Later, on Saturday morning, Raven sat on her bed. She had woken up an hour ago, but hadn't left her pillows and blankets. Why? Because she was deep in thought.

Eddie had now left for Montana, and Chelsea had gotten out of the hospital the day before. Corey was having William over today, and Raven had nothing to do, and nobody to talk to. And why did she have nobody to talk to? Because Chelsea's mother had taken her out for a day of shopping, and Raven's parents were going to some tag sale to look and sell things. What was her point of even being awake?

She snuggled against her pillow, and thought some more. "I miss Eddie! I wish those two years were up! This will be the worst two years of my life."

The next thing she knew, she was asleep again. It had been one long week, so what do you expect? She dreamed a peaceful dream, and for the first time in awhile, she felt good. Good to be asleep, and good to be dreaming peaceful things. It was about her and Eddie and Chelsea all laughing together, happy as can be. They were sitting at their normal cafeteria table, looking at their 'so called' food, and laughing at it. Like the good old times.

Knock! Knock!

Raven awoke with a start. What was that?

Knock! Knock!

Where in tarnation was the sound coming from? She had no idea. Poor Raven was just too tired to notice somebody was knocking on her door.

Her mother peaked her head inside her room, and whispered, "Can I come in, sweetie?"

"Ya, sure, mom." Raven grumbled, wiping off the spit that had drooled out of her mouth while she was sleeping. She tiredly looked up at her mother.

"Are you okay? You have been sleeping all day! Your father and I are very worried about you!"

"I'm fine, Mom. You know how it is. It's just been a long week."

"You sure? Well, okay…." Tanya put her hand to Raven's forhead, checking to see if she may have a fever. " It's after lunch time right now, and me and your dad are going to that tag sale. We were wondering if you wanted to come along?"

"Oh, I don't know Mom. Is Corey going?" Raven secretly wanted to stay home in her pajamas, but at the same time knew it would be a good idea to get out of the house with her family.

"Well, if you come, he and William would come with us. If you don't come, you would be stuck home babysitting him. So, it's your choice. Either way, I think you should at least get out of your p.j.'s and get some real clothing on. Okay?"

"Fine, Mom. I guess I'll come. Hold on a few minutes."

"Okay, honey. Thanks for coming with us." Her mom smiled warmly at her. She had wanted to spend some time with her daughter for awhile. Silently, Tanya left the room.

In fifteen minutes later, Raven was sitting in the middle row of the family van. She was all buckled in, to her mother's restrictions.

Corey and William were in the third row of seats, singing 99 Bottles of Coke on the Wall. Corey was singing to annoy Raven, and was it ever working. William was just singing for the pure fun of it. They were also laughing and pointing out the window at a big fat cow they were passing, still singing their hearts out. Gosh.

Her dad was driving, telling Tanya all about his new recipe that he'd think make the perfect family breakfast. Great.

Raven was sitting there, eyes half closed, trying to keep herself from yelling out her guts at Corey. His singing voice was driving her insane!

Finally, they reached the tag sale. It was in somebody's driveway. They pulled onto the side of the curb, along with all of the other cars.

"Here we are, kids!" Sang out Raven's dad. He jumped out of the car, and started toward the first table of junk.

Corey and William continued to sing as they got out of the car.

Raven just sat buckled in. She was too interested in watching the car that had pulled in after her family's van. It looked identical to Chelsea's. Was it…was it?

Chelsea stepped out of the car, smiling and looking much healthier than when Raven had seen her last. Quickly, Raven unbuckled her seat belt and jumped out of the car. Her family had already gotten lost in the crowd of buyers. But, Raven had to talk to Chelsea!

She jumped out of the car.

"Chelsea! Chelsea! Over here!" Raven shouted.

Chelsea looked around, trying to figure out where her name was being called from.

"Over here Chelsea!"

"Raven!" Chelsea spotted her friend and her whole face lit up even more than what it was like before.

Chelsea ran over to Raven and gave her a huge hug.

"I haven't seen you forever, girl! You look awesome! So much better than last time!"

"Thanks!"

"Come on, Chels! Let's go look at that old clothing stuff. Maybe we can make some cool outfit to wear."

"Okay!" They linked arms and walked off into the crowd of tag salers.

Maybe this year wouldn't be sooooo bad. Chelsea and her could maybe deal with the fact that Eddie moved together. It would be easier with a friend who was going through the same thing! Maybe…