Darryl woke up. He sat upright in his bed. He thought about his dream. He saw the sadness in Sean's eyes and the sadness in his voice when Sean asked why Darryl had left him. He thought back to the hurt tone in Sean's voice when they spoke over the phone. He looked at the clock. 3 AM at night. He listened to his Chris Brown CD again and then went to sleep.

Darryl was walking down the beach when he saw someone drowning. It looked like Sean! Sean frantically waved at Darryl to come rescue him. Help me! Help me" Sean screamed, and then went down a few times. Darryl rushed into the sea and swam to Sean. "Hold on to me, Sean". Sean gratefully held on to Darryl's back and Darryl swam both of them to safety.

"Thank goodness you were there to save me, D, no matter what I've done to you." he said shivering.

"Are you okay, Sean?" Darryl asked. Sean nodded. "Why would you do that Sean?" You know that you are not a good swimmer. You could have drowned. "

"I'm sorry for doing that," Sean said, barely looking at Darryl's eyes.

"Just tell me why you did it."

"I don't know. I just wanted to try to see if I could try to swim well."

Darryl said, "I'll get you dried." He took his towel and wrappped it around Sean. Sean wiped himself.

Sean looked at him with large, expressive eyes. "Thank you again for saving my life. You've always been a good friend."

Darryl said, "You're welcome. I've saved your life more than once, you know." He gave Sean a knowing look.

"Yeah, when I tried to kill myself," he said, looking down and away from Darryl.

"You scared the scrap out of me when you put that gun in your mouth," Darryl confessed. "I had to snatch the gun out of your mouth so that you wouldn't pull the trigger."

Sean said, "I'm sorry for punching you in the face and kicking you."

"You brought that up, not me. I never even mentioned that you did that to me. I forgot, just like I forgot when you stole my money," he said, looking at Sean with narrowed, thoughtful, but not angry eyes. "You brought that up too."

"Did you REALLY forget?" Sean asked, looking at him with doubtful eyes.

"No, but I wasn't going to bring it up again. You know Sean, you're a handful."

Sean said, "Why are you still my friend?" in an uncertain tone.

Darryl looked at him for a long while before finally answering.. "You're my buddy for life," Darryl said, giving Sean a playful punch in the arm.

Sean gave Darryl a tight hug. "Thank you for being there for me."

Darryl woke up again.