Lizzie sat with the others, listening as Maddi told them about her summer heartbreak.  She knew what bastards men where, one of the reasons she had never really bothered to look to seriously for anyone.  She had had her share of heartbreak.  She shivered, it was cold, but the winds seemed to be dying down, maybe they had blown themselves out!!<br/><br/>Poor Maddi, Lizzie reached out and held the girl's hand.  She reached out to Kira too, pulling the three together.  "You know life is a journey we all have to travel." She said softly, staring out into the darkness.  "It wasn't you babe, he was the one at fault, he was the one who made you believe he was something he wasn't" she spoke softly, her voice gentle.  "The important thing is you got through it, and you have come out the other end and it'll make you stronger" she pulled Maddi to her, kissing her forehead, "sometimes we have to go through the hard times, we don't know why, but I believe they happen for a reason.  At the time it feels shitty, but I am a great believer in things are done for a reason" she smiled at them, shivering, "whatever the reason was for you to go through that it gave you a new strength.  I know it hurt, it probably still hurts and probably always will leave an ache, a wonder of what if, but what matters now is how you use that, how you shape that hurt."<br/><br/>Lizzie hugged the girls, holding them close to her, "did I ever tell you about Matt?" she asked them, "I meet him at college.  For 4 years we were inseparable" she began, "he had me doing things I had never even dreamt of" she chuckled slightly, a blush coloring her cheeks, but the girls wouldn't see it in the darkness.  "He was into, erm...well certain things and I had never even thought about it.  I was amazed when I found myself loving things, kneeling at his feet was like a new revelation." She said no more, just a sprinkling of something different.<br/><br/>"We need to use our experiences from our past to help us through the future.  Who knows what we will find when the sun rises" she said softly.  "For now we need sleep, we need each other.  Maddi, what you went through wasn't fair, you got your heart broken.  Put it to use my love." She said to the girl, "we'll need all our strength to get through this." She said, she had a feeling the morning would reveal a truth none wanted to face.<br/><br/>