THEY KNOW! THEY KNOW! LET THE FIREWORKS BEGIN...

Jackson grumbled as his alarm clock went off, singling him to get ready for school. Monday…the day he would have to face Frankie. Falling off his bed he slowly got up stretching and yawning. He has been having the same odd dream for the past two days. A teenage blue monster thing has been appearing in his dreams yelling and screaming in pain. He seemed to catch on fire and before the flames cleared Jackson woke up. He hasn't had a dream like that in years. When he was little he created an imaginary friend by the name Holt Hyde…he never understood why that name came to him, but it seemed to work. Jekyll and Hyde sounded cool in his four year old mind. But soon his friend became a nightmare scaring him as he slept. He became like an evil shadow that lurked over him. He long forgotten about him until these dreams came back. Shivering as he remembered telling his parents about the blue monster with a tribal face birthmark. They looked very concerned and told him not to worry about it. How he hated that imaginary friend…He guessed that is why he wasn't very creative anymore. His last creation hunted him for the longest of years.

Putting on a light blue ying-yang t-shirt on and smoothing out his wild bed head. He looked over his arms and sighed grabbing a light gray over shirt. He walked down stairs and headed into the kitchen to find it empty. He wasn't too surprised he mother wasn't up yet, after the weekend they had it was better off if he didn't see her right now. Not bothering to grab anything to eat he got into his car and drove to school. Like the first day of school all over again, but this time knew these monsters Clawd got his temps Saturday and he was driving when his sisters got out complaining about how he drove as their dad silenced them with a growl. Deuce was laughing standing by the door waiting on him or Cleo he wasn't always for sure. Heath, Jackson knew was already inside trying to get some poor girl to date him. Thinking of Heath getting rejected again made Jackson get out of his car to head into the dark but very happy school.

"Dude Jackson you look horrible," Deuce said noticing the blackness underneath his friend's eyes.

Jackson just shrugged, "I didn't sleep well last night, but I am fine though." He placed a smile on his face making Deuce glare at him but he took it. "So where is Frankie?" He asked trying to get away from the conversation.

"I saw her head inside not too long ago." He said motioning with his head the direction she went. "But you might want to put Heath on a leash though," Jackson raised his eyebrows as Deuce continued, "There is a new Ghoul Abbey Bominable, she can be a little cold, but I am pretty sure our ghouls will warm her up."

"So besides Heath trying to flirt with her…why should I put him on a leash?" Jackson asked folding his arms trying to picture Heath getting frozen by this new girl.

"Fire…ice…" Deuce giving Jackson a dull look, "and they say you are the smartest kid in our grade."

Jackson smacked his head rolling his eyes, "Hey even geniuses have our moments!"

"Sure dude," he said chuckling, rolling his eyes, "go find him before he gets into trouble."

"Fine I will go baby sit my cousin." Jackson said as he saw the new girl walking with Lagoona.

Waving good bye Jackson went searching for Frankie to talk to her without Heath making pointless comments and making a bad situation worst. He found her talking to Draculuara and when she saw him she quickly turned to Draculuara who patted her on the shoulder waving Jackson to come over. "Hey Frankie…"Jackson said trying to get her look at him..

"Hey Jackson…" she said quietly.

Jackson kicked the floor, "I am sorry for scaring you that night of the party…I…really don't know what happened."

"I do!" She turned yelling at him poking him in the chest. "Mother and Father said people like you are…are…junkies!"

Jackson was taken aback by her sudden anger, "Whoa Frankie it isn't like that!" He said trying to calm her down as she started to cry. Good thing no one was really paying attention. "Please you have to believe me!"

"Why?" She yelled a little louder making Draculaura come to Jackson's defense. "Some normies has illnesses that make them black out." Frankie started to spark from all the tears flowing down her face.

She walked closer to Jackson glaring at him, Jackson didn't back down from this girl who he seemed to hurt so badly and he didn't fully know why. "Is that true?" She whispered in a deadly tone.

He sighed, "I don't know why I randomly black out…it normally happens at night." He rubbed his arm when Frankie seemed to be understanding, "my mother doesn't know why either."

She hugged him, "I am sorry Jackson…I was so worried and then people were talking about…all that…and I didn't want to believe it." She cried in his shoulder so he just patted her as she shocked him a little from the tears reacting her bolts.

"Its fine Frankie…I will try to give you a little more of a warning," he moved Frankie to arms length so he could see her tear soaked face. "I didn't think it would happen that night, I have been able to stay up a lot longer than normal…I guess I reacted my limit." He smiled at her, "Heath and I talked a lot those nights too."

She giggled as she remembered Heath trying to get her to date him…it was hard to believe that he was cousins with Jackson who was the opposite of him. Then her thoughts traveled to the mysterious Holt Hyde…why was she so concerned about someone who was rude to her friends. An explosion snapped her out of her thoughts when Jackson cussed and he never cussed.

