Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with the Dark Knight or the Joker (I wish I did) or anything to do with DC comics. I do own Casey and Cassie as they are the same person and Lexi and. LOL.

Unturned Rocks

Chapter 3

That evening Lexi joined her friends in the park. Crystal was sitting on the swing with a can of unopened beer beside her. Next to her was her other best friend Alex. Next to her was a whole group of boys Lexi knew she scanned the crowd but not one of them was Joey. Crystal frantically waved at Lexi and threw the beer can to her.

"How was it?" asked Alex as soon as Lexi had finished greeting her guy mates.

"It was bearable" answered Lexi pulling a bit of her hair out of her mouth. She wished she looked like Alex. Her hair was the golden blond you expect to see on a Barbie. Lexi was tired of her dirty blond locks. She asked her mum ages ago if she could dye it but her mum refused muttering something like "it will go a horrible colour if you dye it". Crystal's hair was a bright red colour which only made the teasing worse.

"Look out Lexi here comes Joey" whispered Crystal. Lexi turned round to face Joey. Joey lived down the road from Lexi; Lexi had a crush on him ever since he moved down three years ago from Arizona. In Lexi's world he was the most hansom thing in the entire planet. He had sandy brown hair that was always messy but always looked totally gorgeous, a tanned and toned and chocolate brown eyes. Much to Lexi's regret, Joey only saw her as a mate, nothing else. She did try to get him jealous by going out with his best friend Jack but that backfired after he took her virginity and made her mother ground her for a whole month.

"Hi Lexi how's is going?" asked Joey

"Fine, in fact now that you are here I can tell you all my news" replied Lexi which caught the attention of the other guys. "Right, now you know that I have always told you that my father is dead. Well whilst at my Grandparent's house I over heard my mom talking to her cousin and admitted to her that he is alive"

"No way!" gasped Alex "so who do you think it is?"

"I don't know there are millions of men in the world it could be anyone"

"Imagine if it was Bruce Wayne" fantasized Crystal.

"Give over! I don't look anything like Bruce Wayne. Besides why would my mom sleep with him? She isn't a super model"

"Where did your mom used to work? She only moved here with you were a baby" asked Crystal

"Well according to Carly she used to work in Gotham "

"You could be his daughter. Your Mom could have been his personal PA or something. Imagine that Lexi Jenner daughter of the Billionaire Playboy!" announced Joey as Lexi crept up behind him and stole his cap.

"You want it Joey come get it" she shouted and started running up the hill, when they got to the top of the hill Joey tackled Lexi and reclaimed his hat. Lexi just happened to glance over at the road when she spotted a black SUV parked by the side walk. The windows were slightly tined but Lexi could just see a guy staring right at her.

"Lexi! Come on your beer is getting warm!" shouted one of the guys.

Lexi ran back down the hill and joined her friends. "What were you staring at?" asked Joey

"There's this SUV and the guy inside it was watching me" there was a moments silence until one of the guys said mockingly "oooo spooky!" waving his arms around which made Lexi laugh. It was a good night a lot of beer was drunk, but not as much as last night.

Alex got hold of Joey's phone and started making prank calls to random people and Crystal started a dance competition which she won. People were staring to stow down at two in the morning so Lexi turned towards her friends. "I'd better get going my mom's gonna kill me"

"Do you want me to walk you home?" asked Joey.

"Nah, I'll be fine. If anyone attacks me I'll kick them in the nuts and run off." With that Lexi started making her way home. The neighbourhood was quite as she walked home as most people were in bed and asleep. She noticed, however that the same SUV was following her again. Her heart beat racing she turned down a dark alleyway. A cat jumped off a dustbin sending the lid crashing to the floor. Lexi whirled round instantly and came face to face with a man clad all in black with a clown mask. She tried to scream but he put his gloved hand over her mouth.

She pulled her right knee up and connected with the most sensitive part of a man's body. He doubled over in pain and Lexi took this opportunity to run as fast as her legs could carry her. Behind she could here another voice that growled "what happened?!"

Lexi didn't look back as she fumbled for her keys, eventually opened the door, ran inside, double locked the door and sank to the floor. Lexi felt tears streaming down her face and decided to give in to them.

Cassie heard her daughter cry coming from downstairs and rushed down pulling on a pink dressing gown as she went. "Lexi, what's up?" said she as she wrapped her arms around her daughter.

All she was getting from her was wailing so Cassie half carried her to the kitchen and made her a cup of coco, by that time Lexi had calmed down and put her head on the table. Cassie set the steaming cup on the counter on the island where Lexi was sitting. "Lexi" called Cassie. Lexi slowly lifted her head and stared at her mother who was quietly laughing.

"What?" asked Lexi.

"You look so much like your father just then" said Cassie.

"What was he like?" asked Lexi after a sip of her coco.

"I don't want to talk about him, ok? I want to talk about you. Now what's the matter?"

"When I was coming home after the park I was being followed by this SUV so I turned down that alleyway and this guy jumped out, tried to grab me but I kicked him and ran away." Lexi stared at her mum who had frozen fear in her eyes.

"We have to go"

"What?" asked Lexi bewildered.

"We'll go to Grandma and Grandpa, whilst I sort out the paperwork and we'll be off to California in a few days that should be far enough." Cassie carried on ranting as she ran up the stairs.

"Mom! What's going on! Tell me!" shouted Lexi smacking her mum on the cheek.

"I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry"

"Sorry for what mom!"

"For not telling you and for bringing you into this world"

"Mom is this something to do with my dad?"

"Yes but listen I will tell you everything as soon as we get to your Grandparents"

Da da daaaaaaaaaa !