"What do you want to do", he asked.

I shrugged.

"What is going on in there?", he asked point his finger at my head.

"Well....I ...uhhmm... want to talk to her", I said.

"Katana?", he asked.

"Nope", I said.

"Then?", he asked.

"The lady at that asylum", I said.

"And how do you know she'll be there?", he asked.

"I don't, but I saw her in the market that day Adam, I talked to her", I said.

"And what if she doesn't know anything", he asked.

I didn't say anything. I lowered my eyes to see the ground.

"Adam, I just want to make sure that, I don't regret not talking to her, before its too late,because regret is the worst feeling of them all. When you realize you could have stopped everything but you didn't because it seemed absurd or it seemed like a hoax like you term it.", I stated.

He raised my head, by the hand he had placed under my chin, such that I look into his eyes now.

"Then we will find it out together", he said with assuring look on his face.

"You can't, it is all my thing and maybe it's in my head so just let me figure it out myself", I said.

"What you want to say to me is "I told you", and I won't let that happen even if there is 5% chance  of it to happen, I won't let you act all knight in shinning armor all by yourself", he said jokingly.

And I laughed, so did he.

"There they are", we heard Olivia say, as she came with Ryan to stand right in front of us. 

Adam got up, while Ryan helped me up. We drove to the hospital to check on Carter.

He was doing fine. Katana was in his room when we entered and she told us everything the doctor had said. Most of it being that he would recover soon. We joked around with him, made him laugh, Olivia and I did the most pathetic couple dance in the hospital room, and the nurse came in to find the two of us in the most indecent position of the whole dance while Adam, Carter, Ryan and Katana laughed. The nurse had her eyes all big when she looked at the two of us, but seeing everyone laugh, she laughed as well.

We went home with smiles on our faces that day, everyone satisfied with Carter's progess.

I reached home to see Katana calling me. 

"Hello", I said.

"Hey Lucy"

"Say?"

"I just wanted to talk about Carter", she said.

"I'm listening", I said.

"Carter, he was fine all day, except in the afternoon, when I entered his room, he was playing with the glucose drip that was attached to him, and I caught him off guard, but he seemed to remember nothing, I don't know what was that, but...... I think we are on the right page?", she said.

"I... uhmmm..... Katana can I call you tomorrow , it's just.......", I said.

"Yes you can, but I'm worried about him", she said.

"I know, so am I", I said.

I went to bed, thinking of what could be done. I got off the bed remembering to call Sam.

"Hello", I said.

"And she finally calls", he said.

"You were at a concert so I assumed you would be sleeping till late today, and I didn't call", I explained myself.

"So what's up?", he asked.

"Sam, why did you and Katana break up?", I asked him.

"Lucy, did she say something to you?", he asked.

"No, I just was seeing some old pictures and...", I lied.

"It was nothing okay, how are mom and dad", he said, real smooth big brother, changing the topic.

"You just changed the topic. Not a smart move, but yah they are fine", I said.

"Okay, listen I got to go, talk to you tomorrow", he said and before I could say anything he hung up on me.

Something was wrong. He was either guilty or hurt. I remembered how much he loved Katana and how sudden they had broken up, out of no where.  Sam was so disturbed, he suddenly went to New York and since then we hardly see him anymore, only once or twice a year. 

I shrugged it off, and called it a night.

The next two days, classes went fine, we would meet at lunch and talk about general stuff. Summer came swinging her hips on Friday, giving her well wishes for Carter only to Adam and Ryan, completely ignoring Olivia and me. 

Carter was improving and we couldn't have been more thankful for that. He still said he remembered nothing and always ignored whenever we would talk about the incidents that took place with him. We wouldn't  pressurize him into saying anything as he was still recovering.

I was trying to connect the dots of all the incidents , but nothing seemed significantly out of the blue, what if it just was a coincidence, the whole cave thing and I was putting to much effort trying to act all Sherlock Homes. 

Gathering the courage I was left with I went to see Katana. I messaged her and she told me she was at home.

I rang the door bell, and the door opened to reveal, Katana with wet hair, probably due to shower. She had to got to the hospital in a few hours and she asked me to be quick with what I wanted to ask.

I sat on the cushioned chair in the open air of the verandah as Katana handed me my coffee. She sat next to me, sipping her coffee.

"I shouldn't be asking this but why did you and Sam break up?", I asked her.

"I can't tell you that", she said.

"Why?", I asked in a low voice not sure if she would reply.

"I just can't, why don't you ask Sam", she said.

"I tried but...."

"But he changed the topic, didn't he?", she complete my sentence.

"He did", I said.

"I can't make you hate him Lucy", she said.

"Please Katana, I need to know", I said.

"Sam and I were committed for a year, when he suddenly started acting all weird and started ignoring me and his friends", she said.

I nodded for her to continue.

"One day he come to me all of a sudden and admitted he had done something extremely bad and was sorry, he said he couldn't take it anymore and that he was seeing her, and hopefully he won't now", she said.

"What was that he had done?", I asked her.

She paused for a minute and sighed before continuing, "He... uhm ... he had filmed our first time as he had a bet with his friends on me and had showed it to them to win the bet", she finally said.

"He what?", I said all shocked from what she just told me.

  "Why didn't you tell anyone this?"

"He confessed it to me, and he was already broke when he came to my door that night, he said he was leaving town and that he loved me and would have never hurt me", she said.

"But that isn't his punishment, Katana what he did to you was wrong, so wrong", I said to her, even though Sam was my brother, because what he did was unforgivable. I couldn't believe he could have done anything like this to anyone just because of one stupid bet.

"I had seen him suffer for months before he told me this, and I knew it wasn't his guilt that made him confess this to me, something else made him confess, and I should have had him punished for what he did, but I don't know, if it was love or hate, that I didn't want to see him after that ever again, but I never wanted to do wrong to him as well", she said her voice becoming heavy with the strong feeling we felt at that moment.

And then something caught my attention. 

"What did you just say?", I asked her.

"What?", she said.

"Something else made him confess", I repeated her words.

"I don't know, but we had gone to the cave to hide once when we were playing hide and seek, and he had blood on his hands when we came out of the cave, I didn't know why but it didn't seem normal and everything that happened, his change in attitude, his confession, everything started after that", she said.