Kelsie went over to Paige's house on Saturday morning, with a huge hangover, the sun was making her head hurt, but this was something she really had to do. She wasn't even sure if Paige would talk to her, but she had to try at least, she owed her that much.

She was a little nervous as she came to the front door, but she forces herself to knock. She waited there for a few moments before the door slowly opened. It was Paige's brother Dylan; he stood there glaring down on her, making her a little uneasy.

"Dylan…can I speak to Paige…please," she looked at him with pleading eyes.

"Not if you're going to upset her again. She's been crying none stop these last couple of days," he said rudely, glaring at her with hate. He hated that this girl in front of him had treated his sister so badly. He wasn't if he really trusted that she would do it again.

"I came over to apologize to her," just hoping that he would let her in.

"Alright, but if she tells you to leave listen because if you don't I will have to force you to myself."

Dylan moved out of her way so that she could enter, she moved towards there stairs, climbing them to get to Paige's room, as she arrived in front of her room, she stops for a moment, and took at big breath before knocking on the door.

Paige heard her door knock, she wasn't sure if she was up to talking to anyone, even if it was a family member, she looked terrible her eyes were all red and puffy from all the crying she had done. "Who is it?"

"Kelsie…can I come in?"

What did she want? Did she want to start another fight, Paige thought, but she wanted to know what she had to say, "You may."

Dylan had been right, she had been crying a lot; this only made Kelsie feel worse for how she acted. She looked to the ground, "I'm sorry how I've been acting; I should have never taken it out on you or anyone."

"That's for sure," Paige said snotty with a roll of her eyes.

"I wanted to believe he wasn't gone, so thinking that everything was alright I thought was the best way to do that."

"Yeah, but then what was with the attitude?"

"Well, it became harder and harder to pretend, and I became just so numb from it that it was the only way I seemed to feel anything. But it still don't excuse the way I treated anyone," feeling ashamed of herself.

"No it doesn't."

"I blamed myself for what happened to him, I mean if I didn't come, then he wouldn't have been there at that time, plus it didn't help that I still never told him about what happened. I mean what kind of person am I to go and kiss another when I suppose to be so in love with him."

"We're all only human, we all make mistakes. The accident though wasn't your fault, it was that guy who decided to get in his car, and drive drunk."

"It's just I've never lost someone so close to me. I just lost it, we were going to spend the rest of our lives together, and then someone had to drink and drive, and take that from me, changing my whole life. Now I don't know what I'm going to do with my life," tears rolled down her cheeks.

Paige came over to her and put her arms around her, "Hun he would want you to follow your dreams for yourself, to be happy."

"Yeah, but he was someone who kept me strong; I could be upset and I just have to talk to him, and I would feel better. I don't have any other person here like that."

"Hun, no one said any of this would be easy, but when ever you feel like that, phone one of us up to talk. We'll try our best to help you."

"Thanks," she gave a slight smile.

Changing the subject to brighten up the mood, "So what are you doing today?"

"Well I have to go to Craig's for a practice, and then I'm all free."

"What do you mean practice?" confused, especially when she thought she were still mad at him.

"Well Craig and the guys want me to be part of their band."

A little surprised, but knew exactly why Craig had let her join, "Aw that's so cool, you're the first girl they have even thought of letting in their band."

"Wow, well how you would like to come with me, then after we could have a REAL girl's night out."

"Sounds good to me, just let me get dress and then we can go."

"Alright," she said leaving her room to let her change.

Paige and Kelsie drove over to Craig's place to find the guys talking, so they stood outside the garage door, and decided to listen to what they were talking about. Every girl wanted to know, what a guy thought about.

"So, what happened last night man?" Marco asked. "I saw you come in to house party, and then all of sudden you were gone."

"Well I kind of had to save Kelsie from doing something stupid with the Jason guy."

"So did she thank you? Or THANK YOU?" Spinner asked, wanting to know if he got anything in return for his help.

Craig hit Spinner on the arm, "Not in that way! At first she was trying to kiss me, but I couldn't do that to her when she really didn't mean it. We talked for a while, and I think the real Kelsie is back."

"My hero!" Jimmy joked getting down onto one knee in front of Craig, with his hands on his heart.

Craig pushed him out of the way, "Come on."

"I never did that Jimmy," Kelsie laughed as her and Paige walked through the door.

"So how are you doing today?" Craig asked, wondering if her head hurt after drinking so much.

"Okay, better than last night. I had myself a cryfest after you dropped me off at home," looking at him and only him.

"Just think baby steps," Marco said.

"Why would that be?" Kelsie looked confused at what he was talking about.

"Because it will take little baby steps to get through a tragic ordeal such as yours."

"I don't know if I'll ever fully get over it," she admitted, looking down at her ring. "Craig, can I talk to you?"

"Sure," confused about what she may want.

They both walked out of the garage onto the front deck, sitting on the swing. They began to swing on it, "What did you want?"

"I'm sorry again that I played with your emotions," looking at him.

"It's not all your fault, I shouldn't have read so much into it when I knew you had a boyfriend," leaning on the back of the swing.

"But now that I've shown a part of me to others. I think it's time you let others see the other side. Let others truly in."

"I'm not sure I'm ready," not wanting others to think he wasn't tough anymore.

"I wasn't sure I was ready, but I had to do it anyways."

"But…"

"No butts," she interrupted. "When are you to let people get close enough to love you? To know your whole story before you came here."

It scared Craig to know she could read him this well. No other person he met had very been able to do that. Tears glistened in the corner of Craig's eyes, "You don't even get how it feels."

"No I don't, but you won't even tell me. I'm your best friend, yet you don't share what you're truly feeling. The closes you've come was when you wrote me that song telling me that you loved me."

"I don't feel like talking about this. We should go practice," he said trying to change the subject, doing anything to avoid having to bare his soul, something that he was so scared of doing. He began to walk back towards the garage. Kelsie knew that he pretended to be happy, even if he wasn't all the time.