Hey everyone! This is my first Charlie Bone fanfic! It has a hopefully good and interesting plotline! Yay! Lol, don't forget to R R! (If you do, i'll give you cookies xD)

"Oi, Blondie, get down here!" Tancred Torsson yelled up the stairs.

"Tancred, if you EVER call me Blondie again, I will personally set you on fire!"

A petite girl with long, golden blond hair appeared at the top of the staircase. Her hair was dishevelled and she was still in her pyjamas, even though it was one in the afternoon. She had clearly only just woken up.

"Haha, Cassy, very funny. Anyway, why are you still in your pyjamas?" he asked as she descended the stairs.

"Because, dear cousin of mine, you and your dad have the tendency to use your endowments all the time, even when you're sleeping," she replied grumpily.

Tancred blushed. Cassy had been heckling Tancred and his father about their weather mongering for the past week she'd stayed at their house, but it still made them slightly embarrassed. Mind you, they didn't like her endowment much either, but they still put up with it.

"Anyway, what d'you want?" Cassy asked, yawning.

Grinning, Tancred replied, "Oh nothing, I just wanted to get you out of bed."

Cassy socked him on the arm and growled. Her and her cousin's relationship was definitely a 'love hate' one, and they would often be found bickering about the silliest things. However, they still loved each other a lot, and they both appreciated each others company.

"Do that again and I'll bite you!" she threatened.

"Alright, alright! God, calm down! Anyway, I want you to come and meet two of my friends," Tancred said while they walked into the kitchen. Cassy poured some cereal into a bowl and started eating it dry. Tancred raised his eyebrows.

"What! I like my cereal dry, alright!" she exclaimed. "Anyway, who are these friends of yours?"

Tancred ignored his cousin's strange eating habits and replied, "Lysander Sage and Emma Tolly. They're both endowed too, you'll like them."

"I'm sure I won't," she said dryly.

Cassy's sarcasm and cynical-ness often made it more difficult for her to make friends, as they often saw her sarcastic comments as insults. They weren't insults, of course, but no one ever really knew what to think of her as she was so… dry. Like her cereal.

However, she didn't really care that much. She worked better on her own and she knew this. She was independent.

"When are we leaving?" she asked as she finished up her cereal.

"Half an hour, so hurry up and get changed!" Tancred yelled as she ran back up the stairs to get ready.

Forty minutes later, Cassy and Tancred arrived outside the Pet's Café, each clutching identical white kittens. They both belonged to Cassy, but as Tancred didn't have a pet, she let him borrow one.

"Be careful, they may be small, but they bite. Hard," she had told him.

"What, like you?" he asked.

"Exactly." And with that, she gave him a playful bite on the shoulder.

The two of them entered the café and sat down at a table in the middle of the room. It was very busy, with dogs barking constantly and cats meowing unhappily at them. Birds were fluttering round the room and gerbils, mice and rats scurried hurriedly across the floor. Cassy could have sworn she saw a snake slithering around at one point.

They sat in silence for a moment, until Tancred called out.

"Oi, 'Sander! Over here!"

A dark skinned boy, with neat dreadlocks that were decorated with brightly coloured beads approached them. A parrot sat on his shoulder, cursing every moving object in the room. It certainly had a colourful vocabulary.

"Hey," he said, sitting down next to Tancred.

"Hey 'Sander, this is Cassy, my favourite Cousin," he replied, sarcastically. Cassy gave him a good smack upside the head. Tancred had gotten so used to this over the past week, he didn't even flinch.

"Yeah, she hits people when they annoy her. One time, she bit me."

Lysander raised his eyebrows and laughed. "Nice to meet you, Cassy," he said, "I'm Lysander. I hit Tancred when he annoys me too."

"You don't know how kinky that just sounded," Cassy laughed. She almost fell off her chair when she saw the two boy's horrified faces.

"Hey, what're you lot laughing about?" A voice said behind them.

They all turned to see a tall, blonde haired girl holding a duck. Cute freckles were dotted across her nose and her hair was tied back into a neat plait.

"Hey Emma, this is my cousin Cassy, the one I told you about. She's coming to Bloor's tomorrow," Tancred said. Cassy noticed that Tancred blushed a little when he saw Emma, but decided to think nothing of it.

"Oh yes, I remember. Nice too meet you, I'm Emma. Now, what were you all laughing about?" she asked as she took a seat in between Lysander and Cassy.

"Only how Tancred and Lysander are gay," Cassy replied, as if it was an everyday topic.

"Congratulations!" she said, "you've finally got them to come out the closet!"

The two girls laughed as Tancred and Lysander's protests.

"We're not gay!" Tancred said. A strong gust of wind came from him. It was so strong that it pushed Cassy off of her chair and onto the floor with a loud 'THUD!'

"Tancred Torsson, do that again and I will eat you. Quite literally I might add," she threatened as she pushed herself off the ground.

Grinning, he replied, "Sorry Cass, Couldn't help it."

They all sat in the café, chatting about Bloor's academy when the subject of endowments came up. Cassy hoped this wouldn't happen, though she knew they'd find out eventually what her endowment was. It wasn't that she didn't like her 'gift,' but it just caused her so much hassle sometimes. She prayed that someone would change the subject before they asked her what her endowment was.

Of course, her praying went to waste, and before long, Lysander had asked her if she was endowed.

"Yes," she replied, reluctantly. Suddenly, Lysander and Emma's ears perked up and they looked very interested. Tancred gave her a look that said, 'you don't have to tell them if you don't want to.'

She did anyway.

"I can make my drawings come to life," she said, "but sometimes I can't exactly control it and it…er… causes havoc."

Lysander and Emma were in awe.

"That is so cool," Lysander said, "that means you'll be in the art department like us, right?"

"Yeah."

The four teenagers all chatted some more about their endowments, until Emma announced that her aunt wanted her home before dark. As it was getting quite late, they all decided to go home too.

"Your friends are quite nice," Cassy said when they were back at home.

"Duh, I wouldn't make friends with idiots. Anyway, you better get to bed; if you don't go now, you won't be able to get to sleep when my dad and I go," he replied.

"Ah yes, but then when you do go to sleep, I will hear uncle's thunderous snores, therefore waking up myself," she argued back.

Tancred grinned. "Unlikely," he said, "you sleep like a rock!"

Cassy hit him on the arm and smiled. After that, she went up to her bedroom and had one of the best nights sleep she'd had in a while.

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x-Mel