CHAPTER 8

" Good guess, Max." Isabel removed her glasses to look at her brother. She looked over Max and Michael. She could see they were nervous. Then she looked at the two young men next to them. She knew which were Kam and Josh by how much they looked like their fathers. Josh was worried. Isabel knew that look from Michael.

" Iz, you have to understand." Max begged her.

" You didn't call me." Isabel was furious now.

" I told them not to." Josh told her.

" Why?" Isabel looked at him.

" Alex wasn't ready to see you." Josh answered.

" None of this makes sense. Michael, Max say something." Isabel put her hands on her hips.

" He's right." Michael answered.

" This is unbelievable. I cannot believe you two. After everything..." Isabel began to say.

" She wasn't ready, don't go blaming it on these two when YOUR daughter was scared of seeing, you. She felt her whole life she was a mistake." Josh couldn't believe Isabel.

" Then why did you guys come?" Isabel asked.

" She probably would have faced you just fine. But it wasn't until we got here we realized she needed to be calm." Josh explained.

" Why what's wrong?" Isabel asked.

" I'm pregnant." Alex stepped into the main room to see Isabel's face. Alex had heard Josh's voice in the kitchen. She had to see what was going on. When she realized it was her mother. Alex could feel herself shaking. Maria and Liz were right behind her. Josh's face told her everything she needed to know. Kam looked nervous. Michael and Max looked shocked.

" Wait- repeat that." Isabel was completely shocked.

" You heard me." Alex's voice seemed fine but it was not as strong as normal. Isabel looked at Michael. Isabel knew from Alex's dream that had to be Josh's. She could see the look in Michael's eyes that it was. After recovering from that Josh went up to Alex.

" You should be in bed." He told her.

" I'm fine. I have to do this, Josh." Alex told him.

" Promise if you feel like you can't take it. You'll stop." Josh said.

" I promise." Alex whispered. Alex walked closer to where Isabel, Max and Michael were.

" You're little girl grew up." Alex's voice was cold now. No way Isabel could tell she was scared. Isabel looked at Michael and Max for support.

" I didn't expect this." Isabel whispered.

" Things never turn out the way you plan. Do they, Isabel?" Alex said.

" Please tell me you understand." Isabel begged.

" Tell me I wasn't a mistake." Alex told her.

" You were never a mistake." Isabel began to cry. Alex was losing control. Alex closed her eyes to regain control. Max noticed this.

" Alex, are you alright?" Max stepped in front of Isabel so Alex could focus on him.

" I.... I'm getting weak." Alex whispered.

" Come on." Max picked up Alex and headed upstairs. " Liz, get me a damp towel. Josh, Kam follow me." Max instructed as he headed upstairs to the room Alex and Josh were staying in. Once Max reached the room he laid Alex on the bed. Josh whispered 'Thank you' to Max. Josh went straight to Alex. Kam went up to Max.

" What can I do?" Kam looked at Max. Max could see himself in Kam at that moment. He understood the feeling of losing people close to you.

" If I need your help. Stay by." Max said to him.

*****Downstairs*****

" Michael." Isabel whispered. It was just the two of them. Liz and Maria went to get what Max asked for while Josh, Kam and Max were with Alex.

" Yeah, Iz." Michael could see how scared she was.

" She's going to be ok. Right?" Isabel asked.

" I hope so." Michael responded.

" Have you got to know her?" Isabel asked.

" Yeah." Michael smiled as he looked at Isabel.

" What's...what is she like?" Isabel was wanted to know so badly.

" A lot like you and Kyle. What's scary is Josh and Kam are exactly like Max and me. But Alex, well she has both things about you two." Michael liked how Isabel smiled at that. It made things seem better.

" Kyle going to come in?" Michael asked.

" He's working on the courage to." Isabel said.

*******Back Upstairs*********

Liz came into the room.

" Is she going to be alright?" Liz was concerned.

" As long as she stays calm. Then I think so." Max told Liz.

" Anything else I can do?" Liz asked.

" Make sure Izzy stays downstairs." Max told her. Josh was holding Alex by now. Her head was rested against his chest as he gently stroked her hair. He was whispering to her that everything was going to be ok. He knew for Alex that would help her. Kam was sitting against the wall. This picture seemed like something Max had seen before.

