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Thanks for the reviews… This chapter directly continues from the last one… I'm gonna try to have story lines for the actual characters during the next few chapters about spring break, but the main story that gets covered is the Jimi x Darcie Story line… don't quit on me

Chapter: The Truth

This chapter is in Jimi's POV

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"J-J-Jimi?" Darcie said, tears filling her eyes.

"Why the tears?" I asked, kneeling down, "Aren't you happy to see me?" Her arms were immediately thrown around me, her tears poured over my shoulder.

"Jimi, I missed you so much!" She said. I smiled lightly and put my arms around her, and gently held her.

"I missed you too." I said as sincerely as I possibly could, "Now quit the crying, it makes you look sad."

She laughed, "No, I'm happy." Our eyes locked and smiles came across both of our faces. I had hoped it would be something like this.

"Okay you two," Mr. Phillips, the choir director said, "You can continue this after school, but I can't let you do it here."

I smiled wider and turned to the man, "You haven't changed a bit, Mr. Phillips."

"Is that an old joke?" he asked.

"Mr. Phillips you aren't old, you're like 50." I said, I immediately got a smack on the back of the head by him.

"I'm 46!" He almost shouted. I laughed very hardily; I knew that fact all along.

"I know, I know. I just felt the need to yank your chain." My eyes drifted upwards when I realized just how wrong that sounded, considering that Mr. Phillips is, well, shall we say… not straight. (A/N before you get any wrong ideas, NO I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH HOMOSEXUALITY!)

"Well, is there a reason you are back in town?" Mr. Phillips asked.

"We're on spring break in Odaiba." I answered.

"Oh you are lucky; I have to deal with these ones for the rest of this week." Mr. Phillips sarcastically complained.

"Don't act like you don't love us, Mr. Phillips" A rather tall, tan boy known as Drew said. "It's good to see you again, Jimi!"

"Right Back at you, Drew!" I said. "CHRIS, SHELBI!" I nearly shouted when I saw two of my former best friends. I ran up to them. Shelbi and I bumped fists and Chris shook my hand, so I guess they haven't changed a bit. "Have you two accepted the fact that you're a couple or am I gonna have to do some more convincing?"

"No need for that, Jimi…" Chris said quickly motioning for me to put my thoughts away; I did as I was told.

"Hey Jimi!" A guy named Patrick shouted, "Why not play us a song?"

"Yeah go right on ahead, Jimi." Mr. Phillips encouraged…

"I need a guitar." I said, not really wanting to play. Mr. Phillips walked into the back of his classroom and emerged with an acoustic guitar. He handed it to me, and in all my efforts to think of what song to play I just went with a song I hadn't played in a while, and I knew it would be received well.

One Song
Glory
One Song
Before I go
Glory
One Song to leave behind
Find,
One Song
One last refrain
Glory
From the pretty boy frontman
Who wasted oppurtunity
One Song
He had the world at his feel
Glory
In the eyes of a young girl
A young girl
Find,
Glory
Beyond the cheap colored lights
One Song
Before the sun sets
Glory
On another empty life
Time Flies
Time Dies
Glory
One blaze of, Glory
One blaze of, Glory
Glory
Find,
Glory
In a song that rings true
Truth like a blazing fire
An eternal flame
Find,
One song
A song about love
Glory
From the soul of a young man
a young man
Find
The One Song
before the virus takes hold
Glory
Like a Sunset
One song to redeem this empty life
Time Flies
And then no need to endure anymore
Time Dies

They clapped. I hadn't played 'One Song Glory' probably sense I had left from Santa Monica in the first place. The Choir class went by smoothly. I spent the next block with Garrett and the next two with Darcie. Finally, School was out and boy did I have a surprise. Darcie had a bit of a creeper after her.

She and I were walking the halls after school and we saw someone who I remembered all too well. Jason Finch, a.k.a. Jay. He stopped right in front of us.

"What Jay?" Darcie asked with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Knowing that she was usually kind to everyone, I got on my guard about this guy. No free shots unless I know exactly how to dodge them.

"Just wanted to say hello, you know ask you to hang out and all." He said. I knew his kind. The guy who always gets what he wants: popular, probably an athelete, asshole. All the signs were clear. It looks like he wanted what Darcie didn't want him to have, her.

"Well, hello, but no we aren't gonna hang out." She said.

"What you're with this douche." He said gesturing to me. In the old days I would have flattened him with one punch, but he wasn't worth it. Since Aya's death I hadn't as much as thrown a punch at anyone. I wasn't gonna start now when I didn't care what he said. "What are you stupid or something. You were always quick to a fight before, Dacre. Why not now!" He threw an unexpected punch; I didn't react in time to guard it and took the hit to my chest. Darcie smacked his hand down.

"Leave him alone!" She demanded.

"What's in it for me?" He asked. Darcie was at a loss for words.

"I won't kick your sorry ass!" A new voice joined in. It was Garrett, Lauren was with him.

"Stay out of this, Trees!" Jay ordered.

"Leave my friends alone, loser!" Garrett retorted.

"What are you gonna do about it?" Jay shot back like a child.

"Enough!" I said firmly. "Listen, Jay, I know you wanna fight me, but You can't always get what you want. So just backoff, go find one of your little fangirls to satisfy your sexual tension and leave Darcie alone."

"Or What!?"

"Or I will give you what you want, and beat your ass so hard you'll forget that you ever had one."

"Oh yeah? Prove it!" I threw a very quick punch right by his face, barely letting my fist just miss his face. His eyes were wide. He couldn't believe that he didn't even see the punch until it was finished.

