Sorry for the lateness of this chapter!

Chapter Eleven: What I've Done Part I

The green sedan pulled into the parking lot for visitors. The car was quickly turned off and the door opened up. Spinner Mason stood up from the driver's side and took in deep breath. He looked over to his former alma mater and smiled. He spent the better part of his school time here and had the memories to remind him; both good and bad memories flooded back into him. He closed his eyes and took it all in; which brought a smile to his face. He closed the door and started walking to the front entrance. He noticed that a black sedan pull up to the front steps. As he got closer to the car, he noticed that the plates on the car were from Canada, but were diplomatic tags. He moved away from the door of the car and started up the stairs. It was the voice from the car that make him stop in his tracks.

"Just park the car in the visitor's lot and I'll be back as soon as I find out what's going on with the kids. No arguments Steven; just do it."

Spinner turned around and looked at the red-headed woman that slammed the door of the car. He smiled as part of his past started to walk up the stairs. She hadn't changed much since he left school; she was still as pretty as before, but time had her fill out her form a bit. She looked stressed; there were dark circles under her eyes and there were a few hairs on the top of her head that were changing from red to white.

"Still the hard-as-nails woman that I remember H.J."

Holly J. Sinclair-Coyne looked up at her friend and former boss. She smiled as she saw her friend. Spinner had changed from when they were in school. He had dropped some weight and got himself in shape. He had a few tattoos that were easily covered with a long-sleeve shirt and wore a bandanna for the hair that gone away prematurely (he tended to shave his head most of the time, but he was caught heading into work).

"Spin!" She headed up the stairs and hugged her old friend. "You look great! How long has it been?"

Spinner half-smiled. "I think when Declan had the service for Fiona about a year ago." Holly J. nodded. "How's he holding up?"

Holly J. sighed. "You know Declan; burying himself in his work and not talking about it." She crossed her arms. "I don't know how he does it. I want him to reach out and talk about it. I know it hurts him."

"They were twins H.J.; of course it's going to hurt more than the rest of us, even after all of this time. Jane and I were talking about it over the weekend. She was going on about how close the three of you were together."

Holly J. smiled a bit. "She always had a soft spot for Fi-fi." She sighed. "How's Jane doing by the way?"

Spinner shook his head. "Swamped at work; as usual. Trina, Jimmy and Jane started that new case today. I have a feeling that I'm not going to see the kids all that much this week. I was just about to leave for work when Darcy called the house. She tells me that both of the kids are in Simpson's office for a fight."

Holly J. looked at Spinner in surprise. "That's the reason that I'm here. Darcy called me and said that Elizabeth was in a fight."

Both parents looked at each other and laughed. Spinner shook his head.

"So which one started it?"

"Elizabeth; no question." Holly J. nodded. "She didn't get her way this morning and I told her that that's the way things go. She didn't like that answer and left for school without another word to Declan or I."

"Should I pay for the damages now and avoid a lawsuit?" Spinner asked.

"Spin; we've been friends for a long time." Holly J. smirked. "Besides; I can't beat that wife of yours in any courtroom."

Spinner laughed. "Welcome to my world." Spinner opened the door and offered Holly J. to enter before him. She bowed a bit and entered with Spinner walking in behind her.

Principal Archie "Snake" Simpson sat behind his desk. He put his elbows on the top of the desk and placed his hands together. He looked at each of the parents that were each a former student of his. Sitting in front of him were Holly J. Sinclair-Coyne and Manuela "Manny" Santos. Standing up behind them, leaning against a wall was Gavin "Spinner" Mason. To his left were two of his teachers that had kids here; Craig Manning and Coach Owen Milligan. He sighed as looked at each of them. When they were kids; each one of them had spent time in this office and for different reasons. It caused Simpson to smile a bit; which in turn caused them to smile back at him.

"So that's everything that happened from all the parties involved." Simpson stated as he pushed back from his desk. "I'm sorry to get all of you away from your day about this."

"Snake; it's your job." Manny smiled. "We wouldn't expect to be happy to find out our kids were in a fight and it wasn't reported. We would rather hear it from you or Darcy if we had to."

"Archie, they're our kids." Owen started. "We have to know what happened; even if they weren't totally involved like Gabe or Shane. We would want to know."

Spinner nodded. "Like Owen said; we would want to know." He nodded at Owen, which caused Owen to smirk. "Speaking of our little hooligans; where are they now?"

This caused a general bit of laughter from the six adults. Manny turned to her friend and smiled.

"Did you just call my daughter; your goddaughter, a hooligan?"

Spinner smiled as he shrugged. "I expected it out of Gabe a bit. He spent a lot of last year in trouble. Veronica; I'm a little surprised about though."

"You weren't the only one Spin." Craig looked in his direction. "Gabe's a good student, if not a bit of a like you in school. He watches out for a lot of the kids."

"He can't be everywhere though." Owen chimed in. "I've got Veronica in my gym class. She does get picked on by some of the older girls; no offense to Miss Santos, but by Juliette quite a bit. I've done what I can to keep them separated."

"Wait, this is getting reported now?" Manny looked at the two teachers with anger. "Why am I just now getting notified about it now?"

"You haven't been getting the notices?" Simpson asked. "I've been sending them home to you; as well as you two." He finished looking at Holly J. and Spinner.