" Alex, look at me." Max sat down the bed. Alex did as told. As much as Max was afraid He knew what he had to do. Laying his hand Alex's stomach he got flashes. But this time they were more intense.

****" Josh!" Alex screamed out into the desert. *****

****" I swear to god don't ever do that again. Josh, what's the point of being together if you're going to drink life away."****

****" What's this?" Alex asked Josh. '' my class ring. You should have it." Josh kisses her. ****

****''Nicole, it's just some stupid dance." Alex said. ****

**** " God, you should wear stuff like this more often. You'll take Josh's breath away." Nicole said****

****" Your beautiful." Josh told Alex. ****

****" We have the rest of our lives. You give a damn about people who left us?" Alex shouted. ****

****" You're wearing your ring." Valenti says to Alex. *****

****" I'm here. Forever, Josh" Alex whispered. ****

When Max was done, he smiled. It was intense for him.

" Max?" Josh wanted Max to look him in the eye.

" The baby's fine. But I want you two to stay up here. Till I say." Max told the two. Max looked at Kam. " Come on, Kam." Max began to leave the room.

" Are you lying? Is she going to be fine?" Kam asked once him and Max left the room.

" As long as she stays calm." Max told him.

" Thank you." Kam said.

" For what?" Max asked.

" For doing what's best for me, for doing this. For everything, Dad." Kam knew he needed to say it.

" Never forget how much your mother and I love you." Max told him.

" I won't." Kam answered.

'' Come on. Let's get downstairs." Max suggested.

Once the two reached the living room. Where there was Michael, Maria, Liz and Isabel. Michael spotted the two first. " How is she?" Michael asked while standing up.

" Alex should be fine. But I want her to rest, no one is to enter her room." Max looked at Isabel. " Where's Kyle?" Max asked Isabel.

" In the car." Isabel said.

" Great father material. He's Valenti's son?" Kam looked around the room.

" Kam." Liz said softly.

" I'm being honest here." Kam was not afraid. Kam stood there for a second and realized he couldn't stay so he walked outside.

" I'll follow him." Liz said. Once she got outside she looked at Kam sitting on the lawn. " Kam." Liz sat next to him.

" Please don't." Kam whispered.

" Everything is going to be okay." Liz whispered.

" Wish I could believe that." Kam replied. " The two people in this world who don't need this, is them." Kam added.

" Everything happens for a reason." Liz said. " And you know that. Even though your father and I did what we thought was best. You knew somewhere in your heart that we loved you. I wish things were different, I wish they were Easier for you." Liz told him.

" You remind me of Max when Michael got sick." Liz said this to break the silence.

" We don't get sick. How did Michael?" Kam looked at Liz.

" Well you can. But it doesn't happen often. And well it was just about when everything started. Max was scared, because Michael and Isabel were his family. Losing either one of them would be to much." A small tear escaped Liz's eye as she talked. Kam looked at Liz. His mother was so pretty. Her soft smile seemed tired; her eyes were exhausted from sleepless nights and constant worry. Despite that Liz had amazing presence. She was rational and was smart. She seemed to be wise beyond her years. The pictures of her showed a young, innocent girl. Beside Kam was a women who had lived life, a life she would never expected until the day she got shot.

*****Alex's Dream*******

Alex was reliving prom night. She had her hair was halfway up and a sparling baby blue dress. The thin straps tied in the back. The front showed off a little bit of her cleavage. The way she liked it. On her right hand there was her mother's ring. Alex looked at herself in the mirror. She never dressed up. There was a knock at her door. Alex knew the memory well and figured it was Jeff.

" Come in." Alex kept staring at herself.

" Your beautiful." The voice was not Jeff's. It was a man though. Alex turned around to face him.

" Kyle?" Alex walked away from the mirror.

" Izzy said you were beautiful but she didn't describe the half of it." Kyle grinned.

" Why are you here. Isabel was the one trying to get into my dream." Alex said.

" No, it was I. I couldn't work up the nerve." Kyle told her.

" Show me your memories." Kyle said to her.

" Follow me." Alex led him down the stairs to watch in the Crashdown.

" Josh, you better be ready!" Alex's voice came from the apartment. Josh was sitting at the stools waiting. " Josh." The dream Alex came walking into the Crashdown. Josh looked up at her.

" Are you Alex?" The dream Josh asked while standing up to face her.

