After I assured Keith and Mick that I wasn't mad at them, I decided to go for a walk to clear my head.

That dream scared me, what was that about? Why was I dressed like that? Who was that blond girl, she scared me too. I walked along the road, wandering here and there, kicking a stone.

I'm that stone, I thought, I'm that Rolling Stone. Rolling along through life.

My head was down and when I looked up, I saw I had wandered up to Katie's shop. The bright sign seemed so inviting, but I didn't think I could face her yet. Katie's tear streaked face kept on flashing through my mind, I didn't want to hurt her. I never did. Katie was walking around in the shop, I didn't want her to see me, so I hid behind a car. She looked so peaceful, moving from shelf to shelf. I peered above the car and saw her smile and laugh as she talked with a customer.

I smiled to myself, I would never hurt her, ever. Suddenly, her tear streaked face appeared in front of me and I jerked back in surprise.

"Why?" The illusion sniffed, "why Brian why?"

And just like that, it was gone, and I had tears in my eyes. I couldn't stay here, I had to get away. Standing up I looked back at the shop, Katie was staring at me and our eyes locked. Then I ran.

Katie's POV:

After Charlie had left, I just wandered around the store I guess. Talking with customers and making sales. I was going to close the store at around lunch and walk over to Edith Grove to see Brian, and check on his eye. But when I turned around, he was already there, he looked different.

Then I realized it, he had tears streaming down his cheeks and he looked scared. We locked eyes and the he turned and ran. I immediately closed the shop after that, slapping the open sign to closed.

I ran after him, but he had already disappeared. So I slowed down to a walk, why was Brian crying?

I found him by the river, he was sitting on the grass and throwing rocks into the water.

I quietly sat down beside him and grabbed a rock. "Hey" I whispered as I threw the rock into the river. He turned toward me, one of his eyes was swollen shut and the other was puffy and red.

"Hey" I said again, "Brian, what's wrong?"

"Katie" he whispered, " I love you, you know that right?" Now he was speaking in his normal voice, "I love you Katie, I would never cheat on you! I'm sorry"

he stumbled over his words and I held his hand.

"Brian, I love you to, you know nothing could change that"

He sniffed, "Not even Mick?"

Huh? Mick? What did Mick have to do with this?

"What do you mean Mick?" I threw another rock.

"Nothing, it's alright, everything is good, it's alright" he shook his head and squeezed my hand as he threw a rock.

I guess we sat like that for a long time, throwing rocks and talking quietly. By the time we stood up, the sun was going down.

So, hand in hand, we walked alongside the water, looking over the peacefulness of evening.