Secrets of the Babcock:
The Blazing Mind of CC
Chapter 4- Once Upon A Reunion
Summery-
One step closer to the truth of her past, she realizes, to keep it a secret, she must lie to the ones she shares her secret with. Their secret. Especially since she has to face them, her two best friends who she hasn't talked to in years...with a little challenge that comes with being a powerful witch destined to be the Great Full Witch.
"No and that's that!" She yelled out, her face beginning to redden with anger. She turned away from him, with her arms crossed, something that has become her signature move when in anger.
"Look it'll be good for you, after the whole witch training, I think it'll loosen you up."
CC rolled her eyes and shook her head. Finally, she turned to face him, and took the yellow envelope from his hand and read it.
She looked up at him, taking a deep breath, trying to control herself.
"I can tell your not a party person," He said, smirking.
"I don't think this is a good idea. The past is meant to be in the past, that's why it's behind you in the first place!"
"Does it have to do with that secret your keeping from me, with your two old friends from high school? Are you ever going to tell me?"
CC played with the fancy envelope that contained her invite to her High school reunion, trying so hard not think about her past. "I made a promise, I'm not going to break it after all these years of keeping it in my mind."
"To who?"
"It's not just my secret Michael, I can't just tell you."
Michael nodded, respecting her space.
"You do know it's in a couple of days right?"
"Yeah, and thanks to you, for finding it under my pile of mail, I won't miss it." She said sarcastically.
At the Sheffields, CC couldn't stop thinking about her two best friends. Although their friendship ended badly, there were those memories that she kept at heart. The good ones, and there were many good ones.
"The Three amigas!" CC said, and the two joined in screaming raising a hand, as if they had a sword in their fists.
The three girls laughed, finally, dropped themselves on the grass, and giggled together. They had just got out from their day of school, and they decided to hang out in their secret park, where it was always empty and abandoned, hiding behind CC's mansion, just a mile away from it. Since, she lived a little farther away from her neighbors.
This was their time and place together, and even though it probably doesn't mean anything to anybody else, it meant a lot to the three girls, as it was like their wonderland, that, even just for a couple of hours, it made them feel invincible.
"We should celebrate I could easily get champagne from my fathers cabinet."
"Ceec, there is no way your drinking, not after what happened at Steven's party, Christy and I had to drag you from there to the car, and not to mention, sneaking you back to your house. That nanny of yours is something else, she could easily defeat Mark," The girls laughed, picturing Nanny Bobo against the schools star football player.
"Well, we should at least get something to celebrate."
Christy shook her head, "You's don't have to, it's not a big deal,"
"Christy, you always put yourself down, today changed your life and you know it, today is your day," CC said, her face almost looking concerned.
Christy smiled
"Did you see Julie's face! She was all 'what the fudge just happened'." Emma said, mocking Julie's face, full of surprise shock.
Christy let out a giggle, and shook her head, "I still can't believe it, and I owe it to you both, without your knowledge of theater Ceec, I wouldn't even have made it here. And you Ems, you told me everyday, to audition until I did. And both of you helped me practice, and trusted in me that I could," Her voice began to crackle, as she was beginning to cry, "Thank you both," She said, then both Emma and CC hugged Christy.
"We both knew you had it in you. You could have done it without us," CC said, and Emma nodded, agreeing with her.
"I still can't stop thinking about Julie, it was so perfect, for weeks she had been bragging about her being the star in The Mamma Mia musical, and now, she has to explain to the whole school why she's in ensemble,"
"I don't know what my favorite part was, when she learned she didn't get the part and got ensemble or the fact that Chrisy got her part!" CC laughed, and Emma and Christy both joined in.
"I'm just happy I get to share this with you two," Christy finally said,
"And we'll be with you all the way to Rome baby," CC said,
"Are you gonna tell your parents?" Emma asked,
"I don't think they want to know, they think theater is a waist of time,"
"Ems, why do you think they think I'm a bad influence? I introduced her to acting, I was the influence,"
"Um...no, they think your the bad influence because of your rebel life," Emma and Christy laughed,
"Ha ha your so funny Ems," CC said sarcastically.
"I'm serious, I've never meet a person who would dare race a tiger!" Emma said, bringing out the memory.
