Part Six: Click

"Hello?" I sighed into the phone.

"Mia Rosen?" That voice. I know that voice.

"Yes?"

"I'm calling to remind you about coming to the hospital this morning to ID your mother's body and sign the papers."

My heart sunk again. Now I remember... My mother died... I thought it was a dream. No, I hoped it was a dream. I guess my worst nightmares come true though. I took a deep shaky breath and wiped some tears out of my eyes.

"Yeah..." The voice that came out was barely audible. "I'll be there... When do you want me to come?"

"As soon as possible please at the Community Hospital on Belmont St."

"I'll be there."

"Okay, see you Miss Rosen."

Click.

I sat down on the edge of the curb and put my knees to my chest. I couldn't help but cry as I hugged myself in Brendan's baggy cloths. I was holding my cell phone so tight I was afraid it might break, and I bit my lip so hard I could feel a rip in the skin. I just sat there crying and crying and burying my face into my bangs until I heard a slam of the door. Quickly I turned and looked up seeing an angered Jesse Lacey, but he immediately softened when he saw my state.

"Oh, sorry." I said quickly standing up and wiping away my tear stained cheeks with the sleeve of Brendan's shirt. "I didn't know-"

Before I knew it I was enveloped in his arms and crying in his chest wetting his rad "The Sounds" band t-shirt. He simply stroked my hair and said "Shh..." softly. We just stood there for a few minutes as he held me tightly and I bawled my eyes out. I didn't want it to end but he slowly pulled away and looked me in the eyes.

"Are you okay?" He asked in a soft voice.

"I-" I sniffed as he wiped a tear away from my eyes with his thumb. "I have to go the hospital and ID the body..."

"Okay. I'll take you." He nodded firmly. "Let me go tell the guys we're going, just wait here."

I nodded and frowned.

"Are you sure you'll be okay?" He looked at me and rubbed his hands up my back.

I nodded again.

"Okay."

He slowly let me go and walked back into the restaurant leaving me standing outside to think about all that had happened. In one day I had almost been raped and beaten to death, was saved by Jesse Lacey, spent the night on my first tour bus with my Hollywood idols, and had my mother taken away from me. It was sad, but I wasn't sad at all. All I could feel from the tip of my head down to my frozen toes was shock, complete and utter shock. It was too fast. Just earlier my mother told me to wear my bracelets. Before that she had been writing her new book and before that we ate lucky charms together by the window.

"You are my lucky charm, Mia." She smiled.

But I wasn't. I had left her there and she died. It was painful but I was too stunned to really wrap it around my brain that she was gone. Was she really gone?

Bang!

I slowly looked up and saw Travis, Will, Brendan, and Jesse standing in front of the back door to the Denny's parking lot.

"Oh, I didn't- I didn't know you where there." I stood up and wiped away some of the tears from my eyes. "Are we going to go now?"

No one spoke for a moment.

"Yeah..." Will swallowed and nodded a little sadly.

"C-Come on." I swallowed trying to suppress tears. I needed to stay strong. "Lets go."

No, she's not gone. I don't believe it.