Hey everybody! Second chapter is here! All rights go to Michael Buckley. As always, constructive criticism is welcomed. R&R please! – May


After everyone got out of the van, I finally got a good look at the new house. I've never been back to this town since the Everafter war. Granny Relda, Red, Mr. Canis and Pinocchio visited from time to time—Granny Relda and Red more than the rest—but like I've said, we've never been here for three years.

The house was making the word 'huge' the biggest understatement of the year. The correct word for it would've been mansion.

It had more windows than I bothered to count. Although, from what I could tell, it had a sunroom at the front of the house, so that's the first thing you enter when you open the front door, a flat roof, and a large backyard. It also had 4 visible floors but I bet there was also a basement and some kind of hidden room.

I stood, gaping for a few minutes, and then finally came back to my senses when my mom tapped me on the shoulder.

"Nice, isn't it?" She asked.

I managed a weak nod then turned to take my bags out of the van. I had brought a large suitcase and two small carry-on bags, one laptop and one iPod.

I had caught up with the electronics in the past three years.

Once everyone had their bags, Granny Relda opened the door with a big smile on her face.

"Oh lieblings," she called. "You came! Come in, come in! Pinocchio will show you to your rooms! Oh, I missed you so much! Come and hug me after you all get settled in."

Daphne bolted to the door and Basil followed suit. I gave a warm smile and walked up to the door, gave Granny a kiss on the cheek and stepped inside. I was vaguely aware of Granny stepping outside to go talk to my mother and father but I didn't really pay much attention because I stood gaping at the inside of the house. The sunroom was pretty awesome and brightly lit with natural sunlight. There were chairs facing the windows, too. I opened the door to the inside of the house and my eyes magnified to the size of pie plates.

There was a kitchen to the left of me. It was large with a big fridge, lots of counter space and loads of cupboards. I shivered thinking what ingredients Granny had stored there.

On the right of me was a dining room with a long dining table but what was weird was that there were no chairs. I decided to ask about that later.

In front of me was a big living room. It had a flat screen T.V, two black leather couches and one grey love seat. The T.V sat on top of a fire-place and on the right side of the fireplace was a set of door that were most likely to lead to the back yard. On the left side of the fireplace was a staircase that led up. I decided to take it.

As I climbed up the staircase, I looked at the walls. They were covered with pictures of the family. I smiled.

I reached the first flight of stairs and looked around. One full bathroom was on my right. I peeked through a door of a room that appeared to belong to Granny Relda's. It was dark and I felt like I was invading her privacy so instead of flipping the light switch, I firmly closed the door. Before I walked away, someone clasped my shoulder. I jumped into the air, spinned around, and realized that it was just Mr. Canis. I smiled at him and leaned over to give him a hug.

As I withdrew from the embrace I actually looked at him. He held a long wooden brown cane in his right hand and leaned most of his body weight on it. He was as tall, skinny and lean as I remembered him. His white hair was messed up to the point of no return and I didn't realize how much I had missed his small kind smile until now. When he smiled his warm small smile showing that everything was going to be OK it was so gratifying I felt like I was twelve once again.

"Hello Sabrina," he said. "It's been long."

"Mr. Canis…" I said. I felt at a loss of words. Then finally I took a deep breath and said, "I missed you."

"And I, you." He said warmly.

"How are you?" I asked.

"Just dandy." He replied, with a twinkle of the eye. "You should hurry up and get dressed."

"Where's my room?" I asked.

"Well, I'm in the room next to Relda and Basil's room is beside mine. Your room is on the floor atop this."

"Thanks, Mr. Canis." I picked up my bags and heading for the staircase.

"Dinner's in an hour," he called right before retreating to his room.

I took a deep breath and walked up the second flight of stairs. As the other, this one was also filled with pictures of the Grimm family on the wall.

The third floor was bigger than the floor underneath. It had four rooms and one full bathroom, instead of just three rooms. I walked into the first room and found Daphne and Red talking and putting clothes away. I looked around the room and leaned against the door frame until they noticed me.

The room was pretty impressive. It had a bunk bed, the bed underneath was slightly bigger then the one atop of it though. It had one bookshelf almost filled to the top with books and one long desk with two chairs and one computer. It also had two beanbag chairs, one pink and the other red.

