*Koda's POV*

I turn the 'OPEN' sign on the shop door letting passers by know that we're closed for the day. I can hear Max in the back packing away the vacume cleaner. I head over to him , not to help, but because something has been gnawing at my mind since Andy dropped me off at work. "Max."
"Yeah?."
"Before we leave for the day.. there's something I need to tell you. Something I've been holding in for so long and I just really need to tell someone. If you'll let me, I really need it to be you right now." He looks at me with growing concern in his eyes. He clears room on two crates so we can sit. I love this about him, how he just instinctively knows when to be quiet and just let me get there on my own.

"So, um.. The real reason I was sent to the mental ward after the accident.. I mean, I can't tell Jinxx because he's not just like the protective big brother I always wanted.." Oh shit what if I just offended Max? I better explain just in case... "Not that you're not like a brother, you're just more like the fun twin I can tell anything to no matter what and I'm babbling I'll just get to the point. So with Jinxx he was there for me when I needed him, but like I said he's not just like my big brother, he's Andy's friend, his very loyal friend. I'm afraid that if I were to tell him, even if he didn't do it, he would definitely feel like he, or I, should tell Andy. I just really don't want Andy to know.. But I know that you would never tell because you're just as loyal as Jinxx is, but to me first as I am to you and..." Max envelops me in a warm hug and murmurs comforting words into my ear until I calm down, having worked myself up again.

"Now, come on.. I understand where you're coming from, so you can tell me. It's going to be okay." He gives me a small encouraging smile. After a few deep breaths I'm ready. "Well.. The thing is... When I first woke up in the hospital.. The doctor told me that he was very sorry for my loss. I didn't know what he ment at first, but then he said it.. The accident had caused me to miscarry a baby I didn't even know I was carrying. It was very early in the pregnancy. It wasn't Andy's... We haven't even.. You know.. Done it yet. Please don't say anything until I'm done or I'll just lose my nerve and won't be able to finish.." I look at him, holding my breath. He looks shocked but he stays quiet and nods for me to go on.

"Ok so, before I woke up I had a very vivid dream. In this dream a young couple who felt like kindred spirits of mine, were in the water in a secret kind of rocky beach type-thing, I don't know how to explain it. The girl was holding a tiny baby girl in her arms. The baby was smaller than a baby-born doll. None of us said anything the whole time. The girl came up to me and handed me the baby then waded back to the boy, then they turned to face the sea and just kept going until they were submerged. I don't know why they had to do it but I knew it had to happen. When I looked back down at the baby I instantly knew her name was Kate and that I had to protect her. Once I woke up and was told of the miscarriage I knew that it was no normal dream. I had been given the chance to hold my baby girl for the first, and only time before she had to go up to heaven or be re-born to someone who needs her, my kindred spirits must have been angels.. I don't know I know it sounds insane but it feels right in my heart and well.. Well that’s why I had the complete mental and nervous breakdown, I just couldn’t handle everything that had happened…” by the end of my confession I'm crying uncontrollably but silently.

Despite his increasing shock, Max somehow manages to hold it together and hold me in a comforting embrace, all the while murmuring "It's okay...You're okay.. I'm here, don't worry..." Eventually I calm down again. After a few minutes of just sitting silently together, we get up and finish locking up the shop. Once we're done we head to the movies and watch a comedy, all the while neither saying anything, both of us just knowing what the other is thinking. When we finally do speak, it's to whisper to each other occasionally during the movie. Soon our collective mood is cheered up enough that we're even able to laugh at the funny bits. We're okay again now, we don't need to talk about earlier. This is just how we are, how our friendship is. And oddly enough. It works.

*Andy's POV*

So it didn't seem like the right time to talk to koda about the plan and Sandra. I will be seeing her later tonight when I pick her up to 'work on a project for school' at my house. I'll talk to her about it then. Hopefully she will be in the right mind-set by then...

Notes

I AM SO FUCKING SORRY!!!

I still have writers block but all of a sudden I was hit with inspiration recently for an idea and tonight while I finally had some motivation I decided to try take the small idea and turn it into a chapter and it worked! I really hope you like it, if anyone is even still reading this after how long I've been taking.

On a personal note things have gotten worse, I won't go into much detail but I will say that I have been under so much stress that my psychiatrist has made me take time off until July.

Ch. Title Credit: Miley Cyrus - The Climb