So I finished the chapters for my other Kickin' It fan-fic, Just Friends and I will be resuming that story sometime within the next week or two. Now that summer is started for me, I can finally start this story that I've been waiting to start for a long time. My friend, Bella helped me come up with the idea back in February, but we decided to start collaborating on it when summer started, so there would be absolutely no delays in the chapter.

Jack Anderson was fourteen years old when he was murdered after the Swan's Court Cotillion. For almost a year, he has been roaming the streets of Seaford in his ghost form, trying to find a way to communicate with Kim Crawford, the girl who hasn't quite gotten over his death.

After Life

Jack Anderson

Chapter 1

Prologue

I was fourteen the night that I was murdered. I've been roaming the streets of Seaford, California for almost a year now. It's been hard to be stuck here, seeing the hard times that all of my friends went through after it happened. Especially the girl that I almost asked to be my girlfriend, Kim Crawford. I was so close. I moved to Seaford when I was thirteen, and we hit it off from the start. I knew she had a crush on me, I mean I could see it, but I didn't bug her too much about it because I knew that I had a crush on her too. But I didn't ever ask her out, because I thought that one day we would have a confrontation about our feelings being mutual, but I never knew that the day would be when I would be when I was murdered.

One Year Ago

It was a warm night in Seaford, and Kim and I were walking home from the Riverside Country Club after the Swan's Court Cotillion. We were both covered in what was now dry gravy. She shuffled beside me slowly as we walked towards our houses. We were both really tired from dancing all night long, she shivered beside me, hugging herself with her arms in silence.

"Are you cold?" I asked her.

"Maybe a little." She said quietly. "I guess a jacket might have been a good thing to bring."

"Here." I said as I took off the tuxedo jacket I was wearing and wrapped it around her. She smiled gratefully and held onto the collar of it as we continued to walk together.

"I'm sorry that I was so insensitive towards you," Kim said quietly, looking up at me. "I was upset that you weren't going with me, so I guess you could say that I used Brody to get back at you. I'm sorry, Jack."

"Don't worry about it, Kim." I said as I smiled down at her, looking at the crown on her head. "I should've accepted your invitation in the first place, I mean it would've been really fun if we had gone together."

She shrugged, "Well, with the time that we spent together tonight, it still was pretty fun."

We continued to walk now in a comfortable silence. Now was the perfect time to tell her that I like her. I heard distant footsteps behind us and I turned around. There was nothing there. I turned back to Kim hesitantly before sighing, "Kim, can I tell you something?"

She stopped in her tracks and looked back at me, "What is it, Jack?"

"Well, I know that you have a crush on me…" I said catching up to her with a goofy grin. "But it's okay, because I have a crush on you too."

"You do?" She asked, a blushing creeping up onto her rosy cheeks. She smiled happily and looked down at her feet. "Well, what took you so long?"

I shrugged, scratching the back of my head, "I don't know. I guess I was scared."

"You're scared? You're Jack Anderson, a black belt in Karate and you're scared to tell me that you like me?" She asked in disbelief. Then she smiled sweetly. "You must really like me then."

"I do." I said with a smile. "I really do."

"Well that's good, so I'm not the only one."

I smiled at her and we started to lean in. I started to hear footsteps coming closer, and the next thing I know, I'm on the ground, unable to move. My head feels like it's a thousand pounds heavier and I feel warm liquid gushing out.

"FRANK?" Kim screamed in disbelief. "What did you just do?"

"I-I didn't mean to hit him so hard!" Frank said, dropping the baseball bat that he must've just used to nail me in the back of the head.

Kim rushed to my side and then I see Brody and Sensei Ty running down the sidewalk towards us while Kim cradles my head in her lap. My head felt numb, and my white dress-shirt along with my dress coat that Kim was wearing were now drenched in blood.

"Jack, stay with me." Kim said, tears welling up in her eyes. "Please."

Brody rushed to my side and looked at Kim apologetically, but all she did was nail him with a fist to the face. He felt onto his back and cupped his cheek, "Okay, maybe I deserved that. But I'm not a part of this, Kim! I know you shouldn't trust me, but I wouldn't do anything to hurt Jack! I know you like him."

