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Robbie's P.o.V

Stupid letter! Stupid Parents! Stupid life! Life just has to pile all this shit on at once can't do it in little portions. Suppose I should tell Jade what I know. She did just open up to me. I may not wish to have her close but I will not hurt her more than she is already hurting.

"Yes they knew they were dying, they knew that I would be left alone." I explain to her, "They even told me this would happen. It sucks that I got my hopes up that they would be round for longer."

"When did they tell you?" She asks clearly trying to get me to open up. Well I started so I may as well see this through.

"You see the picture I smashed, well it was after we got back from there." I begin, "I was 8 at the time."

"That was a bit young," Jade voices her concerns.

"Not when you consider that, at the time the doctors were saying that at best they had a few months left to live. It amazing they survived as long as they did. That kind of why I got my hopes up. Shouldn't have done that" I explain to her.

"I hope I'm not going too far, but what do you think kept them going?" Jade ask. She probably was going too far but I need a blank slate to start anew so I'll tell her anyway.

"Many of the people said it was out of love for me," I clarify, "but personally, after seeing that letter, I think it was guilt. They wanted to make sure they corrected their mistake."

"What do you mean by correct?" Jade asks clearly not comprehending what I mean.

"I'm 18 remember, I can legally live my own life free of adults. To me that is what they were waiting for. So they no longer felt guilt about abandoning a child." I say, feeling a bitterness rise in my voice.

"You're not a mistake, Robbie. At least not to us" Jade expresses, obviously try to calm me down.

"Let me ask you this then, why am I always on the outside of the group?" I ask expecting her to try a BS me, but to my surprise she gives a truthful answer.

"Because the puppet thing confuses us and we don't know whether it is all you or it is truly a separate person. And therefore we never know how to act." She tells me looking me dead in the eyes, revealing that she was telling the truth.

"Do you want to know the truth about Rex?" I ask, "Because it all links in."

"If you want." She replies. I could sense now that she didn't want to push me to say anything I didn't want. I think she understood that whatever would be said would and nothing more.

"Well when my parents told me they were dying, I reacted in the typical way. I ran and hid; only in the attic but still. I was there for a few hours just crying. However when I stopped I looked around and found Rex in a box. I stared down at this puppet and immediately knew what I had to do." I say, "I had to grow up; I couldn't be an 8 year old boy. I had to mature. But I thought that this puppet could remain as a link to my childhood. Of course it developed over the years into me being the serious one and him being the fun one."

"Robbie, I don't think that was what your parents expected you to do." Jade says reacting to the information she has just gained.

"Had I known I was nothing more than a mistake to them, I would never have bothered." I retort.

Jade's P.o.V

"Robbie as I said before you're not a mistake" I say placing a hand on his arm.

"Ok Jade, I think I need time to think. You should probably head home now."

Crap! No I can't go home he doesn't understand. I know I have to tell him, but they way he is right now I can't tell how he'll react. But there's no way I can go home now.

"I can't Robbie. There's something I've been hiding from everyone." I say, hearing the own desperation in my voice.

"What is it Jade?" he asks me concern evident in his voice.

Well he's pretty much just put his heart on the line. He deserves to hear this even if he ends up deciding not to help. There is no easy way to say this so I should just come out and say it.

"My dad kicked me out." I say at barely more than an audible whisper.

I look straight into Robbie's eyes to see his reaction. To my horror his face remains stone like and I feel like he will just kick me out. Surely he will say he has his own problems to deal with and I should work mine out on my own.

"Why?" he responds. I am surprised to hear the amount of anger that is present in his voice.

"He got tired of supporting me in what he calls 'a pointless profession'."

"You can stay here." He offers to me.

This takes me by surprise, that isn't how he was suppose to react. The most I was expecting was for him to call the others to come and help. I thought that he would want to be alone right now, isn't that why he threw the others out.

"Don't you want to be alone?" I ask.

"I did, I thought I needed space to figure out who I was now. But the second that you told me that I knew who I was. I am a person who won't see others suffer, especially his friends."

"Thank you Robbie" I say looking away.

"You make yourself at home I'm going to run an errand." He says, getting up from his spot and pulling out his phone. I don't know what he's doing but I hope he it isn't something stupid.

Robbie's P.o.V

I pull out my phone and compose a new message.

To: Cat

Please come to my house. Jade needs you. I will explain everything once I get back. Sorry x

Buzz buzz

New message: Cat

Sure Robbie. Where are you going? X

To: Cat

I'm going to Jade's house.