"Are you kidding me?" Holly J. asked. "We haven't even received a phone call about this."

"I've had Darcy call about each incident." Simpson looked on. "Juliette and Elizabeth have been bullying Veronica Mason; as well as other female students."

"Do you know which other students?" Manny asked.

Simpson looked over to Craig and Owen; they both nodded at him. Simpson sighed.

"The main ones that they've picked on have been Veronica Mason, Nicolette Coyne and Emily Cameron." Owen commented. "That's just the girls."

"Wait," Spinner asked. "Just the girls? Who else?"

"Jason J. Hogart." Craig finished. "He's been tormented by his sister mostly."

Manny covered her eyes while Holly J. covered her mouth with her hands. Spinner placed a hand on each of the women's shoulders in comfort to them. He continued with the questions.

"How are the older kids involved? You mentioned that Gabe was involved as well as Craig's daughter."

"Along with Shane," Owen started. "They were trying to break up the fight. Well Shane and Gabe were trying to break up the fight."

"Alyson was one of the combatants." Craig answered. "Apparently Juliette and her do not get along very well."

"Those that do not learn from history are deemed to repeat it." Manny clearly stated.

"Manny…" Craig retorted, but Manny placed her hand up to stop him.

"Craig; I'm not blaming our past." She turned his direction. "We hashed everything out when we were filming that movie so long ago. We're fine now." She sighed. "I just can't believe that my own daughter is bullying; let alone her own brother." Holly J. nodded in agreement.

Spinner huffed. "I figured that it would be my son; I wasn't exactly star student material when I was going here."

"I knew my son was in on some of it the last couple of years," Owen spoke up and looked at Spinner. "But between Jimmy and Gabe; he's turning himself around." This caused Spinner to smile. He mouthed a thank you to Owen, which he returned.

"Look, I know that we all could point fingers on this, or about each other's parenting" Craig cleared his voice. "But it happened. I think now that we're all on the same page; we work to fixing it."

Simpson nodded. "I agree. If we move forward; not only will this be behind us, but we can move forward. Gabe and Shane are cleared. They can continue with the rest of the week." He sighed as he continued. "The four students involved, unfortunately; are suspended for the rest of this short week. They'll be welcomed back on Monday, but I'm suggesting therapy sessions with Darcy to get things out in the open."

"No offense to anyone, but I'm hoping separately Mr. Simpson." Spinner said. The rest of the parents nodded to this as well.

"It's a small school." Simpson stated. "I'll make it a point for the teachers to watch out for any incidents. As soon as anything is noticed; it will be brought to my attention. I agree with the sessions to be one-on-one. Everything will be held in the strictest of confidence."

When the parents agreed they were led to the front desk. They stood for a moment while Simpson went to get the parties involved. Manny and Holly J. were catching up while the dads spoke.

"I just wanted to thank you for what Gabe's done with my son." Owen stated again. "He's a good kid. I just wanted you to know that."

Spinner was about to reply when a woman in a military dress uniform walked in. Owen looked over and excused himself and met the woman. Craig turned to Spinner.

"I have to admit when Alyson and Gabe started dating; I was looking for any reason not to like him." Craig sighed. "He's really a good kid."

Spinner smiled. "I appreciate that Craig. Alyson's got a good head on her shoulders for the most part, but we have enjoyed having come by the house here and there." He half smiled. "So the two of them are dating?"

"He asked us if we would allow Alyson on a date with him. I think that's how kids are doing the dating thing now." Both fathers laughed at this. In the end; they both knew that any bad feelings between them would go away in time. Craig excused himself as he heard the conversation between Owen and the woman become a little heated.

"Hey Spin." Manny said as she hugged her friend.

"I hate that we have to keep seeing each other here at school functions."

Holly J. laughed at this. "Yeah, this is one function that we should have had a long time back. I still can't believe it."

Manny sighed. "You said it yourself Holly J.; it was more Heather's doing than yours. You can't blame yourself."

"So what happened over the summer with Juliette?" Spinner asked.

Manny shook her head. "Remember when Emma got a "social disease"?"

Spinner's eyes grew wide. "Really?"

Manny nodded. "Among a few other things like lying, stealing, destruction of property. Yeah; Jay and I had a real hard time over the summer with her."

"Do you think she was trying to get attention?" Holly J. asked.

Manny shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not. She was kinda boy crazy like I was at her age."

The rest of the conversation ended when Owen shouted at the woman.

"Look! You walked out of the picture Anya! Your career was more important!"

"He's still my son!" She turned and went the direction that Simpson went.

The three parents looked at each other. It was Holly J. that spoke; it was barely a whisper.

"Anya?"

I was planning to have this out by Thanksgiving. As you can tell it's like two weeks to Christmas. Yeah; I'm real good about updating...

I'm hoping once the holidays are over that I'll be able to go ahead and update once a month like I was planning originally. Hopefully.

So I wanted the parents to have some presidence in this first part. I hope that their reactions are kind of realistic, but I've always though that as one gets older that they can forgive the ghosts of their pasts. It seems that the parents; for the most part, have moved on and realized that back then they were just dumb kids.

What about the kids? Well I'm planning to have that out in the second part here in the next few weeks. We'll learn why each one did what they did and some motivations as to why as well.

Thank you so much for following and reading! I appreciate it very much!