[i]"Deal."[/i] Hadley agreed, standing up along side Alex as they began to join the others. Hadley had felt the tone in his voice and knew it well. That voice that overcame her parents as they waited for their daughter to return home. Complete and devastating sadness. The kind that makes you feel you have no reason to wake up the next morning. The kind that makes you feel like a robot as you go through the day doing things but not feeling anything. She too knew what that was like. Granted, she tried to make the best of things, life was often too short and too important to go around wishing things were one way when they never could be.