"That's because I didn't have a choice! Either becoming cat food, or run a marathon. Believe it or not, I wanted to live."
"Yeah well, you wanted to sneak in the zoo at night, so you have to blame yourself." Emma said,
"You wanted to see the elephants before they were to be transferred to another zoo," Christy said, backing CC up,
Emma lifted an eyebrow, and smiled, making a kissing sound in the air, "Kiss up!"
"It's kiss ass!" CC corrected her, and they all laughed.
"we laugh to much," Christy said, still laughing, and they laughed harder, nodding their heads in agreement.
Their laughs echoed in CC's mind, oh the stage of teenage life.
CC smiled at the memory. After remembering, she questioned what had happened after. Christine Degrane and Emma Tutweiller, were her only true friends, and she has no idea what happened in their lives.
She felt ashamed. Even though it has been years since they spoke, she still considered them as her closest best friends she had ever had. Because they were her only best friends that didn't talk behind her back, and because of their past, she knew, they would challenge their lives for her, as she would them.
She snapped out her thoughts, when she heard bubbly noises. She looked down, and realized she was still holding her coffee, now being evaporated in seconds.
"Shit," She quickly placed her coffee mug down on the kitchen counter, thanked herself for being alone and not have to explain to anyone in the house why her coffee was boiling in her hands, as if it were burning. Whining over her loss of coffee, she let out a puff of breath, and forgot she told herself not to ever do that, fire quickly came out of her mouth like a dragon's would, and she slapped herself on the forehead.
'dragon, I wonder what Niles would say, if he knew I could do this like a Dragon,' millions of insults came into her head, all of which where said with Niles' british voice.
"What the hell am I supposed to do with myself!" She raised her hands up to the ceiling, raising her head, as if speaking to it.
"Well, you can do us all a favor and throw yourself in the loony bin for talking to yourself." Niles said, as he walked in.
CC jumped from fright, and then changed to anger and annoyance. "What the hell!Warn a person before you start showing your creepy old face!"
"Just what are you doing in here? Shouldn't you be over there in the office wasting your time trying to make Mr. Sheffield to notice you? Isn't that why you changed your whole wardrobe?"
"Is that what you think? That I suddenly decided to change everything from head to toe for him? Ha! You better start looking for another guess butler boy, cuz you are dead wrong."
"Oh?" Curious to what she has to say, to explain herself.
"Let's just say, It had to do with Michael." She said, smiling. "And anyway, why do you care?"
"I don't," Trying to calm down, with what she said, about her and Michael, hoping she meant something less than what he was thinking.
CC shrugged, and walked around the counter to face Niles, "The why bring it up in the first place?"
"I'm just curious," hoping that would cover him.
"Whatever Niles," And walked away.
Niles sighed, relieved to be out of that conversation. He realized what she had said before, about Maxwell, not having to care what he thinks about her anymore. He also thought back to when she had first dressed like she does now, lots of short dresses, high heels, long hair, and somehow using the right eye make up to make those eyes pop. She never exactly showed any effort to use that for Maxwell's attention. She was usually in that book of hers, which he didn't understand since there was nothing in there to begin with.
A day before he finally had the chance to look in it, and there were nothing but blank pages. He thought she tricked him, but it didn't make sense afterwords, when she kept on pretending to read the pages, as if there were actual words in there. And she was a pretty darn good actress, while 'reading' the book, and using expressions as if there were good stuff in there.
He shrugged it off, and then realized she had left her coffee mug in the counter. He smiled devilishly, when he thought of dipping Brighton's old gym socks in there, as he was about to get them, when he accidentally touched the mug, and burned himself.
"Ouch. What the?!" He yelled out to himself. He decided to touch it again, this time little by little, but it was a stupid move when he burned himself once more. He knew that it was way to hot, and questioned himself, as to why it was burning. He had been serving coffee for years, and as many times as he burned himself with the hot mug, it was never this hot.
Believing it was because it was close to the stove, he realized that wasn't true, when he notice that the stove was not even on, and it was cold to prove that it hadn't been on in awhile. And even if it was a while, shouldn't the mug be a little bit more cooler?
He jumped a little, when CC ran back, nearly bumping into him, "I forgot my coffee," and before he could stop her from taking it into her hands, she already had done so.
