Alex wanted to use it now, but he had to charged it first. The clerk offered to do it at the store for him. So they would need to come back in a few hours.

The walked around the mall for another 40 minutes before Alex started to complain he was feeling sore and tired.

"Sit down here with Little Grace, Alex." Mr Wolff instructed. They both sat around a table at the food court while Mr Wolff walked off somewhere.

"Grace!," A teenaged girl called out and came over.

"Hey Susan," Little Grace said, as her friend form school came over.

"How are you?" Susan asked.

"Good, doing a bit of shopping," Little Grace said. "You?"

"Can't complain," Susan responded., "Who's your friend?"

Little Grace stayed quiet for a minute, she knew Alex didn't want to be the centre of attention.

"Please keep quiet and don't make a big deal," Little Grace said quietly, Susan was her best friend and she knew she could be trusted.

Alex took of his hat for a few seconds, long enough for her to see who he was. She nearly fainted.

"Oh my god!," She said quietly and breathlessly.

"I didn't know you were in town already… or that you knew him," Susan said quietly.

Alex smiled a false smile, he couldn't be bothered trying to be sincere.

"He got in Yesterday morning, but please don't tell anyone, the last thing he needs is everyone kicking in the front door to get at him." Little Grace responded, "And Alex's mom and my mom were best friends."

"My lips are sealed." Susan said miming zipping her lips and throwing away the key.

Both girls began talking about girl stuff before Mr Wolff returned pushing Alex's wheelchair.

Alex wasn't upset about it, but he didn't want to get in it.

"Dad," Alex pleaded.

"Alex, you are getting tired, I don't want you to exhaust yourself," Mr Wolff explained.

"Everyone will know it is me, if I'm in the wheelchair." Alex complained.

Susan looked at Alex, she had been a massive fan for years and she did not know a lot about his personal side, as much as the press had tried to expose it to the world. She was usually the first to recognise him.

"Alex, I'm your biggest fan and I didn't recognise you, what chance does anyone else have?" Susan said with a reassuring smile.

Alex looked at her as though asking himself 'who asked her opinion,'

But Alex felt reassured, he slowly stood up and sat in his wheelchair.

"Mr Wolff this is my best friend Susan. Susan this is Alex's dad." Little Grace introduced them.

"Would you like to join us for lunch?" Mr Wolff asked politely.

Susan was hesitant, but she saw that Mr Wolff genuinely meant it. She reluctantly agreed, she didn't want to be intrusive.

"Alex what do you feel like?" Mr Wolff asked.

Alex was quiet for a little bit before he answered.

"Crap," He said before smiling a little.

"I know, but what specific brand of crap," Mr Wolff asked, it was comforting to see Alex making light of the situation.

Alex shrugged.

"BK?" He said unsure.

"BK it is," Mr Wolff said.

He then took the orders and walked up with Little Grace to get lunch.

Susan sat around nervously, it was strange being a few feet from someone she idolized.

"Nice hat," She finally said.

"Thanks," Alex said quietly, "I got it so people wouldn't recognize me,"

"It's working so far," She said smiling.

Alex smiled nervously, he hoped she didn't jinx him.

"So what's New York like?" She asked, she had never been there.

"I love it," Alex said, "Nat prefers LA more, he wrote a song about it,"

"Yeah I remember, I heard that the LA surfers ripped it off," Susan said.

"Yeah I hate Bobby Love… he doesn't seem so bad now," Alex admitted. "Just don't tell Nat,"

"When am I going to see Nat?" Susan asked.

"Are you not coming to the concert?" Alex asked.

Susan shook her head.

"There are no tickets left."

Alex looked at her through his sunnies.

"There is no such thing as no." Alex said quietly.

Mr Wolff and Little Grace returned a minute later with lunch.

"Dad can we get a ticket for Susan? And can she come back stage?" Alex asked.

Mr Wolff smiled and nodded before looking at Susan.

"I haven't seen Alex this excited about the concert since before the one in Vancouver,"

"I thought you'd be excited all the time," Susan said to Alex curiously.

"Let's just say it's not easy for him. He is in pain most the time and he gets extremely depressed, and these are on normal days. Bad days are much much worse." Mr Wolff explained.

"What's today?" Susan asked curiously.

