In the car on the way home, Mr. Neutron is driving when Jimmy asks him " Dad, what was in the second briefcase?"

" Oh it was empty." He says. " If his helicopter had really picked him up he would've found out it was a cleverly disguised police chopper."

" Wow." Jimmy says. " That's a really good idea."

" You should thank your friends and Mr. Jones, they came up with it."

That night Jimmy and all his friends along with their parents are all in Jimmy's back yard having a barbeque.

Everyone, except for Jimmy, is chatting happily to each other; meanwhile Jimmy sits inside staring out.

As he sits staring he hears his door open, he turns to see Cindy standing there.

" What do you want?" He asks. " Shouldn't you be outside having fun?"

" Jimmy, it's not fun without you." She says. " I know this has been really hard on you but you can't hold it in forever, look at what happened after the party during the summer, you tried to bottle everything up and in the end you vented it through cutting yourself. That's what started this in the first place, you can't waste your life wallowing over the past, Sterch is gone but that doesn't mean you have to beat yourself up over it. You can move on to the future, there's still a lot to live for."

" But Cindy it's not that easy, it didn't happen to you; it's easy to do pep talks when you don't have to live with the fact that it's your fault a man is dead."

" Jimmy that man was twisted and evil…"

Jimmy cuts her off yelling. " But I still wouldn't have wished that upon him, I would have preferred to see him rot in prison for the rest of his life, not fall off the top of a 12 story building!"

" Jimmy don't you remember what I told you on visiting day back at Silver Lake, I told you to be strong, to be brave and now more than ever it's true, life may be rough, and unexpected twists may come up but you can't just give, shut yourself up in the room and refuse to eat or talk to anyone"

He looks up at Cindy, tears in his eyes. He wipes the tears away.

" Maybe you're right." He says sniffling. " Maybe I've been handling this all wrong, maybe when bad times hit instead of shutting myself out of the world, and building up barriers I should tell people, maybe if I had done that before then everyone would've known why I busted the party and would've accepted my story, maybe this whole horrible year could've been avoided."

" Come outside Jimmy, this party is for you, Kelly, and Nigel." She says.

" Okay." Jimmy says wiping away the last of the tears from his eyes.

Outside a big banner reads "Welcome home Jimmy, Kelly, and Nigel!" everyone is playing a game of soccer.

" Come on Jimmy, without you we're one player short." Sheen says from the field.

" Alright I'm coming!" Jimmy shouts and runs onto the field.

They all continue playing until 8:00.

" Come on in guys, the news is coming on!" Mr. Neutron says.

They all run inside and gather around the TV.

" Hello and welcome to PSB news at 8, tonight our top story, Jonathan Sterch, former warden of Craymers hall for Juvenile Delinquents and Dean of Silver Lake mental Hospital was killed today in a struggle with one of his hostages. Sterch, after being arrested, broke out of prison, and kidnapped three of the former residents of his Hospital, Jimmy Neutron, Kelly Lincoln, and Nigel Carterson, he took them to a hotel outside of Retroville where in a struggle with one of them he was knocked off the building, he was pronounced dead from internal bleeding at 3:45 p.m. Sterch's three henchmen will still stand trial. Now after the commercial break we'll have the weather for the week with much more on PSB news at 8." The newsman says.

" We were on the news!" Kelly says.

" Well this has been fun but now I think it's time for us to go home Kelly." Kelly's mom says.

" Alright mom." She says.

" Yeah it's time for us to go home too." Nigel's dad says.

" Yeah, see you Jimmy." Nigel says.

" Bye." Jimmy says to both of them.

The two leave, soon everyone leaves and it's just Jimmy, Goddard, and his parents.

" Well I'm gonna go to bed." Jimmy says.

" Okay, goodnight honey." Mrs. Neutron says.

Up in his room Jimmy lies in his bed staring up at the ceiling, he's glad to be back home. Back where he belongs. All of Silver Lake's cured occupants are released and Silver Lake will continue to stay open, under new management, for those who still need help. Jimmy falls asleep easier then he had all school year.

The next morning Jimmy's mom wakes him up at 6:30.

" Honey, if you want to go to school it's time to get up." She says.

" Okay mom." Jimmy says.

Jimmy gets out of bed and quickly dresses.

It's the last day of school and he's eager to see everyone one last time.

" I won't be seeing them over the summer." He thinks, because of Summer school being his agenda.

Jimmy quickly grabs breakfast and goes out to the bus stop.

Once the bus pulls up Jimmy gets on along with Sheen and Carl, everyone seems to want Jimmy to sit next to them or tell them the story of his kidnapping in more detail.

Jimmy sits down next to Cindy, along with Sheen and Carl behind, Samantha and David, who have started dating, in front, and Libby and Kelly, on the side.

Once the bus gets to school, Jimmy and his friends walk out, a bunch of people following them.

" Jimmy! Kelly! Over here!" A boy Jimmy's never seen before shouts.

" Please guys no more questions." Jimmy says.

The crowd starts walking away, downhearted.

Once Jimmy and the others walk in he sees just about everyone waiting for him.

" Jimmy! Jimmy! Melinda's in Juvenile hall!" A girl yells at him as he enters.

" We're sorry we didn't believe you." Another boy says walking up to him.

The day goes amazingly well for Jimmy, everyone wants to talk to him now and he can barely get anytime to himself.

Finally at the end of the day Jimmy stands in front of was once his locker.

Suddenly Jimmy hears a familiar voice behind him.

" Hey Jimmy." The voice says.

Jimmy turns around to see a face he hasn't seen for a long time.

" Sora!" Jimmy says in amazement.

" Surprised to see me?" She asks.

" It's great to see you!" He says enthusiastically. " When'd you get out?"

" Just a few days ago." She says. " I heard about you on the news. What happened?"

Jimmy tells her the entire story up to when to when he was on the roof.

" And then to stop him and to free myself I tripped him and he fell off the building." Jimmy says.

" Well it sounds like it was an accident to me." She says. " I'm glad to see your okay."

She smiles at him and he smiles back.

" Well I better get going." She says looking at her watch.

Jimmy looks forward at the emptying hallways and thinks, despite what had happened he can't give up, times might get hard and friendships may end but as long as he stays strong it didn't matter. He might of accidentally killed Sterch and he might have tried to hurt himself but it didn't matter, he could forget that and move on, there's a lot to move on to and the future looks bright.

The End