Anndi got to the Quidditch field at 10:00. Oliver would be there in a couple minutes. But before those minutes where up he was there and stopped a couple feet in front of Anndi and collapsed onto the grass.

"I can't believe he would kill himself. He was fine yesterday besides finding out that his mom was pregnant again. I wish I had known something about it. I could have stopped it or at least tried to."

"Oliver, I know how it is to loose someone close to you. I'm not going to tell you anything that you will hear from thousands of others. You can always cry about anything because then you will at least get some sort of.something out of it." Anndi had lost track of what she was saying but got Oliver to laugh a little and all she wanted was for him to feel better. "It's not your fault. Even if you knew about it there wouldn't be much you could do. Trust me. I know about these things. When my friend died all I could do for weeks was cry and ask 'why' but I realized that with his death he taught me that my life was special to me and people did care about me too."

"What does this have to do with Chris?" Oliver asked as he sniffed back tears.

"Well, I guess I am trying to say that maybe Chris was hiding something that he didn't want to share with anyone. I did for the longest time. Oliver, I want you to know that I was suicidal myself." As she said all of this she sat down next to Oliver and was trying to hold back some of her own tears.

"You were suicidal?! But why, how? You are smart and caring and you have a great life ahead of you."

"I know that now. When I was suicidal I didn't look at it that way. All I saw was my parents yelling at me for breathing or something else that was stupid, my grades slipping even though they weren't and people saying the stupidest things about me. I didn't think that anyone cared about me until Aaron shot himself. He showed me that suicide is not the way out. It causes more problems and more pain. I didn't want to have my friends go through that again. He though that no one cared and that because his parents both had different religions that he had to pick. Oliver, I have never told anyone any of this. I have never been able to. I keep my feelings bottled up inside because I am afraid that if I show them someone will try things that I don't want to deal with."

"Anndi, why didn't you tell anyone that you were suicidal? It's not a good idea. You could have gotten help or something. You could have talked to someone. I would say that you could have talked to me but we just met. But you can talk to me now. You know that right?"

"I didn't want anyone to overreact or something and I didn't want someone like Allison to go around and tell people the things that I said. I'm glad that I can talk to you because I have told you more than I tell my parents. And you can always talk to-"

"ANNDI! WHERE ARE YOU?" came a shout from the entry to the stadium.

"OLIVER! COME OUT, COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE!" came another voice.

As the figures came into view Oliver and Anndi made out the shapes of their friends. They looked at each other and their eyes sort of asked how their friends knew each other but Allison answered for them. "I forgot to mention that Andrew is one of my older brother's friends from grade school."

"Why are you two out here?" asked Sean shaking as the cool September breeze stirred the air.

"We were talking." Answered Oliver standing up.