Noticing his shocked face, she questioned him, "What?" She said, stopping herself from leaving the kitchen.
"No-nothing." Maybe he just imagined it. He stared into her hand, holding her mug, trying to figure out if she was holding the pain in, any struggle, but nothing. She was just there, standing in front of him, looking at him as if he was crazy, not realizing anything, then shrugged, and walked away.
'what's wrong with him?' she thought to herself, as she was making her way towards the office.
She didn't know why, but she had gotten more comfortable working outside, the wind made her feel more free, and the open air was better than the small office room, where it felt closed up and caged. No, she,like fire, wants to be wild and free.
When it snowed, it became a favorite of hers, the feeling of her warm fire in her skin protected her like a blanket, yet still feeling the icy feeling of snow just before it melted.
The balcony was also the only place she could smoke, so it was perfect.
Michael came out, shaking his head.
"Don't take advantage of your nurturer powers. Just because smoke can't kill you, doesn't mean you get to smoke a cigarette everyday."
CC rolled her eyes, putting the cigarette in her mouth once more and blew out the gray smoke out in his face, smiling.
"Why do we hate you, if you are all the ones who help us in the first place?" She said, flipping the book of History of Creations, taking another look at the words.
"They blame us, for their failures."
"Why don't they appreciate you? At least they can give you that," Her voice beginning to rise with anger.
Michael sadly smiled, "It's fine CC, it's been happening for years."
"No," she shook her, "No it's not fine, there has to be a very darn good reason to have such hate for clays, for hundreds of years!"
"Why does it matter to you so much?" He said, looking concerned.
"I was remembering the old times with Chrisy and Ems." Michael was confused, "My two best friends,"
"Oh, those are their names?"
"Yes, Christine Degrane and Emma Tutweiller. But we gave out shorter names to each other. Emma and I had always fought about whether it's Christy or Chrisy. So, we decided to have both. We never fought like friends usually do, but whenever we did, it was never serious. We just played like that." She smiled at the memory.
"I thought you didn't want to go back to the past?"
CC looked up at him, and shook her head, ignoring him. "Anyway, I also remembered when someone, during our missions of saving people, saved the three of us. I used to think he was an angel. I realize now, that he was much more than that. He was a clay."
"Wait, when you three found out who you's were, you tried saving people with magic? That's dangerous, illegal and would have killed the three of you!"
"Yeah, that's part of the secret. But if it weren't for that clay, we wouldn't have been here in this time celebrating new years eve for the new 94."
"And that's why your feeling the way your feeling now?"
"He didn't save us because he had to, he did it because he wanted to. Why are you saying you have no feelings, when you do the right thing without knowing the consequence? You save people even though you don't get the credit."
"I-I—,"
"Your lying to me. You do have feelings!"
Michael hesitated, "We...only have a few. Love is definitely not one of them. But we care, and we have anger. That's what we have for us. Please, no witch knows, just us clays, don't tell anyone. Who knows what they'll do. They can destroy us, then recreate new ones."
"I'll take it to my grave."
"January 5th. That's in a couple of days. With all of this in your head, I think it'll be a lot harder to have fun in your reunion."
"You know just as well as I do, that I could handle it."
"Your right."
"What happened to the missing W.D.D?"
"Not a trace."
"God, I hope it's nothing serious,"
"CC Babcock, are you caring for other people?"
"Shut up," She said, a few seconds later, she felt a strong pain in her head, causing her to drop the cigarette on the floor, to be able to hold her head with both hands.
"What's wrong?" He said, kneeling down in front of her, trying to hold her from falling on the floor, as she was beginning too fall front.
The feeling went away, but it left her nose bleeding. Michael took out a towel from his jacket pocket, and helped clean the blood.
"I was getting this pain. What does that mean?"
Michael sighed, "I guess you've been thinking to much. Maybe you should rest for a while."
"I guess I've been studying for hours, and thinking to hard about the past, I didn't even realize I had to think about myself as well."
Michael gasped, when something unbelievable happened, and CC didn't know what was wrong with, and was frightened at his reaction. "What!"
"Your hair!"
