Nikki and Derrick were walking home from school and saw their brother holding hands and smiling with a new girlfriend of his. Derrick heard Nikki sigh.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"I can't stand seeing Bradin get hurt by her. I know this one will hurt him."

"Hey you two," Bradin said walking up to them, "How are you?" Nikki walked into the house leaving Bradin confused. "What's wrong with her?"

"Think," Derrick said before following his sister.

Bradin turned to Lisa. "I'm sorry," he said, "They're not normally like this."

"It's fine," she said before kissing him, "So, do you know why Kali is acting the way she is?"

"I don't know," he said sadly, "It's scary."

"I'm sure she'll get over whatever it is."

The following day at school, Bradin and Lisa were walking in together holding hands, as they've done for the past week or so. As they walked up to Lisa's locker, they heard what sounded as if it were Kali laughing. They turned around and saw that it was true. Kali was with some guy and they both were talking and laughing. Bradin saw Lucas walking by.

"Who's that?" Bradin asked grabbing Lucas' arm.

"It's a friend of hers," he said simply not wanting to be around those two.

"Name?"

"None of your business," Lucas said with attitude. Before he walked off, he asked, "Why all of a sudden do you care who she's friends with?"

Throughout the day, Kali and her guy friend were always near each other laughing. During lunch, Bradin sat with Lisa and her friends. He peered up and saw Kali with the guy and they were sitting with Lucas and several other people.He watched as the guy whispered in Kali's ear and saw her nod. He took her hands into his and kissed her cheek.

Bradin got home that day and slammed the door shut. His day was not going good one bit. Everything was falling a part.

"Brae," Nikki asked walking up to him, "can you come with me?"

"I'm not in the mood," he said.

"Please," she said softly, "It's something that you need to know."

"Nikki! My day has already been bad! Don't make it worse!" he shouted.

"It's about Lisa and Kali!" she shouted back shutting him up at Kali's name.

Bradin sat on the beach that night staring out at the ocean. He could not believe what Nikki showed him. He wanted to cry because he knew he had a cance with Kali. Now, he'd never have a chance.

"Hey," Lisa said wrapping her arms around his neck from behind and kissing his neck. He got up and began walking away. "What's wrong, baby?"she asked.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked her.

"Tell you what?"

"The truth," he said, "You only agreed to help your friend, your best friend! just so you could get together with me! How could you do that to her?"

"I really liked you," she told him.

"But, you shouldn't use your friends to get to me," he told her, "especially if they asked you for help."

"It was only a stupid music video!"

"A music video that she did fantastic on!" he shouted again, "I thought you cared about her."

"Me? Care about a pathetic abused child?" she asked, "Yeah right."

"Woah, back up," he said, "She was abused?"

"Sexually," she said, "Baby, can we not talk about her? Let's go to the movies."

"Can't,"he said, "I don't go to movies with people like you."