A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in a while but as it turns out work is hard! But I'll be updating more often hopefully. Hope you enjoy this part as much as I do.

AND IT STONED ME

"Miss Parker?" the distant voice of her teacher pulled her out of the memory.

"Yes?" Liz asked not sure what the teacher had wanted.

"Maybe you should go down to the nurse's office; you don't look very... healthy." Genuine concern in her teacher's voice as he searched for a non insulting way of saying she looked like crap.

It was no hard to see that she was unwell at a time when the school year was almost over and most of the seniors were partying and getting ready for graduation. She looked worn dark circles under her eyes spoke of the many sleepless nights, her pale complexion, and her frailness told how little she had been eating and the look in her eyes of complete emptiness left most people feeling cold.

"No I'm fine I just need to get some more sleep," she tried to make her voice sound strong and careless but failed.

"Miss Parker we're not really doing anything important here just going over the homework, just come back tomorrow ready for the final ok?" the teacher almost sounded worried that Liz would challenge him again.

"Okay." Liz stated it as a defeat, most of the students would have killed for the teacher's permission to skip but she hated being left alone.

She gathered her things and left the classroom silently walking down the empty hallway and making her way to the front door because going to the nurse would have been a waste of time. As she walked down the street she heard a car pull up behind her, at first she was scared no one had come for them in a while but she was still jumpy every time she saw a new customer in the Crashdown or heard a car driving slowly.

"Parker?" yelled the familiar voice from the car. Liz turned around to see Sean in his car.

"Hey," her voice quiet and weary as it had been for so long.

"What are you doing outside of school I thought you were getting your bookworm on?" his smile was met by a weak smile from Liz.

"The teacher sent me home," she tried to sound more interested and happy to see him, it wasn't that she didn't like talking to him it was that she was always so tired now.

"What did you do?" he looked surprised at the idea of Liz getting in trouble.

"He said I should get some rest," her voice solemn he looked at her, his eyes knowing.

"Oh, well then I'll leave you..."

"No." her voice quick as she opened his car door and sat down "I couldn't sleep if I wanted to, and I don't want to go home."

"So what would you like to do on this sunny afternoon?" his smile returning

"Lead the way," her smile a little more sincere this time.

They stood atop a bridge above a small brook Liz looking over the edge and remembering her attempted suicide. 'Shut up brain! Just let me rest' she begged of her mind which kept flashing back to the scene up on that cliff and how calm it had been. Sean stood a foot a way facing the opposite direction the sun shining on his face as he squinted to see past it.

"So...?" he attempted to start a conversation "Graduation is coming up soon right?"

"Yup, this Saturday" she said sounding unexcited "I'm not going though."

"Why not?" shock evident on his face.

"I don't see the point, you know sitting on an uncomfortable chair for three hours only to get a piece of paper that tells me I'm a high school graduate which isn't that hard to figure out without it. Plus the whole getting up in front of your peers to get it seems kind of like another chance to trip and embarrass myself one last time."

"I get it. And I agree totally. What are you doing instead? Maria said she was going but I don't know ab..." he said as she cut him off.

"She's going?" Liz spoke softly surprised he hadn't seen that they had barely talked all year.

"You didn't know?" his brow furrowed.

"We don't talk much anymore, I don't talk much anymore." She stated coolly.

"I noticed but I mean you guys have been friends forever and honestly I like you a lot more then that Michael guy." He smiled

"He's good to her though," Liz looked up and Sean nodded in agreement. "He got even closer after... everything. He had no reason to stray anymore." Her voice low.

"Yeah," Sean said trying to look into her eyes.

"So what's next?" Liz stated loudly trying to change the subject.

"I was thinking some sort of food, what do you think?"

"I think this occasion definitely calls for Nachos!" she said happily glad he didn't linger on past hurts too long.

Liz climbed up the ladder and on to her balcony after her day of craziness with Sean. He was a great guy, but she didn't know if she would ever be able to date him and if she did she wouldn't really be there and he deserved better. Better then damaged goods. She looked over to the spot where she kept her diary, she hadn't written in it since their deaths but she had kept a few other keepsakes in their, mostly alien artifacts a necklace, some of the translations from the book, and other things.

She still hadn't told anyone about her powers, they weren't anything great all she could really do now was light things on fire when she wasn't paying attention and zap people. She hadn't figured out how to do much else when she was emotional it was kind of like an explosion so she tried to keep calm. It hurt sometimes, felt like it was trying to burst out of her skin.

She knew that she could've gone to one of them and they would've helped her but she didn't have the courage for something like that, and they really hadn't been that talkative their only way of communicating with Liz was through a series of glares and looks of anger.

She grabbed the necklace that they had found so long ago and put it on her neck before going inside to wash up.

"Just keep going, day by day and soon we can leave and it will be better. It has to be better." She whispered to herself before heading downstairs to face her parents and the hungry patrons of the Crashdown.

"Just keep moving"