How's everybody doing? I'm back with the next chapter. And several people asked how old they were so here's just something that close to what ages they are so here's how old they'll be in my story.

Nora: 22, Charlie: 17, Lorraine: 15, Henry: 14, Jake: 13, Sarah: 12, Jessica and Kim: 11, Mark: 10, Mike: 7, Nigel and Kyle: 5.

Chapter 4

Lindsey pretended to trip once she saw Charlie. Her books flew everywhere and the slick material of her pants skidded across the ground.

Charlie bent and helped her gather her books. As he handed her a page of half-finished math homework she pressed a tightly folded piece of paper into his hand. Charlie pretended he didn't notice it but slipped it into his pocket.

In his next class he opened it beneath his desk. Meet me in the field behind our houses at seven tonight. All my siblings are coming. They miss you guys. –Lindsey

Charlie smiled. He'd missed hanging out with Lindsey and the rest of the Bakers had been bored without the Swords. Some old feud in between their parents wasn't so important that they couldn't be friends.

He hadn't seen the Swords in more than a week and he was about to lose his mind. All of the Baker kids moped around and would only communicate with their parents through text messages.

The school day seemed to drag on but eventually it ended and everyone went home. Charlie did his best to sit and do his homework like he would usually do but he keep glancing at his watch.

Apparently it was too obvious that he was hurrying through his food because Tom said, "What's the rush?"

"Um…" Charlie said trying to think up a convincing lie. "I promised Henry I'd play video games with him." Tom nodded and Charlie hurried up the stairs.

The rest of the Baker kids were standing at the top of the stairs. "Come on Charlie," Mike said pulling him by the hand. HE was eager to see Wednesday.

Using Mike's repealing stuff they repealed out of a window and quietly began walking to the field behind the Swords' house. All the Sword kids sat on the ground waiting.

"We've got about an hour before our parents will notice we're gone," Lindsey said.

Charlie nodded. "We've got about that much time too."

-CBTD-

Josh Sword looked around frantically for an escape. The crackling of fire filled his ears and every second he spent inside made it harder to breathe. Wednesday had a death grip on his hand and wouldn't let go.

Suddenly there was an ear splitting cracking noise and Josh was pinned to the ground by a piece of the ceiling. He cried out in pain as one of his ribs cracked.

"Go Wednesday!" Josh shouted. "Go get help!"

Wednesday pulled the edge of her shirt over her mouth and started running.

-CBTD-

"Hey Wednesday, Mike's already in be bed," Charlie greeted as he opened the door that Wednesday had been frantically knocking on. Then Charlie looked closer at her.

She was covered in soot but her face had tear tracks, parts of her hair were singed, and she had several angry red burns.

"Wednesday, what happened?" Charlie said, kneeling down to her level. Wednesday's tears flowed faster and she was choking on her words. She could barely breathe but some how managed to get to words out that so desperately needed to be out.

"Our house is on fire."

Ooooo... Cliff hanger. The faster you review the faster I'll write. Hurry, it's a life or death situation. Well Josh's life