Down over at the Pizza Shop, Phillip Haynes, the owner was on the phone, talking to someone.
"What do you mean you're letting her stay with me?!" Phillip snapped to the other person on the phone with him. "I know, that, but-... I KNOW YOU CAN'T EVEN WATCH YOUR OWN KID! FINE, GOODBYE!" he then aggressively hung up.
"Who was that, Boss?" A worker asked him.
"My ex-wife, and she's gonna make me have full custody over our daughter." Phillip groaned.
"I didn't know you had a daughter, sir." the worker told him.
"It's a long story," Phillip told him. "After we got divorced, I gained custody of our son, Corey, and she gained custody of our daughter, Elena."
"I'm still sorry to hear about your son, hopefully Elena will be better..." the worker mumbled slightly.
"Oh, I know she will..." Phillip sighed. "There's no bond like a father and daughter."
"When will she get here?" the worker asked.
"Later on this afternoon, but I don't know if I should tell Elena about her older brother." Phillip replied.
"I would give it time, sir..." the worker suggested.
"Yeah, maybe you're right..." Phillip agreed on that.
Soon enough, later in the afternoon, Phillip waited outside for his daughter. He then saw a gray car coming his way and the car soon parked.
"Hello, Jean." Phillip narrowed his eyes at his ex-wife.
Jean narrowed her eyes back. "Phillip..."
"I need to get Elena, not just standing here and looking at you." Phillip impatiently told her.
"Oh, don't flatter yourself..." Jean scoffed, then called into the car. "Elena, hurry up, your father is waiting!"
"Okay, Mommy," A little girl's voice said and soon, said little girl came out of the car, with long brown hair that was tied with a red bow in an orange pumpkin T-Shirt, a purple skirt, pink stockings, and black dress shoes. "Hi, Daddy!"
"Hey, sweetie..." Phillip smiled and hugged Elena right back happily.
Jean had a half smile at the reunion, but still looked firm and sharp as always. "So, where is my son Corey?" she then asked her ex-husband.
"Corey?" Elena wondered.
"Um... He's on a delivery..." Phillip covered up, folding his arms with a small smirk. "Went to the Arctic Circle, won't be back for a while."
"Hmm... All right..." Jean replied. "Well, don't just stand there, get Elena's bags!"
Phillip rolled his eyes and collected his daughter's bags for her.
"Sheesh, you'd think they were still married..." a delivery boy whispered to a co-worker.
"Oh, yeah." The co-worker agreed.
"Hey, Daddy, can I go to the park?" Elena asked.
"Just a minute, sweetie." Phillip told her, politely.
Elena tried to be patient and waited while her father did what her mother told him to do.
"All right, I think she has everything," Jean replied. "And don't forget her medication, she has to take that every night! ...If you can remember."
"Yeah, yeah..." Phillip rolled his eyes. "I'm not an accidental parent like you!"
Jean and Phillip started to bicker while Elena tried to be patient, but felt a little sad and bored. Cindy came out of the magic store and hummed to herself as she held a black stick with white tips.
"JUST GO BACK TO BEING A LAZY SLOB!" Jean suddenly shouted.
"GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM, THE CEMETERY, FOR WITCHES!" Phillip retorted.
Elena wandered off and went to go see Cindy. Cindy took out a handbook and waved the wand in the process.
"Hi, I'm Elena Haynes." Elena smiled.
Cindy yelped and looked over to her. "Oh, hi..." she smiled. "I'm Cindy."
"What're you doing?" Elena asked.
"Oh, just practicing a magic act..." Cindy shrugged.
"Do you wanna be a magician when you grow up?" Elena asked.
"I actually wanna be a writer, but I like to do magic in my free time." Cindy smiled.
"Yeah, you better leave, you hag!" Phillip snapped once Jean started to leave, and he looked around for his daughter. "Elena? Where are you?"
"Over here, Daddy," Elena smiled as she appeared. "I just made a new friend!"
"Oh, that's nice..." Phillip walked over with a smile.
Cindy looked to Phillip. "Aren't you that pizza guy with a son who's locked up in an-"
"Don't you dare finish that sentence!" Phillip scolded as he covered Cindy's mouth. "Elena doesn't know yet."
"Know what?" Elena asked.
"Oh, I was just talking to this young lady about taking you to the park while Daddy is working?" Phillip smiled innocently.
"Oh, yay!" Elena cheered and rushed over already.
"Umm..." Cindy looked at Phillip.
"Here's 20 bucks if you keep your mouth shut." Philip bribed her.
Cindy took the money, put it in her pocket and walked off to join Elena.
At the park...
Bubbles, Autumn, and Jessie were all there and were on the swings.
"Um, hello?" Elena said as she came over to see the other three kids.
The three girls looked over.
Bubbles approached her first. "Hi!"
Elena jumped back, but not too much.
"What's your name?" Bubbles asked.