"It's cold out there and your letting Ms. Babcock work out in the cold?" Fran said,
"well, I-I did ask her to come inside, she didn't want to,"
"She's the ice queen, cold is her." Niles said, which earned a smack on his arm by Fran. "Ouch," Rubbing his arm.
Michael opened the doors, grabbing CC by the arm, both running towards the door, with CC's hair, covered with Michael's jacket. And if they had looked closer, they would have seen her hair dripping with coffee.
When they got to the bathroom, Michael locked the door, and took the jacket off her head.
"Why the hell did you spill coffee on me!"
"Your hair was burning! Someone could have seen fire on you!" Michael shouted, not loud, but in almost whisper. "What emotion were you experiencing right when it happened? Well judging by the color of the flames, it was green which means sick. You felt sick, and that caused your hair to flame up."
"What!?" While washing her hair on the sink, trying to get the smell of coffee off her hair.
"It happens when you upgrade. From now on, you have to hold in your anger, and any other emotions, like sadness, happy, and many others." Michael looked at her, "Especially anger," CC rolled her eyes at him.
"You know there was another door to use, instead of the one leading to the office, you could have used that door!"
"There's another door?"
"Oh my god, you've got to be kidding me. If you hadn't noticed the door, then I'm toast in any battle with evil. Your my teacher!"
Michael laughed, and shook his head. "You'll be fine."
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She ran as fast as her legs would let her, and she nearly forgot what she was. She stopped running, turned around, and used her nurturer fire gift. She blew out fire, and burned the old wicked evil witch.
She dropped herself to the floor, trying to catch her breath. The portal opened, and she stepped into it, getting herself back to her room. It was Friday, the day before her reunion, and she was supposed to rest, but unfortunately, evil chose to attack. Michael would have been so proud of her, she knew it, but he wasn't there. Her first time in a battle, and he wasn't there. She knew he had to go though, it was about the missing W.D.D.
CC took a shower, then got herself ready for bed. Tomorrow would be either good or bad. She was nervous about entering her past by herself, and no escort. She realized it wasn't the time to think about that, when she knew she had to sleep for the big day. She closed her eyes, and slept.
It was morning, and she knew she had to get ready. Her dress, she and Michael chose, was a black dress with a round closed neck, sleeveless, with blue orange panels on the front and back. The length was just above her knees, when she put it on. She chose to wear a pair of sexy blue stilettos, and sheer tights under.
She kept her make-up neat, with delicate blue eyeshadow, eyeliner on her water line, blush, mascara, and red lipstick. She let her hair down, letting her natural waves take over, and like usual, parted her hair in one side. Her hair was long, and nearly past her elbows, so she decided to show it off at the reunion.
As she was about to open the door to leave, there was a knock. She opened the door, and found Niles behind the door.
He was shocked at what he saw. CC rolled her eyes, "Don't say a word. What are you doing here?"
"Michael asked me to escort you to your reunion, Babcock." He finally snapped out of it, he lifted an eyebrow.
"Is he trying to punish me?"
"Punish both of us."
"Oh, shut it."
"You started it."
"If we keep going on with this, we'll be late to my reunion," she pushed him gently away from the door, then closed it behind her.
"No coat?"
"Nope."
"It's going to get cold soon."
"I'll be fine. Now come on,"
In the Limo, to which Niles borrowed from Maxwell, the two were silent for a while. Until Niles opened his mouth.
"Where exactly is the reunion."
"S.S Tipton. On a ship."
Niles nodded, "Isn't it a little early for a reunion?"
"That's what I was thinking. But I realized it made sense, once I found out who's hosting it."
"Who exactly?"
"Julie Thompson. A woman I hated in high school."
"Aw, were you bullied during your nerdy years?" CC quickly turned her head towards him, laughed,
"Hell no! She was just my worst enemy in high school. It was battle of 'who's more popular?' It was over when I was crowned Prom queen." She said proudly.
"You? I can't believe it. America back then was crazier than I thought."
"Can you please not talk like that when we get there, I have a reputation to keep."
"so what am I to them? Boyfriend? Fiance? Husband?... Friend with benefits?" CC laughed,
"Well, unfortunately, I didn't think this through. We don't even have rings to 'prove' that we're married."
He then took out something form his pocket, the items in his palm until he had it in front of her. He opened, revealing an engagement ring, and two wedding bands.