" It is." She replied to him.

" He was my prince charming when he stood there." Normal Alex told Kyle. " He made me feel normal." Alex added.

" You look amazing." Dream Josh said.

" Where are the other two?" Dream Alex asked.

" Nicole had to be early, and dragged Kam with her." Dream Josh informed her. " Ready?" Dream Josh asked.

" I was born ready." Dream Alex replied as they walked out of the Crashdown.

" Show me more." Kyle told her. Suddenly Kyle and Alex are out in the desert by Josh's truck.

" I'm never putting that much hair spray in my hair." Dream Alex said as she took out her hair.

" Never say never." Josh smirked as he took off his jacket and jumped out of the car.

" Where else am I going to dress up at?" Dream Alex asked as got out of the car. " Damn heels." Alex added as she throws them into the back of the truck.

" When we get married." Dream Josh told her.

" Married? You're joking right?" Dream Alex laughed at that.

" Here." Dream Josh handed her a box.

" What is this?" Dream Alex looked up at him.

" My class ring. You should have and I put it on a gold chain for you to wear." Dream Josh told her.

" Why?" Dream Alex held her hair up as Josh puts it on.

" Because whether we say it or not. One day I'm going to ask you to be my wife." Dream Josh whispered in her ear. Josh carefully took off her mother's ring and switched it to her left ring finger.

" That should show that your committed to someone else. One day I'll buy you an actual ring." Dream Josh said. Alex turns around to face him.

" I love you." Dream Alex whispers. Kyle and Alex are sitting there watching the two.

" No one knows that happened. We told no one. Not even Kam knows we're planning on getting married." Alex tells Kyle. " You want more?" Alex asks Kyle.

" Isabel said you were angry." Kyle said.

" I am angry at her. The reason I'm more like you is that I didn't want to be her. I knew if you were there you would be like Valenti and I knew you would cared. I'm scared of her because I did turn into her." Alex told him. They were back in the Crashdown. Alex could tell when it was. She had just gotten done working and was cleaning up the place. And her mother's ring was not on her hand. The doorbell on the Crashdown rang.

" Josh, I told you. No making out after closing!" Dream Alex kept wiping the counters.

" It's gotten worse." Dream Josh whispers. Alex turns around to face him to see he has been crying.

" Josh, what happened?" Dream Alex walks up to him and gentle wipes a tear away.

" A--Am-Amy died." Dream Josh whispered. Alex hugs him as he begins to sob.

" Shh. it's okay." Dream Alex whispers.

" I have to go." Dream Josh takes off out the door. Alex follows and screams to him.

" Josh!" All she can see his shadow running off into the desert.

" It was our love test of if we could survive the test of time." Normal Alex tells Kyle.

" And you guys did." Kyle added.

" Your everything I imagined." Alex said.

" I never could picture a more perfect daughter." Kyle told her.

" I'm not perfect." Alex said. She had to tell him but how?

" Isabel told me about your dream." Kyle informed her.

" Do you know everything?" Alex asked.

" That you've had sex?" Kyle was confused. Alex made her dream switch to a hotel bathroom.

" Josh and I went to see Jesse. When we got back I took a test." Alex told him.

" Alex, you in there?" Dream Josh asked.

" Yeah, give me five minutes." Dream Alex sat on the edge of the bathtub

" I'm getting food. Anything you want me to pick up?" Dream Josh asked.

" No." Dream Alex told him. She heard the slamming of the door she got worried.

" Come on, come on. Just tell me if I'm positive or negative." Dream Alex began to walk around the small bathroom. " Why do I care, I mean either way Josh and I will be just fine. But we're in the search of finding our parents and this happens. Wait Josh would be happy, I know this." Dream Alex was talking to herself. The five-minute timer went off. Grabbing the stick and whispered. " I'm pregnant." The scene faded leaving Kyle and Alex in the Crashdown.

" Your pregnant?" Kyle asked. Alex didn't turn around to face him.

" Yes." She whispered.

" Face me." Kyle told her. Alex did so. " You don't look it." Kyle commented.

" I'm not even fully a month." Alex replied.

" First months the worst." Kyle laughed.

" You don't hate me?" Alex wanted his approval. All her life she wanted to make him proud.

" I could never hate you, Alex." Kyle hugged her. Alex began to cry softly.

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