Kelsie arrive at school beaming, from head to toe. She just had the best weekend of her life, and she wasn't going to let anything get her down.

Paige, who was leaning against the handrail, greeted her as she walked up to the school. Eager to know, "Girl, tell me the details of your weekend."

"Well, he greeted me at the airport with a single white rose."

Interrupting her, "How sweet!"

"We talked all the way back to his house, about things going on, and before you ask, no I didn't tell him. The next day we went to Blake's house to celebrate my birthday with a few friends. Then he made me dinner, and while we were sitting around the fireplace he gave me this promise ring," she said showing it to her.

"It's beautiful, what does this mean?" needing to know all the details.

"That one day we will get married," as they walked up the stairs to the second floor they passed Craig who was talking with Jimmy and Marco.

"Hey, Jimmy and Marco," Kelsie said totally giving Craig the cold shoulder, then slightly looked at him giving him the evil eye. You could see the vengeance in her eyes.

"Anything else happen?"

They were still close enough to Craig so he could hear it clearly. Kelsie wanted to hurt Craig, "Let's just say afterwards we had one hot night."

Before Paige could respond she was interrupted, "Could Kelsie Fitzgerald please come to the office, there's a message for you."

"Why don't we get our books from our locker, and then I'll come with you to the office since we have first block together," Paige suggested.

"Okay." Wondering what it was all about, "I wonder why I would have a message so early in the morning."

"Who knows," she said grabbing her books, closing her locker and walking to Kelsie's locker.

"Chris made the doubts I was having about a long distant relationship go away. Hopefully by July he will be here if he gets into a university over here."

"I hope so too, and then I'll finally get to meet him," wanting to meet the guy that her best friend was always talking about.

"He might come for spring break if he has the money."

"That would be great, I know we all want to meet him," she said as Kelsie slammed her locker shut.

"I know he wants to meet you all, he's so thankful that you made me feel so welcomed here. He was a little worried that I would have a hard time fitting into a new place," remembering her first week here, how Craig had introduced her to his friends, and they welcomed her with open arms.

They walked into the office together, "I'm Kelsie Fitzgerald; you have a message for me."

"Yes, here it is," the secretary handed it to her.

Kelsie,

You need to phone home right away. It's an emergency.

Mom

Kelsie was a little worried about what the emergency was, did something happen to her dad? "May I use the phone please?"

"Yes you may," handing it to her.

Kelsie hand shook as she dialed her mother's cell number, "Mom, what's up?"

"I got a phone call after you left for school this morning. She tried calling last night, but she said the phone line was tied up."

"Who?" she said with great concern. Who would want to talk her so badly?

"Mrs. Mewhort."

"What did she want?" looking very confused she began to shake.

"Hunny, after Chris dropped you off, he was driving and got into a head on collision with a drunk driver."

"He's alright, right!" she asked in a harsh, as tears began to fill in her eyes.

"There was too much damage; he died before they could get him to the hospital. I'm so sorry!" She felt so bad that her daughter had to go through this, "Why don't you go home?"

Kelsie didn't even answer her mom, she dropped the phone, and her face went white. She didn't cry or anything, she just stood there, looking straight ahead at the wall, not even blinking.

Paige saw this and became alarmed, she knew whatever her mom told her must be really big, "Hun what did she say?"

"He's…dead," she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.

"Who?" confused of whom she would be talking about.

"Chris," she wept.

Paige felt her pain, she put her arm around Kelsie's shoulder, "Hun, come sit down, tell me about it."

"His car was hit head on. He died last night. And of course, I had to be on the phone with Ashley so I didn't even get the phone call. It's my entire fault."

"Oh, I'm so sorry, do you want me to drive you home?"

"Huh," she asked having not really listened to what she had just said.

"Do you want me to drive you home?"

"Yeah, that would be nice; I don't think I could drive if I tried." Paige helped Kelsie up, having a hard time getting her to even walk since she was in shock still.

Paige walked in the cafeteria at lunch, looking a little down; she had just spent the last couple of hours with Kelsie as she cried on her shoulder. She eventually tired herself out and fallen asleep.

"Paige where have you been, I've been looking for you forever?" Spinner asked with concern, it just wasn't like her. She didn't seem herself.

"I was with Kelsie, she's really upset," not sure if she should say anymore.

"About what?" Craig asked thinking that it was his fault. He knew she hadn't gotten over what happened Thursday, not by a long shot.

"This morning she found out her boyfriend Chris was killed after dropping her off at the airport."

Craig wanted to run to her, but didn't know if that would be a good idea after what had happened last week. "She must be heartbroken."

"She's at home right now sleeping. The worst thing is she was so happy this morning, Chris had given her a promise ring."

"We should watch her these next few weeks she's going to need us," Ashley suggested.

"Yeah, I agree, but after the cold shoulder she gave me today, I'm not sure if she'll want me around her," Craig said, not sure she would forgive a second time.

"Well you can at least try," Paige said in a harsh tone; mad that he was thinking of himself at this moment.

"I will, but don't count on it," sounding real doubtful.