Once again not a songfic, but I miss you by Blink 182 inspired the tone for this chapter so check it out if you want.


Chapter 48

The next morning before school Fox walked into the living room and groaned. "Why does it always have to be me?" He asked his parents. He was glad there was a chance to maybe make Krystal happy, but he always felt like everything was up to him. James patted his son on the back. "Don't be like that son, this may be the last chance." Fox just rolled his eyes a bit. "I'm glad that this chance is here, but why does it always have to be me that has to be the hero and handle everything? I don't see why it can't be Falco, or Lucy, or someone that isn't me."

Vixy sat across the breakfast table from him trying to comfort him. "Well honey you know why. It's because once you two were together, closer than anyone else. Even if she doesn't know, or the girls don't know, you do know that. And you don't like saying it, but deep down…" She paused, waiting for Fox to fill in the blank. He seemed confused waiting for her answer. "Deep down you know you really are the only one who can help her." James finished for her.

Fox sighed and mumbled as he finished his juice. "Right, well then I suppose you're right, you guys usually are. I still don't like always having to do all this stuff." He grabbed his things and walked out the door preparing for whatever this day may hold in store for him. "So today?" Lucy asked him as he leaned against a locker in their regular spot. "Yeah, I suppose it'll be today. I just have to find her, wherever she is. Maybe the teachers will tell me?" Lucy nodded, that was their best bet. They got the inside info from Krystal's mom, but they still don't have all of it figured out.

"I'll wait till gym, that way I won't miss anything in class. Or maybe I should wait until after school and find her then? Maybe that'll be better? Because we won't have a time limit?" She nodded again. "I just feel like there's so much riding on this and I don't know why." "Well Fox I don't know what to say. Good luck, that's all I know to say." He smiled a weak smile in an attempt to say thank you before turning to walk to his first class of the day.

'There really does seem like there's a lot riding on this. I don't even know, Krystal has never done something like this. Even when I broke up with her she wasn't like this. What's going on here?' He thought as he wrote his notes down. 'This is scary, I don't like saying it, but this is really scary.' The bell interrupted his thoughts as he packed his things up and walked out of the classroom. He looked around and still no sign of Krystal in the hallways.

'Sure we never really hung out a lot since I lost my memory, but…but from what I remember we were…inseparable. Things were so… so…' Fox stood up from his desk and walked up to the teacher's desk. "Hey Mr. Cox, do you mind if I go to the restroom real quick?" The teacher waved him off saying it was alright. Fox walked into the restroom just down the hall and locked himself in the stall. He cupped his hands and put his face into them.

'So perfect. So right.'

He completed his thoughts as he felt his hands become wet with tears. Fox still wasn't sure whether he had romantic feelings for Krystal now, but he couldn't stand the thought of losing her as a partner or as a friend. He didn't know it, but he said it out loud and a familiar voice heard him. "Fox? That you man?" It was Falco, who else would it be?

Fox opened the stall to see his friend. "You need medicine or something? I mean the nurse is just down the hall from here." He said joking and laughing a little bit. Then he realized Fox wasn't having any sort of health problem. "Something wrong dude?" He nodded and decided it wasn't a bad idea to tell Falco, he was his best friend after all. "Have you noticed that Krystal's been missing for the past couple days?" He nodded, he'd noticed it but didn't think anything of it.

"Me and Lucy didn't think anything of it for the first day, but then it didn't change. We think that… something's going on that we don't know about." Falco's eyes widened, he'd never thought about it in a big spectrum. "Dude you're right! This can't be good, she's never done anything like this, not even when you two broke up." Fox's eyes were watering a bit again. "That's what I said, and dude I'm.. I'm… I'm afraid. I'm scared that today if I can't find her… If I fail that… we may lose her. I- I don't wanna lose her. I just remember back when we all hung out, when we were together and when we weren't, things were so…" Fox was sniffling, tears rolling down his face as his friend gave him a hug to try and comfort him. It wasn't often, if ever, that Fox was like this, and even rarer for Falco to be like this.

"You don't have to say anything else bud. I understand, go get her man. I don't want you to lose her either." "Thanks man. I needed that. I still don't know if I like her, but even if I don't, I don't wanna lose her as a friend. Things back then were just so right, so perfect. Without her it just won't ever be the same again." Falco patted his friend's shoulder. "Don't worry about it, if anyone can fix this it's you." Falco smiled as he looked as his friend, his tears finally decreasing. "Now get outta here and go get your plan together. I gotta whiz bad." They both laughed a little bit as Fox left the restroom.

'I'll do it after school, maybe Mrs. Diane will know where she is. Or I can hide and wait for her to show up maybe. No, it'd be better to go and find her.' He returned to class and finished his worksheet a few minutes before class was over.

His last class was over as he walked down to his locker and emptied his backpack of the things he wouldn't need. He looked at the mirror that was in his locker and smiled weakly. He pulled out his phone as he headed for the parking lot to find Krystal's mom and he looked at an old picture. It was a picture from last year, when everyone was together and Fox's parents took a picture of them, the whole group. They all looked so happy, when they were all together and nothing could separate them. Fox tried his best to blink away a tear as he thought of what may happen if he fails today.

He walked by Diane's car and waved politely as she waved back. 'Mrs. Diane, please tell me you hear this. I need you to tell me where she usually comes from. I need to go find her now, I haven't talked to her yet.' Fox kept walking, he parked only a few parking spots away in case of a scenario like this.

