Chapter 2- Broken Spell part 1.1

"Alright, go Katie,"

Kaitlin was showing off to the Camera dancing to Vida's awesome beat while her sister, Maddie, was filming their first day of work. With a toothy grin, Kitty hopped on the counter, accidently smashing her elbow on the cash register while doing so, to show off her new leather high-heeled boots to the camera.

"Nice!" Maddie zoomed closer to the shiny leather boots as Kailin crossed one leg over the other modeling them proudly. Maddie whistled, "Check you out!"

Out of nowhere, Chip jumped into the path of the camera lens, stealing the spotlight from Kaitlin as he was pretending to fight some imaginary evil being with a folded comic book as a weapon.

"Hey, get outta my spotlight," Kaitlin complained as she pushed him away. He didn't seem bothered as he "flew" away with the wind.

"Oh, please, Kitty-Kat," an Australian accented male laughed. Maddie turned to where Xander was sitting messing around with the wheels of his skateboard. "We all know where the spot light goes to, eh?" he gave a boy-ish grin as he flexed his bicep to the camera.

Suddenly, everyone halted as they got a glimpse of their big boss, Toby, standing at the door wearing a bathing suit. Madison quickly turned off her camera at the same time Vida stopped her music. Everyone glanced at one another as they all gathered around him.

"Hey," started Xander in a playful tone wrapping an arm around Toby's shoulder, "nice snorkel, boss," He attempted to poke it when Toby slapped his hand away.

"Were you taking the day off today?" Vida asked Toby.

"Yes as a matter of fact, I was" he said, "you know what else? There was this gold fish, he swam up to me lookin' at me with his BIG, fishy eyes and said," he put his hands on his face making an awkward fish face, "are your employees cleaning the store like they said they would do?!" Kaitlin unsuccessfully tried to hide her giggles behind her hand at the dorkiness of her boss. "So, now I have to go back to the water, back to the reef, find the fish, and tell him…No!"

Xander stepped up leading Toby into his small office, "relax, boss. Take a breather. I'll gather the troops and sign them things to do around the store,"

"Oh, you mean do the jobs that I pay you for? GUYS," Toby exclaimed before going into his office.

"Well, somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Kaitlin commented, before noticing the large grin on Xander's face, "Uh, oh" she dreaded what comes next.

"Alright, you heard the man. Chip, grab a broom. Maddie and Kitty-Kat you got the cashier. Oh, and Vida, pick up the trash," he clapped his hands saying, "Snap, snap," before getting comfortable on the leathered chair.

Vida and Kitty shared an angry look. They both didn't enjoy being ordered around like servants by their mutual friend. They strode to where their supposed "friend" and manager was longing on a chair comfortably before Kaitlin snatched the small pillow from under Xander's head, hitting him with it.

"And what are you doing, huh?" Vida crossed her arms.

"I'm glad you asked," he said with his famous Xander grin blasted on his face, "I'm supervising,"

Kaitlin had an incredulous look on her face, "supervising? Really?!"

He turned to her with a pretend weary face and a pout on his lips, "it's not as easy as it looks."

"oh, I'm sure," she gritted sarcastically as she hit him again with the same pillow.

He snatched it from her hands to save himself from any more abuse from his blonde friend, "I'm actually very busy, up here, my Kitty-Kat" he grinned tapping his forehead.

Before anything else could be said, everything in the store started shaking as things started falling down the shelves left and right.

"EARTHQUAKE"

"Everybody, take cover," Vida shouted. Xander grabbed a hold of Kaitlin's wrest and pushed her to hide under the cashier register's table. He then grabbed his skating helmet and slammed it not too nicely on her head, before taking cover next to her. Kaitlin complained on how the helmet was ruining her hair style as she took it off to fix her hair, but Xander slammed it back on and put an arm around her to keep her down.

"It's the end of the world!" Chop cried out excitedly. Maddie rushed to push him under cover. "I was just kidding,"

Kaitlin stiffened as she felt this weird feeling around her. What felt like an invisible rush of wind swept over her making her shiver. She didn't know what the strange feeling was but she feels that it carried bad omen with it.

Xander mistook her reaction for fear as he tightened his arms around her, "hang in there, Kitty. It's almost over," Kaitlin forced a smile. If only her knew.

The ground shook a few seconds more before it stopped completely. Everyone got out of their hiding spots, hesitantly.

"I'm alive," Chip praised, still hyper as ever and no earthquake can change that.
" oh, great," complained Maddie staring around the store.
"Man, the store is more messed up then it was before," Kaitlin whined.

Vida shook her head, "I didn't even think that it was possible!"
"It's gonna take us years to clean all that mess up!"
" well, the good news is," popped in Xander with a grin, "the worst is over!"

"Bad news, we got to start fixing up the store all over again,"

"Great," Vida mumbled with a frown.