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Chapter One: A Mistake

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"Hurting someone can be as easy as throwing a stone into a sea, but do you have any idea how deep that stone will go?" -Unknown

"Antonio!" Jayden shouted angrily.

"Uh-oh," Mike said. "He's pissed."

Antonio came into the living room. "What's up?"

"I'm going to ask you once, and only once," Jayden said through clenched teeth. "Can I have my knife back?"

"What?"

"My tanto knife my dad gave me. It was in my room a few hours ago, and your the only person whose been in there. I know because I told you to go in there because Mike hid your fishing line."

Mike laughed, "I did do that."

"Yeah, I got my line back," Antonio said. "But I never touched your knife."

"Liar!"

"I'm not lying! I really didn't take it!"

"Then how do you explain it going missing? You're were the last one in there and I checked everywhere."

"We'll then I don't know what to tell you."

"How about, 'gee Jayden, I'm sorry I violated your trust and took something that was precious to you.'"

"But I didn't take it. Why would I?"

"I don't know. You tell me thief."

"I'm not a thief!"

"Look." Jayden said getting in Antonio's face. "I don't care why you took it, I just want it back. It means a lot to me."

"I didn't take it though." By now their argument had brought Kevin, Mia, and Emily the living room.

"Fine. I'll search your room then."

"You can't do that! You have no proof that I took it."

"You were the last one in there."

"That still doesn't mean I took it." Jayden turned away from him. Antonio grabbed his wrist. Several things happened at once. Antonio didn't have time to react. He felt something smash into the side of his face. He released Jayden's wrist and stumbled to the side. He fell to the ground, smacking his head off a table. A vase on the table fell over and hit him on the head, shattering into a million pieces. He cried out in pain. He touched his fingers to his temple and felt sticky blood. He looked up at Jayden who was standing over him, fists clenched in anger.

Jayden wasn't sure what happened. One minute he was yelling in Antonio's face, then he turned around to go search the gold ranger's room. He felt Antonio grab his wrist. He wasn't sure why, but it made him even more angry. Before he could think he spun around, punching Antonio in the side of the head.

The gold ranger stumbled to the ground and hit his head off a table, then a vase fell on his head. He looked up at Jayden who was standing with his fists clenched. Jayden saw the look of shock and horror on his face. He took a step forward, and Antonio raised one of his hands in front of him protectively. Jayden saw a new emotion spread across his face...fear.

He stared at Jayden in terror. The fear in his best friend's dark eyes snapped him out of his craze. He blinked then looked down at Antonio. His stomach plummeted. "Oh god..."

"Antonio!" Emily shouted running forward to help him. "Are you ok?"

Ji and Lauren came in. "What happened?!" Ji asked when he saw Antonio.

"Jayden punched Antonio and caused him to hit the table," Kevin said.

"Jayden is that true?"

"Yes," Jayden said.

"Why did you punch him?"

"Because I was mad at him."

"You took your anger out on him?"

"No," Mike said. "He accused Antonio of stealing something from him."

"You accused him? Did you have any proof?"

"Not really," Jayden said thinking over what had just happened.

"Did you ask him if he took it? Or did you just assume?"

"I...I guess I assumed."

"What exactly did you think he took?"

"The knife dad gave me."

Ji paused for a moment. "Regardless you shouldn't have done it. Honestly Jayden, I'd expect more responsible behavior from you."

"Yes, Mentor," Jayden said flinching. He looked at Antonio. He took a step toward him and held out his hand. "Let me help you."

Antonio shook his head and crawled backwards away from him. Ji walked over and helped him up. "I think you've done enough. Come on Antonio, lets get you cleaned up." He led Antonio out of the room. He stopped and looked back at Jayden. "I'm not finished with you, understand?"

"Yes," Jayden said. Ji led Antonio away. Lauren strode in and smacked Jayden upside the head. "Ow! What's was that for?"

"For hurting my boyfriend, and wrongfully accusing him. I took the knife."

"What? Why?"

"BecauseI wanted to compare it to the one dad gave me. Next time just ask around before accusing someone, baka!"

Jayden sighed. Kevin and Mike shook their heads at him before leaving. Emily and Mia began picking up the pieces of glass. "Let me help you."

"We got it," Mia said icily.

Jayden was taken a back. Lauren shook her head and left to check on Antonio. Jayden sighed. What have I done?

Antonio flinched as Ji took another small piece of glass out of his head. "Sorry," Ji said. "Don't worry. I think we're almost done." He pulled out the remaining pieces, them started to look at the cut. "This is pretty deep."

"We'll I didn't exactly have a chance to defend myself."

"I know," Ji said. "This is going to require a few stitches." He got the supplies out. "Rest assure, Jayden will be punished. He had no right to do this."

"I know," Antonio said as Ji began to stitch up his head. He flinched. Lauren came in.

"How are you?"

"Hurting."

"Don't worry, I'll take good care of you." She looked at him where he had been hit. "That's going to swell."

"I know."

"Hope Jayden gets a good look at you, because I wanted to stab his eyes out."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Everyone's pretty ticked off with him."

Antonio thought back to when Jayden had hit him. He remembered Jayden standing over him, looking like he was going to hit again. He remembered the feeling of being trapped wash over him, accompanied by fear that he was going to be hit again. He didn't know why, but when Jayden stood over him like that, he suddenly flashed back to when kids who were bigger than him used to surround him and beat him up.

Whenever they knocked him to the ground they would stand over him, sneering at him. Calling him weak and a coward. That's stupid. Jayden's nothing like those kids. They did it to make me feel inferior. But when Jayden punched Antonio, that was exactly how he felt. Weak and inferior.

Later that day Jayden sat in his room. He had retreated there after his icy response from Mia. He heard his door open and looked up. Kevin came in and tossed Jayden's knife onto the bed. "Lauren told me to give this to you." The blue ranger's voice was detatched, like he was trying not to show Jayden any emotion.

Kevin turned to leave. "Wait," Jayden said. Kevin stopped in the doorway. "Is...is he alright? Is Antonio ok?"

"I don't know. Lauren said he's in his room," Kevin replied without turning around.

"I didn't mean to do it. You guys know that right? It was an accident."

"No. It was a loss of control. You shouldn't have hit him just because you were mad. Samurai don't do that." With that he left and shut the door behind him, leaving Jayden alone with his guilty thoughts.