CC's eyes were wide,
"Fortunately, Michael did."
"are they real?" Niles nodded.
"Michael said they were."
The engagement ring was a diamond split shank, a beautiful choice, that was of CC's taste. She smiled at the thought, that Michael knew exactly what her taste was.
"He had many choices, and he made me choose which ones were perfect. I thought these were the perfect ones."
"Y-you chose them?"
"You don't like them?" He asked,
"I love them. They're perfect." She still couldn't believe it. He knew her.
"Well, my love," he winked, to which she laughed. "Hand me your hand in marriage."
CC then had both her 'engagement' and her 'marriage' rings on and she smiled. If only she was married. Niles was about to put his on, when CC stopped him.
"What are you doing? The 'wife' was supposed to put the ring on." She took the ring, and placed it on his finger.
"What did you and Michael agree too, to make you take me to my reunion?"
"we didn't agree to anything,"
"Then why are you doing this for me?"
Niles shrugged, "I—,"
The limo stopped, and finally arriving to their destination.
"We're here," Niles said, not wanting to finish what he was about to say.
"Are you nervous?" He asked, while walking to the ship, getting on.
"Yes and no."
"Don't be...honey," Niles smiled. He took her hand in his, while getting closer to the party. They can hear 80's music through the walls.
"We got the beat," CC said.
"Isn't this cheating? Shouldn't they play 50's rock and roll," CC smacked him with her elbow on his arm, which he let out an oof sound.
"That better be your last one butler boy."
"Speaking of butler, is that what your going to tell them? That I'm a butler?"
"No, your a doctor. Try to look for a story before they ask you that question."
Niles shrugged, and kept on walking with her.
Before the doors to the party, there was a woman sitting on the desk, presenting herself as the check-in.
"And you are...wait CC? As CC Babcock?!"
CC nodded, "Oh MY GOD! You look exactly the same!"
"You, um too I guess," CC faked a smile, She knew who this woman was, unfortunately, "Nice to see you again..." She looked down at the woman's name tag, "Thelma," The woman scream, which startled both Niles and CC
"You do remember me," and hugged her, surprising CC once again. "And who is this? Your husband? Wow! You got married?!"
CC nodded, and showed Thelma her rings.
After a few minutes, CC finally got out of the conversation.
"If everyone acts the same way as, Velma, then we'll ditch this place," CC said, as she was getting inside the party, with Niles next to her.
"Wasn't it Thelma?"
"Who cares." She said, pulling his arm, walking fast towards their assigned table. Thelma told CC that, everyone will be seated with their old social people from their high school, and she wasn't surprised she saw Emma's and Christine's names on the cards. There were to extra seats next to their assigned seats as well, just in case they had brought their dates.
In total, there were six chairs, two of course were filled by Niles and CC.
"Emma Tutweiller and Christine Degrane?"
"My old best friends from high school."
"You had friends?"
CC gave a deadly stare, "I thought we were supposed to be a cute married couple?"
"Sorry,"
She looked around, and realized everyone had changed over the years. She spotted Mark the star football player, and realized he was balding. She laughed.
"What?" Niles asked,
"I used to have a small crush on him," She pointed at the guy.
A song came up, and Niles turned to CC,
"You want to dance? After all, this is a party." CC smiled
Hungry Eyes- Eric Carmen
"To this?" Yet taking his hand. He led her to the dance floor, and took her by the waist. Her arms resting on his shoulders, both swaying to the song.
He swirled her around, when the song went deeper, he twirled her around. She laughed, enjoying the dance. He laughed with her, as he had her back into his arms.
After a few fun songs, a slower one came up and both felt a little awkward, but took them a few seconds to adjust.
Up Where We Belong- Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
"I love this song," She whispered into his ear, as she was resting her chin on his shoulder.
"So do I,"
She spotted Julie, and gasped.
"What?"
"Julie,"
"Is she watching?"
"not ye— now she is,"
"Do you want me to kiss you?" Before she could answer, Niles kissed her gently, kissing her to the slow music.
At first it was just mouth touching mouth, but the kiss went deeper, both feeling it from the song, and from their wanting for the other.
