"Oh my god. WE will stop him, together." Ashley gave her a look telling her to back off of the problem and that it wasnt hers to deal with. "I may not have that long of a past with aiden, but he is still my friend and i want to help. Im GOING to help." Ashley gave in and let spencer come along with her.

Meanwhile, aiden walked to the wet parking lot behind the half-abandoned warehouse. Three men followed him. One was a dealer and the other two must have been his bodygaurds or something. "you got the money?" A man asked from behind a shadowed face. It was the same scruffy man from earlier.

"Yeah." Aiden reached in his pocket pulling out the 80 dollars he took from ashley. As he handed the money to the man, the two bigger men approached him. Aiden had a look of fright in his eyes. "Hey man, what are you doing?" He noticed a glimmer of silver light come from behind the sleeve. It was a knife. Aiden’s fear told him to run and he did. Only to be stopped by one of the men. "What are you doing!" aiden screamed out as the man in front of him punched him in the face sending him weak for a moment.

The next thing aiden felt was a sharpness into his torso, tearing through his skin. The knfe went in fast, but it was very slow in aidens mind. His eyes opened wide and his mouth dropped open as the knife left his body. A guy reached in his pockets taking whatever they could find. Aiden was pushed to the ground as the men walked away. He layed on his back with his arms spread across the pavement.

More memories passed through his mind.

Aiden sat in the front pew of the church. He was wearing a black suit with a black undershirt and a red tie. The cereamony had ended and he was the only one left in the church. He walked up to the black painted, opened casket and began crying openly as he stared down at his mother. There was a slight scar on her temple where she had shot herself leaving a note explaining that she couldnt deal with the pain anylonger and she would rather die than live in misery. Aiden blammed himself as he cried with tears dripping onto the red colored carpet.

He felt a warmth envelope his hand and he looked up to see ashley standing with him holding his hand in comfot. "Lets go aiden." ashley said quietly trying to get him to leave the church. They still had to bury the casket and he wouldnt let them for the last 45 minutes. But ashley finally convinced him to allow them to. He grasped ashley into a hug and let his tears run wild through the fabric of her clothing. She rubbed her hand over his back. "It’s going to be okay aiden. Im here for you. I love you too much to leave you to go through this alone."

As aidens eyes began to close he had one last thought. "I still need her." The last thought floated through his mind as his eyes drifted closed and his head slightly rested onto the pavement leaving a breath to escape his chest.

TBC