A/N: So so so so sorry I haven't updated this story in a while. I have a bazillion other stories I've had to update, plus add into account my laziness. But you know y'all love me. Right? Right. anyway, here's chapter five. I'm in an updating mood today, my brother just said the funniest thing...so I might update again tonight. Thanks for being patient through my laziness. Love you all, and I especially love my reviewers. So REVIEW! please.

Ch. 5

It wasn't okay. Grams was coming, which meant I had to be Gracie. I couldn't handle it. I needed my friends.

Clare and Eli were there for me, but Katlyn was mysteriously absent from school. She had told me she was sick the night before, so I figured that was why.

I went to her house after school to see how she was. Her older foster sister Lexy answered the door.

"Hey Adam, Katlyn's not here right now, sorry."

"Okay, do you know when she'll be back?"

"No. I have to go now," she said quickly and shut the door.

It sucked for me, because I had to talk to someone. Katlyn wasn't in school all week, and while I had Clare and Eli to talk to, it wasn't the same as having Katlyn. I liked her, and though I wasn't sure if she liked me—I mean, who would?—but I knew I was her friend. Her best friend, possibly her only friend. I knew what she thought of people—who needs trust?—but I knew she needed someone, and I needed her.

She returned to school the next week. After assuring me she just got sick and had to spend time at her foster mother's sister's house so as not to get the baby her parents adopted sick, we continued as usual. We talked, we laughed, and we joked around. Eli and Clare joined us and the four of us became all inseparable. Even Katlyn was becoming more social, at least with them.

It wasn't until a few weeks later Katlyn began acting strange, Eli and Clare became all couply and romantic, and I was completely alone.

I arrived at The Dot after school one day. Eli was mad at me and tried to confront me about my friendship with Fitz, but I shook him off. I knew Katlyn came here after school most days, and I was hoping to talk to her.

I spotted her alone at a table in the corner, and went to sit down next to her.

"What happened today at lunch?" I asked immediately. At lunch, she was going to sit with me, and when I sat down by Fitz, she escaped to the library.

"You were there, you tell me," she said coldly.

"Okay, that is it! You've been acting weird since you were sick that one week—wasn't that the week I told you my secret?" I realized. "Is that it? Does that bother you?"

"No! I told you it really didn't. I can't believe you don't trust me."

"No, I do. I'm just trying to figure it out. You never have time for me anymore, and Eli and Clare are practically dating...I'm lonely."

"Do you realize how selfish you're being? You have amazing friends, but the minute they have something else to do, you turn to the guy who harassed Eli and broke my wrist?" Fitz had gotten in a fight with Katlyn. She kicked him in the balls, but not before he pushed her down and she twisted her wrist.

"I'm not trying—you're just off doing something else, and I don't know what it is, you won't tell me!"

"Maybe I don't need to. I shouldn't have to, you should trust me. What I'm doing is more important than you, and if you can't believe that without me telling you, then I don't see what the point is of us being friends!"

"You're yelling at me, because I refuse to trust? What about you? You go through your life without anyone! You have no one! No parents, no friends, and it's your own choice! What's wrong with that? Everything!"

She paused before answering. Her answer was extremely short. "Goodbye, Adam." She pushed up her sleeves and got her bag. Her wrist was exposed, and I saw scars on her arms that almost matched mine, my scars that I was not proud of. I found myself wondering if she was.