Author's Note: I decided to post another chapter up because of the overwhelming reviews I received for chapter 1. You guys are awesome! By the way, all the characters in the Thundermans are played by their respective actors in this story and Vanessa is played by (at least in my head) Kiernan Shipka. If you don't know who she is, you should search her up because she is an amazing actress. But if you don't feel like Kiernan playing Vanessa, her face is all up to your imaginations. Anywaaaaay (sorry rambling again) here is the second chapter! Enjoy! (Still do not own the thundermans)

Don't Even Say It

Chapter 2: A Piece of Cookie Crumb

PHOEBE

First day of school is exhausting but really great. Algebra was a piece of cake as always and our teacher was great. She's Mrs. Albright, a middle-aged woman that handles the sophomores as well. She's not as cool as Mr. Beamton but for an Algebra teacher, I think she's alright. (Alright Albright. Ha. I made that joke earlier. No one laughed.) Max, being the troublemaker that he is, pulled a prank on her by claiming he's an exchange student from Russia. Mrs. Albright went on with it only to Max's surprise when she started talking in Russian. We all laughed it out because she's cool. In my opinion, the new line up for our teachers this year is the most tolerable unlike back on our freshmen year. The teachers were terrible back then, strict and smells like overaged breakfast food. As to why I know the smell of overaged breakfast food, two words: Billy and Nora. But that's a story for another time.

"How was school, Phoebe?" Mom asked as soon as I crashed on the sofa and turned on the t. v. I told her how great it was, how cool the teacher were, and how Max got humiliated in Algebra. She listened intently to my stories, like always. "I heard there was a new girl in your class. You know her?" she asked.

"Uhm, yeah. She's Vanessa Golden. She's super cute and super smart. She rocked Physics all the way," I said enthusiastically. I remembered having lunch with her earlier along with Cherry. We were seated on our usual lunch table near the biggest window installed in the cafeteria and beside the smoothie machine. It was Cherry's idea to sit there to have easy access on the machine. I was a bit proud of her for having that idea. After all, she is Cherry. We asked Vanessa all about her life in Beetlepen. She is an only child. Her father works as an engineer and her mom's a businesswoman. They ended up in Hiddenville because of her mom's work. Back in her old school, she tops all of her classes and competed in lots of national and international contests. That information didn't surprise me, she gives off an I-am-an-honor-student kind of aura which is good since we're in the same boat. It's not every day I could meet someone smart and normal at the same time. Sarah is very smart but she's a big cross on my normal list. And Cherry… well… let's just say she's unique. Vanessa said that she was very sad to leave Beetlepen because she was going to miss her old friends but she readily accepted Hiddenville and finds this place not-so-bad. Aside from Physics, we don't have any classes together but she seems eager to hang out with me and Cherry so we decided to exchange numbers and may be see each other during weekends.

"That's great that you're making friends with new people, Phoebe. I hope you'll introduce me to her one day. She seems nice," Mom said with a huge smile on her face.

Our conversation was interrupted by a sudden yelling in the kitchen. It was not long before Chloe teleported beside me, making me and mom jump in surprise. The little blonde girl looked at us with her round puppy eyes and said, "There's a spider in the soup." She still has some trouble pronouncing some of the words that has the letter r which only added to her cuteness. Mom and I both stood up at the same time. I picked Chloe up and carried her in my arms before following Mom to the kitchen.

The kitchen floor was covered in vegetables, broth, and some chicken bits while Billy and Nora hugged each other, scared expressions on their faces as they eyed the tarantula crawling beside the fallen soup pot. "What is going on here?" Mom asked sternly, clearly annoyed at the mess. As if on cue, Nora's eyes shot out lasers three times, attempting to hit the hairy arachnid. "Phoebe, please take the spider outside. My eyes widened at Mom's request. She can't expect me to pick up that icky creature like it's only a toy! That's gross. Mom looked at me with a raised brow. "Telekinesis, Phoebe. Telekinesis," she said as if to answer my doubts. Oh, right. A family of super heroes. I levitated the tarantula in midair and exited through the back door and into the garden making Nora and Billy squirm away back to Mom's side.

I was still carrying Chloe as I put down the tarantula on the grass. "Why are Billy and Nora cooking dinner? Mom trusts them that much?" I asked her while we go back inside. The scene that welcomed as was Mom pinching Max in the ear while dragging him slowly to the overturned pot, making him clean up the mess. Right, prankster. He must've put the tarantula in the pot.

"They say it's for homework. Mom is helping," Chloe answered as I put her down.

