Forrest and Graham had finally caught up with Riley, "Hey Man, hold up what's the problem." Riley didn't answer Forrest right away, "The problem is, that she was always doing stuff like that."

Graham who was usually silent said "Stuff like what?"

"The tapes, making fun of me, I don't' know how to explain it but she changed. One summer we were best friends the next summer all of the sudden I was Farm-boy and she picked on everything I did! She must have made the tapes that summer to embarrass me and it worked"

"Why are you embarrassed, you dance all right!" Graham added his two cents.

"Graham the dancing isn't the point!" Riley didn't really want to talk about it and it showed. But Forrest wasn't about to let it drop, "Well what is the point then, cause I for one would love to go back and see those tapes!"

Riley really had to think about it, what was it that bothered him more the loss of the close friendship they had shared or the fact that she changed so much and then didn't bother to come back to the farm at all. "You don't understand we did everything together, she had been coming to the farm since she was 5 years old. We were like two peas in a pod. She could fish like a pro, didn't get grossed out about the worm and even cleaned my fish for me! Climbed trees like nobody's business. At 12 there wasn't a boy in the county that she couldn't kick his ass, if she wanted to!"

It had seemed like Riley was finished so Graham pushed him on, "So what was the problem?"

"I don't know, one summer I was 17 think. She came to the farm and she was different...."

"Let me guess, she wouldn't go swimming alone any more, didn't want to wrestle with you either!" Forrest asked with some sarcasm.

"Yeah," Riley said taking Forrest's question as a serious one.

"So you were always a moron, huh?" Forrest used his moron question yet again, he was seriously starting to wonder about his friend.

Riley stopped in the street, "What do you mean?"

"She liked you man!" Graham told him, "Why else would she follow you out to watch you?"

"OK, if she liked me then why didn't she come back after that? Tell that one!" Riley wasn't sure his friends were right but he needed to know.

"What do we look like Physic Friends Network?" Forrest said again with the sarcasm, "Go ask her yourself!" Graham stood by and nodded his agreement. With that his friends left him there to think about what they had told him.

Riley headed into a bar that was on the way to have a drink and to think, but the more he thought about it the more confused he got. As he sipped his beer someone was playing the jukebox and Riley thought about that last summer on the farm. As Sky's "All I Want" played in the background, Riley got piss loaded thinking about Cat and that summer. Seeing now all that he hadn't seen then.

TBC