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Chapter 5: Let me help you, help him

At a diner across town

Sam fidgeted in her seat as she watched the brunette girl she'd met outside the rehab clinic talking to the waitress to place their orders. Once the waitress had left the girl turned back around "You know? It totally just occurred to me that you have no idea who I am, and I have no idea who you are."

Sam nodded and laughed quietly "I did catch on to that too. I'm Sam."

The brunette girl smiled "Nice to meet you Sam, I'm Alyssa."

"Nice to meet you too. So, why did you bring me here exactly?" Sam asked, never being one to beat around the bush.

Alyssa shrugged "Exactly why I said...I've been where you are right now."

Sam stared at her blankly and she laughed "My boyfriend was in rehab because of alcohol, only got out a few weeks ago."

Sam nodded again "He's not my boyfriend...not anymore at least. It's all really stupid how this happened, it never should have because he's not like that y'know? And then things happened and now he's in rehab because he turned to alcohol when he should have been able to turn to me."

The waitress came over and put their food down with a smile and Sam looked up to see Alyssa smiling as well "WHAT? What's so happy about that?"

Alyssa smiled "You're ranting, and getting it out. You have to do that, whatever your feeling has to come out. How can you even begin to try and help him if you can't help yourself first."

She opened her mouth to answer the question and then closed it again "Fine."

Alyssa grabbed her fork and twirled it around in her hand "So tell me about him? What's his name?"

"Freddie. He was my best friend, and then we started dating. Everything was really good, I found out I was pregnant and he was so happy. Ayden was born and I-I don't do the mushy stuff really but I really thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with him."

Alyssa stayed quiet through her explanation and then shook her head slowly "So what changed? I mean what made him turn to the alcohol to begin with? Do you know?"

Sam closed her eyes and sighed "He was involved in a car accident that almost killed him and killed a little boy..."

Flashback at the rehab center

Freddie was driving home after a long day at work and while usually he would be dead tired, today there was a wide smile on his face. He looked down and saw the small bag sitting in the passenger seat beside him, a bag that was going to change his life. He and Sam had been dating for 3 years and he was completely ready to take that to the next step, he had spent hours looking for the right ring and now he was finally ready.

He looked outside and shook his head at the darkness, winter was on it's way and it got darker earlier and it was getting pretty chilly out at night. He reached down to turn on the heater a bit and muttered to himself about finding a job closer to home.

He stopped at the stop sign and looked both ways to see if they were clear when suddenly he heard a horn blaring and felt himself being slammed into the drivers side door as his car skidded across the street as he tried his hardest to control it and slammed into a tree a few feet away.

He heard sirens in the distance and felt his blood dripping down his face. After what felt like hours he heard his door jerk open and he heard voices shouting but he couldn't answer.

The shouting continued and he felt himself being put on a stretcher and rushed to the ambulance which then rushed off to the hospital.

Next thing he knew he was in a hospital bed, sore from head to toe with Sam sleeping in the chair beside him..."

End of flashback

Freddie ran a hand across his face and sighed "I had been in a coma for a week, Sam never left the room except to bring Ayden back and forth."

Kolby, who had been silent since Freddie started talking, wrote something in his book and nodded "When did you find out about Tony?"

Freddie looked up at the ceiling, Tony was the little boy who was killed in the accident "The next day. The police said when my car went skidding across the street I hit him and he went...flying"

His voice caught at the last word and Kolby nodded."You tried to control the car right?"

Freddie nodded "Yeah but the truck hit it pretty hard, there was nothing I could do."

Kolby smiled "Say that again."

Freddie looked at him confused but shrugged "There was nothing I could do."

"So if you couldn't possibly control the car, and that's not your fault...how is it your fault that your car hit Tony?"

Freddie looked at him silently and Kolby continued "None of this was your fault, so everyday I want you to look in the mirror and say 'There was nothing I could do'...got it?"

Freddie nodded and walked out of the office muttering "Nothing I could do."

Back at the restaurant

Sam sighed and wiped at her eyes, it wasn't like her to cry "I stayed with him all the time he was in the hospital. He was there for a week after he woke up, and he felt guilty about killing the boy, and I felt guilty for thinking what I did."

Alyssa tilted her head to the side about "What did you think?"

Sam shrugged "I was glad that Freddie was alive, that he wasn't the one that died...I wasn't even thinking about the little boy, but when I did I couldn't help but feel sort of happy it was him and not Freddie."

She dropped her head against the table "I'm a terrible person."

Alyssa pat her on the shoulder softly "No your not. You loved him, and when he came so close to dying you got scared and you felt what any other person in love would think. But what I don't get is why you stopped being there for him?"

It was quiet for a few minutes while Sam pushed the food around on her plate "What do you say to someone who's been through that? I pushed him away without even realizing it, then when he turned to alcohol I pushed him away completely because I couldn't stand knowing that he was drinking because of the lack of support he got from me."

Alyssa smiled slightly "This is where my experiences are the same as yours, only I didn't break up with my boyfriend, I just spent very little time with him. He came over one day and told me he was going in to rehab and he needed me to be there for him. To help him. Based on what I saw with my boyfriend he's going to need your help Sam, only question is are you going to make up for what you did and be there for him now? Or will you make him go through this alone too?"

Sam dropped her fork on her plate "I don't know how to help him."

Alyssa smiled again "That...is where I come in."

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