Jeff clings to Matthew's arm, Matt was holding onto Jeff's shoulder with his free arm, Just trying to comfort his brother as best as he could.

He was just as shocked, And scared as Jeffrey but he was the older brother, He had to be the strong one for them both. He couldn't worry over his own feelings, He just needed to be supportive for his little brother, That is all. But it was hard, Very difficult for him to do just that. He kept thinking about their father, And how he was before their mother "Went to heaven" and how he didn't have anyone now, It was just him and Jeff now. Who was he gonna talk too, Or go too when he needed answers, His little brother?. No he wouldn't know what to say to me. Matt thinks.

"I've gotta go to the bathroom Jeff, You've gotta let me go." Matt whispers grabbing Jeff's arm gently.

Jeff crosses his arms around himself.

Matt stands up off the kitchen tile "It'll be alright Jeff, Nothing is gonna happen to you and no-one is gonna take you away."

Matt stands there watching for a reaction but he got nothing but Jeff swaying back and forth in a sitting position.

"You've gotta get control of the situation Matt, You can't let Jeff slip away like he is, You've gotta get him to focus. You need to let him know that what you say is for real, No doubts about it." Matt thinks to himself. Matt stands in front of the mirror, He can see the sweat dripping off his face.

He grabs the bottle that he had placed in the cabinet during his first day back, He had hoped that he wouldn't need them but if he kept it up on his own, He'd surely be no help to anyone exceptionally to Jeffrey. "I won't be helpful to my own self." Matt whispers as he glances at the bottle's label.

He pops the top off and waits for two "wonder pills" to fall to his waiting palm.

He sits down on the edge of the bathtub. He waited for them to take effect, He waiting for the worries to vanish, His thoughts to stop racing. He waited to feel normal.

"There has to be one of us in control." He whispers as he swipes at the sweat from his forehead.

He walks out of the room and over to where Jeff still sat swaying like a tree during a thunderstorm.

"Ain't you getting sick or dizzy doing that Jeff?." Matt asks with nothing else coming to him to speak of.

Jeff doesn't respond.

Matt looks around the room, He had remembered the man Mark who Jeff spoke of, Before he vanished beneath the weight of his own mind.

He didn't know anything about him, About this man other then Jeff knew him, But he needs to find where he is, Maybe he can get Jeff out of this trance, Cause I just can't do it. I don't know how to reach him.

He didn't want to leave Jeff alone, So he calls for their neighbor to keep a eye out for him while Matt went looking for this man who he didn't even know of.

"Why hadn't I heard of him before, Did Jeff just meet the man?."

Matt really had no clue on where to start, He didn't even know where this man would hang out at, Hell he didn't even know what the man looked like.

"What are you doing Matthew, How are you gonna find this man. Are you gonna walk around town yelling out Mark, I'm looking for a man named Mark, He knows my little brother Jeff?. Is that what your gonna do? Everyone is just gonna think your crazy."

"I don't know what I'm doing, But I've gotta do something. Weather it's helpful or not, I don't know but I'm gonna do something instead of just sitting there watching my brother dissolve. That is what's happening."

Your just crazy!.

"Why haven't you gone away yet." Matt aggravatingly stats out-loud, He looks around him to see if anyone had noticed. Apparently no one did.

See I told you, you were crazy, You just need to give it up, You are never gonna get rid of me. No matter how many pills you take. The pills are not gonna do anything other then feed your addiction to them further.

Matt stands in the middle of the road, He didn't know what to do or where to go and this damn inner-voice is making him go mad. Maybe I already am, That's why this is going on. I can't control it any-longer. The pills must not be working. Maybe you just need to take some-more?.

Matt walks up to a diner, He orders one Pepsi before gulping down two more pills.

Work this time damn, I need to help my brother. Matt thinks.

While Matt was unsuccessfully trying to find Mark, Mark was thinking about taking a visit to see how Jeff was doing. He was worried on how Jeff's father reacted when Jeff was dropped off home after three or four days not being there.

He couldn't resist any longer and heads out to Jeff's place.

TBC

Thanks for the reviews, I hope that you like his chapter.

I'm not sure if you were aware in the previous chapters of Matt taking "The pills" I've had this thought that Matt would be suffering from a mental illness so if your confusing then let me know, I hope to perhaps write more on this in later chapters if I don't get too involved with Mark and Jeff.