When they parted, they had forgotten why they kissed in the first place,
Almost Paradise- Loverboy
Both moving side to side, staring at each other, listening to only each other and the music.
"Thank you, Niles,"
"for what?"
"For coming with me,"
"The nights not over yet," He winked, and held her closer.
When the DJ decided to change up the styles, Niles and CC decided to sit back to their seats.
When she saw Christine and Emma sitting on their assigned seats, they both got up, and walked towards CC.
"CC!" They both screamed. To Niles surprise, CC screamed out, "Ems, Chrisy!" and the three hugged.
They decided to sit, then introduced each other. Emma had her date, who was Julian Hart, on her right, Christine was between Emma and CC, with Niles next to CC.
"So you two are dating?" Christy asked,
"Well, we just started," Emma said,
"A month," Julian said,
"And you two?" Emma asked CC and Niles,
They both looked at each other, and both answered simultaneously, "We're married,"
They started talking about what they've been up to, and what they ended up being.
"You actually did it?" CC asked,
Emma nodded, "Yeah, actually I teach Seniors and Juniors, here, on the ship."
"What did you tell your mother when you decided to do it?" Christy asked,
"Well, I told her that I'm going to be whatever I want to be. After some years, she's gotten used to me being a teacher. Now she's pushing me to get married."
"mothers," CC said.
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"Yeah, his name is Jason, he's almost 12,"
"Wow, at least one of us had the guts to get a child." Emma said.
"Yeah, how did you put up with it?" CC asked,
"Still uncomfortable with kids huh Ceec," Christy said, laughing, along with Emma.
"I would ask who's the lucky guy, but judging by your last name, I already know," "CC said
"Yeah well, we married a month after graduation."
"Aw that's cute! High school sweethearts. Where is he? Didn't want to come? It's his reunion too,"
"No, we're not together anymore."
"what?" both Emma and CC said,
"Yeah, he cheated on me that same year,"
"Ugh that jerk!" Emma said,
"With who?"
Christy hesitated, then answered, "Julie,"
"What?!" They said again,
"After, before or during your pregnancy?" CC asked,
"During,"
"Oh, that—that witch!" Emma said, which made CC move uncomfortably when she realized her secret.
Julie chose to walk towards the table, using that fake smile, with Vince Degrane, Christine's ex-husband, by her side.
"Hello ladies," She said, with Vince almost behind her looking nervous, when he realized the stare CC was giving him, as if she was going to murder him.
Neither one of the women on the table said anything.
CC's hair felt warm, and she could feel it. She closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. She felt Niles hand on holding hers, he knew that she was trying to hold on to her anger. He squeezed her hand, and she opened her eyes, looking at him.
Her anger disappeared, and her hair, nearly turning into flames, calmed down.
'Thanks Niles,' she thought.
"Enjoying yourselves?"
"well, the party could have looked nicer. Decorations suck. I see you did it the yourself," CC said,
Julie ignored her, looking directly at Christy.
"Hello once again Christy. How's your son Jackson?"
"Jason," She corrected her,
"Oh right. Did you tell your dearest friends I'm his other mommy?"
"Wait? So your the tramp?"
"watch your mouth CC Babcock, or you'll regret it." Julie said, while looking down at her rings. "I see your married, Ceec."
"Don't call me that," She said, gritting her teeth,
"why not? We're all friends here...Aren't we?"
"Lunch will be served in a minute, Julie. Don't waist your time with them, they were worthless then, and worthless now. We have more important things to take care of." A woman who interrupted them said, looking disgustedly at the table full of people before her.
"Angela. Still following Julie I see," CC said,
Angela rolled her eyes, and walked away. CC smirked. "And where is the other puppy of yours?" CC asked Julie,
Julie took Vince's arm, and dragged him and herself away from them, following Angela, where they were all headed to a door leading to where the kitchen was.
"You haven't changed a bit, CC." Emma said, laughing as soon as Julie left.
CC smiled, she knew that was half true, but shook the thought away.
Niles and CC walked out of the party, on the side of the ship, looking out on the sea.
"Who was the lost puppy?" Niles asked, CC laughed. She turned to him,
"Veronica Justice. In High school, it would be the three of us, against, Julie, Angela Ru, and Veronica Justice. Our high school was very different. Everyone knew everybody. It was a small school. To be popular, you can't just know everyone, because everyone already did know everyone. There had to be competition. Who's liked more, who can do this better."