Just as he thought, she spoke back to him mentally. 'She's sitting out in the bleachers by the tennis courts by herself. Please do your best.' Fox took a deep breath as he headed towards the bleachers. 'If I can't… No, I can't think like that. If Krystal's mom is concerned so much, then that means this really is bad. I have to do this, no matter what.' He thought confidently as he kept walking. He could see her sitting all by herself at the edge of the bottom row, burying her face in her notes.

She didn't acknowledge him as he got closer, she must not have known he was coming. He stood there, only a few feet away from where she was seated, she still didn't know he was there. 'What do I say?' He had spent all day preparing, and he suddenly had no idea what to do.

"So, what are you doing out here on your own?"

She was suddenly startled as she looked up from her notes quickly. "Oh… Hi Fox. I'm just studying, wanted some peace and quiet." He didn't buy it. "If you wanted peace and quiet to study for a while then why's mom here already?" Her ears perked up quickly. "Oh! Mom's here already? Well I better go, see you later Fox!" She quickly stood up and began walking before Fox grabbed her arm and she turned around. "Krystal, sit down. I know you knew she was here already." Krystal sighed, she knew what was coming.

They sat down beside each other and looked each other in the eyes for the first time in a very long time. "Krystal, I want you to tell me what's wrong. I know something is. You haven't been in class, you haven't been in the hallways. Whenever we tried to come see you or talk to you, you were never around. We know that it's not a coincidence. We're your friends, we want to help you." There was a silence, Fox had no idea what to expect, he was eagerly awaiting her response. "Fox…I… I…" Was all she could say. "Yes? Go ahead and just say it, I won't judge you."

"I… I don't know. I just don't know what to do. Even when you came and were nice to me the other day, I just couldn't feel happy. I've just not been happy for a long period of time since I've moved here and I've thought about asking mom and dad if we can move back home to Cerinia."

Fox felt his throat lump up, he felt like a brick was sitting in his stomach, he was terrified. "I know you guys won't mind, I've been a terrible friend anyways, and at least I'll be happier with my old friends back at home." Fox still couldn't say anything, and his face was void of anything positive. "I guess I should never have gotten involved with you guys. It only hurt us all, should never have run out my door." She stood up and started walking past Fox. He didn't know what to say, she had made up her mind.

Krystal was leaving forever.

"Wait, please." Fox's voice was hardly above a whisper, a very weak whisper. She turned back around, even with her mind made up she would hear what Fox would say. "We can't lose you." Was all he said, as he turned around within the split second that Krystal had stood and walked away, tears were forming in Fox's eyes.

"We can't, all of us still want you around. That's why we have spent this week and last week looking for you. We can't lose you, you're part of our group. We've all been such good friends for too long, we can't just throw that away." Fox was desperate, he had never been this afraid of anything in his life. Krystal just had a weak smile on her face as he said it, and she wiped away a tear that was rolling down his face.

"That's nice Fox, but I think this is the best thing for everyone in the group. I don't even know if they really want me back. So this is just the best thing to do." "But Krystal please, we can't go on without you, It just won't be the same."

She just shook her head, "I'm sorry Fox, but I'm doing this for the better of everyone. It may take some time to realize it, but it's the right thing." She turned once again to walk away, Fox had lost his hope.

"I can't lose you." He said out loud, thinking he had thought it. She stopped. "What did you say?" She was suddenly in front of him, and Fox didn't even notice until he opened his eyes and saw her standing there. "You just said something, what did you say?"

"I said that I can't lose you." He said it weakly, he still felt that lump in his throat. "You can't lose me? What does that mean?" She asked curiously and honestly.

"Because everyone told me what it was like before my memory loss, and I remember what it was like when you still hung out with us. And I thought about it today, and I cried about it once already. And I just thought that back then it was so… so… right. It was so right and I think we can all make it that way again. But if you leave…" She could feel how sad and upset, how hurt Fox was at the idea of her leaving.

"But if you leave… I don't think I'll ever be happy again. I… I need you in my life. I can't live without you Krystal, you're too important. Because I got my memory back! I-I didn't know how to tell you! I- I just… I was afraid. And I'm more afraid now that you might leave. I remember how happy all of us were as friends, and I can't live with that memory knowing that I could have changed things." Fox paused for a moment, Krystal was silent.

"I just- I mean… Krystal please stay. I can't be happy without us being friends. I just can't I can't remember how happy we all were back then, and I just can't be happy without you around. Things were just so perfect and right, and…" She held up a hand to stop him, as he looked up and saw her hand with tears still in his eyes. He looked up and saw tears in her eyes too.

"Fox… I… I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for everything I've done. I've been such a terrible friend for such a long time. And, and…" She was out of words to say, she herself didn't know what to say. "So does this mean you'll stay?" Fox asked with the saddest, most hopeful tone you would ever hear.

She smiled through her tears. "Yes Fox, I'll stay. I believe you, we can make things right again. We can all be friends again, we can make things right."

They both embraced happily, for the first time once again in a long time.

Things were how they should be, the right way.


The longest chapter I've wrote for this story, and I think it turned out good. Definitely the most important one so far, I think so at least. So the conflict once again didn't last long and completely vanished in one chapter. My B if that's kinda weak but I just hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. This one I seriously need reviews on, considering this was a super important chapter and was a longer one, I need to know how everyone thought about it. So if you have a moment I reeeeeally need a review/comment on it. Please and thank you :D -Jake