"Heath!" Jackson yelled running over to his cousin who seemed to still be on fire. "Take a breath cuz!" He moved over to his overly mad cousin. "What happened?" He asked him as he moved closer, looking around the cafeteria, tables were burnt and thrown to the sides and black marks surrounded his cousin.

"Ask her!" He shouted pointing at a green girl who was crying holding on to her plants.

"Heath, please calm down," Jackson said again reacting his cousin to place a hand on him. Heath was a still on fire but when he felt Jackson hand on his arm his hands went slowly out, "Take deep breaths and explain to me what happened."

He glared at the girl on the ground before forcing his attention back on his cousin, "I wasn't doing anything for once…I was minding my own business reading up on some ghostly gossip textin' Manny, when she came over and started to accuse me of burning her damn plants!" His hands started to catch on fire again when Jackson patted them out getting a sheepish look from Heath, "Sorry cuz…I know you can't handle too much heat." He laughed nudging Jackson a little as he slowly got back to himself.

Jackson couldn't help but chuckle at his cousin who can't seem to stay mad no matter what happened. "So I take it you didn't like being accused of something."

He folded his arms across his chest, "no I don't, I get blamed enough for things catching on fire…but when I didn't do it and I know I didn't do it pisses me off."

"That explains the explosion."

"I will start cleaning it up…"Heath said miserably when he went to go get a bucket…he made sure to 'accidently' trip over one of the girl's plants making her scream and start calling him names as he laughed and kept on walking.

Jackson shook his head at his childish cousin…but a childish Heath was better then what he could be. "Hey I am sorry for Heath…he can be ver-"Jackson started to say when she got up and advanced on Jackson making him back up falling down.

"You better learn to control your damn cousin you damn normie! I swear if he so much as thinks of hurting my plants ever again he will not be the only one getting hurt!" She turned on her heel marching out with her plants making Jackson want to throw a small fire ball at her stupid looking pink green hair.

"Dude…what was that about?" Deuce asked helping Jackson up when others started to come around.

Jackson shook his head, "Heath got mad for being accused of something he didn't do," He motioned to the floor making Deuce look around, "and she doesn't like normies."

"Don't worry about Venus; she is to overly emotionally about her plants." Clawd said walking over to Jackson and them.

"That explains a lot." Jackson said walking over to another table to sit down, "but why did she accuse Heath of burning them?"

"Maybe because someone must have burned them over the weekend or something stupid," Cleo said walking over to them. She kissed Deuce on the cheek as she sat next to him.

"Yeah I got that," Jackson said bluntly, "but who did it?"

"It doesn't matter dude," Deuce said playing with a strand of Cleo's hair not really caring.

"Hey Deuce!" Operetta yelled over to them walking with a radio in hand.

"I will be back babe," Deuce said getting up and walking over to her making Cleo glare over at them.

Jackson watched them talk with a smile…this was the time he will be able to see if he was right about his gift idea…even Clawd was trying not to give anything away. Deuce walked back over to them handing headphones to Cleo who looked confused and still mad. "It is a gift…Operetta helped me with it…nothing happened I swear." He gave her a pleading look making her sigh and take them. She listened for a few seconds before getting up and hugging Deuce tightly. "All of this was for…" Tears were forming in her eyes, "me?"

Deuce smiled kissing her tears away, "of course it is."

She giggled and hugged him tight before taking the headphones off and calling out to the students in the cafeteria, "Deuce my most amazing boyfriend made me the most amazing gift ever!" She unplugged the headphones letting the music flow over everyone. Deuce's voiced filled the room making everyone turn to listen. Jackson was calmy talking to Clawd when the music filled him with a burning sensation. A headache started to form making Jackson put his head in his hands. "You okay?" Clawd asked as Jackson started to shake. His fingers started to burst into flames as he got up to bend over holding his head. "It hurts…" he moaned out making everyone turn to him. Slowly the flames claimed his hands…it was like his dream all over again, but now it was real…like pins and needles attacking his body when the flames claimed his full body the last thing he saw was a blue hand replace his hand as he blacked out.

Holt let out an agonizing yell; he fell to his knees shaking. What just happened? He looked around at the overly bright room…was that sunlight? He was awake to see it…his mother said that he needed to sleep during the day. He blinked a few times trying to figure out why his body hurt so much. Then he heard music playing and people talking in hushed tones. He got up slowly and automatically wiped his jacket off and looking around to see all eyes on him. Not wanting to seem weak and confused he put on his headphones to put on his favorite song as he rolled his shoulders back and winked at Frankie who was staring at him with her mouth open. Gliding over to her he placed his arm around her, "hey there Frankie Fine…what brings you here on this fine day?"