It took them sometime to realize I was there. Daphne stopped her sentence abruptly and turned to me. Red turned too, looking for the cause of her sudden stop.

When Red saw me she smiled a huge smile and jumped off of the bed she was sitting on to give me a hug. I smiled and hugged back.

"How ya doing Red?" I asked when she released me.

"I'm doing awesome! I can't believe Daphne is sharing a room with me! I can't believe you guys are staying with us! It's going to be just like the old days. Just not the part where we almost die every other day….. I hope" Red gushed. I raised an eyebrow. Red has obviously come out of her shell.

"Hey 'brina," Daphne said. "How do you like the house?"

"It's huge," I exclaimed. Red nodded her head enthusiastically.

"I've got to go pack my things," I said. "Mr. Canis said dinner's in an hour."

I turned around and opened the door to the left of Daphne and Red's room.

The room looked plain enough. There were two book shelves filled to the brim with books. There were even books on the floor. There was a large desk with a slim white laptop and a nice comfy black chair.

On the bed was Pinocchio lying down on his stomach with a book in his hands. He obviously hasn't given up this hobby.

While I was looking around, he had marked the page in his book and sat up. He stared at me for a few seconds before greeting me:"Hello Sabrina."

"Hey Pinocchio," I said, tossing formalities out the window.

"What can I do for you?" he asked.

"Showing me to my room would be great. I've barged into two rooms and met three people on the search for it."

Pinocchio smiled. He had obviously gown over the past three years. He was handsome for one, and when he stood up he was a few inches taller than me.

He showed me to my room, which was small with a plain bed, a black and white comforter, and black and white pillows. There was a dark desk with a chair, a dresser, a bookshelf with no books, and a nightstand with an alarm clock that now said 6:30.

I sighed and dropped my bags on the floor.

"Thanks Pinocchio," I said. "By the way, dinner's in an hour."

"No problem," he said, leaving to his room. I watched him go then got started on putting my stuff away.

By the looks of it I had about an hour. I tried my best but I couldn't finish in time. It was 7:25 when Red and Daphne came up to call me down for dinner. They stood at my door for a few seconds before Red said: "You look like you need help."

After Daphne stop tsk tsking she finally said, "This is a huge misaster!"

"Misfortune and Disaster, duh!" Daphne explained after seeing Red and my confused faces.

"Uh, help, please?" I prompted.

"Sure," Daphne agreed smoothly. "Red, tell Granny we might be a little late for dinner."

Red ran off to do her task and Daphne started to help me. After a minute, Red came back and offered her help too. I wished I'd asked for their help sooner since we finished in about 10 minutes. We sprinted down the stairs after we finished. Everyone was in their respective seat waiting for us but there were no chairs left. We stood, staring into the empty space for a few minutes, wondering where to get more chairs when three more chairs popped out in front of us. We jumped backwards in surprise.

Veronica chuckled "They appear when you need then. Makes cleaning up a lot easier."

"Yeah, it sure takes it to a whole new level," I muttered sarcastically. Red and Daphne had already taken their seats so I decided to follow suit. Just when I was about to sit down though, the doorbell rang.

"Sabrina, please?" Dad asked. I sighed, understanding his unfinished question and went to get the door, feeling everyone's eyes on my back as I left.

The ringing got more frequent. "OK, OK I'm coming!" I shouted in the direction of the door.

I finally got to it and opened it only to see a boy about my size. I had an odd feeling that I knew this person but I couldn't place it.

He was cute with his emerald-green eyes and wind-blown blond hair. He was holding a suite case and duffel bag. I stared at it curiously for a few seconds before looking back at him, startled to see that he was staring at me as I was staring at him seconds before.

"May I help you?" I asked.

"Who are you?" He asked bluntly. How rude. Well, two can play at that game.

"Who are you?" I replied, mocking his tone.

"Well, extremely pretty girl at the door of the Grimm house hold," Oh great, now he was hitting on me. "I'm Robin Goodfellow."

Robin Goodfellow? Hold on... And then it hit me. I felt like the world had hit me with a brick. Was this a practical joke? I wondered how you got even with Mother Nature…

I took a deep breath, "Puck?"

The same thought seamed to hit him too because he froze, "Grimm?"


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