A/N: ITS GOING TO BE PRETTY SLOW FOR AWHILE IN THE STORY. IT GETS GOOD LATER ON THOUGH AND SECRETS BEGIN TO UNRAVEL STARTING IN THIS CHAPTER.









Ebony looked around the house as they climbed the stairs. "You have a nice house. It's big."

"Thanks," Serena smiled, glad to see and hear her talking. "We've lived here all our lives. They left the house to Dom when they died so we wouldn't have to leave."

"Did your parents die?"

She paused and nodded, "Yeah, they did."

"I'm sorry to hear that," she said, solemnly. "So did mine."

"I'm sorry, too. I know what it's like," she said, showing her her room before she took her to Mia's room. Ebony looked around and spotted pictures on her dresser. She looked at them and frowned picking one up. She nearly dropped it from shock. Serena saw the look on her face and looked over her shoulder at which one she was looking at. "That's our buddy Jesse. He died a year ago after Tran shot him. Mia and I couldn't save him. He bled to death as we watched."

Tears filled Ebony's eyes and she put a hand to her mouth, sitting on the bed. "Ebony are you okay?" Realization came over her then. "Did you know Jesse?"

"He died?" she questioned, hoping it wasn't true.

"Yeah, why Ebony?" she asked. "Did you know Jesse?"

"I-I have to show you something,' she put the picture down.

"Let me get Mia and we'll go," she left the room and got her sister. Serena quickly explained it to her before they got the room.

Mia smiled at Ebony, "Hey, Ebony."

She smiled weakly, drying her eyes on a tissue she fished out of her purse. " Hi Mia.

"Serena says you have something you want to show us," Mia repeated.

"Yeah, do you have a car we can take?"

"No, I don't drive, but I can borrow a car no problem," Mia told her.

She nodded, "Then let's go."

They followed her out the room and bumped into Damon in the hall. "Hey," he saw Ebony. "Ebony what's wrong?"

"I have to show them something, Damon, please come with me," she begged him. He nodded without a word and followed them down the stairs. Serena paused in the kitchen and spotted Letty. "Hey, Letty, where's Dom?"

"He and Brian went to the garage to work on a few of the cars, why?"

"Damn, I need to borrow your car for awhile," she told her.

Letty reached into her pocket, "Why?"

"Ebony needs to take us somewhere she says its important. You wanna come since fiddle dee and fiddle dumb will be leaving anyways?"

"Yeah, I drive," she grinned.

Ten minutes later they were driving towards the Green Lawn Cemetery where Ebony directed them to go. She sat up front with Letty while Serena was squeezed between her sister and Damon. She hadn't been to the cemetery since Jesse had died last year. She was curious to find out why Ebony wanted to come here and why she became so upset over Jesse's death.

Letty parked the car where Ebony told her to stop and hot out. The rest followed behind her, passing headstone after headstone. Finally she paused under a tall willow tree that shaded the area from the sunlight. Serena looked around, she knew exactly where Jesse was buried. She glanced at Mia, her sister noticed too, so did Letty.

"How did you know where Jesse was buried?" Mia asked, putting a hand on the red heads shoulder.

Ebony closed her eyes from the tears. "Because I knew where his brother was buried."

"How did you know we buried him next to his brother?" Letty questioned, looking at Jesse's grave.

"I didn't,' she shook her head. "I knew that's where he'd be put though. His parents would always make sure they were together."

"Whoa, how do you know his parents?" Letty questioned again.

"I met them years ago," Ebony supplied, keeping her eyes on the tombstone that bared Jesse's name.

"You knew Jesse?" Serena inquired.

She nodded. "Yeah, I knew Jesse…I dated his brother Xander."

Letty blinked, "I knew Xander had a girl, I didn't know it was you."

Damon turned away, knowing something was going to be revealed.

She nodded, "Yeah, I was with him to the day he died."

Mia remembered and repeated what she knew. "He was in a car accident six years ago with his girlfriend and her parents."

Ebony smiled feebly, "That's half right. But the girl wasn't his girlfriend…it was my twin sister Raven and it wasn't an accident. It was done on purpose by a gang."

Letty and Serena gasped at the same time, the information from the garage came together and filled in a few missing puzzle pieces. Letty spoke first, "Six years ago…you all lived here when your sister ran from the guy." Her eyes fell on Damon, he turned his head away.

"I don't want to talk about it," he told them. "That's for my sister to tell. We all hold our own. It's hers to tell."

Mia nodded, "We understand. I'm glad you told us though Ebony."

She smiled, "I am too. I feel better now that that's off my chest."

Letty fished her car keys out of her pocket. "What do you say we go grab some chow? I'm pretty hungry."

"You're buying," Mia told her, heading back to the car.

"I don't care as long as we eat," she told her and got into the drivers side. Ebony glanced once more at Xander's tomb and smiled a bit.

"Good-bye," she said at last, finally letting him go after six years.