It was Boxing Day, and Kelsie decided that she should phone Mrs. Mewhort, before band practice. She dialed her number; she still knew it off by heart. It took three rings before someone answered the phone. Kelsie sat at her desk tapping her fingernails on it.

"Hello," Mrs. Mewhort answered.

"Hey Mrs. Mewhort…it's Kelsie."

"Hello dear, thank you for the video you sent. It was very thoughtful," smiling slightly.

"Your welcome, the second song I sing on it was actually a song I had written for him a while back."

"He told me about it. He thought it was very sweet of you to do something so thoughtful. He always boasted to me about your talent."

"He did?" wondering whom else he told about her talent.

"Yeah."

"Well he would actually be happy to know that I'm playing in a band now," wanting her to know she was doing something her son would have wanted her to do.

"Since when?"

"Probably a month after he died. He always told me to do it, but I didn't believe I was good enough. I thought that this would be a great gift to him. We actually have a gig for New Year's at a friend's house."

"That's great. I know Chris is cheering you on from heaven."

"Thanks. So how are you and your family doing?"

"We're better; we can actually go by his room with it open now. After the New Year, we're going to start to clear his stuff out of there, and give it to needy. That's what he would have wanted."

"Yeah it is," knowing how generous he had been.

"Even though he's no longer around don't think you can't come by when you're in town. Or if you need anyone to talk to, anytime, just call. We'll be here for you."

"I will," she looked at the clock on her desk, "Well I have to go to practice. I will phone you later when I have more time to talk," feeling a little bad that she could talk to her more.

"Alright dear, bye."

"Bye."

Kelsie strolled on her guitar, as she sang. She suddenly stopped in the middle of the song. Everyone looked so tired, "Craig I think we've had enough practice for today."

"No we're still having a problem with the chord change on the last song. We're performing in a few days, and we still have a lot of work to do."

"Yeah, but we're been practicing for hours. I've missed most of the shopping time."

"Is that all you think about?"

"No. I'm out of here."

"You can't do this, this is real important."

"Watch me," she replied as she gathered up her stuff.

"Fine?" he said with a little anger, lifting up his arms in surrender.

"Well if she's going, I'm leaving too," Spinner said.

"Me too!" Jimmy said standing up. "We can meet up with Paige and Ash.

"What, you guys are going to leave me here, alone?"

"Well you could come with us," Kelsie suggested.

"No, I have other things to do before Paige's New Years party," he sat back down on the couch.

"Okay, your loss," Kelsie said as she left Craig alone in the garage.

They all walked at to the driveway to their cars, "Why don't we just take my car, that way we only have to find one parking spot," Kelsie said.

"Sounds good to me," Jimmy said.

"I'll phone Paige, and tell her to meet us somewhere," Kelsie pulled out her cell phone from her purse and dialed her cell number.

"Hello," Paige said, putting her hand over her ear so she could hear better.

"Hey, it's Kelsie. The guys and I were wondering if you would like to meet us somewhere in the mall."

"Sure, how about the Pita Pit?"

"Alright, see you then."

"Okay."

It took a while to get through the mall to the food court since the mall was jammed pack with shoppers. After forcing their way through the last set of people, they finally made it.

"Hey you guys, how was practice?" Ashley asked before going over to Jimmy for a kiss.

"Good, everything is basically set," Spinner said.

"Well that's good because I want everything perfect for my party," Paige said putting her arm around Spinner's waist.

The smile that had been on Kelsie's face when they arrived was now replaced by a frown. Seeing her friends with their significant, others made her miss Chris. These last days had started to seem like everything was getting better, but after this it seemed like the hurt was never going to heal, that it would always feel this bad.

Kelsie looks at Marco, who looks just as sad, "Well I don't know about you, but Marco and I are going to try to find some good bargains. See you guys later."

Kelsie started to pull Marco away, "Alright, see you later," Ash said.

With that, Marco and Kelsie took off towards Stitches, leaving the lovebirds behind in the food court.