Chapter 4:

"No!", Angelo yells as he wakes up in fright.

"Angelo, calm down!", Irma says. "It was only a dream!"

Angelo looks to his right to see Irma with a worried look on her face.

"Irma?!", Angelo questioned still a bit frantic. "What happened?"

"You tell me.", Irma said with a grin. "I woke up to you screaming my name, and telling someone or something to let me go. What were you dreaming about?"

"Well, you were fighting this green and yellow snake-man creature.", Angelo explained.

"A snake-man creature?!", Irma asked knowing who he was talking about.

"Yeah.", Angelo answered. "You were shooting water at it, while flying with little fairy wings. And you looked older too. Anyway, the creature then grabbed you and ate you. The worst part about it was, I couldn't do anything to stop it. It was like I was frozen or chained to the wall or something."

Irma was starting to get a bit freaked by the dream Angelo told her, but she knew she had to keep her cool.

"Angelo, don't worry.", she said. "It was just a dream."

"Maybe, but it felt so real.", Angelo replied. "It scared the crap out of me. That thing even came at me."

Angelo then laid back down, letting out a deep sigh. Irma then went back to resting her head on Angelo's chest. She went over what he said about his dream in her head.

'Why would Angelo dream about me getting eaten by Cedric?', she thought to herself. 'More importantly, why was he there at all?!'

Irma then raised her head and looked at Angelo, who was looking up at the ceiling.

'I can't let him get involved in my Guardian life.', she thought to herself. 'I have to keep him as far away from it as I can.'

Irma then leaned up and kissed Angelo.

"What was that for?", Angelo asked.

"For dreaming about me.", she said smiling.

"But you got eaten in my dream.", he said.

"But you still dreamt about me.", she countered. "That's got to show for something."

"In that case.......", Angelo said as he pulled Irma up closer and kissed her.

As they were enjoying their make-out session, Irma's bedroom door opened to reveal Irma's mother, who was shocked to see her daughter with Angelo in her bedroom, while no one was home.

"Irma Lair! Angelo Vanders!", she yelled getting both of their attention as they jumped up.

"Mom!", Irma said in surprise. "What are you doing here?!"

"Last I checked, I lived here too!", Anna said.

"Hi, Mrs. Lair.", Angelo said with a nervous smile.

"Both of you, living room. NOW!!", Anna ordered as she walked away.

Angelo then got up and put his boots on.

"We're in so much trouble.", Angelo said as Irma got to her feet.

"Tell me about it.", Irma agreed.


Five minutes later...........

"What were you two thinking?!", Thomas Lair, Irma's father, asked the two teens as they had their heads down. "The both of you alone in a bedroom. Who knows what would of happened if you went any further?!"

"But, we weren't going to do anything like that, Dad!", Irma replied.

"Yeah.", Angelo said. "We were just kissing! I promise you we weren't going to do anything else."

"Can you two really say that?", Mrs. Lair asked the two teens. "We know what it's like to be young and in love. We just don't want you two to make any mistakes."

"Whoa!", Angelo said. "Trust us Mr. and Mrs. Lair. Sex is the last thing on our minds. It's just, after what happen between last night and today, after school, me and Irma just got........ closer."

"Wait! What happened between you two anyway?", Mr. Lair asked.

Irma and Angelo then told what happened from last night, in the restaurant and the park, to this afternoon from Gino's Pizza to Irma's room. Not to mention how Andrew changed because the band's fame grew. Needless to say, Irma's parents were shocked at the way Andrew had treated her daughter.

"I see.", Mr. Lair said as he noticed the two holding hands. "Alright. I've decided not to call your Uncle John, Angelo. As for you Irma, I guess we won't ground you."

"Yes!", Irma and Angelo said happily.

"But, we're going to set some ground rules.", Mrs. Lair declared. "First, if it's just you two here, then you two stay in the living room."

"Got it.", Irma agreed.

"Second, the only time you two can go into the bedroom, is when one of us are here."

"Okay", Angelo said nodding his head.

"With that settled, Angelo, I think it's time you went home.", Mrs. Lair said. "It's starting to get late."

"Yes ma'am.", Angelo said as he got up and headed for the door. "And thanks for not calling my uncle."

Anna just smiled and nodded as she walked into the kitchen. As Angelo was about to leave, Irma came up to him.

"So, I'll see you tomorrow?", Irma asked her boyfriend.

"Um, duh!", Angelo said with a grin as he bent down and kissed Irma, who happily returned it.

Angelo then headed home as the door closed. Irma, after dinner, and having a long talk with her parents, with some teasing from Chris, went to her room to change into her pajamas and went to sleep, knowing she had to tell the others about Angelo's dream tomorrow.


The next mourning.........

