They were in the living room and it was quiet.

"Everyone's in the kitchen," said Chris.

"All right, I'll be in there in a second." Dare looked around and realized how glad she was to be back home. She stretched and laid down her bag next to an armchair and then sat in it. She heard the door to the kitchen swing open and David came into the room. He came over to her and stood next to her.

"Hi," Dare signed and he signed it back. Then she stood and they hugged. At that, everyone entered the living room at once. And it really was everyone. Dare almost ran away, so many people were talking at once. Patrick, Pete, Andy, Joe, Lacey, Kori, Matt, Justin, Cheeze, Chris, and – most surprising – Jon, Spencer, Ryan, and Brendon.

Lacey and Kori immediately ran and hugged Dare while everyone else stood around asking the same questions: "Where were you? You had us scared to death! Why didn't you answer your phone? How did you get back? When did you leave? I didn't hear you!," and so on and so forth.

Finally, Dare yelled, "Shut up and I'll tell you!"

Everyone got quiet.

Then Chris said, "Uh, I've already heard this story and I have work to do, so I'm gonna go."

Dare sighed. "All right. Thank you for everything, Chris."

"Not a problem." And at that, he walked out of the house. He would've orbed but Pete, Andy, Joe, Jon, Spencer, Ryan, and Brendon didn't know anything about anyone having powers.

"What happened?" insisted Lacey.

"Listen, I would love to tell everyone the story, but I really just can't right now. Maybe I'll tell you later, but I think all you need to know is that I am safe and I always was safe. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go up to my room and take a nap." And without a second glance, she grabbed her bag and walked up the stairs and into her room.

But she didn't sleep. She waited. Finally, she heard a knock at her door. "Who is it?" she yelled.

"It's Skip and David."

"Come in," she said with a sigh.

They entered the room and sat on her bed. She was sitting at her computer. She turned around in her chair and said, "I assume you wanted to hear the full story?"

Skip nodded. "Please. We just want to know what happened to you."

"Yeah, I'll tell you I guess," she said. She soundproofed the room with a simple spell and then began telling the whole story, and signing it for David. She told them the whole truth about everything, but signing a little extra at the end for David saying that Remus and Tonks wanted to meet him. "And I guess that's what happened," she finished.

"Wow," said Skip, aghast.

"Now, how long has everyone been here? I swear, my house is like a hotel now. I should start charging rent."

"They didn't spend the night or anything, but most everyone comes every morning and just waits throughout the day, here. Waiting for any sign of you."

"How touching," said Dare, rolling her eyes. "But I thought Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco were leaving."

"They were, but their flight got delayed because of bad weather over in the states. They'll be leaving – if everything goes according to plan – tomorrow." Then Skip laughed. "You should've seen Brendon though. He was practically out of his mind! He asked so many questions, we all were about to pummel him. He was trying to piece together where you could've gone, but of course we didn't tell him about powers or your werewolf deal, but he pestered us the whole time for more information."

"Gross," Dare mumbled to herself. But of all the things she felt after hearing this news, one of them was not disgusted. Poor Brendon must've been scared out of his mind, thinking what could have happened to his poor love. She laughed at the thought and then realized Skip and David were both still in the room. "Er. Guys? I think I should probably tell Lacey and Kori everything. Would you somehow, discretely, tell them to come up here, please?" She signed all of this to David too, who nodded and then they left.

Not too much later, all the girls came up, begging to know the story. Dare told them all she could, telling them everything except the werewolf part and the part about her looking like her mother. Somehow she felt like that was her information only. She left out the werewolf part because she knew it would too much information at once. And she also would never tell Lacey because she knew that Lacey was a vampire and things wouldn't go down well if Lacey found out Dare was a werewolf.

It was much later when Dare went downstairs and found that both Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco had left, leaving their regards because they were leaving tomorrow. Dare almost hit herself for not being able to say goodbye to Patrick before they left. And for some reason she felt bad for not saying goodbye to Brendon. Then she almost hit herself again for thinking that.