My vacation is on now and I may not post the next chapter (I've still got to write it) till later like in two weeks or something.

Ok this is the night of concert right here, but my lovely answers to your lovely reviews:

SchoolBordem: As always thanx for review

Tai-Writer: Awww your too kind, I wasn't sure if people would like the poem so I just said "What the hey" and posted it and now it looks like it went ok.

Imari: you'll understand why I changed it in this chapter so hold on and I'll tell you my very confusing characters reasons for doing what their doing.

Kawaii Neko-jin Lover: Thanx for review your too thoughtful

TNTiggris: Thanks for review I really luv it

Galy: She's more human then you think and you'll see why I did what I did with the Kalai thing.

When Time Stops

The night had come, the night had come for all possibility of seeing was here, and the night children go to bed to find presents under the tree the night that all humanity sleeps with the feeling of hope in their hearts.

Ray looked around; Tyson, Mariah, Gary and Lee were all whispering to each other Tyson didn't look nervous but, excited?

He took a glance at Mrs Clot and her son John, anxiety was clear he swept his eyes on Kai, nothing his emotionless face held nothing.

Ray then looked at the people walking in, more and more people, hustling and bustling to get good seats.

Then his eyes widened, Jackie was amongst those people, her left eyes covered by a bandage and her right arm in a cast, Ray wanted to ask how it happened but knew it had to do with Kalai.

Mr Granger, Headmaster of the school got onto the stage the spotlight on his flashy suit a microphone in his one arm he was smiling about something.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boy and girls, young and old I welcome you to the concert of the year, who don't know this concert is in help of Kai, a young musician who is raising money for an eye operation tomorrow at noon.

I would just like to say a few words before I get the drum rolls moving and the audience clapping.

I would just like to welcome two special guests, Mr Timmons and Miss Smith who are here to hand out scholarships to their school in New York, Performing Arts and our guest singer Rosie Color who studied here and at Performing Arts now a local Broadway singer.

But last but not least me, no I'm only joking I'm finished now. Now let the music ring".

There was an enormous applause and Ray found himself even more nervous then before, he glanced at everyone who smiled.

"Now our first performance will be done by my son and his friends, they've dubbed themselves, White Tigers and believe me their good".

Ray took a few deep breathes and walked onto stage the curtain closed, Gary at drums, Mariah at keyboard, Lee at electric guitar and Tyson at bass as well as himself at lead guitar.

Tyson, Lee and himself both had a mike and so did Mariah he gulped and they heard the applause and the curtains opened and they began.

Time is turning now

Everything I see

There are people around me, (around me)

Kai's eyes were closed under his glasses he didn't know Ray could sing like that, he shut all his senses except his hearing listened so closely he could almost hear him breathing.

Chorus:

The entire thing I hear

All the times I play

All the time we have together

Everything I did

Everything I say

Was all for you, (for you)

Jackie's heart lifted in the air, she knew she had done the right think by letting Ray go but it had cost her dearly but it was worth it, it certainly was.

Love is timing me now

All the actions I do

The world is turning now

For you, for you, (for you)

Chorus

Actions are here to stay

Everything I dream

Everything I love to do, (do, do)

Chorus

Some people couldn't believe what they were hearing Ray smiled as he finished.

There was silence in the hall when.

Clap!!

Everyone was clapping that was beautiful.

Everyone smiled some people from school whistled and Lee smiled as Mariah jumped with joy and Tyson just glared at Johnny who sat in front.

Johnny just ignored it and looked away, he didn't care about Ray or his little gang of goodie-to-shoes but to beat Kai and get that scholarship.

The applause grew and Ray noticed someone at the very back smiling all joy she contained, his mother.

She was dressed up, looking like her old self, with her stood the principal of his school smiling broadly and Ray wouldn't have believed it but he thought he saw his dad, just at the back in a small dark corner clapping yelling for him to go for gold.

They all bowed and Tyson began to play again, they played the same song again it sounded even better then when they played the first time.

Jackie hugged herself, she would have hugged the man next to her she was so happy but wouldn't go to that extent of happiness to do so.

She closed her eyes and listened to him play again, remembering what had happened.

Flashback (Day before Ray got beat up)

"Kalai why don't you just leave the kid alone", asked Jackie, they all sat in Zak's room, listening to some very, extremely heavy metal.

Kalai's head jerked to face her, "Why don't you go back to where you came from", he sneered, and Jackie wanted to ring his neck.