"Just call for an ambulance, please!" Kim snarled at him.

"I-I'm okay." I told her, shakily bringing my bloody hand up to touch her cheek, she leaned against it with tears running down her cheeks. "Don't cry, please."

"I love you." She whispered, kissing my lips lightly.

I kissed her back weakly and smiled slightly, staring into her eyes, "I love you."

"What the hell were you thinking, Frank!" Sensei Ty screamed in Frank's face as he frowned apologetically, looking ashamed.

"I did what you told me to do! You said to get him back for embarrassing the Black Dragons!" Frank said, trying to stick up for himself as Kim started to cry over my body.

"I said to get him back as in teach him a lesson, not to kill him!" Sensei Ty said running a frustrated hand through his hair as he pointed at me. "You killed him! We're going to go to jail now, Frank! There's no escaping what you've done."

"Killed?" I said as I stood up, walking towards Sensei Ty. "Frank didn't kill me, I'm fine."

Sensei Ty had his back on me so I reached out my hand to put on his shoulder, but it went straight through and I stumbled and went right through him and Frank.

"What the heck?" I said, standing up. "Kim, what's going on?"

I looked at Kim who was still sobbing over a lifeless body. Wait, was that me? Was that my body? I stepped closer and gasped. That was me, and I was dead. Frank had killed me, but it was an accident. I walked right up to Kim and kneeled down beside her. I looked cautiously at my body, wishing that this was all a dream, but it was reality, I was dead.

"We can't go to jail, I can't afford to lose the dojo to some untrained scum." Sensei Ty said, clapping at Frank who flinched. "We must get out of here, go get that bat and let's go."

But they were too late, Brody ran back to the scene and an ambulance and a few cop cars pulled up. They got out of the cars and pulled out their pistols, pointing them at Sensei Ty and Frank who dropped the bat and got on his knees with tears in his eyes. I felt bad, Frank wasn't exactly the smartest person, so I wasn't surprised that he misinterpreted what Sensei Ty ordered him to do.

A couple of paramedics rushed to Kim and my body with a gurney. Next thing I know, Jerry, Eddie, Milton and Eddie are running to us down the street as Brody pulls Kim away from the gurney where the paramedics are covering my body up. Rudy's eyes widened as he realized what was going on, "TY!"

Sensei Ty turned around with anger in his eyes, "What do you want, Rudy?"

Rudy punched him in the nose as the police officers handcuffed him and shoved him and Frank into the back of two separate cop cars. Kim had wrestled herself out of Brody's grip and he stumbled back and frowned as she went to hug the others.

"I can't believe this." Milton said with puffy red eyes. "My girlfriend's uncle set up my best friend to be killed. I am so sorry, Jack."

"It's okay, Milton. It isn't your fault." I said as he stared at my covered up body on the gurney but I forgot that he couldn't hear me. I was nothing but a voice with no sound.

"Tonight was so swag, but now it's the worst day of my life." Jerry said with a frown. "I'm sorry things had to go down like this, bro."

"I can't believe this is happening." Eddie said quietly.

The paramedics pulled the gurney into the back of the ambulance and let Rudy and Kim ride in the back of it. I followed them inside and stood there, watching them both stare at the black tarp that covered my body as they drove to the hospital. Rudy stood up and slowly uncovered my face and he clenched his fists, staring down at my lifeless, pale, bloody face. My eyes were still wide open.

"This has gone too far." Rudy said calmly, sitting back down as he stared at the body. "We will get them back, Kim. We will avenge Jack."

"It's not what he would want, Rudy." Kim said, speaking for the first time since I died. "Jack wasn't a violent guy, what he would want is for us to try and get over it."

She kneeled down beside the gurney and used two of her fingers to slowly close my eyelids, and she kissed my cold forehead before covering me back up with the black tarp. Rudy sighed, burying his face into his hands, "You're right, Kim. But Jack is family to us at the Bobby Wasabi Dojo. How are we going to honor his death?"

