A/N: Alright, everyone summer is here! Yipee! Bittersweet though, cause I'll be at a dif school next year. Well anyway, I'm sorry that I haven't written for a while but finals were the worst! I mean seriously, how many teachers give out 100+ problem reviews? Oh all of them? Oops sorry. Well anyway thanks to my grand reviewer (grr why is there only one!) jhhhhjfjk89. I am sorry, however, to inform you guys my faithful readers that this is the next to last chapter of the story (unless something happens and I get sudden inspiration). It's been a blast writing, and honestly it made school bearable. (So here's a review for you guys: You're awesome! Keep up the great work! You can make many authors just like me really happy!) I'm sure I'll be writing a new fanfic, but I don't know when. Right now I'm short on ideas so yeah it may take a while. I don't know if it'll be RFR, Degrassi, or an entirely dif show. But there will be more RFRs I can guarantee that, but it'll be really nice now that I can stay up till 3 in the morning and watch RFR. YEAH! Expect one last entry in this story exactly 1 month from now. I hope! I'm going out of town and I won't be here, but I'll entrust my brother to upload it. If he doesn't well then I'm afraid it'll be July before it's here. I love you guys, and of course keeping with tradition here's part 44 on May 28.

Part 44: The Silence Won't Last Long

Travis flipped the 'on-air' switch off. The foursome leaned back in their chairs and sighed with relief. Travis was the first to stand and he carried the cds they'd used in the day's show back to the shelf. The other 3 sat there in an awkward silence until Robbie broke it.

"There's an open-mic night at Mickey's next week; I promised I'd help set up for it. You guys wanna come?"

Ray shot up from his chair, "You bet!"

Lily looked over at Travis, waiting for his response.

"I've got to organize my station," he explained, "sorry."

Robbie nodded, "What about you Lils?"

"You guys go ahead, I'll catch up." Lily smiled.

Robbie nodded, "Right, Ray let's go."

"See ya Lils!" Ray said happily.

The doorbanged shut behind them and the room fell into another awkward silence. Lily took a deep breath and spoke, "Travis?"

He nodded at her, puzzled.

"Travis, you remember when Bridget came?" She asked.

He nodded, still puzzled.

"Did she know about…about Brianna?"

He stood there, frozen for a few seconds before finally shaking his head.

"Why didn't you tell her?" Lily asked.

"Because she would have treated me differently," he explained.

"Is that why you don't want to tell Ray and Robbie?"

He didn't respond, and for what seemed like hours the room fell into silence.

"Yes." He said finally, "but they don't really need to know. It's not important."

"Not important! Of course it's important!" Lily looked at him, a look of compassion in her eyes. "Travis, they want to know. They know something is up, but they're being good friends and keeping their distance. Parker too. You know, that day when I followed you, Parker was supposed to be there too. But at the last minute she couldn't come. I promised I would tell her what happened, but then I promised you I wouldn't…so I didn't. I asked her not to mention it, but you know Parker as well as I do: the silence won't last long."

He looked at her, "Parker knows?"

She shook her head, "No, she just knows you're keeping something from her. But, Travis, think about it. Do we treat the 'Alchemist' any different than we treated the 'Travis'?"

He couldn't meet her gaze.

"And Travis, what about Ray? What about how he calls you Swami? You hate that and he knows it. But he still does it. Why? Because he knows it bugs you, because he knows there's something you won't tell him. Because he wants you to open up to him. Because he's just that kind of guy."

Travis stared at her, "I never thought about that."

"He'd make a great counselor, don't ya think?"

Travis smiled, "Maybe…maybe you're right Lily."

"Travis, you're our best friend. You can't hide things from us. We know when something is going on. It's just a matter of time before they ask. You know that just as well as I do."

"So where's Parker?" Travis asked.

Lily looked out the window, "If I'm not mistaken she's walking this way."