"I'm Elena Haynes." Elena smiled.
"I'm Bubbles Utonium." Bubbles smiled back.
"I'm Jessie Podemski." Jessie added.
'I'm Autumn Evans.' Autumn replied.
"How come you don't talk?" Elena asked her.
'I'm born mute.' Autumn told her.
"Oh, gosh, I'm so sorry to hear that." Elena pouted.
"And sitting over there on the bench are Jessie's sister, Sky, and Autumn's adoptive older sister, Jo." Bubbles told Elena about the teenagers.
Cindy smiled as Elena was already making friends on her first day in the city.
"Come play with us!" Bubbles beamed to Elena.
"Okay." Elena giggled.
Sarah was then suddenly shown and was using the swings that they were playing on before Elena came over.
"Excuse me, Sarah, but we were here first, so could you-" Jessie was about to politely ask.
"NO!" Sarah glared. "NOW BUZZ OFF, LOSERS!"
"Hey, Cindy, who's that girl?" Elena asked as she pointed to Sarah.
"Huh?" Cindy looked over. "Oh, that's Sarah..."
"Is she a nice person?" Elena wondered.
"As nice as a bumblebee on a honey spree..." Cindy muttered sarcastically, then spoke up for Elena. "She's not very nice, she bosses her brother around and lies to a lot of people just so she'll be their friend and abuse them!"
"That's terrible!" Elena gasped.
"Yes, and she's stolen our swings." Bubbles pouted.
"What?" Sarah sneered over to Autumn who came over to stop her. "Are you gonna do something about this, Mute?!"
Autumn soon took out a whistle and blew it. Cindy flinched from the whistle. Autumn stood with Bubbles, Cindy, and Elena then.
"What's a stupid whistle gonna do?" Sarah scoffed at Autumn.
"Yeah, what is a whistle going to do?" Elena wondered that herself.
'A very protective older sister is coming.' Autumn looked at Elena with a smile.
Elena looked curious. Jo came down the streets and glared to Sarah, knowing she had to do something since Autumn was in the park with her.
"Wait a minute... Older sister..." Sarah said as her face soon became pale. "Oh, crap."
"What seems to be the trouble here?" Jo demanded.
"This girl stole swings from me and my new friends." Elena told Jo.
"Oh, she did, did she?" Jo glared to Sarah firmly.
"They're lying!" Sarah defended. "Who are you gonna believe, a stupid new kid or an honest girl like me?"
"You really think you're gonna win that question?" Jo rolled her eyes.
Cindy took Elena's hand and went with her, Bubbles, Jessie, and Autumn to let Jo deal with Sarah.
"I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY!" Sarah screamed.
"Oh, you're gonna be..." Jo snarled.
"I was only joking around, honest." Sarah chuckled nervously.
"Yeaaahhh..." Jo replied sarcastically, before her eyes turned red.
"Um, Elena, check this out..." Cindy took out her handbook to distract the girl from Jo's transformations.
"Um... Cindy?" Elena said as she had something to confess. "Promise me that you won't laugh when I tell you this, but... I had ADD."
"Why would I laugh?" Cindy asked her.
Elena frowned and looked to her feet. "Some kids at home make fun of me for it..."
"Oh, well that's okay..." Cindy soothed. "People laugh at me all the time!"
"That's also why I take medication all the time, I was born with this..." Elena frowned.
"All right, kiddies, who wants to play?" Jo asked the group.
"Yaaay!" Bubbles and Jessie cheered in excitement.
Autumn then hugged her adoptive big sister.
"What can we play?" Cindy asked with a friendly smile.
"How about we play Fire the Toad Mouth?" Jo suggested, pointing to Sarah who was now tied up.
"How do you play that?" Bubbles asked.
"Easy, you pick up a fruit and hit the target like this." Jo said before picking up a grape and threw it, hitting Sarah.
Elena hid a giggle.
"Jo, that's mean..." Cindy frowned.
"She was mean first." Jo demanded.
Cindy sighed and shook her head.
"Who are you, Cupcake?" Jo asked once she looked at Elena.
"Elena Haynes, ma'am..." Elena said, shyly looking down at her feet.
"Haynes?" Jo asked. "Like Phillip Haynes at the pizza shop?"
"He's my daddy." Elena said with a smile.
"Oh, well, I didn't know he had another kid, especially his last-" Jo was about to say until Cindy shook her head to signal her not to mention that. "Oh... Never mind then."
"Kids in my old town usually made fun of me for my condition." Elena pouted.
"What condition?" Jo asked.
"I have ADD..." Elena whispered.
"ADD?" Jo asked before looking at Cindy. "What is that?"
"It's this medical disorder," Cindy explained. "It usually gives the patient a hard time to focus on one thing at a time and they can get easily distracted or forgettable about certain things."
"And... I didn't have any friends because of my condition..." Elena sniffled as a tear ran down her face. "Instead, they would just make fun of me."
