A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update the website wouldn't work for me for a few days.

Chapter 18

It had been two days since Chasity and Maxie had talked at Kelly's which meant she only had three days of spring break left but she and Maxie were unpacking anyway.

"What's this?" Maxie asked pulling a picture out if the duffel bag breaking the silence that had hung between them.

"Oh, that's a picture of Cooper and I that was taken his junior year," Chasity said taking the picture out of Maxie's hand smiling slightly.

Maxie was surprised because this was the first time she had seen Chasity express any other emotion besides anger or hurt towards Cooper.

"Where were you guys in this picture?"

"It was the party my fifth grade class had at the end of the school year; Cooper skipped his fifth period class to go to it since our mom never bothered to do stuff like that. He actually always did that kind of stuff when I had class parties," Chasity explained.

"You guys were pretty close weren't you?" Maxie asked since it seemed like Chasity was being the most open she'd been since she came to Port Charles.

"Yeah we were close…before Logan came into the picture. I never got what Cooper saw in him but I never said anything because I didn't want to hurt him because he's really been the only person I could depend on, or at least until he left,"

After saying that Chasity realized she had let her guard down and told Maxie things she'd never told anyone else.

"I thought you said we didn't have to talk about my brother,"

"You're right we don't have to unless… you want to," Maxie said knowing Chasity had put her guard back up.

"Well I don't want to anymore," Chasity said going back to unpacking.

Maxie just nodded and went back to working.

At the Metro Court Cooper was standing in the middle of the lobby. He glanced at the wall clock; Maxie should've been at Chasity's place helping her unpack. Cooper sighed and shut his eyes for a second. He and Maxie had talked on the phone earlier that morning and she had noticed something was off but he had told her it was nothing because he had felt tired and he figured it would pass---it hadn't. He opened his eyes again right before Jax started walking by. Jax stopped once he reached where Cooper was standing.

"Cooper you okay?"

"Yes sir, I'm just tired that's all," Cooper said.

"I can find someone to cover the rest of your shift if you want to go ahead and go home," Jax said.

"Thank you sir,"

"No problem,"

With that Cooper left Metro Court and headed to GH because he knew something wasn't right.

Back at Kelly's Maxie and Chasity still worked in complete silence. Neither of them had said a word since their brief talk about Cooper. Chasity hadn't said anything because she didn't want to reveal anymore than she already had, Maxie hadn't said anything because she didn't want to push too hard.

"You know how I said Cooper and I were really close?" Chasity asked wondering why she was willingly bringing Cooper up again.

"Yeah,"

"Well, when he left it kind of felt like I was losing my best friend. I mean sure I had my friends at school but there was things I couldn't tell them that I could tell him,"

"I know what you mean because a lot of people in my life I've either pushed away or they left so I never felt like I had anyone that supported me until I met Cooper,"

"I thought you guys were more than just friends,"

"Well we are but---" Maxie was cut off by the phone ringing.

"Hello," Maxie said once she picked up the phone.

Chasity stood watching until Maxie hung up the phone.

"Who was that?"

"That was my cousin Robin, she said Cooper's been admitted to GH,"

Chasity didn't even say anything she just headed straight out the Door and Maxie did the same.