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he remembers a time when he and his friends felt so free when they came. Appears kids. It was their safe haven from their families and the losers in the neighborhood who picked on them a place where they loved, lost, hurt and experience Life together is only a family. Could they shared their darkest secrets with each other, Things no one else was worthy of knowing friendships like that are rare and much harder to find As you get older. He learned that you cannot always trust people like he used to be able to trust his four closest friends, and he never did. He trusted no one that way ever again. Alan can hear voices echoing in the hallway, Julio Rey and Carry Step out and Julio smile widens as he sees Alan. Man, Julio says, When was the last time we were all out here together? Been a long time, Kerry says. We're all going to carries now, Julio says. Are you coming? Actually, I'm just going to go straight home, Allen says. But how we all made a promise to each other. Carry reminds him it was your idea. You can't bail out on us now when they were all younger. They had made a pact that no matter where they were and what they were doing in life, that if something had happened to one of them, they would all get together and be there for one another, not just for a funeral, but as a group without any outsiders to comfort each other and to remember all the good times they shared. I'm not surprised, Ray says. It's just like him to bail on his friends. If that's what we ever were. Nothing's changed. Ray, Julio says. Upset? No, it's OK, Julio Allen says. You got something you want to say to me, Ray, and say it straight out. Forget the childish comments and just say What's on your mind. I'm just saying that you walked out on us once. I should now be any different. I didn't walk out on you, Ray Allen says. I was saving my own life. You left us here with nobody. Raise shouts. All we had was each other. And like some low life Father, you just abandoned us. Here's a news flash for you, Ray. I wasn't your father. I was your friend. We were all almost the same age, for crying out loud. Listen, let's not do this, Carrie says. Yeah, Ernesto wouldn't want us fighting Julio ads. You know, I can't even believe you had the balls to show up here, Ray says. You don't even have enough decency to come to the man's wedding. You know, I think I like you better when you didn't talk, Allen says. **** you, Ray says. Knock it off, you two, Kerry says, raising her voice. Let me ask you a question, Ray Allen says. Are you ****** off at me because I left or you ****** off because you didn't have the balls to do it yourself? We didn't have that option, Reyes says. We had to stay here and suffer. That was your choice. You had the option to stay or go just like I did. You just never took it. You all did. I was tired. I was 15 In the last two years of my life, had been filled with being hungry, beaten and broke. Not to mention that I had no time to worry about myself because I was always more worried about everyone else. I was always too busy making sure that you all were happy, safe and fed. That wasn't my job. But I did it. I did it because I cared. I wasn't your father. And I didn't have much in my house either. But I shared it. And I never once bitched. And I never asked for anything from any of you in return. Not once. How many times did I put myself in jeopardy without a second thought for all of you? Because you were all closer to me than my own family. But let me ask you something. When during that whole time did you ever stop to see that I wasn't hungry or that I was OK? Mentally? Did you ever stop to think that perhaps dealing with all my own problems on top of all of yours was too much for me to handle? I was 13. I was trying to be a kid. We all were. Our lives were hard and we were supposed to support each other. But instead I was everyone else's rock. And every day that went by, I just felt like I was being chipped away at. So before you accuse me of abandoning you, you better think about when the last time was that you were ever there for May. Allen walks off angry. No one has the words to say his words hit home. They never knew exactly why he left them all behind. They thought it was just his home life. They had no idea that they were the cause of him almost breaking down. Back then. He never told them. He didn't want them blaming themselves and having to live with that burden on top of all their other problems.