Most of them had pure shock on their faces. They all recognized that Trent was one of the people on the video who had harassed Chase. They were too shocked to do anything, just asking a question in their head.

What is he doing here?

Bree was the first one to wake up from her trance. "What are you doing here?" She spat.

This seemed to wake up Adam from his state of shock. He walked up to Trent and grabbed the collar on his shirt on pinned him on the wall. He used his other free hand to make a fist, pointing it at Trent's face.

"What is wrong with you?! Don't mess with my little brother, you jerk!"

"H-Hey, w-wait, I-"

"Shut it, Trent. Adam's going to make you pay." Leo said standing next to Adam. Adam swung his arm back, getting ready to hit Trent, when-

"I'm sorry!"

Adam's arm stopped in mid-air and slowly went down to his side. "What did you just say?"

"I came here to say that I'm sorry!" Adam dropped him and watched as he scrambled back up on his feet. Trent looked around at everyone, who all were out of their shock and listening to Trent.

"I have to say sorry to all of you. Especially you, Chase. I-I'm sorry." He turned around and walked to the door.

Chase was confused. Why did he apologize? The smartest person on Earth was clueless. He looked at his siblings, who were giving Trent harsh glares. He wanted an answer.

"Trent." Chase said it with no emotion in his voice. He turned around and looked at Chase.

"Why did you do that? Apologize, I mean."

Trent hesitated before speaking. "T-the truth is, I felt...bad."

"What?"

Trent sighed. He was known at school for many reasons, but two of them had stuck out to him. He was known for being strong and being a man. But he wasn't. That's why he bullied Chase. He thought it would make him feel and be strong and make him feel and be a man. But it hadn't.

"It's time to become a man."

"I shouldn't have done what I did. And I'll always regret it. I'm sorry."

"But why did you do it? Why?!" Bree yelled.

"Because... I thought it would show me something to that would make me feel better about myself. And it didn't."

They stared at him in silence. Adam, Bree, and Leo were angry, but what Trent just said threw them way off guard. Why, they couldn't put their finger on it. Their minds were scrambling for the words to say, but it seemed that everytime they found the right tower of words it would fall back down.

"Does that make you think you have the right to harass my son?!" Donald exclaimed.

Everyone was surprised at his sudden outburst.

"N-no. I had no right. I'm sorry..."

"Sorry? Do you think sorry will cover this?!" Bree's eyes were shooting daggers at Trent.

"I'm going to teach you how to leave my little brother alone." Adam swung his arm back, much in the way he did just a few minutes ago. He was still furious with Trent, even with his apology.

"Adam! Don't!" It was Chase.

Adam looked back at him, flabbergasted. "What?"

"Don't punch him. Let me talk to him." He looked around at his family. "Alone." He added.

"But, Chase... What if-"

"I'll be fine." He assured her.

"But-"

"It's okay. Just give me a few minutes."

They nodded and hesitantly walked out the door, looking back and each time having Chase have them a reassuring smile. The sound of the door closing was his cue to talk.

"So." He started. "You apologized..."

"Y-yeah. I'm sorry. I didn't think you'd take us seriously..."

This was a side to Trent that nobody had ever seen before. At school he was a tough jock that didn't care about other people. But it seemed that Chase's attempt caused him to push past that side of him.

"Why would you think that?"

"W-well, because I thought it was just a joke but it's not I guess..."

Chase didn't say anything after that. He didn't know what to say. His mind was racing with thoughts, one after the other.

After what seemed like forever, Chase broke the silence.

"Who are you on Chatters?"

"Oh, I'm '123456789'. My mom made me do that username to prove to her that I can count."

"Okay..."

There was more silence after that. Chase didn't know what to do, should he forgive him? He was still surprised that Trent even came to apologize.

I don't think you will forgive me, but... I want you to know I'm sorry." Trent gave him a nod before walking out the door.

Chase looked up at the ceiling, thinking.

"Trent actually apologized. I can't believe it. I'm not sure if I should forgive him or not. But I've always been told that everybody deserves a second chance. Douglas got a second chance, and everything turned out okay, right? Well... I guess I'll just think about it..."

"Hey Chase, how'd it go? Did he do anything to you?" Bree asked.

"If he did, I'll beat the living nightlight out of him!" Adam said as he hit his fist into the palm of his other hand. Chase mentally rolled his eyes.

"It was fine, guys. He didn't do anything."

"Okay... It's almost time for bed Chasey. We're going to stay here with you overnight, okay?"

"Okay." Chase yawned. "I think I'm gonna go to bed now. I'm tired."

"Goodnight Chase." Bree kissed him on the forehead, and Adam did the same. Chase was asleep before his head even hit the pillow.

This chapter was hard to write. I had writers block (again). It was hard to write the part with Trent, so sorry if he's a little out of character. I tried my best. To be honest, I never felt that Trent was completely a bad guy. Yeah, he's a bully, but I always thought there was another side to him. Well, There's probably going to be one more chapter. See you then!