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Hey guys,

What did you think of the last chapter? I think I'll stay purely in present time unless it's a flashback... from now on.

If you review I'll write.

Plz?

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(IN REGENA, ENGLAND AT MADI AND IVY'S APARTMENT)

"Mom what do you want to do today?" Madi asked.

"You live here what is there to do?" Marrissa asked.

"Lots."

"Like what?"

"Same stuff as at home, just in french."

"That's not true." Ivy protested.

"Why?" Madi said.

"No one eats french fries with mayonnaise in Newport."

"Good point." Summer said laughing.

"What about the movies?" Marrissa suggested.

"If you want to listen to 2 hours of french go ahead." Madi cautioned.

"I'm sure there's an English theatre somewhere." Summer pointed out.

"In London." Ivy agreed.

"So?" Marrissa asked.

"We are in Renaga, not London." Ivy reminded.

"How long does it take to get to London?" Summer asked.

"About an hour."

"Let's check the times of the movies." Marrissa suggested.

"We don't get a London newspaper." Ivy explained.

"Internet?" Marrissa said in 'could it be more obvious' tone of voice.

"We don't have a computer." Madi said in the same tone.

"Oh." Summer said exasperated.

"So basically we stay in boring old Renaga day in and day out." Madi explained.

"Oh." Marrissa agreed with Summer.

"So again I ask what do you want to do?" Madi said smiling.

(AT UCLA WITH LIZBIT)

"Christine I'm leaving." Liz called to her roommate.

"Okay Liz. See ya after class." Christine replied.

"Yep." Liz called shutting the door behind her as she headed to biology.

'Ring, ring'

"Hello?" Christine asked into the phone.

"Hey is Liz there?"

"Sorry Marc she's at biology."

"Right I forgot." Marc said.

"She'll be home in a couple hours."

"Can you have her call me?"

"Ya."

"Thanks Christine."

"Whatever Marc." Christine said hanging up and heading out the door for her own class.

(ONE DAY LATER AT KIRSTEN AND SANDY'S)

"Sandy?" Kirsten called into the house.

No reply.

"Sandy?" Kirsten repeated walking towards the kitchen.

Still no reply.

Kirsten walked into the kitchen and looked on the fridge for a note but found nothing.

"Sandy?" Kirsten called walking up the stairs.

She ventured into the bedroom, and found Sandy asleep on the bed.

"Sandy." Kirsten said playfully shaking him.

Sandy didn't walk up.

"Sandy?" Kirsten called worriedly.

Still sandy didn't wake up.

She checked for a pulse and found one. Hurriedly Kirsten grabbed for the phone on the nightstand and then realized they didn't have one there anymore. She took off down the stairs for a phone and called 911 on her way back to the bedroom. After she got off the phone with 911 she ran downstairs and unlocked the door, standing off to the side waiting for the wailing of the sirens. Kirsten was so out of it that she didn't even hear the sirens, she didn't know the ambulance was there until the paramedics came barging in the door.

"Where is he?" One of them asked.

"Upstairs and to the right." Kirsten said following them.

They reached the bedroom and ran to sandy doing everything they could trying to determine what happened and stabilize him enough to take him to the hospital. Watching them was just to much so Kirsten stepped out of the room and called Seth.

"Hello?" Seth asked into the phone.

"Hi Seth." Kirsten said.

"Mom?"

"Ya."

"What's wrong?" Seth asked recognizing that worried tone of voice.

"It's your dad."

"What? What happened?"

"He's unconscious, I still don't know how."

"Where are you?"

"At home waiting for the paramedics to stabilize your father."

"I'll meet you at the hospital."

"Seth?"

"Ya?"

"Call Ryan on your way."

"Okay."

"I have to go they're ready."

"Bye."

"Bye baby." Kirsten closed rushing after the paramedics.

(IN SETH'S CAR ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL)

'Ring, ring'

"Hello." Ryan's voice came into Seth's phone.

