"Hello?" Dylan answered the phone.

"How ya doin'?" Paige asked.

"Alright, Eloise has been acting a little depressed lately, Marco leaving has really had an effect on her." Dylan sighed.

"Sounds like it has had an effect on you too."

"It has."

"Hey, I have an idea, if there is away you can get a babysitter come out with me for a couple hours, it'll give us a chance to talk."

"Alright, I'll meet you at your house in half an hour." Dylan hung up and brought Eloise down to Miss Calloway's.

Dylan drove down to Paige's. He knew talking to her would help, but he wished he could talk to Marco. Where was he? What was he doing?

"Ready?" Paige asked getting in the car.

"Yea." Dylan replied half-heartedly.

They drove down to the beach and just sat and talked about everything going on.

"There's one thing I've been wondering," Paige said. "Did you want to be with Ellie?"

"No, why?"

"Tell me the truth. Even if you were drunk, you wouldn't just have sex with some random person, there had to be a reason."

Dylan took a deep breath.

"The truth is...Marco was so close to Ellie, and I just-I just wanted to be close to her too. It started out as just talking, and then...we were both so wasted that...Elois happened."

"Oh." Paige nodded understandedly.

"I told her not to have and abortion because everyone deserves a chance to live."

"I never knew you felt that way."

"Yea, I wish I coulda been there for Ellie, I-I was just so scared."

"Dyl.." Paige sighed hugging him.

"Let's go home." Dylan said, tears coming to his eyes.

Marco picked up the phone.

"Hello?" Dylan answered.

"I'm coming home."

"Really?"

"I've had enough time to think over here. I love you."

" I love you too." Dylan hung up.

Marco had been home for two weeks, and was reading the paper when he stumbled across the obituaries.

Angel Dumott-Schunard

April 12, 1982-August 28,2004

The heart may freeze or it can burn
The pain will ease if I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live this moment as my last
There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today.

A/N: Thanks Sheena for the info!

From Rent.