A/N: Shut it Romulus ;-)

After a few days of tension, Travis corners Lily. " We need to talk."

She looks at him and shrugs " We have nothing to say."

He sighs " I'm tired of this...Aren't you tired of this? Lil', we really need to talk."

" I'm late for class," she answers, pushing him out of the way.

He stops her " I'll be at the station early. I will wait for you, you know that we need
to stop this."

She glares at him " It stopped before it started," she says as she jerks away " You have your own issues to work out Travis, and me, I have a promise to keep." He gives her a confused look as she jerks away and leaves him there. Just as she turns the corner, she runs into Ray. " What's going on?" he asks with an edge in his voice.

" Nothing," she answers " I'm trying to get to class, if I have everyone's permission."

" Whoa," he says, his hands in the air as he backs up " Don't take it out on
me Lily." He had heard her talking to Travis and decides to let his opinion drop for the moment. " Sorry," she says, as she walks by him.

" Me too," he sighs. Ray turns and walks the other way, not in the mood to talk to Travis. Head down and his hands in his pockets, he knew he probably looked as lost as he felt. So, she never really got over him and here I was thinking that she still had feelings for me somewhere inside. He stops in front of his classroom and looks up. Lily might not want to talk to you Travis, but I do, he decides. Maybe he and Travis weren't the best of friends, but he felt that they did have a developing friendship. You had to go and mess all of that up, didn't you Swami?

Lily sits through all of her classes not paying attention at all the entire day. She goes back outside to her refuge during lunch. You have to make a decision and you have to make it now, she thinks while she sits on the bench outside. Yes, it hurt to hear Ray talk about other girls and she knew that there were feelings there, however, he never made her feel like Travis did. Somehow, Travis made her feel not only excited by just being close to him but a different kind of excitement than she had ever felt with Ray. A kind that she couldn't even explain to herself but it was something that made her feel more alive than she ever had before. Still, there was her promise to Ray and she knew that she could never break it. She couldn't lose either of them. She feels a pang of guilt as she thinks about how terrible she had been to both of them lately. So you have to do what is best for everybody, she thinks You have to go talk to Travis and tell him that you are sorry. Sorry for the way you have treated him and that friendship will be all we'll ever have together. She looks at the sky ' Even though it's not what you want to do, You'll do it for both of them. You will make a sacrifice, and for once in your life, you will do the right thing.She gets up and heads to the music room to find Parker.

After school, she hestitates once more as she walks toward the station. Go, her mind screams at her, Go now, before you make another mistake. With that in mind, she begins to run.

Her cheeks are flushed from running as she enters the station. He was there. Waiting. Waiting for her. He looks at her and she feels that at that moment, he can see her heart, that he can see right into her soul. She stops, everything stops, time, her heart, her breath. They just look at one another for what seems like a lifetime but it couldn't have been for more than a few seconds...Right? Oh God, what was she going to say? She couldn't even move,
much less form a coherent sentence. " I'm quitting," he says softly.

This doesn't register and she cocks her head to the side. " What?" she breathes, her voice not sounding like her own. " I'm not doing this to myself anymore," he says, closing his eyes " I won't do it to you...Tell me what you want Lily but you feel it as strongly as I do." He breathes in deeply " I'll teach Robbie how to work the booth. He can do it. I won't leave the station stranded but I won't sit here and feel a part of myself dying slowly everyday. She can feel her heart break and understands, for the first time in her life, what it truly felt like to feel it break. Somehow she walks to him, not remembering how she got there but she must have because she was in the booth with him right now so she had to have moved right? " Travis," she says, her voice now pleading " No...What...You can't leave me," she's stuttering now, wonderful " You can't leave the station."

Ray makes his way slowly down the stairs, really not wanting to say what he had to say to Travis. Lily would always be his and nothing was going to stop that. He opens the door and just stands there to watch as he see's Lily and Travis together. So, you'll both do this to me again? he thinks as a new pain hits him. This time he knew he would lose two of his best friends. He quietly closes the door behind him and wordlessly takes a seat on the couch beside the door.