Ali stretched out on her bed, lost in her thoughts… she was feeling what her mother described as the midweek blues and it had started when the Ballard family moved back.

Alicia Ballard, Ali's childhood friend had turned into a bitter enemy. Jake turned into an overly aggressive jackass but aside from Roni and Miguel as well as the Castillo and Tubbs families, Ali knew another family she could rely on in troubling times… the Crockett family.

Ali sat up when she heard several pebbles being thrown at her window, stood up and looked outside… the tiny 13 year old smiled immediately and opened the window, climbed out and closed the window before climbing down the ladder that 13 year old Brady Crockett set up for her.

"Damn, am I glad to see you. I need help." Ali says.

"I expect you are, pal… so, we gonna talk here or go somewhere else for you to tell me what's been going on?" Brady says.

With that, the two headed to a nearby cafe and Ali had told Brady how Jake had acted earlier when she got to the part about Caroline calling Gina in a fit of anger though, Brady noticed the tension in Ali's eyes along with the old feelings of hurt when the Ballard family left in 1999.

"I… I guess I just thought I could leave it in the past but old wounds do hurt. Especially when two people I loved like family gang up with the meanest little bitch in Miami." Ali says, Brady lightly rubbing his hand up and down her back. "I… hate Britt Wheeler, she is pure evil in human form." She says, Brady's phone chiming and him glancing at it, seeing a text from Amber.

'I… might've really kicked the hornet's nest this time.'

'What did you do, sis?' Brady replies.

"Why do I have a feeling someone's hands are burned or that she hit someone with her staff?" Ali asks.

'Alicia and Britt showed up and… it all went haywire.' Amber replies.

An hour earlier…

"What do you want now?! You've already gone and smashed Ali's heart to pieces and your-" Amber says, glaring at Alicia. "Psycho brother attacked Miguel!" She growls.

"Those two deserve every hit they get! Why would it matter to you anyway, they ain't your family!" Alicia says, Amber doing her best to hold back from whacking her with her recently built staff, which was supposed to be an art project.

"Why?! Why do they deserve it, what have they done to-" Amber says, halfway to a shout but being cut off by Alicia standing up and grabbing Amber by her collar. "I suggest… very kindly that you let go of me!" She says.

"And I suggest less kindly that you shut the hell up!" Alicia says, Amber about to speak again but being cut off before she started as Alicia snapped out a lighter and flicked it on, Amber frantically trying to put out the flames that quickly turned her shirt's collar and left shoulder to thin charcoal.

Amber, after finally putting the flames out, panted as she caught her breath and examined the raw red burns on her skin, Alicia stood there unsure of exactly what to do next.

"You… STUPID BITCH!" Amber yells, grabbing her staff and swinging it, a sickening crack echoing around the room from Alicia's right arm before Amber dropped the staff and grabbed Alicia by the back of her neck, ramming her forward and slamming her face first into the solid brick wall next to them, Alicia's nose breaking and her consciousness leaving her.

Thinking quickly, Britt picked Alicia up to her feet and helped her to the Dodge Charger, helping Alicia into it before leaving. Amber recovered her senses and went inside, Elvis looking up at her with concern in his eyes and Amber crouching down to the elderly alligator.

"Sorry about all the noise, Elvis. Everything's crazy now." Amber says, patting Elvis on his head.

Present time…

"Okay, maybe it's not as bad as we think… at least I hope it isn't." Ali says after she and Brady reached the second St. Vitus Dance and walked downstairs, Sonny and Amber talking.

"I think after she's out of the hospital, a night in a cell would straighten her out." Sonny says.

"I'd put her on Scared Straight, that'd definitely sort it." Amber says, turning slightly and Brady and Ali catching a glance of the burns.

"Ouch… what was she thinking, who takes a lighter and does that?!" Ali says, letting out a slightly strangled sound as her throat still ached every now and then from the tonsils being removed barely a week ago.

"Angered people don't think at all." Sonny says, Elvis resting his head on Ali's feet and Ali crouching down and petting him.

Meanwhile…

"How the hell am I crazy?! She broke my arm, nose and gave me a concussion!" Alicia says angrily.

"Self defense, Alicia! You burned her neck… and you know what, that's it! We're done!" Ryan says, Alicia's eyes going wide with shock.

"Just like that?! 5 months that you're kicking down the drain because of this?!" Alicia says angrily.

"Yes because you assaulted someone on her own property! All because you're pissed off at another person who you think who's mom broke up your mom's marriage to Sonny!" Ryan says, leaving and brushing past Caroline.

"What happened, what did you say to my daughter?!" Caroline asks, Ryan looking at her.

"Mrs. Ballard, I'm sorry but I felt like I couldn't take it anymore. I broke things off with Alicia." Ryan says, Caroline glaring at him.

"You have the nerve to do that when she's in the E.R because of Sonny's crazy daughter?!" Caroline yells, unaware of Julia being nearby until Julia stormed over.

"Ryan, go wait outside." Julia says, Ryan doing so. "Amber acted in self defense, she has burns on her neck because Alicia took a lighter to it, Britt having witnessed it and not having stopped it! How about you keep your daughter and goddaughter under control, Caroline?!" She says.

"They're teenagers, not little kids! You've tried controlling someone over 13?! It's not so damn easy!" Caroline says angrily.

"And yet look at Amber and Brady! Only in self defense, same as Ali and Miguel! Alicia had exactly the same potential, it's how kids are raised that determines how they act! Maybe people might call Amber a bit violent, that's just because we taught her and Brady to have zero tolerance for freaks like these who hurt them!" Julia says.

Outside, Ryan waited by his Trans-Am before seeing Julia walk out to him.

"That was loud… on a scale of 1 to 10, how pissed is she?" Ryan says.

"Let's just say you don't want to go near her for a few days." Julia says.

"Wise advice, Aunt Julia." Ryan says, the two leaving in his Trans-Am and heading to the boat. When they walked in, Julia and Amber hugged before Julia and Ali did.

"Ali, this is Ryan, Eddie Rivera's son." Julia says, Ali and Ryan shaking hands.