A/N: I know it's long over do and we thank you who are still reading. It's been alittle hectice with the begining of school adn adjusting to that and our different schedules and such. I know no excuse but I personally promise that the next update won't take 3 months!

Chapter 4

"Answer me!" Carly demanded when Jason and Sonny remained silent. "Are Reese and Sam at my club!" Carly's voice rose the angrier she grew.

"Yes Reese and Sam are at the club." Jason finally admitted.

"What the hell are they doing there?" She bellowed. There was nothing like finding out the two people you loathe most in the word were at your place.

"Carly... Carly... Calm down." Courtney interjected. "I'm sure they have a good reason for being at the club." Courtney reasoned. "Maybe they were just taking shelter from the hurricane." She said hopefully for both of their sakes. If they were there for any other reason... well, it wouldn't be too pretty.

"Is that true?" Carly looked from Sonny to Jason.

"Not exactly..." Sonny whispered. He was finally realizing that taking Sam and Reese to Carly's club wasn't such a great idea.

"OH HELL NO!" Carly yelled as she stormed out of the penthouse. She passed the elevator and headed straight for the stairs. She was not going to have those two tramps in her club. She was going to kick them out and it didn't matter that none of them were supposed to be out.

"Carly! Carly where are you going!" Courtney yelled after.

"Where is she going?" Jason asked and received a glare from Courtney. "It's not safe for her to be out there."

"What exactly were the two of you thinking? I mean, you both know how much Carly hated Reese and Sam. What would ever possess you to take them there!" She was angry at the two of them for what they had done but probably more hurt with the fact that they were really moving on and they weren't that tight nit family any longer.

They all shared glances and as if thinking the same thing, they all headed toward the door. Knowing they had to catch Carly before she tore a few heads off.

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The four at the club were all still sitting together at the bottom of the stairs. They each were lost in their own thoughts and all hoping that what Reese had said was the truth. They all hoped that none of this stuff still meant anything to them. But the truth was, that none of them really knew.

Their peaceful quiet was interrupted by someone bursting through the door and storming down the stairs. It was Carly. And following her were Courtney, Sonny, and Jason.

"Will you please tell me what the two of you were thinking coming to my club?" She yelled at Sam and Reese. "Correction... what the THREE of you were thinking." She said when she saw Jax there for the first time.

"Carly, what are you doing out in this? You know it's not safe." Lorenzo interrupted.

"Would you just give us a chance to explain?" Jason pleaded. Only Carly could cause this much unneeded and unwanted drama during a natural disaster.

"Fine."

They all walked in the other room following Carly and Courtney. Suddenly Courtney and Carly both stopped and took in a sharp breath. The four "others" shared a glance and new immediately what they saw.

"What? What's wrong?" Sonny asked.

"Oh God..." Courtney started walking toward the table that was holding the box followed by Carly. They both knew their deepest, darkest secrets had been hidden away in this very box and now they were open for the whole world to see.

"I think this belongs to you." Reese said handing Carly the letter. "And I think these belong to you as well..." Lorenzo stepped up and handed her her wedding rings. Lorenzo and Reese both seeing the shocked expression that crossed Sonny's realization at what Carly now held in her hands.

"Here..." Sam handed the picture to Courtney as she wiped away a tear.

"Thanks..." Courtney whispered embarrassed. She glanced at Carly who was wiping away a few stray tears that had also escaped her eyes. They returned their belongs to the box and they looked at each other. They never thought these things would be found. Especially by their lovers now.

They began to cover the box once again when Jax interrupted their movements. "You're missing something." He stated as he pulled the journal from behind his back. A sharp intake of breath could be heard from both Jason and Courtney as they realized just what Jax was holding. The memory flooded both of their minds.

"You got here!" Courtney exclaimed as she ran into his arms.

"Yeah. Hmm. I'm okay." He said as he wrapped his arms around her. Content to just hold her close to him. It had been another long day of the trial and he was happy that he got to come home to her.

"Oh, I just-- I can't help but get scared. I mean, court was terrible."

"What is it? What are you doing?" He asked her avoiding the talk about court.

"It's-- it's just my journal." She blushed.

"What are you writing?" He was curious.

"Nothing." She denied but he didn't believe her.

"Can I see it?"

