⬆️Jackson's prison cell

Before the four of them knew it, they were in Jackson's cell, and it seemed as though he wasn't the only person who stayed in there as there were three bedrooms instead of one.

Since Khalifa was the last person to enter Jackson's cell, he was therefore supposed to close the door and he did.

Whilst Khalifa, Josiah and Reminisce had sat opposite the single bed, Savannah and Jackson had sat down next to each other, with Savannah crossing her legs.

No one had said anything for the longest time. To be fair, it wasn't exactly easy.

They had trespassed and invaded Jackson's privacy. Not just that, Jackson didn't exactly know they had existed before today.

"Y'all better be here for a good reason," Jackson deadpanned. "I'm already pressing charges because you guys trespassed. Don't make me increase it."

"We're here for a good reason, don't worry," Khalifa promised. "We're here to tell you the truth about your past. What we know, anyway."

Jackson didn't say anything, he just frowned. Goodness knew what he was thinking, but all of them were trying to figure it out.

Part of him wasn't sure if he was ready to hear everything.

Let alone anything.

Before they had explained anything though, Jackson had to agree to some rules.

"You're making rules in my room?"

"Listen, if you break them, we could get in serious trouble," Savannah informed him. "We're already in trouble for coming here. None of our parents know we're here. But I'm talking about trouble with my mum. And Darius."

The rules weren't much. There was only one main one anyway: Jackson couldn't have said anything to anyone about this conversation.

He had to keep everything a secret. Savannah didn't want anything bad happening to Lilibet or Darius, as much as they disliked each other.

However even if Savannah disliked someone, she wouldn't have wished anything bad against them. Except from Stefani, albeit that was for her own personal gain.

She wanted Khalifa to break up with her so that she could have had him. She felt as though Stefani wasn't good for him and it turned out she kind of wasn't.

Savannah had feelings for Khalifa and still did: he just didn't know that yet.

She also thought that none of their parents knew that they were there. Ashanti told Kesiena and Lilibet. She just didn't want them to talk to their children about it so it seemed like she had kept the promise she made them.

The promise she made saying that she wouldn't have told anyone that they were going to visit prison.

"Do you promise not to tell anyone?"

Jackson didn't reply. He still wasn't happy over the fact that they were making rules in his room.

"It depends what y'all have to say," he replied. "If it's not that deep, then I'm spilling. If it is, then I'll keep quiet."

Better than nothing they had guessed. Also, it wasn't like they could have practically forced him to say yes.

This was his room for starters, he was practically older than them plus first impressions had mattered.

Just as Savannah was about to spill everything, something seemed off to Jackson .... Which was the fact that they knew about his past when they weren't even born.

How did they even know he existed?

"We did some pretty vehement research on you yesterday," Khalifa explained.

Maybe it was the way he phrased it, but Jackson was more annoyed than before.

He took that out of context. A lot of people would have to be fair. Khalifa made it seem like they had been passionately stalking him or something similar to that.

"What? So you stalked me?"

"No, we didn't stalk you bro," Josiah corrected him, almost raising his voice. He lowered it when Khalifa called his name and told him to calm down.

Taking a deep breath, Josiah kept quiet. Then he continued, saying that they just wanted to investigate about his past in the library.

As if that made things any better.

It didn't, but then again, there was no other way to say it. Besides, none of them had really liked lying like that anyway, especially to Jackson.

And they knew he existed vicariously through Savannah.

Darius was Savannah's Creative Writing teacher at Santorini State of the Arts: which was the creative arts school they had all gone to.

He didn't like Savannah, but it wasn't really because of her. Mainly because of his past relationship and divorce with her mother.

Darius forgot to unfriend Lilibet from social media after they divorced, and when he remembered, Lilibet posted that it was Savannah's 18th birthday.

He also took a social media hiatus as well. He was worried about how people would have reacted if they found out he had out his son in a coma.

Darius saw Lilibet's post very close to Savannah's first day at Santorini State of the Arts. It was a complete coincidence. So he remembered what she looked like.

He took his divorce with Lilibet out on Savannah, purposely treating her badly because of it. When Savannah called him out on it, he expelled her.

Not the first time, but when Darius had had enough. So Savannah was and still expelled from Darius' class.

Señor Rodriguez said that he would have looked into it, but Savannah hadn't heard anything yet. Then again, he wasn't the principal.

He was the vice principal. The real one had gone to visit a very close friend who had lost a loved one recently.

"Damn. You got expelled?" Jackson laughed a bit, staring at Savannah for a long time. "Never thought of you as being the rebellious type. Maybe we really are siblings after all."

"Yeah, Darius' daughters, who you encountered earlier told Savannah that he felt guilty." Reminisce added. "That was how they found out about Savannah. They found her on Instagram after overhearing a conversation with their parents about her."

Long story short, Sotiria and Zipporah got in touch with Savannah over Instagram about everything. Then they had a meeting in person about trying to find Jackson.

Obviously Savannah didn't believe Sotiria and Zipporah straight away when they said they were her step sisters. She needed proof and they gave it to her - through a photo and a video.

"Wait( you said you got expelled from your class. Did you mean school?"

