Chapter 4

Leonel felt the change in his pocket, and looked around to make sure he wasn't followed. "Ummm… Excuse me, Ms. Alicia?" Leonel asked the tall pink haired lady. "Yes Leonel? What is it that you need?" she asked. "Um, I wanted to ask you if may be you could… a give me a… um… love reading…" Leonel said pressing his two pointer fingers together nervously. "Say no more hon!" she said. She chanted her spell and closed her eyes, holding one of his hands.

"I see! I do! I see someone in your love life! Oh she's very beautiful! Wanted by many men!" the pink haired woman said. "Who?" Leonel asked the obvious. "Who is it?" "Sh! Don't interrupt! Now… Oh-Oh no!" "What? What is it?" Leonel asked worriedly. "I sense a disturbance, an attack or a conversation gone wrong. The one you love, she's in trouble! Your love life is fading! You must find her quickly or else-!" Before she could finish, Leonel had left the money for the fortune and had begun to bolt to Rebecca's house, right past Kyle's barn. "I have to save her!" Leonel whispered. "Before it's too late." He passed her house, and couldn't believe what he saw.

Boxes, Rebecca and her grandmother were outside arguing. "Grandma, I don't want to move again!" she said angrily. "Rebecca, there are too many humans here for my liking!" "There are always too many humans! Why do you hate humans so much? They never did anything wrong!" Rebecca argued. "You know exactly why!" her grandmother yelled. "My father never did anything wrong!" Rebecca said angrily. "He loved my mother! They had seven half elf humans that leaned towards his side! I was the only one who showed the elf signs! The only one who could use magic! The only girl! Which is the only reason you took me in! 'I'll give her an international experience! She'll be brilliant and fluent in many languages!' You just wanted me to be your slave! Away from the pesky humans as you called them! I'm seventeen years old now! I can make my own decisions now!" she said angrily.

Leonel walked a little closer, not sure if it was wise. "You!" Rebecca's grandmother said angrily. "This is all your fault! She never questioned my commands or hatred of humans until you showed up! Leave it to a human to mess everything up!" She shook her finger angrily at Leonel. "NO! You are NOT gonna blame this on Leonel! This is between us and only us! Leonel didn't change how I felt, I've just never spoken until now! You go ahead an leave grandma!" she walked up to Leonel and grabbed his arm, making him slightly blush. "I don't need you! I'm old enough to stand on my own two feet, I'm going to stay here and finish school, and then I'm going to settle down and never move again! You're just a grumpy old hag! You've raised me for nearly ten years to stand by myself, so I'll stand by myself telling you, GOODBYE!"

Her grandmother glared angrily, and grabbed her boxes moving them into a horse cart. "Goodbye Rebecca." she said bitterly. Only two boxes were left. Rebecca waited until her grandmother left, and then slipped down into the dirt crying. Leonel squatted in the dirt and patted her back. "Oh Leonel… What was I thinking? Where could I stay? I've never stayed on my own…" "Well… you could always stay at the Eagle Inn, I'm sure Egan would let you'd stay… There'd just be the problem of Orland…" She nodded, drying her tears. "And, whatever stuff you couldn't keep at the Inn, I'm sure you could keep in our basement…" Leonel continued. "Really?" she asked. "You mean it?" "Uh-Of coarse I do." he said. She smiled and kissed his cheek as she hugged him. "You're the best Leonel!" He blushed bright red, in utter heaven. "W-W-Well… W-we should g-goo and get your r-room before it gets t-too late…" Leonel said, seeing the sun setting. "Oh yeah… I guess we should…" She picked up one box, and Leonel picked up the other as they carried them to the Inn and got her a room.

"There's gotta be a way to teach that Rebecca a thing or two… I mean, who does she think she is? Barging in, taking our men!" Cammy said to the other girls at their annual meeting. "Maybe we could throw her in the ocean!" Sera said. "Or dump a bucket of rotten milk on her head!" Serena said. "No no… We've gotta do something above the levels of normal pranks…" Aria said, shaking her head. "I know! We can throw a party for everyone while Manna's at the teacher meeting with Kyle, and then we'll completely humiliate her!" "How?" Sera and Serena asked in union. "Jinx!" "Here's how!" she said, bringing the girls together, hatching her plan in a low whisper. "Excuse me? Ms. Rebecca?" Egan said, envelope in hand. She looked up from her school book. "This came for you." He handed her the envelope and she opened it up.

Rebecca,

All of us girls have come together and decided to let you join the group. Tomorrow night we are having a party at Aaron and Aria's house just past the barn behind the fountain. Be there 7 o'clock.

The Girls

Rebecca smiled happily and quickly looked for something to wear. Later that night, she walked past the barn wearing a white spaghetti strap dress. She had her hair up in a clip and she was skipping to the party. Leann looked through the window and bit her lip. "Guys I don't know if we should do this…" she said. "She looks really excited, she's gonna be really hurt when she finds out this was a set up." "Of coarse she is! That's the point! Now did you get it or not?" Cammy asked. Leann nodded, and handed Cammy the bag. "Perfect!" Cammy said evilly. "You're parents are walking back with Barrett soon right?" "Right but…" Aria said. "But what? Our plan will work perfectly!"

