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From: Mike

To:Mel

Where are you? Weren't we meant to have dinner at my place tonight?

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From: Mel

To:Mike

Sorry, there's a slight emergency that I need to help out with, Tim's brother is sick so we're just going to go and look after him.

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From: Mike

To:Mel

Oh come on Melster. We'll drop in sometime tomorrow, just come and stay with me now.

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From: Mel

To:Mike

What? Mike, these guys are practically my family. How can you expect me to do that?

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"How could he?" Mel muttered to herself as she walked back from the internet café, back to where she had left Jules with a warm drink and her brother.

"Hey sweetie," Mel said engulfing Jules in a hug rubbing her back.

"It'll be alright. I promise."

"Don't make promises you can't keep." Jules said through sobs.

"I never did." Mel told her amid glares from her brother.

Tim's mobile phone went off as a nurse came past saying that if he wanted to take that call, he would have to go outside, Tim nodded and with one last glance, he went off.

Tim: Hello? Tim Bertram here? This really isn't-

Cathy: Tim, thank God I got onto you. I heard about Jake, it's really too bad, but I

Just called to tell you of this brilliant idea of mine.

Tim: Yes?

Cathy: Yes, well, you're fathers a bit old fashioned isn't he…and you know how

When he dies Jake gets all the money and you get the house…

Tim:Where did you find that out from?

Cathy:Don't worry about it. But anyway, if Jake dies then you get all your father's

Money and the house which your father is giving you anyway…

Tim:Where are you going with this?
Cathy:I'm just saying, maybe it isn't such a bad thing if Jake dies, I mean we

Could live a life of absolute luxury…

Tim:…

Cathy:Well? Isn't it a brilliant idea?

Tim:………I never want to hear your voice or see your face or have

Anything to do with you or your brother ever again.

Cathy:Tim? What?

Tim hung up and walked solemnly back to where Mel and Jules were sitting silently as a doctor walked up to them and said that they could visit Jake now.

Tim helped Jules to her feet and between himself and Mel they basically carried her to the room where they saw their brother.

Jules gasped at the machines, tubes and monitors keeping track of her brother and sat down next to him holding his hand tightly.

Mel and Tim walked over to a corner and began to talk in hushed voices.

"Do you know what happened?" Mel asked quickly glancing over at Jake and Jules.

"Not really, Jules does I think." Tim leant on the wall opposite Mel and thought through what Jules had told him, "She said that there had been a party and that Jake had fallen or something, I'm not positive on the details."

Mel nodded silently.

The door opened and Tim's father burst into the room and sat down opposite Jules. It was like he didn't know that anyone else was there, he sat there with Jake's hand in his own and simply looked at his son.

"When he was little," he said not really talking to anyone in particular, "we would play knights and he would come up to me and say 'send me on a quest dad, a noble quest'. I'd send him with a message for his mother or someone else and he'd tell me off and tell me to make it a noble one." Tim studied his father and saw a single tear fall down his face.

"Dad, it's not your fault," Tim tried to help him, but nothing would get through to him.

"I shouldn't have made him leave, if I had just swallowed my pride-"

"Stop it." Mel cried out, "Stop it this minute." Mr Bertram looked up at her as she cried.
"What are you talking about?"

"You couldn't have stopped this, none of us could, but that doesn't mean that we have to wallow in self pity about it."

Mr Bertram stood up and walked over to her as she began regretting her outburst. He took her by the shoulders and studied her, "You have changed Melissa," he told her, "when you came to live with us you didn't say a word, now I think it will be hard to get you to shut up."

He hugged her briefly before walking out and finding the cafeteria.

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Well… I wonder…should I go and do the future? Or would that be just odd? Please tell me…