"No." She said quickly. She wasn't about to let him see everything that she had written. It held all of her deepest secrets. Things about her past, her feelings for him.

"Why?"

"Beacause it's private." She argued. Part of her wished she was comfortable enough to just let him have it. He would finally know what her true feelings were and she wouldn't have to have this same inner battle with herself everyday.

"Come on..." He begs.

"No!"

"Come on."

"No, no, no, no, no." She says again but he had already succeeded in getting it free from her hands and he was holding it above her head.

"Give it back..."

"No, no, no." It was now his line instead of hers.

"Give it back." She asked again. She loved little moments like this when it was just te two of them. She was the only one who ever really got to see this side of him and she wasn't complaining. It was nice to have something that was shared just between the two of them.

"You want to see this---" He smiles.

"It's private!"

"You got to get it back from me." He says playfully and she follows him as he moves away from her. "Here you go. Here you go. Take it."

"Give it back!" He pulls her to him and wraps his arms around her again. "Give it back!" she says again.

"All right. I would--"

"God." She interrupted jokingly.

"I would never read your secrets." He said truthfully.

"Yeah, I know."

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"Oh my god..." Courtney whispered taking the journal from Jax. "Did you read it?" She spoke barely above a whisper. She took his silence as the answer.

"And I suppose you read the letter too?" Carly asked Reese who only nodded. "How could you? How could all of you look through this stuff?" Carly asked fighting the tears of anger that were threatening to fall. "None of you had any right!"

"I think the real question is why the two of you kept these things to begin with." Lorenzo asked the question that had plagued all of their minds since they opened the box and saw it's contents.

"Yeah... I mean, we have all moved on have we not?" Jax added. Sonny and Jason looked on as everyone interrogate the two of them. Neither really knew what to do. They wanted to know the answer just as much as the rest of them.

"You don't have to answer these questions if you don't want to." Jason finally said.

"No it's okay..." Carly said looking at Courtney who only nodded. Everyone in the room deserved an explanation.

"We met up here one night after Sonny and Carly's divorce." Courtney began. "We were both changing and we were all growing apart and each of our relationships were over..." She paused. "But the four of you don't realize how important we all once were to each other." She looked up and locked eyes with each of the four of them. Ending with Sonny and Jason. "We were once all we each had. We were a family. For the longest time it had just been the four of us looking out for each other. The four of us against the world and nothing else mattered as long as we were together."

"So when everything fell apart, Courtney and I couldn't just move on. We had to do something. Something to help us move on and something to help put the past in the past." Carly explained. "So we met up here and put some of the most important pieces of our relationships in this box. I guess we forgot about it or maybe we just didn't think it would ever be found..."

"But you and Jason had been over for months by then. So why did you join Carly in her goodbyes?" Jax questioned.

"Does any of this really matter?" Sonny started but was interrupted by Courtney.

"Just because we were divorced didn't mean that I didn't still love him and that I wasn't still hurting." She stated and glanced quickly towards Jason. "We were family." She took a breath. "But we were all moving on and I couldn't find any other way to get rid of that pain. So I tried to say goodbye to past."

"But wasn't that what the kiss in the rain was for?"

"That's enough." Jason finally spoke up. He wasn't going to watch Jax belittle Courtney any longer. "Nothing about our relationship is your business." He said firmly.

"That's where you are wrong... You see, she is my wife." Jax said rubbing it in that he had what Jason still wanted.

To stop Jason from punching Jax, Sam finally spoke. "Let's talk about you Jason..."

"What are you talking about, Sam?" Carly asked annoyed.

"Jason knows what I'm talking about..." She stated.

"Why don't we just drop this?" Courtney offered.

"No.. I want to get all of this out in the open." Sam said. "Do you want them all to hear it from you or would you mind if I told them?"

"Why don't we all just forget about all of this?" Sonny said for the second time after being ignored the first time. "This is all the past."

"What about you Sonny? What are you hiding?" Sam turned to him. "What are you hiding?"

"That's a good question..." Lorenzo chimed in.

"now back to you Jason..." Sam turned back toward him but he wasn't there.

"He left..." Jax said as he watched Courtney run after him. Carly ran after the both of them and Sonny followed. Leaving the four of them alone once again.