I would like to send a huge shout out to Miss Emeralds who has made my day with her amazing comments! I hope you get a bigger room! Us older kids need to stick together! I also want to thank Take The Chopsticks And Run and monkeygirl77 and ChloemmaKAREN (yes, I plan to add some Danley- thanks for the suggestion!) for commenting too. That's everyone who's commented so far so if I missed you- I apologize. Time for chapter three! This is inspired by a request from monkeygirl77. Thanks for the idea, girl! I fell in love with it right when I read your comment.

Merritt heard the ding-dong of the doorbell in the afternoon after the room switch. He started towards the door wondering who could be there. He hadn't met anyone so far.

Just as Merritt put his hand on the door Henley came running down the stairs shouting "NO!" But it was too late. Cara Woods, the annoying neighbor, marched right in the house like she owned the place.

"Hi there, Henley!" she greeted. Henley waved weakly.

Merritt raised his eyebrow at the stranger. "I met Cara on a sort of jog this morning and might have promised to hang out." Henley explained.

Cara pulled a boy with her same blonde hair and blue eyes into the house. He wore kacki pants, a plaid shirt, and a tweed jacket. Henley figured this was her son, George. "George and I decided to come and say hi."

"Come on in." Merritt said, ignoring Henley's rapidly shaking head.

Just then Daniel and Jack ran in the house from the backyard.

"The thing is I don't know if the jetpack will be able to stay hidden behind us. Everyone would be able to tell it's there." Daniel was saying.

"What if we- oh hi…" Jack stopped when he saw the people at the front door.

Henley spoke, "Daniel, Jack, this is our neighbor, Cara, and her son George."

"Nice to meet you." Daniel said, skeptically.

"You too." Cara said, "So why don't George and Jack hang out while us grownups chat."

Jack could feel the weight of a thousand bricks fall on his shoulders. He looked from Daniel to Henley to Merritt, pleading them with his eyes not to leave him alone with this guy. Merritt shrugged, then spoke, "That sounds good."

Jack groaned. "Here, let's go to my room." George walked up the stairs behind him.

"I brought Pictionary!" Cara squealed, holding up the bright blue box.

All the older Horsemen gave a sarcastic, "Yay."

Back upstairs, Jack and George were in Jack's room. "So do you like video games?" Jack asked, pointing to his in-room Wii.

"No, mother won't allow me to play such games." George responded.

"Okay… how about we play tackle football outside?"

"I wouldn't want to get my slacks dirty." George insisted.

Who is this guy? Jack thought. "Fine. What if we did some skateboarding? I have two boards."

"That does not seem quite enjoyable to me." George said.

"Well, C3PO, what DO you like to do!" Jack snapped.

George calmly said, "Playing with cards is fun." He saw one of Jack's sets on the bedside table.

Jack got down the cards, "So now we play like Poker?" Jack wasn't really all in to using cards as games, cards meant so much more than that to him, but he had to keep this kid entertained.

"No, how about Go Fish?"

"Sure, that sounds like lots of fun." Jack said sarcastically, but started dealing the cards anyway. George took off his jacket and something glinted on his arm. A beautiful gold watch with roman numerals for the numbers on the face. The shine reflected in Jack's eyes.

"Is it a bird?" Henley asked Daniel. They were in the middle of Pictionary and thanks to Daniel's not so perfect drawing skills, were totally loosing.

Daniel shook his head. "Is it a giraffe?"

"Ooh, I know!" Merritt said, "A pencil!" Daniel just threw the pencil across the room, right then and there.

"That's it- I quit!"

"Wow," Jack said in awe, "Where did you get that watch?"

"My dad gave it to me, before he left on his most recent tour. He's in the army. Stationed overseas." George said, as he fingered the watch. "He told me whenever I wore it, I would be able to think of him and how much he misses me."

"He sounds like a great guy."

"He is. So should we start playing?" George picked up his cards.

"Sure." Jack said.

Thirty minutes later, the older Horsemen had had enough of Cara Wood's stupid board games and wanted her out. So in the nicest way they thought possible, they told them to scram.

George and Jack ran down from upstairs. The Horsemen said goodbye as the Wood's left the building. "Yes!" they all screamed after they left.

"Why don't we watch some TV?" Daniel asked, "Family Feud is on!" So they all settled in on the couch with some popcorn and watched until the phone started ringing.

Ring, ring. Daniel went to pick it up. "Hello?"

"Hi, Daniel. George can't seem to find his watch his dad gave him and I'm wondering if you have seen it over there."

Daniel stared at the back of Jack's head and figured he already knew where the watch was. "We'll look around here and bring it over to your house if we find it. By the way, how did you get this number?"

"The phonebook. TTYL!" Cara hung up.

Daniel walked into the TV room and paused the show. "That was Cara. She said that George lost his gold watch over here. Have anything to say about that, Jack?"

Jack squirmed in his seat, "Nope."

"Empty your pockets." Merritt insisted.

Jack looked at their serious faces and knew that they were not going to let this go. "Fine." He groaned. Sure enough, the missing watch was in his front pocket. He reluctantly handed it over to Daniel.

"Why would you do that?" Daniel wondered, astonished, "Cara said that watch was from George's dad."

"You have enough money now to buy things like that." Henley said, "You don't need to steal it."

"It wasn't the gold I wanted." Jack flopped on the couch, "It was the story that came with it. George said that his dad gave him that and he's on a tour overseas. Whenever he wears it, he's reminded that his dad is thinking of him."

The Horsemen nodded solemnly. "We get it. You miss your dad." Henley spoke.

Jack reeled up at this. "No way! I could never miss him. He was the worst parent that could possibly walk the face of the Earth! The police called it 'child neglect'. I was on my own ever since my mom ran away from that lunatic!" Jack froze, looking surprised that he had let so much come out of his mouth.

"Is that why you pick pockets?" Merritt asked, gently.

Jack sighed, giving in, "Yeah. That's how I got money; no one paid any attention to me enough to feed me themselves. Everything I had to learn on my own, on the streets. I balanced all of that with school too. No one cares. I bet… my dad didn't even notice that I left. I didn't even live with him anyway after I turned 13 and started working the streets. I never had a family, I don't even remember my mom." Merritt, out of the corner of his eye, saw Daniel quickly wipe his watering eyes. "I'm sorry. That was a lot to dump on all of you. I'll go bring it over to George's, say I found it on the floor in my room or something."

Jack got up, took the watch from Daniel, and walked outside to the Wood's house. The older Horsemen in the living room were still stunned.

"I can't believe how much he's been through." Henley sighed.

"And he always acts so cheerful, I wonder why he wouldn't tell us anything before. He's hiding such a terrible story." Daniel said.

"Let's try to make us all seem more like a family…" Merritt said, then he covered, "You know, for the kid's sake."

"Of course." Daniel nodded vigorously.

"For Jack." Henley said, "We need to be there for him. We need to make sure he knows that he can trust us, it'll be hard since he's gone through so much pain, but I think we can do it."

"We're magicians, we can do anything." Daniel agreed.

Just then Jack walked through the door. "I gave back the watch it's all good now- mmph!"

He was interrupted by a massive bear hug from all of the Horsemen who promised to never let anyone ever hurt him again.

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-NotUrAverageMusician