hey peoples. I am so friggin sorry. I said a week and a half and it's been months. well, I can explain. I had a meeting with my possible future college and was accepted. It's a three hour drive from where I live, so I have been going back and fourth for the past couple of months, doing interviews and filling out paper work, getting a job to pay for tuition, fixing my relationship, all that fun crap. So, next chapter is finally here. And this time I promise you another update will come sooner. Again, very sorry for the wait on updateing. I had alot of shit to do.

Disclaimer: I own nothing from the outsiders. I do however own, Mime, Rikki, Frankie, Bubbles, this story, the plot to this story, and most of the songs posted in this story. I own the rights to the song, "down the rabbit hole" it is copywritten like all the rest, so if you'd like to use it please ask me first in an email. my eamil adress is listed in my profile.

enough of that bullshit, here's the next much awaited chapter. Enjoy .

chapter #10 Fighting amongst your allies, not your enemys.

MIMES POV

As soon as I had stopped singing I heard someone walking behind me. I quickly wipped around to see.

"Dally?" I called out.

He stopped and looked at me nervously.

"Hey Mime. Didn't see you there." Dally lied.

I knew he was lying. It actually looked like he wanted nothing more but to get the hell away from me at this point. Like I was amonster from some horror film, ready to attack.

"Where you headed?" I asked choosing to ignore his wierd behavior and walk to where I was in front of him.

"Just over to the Curtis's house for a little." Dally said now calming down.

"Can I come? Frankie and Bubbles are pissing me off, and I don't wanna go home yet." I explained.

"Why? Whats up with Frankie and Bubbles?" Dally asked.

"Me and Rikki reminded them that we're leaving as soon as the car's fixed. So now thier saying me and Rikki are heartless for not caring that we'll be leaving everyone behind." I said.

DALLY'S POV

I couldn't believe she just said that. I mean, i'm dallas winston and have a rep to uphold. But even I care a little bit when someone's leaving or i'm leaving all my buddies.

"What about me?" I asked playfully hoping she'd do what most girls do.

"What about you? You knew I was leaving once tank got fixed. It's not like you realy care about me anyways. So whats the big deal?" Mime asked me.

"You think i'm that heartless?" I asked a little angrily.

"Don't get all noble on me and say you love me or that you care about me. I know your rep Winston. Why do you think I agreed to go out with you?" Mime said calmly.

"So what? Doesn't mean I can't care. What if I said I do care? What then?" I asked loudly.

I can't tell you why I was saying this shit. BUt Mime wasn't like the other girls I had dated. And sure I wanted to find out about her past, but I really did like her alot for some reason. Not like the other girls i'd been with.

"Thats funny." Mime was laughing.

"What is?" I asked completely confused.

"Dally, you've already gotten what you wanted, and you can get more of it any ol' time. You don't have to use that bullshit line on me." Mime laughed.

That made my blood boil. She was really pissing me off.

"I really do care about you! Whether you like it or not! It's not some fucking line for me to get in your damned pants alright? I care about you just like Johnny cares about Rikki!" I yelled at her.

She stopped laughing. But then she got mad and cornered me into a tree.

"Don't you ever say that again alright? Nobody has ever given a damn about me. Nobody ever will. Whenever a guy tells you he cares or he loves you, it's just to get something he really fucking wants! I refuse to fucking care anymore! I will not cry over stupid bullshit or a guy! I will not be fucking weak!" Mime yelled then stormed off.

"What the fuck was that all about?" Soda asked me once I finished telling the guys about what happened and what I heard and thought.

"I dunno, but it's gotta be about something from thier past. Who here really believes the bullshit they're feeding us?" I asked.

All the guys agreed that there was something funny about thier story. Something not right. And that they needed some fucking help. So we all decided to make it our mission to find out what exactly the answer's were.

SATURDAY MIMES POV

All week had been nothing but hell. Dally hadn't come to see me, Bubbles and Frankie wouldn't speak to me and Rikki, and Rikki had almost lost her voice from screaming so damned much. So tonight me and her would sing together. We had all agreed to get along for the show. But tonight it didn't really matter all that much. It was a sad angry song we were playing, so everyone's mood in the band fit well damned enough.

We were wearing our usuall band attire, the currents moved to reveal the room even fuller then last time, and of coarse the guys all sitting front row center. But for some reason they looked angry and upset as well. I brushed it out of my mind for now.

"Hey everyone. We're the Kimono Dragons. Tonight I, Mime, will be singing with Rikki." I announced.

The crowd then applauded.

Rikki nodded her head with a smile to the crowd.

"Alright. Tonights song is...well, an answer to a riddle. I hope you all enjoy it. It's called. Down the rabbit hole." I announced and the music started to play, first a demented lullaby from the guitar and keyboard, and finally the drums kicked in to make it all go together in a slow angry, sad, beat.

AUTHORS NOTE. DOWNTHE RABBIT HOLE IS MY SONG, IT IS COPYWRITTEN, NO STEALING. / MEANS CHORUS.

