Oh, Man, did I screw up! That last paragraph didn't come out the way I expected. I thought that it would be a cliffhanger for the sequel, and everybody would know that the sequel would straighten things out.
The problem is that the sequel is not coming along as fast as I had hoped. That California thing was a ploy to throw off anybody chasing him. I don't want to say too much here and ruin the next part of the story, but Jimmy will come back to pick up his family. Suffice it to say that they all escape the reservation.
I plan to finish the sequel before I publish it, so I don't know when it will be ready. In the meantime, I will post another finished story.
Rest assured that I have learned my lesson on how NOT to end stories.