AN-hey guys, I got a couple of replies, so I guess that means you like the story. Just to let you know, this chapter will be about Jimmy, and he and Manny will meet in the next.

Chapter 2: Standing Alone.

"Its not you, it's me" Hazel pleaded with her boyfriend, soon to be ex-boyfriend.

"Hazel, everyone knows that really means 'its you'" Jimmy crossed his arms.

"Is their someone else?" Jimmy asked

Hazel just looked down for a long time. But she realized she owed him this much. She nodded.

"His name is Dave, we met at mosk, but I didn't cheat, I swear." She told him sincerely

"I can't believe this." Jimmy rubbed his face, he was so angry.

"Jimmy I-"

"Save it, it was fun while it lasted" Jimmy got up grabbed his coat and slammed some money on the table. Catching him some glances of surrounding customers.

He burst through the doors, and started the long walk home, to angry to think of calling a cab, or anyone to come and get him.

By the time he got home he was exhausted. He just wanted to go in his room, and put on his mp3 player, and forget that today, and him and Hazel ever happened. But his parents talking in hushed whispers caught his attention.

"Jim, I don't know if this is such a good idea" he heard his mother say

"Vivian its not like we are forcing him. We just want what's best for him. He will always be our son no matter what. We are going to let him choose." His father spoke

Jimmy didn't know what they were talking about but he wanted to know, so he cleared his throat.

"Oh Jimmy! Come...come sit down" his mother seamed nervous. But he did as he was told; he sat next to his mother and across from his father.

They all sat there for a while. Nobody really wanted to start talking first.

"So...what's up?" Jimmy asked

"Well, today at work, I got a promotion" Jim said

"Wow, dad that's great! Congratulations" Jimmy was actually happy for his dad, whom worked very hard.

"But theirs more..." his father said

"This promotion, they want us to move to L.A." Vivian said with excitement in her voice. But Jimmy couldn't believe it.

"L.A. as in Los Angeles, California?" Jimmy was stunned but his mother shook her head yes.

"No way! I don't want to move to the states!" he slammed his hands on the table

"Hey, calm down!" his father scolded Jimmy looked at his hands.

"We knew you would feel like this, so we came up with two solutions" his mother said calmly.

"Ok?" jimmy asked

"A. You come and live with us in L.A. or B. you can sign theses" his father pushed him a packet of papers. Jimmy couldn't even find words to describe what he was feeling.

"Proclamation of Emancipation?" Jimmy read the title of the papers.

"Do you understand what that is?" Vivian asked her son.

"Yea, that if I sign this, you don't have to support me any more, I would be on my own" Jimmy silently thanked god he had paid attention that day in Civics class.

"Well, not exactly. Yes, we wouldn't have to support you anymore. But we still would. But this way, if you sign those, you can legally live here by yourself. I mean we would pay the rent, give you your weekly allowance and pay all of the bills on the condo, we just wouldn't be living here with you, but you would still have all of the money you have now" his father explained.

Jimmy thought about it for a minute. His parents were never really home anyway, so it wouldn't be much different then it was now.

"But you would still call and stuff right?" he started to feel self-counicous.

"Of course sweetie, your always going to be our only son, this just makes It legal for you to live alone, it wont be any different." His mother touched his face.

Jimmy sighed, he could see his parents really wanted this, and who was he to stop them.

"Where do I sign?" he asked. His dad sighed

"Are you sure Jimmy?"

"Well, everything is going to be the same right? Your still paying for stuff, I'll just be alone 24/7 instead of 20/7" jimmy hadn't meant for it to come out wrong, but he did sound very bitter.

"Maybe this is a bad idea" his mother repeated

"No! Its fine" Jimmy told them, maybe it wouldn't be that bad, especially now that he was single.

"Just give me the pen, and point to where I sign" Jimmy watched where his father pointed to a couple of lines.

He picked up the pen, and neatly signed his name in all the necessary spots.

"Well, your now officially Emancipated" Jim said as he to signed his name on the papers.

"Yea, so when do you guys leave?" he asked

"Actually...tonight" his mother said softly

"Tonight? What where you going to do if I said no?" Jimmy couldn't believe this.

"We were thinking positive," Jim said.

The three of them go up from the table. It was now that Jimmy realized that most of their things were gone, and their bags of clothing were in suitcases by the door. How did he miss that? Plus the house did look kind of empty.

The three of them walked to the front door.

"Our plane leaves in a couple of hours, and we will call as soon as we get their" his mother said as she hugged him, he shook his fathers hand, and just like that, they grabbed their stuff and were out the door.

Jimmy couldn't believe they were really leaving him, all alone. Now more then ever, Jimmy felt like a glitch in their big plan for life. He always felt like the accident that ruined their life. Like they could have been so much more, if they didn't have to worry about him. But now they had finally gotten rid of him, now they only had to pay the bills and throw money at them. They would finally be miles apart, indefinitely. He walked over to the front window. That faced the front of the building. He watched as they got into an awaiting cab and drove off. Jimmy wiped away the one tear he had let slip.

He turned around and looked at the apartment. His friends had always thought it was huge for an apartment, but to Jimmy, it never seemed that big. But for some reason, without all of his parent's meaningless junk, it seemed gigantic. It made him feel even worse; he couldn't take it any longer

He grabbed his coat and keys and locked the door behind him. First his girlfriend and now his parents, he was all alone.

Next time: Jimmy and Manny talk!