"Get to the hospital." Seth urged.

"Seth?"

"Ya, it's me get to the hospital."

"What? Why? What's wrong?"

"Mom found dad unconscious."

"Oh god, I'm on my way."

"Pick up Riss."

"She'll meet me there."

"Okay."

"Bye."

"Ya."

Seth continued driving towards HOAG worried for his father. He wondered why he was unconscious? Had he had a heart attack? Was he sick? Was it something more than that? Cancer? Lung cancer from second-hand smoke? Pulling into the HOAG's parking lot his train of thought was stilled as he climbed out of the car.

"Mom! Mom!" Seth called when he got inside the hospital, seeing Kirsten sitting there crying.

"Seth?" Kirsten asked looking up.

"Is he okay?"

"I don't know."

"Are you okay?"

"I'll live."

"Don't joke about that." Seth warned thinking of his father.

"Right sorry."

"It's okay."

"Does Ryan know?"

"He's on his way."

"Summer? Marrissa?"

"Yes and yes."

"Good."

"Grandpa?"

"Has he ever cared about your father?"

"Good point. But you should still call him."

"I know."

"Do you want me too?"

"I should do it."

"Jimmy?"

"You can make that one."

"Thanks mom." Seth said sarcastically.

"Your welcome." Kirsten said standing when she saw Ryan come in.

(AT THE HOSPITAL RYAN'S POV)

"Is he okay?" I asked rushing into the room. I was afraid, I had lost one father to jail and he had died there. He didn't want to loose another.

"We don't know." Seth answered truthfully.

"Why not?"

"The doctor hasn't come yet." Kirsten explained sharing Ryan's concern.

"Oh."

"He should be here soon."

"How long has Sandy been here?"

"5 minutes." Seth replied.

"We have about an hour to wait."

"What?" Kirsten exclaimed.

"Trust me."

"How would you know/" Seth asked.

"I spent a lot of time in the hospital." Ryan answered quietly.

"Sorry man." Seth apologized putting his hand on Ryan's shoulder.

"It's okay man you didn't know."

"But I should have."

"Well you didn't." Ryan snapped.

"Sorry." Seth said stepping back.

"No I'm sorry." Ryan apologized turning away from his family sitting down a couple of seats away.

(AT THE HOSPITAL KIRSTEN'S POV)

"Ryan honey are you okay?" I asked sitting down next to him.

"I'm fine." Ryan replied.

"Ryan you're not."

"I am Kirsten."

"Just tell me what's wrong maybe I can help."

"You can't."

"Try me."

"Can you promise me I won't lose another father? Can you tell me that sandy won't die? Can you? You can't reassure me that my second and last father isn't about to die Kirsten, you just can't." Ryan yelled leaving by the emergency doors.

"Ryan." I called after him. But he didn't turn around.

I should have known. I knew he was concerned about losing Sandy we all are, but I should have known he was concerned about losing a second father. That was something none of us could understand.

"What happened?" Seth asked coming over.

"I messed up."

"That sounds like something you would have said when Ryan first moved here."

"Seth with time Ryan's past didn't just go away. It was just put off to the side."

"I know that."

"And I messed up."

"How so?"

"I forgot that he lost his dad when he was nine,"

"It's not like he died he just went to jail."

"You don't know?"

"Know what?"

"His dad died there when he came back from Chicago that year."

"Oh."

"Ya."

"Wow."

"He's afraid to lose another father, and I pushed him to tell me. I told him I could help him."

"Oh."

"There was no way I could help him, and he knew that but I pushed him to tell me."

"Mom you didn't know."

"I should have."

"But you didn't."

"I did I just forgot you can't forget about your kids problems it's a rule of parenting."

"We're not little kids."

"That doesn't matter."

"I know mom, I know."

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Hey guys.

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I had to kill Ryan's dad in order to make him so upset.

Sorry.

I enjoyed writing this chapter.

Even though I had to had to hurt Sandy.

Which will be the main drama of this story.

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