Sinjin walked out of class toward his locker when he was grabbed and pulled into the dark janitor's closet. The light clicked on and Tori, Jade, and Cat stood before him.
"God the dream's getting better" he said only half joking not sure if he'd dozed off in class or not.
Two pair of hands grabbed him from behind holding his arms tight. He turned to see Beck to his right and Andre to his left.
"Get his backpack Robbie, see if the swords in it?" ordered Tori.
"Kay" said Robbie pulling off the pack and searching its' insides.
"What are you talking about how would I fit a sword in there?" Sinjin was worried but knew there was noting in the bag.
"He's right it's not here and the bag's not long enough anyway" said Robbie.
"Forget it I want to hear it from him anyway, what was that last night Sinjin?" Jade hissed at him.
"Um… there was a play I did the lights was there something you didn't like Jade?" he played dumb wanting to know what they'd seen.
"No Sinjin, I think she's talking about the sword fight, the man you sliced up and the freak storm that somehow didn't kill you." Cat babbled it all out for him and he knew he was sunk 'They saw everything what the chizz?' he thought.
"What where you guy doing back at the café?" he didn't mean to ask but his mind stopped him to late.
"We came back to help you clean up." said Beck.
"Why you never have before?" Sinjin asked turning to look at him. Beck loosened his grip some seeing the emotion in his eyes.
"It was Vega's idea, she guilted us into it." Jade wasn't honest but still somewhat truthful hoping she could get past this part and find out what they'd seen.
Sinjin turned to Tori. After all he'd done to alienate himself from people and all the time he'd been on this planet and seen the human race become so cruel, here was this girl proving people could still be good. He felt bad knowing the world wasn't going to be so nice to her.
"Thanks Tori, your… too sweet." he mumbled out.
Tori wasn't sure what he meant but decided to press him for information now thinking he might start talking more.
"So why did that guy attack you with a sword last night? And why did you fight back, couldn't you have left?" she asked him as sweet as she could given the situation.
Sinjin didn't answer he just stared at the floor trying to think how he'd disappear. He hadn't been back to Japan in over a century and he liked the tech feel they had now. Maybe go study at some tech school his Japanese wasn't too rusty.
"Okay then, tell us why there's no evidence in the Asphalt Café? Robbie found a burn mark under a table he's sure it's from a lightening strike. How'd you paint all that before the cops came last night?" Jade continued to question him.
"You called the cops. Why didn't they come after me? I need to get out of town." Sinjin was panicked.
'I'm probably going to have to get myself killed to get out of this mess now. Too bad I hoped I might still be able to see them in a decade or so.' he thought to himself.
"My dad said he thinks it was some kind of movie you were working on so they didn't want to do anything till we talked to you. Obviously he was wrong because you panicked, so what's going on before I call him?" Tori was victorious they ticked him into showing it was for real now they just wanted to know what it was.
Sinjin suddenly realized he'd been duped. He knew how everything got cleaned up before the cops got there, or maybe they cleaned it themselves and lied to Officer Vega who just made some leaps in logic for the kids. It didn't matter he'd showed them it was all lies, so now what?
"I was a different person before I came to H.A. well before I decided to come here. Anyway I did some things I don't ever want to talk about and some people still think I'm that person and want something from me." Sinjin spoke with an even voice, he wasn't really lying he just didn't tell them how long he'd been that person or why that made him a target. He hoped it'd be enough to keep his secret.
Beck and Andre let him go.
"Hey man if you're in trouble let us help we know you killed the guy in self defense we just didn't get why. We don't care what you did as long as your still you man." Andre said thinking Sinjin needed to know they didn't think he was some psycho killer. The whole group nodded.
Sinjin was surprised again by the teens kindness. They really still cared.
"Thanks you guys, but don't worry I don't think anyone's going to come looking for that guy or me for awhile. So I don't need the help but I really mean it, thanks." Sinjin was starting to open up to much but didn't care maybe he didn't have the world as figured out as he thought.
"No sweat man, but we still want to know about the light show?" said Beck.
"And why it looked like you were enjoying the sword fight?" added Jade.
"You must have been really 'studying' his emotions." joked Tori.
Jade glared over at Tori "Some of us pay attention Vega."
"I was." Sinjin responded stopping the girls bickering before it began. They all turned to stare at him. "I enjoyed ever second of it." he clarified.
"Look Sinjin you don't have to pretend for Jade. She gets like this sometimes once something's in her head she won't let it go." said Beck.
"Believe me I know how Jade can be Beck. I wish I was lying but, I can't deny that I'm still partly what I used to be. So if you all have to know I'll meet you after school but, you need to understand what I tell you will die with you for your sake as well as mine. I mean that, you tell someone it could get you killed just knowing it could to. If your ready for that meet me in the parking lot after school." Sinjin had made up his mind if they wanted to know this bad they wouldn't stop till they did.
They all stared at him wondering what happened to the goof y guy they saw everyday and who this new deadly serious person was. They also wondered that if he spoke the truth were they ready.