"I don't know." Kim mumbled as she held on to the bloody suit jacket that I gave to her to wear. "But we'll figure out something."

Present Day

Ever since the night I died, Kim had been trying to commit suicide, and she wanted to give up. I always stayed with her, and I told her to never give up. And she didn't. I wondered if she could hear me, or feel my presence because sometimes she would talk to no one when she was alone, like she was talking to me. Jerry, Milton and Eddie were always there for Kim, though. It was just as hard on them because they were like my brothers. Rudy had completely become a more serious person. He had a framed photo of me at the entrance of the dojo before my funeral.

Life around Seaford was different after I was killed. The Black Dragons Dojo was shut down and all of the students there had to go through a series of tests at the police station to make sure that they weren't a part of what happened. Sensei Ty was put into jail for life, and Frank was sentenced only five years. I think that even the government knew that he was a little bit clueless. Brody on the other hand moved back to whatever state or city he came from afterwards. He had been banned from the state of the California for knowing what Frank was planning to do to me on accident.

Things were hardest around my family. Both of my parents were hard on themselves for never spending as much time supporting me and my martial arts career and just for not paying more attention my little sister, G (A/N: I'm using G. Hannelius as Jack's sister in the story because her and Leo Howard played siblings on Leo Little's Big Show!) but they stepped it up and always made time for her. She was going through a hard time, and was in denial about my death. She didn't want to believe that something so violent could happen.

Kim would frequently visit G, since Kim was an only child, she was close with my sister because they used to prank me all of the time. It was actually kind of fun to be pranked by them, because I would sometimes turn the pranks on them. But G knew that I was still roaming around. I would come to her room every night and we would talk. Somehow, she could see me but she didn't tell anyone, especially Kim because she would go paranoid trying to see me too. I had tried to communicate with Kim, and now that she was more and more distant these days, it was becoming harder because she wouldn't pay attention to anything.

Normally, Kim would pay attention to the little things and she would always notice little things. I would try to send signals, by flickering lights or turning on the radio but she wouldn't ever notice. Kim just wasn't the same dazzling southern belle that she was. And I missed her, and I promised myself that I would help her recover from her shocked state right up until she landed in the hospital from severe depression that was affecting her blood pressures and body. She wasn't in good shape at all mentally. She was fragile and pale physically.

I walked into the hospital and went to Kim's hospital room where she lay in the bed, staring out the windows. I frowned. I hated seeing her like this, and I hated knowing it was all because of me, "Kim?"

For the first time in a year, she turned her head slowly in my direction and her eyes widened, "J-Jack?"

"You can see me?" I asked curiously as I came closer to her.

She jumped up in the hospital bed and grabbed onto her blankets, screaming at me with tears in her eyes, "GET AWAY FROM ME! YOU AREN'T JACK!"

"No, no, Kim! It's me, I am Jack. I'm a ghost." I told her calmly, using my arms to try and hold her but I went straight through her and she screamed again, this time even louder.

"IS THIS A DREAM? HELP! SECURITY! SOMEONE HELP ME!" Kim screamed, tossing and turning in her bed.

The door busted open and a couple of doctors, nurses and tall, built men from the security came running in Kim's room, "What is it, Miss Crawford?" One of the nurses' said in an alarmed tone.

Kim's eyes were wild as she pointed right at me and all of the heads in the room turned to look at me but they all furrowed the brows in confusion, "Kim. There is nothing there, you are just seeing things, it's a part of the high blood pressure, and you should try to sleep."

"You don't understand!" She said, breathing heavily. "I saw him, I saw Jack!"

"Jack Anderson was murdered brutally last year." One of the security guards said coldly.

Kim looked at him and started to cry again, one of the nurses injected her IV with a medicine that would hopefully calm Kim down at my eyes watered at the sight of seeing her like this. I didn't know how I would help her recover if she looked at me like I was a monster.

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed. Reviews would mean a lot because I am collaborating on this with my friend and we would like to know if there are readers or not. New chapter coming tomorrow, so please review and let us know what you think :)