Hey guys! Sorry it has been so long for me to update this story. I've been meaning to update a long time ago, but I had writer's block really bad to the point were I couldn't just sit at a table and stare at my laptop and nothing was being typed. That's how bad it's gotten and I knew I needed to take a break. I haven't lost interested in the story at all, I still have a lot of surprises coming up soon and I'm also working on my new Star Wars the Clone Wars story as well. So I'm excited about that as well and I'm going to watch the movie again the second movie just in case if I missed anything important.

So in this chapter it's basically about Alice and her little family, we learned about Daryl's family, Alice is staying with Jen at her house and everyone is getting along. Daryl and Alice has made a bond like a brother/sister bond and relationship since they both understand what they both have been though. Also in the chapter, the gang have to do this music project and they have to perform a song in a group. Also a new member has joined the gang as well, but who is it? Hmmmmmm. You have to find out by reading it lol. Anyway I also put Murphy's POV at the very end as well, it's short and all, but I didn't want this chapter to be all about Alice just yet. That won't happen in the next couple of chapters.

Also I keep forgetting to put the song titles and the band that I used for the story as well. So Alice and the gang are singing Creep by Radiohead. There's two versions. The original and the one from American Idol. I used to the one from American Idol since I thought the arrangements was so good and I bought it on iTunes right after the show, but I didn't like the singer, but I think she did good for the song anyway, but I used that version for this chapter.

So here's the title:

Creep by Jena Irene (American Idol Performance)

Look for it on Youtube and listen to it, it's really good and that's why I used it for this chapter.

So without further ado, I give you chapter 7!

I do not own The Boondock Saints! I own Alice and everyone else!

Enjoy

Hugs and kisses!

Chapter 7: Hollow Man

Alice Alianovna's POV

It's been a couple of days since visiting Hoag's prison and interviews the MacManus brothers, I was never fully myself. I stayed with Jen and her family until the whole Kimberly threatening me is over. Daryl has also taken refuge with Jen's family as well we found out that Daryl's father Will Dixon have been abusing him for quite sometimes and Jen's dad decided to take action. Daryl's brother Merle was still in jail for possession of illegal drugs. Daryl hasn't been in contact with his older brother since he went to jail and says he doesn't care about him. Practically disowned him when he left Daryl all on his own and dealing with his father. Said he was the first one to leave. Daryl said he would never forgive Merle for leaving him and I don't blame him. So, Daryl has been staying with me and Jen's family until he can find his own place and gets some money. However, Jen and her dad have been enjoying Daryl's company. It felt strange to Daryl to be around people that he likes and can tolerate with. He can take on Jen's rage and her father's death glares because he has the balls to talk back. Jen's dad admires that. Daryl and I have been getting close with each other like a brother and sister relationship. He is starting to open up to me as well as I am. He told me how he got his scars on his chest and back and I told him about the scars on my wrists. I told him I was in a very dark place and he understood that.

"You've ever ridin a motorcycle?" Daryl's voice snapped me out of my thoughts as I readjusted my bag on my shoulder. I shook my head and he scoff at me. "Get on." I wrinkled my nose a little and shrugged my shoulders. I hop on behind Daryl, he glanced behind me and handed me a black helmet. "Ya might want this." I took the black helmet and put it on as he started to loud motorcycle. "Ya might want to hang on!" I scrunched up my eyebrows until he kicked the kick stand and started to drive fast. I squealed and tightly wrapped my arms around his waist and buried my head in his back. Shit, that scared the hell out of me. I thought I was going to fall off or some shit like that. I felt the Daryl's chuckle vibrate against my cheek and smacked his chest with my hand.

"You could've warned me ahead of time!" I yelled over the roaring of the engine.