MAX

The first week of school was absolutely lethargic and not just because of the home works and irrelevant activities/classroom reports but because of the constant annoyance that Phoebe and her friends are giving me. I don't really care much about Phoebe's social life or her academic standards, in fact I want to ruin those, but right now she is being so horrible. Firstly, she became best friends with the new girl in a snap of a finger which means she is more motivated to compete against Vanessa. This means that she stays up late and recites every little thing in her book out loud to better memorize it. I've been lacking sleep for like three days because of her! Second, when she goes home, she's sporting a sad face or a frown which cheers me up a little until I hear the reason why. Vanessa is better than her at this, Vanessa's better at her than that. I asked her why she keeps on befriending the new girl if she only wants to compete. She told me Vanessa is a great motivator. Though she is better than my sister in everything, she keeps on pushing Phoebe and Cherry to do better in their subjects. Unbelievable. And lastly, Vanessa did prove to me how much of an annoying know-it-all she is.

It was Wednesday and coincidentally, during lunch, my bandmates and I were sat on the table opposite Phoebe and her friends'. Though I think the coincidence is less likely to happen because Oyster and Gideon have been drooling over the pink-haired nerd (most of the boys in Hiddenville High, actually), they have been following her around and she acts so oblivious to it. Anyway, I was showing Oyster the new gadget I made which is food tracker. It's a device hooked into some sort of GPS that shows the person holding it the nearest location of the tastiest food present in the area within a 1 mile radius. We were having fun planning out which tables we're going to attack in order to get the other students' lunches when the GSP broke down. Reason? Loose wirings. That was so infuriating especially when I don't carry around my tools. I was whining for five minutes until the three annoying girls came to our table.

"Did Max break his precious little toy?" Phoebe said in a baby voice coupled with pouting lips and puppy eyes. Cherry laughed in an instant. "Quit whining, would you? You're disturbing everyone's lunch." I rolled my eyes at her and proceeded to fiddle with the stupid wirings on the GPS. I've tested this thing for hours and when it's finally time to impress my friends, it malfunctioned.

"Can I take a look at that?" Vanessa said. I looked up to see her adjusting her glasses better on her face. Unlike Monday, she doesn't look like a conservative rockstar. She looks more casual, like she's actually from this era. Black turtleneck with long sleeves, red skirt with blue leaf patterns, black stockings, and sandals was her outfit. I looked back at her face and saw she was seriously trying to take a look on my gadget. She even had her hand outstretched in front of me. Like a father protecting a child, I leaned back away from her and eyed her suspiciously. She rolled her brown eyes and said to me with a smile, "Relax, I'm good at fixing stuff especially like one of those." I didn't say anything.

"Yeah, her father's an engineer and she's the best in Physics." My eyes shifted towards my sister which looked down the ground, making me smirk a tiny bit. She hates it when someone outsmarts her especially on subjects she's good at like Physics.

Little did I know that while I was staring at Phoebe, Vanessa snatched away the gadget in my hands and brought it closer to her face, inspecting it. "Hey! I didn't give you permission to hold it," I told her while standing up from my seat. She only took a step back and ran her fingers through the wires.

"The problem isn't the wires," she said flatly, no emotion on her face. She then reached out inside her bag and pulled out a screw driver. "There's something stuck between the bolts of the chip," she added while scraping the medium-sized chip holding all the info in order for the gadget to work. I worried a little because she might damage it further. "I just have to—" Something popped and from the chip she produced a piece of cookie crumb. Colosso's snack. Ugh, that bunny is going to be the death of me. She then screwed shut the case and handed back the food tracker to me. "Next time clean your work place." Then, she grabbed her bag and said she's going to prepare for next class, leaving me standing there, frozen, and very angry at her cockiness. I didn't know Colosso was making a mess of my experiments. If I did this wouldn't have happened.

Then on Biology, she kept raising her hands to either answer a question (taking up about 20 minutes of the whole class) or to ask a question that is completely irrelevant to our discussion. Like when our teacher was discussing the parts of the human heart she kept asking the history of its discovery and whatnot. It was so annoying. If I could I would have dropped out of that class. But my teachers have been threatening me for summer school ever since my first year so this time I have to pass. What an agony I will endure just to do just that especially when I am classmates with the Golden girl.

To relax myself, I decided to start with the new projects I made during summer. I have a pile of blueprints in my room just waiting to be brought to life. Let's see, what shall I do first? I picked up one sheet up in random. "Laser Sword 3000" was written in bold letters. Right. Gideon introduced me to Star Wars during the summer break and I wondered if I could make a similar thing to a light saber. The materials are a bit expensive but I think I could find some useful alternatives. For the laser, I'm thinking of putting one of Nora's eye laser inside a negatively charged titanium jar so it could bounce back and forth until I could contain it through a tube. There are a lot of things to do, still so I better start now.

"Nora! I need your freaking eyeballs!"I shouted on top of my lungs while grabbing my titanium jar and climbing up my stairs to find my little sister.

Author's Note: This chapter is a lot shorter than the previous one because I think this is the ideal length I am shooting for. The reason why chapter 1 was a bit long is because I'm setting the mood (sort of) and I didn't want to prolong Vanessa's introduction to the story. Anyway, expect the next chapters to be around this long, too. Oh and each chapter has two different point of views unless I decided to change up some things in the future. J