"No, her class," Josiah spoke for Savannah. She had done most the explaining so she really needed a break from talking. "She still attended the other two. Reminisce let her copy notes from Darius' class."

She still had to do some exams from his class. Just no class, which kinda make sense - but at least she didn't get a zero in his class.

Savannah refused to tell Lilibet that she had been expelled because she knew how she would have reacted.

It was Reminisce that coerced her to do so after three days and she did. That was how she found out about Darius, and wanted to look into it.

Savannah remembered everything.

"Honey, you don't even understand why we divorced each other. Believe me when I tell you that I'm innocent. Everything was Darius' fault. He killed your brother. What would have been your brother. This was three years before you were born. He was eight."

Savannah would have had a brother?

She had never been told that her brother had died before she was born. Lilibet had made her believe that she had been an only child all of her life.

"I had a brother?"

"You would have, yes, but-"

"And you didn't tell me?" Savannah had interrupted, becoming more mad at her mother each time. She felt like a volcano about to erupt.

"I didn't know how you would react, you were too young to understand, sweetheart."

"I'm eighteen, mum!" Savannah had half shouted, half cried. Just turned it as well! That's seriously not a good excuse!"

Before she had lost her voice from shouting, Savannah had facepalmed herself, before saying anything else.

"You know what? Get off the phone."

"Savannah, baby, please, listen to me. Darius was a murderer. I need to explain everything, please just listen to me and-"

"I don't care. Get off the phone."

Lilibet had still tried to convince Savannah to listen to her, only for Savannah to constantly scream get off the phone at her mother, because she couldn't have been bothered to hang up herself.

After that she had cried, because whether Darius was a killer or not, she was infuriated at Lilibet for not telling her any of this.

That was how Lilibet knew Darius. She told Savannah everything on the phone.

"Okay .... So you guys just told me how you know me. But you haven't said why Darius put me in a coma."

Khalifa muttered under his breath that it wasn't exactly his fault, which was really supposed to be heard by no one, however Jackson heard him.

If he was annoyed before, he was even more ticked off now as he had took what Khalifa had said as him being in support of everything.

He was just about to physically attack him, with Josiah, Reminisce and Savannah preventing him from doing so by telling him to calm down.

Khalifa almost had a heart attack, with Jackson's reaction catching him off guard. Josiah wanted to know if he was okay, but Khalifa just shrugged.

"What does he mean it wasn't Darius' fault? How can anyone be okay with my so called father putting me in a coma? He could have killed me!"

"You had a lot of .... Issues when you were younger," Savannah sighed solemnly. "My mum and Darius didn't always know what to do with you."

He was developing slower than other infants and Jackson didn't do certain things he was supposed to do at specific ages. He walked and started talking later than usual.

He also had anger issues.

A concerned Lilibet and Darius went to the doctor, who suggested adoption at first. Jackson had global development delay, meaning that he had naturally developed slower than others.

Adoption didn't work, with Darius and Lilibet trying so about twenty times. Inevitably, adoption agencies had to ask why they wanted to adopt Jackson.

They lost all hope in them when they explained why they wanted to send Jackson out for adoption. Due to this, adoption agencies didn't recommend it - however Darius and Lilibet didn't care.

They did so anyway, unsurprisingly not having any results. This happened about 10 times. Not even family members wanted Jackson.

Young Jackson was a lot to handle.

The doctors suggested euthanasia (assisted suicide) when Lilibet and Darius went back to the doctors a few months and years later.

Killing Jackson didn't seem right, even if the doctors had suggested it every time they had gone in there. But it was the only way to put them out of their suffering.

Lilibet decided against it, however at home, it was a completely different story. Darius knew she wanted it but she denied it every time.

One day, when Lilibet went out and Jackson was about to sleep, Darius put him in a coma, by adding a drug to his drink.

He couldn't stand seeing Lilibet suffer, and didn't want to go back to the hospital because he knew people would have recognised them.

Putting Jackson in a coma was the only option. Darius was in a really tough position anyway. He didn't know what to do. Plus the drug had a 80% survival rate.

Afterwards, Lilibet and Darius had a huge argument over this, leading to a divorce. They also changed their names and moved countries. This was all in Pennsylvania.

"So..." Jackson was traumatised. He looked hurt. "I'm a mistake? I'm better off dead? Is that what you're trying to say?"

"Not entirely," Reminisce assured him.

"That's exactly what you're trying to say..." he was stunned. Speechless. Mortified. Offended. All these emotions wrapped into one. "At the same time. I'm glad you told me. Thank you guys."

They acknowledged what he said, and just in time too because Salvador, Jackson's security guard said that 10 minutes was up and they had to leave, after knocking on the door.

Jackson wanted to talk to Savannah privately as she was his sister, with Salvador was strict on them leaving now.

"Let me talk to my sister, for goodness sake!" Jackson hollered at him, as the rest of them had gone out.

Khalifa, Josiah and Reminisce would have waited for Savannah at the reception with Sotiria and Zipporah, because they weren't allowed to do so downstairs, and Savannah in the meantime had talked to Jackson.