We seek the drama intensify and suddenly, someone finds out. Who is it? You'll see!

Chapter 10: Lars Opens Up

After school, Lars made his way back home after a very difficult day at school and he still felt tormented by those people who kept shoving him down and rejecting him because he's Mexican and to him, it felt like he was hurt by them. But somehow...the discrimination was far from over.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Jesse and his crew began to chase Lars through the town and when Lars looked behind, he could see them coming after him and he began running as further away from them as possible, hopefully trying to make it home in one piece.

"Come back here, Lars! We just wanna take ya home!" Marshall said, laughing maniacally.

Lars kept running faster and faster and faster but then they were gaining on him, which adds to his fear factor that he might get hurt or worse and suddenly, Jesse grabbed him by the arm and just shoved him down to the ground and the gang started to charge on him and beat him up.

Suddenly, Jesse slams on top of him, grabbing his neck hoping that he'll die of asphyxiation and said, "Say goodbye to the world, Mexican freak!"

Lars struggles to break free, but Jesse keeps clutching his grip and Lars began choking for air and suddenly..

"What the hell do you bastards think you're doing to him?!"

In comes Diego and Marcus and they looked completely pissed off at Jesse and his crew after witnessing what had happened and as Marcus saw Jesse grabbing Lars' neck, Marcus went up to him and punched him in the face, which in turn caused Lars to be released from Jesse's grip and began coughing and gasping for air.

Diego immediately went over to him and gave him his bottled water and he said, "Did those dumb-asses kill you?"

Lars was chugging down some water, hoping to regain his breathing and he started panting heavily and he nodded his head and Marcus told Jesse, "You coulda killed him!"

"So? He doesn't belong here, anyway! I'm just doing what's best for our school!" Jesse shot back.

Marcus grew very angry at Jesse and he asked, "Best for our school or best for you guys?"

Suddenly, Diego shoved Jesse down towards the ground and he said, "That's for trying to choke him! And for trying to humiliate him on Whosebook!"

Marcus quickly turned to Diego and asked, "Whosebook?"

"Yeah, I was checking my Whosebook earlier today and I saw something that says, 'No Mexicans in our school! Like me if you wanna send some messages to make his life miserable' and amazingly...10,000 people responded!" Diego replied angrily, looking at his phone and to both Lars and Marcus' shock...many of those were death threats to his family and insulting slurs.

That obviously hurt Lars and he just ran away, crying hysterically and after that, Marcus said to him, "You guys are idiots! Cyber-bullying?! Really?"

"We don't see it as cyber-bullying. We perfer...internet hi-jinks." Devon replied.

Diego disagreed with that elusive comment and he said, "You guys have nothing better to do than humiliate people online? We call it cyber-bullying and cyber-discrimination!"

Marshall scoffed at that and he said, "Your words mean nothing!"

Marcus didn't need to take this anymore and he said, "Come on, Diego. Let's go. We don't have time for these nimrods."

"I'm with you, Marc. You guys can kiss my ass for all I freakin' care." Diego responded angrily as he walked away.

The Ramirez home

Mrs. Ramirez was completely worried for her son after finding out that someone made some death threats to Lars online and discriminating remarks to him at school. She was completely unaware that it had already happened and that he didn't tell anyone about it. Just then, she received a knock on the door and when she answered, it was Diego and Marcus standing there and Marcus said, "Hey, Mrs. Ramirez. Is Lars here?"

"Si. Come in." Mrs. Ramirez said.

Diego and Marcus entered the home and they've never seen anything like it before and wondered this is where they live now and Mrs. Ramirez asked, "Have you two noticed my son never told me about how the people at the school discriminated him?"

"Yes, we did. The students discriminated him, but the teachers didn't." Diego answered.

It puts in a lot of fear for Mrs. Ramirez, worrying that this could be what might happen if they live here longer and she asked, "Why didn't he tell me about this?"

"He might've been scared to tell you." Marcus added.

"I don't think we've ever had to deal with something like this before, you know people rejecting others just because they're different or from another country. It just makes me really mad." Diego said, in a bitter tone.

Mrs. Ramirez sat down on the dining room chairs and she lets out a simple sigh and said, "Hijo, come down please."

Not long after, Lars went downstairs and saw Diego and Marcus sitting there and he walked over to them and said, "Hola."

"Hey, we just came by to see if you were okay." Marcus replied.

Lars lets out a big sigh and his mother looked at him and asked, "Why didn't you tell me about this?"

"I was too scared to, mama. It's been like that since the first day and I've been bullied, punched, kicked, rejected, threatened and discriminated by almost everyone here and it made me feel sad that no one likes me just because I'm from Mexico. If I told anyone, I would put your lives in danger and I don't want that to happen." Lars explained, through tears.

His mother grabbed ahold of her son and just hugged him tightly with tears coming down her face and she whispered, "It's okay, hijo. It will be okay."

She looked at both Marcus and Diego and she said, "Lars is very lucky to have friends like you."

Diego agreed with that and he said, "He's everything to us."

Marcus nodded his head and said, "We need to do something about this."

"Something must be done."

It must be done, right? You'll see what that means coming up!