"Yes. It is." I lied

Charlie cheered "I am the best magician there ever was."

"Yeah." I agreed before winking at Lana "I am sure if Penn and Teller decide to make their duo into a three then they will come right your way."

Lana was sitting on the other side of the booth and it gave her the perfect view to frown at me "I can not believe we are here. You should be resting, Ella."

I shrugged while picking another card from Charlie "I did not get out of a hospital bed to go and lie in an another bed. Fresh air will be good for me."

"You are inside!"

"The last time I checked the air in here was not rotten." I rebutted while taking another bit of my mint chocolate chip ice cream "I would rather just get on with things. I do not want to be in bed just lying around thinking about stuff. I will only drive myself crazy."

She did not look happy with my answer as she argued "You should be resting. You were in a serious accident then unconscious for days. Also you just lost your father."

"You were in an accident?" Charlie asked from beside me, his bottom lip trembling and his eyes starting to water "Drizzy was hurt?"

"Of course not." I lied to the small boy while picking him up and putting him on my lap.

I patted his back until he stopped crying and then I moved my ice cream bowl closer to him

"Here. Do you want the rest of my ice cream?" I asked rhetorically.

My words seemed to do the trick because he smiled and nodded his head "Yay!"

Lana still did not look any less annoyed.

She started explaining with her hands moving around in the air "You can not just act like nothing has happened."

"I am not doing that."

She argued "Yes. You are."

"I just want everything to go back to the way it was."

Her blue eyes widened as she spoke "Everything except you and Stone?"

I stayed quiet.

"I was wrong." Lana admitted, "I should not have said what I said about him."

All I could do was shrug at her "You were wrong about what you said. I did not end things because of that though. I have my own reasons."

"Oh no." She exclaimed, "You are pulling an Ella."

My mouth opened and then closed before I sputtered "What the hell is that?"

"It is your signature move." She explained "Every time you get hurt or you are upset then you shut everybody out. Something bad happens and then it is like you build your walls up so high that nobody can get in. You think secluding yourself away from everything and going into your own little shell will stop everyone else from sharing your pain."

"I-I do not do that."