Note: I am not sticking to what I said last time. This takes place a year later.
Months and Months passed but there was still no sign of the couple adopting Malika. It was almost a year and there was finally the mother making a phone call to the orphanage. Gummy and Roofhowse stood behind the corner as she spoke.
'I would like to change the address to 34 Willow Lane California.'
'Roof Howse, Gummy Melons and Ellie Melons'
'Roof has a bit of memory loss.'
'No not sure'
'8, 13 and 3'
'Goodbye'
That was all Roofhowse and Gummy heard. 'Are we...are we being adopted adopted by different parents' Roofhowse asked. 'Yes you two are along with Malika and Ellie. You leave next week.' explained the mother. 'I ALMOST HAD IT!' the father bellowed angrily. Gummy became scared, not knowing what to do. She ran to her room and fell on her bed. Roofhowse looked up the stairs at her bedroom door and sighed. Gummy did that a lot. Roofhowse always thought it was a girl thing'.
A week past and Gummy had spent most of it in her room. When she did come out she never spoke to anyone, not even Ellie. Now the three were in the car, on the way to Willow Lane. Gummy never spoke to anyone. The three arrived and Roofhowse saw a familiar lavender haired penguin standing outside. 'Roof!' she exclaimed, rushing over to Roofhowse. Roofhowse then figured out that it was Malika. The two hugged and Gummy was speechless, like she had been for the past week. The four entered the house and a lady with brown hair opened the door. 'Roof, Malika, Gummy and Ellie?' she questioned. Gummy nodded and the lady let them in. There was now a clearer vision of her. She was tall and red with brown hair with streaks of red and blue. She wore a green knitted cardigan accompanied by a violet tank top. She also had a blue, red and black skirt and black shoes. 'I am your adoptive mother and your father is at work. Your rooms are upstairs. There is a girls room and a boys room. Roof you will have more brothers later.' she explained with her soft and slightly squeaky voice. Gummy and Ellie nodded and the four walked into their rooms. Roofhowse got into his room and looked out the window. The family next door had four girls two with purple hair, one with brown hair and one with pink hair.
On the other side of the room there lived another family with a girl with red hair. But what he was about to discover was something strange about the red haired girl. Something extraordinary. Roofhowse unpacked his suitcase and suddenly a knock was heard on the door. The red haired girl was no longer standing in the neighour's lawn, she was at the door. Roofhowse answered it and the girl stared at him. "D-does Malika Howse still live here?" the girl asked nervously. Roofhowse was startled by her appearance: She had dark red hair, violet eyes and she wore a pink, yellow and red dress. "Um yes...Who are you?" he asked. The girl bit her lip and suddenly disappeared. Roofhowse jumped and crashed into the shoe rack beside the door. Before he knew it he was buried in shoes. He wriggled out of the pile and the four girls from the other next door neighbour's house were laughing at him except for one of the girls with purple hair. "WOULD YOU THREE STOP LAUGHING ALREADY? WE SHOULDN'T BE LOOKING IN OTHER HOUSES EXCEPT OUR OWN!" the purple haired girl said. Roofhowse was kind of dizzy but when the world stopped spinning around him he could see the four girls clearly. Gummy heard the crash and laughter and ran down the stairs. "Are you okay?" she asked, helping the fallen Roofhowse up. "I-I'm fine" Roofhowse replied. Suddenly a car ran over the laughing girls and their sister managed to dodge it. The laughing girls disappeared and the other one walked over towards Gummy and Roofhowse.
"I am sorry about my idiots of sisters. Rose, Daffodil and Violet are very annoying to me and others. I'm Lily, Lily Tralice." the girl said. "I am Gummy...Melons and this is Roof Howse." Gummy explained. Roofhowse shyly waved. He felt as if he had a strange connection with this girl. Suddenly the smoke alarm went off and the red haired girl from before jumped out of the girl's room window with Ellie. The girl ran away with the three year old as quick as a flash and suddenly went up in flames and disappeared. The next thing Gummy, Lily and Roofhowse knew was Malika was running down the stairs screaming while her hair was on fire. "That girl set my hair on fire, put it out" she screamed. Lily grabbed a bottle from her belt and splashed it on Malika. Malika's hair was no longer lavender, it had turned orange. Roofhowse and Gummy look at her, shocked at what had happened to her hair. "This is not the first time she has run off with someone's sister, it happens to everyone when they move into this estate: The McJacks, The Queensvilles and even the Chompells. Everyone has had a young person aged 30 or under taken from their houses. Phoenix takes them home to a potion shop and feeds them to her adoptive parents...werewolves." Lily explained. Gummy, Roofhowse and Malika gasped. "Afterwards she sets her victims house on fire with magic and escapes. I am so far the only one that came back alive. When she has witnessed her parents tearing the flesh off the victims she returns with the bones and gives it to the family...if they survived. So far, my family, the McJacks, the Queenvilles and the Chompells all survived but the other families are just unlucky." she continued. "What happened to you?" Roofhowse asked.
"I gained a scar on my shoulder that day. That is the only time they touched me. I stole many potions from their shop and use them to this day. Some are faulty, some are true to their label and some are just plain weird." Lily said, showing the scar on her shoulder. Gummy disappeared at that moment as the mother walked out of the house. Gummy cried that Ellie had gone and then all Roofhowse can remember was it all went black...