"So, anymore weird dreams?", Irma asked Angelo as they held hands walking towards school.

"Well, I did dream of giant cheese cake.", Angelo said as they rounded a corner.

Irma then looked at Angelo with a raised eyebrow.

"Hey, I was thinking about the night we kissed before I went to sleep.", Angelo said in his defence. "When I fell asleep, that was what I dreamed. It beats being eaten by monsters."

"Good point.", Irma said. "But still, cheese cake?"

"I know. It's weird.", Angelo said as they entered school grounds. "Tonight, maybe I should think of yesterday. Maybe I'll dream of pizza."

"Is that all you think about?", Irma grinned.

"If I'm hungry, I'm hungry", Angelo said. "Besides, I can work it off no problem. I do enough martial arts training in dojo we live above. I still find it pretty cool that we have our own dojo. Uncle J has even started holding classes for anyone who wants to learn."

"Maybe I'll take some classes.", Irma said.

"Then, when a girl looks at me, you'll beat the crap out of her.", Angelo joked. "I feel for all those girls."

"And why's that.", Irma asked.

"Because, no girl can keep their eyes off this fine, ebony brother.", Angelo joked. "Look see, there goes a girl right now looking at me!"

"Hey!", Irma laughed as she playfully punched Angelo in the arm.

"I'm kidding! I'm kidding!", Angelo said as he took her in his arms.

"You'd better be.", Irma said smiling, poking him in his chest.

They were about to kiss when.........

"Hey guys!", Hay Lin said smiling startling the two, making them jump back.

"Hay Lin!", Irma shouted. "Don't do that!"

"Worse timing ever, Hay Lin.", Angelo said.

"Don't you have a radio show to do, Irma?", Hay Lin asked Irma.

"Gooooooood mourning, Sheffield!", came Irma's voice over the loud speaker. "This mourning, we're going to start the day with a few greatest hits! Starting......... now!"

"Pre-recorded yesterday.", Irma said as the music started.

Irma then remembered what she had to talk to the girls about.

"I almost forgot!", said as she grabbed Hay Lin's arm. "I'm sorry, Angelo, but I have to talk to the girls about something. I'll see you in English class!"

"Yeah sure.", he said as they gave each other a quick kiss.

Irma then dragged Hay Lin towards the girls, who were heading towards them.

"Hey, Irma. What's up?!", Will asked with a cheery smile.

"Besides Hay Lin stopping your kiss with Angelo.", Taranee joked.

"We have a problem, guys.", Irma said as she lead them over to a bench and took a seat. "Yesterday, me and Angelo were in my room, sleeping when........"

"Hold up!", Cornelia said cutting Irma off. "You and Angelo slept together?!"

"Well, yeah.", Irma said looking around at her friends.

Then, Irma saw the looks on her friends faces, and knew what they were thinking.

"Whoa! Not that kind of sleeping together!", Irma said. "We were just relaxing, and listening to some music!"

After hearing that, her friends breathed a sigh of relief, Irma then continued to tell what happened.

"Anyway, while we were asleep, I woke up to Angelo screaming my name, and telling something to let me go."

"So, he had a nightmare.", Cornelia said. "No biggie."

"It is when it involves a giant Snake-man creature eating me!", Irma said. "Sound like anyone we know?"

"Cedric!", Taranee said. "We know that he, Miranda, Frost, and Stalker escaped a week ago, but we just don't know where they took off to."

"The main question is, why did Angelo dream about Cedric at all?", Irma said. "I mean, I thought that was Hay Lin's department."

"Maybe we should go talk to grandma about it after school.", Hay Lin suggested. "She may know what's going on."

Just then, the school bell rung.

"Okay! Let's just get through school, and head to the Silver Dragon afterwards", Irma said as they went into the school. "Hopefully, we can get to the bottom of this."


During most of the day everything was okay. That is until lunch came around. The girls with their guys, were sitting at a table eating their lunches, when Irma noticed that Angelo and Hay Lin were acting a little strange.

"Are you two okay?", Irma asked. "You two seem a little tense."

Angelo and Hay Lin looked at the others and then each other.

"If you don't tell, I will.", Hay Lin said.

"Okay, okay.", Angelo said. "I'll tell."

"Tell what?", Irma said.

"Okay, look.", Angelo said looking at Irma. "You know when I told you about the cheese cake dream, right?"

"Yeah.", Irma said. "Which I may add still sounds a bit weird to me."

"Well, when I woke up and got cheese cake, and went back to sleep, I had another nightmare."

"About me?", Irma asked.

"No.", Angelo said. "It was about.......... Hay Lin, Will, Cornelia, and Taranee."


A/N: First a nightmare about Irma being eaten by Cedric. Now one about the other girls! What's going on here?!