"Thought you would've known to hang on!" I shook my head and looked over his shoulder. The scenery was going by fast, the wind was flowing through my hair and tears were coming out of the corners of my eyes because of the wind. I couldn't help, but smile. I'm smiling. I can't remember the last time I smiled. Probably when my dad was still alive since his death I stopped smiling. Dad always made me smile whenever I was having a bad day or when it was a sad day. However, today I was smiling. For the first time I'm smiling and it felt good. "Huh, so that what ya look like!" I look at Daryl and raised my eyebrow at him. He glances at me and gives me one of his rare smiles. "You look pretty when you smile!" I chuckled and shook my head and continued to look over his shoulder. As we got closer to the school, I saw Jen standing outside waving at us. She was smiling at us and I couldn't help, but laugh. Daryl made a turn and kicked his kick stand and parked his motorcycle. He turned off the engine and looked at me with a grin. "You should smile more often." I had no words to speak since I had the best time of my life riding a motorcycle. I know it sounds cheesy, but to me it was freakin awesome. I hopped off of Daryl's motorcycle expect my legs were a little wobbly from the ride. I almost fell, but Daryl caught my arm and pulled me steady on my feet. I looked at him continuing smiling like an idiot, but I'm really happy and nothing can ruin my mood. Daryl let out a small laugh and shook his head. "Don't worry you'll get used to it. It's always like that for the first time, but again you'll get used to it." He continued to grin at me and I shook my head.

"So you rode the motorcycle to school." Jen leaned against the handle bars and smirked at the both of us. I couldn't help, but blush and I was still smiling. I glanced at Daryl who was blushing a little and rubbed the back of his neck and still had that stupid grin on his face. I will say, he is kind of cute when he grins. I wrap my arms around his waist and kiss his cheek.

"Thank you for the ride Daryl." I smiled at him and he kissed the side of my head and put his arm around my shoulders.

"S'nothin only fer ya." I smiled even more and leaned my head against his shoulder as he looked at Jen with cheesy grin. She smirked and laughed at the both of us like we were a couple or some shit like that. We talked for a little bit longer until we heard a loud car engine and all three of us look towards the entrance of the parking lot and saw Kimberly and her gang driving like maniacs. I looked away from them and looked at Jen. She rolled her eyes and growled.

"She better not be up to her old tricks again because if she is we're gonna have a problem." Jen growled under her breath and I let out a small laugh when she's mad. Both me and Daryl laugh at her being mad, we both think it's kind of cute when's mad. We heard obnoxious laughter from Kimberly and her gang. Daryl and I glance over towards the car and saw how much fakeness and both of us rolled our eyes.

"So it's Friday right?" Jen and Daryl nodded and I thought of something fun. "We should go out tonight." Jen had this gleam in her eyes about going out and smirked.

"Go down town and be crazy all night and get away with everything," She paused for a moment and looked at Daryl who smirked at Jen. He agrees with this plan. "I'm in." I laughed and looked at Daryl who still has on that cheesy grin and pulled me closer to him. I could literally feel his body heat radiating against me. It felt nice. I didn't want this feeling to go away, but it did. The bell started to ring telling us school is starting. All three of us sighed not feeling up to go to classes today. All three of us had the same first period and it was music class.

"I guess we better get to class." Jen and Daryl nodded. "Did we have anything due today for music class?" Jen thought about it for a moment and then spoke.

"I think we have to perform our songs today since all three of us are in a group and we could use instruments for our performance, it shouldn't be hard." I nodded not really want to perform the song I had written for this assignment. Only Jen and Daryl know about it since they were both helping me with finalizing it. I'm a little nervous, but since Jen and Daryl are going to be with me, I guess it won't be that bad. I felt Daryl move, but was tugging on my shoulder.

"C'mon it won't be that bad." I rolled my eyes and lightly punched him in the stomach. We both laughed and he put his arm around my shoulders again and pulled me into his side as we walk towards class.

Three groups went by and I have to say Kimberly and her gang were very good. I went through my journal to see what song I want to perform and Jen and Daryl sniping at each other are not helping.

"You guys are making this impossible! Just choose one already!" I hissed at them and they both turned the next page and Daryl pointed to the title. I raised my eyebrow at him. "Are you sure?" He nodded.

"Yeah, I mean teach said we could use half of the recordin we did an the rest live. I could do the drums, Jen got the guitar and ya vocals."

"Yeah, but we be down one person for bass." Daryl thought about for a moment and looked behind him looking for someone who can play the bass guitar.

