CHAPTER 1: NOVEMBER HAS COME

I sit here wondering…why? Why me? Why them? People cry out, but not for me, but for the one who's no longer here. I stare down at the beaten and bloody man who chuckles between gasps for air. He stares back at me, smiling-thinking he's won. I look in my hand to see that I'm grasping a gun. He laughs harder and talks softly, on the verge of death,

"What'cha waitin' for? Shoot me, that's what you want to do right?" I hear a little girl cry as a shut my eyes and let a tear escape. "Or are you debatin' for your own life?"

"SHUT UP!" I say pointing the gun at him. He just smiles and turns his head the other way.

"I got nothing left to loose, I'm going to die anyways. But you…you want to die." I let a few more tears escape as I shake all over. "Do it…"

"NO! It's not worth it!" I hear Noodle say behind me. She's hurt badly from all of this too.

"C'mon man, don't!" Russel adds.

"You make the band, don't do it!" Murdoc yells, he's hurt too.

"Do it." It's 2D. I stare at him, but if he's 2D-then who am I? "You're nothing, you care for nothing, everything that you always wanted is gone, do it." He's me, my alter me. My thoughts, my NEGATIVE thoughts. I stare back at that man, my vision just centers on him and everything else seems to fade away to darkness. I close my eyes and put my finger on the trigger. Everyone screams and I hear two young children cry…one being a baby. There was a bang.

It all started 1 year earlier.

November 16th 2010

We were on our world tour and were in London. It had been a great night and we headed out the back doors when we came across a lady that was very beautiful. She had long luscious brown hair with bright hazel eyes. She was white and skinny.

"Hello there." At the time, I was baffled. This very attractive lady came to us, never seen her before in my life, and just acted like she'd known us for years. "Let me introduce myself, I am Jasmine and this is my daughter Scarlet." That's when I realized the little black eyed, black haired, Caucasian girl. She looked up at me with sadness in her eyes, but she managed to show a weak smile.

"Hi…" She said quietly.

"Drat, she's got a kid." Murdoc whispered to me. I glanced at him then back to them.

"You see…" She continued, "My little girl and I have nowhere to go and we're starving. The shelters are all full, we'd have to live on the streets unless…" She stopped.

"Unless what?" I asked.

"No…it's too much to ask."

"What?" She hesitated to answer.

"I was wondering if we could spend just a night at wherever you all are staying." I looked at the others as we huddled.

"What do we do?" I asked.

"We can't just leave 'em out in the cold." Noddle added.

"Sure we can!" Murdoc replied. We all stared at him. "Fine, I guess so…" I turned excitedly back to the woman.

"You all can stay with us for tonight, but tomorrow morning we're traveling to Amsterdam and well…you all can't really come."

"Oh, we understand entirely! But thank you, so much for letting us come into your hotel!" I blushed.

"Well, it's no problem really…"

When we had gotten to the hotel, everyone immediately laid down and tried to go to bed. There was a long day waiting ahead for us the next day and we needed as much sleep as we could get…there was only one problem…Scarlet. It wasn't that Jasmine was not taking care of her as much as it was Scarlet just being a little 5-year-old…which she was indeed a 5-year-old.

"Mom I'm hungry!" We would give her food. "Mom, I'm thirsty!" we would give her water. "Mom, I'm bored!" We would play with her. "Mom-"

"Would you shut up?" Murdoc finally yelled. Scarlet gasped and looked down. "Jeez, control your child lady!" Jasmine did not take keen to him yelling at her.

"Aren't you going to say something mom?" Scarlet whispered to her. Jasmine looked down at her.

"Oh honey I would…but he can kick us out." Scarlet was obviously angered by this but she became silent. I watched her walk into another room so she wouldn't disturb anyone else. I felt bad for the girl; she just wanted someone to pay attention to her. After a while, everyone had fallen asleep besides me. The room was anything but quiet though. It was full of snores. It was too loud for me so I got up to get a glass of water. I was getting ready to enter the restroom when I heard a soft pluck of a guitar. I thought maybe Noodle had gotten up as well and started playing a little bit, so I got my water and was getting ready to lay back down when I saw that Noodle was still in her bed and the guitar was still strumming. I looked for Murdoc and he as well was asleep…so who was it? I looked at that one room Scarlet had went into and it was coming from there. I tip-toed over there and slightly opened the door to see Scarlet strumming on Noodles practice guitar. I'll never forget those words she started to sing,

"Life is hard, but please don't discard these words I say, they might help you today." It was slow paced but she played that acoustic like she had done it all her life. "Everything has a meaning…" it was getting faster. "So please stop your screaming. When it rains it thunders, and it gets me all in pain." She stopped everything. "That doesn't make since…" She said to herself. That's when the door squeaked from me leaning against it and she looked up. "OH! Mr. 2D sir, I-uh…I wasn't playing on this guitar." I smiled.

"That's alright, I don't mind this once. Besides, it's not mine, and it's only a practice guitar. What more damage can you do to it?" She chuckled.

"Thanks Mr. 2D…but please don't tell that scary green guy…I think he hates me." I chuckled.

"He hates everyone, now I think you have to go to bed."

"Yes sir…" We both put the guitar up as she laid down with one simple blanket and feel asleep. I exited the room and closed the door when I saw Jasmine standing next to me.

"Oh! Hello there! I was just-"

"I know, that was very sweet of you." She got closer to me.

"Oh well, I was hoping you'd think so."

"Yes…" She stepped closer. I stared at her.

"Are you cold or something? Why are you getting so close to me?" I stepped back.

"Uh…oh well yes I'm shivering actually." She said with a tone that made me think she was being sarcastic.

"Oh, well here's you a blanket." I said happily giving her the blanket. She frowned at it and stared at me.

"Thanks…"

"No problem!" I laid down on a futon and shut my eyes. I felt something flop next to me. I looked to see what it was and it was Jasmine. "Um, Jasmine…you do know your daughter probably wants you to sleep with her right?" She stared at me.

"I want to have sex with you." She said blandly.

"Oh, well uh…" We started to kiss and well, it went on from there.

The next morning, we had to wake up at 5am to get on the road. I had only gotten 4 hours of sleep, so that wasn't working out for me. But, I managed to get myself up and wake Jasmine and the sad Scarlet. We were about to get on the bus when Jasmine stopped us.

"WAIT!" We stared at her.

"GAH! What now with these people?" A grumpy Murdoc said.

"2D, you wouldn't want to leave us and know that there's a possibility that I'm pregnant with your child would you?"

"What?" Everyone exclaimed.

"You had sex with-Aw man…" Russel said is disbelief.

"Well she-I-uh-yes." I replied.

"Well that's just great!" Murdoc exclaimed sarcastically.

"We can't leave her though, what if she really is pregnant?" Noodle added. We all stared at her and sighed.

"Alright, alright! They can come with us!" Murdoc yelled. He glared at me. "I know I bang chicks all the time but why did you on the night before we travel?" I looked down.

"I know, I flubbed up again." I replied. Murdoc just grunted and got on the bus. This was the starting of a whole new adventure.