Disclaimer: Marieke: -skips around happily- THAT SONG IS SO MINE! TAKE THAT FANFICTION! YOU CAN'T GET ME DOWN!
Maura: Yes, hello, operator? Get me the asylum please. Thank you.
Summary: The return of Andros's parents changes all future plans of Andros and Ashley. It's doubtful they'll ever see each other again. But there's a secret Ashley's carrying around just dying to come out.
Phantom Rogue: Girl babies fun! And this HAD to be a girl, else she couldn't be named after Ashley.
Lady Kimiko: Yay! A/A moment! Give ME another two chapters and they'll actually talk to each other.
Arwennicole: Andros is very, very close. He does, he does, he does. The same day as this chapter plays in. Only minutes or something after this one ends. You'll see.
Star Fata: Andros is stupid, but he's not that stupid. You spelled the word right. Zhane and Karone are confused, but they respect her wishes. Well, I'll be waiting for that update, take your time.
Tal: Sorry, but yeah, Andros is sad. But everything will turn out right. Always.
Megarider: Yeah, their friend may be acting strange, but, hey, she's still their friend and they love her.
SSL: Because they promised not to.
BellaCordelia: Sorry, just one more chapter.
Juzblue: Well, the performance isn't until now. So you can see that for yourself.
Mz. Daydream: Yeah, well, just one more day. No… I don't get the picture. Yeah, and she delivered their baby girl.
Piper xox Leo: She's trying to protect what is hers. I never said they'll KNOW the truth. I just said Andros and Ashley will meet in the next chapter.
Lavonne Adams: Well, I got this in store next. Glad you like Aila.
Zeopurple: Zhane and Karone ARE sweet. Andros will figure that out himself, named because of Aila's name.
PhoenixGuardianEmaku: No! Don't change your penname. I love it! Yeah, Aila's name hurts, because he's one of the few people beside her family to know her full name. Ashley kept her middle names quiet. Not even Cassie knows them.
Slytherin-Angel44: That's okay, I'm leaving the country soon too. Hate Lynette, hate her more after the chapter of tomorrow. Poor Voldie, GO VOLDIE!
Johnny: After working the other 4 days of this week and having to get out of bed early, I thought it well deserved to sleep late. Not actually within the next to chapters, but very very soon after. No you can't kill Lynette, sorry.
The-power-of-love: Here's more.
C.C.C.: Glad you like the name. They WILL meet soon. Next chapter! No, Andros will never truly be able to live without Ashley. Zhane and Karone don't tell him.
DizneeDol: Well, this time you were. Here's the next chapter.
Secrets Untold
Chapter 30: Inevitable
"Welcome, to Beach View High." The headmaster's voice resounded through the auditorium and Chris made a face.
"Oh, my parents are so going to love this." Some freshmen squeaked somewhere in the crowded back stage. "They're in there you know." She added matter-of-factly.
"All our parents are in there to see us." Some other kid sneered.
"All but ours." Chris grumbled.
"Mom and Tracy had to work. You know they would have loved to see this." Chyler reminded her brother.
The headmaster announced the first act and the squeaky freshmen walked onto the stage. Chris choked when he saw the girl and quickly turned around so he wouldn't burst out laughing. The girl was wearing a bright hot, pain-to-the-eyes pink dress and her blonde hair was pulled to the side in pigtails. She looked just too cute to not be attending kindergarten.
The girl song a quick elementary school song (a very off key one too) before she left the stage again with a toothy smile.
"May I have a big hand for out very own Lauren." The headmaster asked proudly and there was a polite applause.
More poorly constructed acts passed and Chris felt sorry for Josh and the alien ambassador and his family. This was torture to everyone having to watch – not to mention that they actually had to pretend to enjoy it.
"And now, it's the greatest honour for me to announce to you an amateur band consisting of students of our school. On the keyboard; Nicky Wild!"
Nicky grinned and ran up onto the stage as at the same time a screen was pulled up and their instruments were revealed.
