Sammy's POV

The first time I saw this place I thought that I was dreaming, or at least had gone crazy. But as time passed I got used to it. And I learned more from it than what I learned from school. But what I NEVER expected was that when I met my father he'd be the boss, the big man, dude everybody looks up to. And that I'd be the heir to it when I turned 18. How weird can life get?

Not that I hate weird things. In fact it's what keeps my life interesting. Like how my mom decided to marry this rich guy [I think his name was Tom] who had three kids just so the people can have something to talk about. Or that when I moved to Hollywood, there were a large amount of guys who wanted to get in my pants, and girls who kept on bugging me cause they thought I was leading everyone on. Or the time I made up a gang called Devil's Wings and we all had these cool handmade jackets. Oh but the definite weirdest was when I met my father and was forced to learn Karate, Kung Fu, Judo, Aikido, Bansai, Senkyaku Banrai, Hinoki Ryu, etc. He even made me studied fighting cultures in Japan, China, and Tokyo. The training was hard. I usually felt numb and tired, but it beat being stuck with my mother for the two month I spent with her.

Oh the irony. Sometimes I think my life will never be normal.

It's been at least three years since I've been in this town and I can hardly recognize anyone. Or maybe everybody is just in hiding. Marissa I know is still living in Santa Martina, Dot moved to Holland, Holly moved to Maryland. Billy is still here. Also that punk Danny . . . . . . . and Casey.

Why had she blocked that name out of her head for the past three years? Was it the pain from the past when last saw each other at the airport, their parent's relationship hadn't even lasted a year after her mother was caught cheating. So why was the pain still there? Was it from the lost contact over the years? Usually when he came up in her head she blocked him out by traveling and training, anything to get her mind off him. But now she couldn't. She was back. She didn't know what to do if she even ran into him or was in the same room as him. She wasn't even able to figure out her feelings for him.

Realizing the fact that she was rambling in her head Sammy shook it off.

'Keep it together Keyes, there's no time to be thinking of that. You're an assassin working for USSPI now. Stopping greedy idiots who only care about themselves and taking care of the unfortunate's problems, not worrying about that.'

'How will you be able to help others if you can't help yourself?'

'Go away; I don't need you to tell me that.'

'Do you actually expect me to go away because you tell me to? Why even bother trying. You can't even admit anything to yourself.'

'Weak.'

'Go away'

'Spineless.'

'Shut up'

'You remind me of our mother.'

'LEAVE ME ALONE!'

'Fine, if you're going to start to scream then I'll go. I'm just trying to say that you're not fit to be the one to control this body. One day you'll give up on living and I'll be there to do what you cannot.'

I was on the floor a few feet away from where I was supposed to be, crying. The voice in my head was my making me hurt. I could take physical pain. Any day, time, and place. I would take it and be grateful. A hundred, thousand, million times. But emotionally, and mentally I was a wreck.

I stood up, wiped my tears, and began walking to the door that lead to my fathers office, and opened it expect to see my old man doing some thing stupid like reading a dirty magazine, or on his laptop watch Naruto, but instead I was greeted by Noel .

Noel, my fathers partner was waiting for me sitting in his desk watching Bleach with the volume up. Dad must have been somewhere else either trying to meet woman, or training.

Turning the volume on the laptop down and closing it, Noel said "Sam, I have a mission for you, well it's more of a group mission. You and your partner will have six months and it has to be a success."

"I can guarantee that this will go well."

"So did your father, even with the handicap."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well you have heard that USSPI was cut in half 50 years ago, and it all started between two twin brother named Shotaro and Emine who's father was the boss of USSPI and when it was time for him to step down, the brothers fought over who gets control over the company so they reached the decision of cutting it in half, one half called Black Star, and the other White Star. Those who work for Black Star got a tattoo of a hollow black star on their collarbone, and those who worked for White Star got a hollow white star on the palm of their hand. Ever since then both half have been competing in everything from the amount of missions to, which does the better job and of course, who's the strongest. Your father and Mr. Quartz have been fighting and keeping this legacy alive for years and refused to work together. But now the council wants their groups to work together in order to find out a problem that's been growing for at least five years. So you who is under Black Star are going to work with a member of White Star."

"Wow, and I'm suspecting that the council expects that Black and White Star with both become one if this mission is a success."

"Yup, that pretty much sums it up."

"So when to I meet the lucky person?"

"Your father through a fit when they said it was a boy."

Hearing a knock at the door, Noel walked up to the door and opened it, revealing the one guy I was trying so hard not to thing about.

"….Casey?"