"That's proof enough!" I said. I returned my fist to my side and motioned to my friends that it was time to go. They nodded.

"I'm proud of you" Garrett said as we walked away. I only smiled. I looked down at Darcie, and she didn't look too happy.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Jay has a bunch of friends, Jimi." She said. I knew exactly where she was going.

"And so do I" I replied. "Darce, you have nothing to worry about. His bark is a lot worse than his bite."

"Don't be too sure, Jim." Garrett said I looked at him, "Bad things have happened to good people, and the only reason people turn the other cheek is because he has money."

"What kind of bad things?"

"Heroine, Cocaine, and other hard-core drugs planted in people's lockers. Everyone of those people were clean, and had crossed Jay at some point." Lauren said.

"Well, I don't go to school here so he has nothing on me." I said matter-of-factly. Garrett looked at me very seriously.

"He knows your story." Garrett said. "Drugs are the least of your worries." I now knew exactly what he was talking about.

"Your friends may not know the whole story about your dad, but everyone who knew you before does." Lauren joined in.

"Jimi, he can make some calls and…" Darcie started to tear up. I put my hands on her shoulders and gave a reassuring look.

"Don't worry." I said

"Don't worry!" She shot back and took a few steps away from me. "Jimi, if your dad finds out where you are…"

"Then I'll deal with him!" I said. I was pissed. They were afraid for my life, but I was angry that they would think for a second that I would let anything bad happen. My three friends were taken aback by my sudden burst of anger. "When I was young I couldn't stand up to him, but now I can. He ruined my life, but I refuse to let him take it like he did my brother. And if you think for one second that I would…" I was out of control, so Garrett punched me in the face. I fell to the ground, grabbing my cheek. I looked up and saw him offering me a hand back to my feet. I took it and stood back up. "Thanks." He reminded me whose side my friends were on: Mine, not my father's.

"No problem." He said, "We you know you can handle him, but that doesn't mean it's good for you to have to." I nodded.

"Darcie," She looked at me, "I promise I won't let anything bad happen. You're not getting rid of me that easily."

She smiled, "I know."

"I have a question," Lauren said, I nodded for her to proceed. "Why didn't you tell your other friends the real story about your dad?"

"I didn't want to relive it." I said. "What he did… I didn't want to talk about that nightmarish life he put me through."

"I don't blame you." She said.

"Let's not talk about it, We need to get back to your friends, Jim." Garrett said, "We're meeting at Laurens house." I nodded

"I'd love to come, but I have so much going on tonight." Darcie said apologetically. I gave her a hug bye, as did Lauren. We went our separate ways, at least for a while. I had a plan for this trip that she would know about in good time.

We got to Laurens and saw the girls sitting on the porch watching the guys play a game of basketball. Whichever team TK was on was kicking ass. I knew this because I saw him sink three consecutive baskets even with heavy attempts to guard him.

"Screw this game!" Tai yelled to the heavens. The ball rolled to me; I kicked it up into my hands and took a shot… It was perfect… perfect ark… perfect speed… perfect… miss. It clunked TK square in the fore-head. He paused for a split second before slowly falling backwards colliding with the ground. The guys of course laughed their asses off. The girls, especially Kari, found it very difficult to contain their own laughter. TK slowly sat up and glared at me, increasing the laughter. I, in return, grinned. "I changed my mind," Tai announce, "LOVE this game!"

That was our night. We laughed the night away. Sora, hoping for the best, asked me about Darcie. I made her and the rest of my friends work for the answer. I kept a smile on my face the whole night, but what my friends didn't know was, it was fake. What Lauren had said hit me hard.

'Why don't you just tell them' I thought. 'The pain won't be any worse; you can face it whenever you choose to. You just tell them that's all.' At that point I decided to. "Guys, can I tell you something?"

They looked up at me. Garrett and Lauren looked at me as if to say, "Are you gonna tell them now?"

"I haven't been completely honest with you about my father. He didn't just abandon us." It was hard for me to say the next part, "He abused us, not only physically… but sexually." My friends' eyes got very wide. "And my brother didn't die in an accident. He was killed by a car driven by one of my dad's cronies. We were crossing the street, and Calvin pushed me over to the other side. He obviously saw the car coming, I didn't."

"Jimi" was the only word that came out of anyone's mouth, and it was Sora. No tears came to my eyes.

"The man driving the car said that I was lucky this time, but he would be back. My mom and skipped town after that. She was smart enough to make a paper trail leading to several dead-ends so my father couldn't find us. That's why I've flown so much, because I lived in so many different places. We finally settled here in Santa Monica. We were safe for about two years, and then word got out why we moved. It was all because of a stupid ex-girlfriend who had a grudge. I loved her so I told her. When Darcie and I first became 'more than friends,' she got jealous and told people. My mom and her boyfriend at the time were caught in a drive-by shooting. My mom died." Now my friends were not only shocked, but confused. "The woman whom I live with is my mother's best friend. She and her husband, who was an FBI agent, adopted me immediately. Her husband advised us to get out of the country. He set up a trail to try and lure out my dad but he only got some small time cronies. My dad is too much of a coward to do it himself. I'm sorry I never told you." My friends looked at me. Morgan got up and gave hugged me.

They were all very sympathetic, and I thanked them. We were all quiet for a while, and then Garrett's phone rang breaking the silence.

"Hey Darcie," He said answering the phone a look of urgency quickly took over his cool persona. "Slow down…. Call the police, and We'll be right there" He hung up his phone. "Jimi let's go!" He said, "Everyone else, stay here."

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Finally done… R&R hopefully I update soon.