"I only meant it because he's got a life, he doesn't need this shit", she waved her arm around the messy room emphasizing her point.

"That's not what you thought when I found you in that hell hole of yours", he retorted, annoyed with her.

"Yeah, I thought I could get more then this and it wasn't a hell hole Kalai it was my home".

Kalai shifted and looked at her straight in the eye, "Your home my arse, you were worse off there then anywhere on this planet".

Jackie found herself standing up and saying, the whole room quiet.

"He doesn't know what to expect, he's only a child, all he wants is to save his friend, get his life back on track, get married have children and die a peaceful death, not sit here sniffing pot!".

Zak shook his head, holding stash of weed and putting it under his bed pillow.

Kalai now stood up, towering over her, his shadow seen by the light over her like a mountain.

"That's, not what your brother thought Jaclyn and if I'm not mistaken he's back at rehab anyway isn't he".

"That's none of your concern Kalai and its Jackie, not Jaclyn", Jaclyn was her mothers name and some mother she had…when she was alive that is.

Kalai held an evil smirk, so it was true; her brother was back at rehab and he knew just how to crack her.

"How old were you when I found you Jackie?"

"Fourteen", she whispered not sure what he was doing.

"And Devin"

"Sixteen"

"How old are you now Jackie"

"Eighteen January"

"And Devin your dear old brother"

"Nineteen August"

Kalai watched her with careful eyes.

"What age did your mother die?"

"Eight" she gulped

"And do you know what Jackie; if she were alive she would still be the same old whore she was then because being a slut runs in the family".

"What do you mean it runs in the family?"

"Go ask Devin if he hasn't told you", and they watched her run for the door, not knowing what to do or say she ran into the street, down the road and towards the nearest phone booth.

On the phone

"What is it Jackie" came the husky voice of her older brother.

"Is it true" she cried out

"What is?"

"Was ma a whore Dev is it true", she wanted to burst out crying there and then.

"Jacks this isn't the time", he sounded annoyed angry by her question.

"Tell me!"

"Jacks…it…it is"

She burst out crying there and then and she heard her brother trying to calm her down over fifty miles of cable.

"Its ok Jacks, we're still related we still have the same mother…Jacks are you there…JACKS!"

But Jackie had begun to run down the street towards her house.

She stumbled up the stairs and into her room, falling onto her soft bed, hugging her wet pillow.

She had been late to see Ray and now she would be late for everything, forever.

After Ray's beating that night

She found her father sitting in his favourite seat, his potbelly sticking out, and one beer in hand a cigarette in his mouth, watching the rugby, what a pig!

She stood in front of the telly and said, "Who's my father" she demanded, hands on hips.

"Move", ordered her father.

"Who's my father, tell me!"

He stood up and faced her saying, "You really want to know who your father is, your father's a pimp who fucked with your mother whenever he could and made your mother pregnant, I raised you and I am your father!"

"You're my father, some job you did raising me", she sneered and she found her wrist in his tight grasp twisting it more and more, she was thrown across the room and her arm broken.

Staggering to stand she headed for the door.

"Some job you did", she sniffed and left.

End Flashback

Jackie found herself crying at herself, at her own pity over her life, wiping the tears she smiled, she needed to hear them play she really did.

She felt that she would one day find a family and she would be truly happy but that was all a fantasy now.

But a fantasy she would risk having.

Not a Fairy Tale

It was like hope seeped through their voices and onto her,

Onto the only faith she'll ever be happy,

It was all but a fantasy, to be happy.

But one she would risk having.

I trusted you

I loved you

But I don't care for you anymore

People say forgive and forget

But I can't do that

Once upon a time I would have forgiven you

But this is not a fairy tale

You said some words behind my back

But you didn't know I could hear you

You said those words behind my back and now you know you can never take them

Back because- this is not a Fairy tale

You've hurt me like no one has ever hurt before

I can't forgive that, that easily

You don't know how much pain you've caused me

And you will never know because I will never see or talk to you again

I hope

Once upon a time I would have forgiven you

But this is not a fairy tale

The song was written by my sister and I wrote the music but you can't hear it but I told you anyway.

Kalai didn't change his mind when he wanted Ray, he first wanted Ray to be with him at all times, become part of his little gang of 'buddy's' and then he could mold him into the perfect lover and then he would have Ray but Ray didn't want to become part of that gang and so Kalai went a bit mental on me.

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