Kasey pushed her way to the bulletin board that was hanging beside the gym's front doors. She felt a few people pat her back and call out "Way to go, Kase!" She read the top of the flyer: "'Peter Pan' Cast List", and beside "Wendy" was Kasey's name. She had made it! She was the star, more or less, and no one could bring her down. She finished reading the cast list and went to find her best friend, Harley James. He was sitting in his black Chevy Colbalt waiting for her. When she climbed inside he smiled and said, "So, do you get to be on stage or not?"

"I do! and guess who is 'Peter Pan'!" She exclaimed.

"West Hines, probably."

"YES!" Kasey threw her backpack into the backseat and turned the radio up. Owl City's "Fireflies" came on and she started singing. Ten minutes later, Harley pulled into her driveway. Kasey grabbed her backpack, climbed out, and said, "Bye, Har, I'll see you tomorrow morning!" She ran inside.

Once she threw her backpack down her bed, she ran upstairs to her parents bedroom. "DAD!"

"Come in, Kase, just taking a small break."

"Guess what!"

"What," he said, patting the bed for her to sit beside him.

"You are looking at Wendy Darling."

"You got the part! I am so proud of you sweetie."

"So, what's happening in Durtin and where is Johnathan and Thomas?"

"Writer's block, so I have no clue."

"Amanda Pelts has been trying to become all buddy-buddy with me because of you and your durn books, just so you know."

"Well, you tell Amanda Pelts that if she doesn't act right and treat you with a whole lot more respect then the author will just make it to where she can't buy ANY of the books."

"You can't do that!"

"She doesn't know that, does she? Now, Mom said that spaghetti will be for dinner so I'm guessing it's your and your brother's night to cook, so you had better get your behind in the kitchen and I'll go break Tony away from his Xbox and he'll be in there to help in just a sec, okay?"

"Okay, Dad...see you in a sec." She raced back downstairs to the kitchen. She opened the pantry to gather her ingredients and realized they were out of spaghetti noodles. It was just like her mother to forget that they needed something to make dinner. She smiled and shook her head. For a nano-second a thought popped into her head. "Wish we could just have some appear...so we wouldn't have to run to the store." Oh well. She closed the pantry door and turned her attention to the counter where she saw a box of spaghetti noodles. That wasn't there before. She picked it up and studied it for a second, wondering how it could have got there.

"You have to open the box to use the noodles, not read it." Tony said as he came down the stairs.

"I know, I was making sure remember how to cook them."

"We made the same dinner last Thursday and the Thursday before that, hello Kase. Thursday night is our night to cook...or have you forgotten."

"Sorry, sheesh, there has been a lot going on lately."

"Oh yeah, I forgot, Twinkerfairy and the Dumb Boys, or is it Gay Boys?"

"It's Peter Pan, you nimrod. And, that is only half of what I've had on my mind." Kasey glared.

"Cool it you too." A woman said as she slammed the front door, her arms full of groceries.

"Mom!" Kasey said, running to help her. Tony leaned against the counter and examined his chipped, black fingernails.

"Thanks for the help, Tony," their mom said sarcastically. "Now, where is your father."

"Writer's block, he's channeling Dumber and Dumbest, I think."

"Tony, shut up and put away the groceries." Kasey said as her mother ran upstairs.

"Dan," they heard their mother say. Kasey went back to cooking as Tony put away the groceries.

"Mom is going insane, I believe, she bought a brand new box of noodles and we already had some." Tony said as Kasey put a pot of water on the stovetop.

"I don't believe we already had some," Kasey said slowly.

"Then what do you call these?" He waved the unopened box of noodles in her face.

"They were there when I first checked the pantry."

"That's because either Dad or Mom put them out this morning."

"No, they've never helped us, even in the slightest, when it was our cooking night...why start now?"

"What are you getting at, Kase," Tony said, taking on a concerned tone.

"I thought to myself how cool it would be for some to appear and then they did."

"Maybe Dad went behind Mom's rule of no "parent help" and checked to make sure we had everything we needed and when he realized we had no noodles went and bought some."

"I checked the counters before going into the pantry, just to see if you actually got everything we needed out while you were here all day."

"So, you believe they appeared...but how?"

"No, I think I made them appear. I don't know how."