ok, second part, bit longer this time! Hope you enjoy this bit. Hopefully have another update in the next few days. Thanks for ur reviews, keep them coming.

Part 2

If this is really what you think
How come you won't look me in the eye
All this crying in your sleep
As I lie awake beside

"This isn't going to work."

Her voice was cold and harsh as it assaulted his ears and caused his heart to sink. He automatically and very inarticulately spewed, "What?"

She shook her head again, shifting from foot to foot. She was looking down at her beat up boots considering how much they would resemble her heart.

"We're done. This 'thing' should never have started. You're a geek and I'm not some stupid love sick girl."

Luke walked right up to her and put his hands on her shoulders. It seemed as if his self preservation skills had left him. "Look at me." He said quietly as he tried to catch her eye to no avail. "Look at me!" He said sharply.

Grace violently shook his hands off of her and shoved past him heading for the door. Again he shocked her with his sudden bravery as he sprinted in between her and the door.

"You're not running away from this, from me. I've seen you come so far the last couple of months, I wont let you go back to being completely disconnected."

Grace finally looked up at him, her face red. "So, that's it? I'm just a solution to everyone ignoring you! You think you can save me? You think you're the big hero? Screw you!"

"Just stop! I know this isn't how you really feel Grace."

"You know nothing." She said before trying to get past him and not doing well.

"I know more than you think. I can see it all in your eyes. You're hurting and your angry but more than all of it, your sad and its killing you! Do you know you fall asleep sometimes? In the biology room, after we make out? It like this 2 minute long nap and there's no wall or anger, it's just you. Vulnerable and... You cry. There might not be tears but that look on your face and how you hold on to me with a death grip. I want to stop it. I want to fix you and I hate myself for it. I'm selfish, I want to fix you because it hurts me so much to see you this way, I barely sleep at night and I'm always so worried about something happening with your mum."

She'd stopped fighting him. She just stood completely still infront of him, head still slightly bowed. "Take it back." She almost whispered.

Luke couldn't get his mouth to work. This only served to anger her. She roughly shoved him out of the way and bolted downstairs running right past Joan and Helen then out the front door into the night and rain.

Luke was right behind as he waved off his mother and sister's questioning looks and made sure to pull the door shut behind him.

He chased her down the street and out into the road. He couldn't quite catch up with her as the ran battered down on them. She was sprinting. After a few minutes she stopped dead and spun round to face him.

"Stop following me!" She shouted at him. She was soaked through, the rain running down her face looked like a flood of tears.

"Not unless you tell me what the hell is going on!" He shouted back with equal fury.

Grace stared at him through the heavy rain as she tried to think of someway to get him to leave her alone. But she didn't want to be alone. She didn't want him away from her but it was so much easier that way.

"Just go home, geek. I don't want you around me again."

Luke ignored the despair and horror at those words coming from her mouth and decided it was time to get to the point. "What's happened with you mum?" he asked her calmly.

She didn't say anything, they both just stood in the street, looking at one another.

After what could have been 5 minutes or 50 Grace broke eye contact, losing the battle with him.

"He took her to California. For rehab again." She explained before turning and walking towards her house.