(Cole's POV)

After practice I went home, but only to find my house a complete mess. It looked like a tornado went through and destroyed everything. I went upstairs, it looked like my dad wasn't home yet. When I got to my room I saw all my stuff was gone! My TV, my bed, my video games! Everything was gone.

We must have been robbed. I know I look pretty tough, but I was truly scared. The last time we were robbed was the night my mom died…

(flash back)

I was in bed then all of a sudden I hear my dad say we have to leave and he grabbed me. Then I saw fire. He ran outside with me in his arms and set me under a tree. "Stay here no matter what!" I remember hearing him say as he ran back to the house. But before he could get there it was too late, we heard a the sound of a gunshot followed by my mother's screams.

(A\N sorry if that seen was a little to dark)

(End of flashback)

Later that night after the fire was put out the police found my mother's body and she was declared dead. The police found out that the fire was caused by some gasoline and a match. It's funny how one little match can ruin a life…. my life. But it's a sour subject so let's not get to deep in what happened next.

Ok, ok, you can stop begging I'll tell you. the police had caught the crooks, but a disturbing fact they shared with both my dad and I was when they found them they were in a secret cave and apparently had been targeting our house for months. They had information on all of us, me, my mom, and dad. They found pictures of all of us scattered around the floor. The worst part was they had a dart board with my mom's picture on it and a bunch of darts in her face. My dad didn't even recognize them.

I didn't know what to do. Should I clean up? Should I call 911? Should I call my dad? I decided to start cleaning up and wait until my dad gets home. Then a thought came pounding in my head. All the "what if" questions came to mind. What if my dad was home and they just took him with them? What if they're still here and are just hiding? What if they're coming back right now?

Then it hit me. I had to check and make sure they didn't take one thing… A picture of my mother. I ran upstairs and looked in it's hiding spot, in my pillow. Yes IN my pillow not under. I stuck my hand in it to check and sure enough there it was. I looked at the picture for a long time. Everyone always said I look so much like her.

A few minutes later I hear a car door close. I don't know if it's my dad or the crooks back for more. So just incase I take a baseball bat down stairs with me. As I creep over to the door I almost stepped on a piece of the broken vase next to me.

The door opens as I brace myself for a crook, but instead I come face to face with my dad. I guess all he could see was me with a bat and the torn up house because his face went from cool and calm to red hot and ready to kill. "Cole Liam Brookstone! Why on earth would you trash the house like this? I have had a long, hard day at work and what to come home to this!" he yelled with rage in his eyes. "No, dad you don't und-." he cut me off before I could finish. "No I understand plenty! I have an ungrateful son who feels the need to disrespect me and trash the house!"

There were so many things going through my mind, anger, sadness, fear. I couldn't hold back the tears, I ran to my room and left a note explaining everything. Then I grabbed my headphones and Ipod and climbed out the window.

I was heading to the park to get my mind off things. I was just walking around thinking about everything that just happened. That's when I saw Kai, Nya, and Jay. It looked like Nya was yelling at Kai for something and Jay was just standing there watching. I decided to come over and see what was going on. "Um… hi guys." I say awkwardly

"Oh hi Cole. What are you doing here." Jay said calmly as if he was enjoying Kai getting yelled at. "Oh well my house was robbed and my dad blamed it all on me so I needed to leave and clear my head. How 'bout you?" they all stared at me in shock. Yeah I really should have thought before I said that. "Oh Cole that's horrible. You wanna talk about it?" Kai said symthenticly.

After telling them about it they all were shocked, but I lightened the mood by making some jokes and pretty soon everyone was laughing and having a good time. "Oh yeah and Cole do you want to play the drums in our band for the talent show." Nya asked me. I haven't' played the drums in public for a long time, but I'm not about to say no to Nya. "sure! sounds fun."

Then it starts to get dark so I decide to head home. As I'm walking home an ambulance passes me and goes in the direction of my house. I don't think much of it at first because we have old neighbors that could have had a heart attack. But then it stops right in front of my house. And all I see is my house in flames with my dad still inside…..

A\N I just noticed I've been writing a lot of Cole chapters lately. I did one with his POV in my other story "Youtubers of Ninjago" which I will be updating next. And speaking of "Youtubers of Ninjago" SwimmerNinja13 if you are reading this then yes I was deciding on whether to do Skylor or Pixal's POV, but I guess now I'll just do Skylor's. The next POV for this story will be Lloyd's, but until then peace out Girl Scout!

P.S. for anybody reading this you should go check out Swimmerninja13.