Niles raised his eyebrows, in disbelief.
"That's why Ems, Chrisy and I were so close. We went through high school together, and it was pretty much like hell...except...it had some moments. Like when we defeated Julie and the A.V. Twins. That's what we called them." She smiled at the memory. "They called us 'The Neapolitan Ice Kreams', Cream spelled with a k." She shook her head.
Niles chuckled, getting the joke. As CC is Vanilla for her blonde hair, Christy being a brunette, is chocolate, and Emma the strawberry, as she was the red head.
"or for short, The NIKs (nicks)"
The wind hit them, making CC's hair flow. With the sky lighting down, Niles had a hard time catching his breath. She looked amazing in the dieing light, and he tried not to stare.
It became cold, and he just remembered her being coat-less.
"Your not a bit cold?" He asked, when she didn't shiver.
CC closed her eyes and shook her head. "I love this feeling." Spreading her arms as the wind hit her once more.
"And that's why your my Ice queen." CC laughed, opened her eyes, and pushed Niles playfully.
"So I'm your Ice Queen?"
"Uh...you know what I mean,"
"What do you mean, Butler boy?" She raised an eyebrow. She was now in front of him, taking tiny steps, making them inches away from each other. "Are we ever recreating that kiss on the dance floor Niles?" Her laugh became this low, sexy voice he loved so very much, and goosebumps, began to grow on his arms and back of his neck.
"N—," But he couldn't finish. She kissed him. And it became the same kiss they shared in the dance floor, but this time, the music was the sound of the waves.
When they parted, he took his hand and placed it on her cheek. He smiled. "My little witch," He whispered.
CC backed away. She crossed her arms and looked away. She was ashamed. She didn't know why, but she felt it. She felt heat her left shoulder, and looked down. She realized, flames were beginning to form. Luckily, it was started on the opposite of Niles. He couldn't see unless she turned to him.
"I have to go," She said, and ran away. Having Niles yell "wait,"
"Was it what I said?" He whispered to himself. He was confused. She kissed him, so he knew it had to be what he said.
CC found the nearest bathroom, and ran inside. Hoping there was no one else in there. She looked at herself in the mirror, and all of a sudden, her hair was in flames. This time, her flames were turquoise.
'how can I completely forget who I really am? If he ever finds out...if anyone ever finds out, I'll...'
She placed her hands on the sink in front of her, and used them to support herself, while her legs were growing week. "I don't even want to think about 'what it,'"
She cried. And cried harder, when her flames turned to blue.
Facing her friends, facing Niles. People who knows her almost as much as she knows herself, don't know the real her. The ones who've been there almost all her life. She's known Niles for ten years now, meeting him at 19 years of age. She's known Emma and Christy since first grade, when they all realized they had one thing in common. Their birthdays.
And she couldn't tell either of them. Because why? What would Niles think of her, when he figures out who she is? Would he look at her the same way he did just 5 minutes ago? Would he treat her the way other witches treat clays?
And if Emma and Christy found out? They promised years ago, that they would all leave magic behind, all because of what happened the day after graduation. Would they ever forgive her for being what she has to be?
Her flames, now purple, of being so worried, then red with anger. Realizing this will never stop, it will never hide, even if she really wants to.
How could she feel so invincible one day, and then vulnerable the next. Confident in who she is in one week, and then unsure of herself, later on.
And there was this pain again. Her head felt heavy. What she felt in her head was something so painful, like a needle in the middle of her brain. Or something poking through. She pressed her teeth together, as she was trying not to scream. She let herself fall to the floor, then realized her nose was bleeding.
She passed out. Her green flames, dying down to her natural blonde hair.
Hello Hello! I don't own any of the songs. If you watch Disney channel, (I grew up with Zack and Cody, of the Suite Life of Zack and Cody, so I stuck around for the spin off) you'll noticed the S.S Tipton mentioned, and the main setting of this chapter. Also, I'm borrowing Zack and Cody's teacher, Emma Tutweiller Aka Ms. Tutweiller. In this story, there's gonna be many guest appearances by many characters from shows. Not many but some.
-R3D;)