Rebecca knocked and Sera opened the door, wearing a short sleeveless blue dress with white polka dots, her sister wearing a short sleeveless pink dress with white polka dots. "Hey Rebecca!" Sera said. "Come on in!" Serena said. "H-hey Rebecca…" Leann said. She was wearing a short sleeved purple dress with a big pink bow around her waist. "Hey Leann." Rebecca said. "I like your dress." "Th-Thanks…" Leann said, getting a guilty conscience.

"Hey guys look, I found the cups! Now we can have punch!" Cammy said. She turned her back to Rebecca, pouring a little liquid from a bottle from a necklace she hid under her black dress. She mixed it with some punch and brought it to Rebecca. "Here." she said. "You're initiation into the Girl's Club." "Thanks." Rebecca said. She took a sip and coughed. "Wow… um… this is really… sour… What's in this?" "Just some fruit juice and a few lemon and lime slices. With some ginger ale of coarse. She took another sip and coughed again, "Are you sure that's all?" "Yeah, why?" Cammy asked innocently. "Everyone else is drinking it." She pointed to the others who had normal punch. "I'm sorry, but it's just not agreeing with me…" Rebecca said, sensing something was up. She went to pour it out, Cammy bit her lip than hatched another idea, she dropped a book in front of Becky who was holding her head, she tripped and spilt punch all over her. Then she realized what had been in the drink.

She cried, not able to speak. Angry, embarrassed and confused, her dress ruined by the red punch. She ran out, hands over her eyes, dress and breath smelling like alcohol. "Mission accomplished." Cammy said. "But how does this…" Sera asked. "Help us?" Serena asked. "I've set up a little party to run into our confused little Rebecca." Cammy explained.

"Thanks so much for joining our meeting Barrett." Manna said, holding her husband's hand as they walked home. "You're very much welcome. You know, good kids like Rebecca really make this teaching stuff worth-" Right as he said it, Rebecca (eyes blurred with tears and not paying attention to where she was going) ran straight into Barrett. "Oh, I'm so sor-" "Is that… alcohol?" Manna asked, smelling the stench from Rebecca's clothes. "N-No no! This is all just a big misunderstanding!" Rebecca stammered. "We don't allow alcohol use at our school you know." Kyle said helping his friend Barrett up. "No! I wasn't drinking! I swear it was- the punch! The girls! They-they told me that…" Manna frowned, smelling her breath, "Not drinking huh? Then why does your breath reek of it?" Rebecca held her mouth.

"No! No! I-I… I…" she stammered. Her emotions overflowed, this was too much. She ran past the teachers to the Inn where she ran straight to her room and ripped off her dress, changing into her night clothes. She threw her dress in the trash, and laid in her bed and cried. Egan knocked, "May I come in?" he asked, peeking through the curtain. Rebecca sat up and nodded, she couldn't mess it up more than this right?

"So tell me why you drank tonight?" he asked, sitting next to her. "But I didn't-" he held up his hand and she took a deep breath. "The girls invited me to this party, and I was stupid enough to believe they wanted to be friends with me… Cammy gave me some punch, told me it was my initiation. I took two sips, and realized something was up. So as I walked to pour it out, I slipped and it spilled all over me, and I realized that there had been alcohol in it…" He nodded for her to continue. "Well, I was so upset I ran out of the house and into my teachers… who accused me of drinking…"

"Can they accuse you of something you did?" he asked. "Well no but…" He raised his eye brow and she sighed. "No…" she said. "So you did drink, but you didn't know it was alcohol, until it was too late." "Yes…" she said. "So why don't you just tell them that?" he asked. "I'm afraid they won't believe me…" she cried. He handed her his handkerchief and she wiped her eyes. "Thanks…" she said, handing it back. "Just tell them what you told me, and if they don't believe you, than I'll help vouch for you." "Thanks." she said with a smile. She went and brushed her teeth and went to bed, waking up early the next morning and dressing in her normal attire. (Today was Saturday)

She knocked on Leonel's door. Dorothy answered, and shyly said, "I heard about what happened last night. I still can't believe it's true… My husband has forbid you from seeing our son." She closed the door whispering, "I'm sorry…" Rebecca sighed and walked away sadly, then she heard the door open behind her. Before she could look around, Leonel pushed her back quietly talking to her, watching his back. "My parents think you did something bad, or at least my dad does. But I don't believe it. You don't seem like a juvenile delinquent to me, if I'm wrong, my bad. But I know I'm right." They snuck into the practice room, closing the door behind them.

"Now tell me exactly what happened, from the beginning." Rebecca explained her story and Leonel looked at her with compassion (but when did he not?) "When Barrett and Aria and Arraon's parents got back, the girls were upstairs in their pajamas and there was no punch, no alcohol scent, no signs of a party at all." Leonel explained. "I guess there is no evidence to proove my case…" "I think I can help with that…" someone said from behind.

Author's Notes:

I had just finished this chapter when I got Sir Gigous' review. So please forgive me if I miss some stuff, it was late when I checked my email. ^^;

(Don't worry, Rebecca doesn't stay perfect long ;) I started writing with little experience, and I am now continuing with lots of experience.)

~HMFarmForever