"And the chesshire cat is smiling at me,

I'm so happy now that I can hardly see,

As I fall straight down endlessly.

Don't try to catch me at all,

I don't think anything can soften this fall." We sang softly then picked it up to an angry but calm tone for the chorus.

/"Down I go spinning like a toy,

falling deep into this blackened void,

it'll keep on going till i'm completely destroyed.

But don't you fret, no please don't fear,

i'll never forget, that you were, never here,

I curl up so close, I crawl so near,

to the ghost of a voice that whisper's in my ear.

it sing's, don't look now, don't run so fast,

Your gonna break me beyond the looking glass."/ We finshed the chorus and let the song beat go back to the angry lullaby sound.

"The twins are fighting my minds war,

it's never been like this, never before.

I came to have a look in your mind,

to see if you were on my side." We sang and let the angry beat slowly take over.

"I can't go on, no I can't give up,

I've gotta live strong, but not in this rut.

That i've fallen deep into,

I'll run as far as I can from you." We sang in a demented voice then went back to the slightly angry tone.

/"Down I go spinning like a toy,

falling deep into this blackened void,

it'll keep on going till i'm completely destroyed.

But don't you fret, no please don't fear,

i'll never forget, that you were, never here,

I curl up so close, I crawl so near,

to the ghost of a voice that whisper's in my ear.

it sing's, don't look now, don't run so fast,

Your gonna break me beyond the looking glass."/ We finshed the chorus and let the song beat go back to the angry lullaby sound.

"The cattipiller is smoking away,

But i can't remember that damned day,

that I ran so far away,

There's no place now for me to stay.

I can see it now, so clean and so clear,

But the words I scream fall upon deaf ears,

I need to get away from here,

thier coming now, thier getting near." We sang sadly, I suppose I let my emotions take over for once. Luckily I had my mask on, so no one could see my tears.

"To the hiding place, in the back of my mind,

I don't want you to see me, I don't want you to find,

The dirty secrets that I, try to hide." We went to the angry soft voice once again.

/"Down I go spinning like a toy,

falling deep into this blackened void,

it'll keep on going till i'm completely destroyed.

But don't you fret, no please don't fear,

i'll never forget, that you were, never here,

I curl up so close, I crawl so near,

to the ghost of a voice that whisper's in my ear.

it sing's, don't look now, don't run so fast,

Your gonna break me beyond the looking glass."/ We finshed the chorus and let the song beat go back to the angry lullaby sound.

"I tried so hard, But I know it won't last,

This journey I took, beyond the, looking glass." We finshed softly.

The crowd loved it. I supposed that was a good thing. But I didn't really care. As soon as the song was over I ran off the stage and towards home. The girls cuahgt me halfway out the back.

"Where you running off to?" Bubbles called.

"Home." I answered trying very hard to hide my voice. "Come on. We're all done fighting now. It's time to go to the Curtis's to have some fun." Rikki said.

"I just don't feel well. I catch up to you guys later with that ok?" I said and took off.

I didn't get very far though. I had just turned the corner from the back to head to the front streets when I ran into somebody and feel backwards.

"Where you running to? The Curtis house is that way." I heard Dally laughing as he helped me up.

"I'm not going to the Curtis house tonight. I don't feel so well." I said.

"Alright then. Let me walk you home." Dally offered.

"No i'm fine." I tried to convince him.

"You left your mask on Mime." Dally laughed as he reached out to pull it off.

"No it's fine don't-" I stopped talking as he pulled it off before I could grab his hand.

There was a long silence.

DALLY'S POV

I just took off the mask and saw she had tears running down her face. Mime...crying. It didn't fit. Her eyes were wide and shocked. But before I could say anything she bolted. She took off running in the direction of her house. I didn't know what to do. I was shell shocked for a moment. Mime...crying. Then I decided to catch up to the gang and tell the girls, they'd know what to do.

"Rikki! Bubbles! Frankie!" I yelled out a few feet behind them.

They turned around laughing but stopped once they saw the look of panick on my face.

"Whats up Winston?" Bubbles asked.

"It's Mime. I was gonna walk her home, and realized she still had her mask on from the stage. So I took it off, and she was crying. And, she was quiet, didn't say anything. She just, took off before I could say anything." I panted out.

The girls all stared at me wide eyed for a moment.

"Mime, was crying?" Bubbles asked.

"Yes. I have no idea why, but she wouldn't speak to me, she just took off. I mean. I thought it was wierd for her to cry." I said.

"We need a ride home. Now." Rikki spoke.

She looked a little worried. But it was hard to tell with her. She always tried to keep her anger and worryness in check and hidden.

Darry agreed to drive us all to thier house. Before the car stopped and we were still pulling up to the house Rikki jumped out of the car and took off running for the door. We all followed in behind her. The house was dark, and silent, that made me damned nervous.

"Mime! Mime!" Rikki yelled walking to the kitchen, then the bathroom.

