Life After High School. Is It Scary? You Bet.

By Risty Maskell and Silver15

Disclaimer: If we did own them, we would tell you, you know.

Summary: Crikey, I dunno.

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"Emma!" I called as I raced after her. She was sobbing. I caught up to her and slowed her down. She put her head on my shoulder and began to sob profusely. I comforted her. Poor thing. How much bad news could come into one day?

"I had my hopes up so high, too. Now their flat on the ground." She said, sniffling.

"I know. It's okay. You can always come and visit Ria, whenever you want. You are, after all, her god mother."

Emma sniffled again. "Really?"

"Really, Really." I said. We walked back to the house.

On the way back, a familiar figure stepped out of the trees. Emma's father. He was holding my mother and she was struggling.

"So, the Hobbit-lass and my daughter are still friends, I wonder why?" He sneered.

"Let me go you fucking asshole!" screamed my mother. His grip just tightened.

Emma looked scared. I watched Mr. Silverblade with utmost hatred.

"Well, if it isn't Mr. Bat boy." I said coolly. Mr. Silverblade glared.

"You have a lot of nerve." He said.

"Oh I have a lot more than nerve. I have attitude."

"Really. I'd like to see that. Tell you what, I'll trade you your mother for my daughter."

Emma looked at me pleading, secretly, so Mr. Silverblade couldn't see, I winked at her. I was going to trick Mr. Silverblade.

"I'll tell you what. You do anything you want to my mother, I don't care. And I'll keep Emma."

"That wasn't part of the deal."

"Oh really?" I advanced on him. He was much taller than me but I didn't feel afraid. Emma stayed back.

Mr. Silverblade glared down at me. I glared up at him. Then without warning, I kicked my leg high and hit him squarely in the 'crown jewels'. He groaned, his eye popping, he sank to the ground and grabbing at his crotch, he whimpered. I spat on him. "You disgust me." was all I said and advanced on my mother. She looked at me with wide eye, she was afraid of her own daughter, I almost laughed out loud.

"Jamie, don't do anything to me, please." She actually pleaded. "I'll do anything."

"Anything? Well, you can take your new boyfriend here, and move across the sea and never come back here again. I hate you. You never cared for us or anything. So I'm not going to care for you."

I linked arms with Emma and we walked away. Emma looked at me in wonder.

"That was spectacular. You didn't even look afraid."

"I wasn't. There was one thing my brother Mark taught me before he died-"

"You had a brother? Besides Jake?"

"Yeah. He was Benny's best friend."

"What did he teach you."

"He taught me the motto out of that book 'The Power of One'."

"What was that?"

"First with the head, then with the heart, that's how you keep ahead from the start."