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to him to see if he was okay. He then looked up at me, and I saw something I hadn’t seen in months. He knew me . I could see it in his eyes and in his face that he recognized me, and I had thought that his memories had returned. But then…
    I can’t really explain it. A second later, it was gone. It was like he had been there, and then something switched off in his brain. I’ve heard of fleeting memories, but I had never seen anything like that. One moment he was lying on the floor, screaming and holding his head, then the next he was walking around as though nothing happened. It scared the hell out of me, and I didn’t know what to think. One thing that I did know, after seeing the real Cody, I knew that whoever I had been talking to before wasn’t him. Mrs. Win, that’s not Cody,” he said, practically willing her to believe him.
    Kelly was looking at him strangely, but didn’t say anything. A part of her, the part of her that was grasping at straws, wanted to entertain his musings. The larger part, however, felt ridiculous for ever thinking that an imaginative fifteen-year-old boy could tell her what was wrong with her son, and it was clearly written across her face.
    “You think I’m crazy don’t you?” Sean asked, but didn’t give her a chance to respond. “I knew you would; that’s why I never said anything. I knew you’d just think that I was a dumb kid, and maybe I am, but one thing I do know is Cody. He’s been my brother since forever. We’ve been through everything together. If we didn’t have each other, neither one of us would be alive today.”
    ‘Not alive?’
    That statement had taken Kelly aback.
    “What do you mean?” she asked.
    “When Cody and I first met, we hated each other. He used to try to bully me, because he said that I was a crybaby that needed toughening up. As revenge, I would do things, and then set it up to make it look like he did it to get him in trouble. That went on for years. Then one day during summer school, a group of boys, the Morris brothers, decided to join in. They pushed me into the deep end of the pool, and I started drowning. I had been ashamed that I had never learned, so I didn’t tell anyone; big mistake! They got scared and ran away, while my friends just watched. The lifeguard was on break, and I was sure I would be dead by the time she returned, so I thought that was it, but then Cody jumped in and pulled me out. He was the only one that bothered to help, so I ditched my other so-called friends and made him my best friend.
    After that, Cody was always there when I needed him. He secretly taught me how to swim, helped me keep my C average and forced me to hang out with him and his dad when he realized I didn’t have one. He was great. It always made me feel like he was a better friend to me than I was to him, and I always wondered if there was some way I could pay him back.
    I got my chance the summer before we started high school, but honestly, I would have rather spent the rest of my life owing him than experiencing that. You see, Cody was having a really hard time with the divorce. He hid it from everybody else, but he would always talk to me about it. On that particular day, he kept saying how he had screwed up. I tried to tell him that it wasn’t his fault, but he wasn’t listening. He said that his dad once told him that you were the brains and brawn of the outfit, Mr. Win was the heart, and Cody was the glue that you kept you all together. Since you all had fallen apart, Cody took it as though he had failed to do his part.  I tried to tell him that Mr. Win didn’t mean it like that, but he just got pissed, and said, ‘Fuck this,’ before walking into the bathroom.
    I waited for a minute, but when he didn’t come back out, I looked in, and he was swallowing an entire bottle pills. So, I kicked his ass and made him throw them up. He then just sat on the floor crying. I knew then that he was broken, and I wasn’t enough to fix him.