"Do you guys need help?" All three of us looked up to see one of Kimberly's girls I think her name was Emily. I looked at her and raised my eyebrow in confusion. I grabbed my journal and handed it to Emily. She looked at and studied the music notes.

"You think you can do this in bass guitar?" She continued to scan the music and looked at me and nodded. "You know you're going to have to change clothes for this song right?" She nodded.

"What do you want me to wear?" I looked over at Jen since she's been talking with Emily for awhile and noticing that she doesn't like Kimberly that much. Jen told me that Emily doesn't know why she's still in Kimberly's gang; I guess she felt like she belongs there or something like that. However, Emily said that she doesn't like how Kimberly has been treating me and after Kimberly slapped me at Hoag's prison, she basically told her off and saying that she's a whore and has been cheating on her boyfriend with another guy of three years. Never really found out whom, but she's been cheating. Since then Emily hasn't been with the gang, she has never felt so free in a long time. I glanced at Daryl he shrugged his shoulders and looked at Emily.

"Ya hav anythin with dark colors like a red, blue or purple?" Emily nodded.

"I think I have something in my locker." Daryl nodded and so did everyone else.

"Next up is Alice, Daryl and Jen!" We all three snapped our heads up towards the front of the theater and saw the teacher standing up pointing towards us. "You three are next." Jen stood up from her seat and spoke.

"Actually it's four, Emily joined our group." I heard a scowl coming from the front and saw Kimberly rolling her eyes and crossed her arms across her chest. I rolled my eyes in annoyance and sighed. The teacher nodded and wrote Emily's name down on her clipboard. All four of us got up from our seats and walked down the aisle of seats up to the stage.

"You have fifteen minutes to change into your costumes and five to prep up your instruments." We all nodded and went back stage and changed into our other clothes. Daryl went into the far corner under the stairs to the lights and Jen, Emily and I changed behind the curtains.

"You nervous?" I looked over at Jen who was wearing a dark blue corset with black lace and she was wearing black skinny jeans with black and white converse. She put on her black fingerless gloves and picked up her drumsticks and twirled them in her fingers. I shrugged my shoulders and ruffled my hair. I smoothed out my dark red lace dress, it had lace sleeves that went down to my elbows, and the length went down to my mid thighs. It had a dark red slip under the dark red lace and the lace went around my neck and my back. To be honest, I was getting a little nervous. I've never gotten stage fright before then again I never really performed in front of anyone before besides Jen, her family and Daryl. Still, performing in front of our music class wasn't exactly exciting for me.

"This is stupid. Why do we even have to do this?"

"Because we have to get a grade for the songs that we wrote in class and everything else." I scowled and shook my head.

"It's not something I like to do let alone perform in front of the class. That's not my style." Jen sighed and walked up to me and gave me a hug from behind. Her arms wrapped around my shoulders and her arms dangling in front of my chest.

"I know you don't like performing in front of others, but if you don't perform you're going to fail. I don't want you to fail a class that you really like." I sighed and nodded.

"Fine, but I'm doing it for you and Daryl. That's it." I walked out of Jen's embrace and walked towards Daryl. He was wearing a black t-shirt, black pants and his construction shoes. He was also wearing a black wrist band on his left wrist and wearing the dragon pendant with the Celtic symbol in the middle I got him at the downtown festival a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't help, but smile and he gave a small smile back at me.

"Ya ready?" I slowly nodded. He could tell that I was nervous so he walked up to me and gave me a hug. "Everythin is gonna be fine. You'll do great." I pulled away from Daryl's warm hug and nodded.

"I know." She looked towards the stage entrance and saw Emily. She was wearing dark purple long sleeve shirt with some of the fabric gathering in front making it a design. She was wearing black skinny jeans and black flats with no socks. Her hair was long that went down to her shoulders and the color was brunette. I notice she was wearing two rings, one on her left thumb and index finger both silver. I saw she was fidgeting too so I'm not the only one who's nervous. I walked towards her and put my hand on her shoulder; she glanced at me and put her hand on top of mine. "Ready?" She nodded and sighed.

