hour or so with her parens before packing everything in may car to head home.