"H-Holt?" She yelped out as he nodded.

"Of course it is Holt!" Laughing a little as the color slowly drained out of her face. "I can tell you are just as surprised as I am to be here."

"B-but Jackson?"

"Jackson?" He exclaimed looking confused, "I ain't no Jackson!" He pulled his arm off her trying to snap her out of whatever trance she was in when the overly-grumpy gorgon named Deuce walked over looking just as surprised as Frankie. "Dude…how? No better yet…you don't know?"

"Know what?" He asked folding his arms across his chest when everything went black.

Frankie was holding a pair of red headphones in her hand when Jackson returned to them confirming everyone's thoughts.

"Um…Frankie? What just happened?" Jackson said rubbing the headache away.

"What is going on here?" A loud voice sounded through the cafeteria making students rush away.

"We need to talk!" Deuce said getting a confused look from Head Mistress Bloodgood as he grabbed Jackson and Frankie to lead them to her office, "Spectra can you send me that video that you took?" He yelled out to no one until you heard a quiet yes reply.

Jackson let Deuce lead him to the office when Heath ran into them. "Hey guys!" He yelled rushing over to them but when he saw Head Mistress Bloodgood he tried to turn a corner really fast when she stopped him turning him in the direction of her office, "You too are coming Mr. Burns." He slouched at being caught, she couldn't be too mad he was trying to clean it up.

No one said anything until they reached her office; she sat behind the desk as the students took the seats in front of her. "So what was so important that we needed to talk Mr. Gorgron?" She said taking her head off and looking at him who just got up and showed the video he got to her making her gasp and look at Jackson.

"Your mother was right…" She said looking sadly at the video as it replayed, "The trigger did change."

"I am sorry but I am still confused on what you are talking about ma'am." Jackson said getting strange looks from his friends and a look of pity from his Head Mistress.

"I have no idea what is going on either cuz." Heath said but getting a look from Frankie he thought it would be best not to talk at the moment.

"How much do you know about your family?" She asked ignoring Heath's comment.

"Well I know everything about my father's side," Jackson said looking at his knees, "but my mother's is slightly harder to understand…she never talked about them…I never met anyone but my uncle who owns a farm." He didn't look up as he remembered his uncle he was kind of scary when Jackson thought about it, "but he was arrested a six years ago for murder."

"And you mother never explained why?"

"Well no she said I was too young to understand." He whispered out…why was he getting twenty million questions? All he did was black out…nothing out of the normal for him. And now he was sitting telling Bloodgood all about his family he never knew.

"Do you recognize the name Hyde at all?"

Jackson was confused on how she knew about his long forgotten imaginary friend, but she did talk to his mother. She might have told her just in case her son went crazy. "His name was Holt Hyde and I made him up when I was a child. I also read stories about my last name I never really thought much about them. My mother tried to hide them from me." he rubbed his hands together not wanting to look at anyone else in the room who seemed to all gasp at the same time.

"What if I told you that he was not just a person you made up or a story you read about?" Head Mistress Bloodgood said making Jackson laugh.

"Oh please…don't insult me!"

"Jackson she isn't." Deuce said handing his phone to Jackson who watched the video. As the video progressed he slowly started to turn paler and the shaking increased until he dropped Deuce's phone and pulled his knees up to his chest in the chair in hid his face. Heath who watched it with Jackson didn't know what to say, so all he did was place his hand on Jackson's shoulder when he pushed it off much to Heath's amazement. "So that explains it…all the times I was so confused on where I was…the black outs…" Jackson whispered slowly getting louder as he got madder. "All those times…HE WAS THE ONE DOING IT!" he pushed the chair over and fell down on the ground scooting up to the desk hitting his head on the desk over and over again. "Why didn't she tell me…" He moaned out as Heath made Jackson stop hitting himself.

"Jackson it will be okay…so you have an…." Heath stopped and looked at the others. "What does he have?"

Head Mistress Bloodgood got up and picked up Jackson's chair as she made him sit down in it, much to his grumbles.

"Jackson's heritage comes from the-"

"Jekyll and Hyde stories back in the 1800s…I read the journals…my mother told me it was nothing and not to worry, that it was just a book…it was where I found the name for Holt." Jackson said through gritted teeth. He had so much to say to his mother when he got home. There will be no avoiding him this time.

Bloodgood acknowledged Jackson, "but yours is different. As time went on your transformations became…more monstrous. Holt is your alter ego."

"That's what he has! Cool I have two cousins now!" Heath yelled standing up, but once again getting the look from Jackson this time made him sit down and fold his hands in his lap.

Shaking her head Bloodgood continued, "Holt is a little more than just an alter ego though. From what I saw in the video proves he is more. He seems to have his own sense of self and self awareness."