"Egbert Lovely, filling in on the drums."
"Go Eggy!" Chris howled with laughter.
"Michelle Pinkard and her bass guitar."
Chyler pushed her friend onto the stage and looked at Chris. They were next.
"Playing the guitar, Christopher Hammond."
Chris ran onto the stage to furious applause and took the electrical guitar Nicky held out to him, checking the plugs after hanging it around his shoulder.
"And last, but certainly not least, where would one be without the other? Here to grace us with her enchanting voice; Chyler Hammond."
Chyler walked onto the stage, blushing furiously. She walked up the microphone as the headmaster cleared off the stage and took it off its stand.
"I wrote this song with my brother Chris." She informed the crowd, her eyes searching the front row for Josh and Atalya.
She found them within an instant and took a deep breath. Then she let her eyes glide over the ambassador's family and her heart stopped, her breath catching in her throat. Right there, almost right in front of her, sat her father, the man she had been told about so lovingly throughout her youth.
The first soft tones of the song woke her from her daze and she opened her mouth. She wasn't singing to the crowd anymore. She was singing for her father.
If only I had
One more moment of your time
One more moment
For you to be mine
Minutes pass
Hours fly
There's nothing left
But I can't say goodbye
True love
Lost yet again
The greater good
But I need a friend
Chorus
Maybe I'm crazy
I was so young
How could it have been
A love so strong?
Forever mine
Forever yours
But still
I'm singing this chorus
Chorus
You don't know
Nor can you see
The loving arms
You left with me
One more moment
That's all I ask
Help me with
This living task
Chorus
Give me strength
And give me hope
It's all I need
My back against the rope
Please forgive me
Please be strong
Don't condemn me
For I have done wrong
Chorus
One more moment
Spend with you
I'll be wishing
To you, I am true
Chorus
"Always be mine…"
People rose to their feet applauding as the band took their bows. Chyler shot her brother a quick look and motioned with her eyes to their father.
"Guess we picked the perfect song." Chris told her, seemingly unfazed.
The headmaster returned onto the stage and motioned for the band to leave. They did so with high spirits, due to their successful performance.
"Now, to give you and our students a break… Ambassador Avidan of KO-35 – would you like to say a few words?"
Avidan got up and thanked the headmaster. The band hung around, just out of sight at the edge of the stage, watching the ambassador and the crowd, silently talking about their performance and how perfect it had been. Chyler was lost in thought and Chris looked around the crowd, scanning it for something, anything out of the ordinary. Something didn't feel right.
The ambassador started his speech, thanking the headmaster, complimenting their band, praising Josh and falling into the usual mumbo-jumbo.
Chris felt his body react before everything truly registered in his mind and dimly he thought that this must be how the Power worked. His eyes had caught something glistering at the back of the auditorium, and his instincts had him flying onto the stage accompanied by the sound of a gun being fired twice.
He flung himself at the ambassador, throwing them both to the ground. People started shrieking and panicking. He felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. His eyes widened when he noticed blood was everywhere. Distantly he heard someone call for 911.
Nothing in his mind was coherent until he felt two soft hands pull him off the ambassador and forcing him to his feet. They walked a small distance before he was allowed to sit again and something soft was pressed against his shoulder.
"Chris?" Chyler's soft voice, with an underlying tone of dread, reached his ears and he nodded.
"I'll be fine. The ambassador?"
"The bullet caught him in the abdomen. No one will know anything until we get to hospital." Chyler admitted.
Chris nodded and leaned against his sister, eyes closed. After a while he heard the sirens of two ambulances and before he knew it, he lay on a gurney in one of them. A paramedic was looking at his shoulder, while Chyler squeezed his hand to let him know she was there.
Soon enough he was charted into the ER and was met by his mother's sweet face.
"I'm proud of you, Chris." She whispered as he was transferred from the gurney onto a patient bed. "Now let's get that bullet out and let the Power do the rest, shall we?"
Chris smiled and nodded. Everything would be just fine now, or so he thought.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Review.