Kelly stayed a lot with the phone in her hand, undecided on what to do. The anger was boiling. SHe wanted to think more coldly. Exactly what had she seen? She loved Donna like a sister and on opposite sides she would have wanted her to warn her, to be her partner and friend. But they were no longer two teenagers. They were made women. And David remained her brother. What exactly did it mean to be brothers? sHe reasoned a lot as his head was getting sore.

Kelly felt her legs were giving way. Donna had just had a child and she knew well how emotionally fragile you can be in a situation like that. She herself felt fragile and her son was well raised. She thought back to Brandon, how she had kicked him away in a bad way, but the truth was that in the years of their cohabitation, Valerie had constituted the worst of their ills. SHe had tried to gnaw and corrode the foundations they had. Brandon was always there defending her inexplicably. Only years later did she know why. She expressed compassion for Valerie and her restlessness. A compassion that Valerie would certainly have rejected.

She wanted to call Donna, warn her, but she didn't know exactly what to say to her. She knew the pain of betrayal as well as Donna knew it and knew just as well that more information was needed.

Brandon knocked hard on the door of Valerie's room, at the front desk they told him she was there. He heard her voice.

"Brandon"

Valerie opened the door to him immediately.

David was behind her, the room messy. It looked hard to decipher.

"What are you doing here?"

David got up, his voice vibrated in a kind of jumble of things to say.

"But nothing," Valerie replied more confident, "David helped me rent a house near Santa Monica, and now we were enjoying a glass of wine. And why the hell did you rush here?"

"Because I knew where to find you; doesn't that tell you anything, David?"

"Does Donna know?" Silver replied with a panting;

"Does Donna know exactly what?" Walsh replied undisturbed.

"Nothing, she's so sensitive right now to anything, I just wanted to help Valerie find a place to stay and it's certainly not something I can tell her."

He was lying knowing he was lying and Brandon knew it.

"Kel saw you, under Mel's studio, this afternoon," he said, quickly shifting his gaze from David to Valerie and back.

David felt the rubble of what he had done. The stardust of lies and his selfishness was wiped out.

"And did he tell Donna?"

"I don't know, she didn't give me time to ask, I wanted as always to solve the root of others' problems, be a father of the family, but you know what David? I'm not your father, I think it's better for you to go to Kel or home, your choice"

Valerie kept a few steps back. SHe had a serious expression but her eyes were shining. SHe would have found an excuse, something to say.

"I don't understand the reason of so much tension. As usual Kel hasn't seen anything and SHe makes movies in her head. He just helped me find a home to stay in the next few months. That's it. What she saw I don't care about"

"So maybe," Brandon said, addressing David alone, "you should talk to her, to Kel"

David seemed kidnapped by a strange force as someone who had woken up from a bad comedy.

A "Kel" call came to Brandon's phone.

He anwered quickly.

"Yes?.. I understand I'll come right away... with David.."

He turned to David alone "there are problems with Steve, we have to go back to Kel"

Valerie made the gesture of taking the bag, Brandon stopped her "maybe it's better not, today" she puffed and sat heavily on the bed. SHe Looked At David. The agreement was clear. He would not have contradicted himself. SHe only stopped looking at him when he felt the weight of Bran's eyes on her.

When they went out into the open air David seemed to have caught his breath. She should have called Donna. Going home. Vomiting his guilt. The clarity that had come to him. The reason Valerie's lightness seemed like a cool wind compared to his daily life. Was it Valerie? Or would anyone have been fine? What had become?

Bran stopped holding him by the arm "I know how you feel. I know well. Whatever is in that room, interrupt it immediately"

"What if i wasn't in time?"

Bran didn't answer.

When they came to Kel, Steve was sitting on his couch with his head in his hands.

"What happened?" Bran just hissed. Kel did not answer him, busy watching David immediately came behind his back.

"It's not like you think," David hurried to clarify as soon as he heard the severity of her gaze "Ah no? And how is it?" Kel replied ready.

Steve pulled his head out of his desperation "but shouldn't we have talked about me?"

"What happened?" Brandon asked him to sit in the armchair in front.

"McKallagan"

"Who is he?"

"My accountant, indeed" made a grimace "former accountant"

"So what?"

"She has a relationship with Janet. An accountant"

"My father is an accountant," Brandon just smiled.

"Ah, Sorry Bran," he laughed too, "it ended like this" then stopped to watch a agitated and lost David "and what did he do?" Asked Steve pointing his nose at David.

"Nothing," David replied, looking at Kelly, "I didn't do anything."

"I saw you," she replied.

"Did you see what?" Steve asked, "Who are we talking about?"

"Valerie" replied in chorus Kelly and Brandon.

"Oh Holy Patience," Steve exclaimed.

"I just said hi to her, that's what you saw, such a kiss between old friends, I'm helping her look for a house.. Did you call Donna?" He asked extremely worried.

"No" that no was a release for David.

"Kel, listen, it's a difficult time for everyone. I may have made a mistake. The child, the fatigue, I didn't want to aggravate the situation, for something that is actually nonsense. If you tell her this thing it will be completely useless"

"Maybe he's right," Brandon tried to tell her.

"You know that right Brandon?" Kel had a suddenly bad look "it was the same thing between you and Emma"

"Oh my God," Steve exclaimed.

"Yes" Brandon snapped up at her " was the same thing, the worst and stupidest mistake i ever made. But I committed it and I can't delete it. Neither what I lost nor what you lost because of me. But whatever i did, Kel the two of us have already paid enough." They were facing each other. They had turned their eyes on.

"Can we go back to talking about the accountant?" Steve exclaimed looking at him, her and David.

"Yes, we paid," she said, letting herself fall on the chair, "the price of the truth. Then he turned to David "Is it the truth David?"

"Yes," he lied. He would no longer set foot in the Hilton. He would close everything before the crack along his body had completely untied. At that moment he just wanted to go back to Donna and Ethan.

"God," Kel exclaimed, "we are a group of high school friends with sentimental problems. Nothing has changed"

Steve laughed "yeah ." Then Brandon. David laughed less. He tried to look like the others.

"I'm going home," he said with a sad look.

"I'll take Steve home," Brandon exclaimed, "let's go big boy," he told him by pulling him up.

"Would you come back?" Kel asked him exhausted and surrendered.

"Time to put him to bed" smiled. That flaming look had gone missing. Kel had learned to recognize what in that co-collection was not hell and disengaged and reassured her. She had learned the art of throwing ash on what hurt her to soothe the noise. Two months. Even less.

"I'm waiting for you," she told to Brandon.