"Let's do this." All four of us walked on stage, the bright lights were on us and you could feel the heat radiating on us. That's how bright the lights are. All four of us stopped in the middle of the stage and looked out towards the class. It was a small class maybe twelve students to make like three groups and we are the last group.

"When you're ready." We nodded and looked at each other and put our arms around each other shoulders and bowed our heads and said a prayer in silence. It wasn't long until a certain someone decided t ruin it.

"Will you get on with it already! We don't have all day you know!" I sighed and looked up and it was Kimberly who looked really annoyed and irritated for some shit reason. Oh that's right a certain boyfriend found out that his girlfriend has been cheating on him for the past three years. I shook my head and everyone else sighed in annoyance and went to their positions. Jen went to the drums, Daryl went to pick up his guitar and Emily went to pick up the bass guitar. I went to the piano and sat on the bench. I played a few notes make sure it's in tune as well as everyone else. Daryl looked at me and I glanced at him and nodded and he nodded back. I played the beginning of the song, I could feel the vibration of the piano and the next thing I started singing.

When you were here before

Couldn't look you in the eye

You're just like an angel

Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather

In a beautiful world

I wish I was special

You're so very special

Daryl joined in playing the guitar with a rhythmic melody that made it beautiful.

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

Jen and Emily joined in with the drums and bass guitar making the song feel full again.

I don't care if it hurts

I wanna to have control

I wanna a perfect body

I wanna a perfect soul

I want you to notice

When I'm not around

You're so very special

I wish I was special

Daryl strummed a few cords then stopped for two beats then strummed another few cords and then it came to life.

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

Ooooh Ooooh

He's running out the door

He's running out

He runs, runs, runs, runs

Runs

I could feel the vibrations of each note flowing through my veins. The guitar, the bass, the drums, the piano everything just flowed right through me. After the high note, Daryl strum one long note that echoed throughout the room and then strum a lower cord.

Whatever makes you happy

Where ever you are

You're so very special

I wish I was special

We stopped playing for two beats and then went up a note to finish the song and make a grand finale.

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

I played like it was my last day on earth and I finished the last verse with a bang.

I don't belong here

I played the last note and let it echoed throughout the theater and so did everyone else. I looked up at Daryl and he gave me the goofiest smile I've ever seen. I couldn't help myself, but laugh a little and looked at Emily. She couldn't help, but smile and she looked at Jen and she did a fist pump in the air. We all couldn't help, but smile and laugh. We performed, I sang a song that I wrote and for some reason I couldn't be happier because I performed with my friends. My family.

Murphy MacManus's POV

A couple weeks went by since the high school came and the students interviewed me and me brother. A couple weeks since I've seen Alice. Alice I can't get her out of my head. She's all I ever think about. Just that whole conversation we had that one thing she said to us never really left my head.

Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of death, I shall fear no evil.

She not afraid of death itself, she wasn't afraid at all. She's seen death before, but when? When has she experienced something so traumatic?

If you're not afraid of evil then you're not afraid of death itself, am I right?

She's right, I'm not afraid of evil or death. God sent us as his messengers, to protect the innocent from evil. To protect those from harm's way.

The world we used to know or at least I used to know no longer exists, it is now broken.

She's right. The we used to know doesn't exist anymore or at least it did back then, but now it's filled with evil men and women. Terrorizing the innocent people, treating them like dirt, leaving them for dead.

The world is going down to the pits of Hell then again we were already in Hell to begin with.

Where we already in Hell? I don't know what to think of anymore. The world is different from what we've been through, but has Alice been through to think like that? What makes her think she's already in Hell? Something happened to her, something bad, but what? What made her think that way? Most importantly, what made her think she's not afraid of death? I want to find out, I need to find out and I need to know. I sigh and rub my tired eyes and try to go back to sleep, but I just can't. Alice is always on my mind, I want to find a way to help her. I know she has to do that assignment on us, but she hasn't come to visit us yet and it's been a couple of weeks now. Sure she would know if she got the assignment by now, but why hasn't she come to visit us? I groaned in frustration and close my eyes and at least try to get some sleep. At least try.