Ten years passed. And in those past 10 years, I've been doing everything that I can do to help the homeless. Alex and Justin also were helping too. Alex became a singer as famous as Beyoncé. And Justin invented a car motor that runs on water. The person who won the wizard competition was me. Alex and Justin never expected it. Haha!

I wrote a book about the time I spent with Jeremy and his family. I called it 'Where Is Max?'. It became a best-seller and I made a lot of money with it. I sent all that money to charities to provide food, shelter, and health to the homeless in New York City. Some money, I sent to other places in the United States as well. I even started my own charity, 'Where Are the Homeless?'. We go around New York City looking for beggars to give a huge amount of cash to.


One day I was walking around the streets of New York. And I saw a familiar face. I gave him $5000 in cash.

He looked up, "Max?"

"Yes, Jeremy. I'm back." I said. He looked much older.


He walked me back to where he lived. He still lived in the same abandoned tenement. And all his family was still alive, but starving.

"Hey everybody! Look who's back!" Jeremy said to his depressed looking family. Their faces lit up.

"Max!" Hannah said as she ran up to hug me, like she always did when I used to come back from working on the streets. "I missed you so much."

"I missed you too." I said.

Everybody looked so different. Jeremy, Andrea, and Nate now had gray hair. Josh was almost as tall as me. He must be 22 now. Hannah was now 21. The twins, Matt and Mike, were 13. And baby Ava was almost 11.

"From now on, you guys are going to live with me," I said. "And I'll get you guys some real jobs."

"Yay!" Ava, the 11 year old who doesn't remember me, said.


They all lived in my house. I got them jobs at an elementary school.

Hannah had changed since she was 11. After a year of getting to know her again, we got married.


Alex and her 5 year old son came over to my house to hang out some. We were watching the news.

"Welcome back to Ellen," Ellen DeGeneres said. "We are sitting here with the famous, Johnny Black."

A man walked in. It was John!

"That's John!" I said excitedly to Alex.

"Oh yeah. He told me where you were." Alex said. She noticed John was wearing the friendship bracelet she gave him. She smiled.

John waved to the clapping crowd and sat down in the couch chair next to Ellen.

"How did you get famous, Johnny?"

"I was singing 'Lean On Me' in a subway a few years ago. And someone on Broadway said I should audition," he said. "I did."

"Cool. And I heard you are coming out with a new CD called 'Subway Blues'. What will we find on there?"

"Music about my life before I was famous," he said.

"And what was life like before you were famous?" Ellen asked.

"I sang around New York City, begging for money," he said. "I lived in a cardboard box until this boy named Max asked me to live with him and some other homeless people in an abandoned tenement. But then I had to leave."

"Why?"

"They reminded me too much of my family."

I found out why he left. His family. He never told me about a family.

"They died. I couldn't provide for them." He said.

"Awwwww." The crowd and Ellen said.

"So you said, Max. Is this Max Russo you are talking about?"

"I don't know his last name." John said.

I got off the couch and walked out the door.

"Where is Max going?" Nick asked.

"I don't know," Alex said, knowing exactly where he was going.

"We should call him and ask," Ellen suggested.


"Hello?" I answered my phone.

"Hi. This is Ellen. Do you know someone named Johnny Black?"

"Yes." I said passing through the security guards who let me through on stage.

The crowd clapped. I've been on Ellen before. They get excited easily.

"Max!" John said. I haven't seen him in forever. I went to him and hugged him. I know guys don't usually hug, especially grown men, but I haven't seen him in a long time.

"Hi." I said.

We sat and talked the rest of the show. Answering questions for Ellen.

"I believe in magic, now," Johnny said.

I smiled at the thought.


A/N: I hope you enjoyed the story! I know the canon characters seem out of character, but people can change in such experiances.

And I am 'the girl who dropped the nickel'. Literally. John was based of a homeless man me and my school sang with in the subway. I did drop a nickel. And he did pick it up. I thought it was really nice. I think that man deserves to be famous!

Tell me how you liked the story. You can review good or bad. I like both. (I know. I'm weird.)

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