Jackson just listened as she talked how could he be…that! He hated everything Holt was and ever will be. "So are you saying he would be my twin if he wasn't my other personality?" Jackson said interrupting Bloodgood.

She thought on it before answering when she said, "I believe he would be."

"Great…now I know I have an alter ego but I am not an only child anymore." Jackson grumbled folding his arms, "thanks for nothing mother."

"Your mother must have had her reasons for not telling you," Frankie said for the first time making Jackson snort and laugh hysterically, "What would be a good reason to keep all this from me? I mean honestly Frankie if you could name one I will take everything I said back."

Frankie had no answer so she went back to sitting quietly as Jackson turned back to face Bloodgood. "We should let Holt know." She said unexpectedly making Jackson tense.

"No!" He half shouted rubbing his arm.

"He has a right to know Mr. Jekyll." She told him making him sink in his seat.

"It hurt…" he moaned out, making Bloodgood think twice before turning in the radio.

"Your mother said trigger switches could hurt for the first couple of times."

"I am so glad you know all this," he snapped at her making her press the radio on making Jackson burst into flames.

Holt looked around the room wondering once again how he got here, but not dwelling on it to long when Bloodgood started to talk.

"Holt Hyde correct?"

"Of course I am," he said in his normal trying to be a good kid tone, "what could I do for you?"

"Deuce can you show him?"

"Show me what?" Holt asked looking over at Deuce who handed him his phone. "NO!" he shouted throwing Deuce's phone at the wall, "you are pullin' my leg lady and I don't like it!" He stood up and placed his hands on her desk as it started to smoke, "You think I am some damn normie then you have another thing comin'!"

Bloodgood just let this monster yell at her. She understood how he must be feeling. "You aren't a normie Holt you are still a monster. Both you and Jackson are full monsters, but with a little twist."

"You damn bitch! You are callin' me an alter ego! I am not a damn alter ego. I am me!" He shouted catching the desk where his hands are on fire. Bloodgood was still not backing down.

"Please refrain from cussing Mr. Hyde."

"I do what I damn well please!" He said walking away from her heading to the door, "you are not goin' to tell me, a Hyde what to do!" He kicked open the door then slamming it shut before he blacked out again.

Jackson woke up outside the door. He turned around looking at the others who still in their same positions.

"I am sorry…" Jackson moaned out. Not knowing what to do but walk back in and tried not to look at the desk that was still smoking.

"It is okay Jackson." Bloodgood said getting up and placing a hand on Jackson's shoulder, "you are allowed to go home if you want…Holt didn't take it much better then you did."

Jackson sat in silence not wanting to think about what he did as Holt.

"Is it okay I go with Jackson?" Heath asked eyeing his cousin who still hasn't said anything. "Just to make sure he will be okay?"

Bloodgood nodded as Jackson walked past Heath making him run after him. "I will be fine Heath; I just really want to be alone."

"Come on cuz, you learned that you have a party goer half! That's so awesome!" He said loudly making Jackson flinch.

"No Heath it isn't awesome…this is not fun or great or anything else you think this is!" Jackson growled at Heath making him stop in his tracks. "I just want to be left alone so please do this one thing and leave. Me. Alone." He bluntly told Heath as he walked to his car.

Heath stood in the hall way not knowing to follow Jackson or to just…stand here. Deuce and Frankie walked up behind the confused elemental, "Let him go dude. I am pretty sure he will be alright."

"Pretty sure doesn't mean he will be!" Heath shouted at Deuce who just backed up at his outburst, "He is my family! What if he does…?" Heath stopped short looking back to where Jackson disappeared to.

"I don't think he will" Deuce said getting a confused looked from Frankie whom he mouthed 'later' to. She nodded and walked away heading to her next class, pulling out her stitches as she walked worried about Jackson more than ever.

Jackson sat in his car for a few minutes after he got home trying to gather his thoughts. From what he was going to say to his mother who was off today. He didn't know where to start. He thought about not even bringing it up and seeing if she would tell him all about it on her own, but he waved that down when he remembered that she kept it from him for sixteen years. Clinching his hands into fists he walked through the door finding his mother sitting in the kitchen reading a book at the kitchen table. She didn't look up when he entered the room, "Why are you home so early?"

"It doesn't matter why I am home so early," he said trying not to show his anger just yet, his mother looked up giving him the same look whenever he used that tone with her.

"Excuse me?" She asked raising an eyebrow. "I am your mothe-"

"WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?" He shouted not letting her finish her sentence, making his mother just look at him, she sat there for a minute just staring at Jackson before she blinked a couple of times.

"Lie to you? I hav-"

"Don't even start that!" He cut her off again. "Just tell me everything you know about your side of the family and I mean everything."

She tried looking anywhere but her son. She didn't want to have this conversation. But she asked anyway, "The trigger switched didn't it?"