Chapter 3

A few days in the warehouse (or garage as they'd decided to call it) the Scorpion team were all riding high on the crest of the wave of having completed a case successfully, and saving loads of people.

"You know, there was a second there where I thought you wouldn't do it, but you did" said Paige to Walter.

"Yeah, well, I can't take all the credit, you guys did good too, I wouldn't have known about the guy if you hadn't seen him on the CCTV, so err, well done guys, another case completed"

"Hell to the yeah" said Happy.

"Are you excited at the prospect of money or at having finished a case?"

"Both, don't look at me like that, I need the money so I can get all the parts for the bike I'm working on "

"What are you gonna do with your money Paige?" asked Sylvester.

"I'm gonna use some if it so that Ralph can have the best birthday ever, but then I thought I might save the rest and buy a bigger apartment, my place is getting a little cramped right now, what about you Sylvester?"

"I might use a little to redecorate my room, get some new cleaning equipment, and maybe donate the rest to the local care home"

"That's a really sweet thing to do, well, I'd better go pick up Ralph, see you all in a little bit"

"See ya"

Paige then leaves the garage and drives to Ralph's school, picks him up and drives him back, and upon entering he goes straight over to Sylvester and finishes the chess game that they had started before school.

"Did you have a good day at school Ralph?" asks Toby.

"I solved a complicated math problem infront of the whole class"

"Go Ralph, good job buddy"

"And look what he did in art class" said Paige, holding up a painting Ralph had done, which was a complete replica of the solar system.

"Nice job Ralph"

"Thank you"

"C'mon mister, we're gonna go to Aunt Emily's for dinner"

"Paige, you have a sister!"

"Yeah, I've got 1 sister and 1 brother, Emily and Ryan"

"Are Libby and Logan gonna be there?"

"Of course, now go get your things together and we'll go"

A few minutes later Paige and Ralph said goodbye to everyone and left to go see Paige's sister, while everyone else went to their own corners and continued to work on their solo projects.

A few days later, Paige came into the warehouse, carrying a couple of bags, "Hey, Happy, is Walter upstairs?"

"Yes, why?"

"I need you to hide these party decorations for me, he cannot see them, ok"

"Ok, I'll put them in my room"

"Thank you"

"Hey, I forgot to ask, how'd it go with his sister?" asked Toby.

"It was good, she's really nice, and looking forward to getting out for a few hours"

When Happy had come back from putting the decorations away in her room, Paige gathered them all round and said "So this is the plan: Cabe's gonna get him away for a little while, to fix his Wi-Fi, then, when he's on his way back, Happy I'm gonna need you to call him and say that you need a part for your bike, then that will give us a little extra time to put up the decorations, set out the food table and for me to go and get his sister, everyone ok with that?"

"Yeah, fine by me"

"Cool, so I'm just gonna go and say hi to him before I go and pick up Ralph from the sitter"

"Shouldn't he be at school?"

"Yeah, he's not faking being sick again is he?"

"No, genuinely, he was sick during the night"

"Poor kid, wish him well from the rest of his cyclone"

"I will"

Paige then went upstairs to see Walter who was working on his laptop.

"Hey Walter, how are you?"

"Fine, what are you doing here?"

"I came to ask Sylvester to email me some math problems to give to Ralph"

"Oh, I heard you say that he was sick during the night"

"Yeah, I think he has this stomach bug that's going round"

"Poor kid"

"Yeah, I'm gonna go pick him from the sitter, so err, you might not see me for a couple of days while I help him through it"

"Okay, see ya soon"

"Yeah, bye"

Paige then left the garage and went to pick Ralph up before going home.

End of Chapter