It was a quarter past four and everyone was at Topanga's waiting for Lucas to come in, they were all a little anxious as to what had happened but either way they will support him no matter the outcome result. Maya was about to call him when the Texan walked through the door, a sad smile spreading across his face. He was silent as he sat down next to Farkle who immediately grabbed hold of his hand and giving it a comforting squeeze.

"The doctor gave me a prescription and said I should make another appointment in another month or two." Lucas spoke, the smile upon his lips was weak almost fake. He was trying to be happy but it was a little hard at the moment. He took in a deep breath before adding on; "I am sorry about how I've been lately. With everything that is happening at home and this pressure I feel, I guess I choose the wrong way to deal with it all and it had consequences that affected you guys. I was drinking and I know I shouldn't have been but I didn't want to come to you about it because of the feeling that I needed to be Mr Perfect. And that made me feel like if I told you what was happening that image would disappear."

"I don't think it could. No one expects everyone's home life to be perfect." Riley spoke with a slight shrug of her shoulders, giving him a proud of you smile.

"Yeah Ranger Nick, we wouldn't have thought different of you." Maya said with a smile, the smile fading as she noticed Lucas frozen, they all did, their eyes looking worriedly over at him. "What did I say?" She questioned

"You said Ranger Nick, not Rick." Farkle replied, eyes looking very worriedly over his boyfriend in the seat next to him.

"No, I said Ranger Rick."

"Maya, you said Nick. Maybe you mixed something you were going to say with that." Riley confirmed

Maya tilted her head. "Okay, so I slipped up and said the wrong thing, what's the big deal?"

"I'm sick of the names Maya. I hate it now, they're annoying and to be honest kind of bullying. They were fun for the first few times but then they got…hurtful because you wouldn't call me by my name. That was the best thing about us not knowing what to do, date or be friends because you would call me Lucas. But then we decided to be friends and the nicknames came back in full, that actually hurt the most." Lucas rattled off before standing up and leaving the café, Farkle sighing a little and going after him, leaving the girls looking shocked in their seats as Zay looked at the door where half the group had left out of.

"What was that about?" Maya asked looking over to Zay.

"There had to be more than just the name." Riley added on.

Zay took in a deep breath and let it out. "This isn't my place to really say –"

"Really Zay?" The blonde asked raising an eyebrow at the Texan.

He rolled his eyes a bit, knowing what exactly she was getting at but he couldn't care about that right now. "I've known Lucas practically my whole life, and I know that he wasn't an only child like you believe. He had a brother."

"I'm guessing the keyword is had" Riley quipped

"Yeah, his brother, Nick, died when Lucas was seven. I don't know much about what happened, I just know the subject is the only thing that makes him scared and frightened. He doesn't like talking about it, I think he blames himself; he said he was there when it had happened."

The girls sat with their jaws slightly unhinged, they did not know about this of their friend. Then again he's been pulling out hidden bits of himself for the past few weeks it shouldn't be that new of a feeling. But if they were honest, they feel a little hurt that he couldn't tell them about it; about any of it.