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Alex nervously lifted his long sleeves. His father was wide eyed, his son was shooting up. Alex pushed his sleeves back down, his father's dissapointed look was killing him. Alex stood up as his father led him out, the cops following them to their car. Alex got in his car as his dad told the cops he was bringing him home to get his things.

Angel knelt down beside the bed that night, she was worried about Alex....Lord, I don't want to think about him...You deal with him..I told his father what little I knew about his drug use in the past, what more do You want?....He put himself in this position, I didn't......Ok, ok, I feel terrible. I'll do anything you want. Just be with me.....With that she felt peace in her heart, she knew what she had to do. She got in bed and curled up next to Gabriel, he was breathing slowly. She fell asleep, Alex's sunken eyes her vision in her head.

The weeks passed by quickly, Angel falling more in love with God. By April she was feeling like she wanted to have the baby already, just one more month and Joseph would be home. Alex had been in a rehab program in juve since January, first for heroine and then for his sex addictions. He had to get over his marijuana problems and coke. He was a mess. He hated Angel at first, he cursed her the first nights he went through withdrawals. He was shaking and sweating, he felt sick. He cried her name out, saying he hated her. But as time passed and he was talking about his addictions, he saw that she told his dad to help him.

"Alex?", said a small voice one day as he sat in the recreation room. He turned and was surprised to see Emerie.

"Uh....Hey....What are you doing here?"

She sat down and he saw her take out a small envelope.

"Just came by to see how you were. We haven't seen you since, January..."

"Yea...How've you been?"

"Ok, hanging in there. I made the honor roll and my parents are sending me to Puerto Rico for the summer. Gabriel is graduating and Angel, well..."

"How is Angel?"

"Fine, wonderful actually. She helps a lot of people who go through abuse and stuff. She's a real angel."

"And the baby?"

"Here, look."

Emerie handed him more sonogram pictures, he smiled. Joseph looked like him a bit.

"So I hear from my dad she's getting married after the baby comes?"

"Yea, they are so amazing together."

They stood silent. He handed her the pictures back. She shook her head.

"They're for you. Angel wanted you to have them. Well I have to go, I have choir practice."

She got up and hugged him, Alex feeling strange as he watched her leave. He went to his room, he put the pictures on his dresser...One more month and you're here....

It was Easter holiday for the school, everyone rushing home when the bell rang. Angel was one of the first to leave, Gabriel already by the car. They drove home to eat and change clothes. Gabriel dropped Angel off and told her to call when she was done. Angel walked up the steps, walking inside the most boring place she had ever seen. Everything was pale and the lady at the desk looked bored. Angel walked up to the desk and asked for the visitor's pass. She was checked and led down a white corridor. She found him biting his nails, a picture in his hand. She laughed when he jumped up and saw her.

"You scared the hell out of me!"

"Hi, Alex."

She sat down next to him and he adjusted himself. She smiled, he had Joseph's picture in his hand. She put her hand on her belly, Alex looking at it.

"You're almost there huh?"

"Yea...I seriously can't wait. I'm super excited and nervous."

He nodded.

"So yea...You're here."

"Yea I am. How are you?"

"Fine...tired, but ok. And yourself?"

"Marvelous. But I came here for you Alex. Not for me."

"Why?"

"Are you really ok? You're in my dreams...You're always in pain and there's always something dark around you...I can never get to you before waking up...."

He sighed and ran his fingers through his dark hair that had grown long since January.

"I hate it here. I feel so locked up. I hate the color white now...", he laughed,"I guess it's because half of this place is an insane asylum. The people here are all insane, addicted to the weirdest thing...."

He looked at a few of the guys from his rehab class. They were playing cards.

"I don't really have friends anymore. My dad comes here once in a while, my mom hasn't been here since February. She always busy."

Angel took his hand in hers. He felt how he did the first day he kissed her, years ago. He didn't understand why but he didn't want her to let go. She looked into his eyes, her brown eyes piercing his soul.

"I guess I came here to just tell you that I'm here for you...No matter what happened in the past, I'm over it. Emerie is over it. I guess I just want to say that, when you get out of here, if you're up to it, if you wanted to be around. Like for Joseph. I would hate to not have his father in his life. Gabriel is there but, I don't know..."

Alex looked at her as if she had read his mind. He thought about everything she had just said and nodded. He felt his heart pound inside him as she smiled. She was so different now...Gabriel is lucky to have her....

Angel smiled and hugged him, Alex surprised but hugging her back. For the first time since he had left her he felt loved. Angel wasn't at all surprised when he began to weep, she just held him, telling him it would be ok. He told her he was sorry over and over, he hated himself for what he had done to her, to Emerie. He kept saying he was sorry, Angel just holding him as he let go of his guilt.

"It's ok Alex, I forgive you. I'm ok now, we'll both be ok...Don't hate yourself anymore, Alex...It'll be ok."

He pulled away from her, his eyes filled with gratitude. Without a thought to it, he moved close and kissed her.