"Rikki calm down, lets check her room okay?" Bubbles said calmly but nervously.

Me, Rikki, and Bubbles walked to Mime's room and tried to open it. Locked. So we knocked on it instead.

"Mime? Sweetie you in there? Please come out." Bubbles tried. No answer.

"Mime? Hey look i'm real sorry about taking your mask off. I didn't know you didn't want me to see. Come out aright. We're all worried about you." I tried. No answer.

We looked to Rikki. She moved us behinde her, took a step back, and kicked the door open.

"There we go." She said simply and walked into the dark room and flipped on the lights.

"What the hell?" Was all I could manage.

It looked like someone had robbed the place but not taken anything. The room was a complete mess. Rikki started looking in the closet, Bubbles looked out her window, but I looked next to her bed where I had seen a shoe.

When I walked closer i could see the shoe was still on her foot, and she was laying on the floor, awake, and covered in bruises.

"What the fuck happened to you?" I asked and picked her up without asking her.

She didn't answer. Just looked at the floor.

"Mime? What was it?" Rikki asked in her now motherly voice.

"Them. Thier here." Mime spoke.

I was lost. Rikki went wide eyed along with Bubbles, then Riki became teary eyed, and took off for her bedroom.

"Bubbles? Who's them?" I asked sternly.

"Why don't you put Mime in bed, Igotta go tell Frankie-" Bubbles tried to leave the room but i grabbed her wrist.

"Who, is them?" I asked again.

Bubbles looked around nervously stuttering incoherrent words.

"Lets just tell them." Mime said blankly.

Bubbles stopped her fighting. "You sure Mime?" Bubbles asked.

"There's no point anymore. Everywhere we go, they find us. Thier not gonna stop. Maybe...maybe they can help." Mime said looking up and nodding her head towards me.

"...Alright. Let me get Rikki and Frankie and tell them." Bubbles said calmly and left the room.

I sat Mime down on her bed.

"Who is them?" I asked more calmly.

"Our parents." Mime answered.

"Why are you all getting so nervous and freaked out over your parents?" I asked as calmly as I could.

"You'll find out in a minute." Mime said and left the room for the living room.

GENERAL POV

Everyone was now gathered in the living room. The guys sitting on the couch and floor. Rikki sat near the kitchen on the floor. Bubbles sat in a chair next to Frankie, and Mime stood staring out the window.

"Why are we telling them again?" Frankie asked irritably.

"Becuase they can help us." Mime answered.

"What makes you so damned sure?" Frankie almost yelled.

"What other choice do we have? If we don't get help it's back to that hell hole!" Rikki screamed at Frankie.

Everyone was quite yet again.

"Um, first off, we've been lying to you guys. We are in fact a band, and the people you have come to know. But, our names for one are fake, and so are our pasts." Bubble started in her false happy voice so as not to make the mood worse.

"So...What are you real names...and past's?" Darry asked.

There was a complete silence. "I suppose i'll start first. My name isn't Bubbles Akarui, it's Bella Alloca. I ran away from home when I was nineteen becuase my parents were always calling me a whore, and one day my father pushed me so hard into the wall, and I punhced a mirror and left. That's how i got this scar. Well, I met the girls at the hospital." Bella said.

There was only more silence.

"I suppose it's my turn. My name isn't Frankie Fukushu. It's Faylinn O'Brian. I ran away as well, My parents never seemed to see me. Me and My ister got sick of it and left, we saved a girl we saw on the side of the road, and at the hospital I wnet outsde for a cigarette and was attacked, that's when Bella saved me. I burnt myself trying to attack the guy with my cigarette." Faylinn said showing her thumb.

"You gotta admit it was funny though." Bella laughed a little.

After a second Rikki looked up.

"My name isn't Rikki Kanashimi, it's Rea O'Brian, Faylinn's my older sister. I decided to talk her into running away when I got fed up with my parents never hearing me. Like Frankie said we saved a girl on the way there. Well, I ran out to get her from the car and tripped and fell on some glass. I was there when she woke up and told her she could come with us." Rea said.

"And you?" Dally asked Mime.

She had been pretending to be looking at something out the window.

"My name isn't Mime Koji Misuteru, it's Mariko Kyoko. I really am half japanese, that wasn't a lie. Anyway's. My parents always screamed and fought, they always ignored me until they wanted to turn the fight onto me. And, alot of the times i would blackout and wake up later not remebering a thing. But with a new bruise or cut. Well, this time i blacked out and it was pretty bad. I grabbed a knife or something and just started carving into myself. I can't remeber much else, except for waking up in the hospital with Rea there, she had told the nurse I was rapped so that I could leave with them or something. Then we all left, and we've been running ever since." Mariko said.

"Our parents seem to always find a way to trail us. And normally we would just pack our shit and leave again. But the cars sorta broken." Rea laughed a little.

I know i know. cliffy. How could i be so mean right? Well, to ease your minds the next chapter is being written as we speak and shall be up very soon. Please review. and thank you so much to all my reviewers out there.