Author's Notes: - I do not own Passions or any Passions characters.

- I'm sorry the chapters aren't very long. When I first wrote it out they were a lot longer, but I had to adjust it or else the story wouldn't be more than like seven chapters. I hope you'll still enjoy the story.

For A Reason

Chapter Six "Morning Visitor"

The next morning Fox awoke to the sound of someone humming. He opened his eyes and saw Theresa placing flowers all around his room. He smiled as he watched her move about not knowing that he was awake.

"Hey Resa, what are you doing here?" he asked.

She jumped when she heard his voice. "Fox Crane, you scared the shit out of me."

Fox laughed as she came over and swatted his arm. "Well, this is my hospital room, what'd you expect?"

"Ha-ha. I know this is your room, I just didn't think you'd be awake this early with all the medication you're on."

"Speaking of being early, you didn't answer my question, what are you doing here?"

"I asked Mama if I could stay home from school today to spend time with you. And I also wanted to bring you something to brighten up this boring white room," she said with a smile.

"Are you sure it's okay for you to miss a day of school? There are only two months of school left."

"You know me Fox; I'm so far ahead of everyone that I could miss a year and still not have to catch up on classes."

"Yeah, you're my little bookworm," he said teasingly.

"Oh hush, you'll be grateful I'm a bookworm when it comes time for you to get back to your schoolwork."

"Don't remind me. This is my last year of school and now I'll have to work ten times harder to catch up to graduate on time."

Theresa laughed when he pouted at the thought of it. "Don't worry; I'll help you catch up. Plus, I'm sure you're teachers will be a little lenient on you since you were almost killed."

"I sure hope so. I mean, it's not like I'm behind or anything, I just hate the thought of cramming extra work into less time." He then noticed that Ethan wasn't there. "Hey, do you know where Ethan is?"

"Nope, he wasn't here when I got here. Did he stay last night or something?"

"Yeah, maybe he went to change or pick up Mom and Dad."

"That's probably it. He's nice and pretty cute. How come I've never met him before?"

Fox winced at her words. "Well, he's just finishing up his first year of college and before that he was in Prep school. Mom and Dad gave us kids a choice on going to a normal high school or Prep. I, as you know, chose normal and Ethan and my sisters chose the Prep schools."

"But I've met your sisters."

"Yeah, but Ethan's always been the more studious of us Crane kids. He wants to be a lawyer so that adds more to his already heavy load."

"Wow, we have a lot in common. I suppose he's too busy to have a girlfriend, huh?"

"Don't even think about it Resa. There is no way I'm gonna let you date my brother."

"Why not Fox? I've dated before and you never had a problem with it."

"True, but none of them were my brother. Ethan's just not right for you, trust me."

Theresa was about to respond when they were interrupted. "Fox, honey, how are you?" Ivy Crane asked as she walked into his room. Julian followed closely behind her.

"Hi Mom and Dad. I'm doing fine, considering."

Ivy then noticed Theresa standing there. "Hi Theresa. Did you bring these flowers in?"

"Hi Ivy, yeah, I did. It's so bland in here; I thought it could use some brightening."

"That was kind of you. Fox is lucky to have such a good friend."

Theresa smiled at Ivy. Since her and Fox had become friends Ivy had been very nice to her, even though she was not from the same circle as them. "I'll let you guys have some time alone with Fox. I'm gonna work on some homework for a bit."

"Thank you Theresa," Julian said.

She smiled at him and after grabbing her backpack from a chair she walked out into the waiting area.

Please Review. I love hearing feedback.