When Tables Turn

"JAMES!" Crystal screamed, banging on his car window in the back seat. "LET ME OUT!"

James came around to the driver's seat and closed the door of his Acura. He took off his trenchcoat and set it in the passenger's seat.

�� "Shut UP!" James shouted. He took something out of his coat pocket and turned around to face Crystal. He pointed the pistol at her. Crystal gasped and swallowed hard.

�� "Thank you." James said and he turned around and started the car up. They started driving. Crystal slumped back in her seat.

�� "James, what are you doing? I don't want to be with you!"

�� "Didn't I tell you to shut the fuck up??" James shouted. "I will kill you AND that child molester if you don't shut up."

Crystal wanted to say more but she closed her mouth. She looked out the window at the building's passing by as James got on his cell phone.

�� "Are you sure you searched everywhere??" Michael cried, starting to panic.

�� "I'm sure, Mike. She isn't here."

Michael took a deep breath and ran his fingers through his hair, which rested on his shoulders.��

�� "Well she couldn't have left purposely...all her stuff is still here."

Jeff nodded and tried to think. Then his eyes started to get wide.

�� "What?" Michael asked.

�� "Your stalker never WAS found, ya know." Jeff stated. Michael looked at Jeff for a moment, thinking. Then the telephone rang making both of them jump. Michael went into his pocket and found nothing there.

�� "Damn, what happened to my cell phone???"

Jeff hurried to the table in the living room and picked up the phone.

�� "Hello?"

�� "Put Michael on the phone, NOW!" An unfamiliar voice said.

Michael walked in the room. "Who is it?"

�� "Shh!" Jeff hushed. "Who are you?" He asked to the person on the other line.

�� "Put Michael on the damn phone!" the voice shouted. Jeff's eyes got wide and Michael took the phone from him.

�� "Hello?" Michael said.

�� "You stole my fuckin wife, you ass." James whispered.

�� "Who are you? What do you want from me?" Michael asked.

�� "What do I WANT? Could it be more simple? Maybe I'll tell you when you find where Crystal is!" the man laughed and hung up.

�� "James no!!!" Crystal cried when James got off the phone. "No! You can't do this! I know what you're trying to do, he won't fall for it! He won't--"

James started laughing. "He won't FALL for it? You know damn well he will. Don't you remember? He's sooooo sensitive."

Crystal took a deep breath and convinced herself that James was wrong, she convinced herself that Michael was with Lisa and that he didn't really care about her. She convinced herself that she would be back in her and Jame's small home, still typing on the computer. She convinced herself that Michael and Lisa would be happy together and that all this would have never happened. She went out and fought for what she wanted, and now she knows that what she wanted will be taking away from her that easily. Just as James had taken away her pride.

They drove on, and soon her old neighborhood before she moved into Neverland started to look familiar. Soon, they were in front of their house.

�� "Get out!" Jeff cried at Lisa Marie, when she tried to come in the door. Michael was making phone calls to everyone he knew to see if anyone had seen Crystal.

�� "You don't understand!" Lisa cried. "I need to see Michael! It's really important!" She looked as if she didn't look at what she was wearing, as if she just threw anything on. Jeff saw tears in Lisa's eyes.

�� "You've caused enough trouble. Go seduce Nicholas Cage or something." Jeff said, putting his hands on his hips.

Michael came to the door. "Lisa, what are you doing here,"

�� "Michael, don't go after Crystal! I was searching the net and this guy--"

�� "Please Lisa! Give it up! I'm not going to fall for your old tricks again!" Michael said, getting mad. "Now you're wasting your time."

�� "Michael LISTEN! There was this guy� in a chatroom saying that he spread the rumor about you taking advantage of his fans cuz you had stole his wife. He said he was going to try to bribe you into--"

Jeff started snickering.

�� "--into going to find Crystal! He said what he wants is your LIFE! Michael I swear to heaven and earth that I'm telling you the honest truth!"

Michael smiled at Jeff. He smiled back.

�� "Jeff, tell me why am I even listening to her?" Michael cracked. Jeff shrugged.

�� "Lisa, I KNOW you want me, but I've gotten over you. I love Crystal." Michael smiled. "Now if you know where she is, please inform me." Lisa's eyes were glassy. "Michael, pleeeaassee, believe me this time....I'm not joking...." She was begging.

�� "Can you send her out now Jeff. That's enough entertainment for one day. " He turned around to leave, laughing.

�� "Michael! I'm telling the truth! Listen to me!!!!" Lisa shouted.