Mr Wolff looked at Alex.

"No idea, it stared off a bad day, but Alex appears to have gotten better." Mr Wolff said honestly.

He then pulled out Alex's medication. There were three different pills that Alex would have to take for the year and one that he would most likely need to take for the rest of his life. He gave them to Alex.

"Have you got water or milk?" Alex asked, his dad pulled out a drink bottle from the bag attached to the back of Alex's wheel chair.

Alex took the pills and quietly ate lunch while the rest of them talked and ate.

Once they finished Susan left, she would probably swing around the house in a couple of days. Mr Wolff began to push Alex. He knew Alex wanted to talk to Juanita, and it would give him something to do while Mr Wolff completed some more shopping.

When Mr Wolff had checked his watch he was dismayed to see they had managed to talk to Susan for three hours over lunch. So they went to the cell phone shop to get Alex's phone. Mr Wolff again did everything while Alex tried to stay hidden.

The clerk was a bit confused, he didn't remember anyone in a wheelchair last time.

Once everything was sorted Mr Wolff gave Alex his phone. Alex grabbed it excitedly and his dad also gave him a piece of paper with Juanita's number on it.

Alex was so excited as he dialled it took seven tries to finally enter the right number.

"Hello?" Juanita asked cautiously on the 6th ring.

"When are you coming out?" Alex asked, now abit nervous.

"Alex, I was worried about you, I left you like a…. wait this isn't your number?" Juanita said quickly

"Dad got me a new phone, because the fans somehow got my number…." Alex replied.

"You ok Alex?" Juanita asked, she picked up on Alex's depression in his voice.

Alex shook his head.

"Alex…. If your moving your head, I can't see it, this isn't a video call," Juanita said with a slight chuckle.

"It's too hard, I think it would be better if Nat did kill me for good." Alex mumbled.

"Alexander Draper Wolff don't you dare talk like that," Juanita said angrily.

"What's the point…." Alex trailed off.

Juanita was scared and angry, she was at the skate park. She picked up her board and ran home still holding the phone to her ear.

"Alex, you have so many people who love you and support you," Juanita said breathlessly, still angry but trying to comfort Alex as well.

Juanita burst into the house. She threw her skateboard down and grabbed the home phone and dialled Simon.

She had both phones on her ears. She heard Alex's dad saying something to him and took that moment to tip Simon off.

"Simon… I think Alex might do something really, really, really stupid," She said with so many different emotions in her voice.

"Like what?" Simon asked seriously.

Juanita tried to say it, but she couldn't.

"Like what?" Simon repeated growing concerned, he was already mentally packing his bag and flying there.

"Die," was all Juanita could say in response.

"Juanita what's going on?" He foster mom asked her walking out from the kitchen.

"When can we see Alex!?" Juanita asked urgently.

Juanita mom could see this was serious.

"We could leave tonight ," Her mom said back.

Simon rattled of a number of instructions before he hung up.

"Juanita, do you wonder what it would be like to die?" Alex asked quietly.

"Alex, don't you dare. Me and mum are coming as soon as we can," Juanita said.

Alex sighed heavily.

Mr Wolff looked at Alex. He heard a couple of things which unnerved him. He thought talking to Juanita would cheer him up, but he was a depressed as ever.

Mr Wolff's phone rang.

"Dad, what's going on?" Nat asked, he was on the verge of tears.

"What are you talking about?" Mr Wolff asked softly.

"Simon is talking to Abigail, he's coming out today and Juanita and her mom are doing the same, They said Alex was very depressed." Nat said.

Mr Wolff didn't know what to say.

Alex talked to Juanita even as she and her mom waited at the airport. Which is when she hung up.

Mr Wolff, Alex and Little Grace had been out all day.

"Alex, how are you feeling?" Little Grace asked, she had heard everything Alex had said.

"I'm Fine," Alex lied

Little Grace looked at Alex sceptically.

"My back really hurts," Alex said winced horribly in pain.

"Why didn't you say anything?" Little Grace asked, that might have been part of the reason why Alex suddenly sunk so quickly into another patch of depression.

"Because you and dad were so interested in shopping." Alex said wincing.

"Come on Alex, lets get back home," Mr Wolff said and pushed Alex to the car.

Everyone was silent as they made the trip back.