"Aw, you poor kid," Jo frowned. "Don't worry; I'm not gonna hurt you or make fun of you."
"Thank you, ma'am," Elena then looked up to Jo. "Um, what's your name?"
"Jo Elliot, nice seein' ya, kid." Jo replied.
"Me too," Elena nodded before looking to Cindy now. "Thank you for being my friend."
Cindy blushed. "No problem... I always like to make a new friend."
"Well, come on, kiddos," Jo smirked as she put her arms around the two kids. "Let's go play Fire the Toad Mouth."
Elena giggled as she went off with Jo and Autumn to play this new game.
"I'll never understand people..." Cindy sighed as she walked off.
"I demand to be released RIGHT NOW!" Sarah demanded.
"This is fun!" Jessie giggled.
"I'm having fun." Bubbles smiled to her.
Autumn soon threw an apple, but missed.
"Haha, you missed!" Sarah smirked.
Autumn frowned at her fault. Jo took out a watermelon and threw it to Sarah's face. Jessie and Elena cheered that Jo was able to hit Sarah.
"That's not fair!" Sarah sputtered.
"Here, try it now." Jo told Autumn as she picked her up and gave her a banana.
Autumn then threw the banana and it hit Sarah in the face.
"HEY!" Sarah yelled.
"I've never played anything like this before." Elena giggled in delight.
"Well, in this time, you're gonna have lots of fun when you're with me, these tykes, or some of my other friends, especially Ed." Jo smiled before pointing to Autumn, Jessie, and Bubbles.
Elena giggled.
"Elena!" Phillip called from the pizza shop.
"Aw, I guess I gotta go now..." Elena frowned. "I'll see you guys later though..." she then ran off to join her father.
"Bye, Elena." Bubbles said to the new girl.
"We should play together again sometime." Jessie offered.
Autumn then waved with a smile.
"See you later, kiddo." Jo added.
"Get out of here!" Sarah glared. "I don't want to see you again, got it?!"
"Okay, if you say so..." Jo shrugged and walked off with the girls.
"That's more like it!" Sarah huffed, then realized she was still tied up. "Hey, let me go!"
"You told us to get out of here!" Jessie reminded her, narrowing her eyes at her. "So we are!"
"Yeah, Bossy Pants!" Bubbles added.
"LET ME GO, OR I'LL HAVE MY LAWYER SUE YOU, AND MY MOM IS THE LEADER OF THE PTA!" Sarah demanded.
The girls just kept walking away. Sarah yelled out in frustration, she then made Ed untie her.
"So, did you make any new friends?" Phillip asked Elena with a chuckle as he helped her upstairs to where he lived in his store.
"Uh-huh, I was friends with Cindy, Bubbles, Jessie, Autumn, and even Autumn's older sister, Jo." Elena nodded.
"Wow, you've made lots of new friends in one day." Phillip chuckled.
"Daddy, can I ask you something?" Elena spoke up.
"What's that, sweetheart?" Phillip asked her sweetly.
"Who is Corey?" Elena asked. "Is he my big brother?"
"How do you know about that?" Phillip asked her.
"Because Mommy said that I have an older brother." Elena replied.
"She did?" Phillip asked nervously.
Elena looked to her father. "What's wrong, Daddy?"
"Nothing, honey; I'll tell you later." Phillip replied, sounding a little nervous.
"Hmm..." Elena hummed about her father's answer.
Meanwhile, over at the Arctic Circle Asylum...
"Warden, we've got some bad news." A guard told the warden.
"Go on?" The warden replied.
"Well, Corey Haynes has escaped from his cell." The guard informed.
"Corey Haynes!?" the warden looked at him.
The guard nodded in fear.
"WHAT?!" The warden snapped. "HOW?!"
"We don't know, sir, honest!" The guard defended.
"I blame that harpoon he came with..." the warden grumbled. "Track him down NOW!"
"Sir, yes, sir," The guard said nervously. "Do you want me to track him down?"
"NOW!" the warden demanded. "With that lunatic on the loose, who knows who could be his next victim!?"
"He already got the priest, I don't want to die, sir!" The guard yelped.
"That's just a risk you're gonna have to take..." the warden said to him.
"Yes, sir..." The guard gulped nervously, trying not to be scared as he went outside to find the escaped prisoner, but much to his relief, he didn't seem to be around.
There was then a crazed laugh heard.
"Who's there?!" The guard demanded.
The mysterious stranger laughed, having a haunting echo.
"Oh, please, have mercy," The guard begged as he felt scared to death, especially since he was alone. "Why didn't I listen to my mother about joining The Police Academy?!"
The voice laughed and took him over while the guard screamed for dear life.
"SCREW THIS, I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE!" The guard cried out before he tried to run away only to get caught by a harpoon. "No, please, don't hurt me! I have a wife and children! NOOOO!"