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11: "Let me tell you a story" (Post "Pirate in Pink")

Vida and Chip were enjoying a breakfast of various sugary cereals all mixed together in their respective bowls. According to Clare Operation Overdrive had obtained the first jewel of the Corona Aurora (mostly due to the Pink Ranger). Ergo the celebration.

Mr. and Mrs. Rocca were watching on with amusement as they ate their own breakfasts. Madison dashed down the stairs and grabbed an apple before heading towards the back door.

"Bye! Me and Nick need to go sort out some problems in the forest!"

Mrs. Rocca opened her mouth to speak but her younger daughter (by just seven minutes) was already gone. Dryly Mr. Rocca queried, "Is anyone else disturbed how close my seventeen-year-old daughter is to a twenty-one-year-old?"

"Nick is," Chip replied with a rueful sigh before cramming his mouth full of cereal. The eighteen-year-old almost lived in the Rocca house nowadays. The elder Roccas weren't worried though; both Vida and Chip had grown up a surprisingly large amount over the past year and a half and Chip in particular was taking honor seriously.

But Madison and Nick were a whole another story.

"Oh?" Mr. Rocca queried. Chip shrugged, "He's probably more stressed about than you guys are. You are just worried about an older guy having feelings towards your teenage daughter; Nick's worried about why on Earth he can't stop having those feelings towards Madison. He takes the honor code very seriously, and knows having feelings towards a girl four years younger than you is typically a big no-no."

"Typically?" echoed Mrs. Rocca. Chip grinned lopsidedly.

"Nick… I hate to admit it but I think he loves Madison more than I love Vida."

Vida flushed, a rare thing for her. Chip kissed her electric yellow streaked black hair.

"Besides, if Nick didn't love Madison Vida would have destroyed him by now."

Mr. and Mrs. Rocca exchanged a look. Vida was protective of her twin sister; the only reason they hadn't yet done anything against Nick was due to the fact Vida saw nothing worrisome about the relationship.

"Yeah. If he does hurt her- usually by accident- he beats himself up far worse than I could," Vida commented. Hurriedly she added, "By hurt I mean an accidental verbal barb or just a minor freak out when his real feelings start to come to the surface. Then he pulls the big puppy eyes and Madison forgives him. Of course, when she pulls the big puppy eyes on him Madison wraps Nick around her little finger. That's why they're helping out some of the beings out in the forest today- Madison asked him to help her."

Chip smiled. Sure the Roccas knew about the magical forest, like the rest of Briarwood now, but they didn't know their kids' roles in its revealment. But it was the same with his own parents and Xander's as well.

"Translation: they really do love each other. Right now they're just too scared to admit it and Nick is stressed out over falling for a teenager."

"As he should be," grumbled Mr. Rocca.

Vida and Chip exchanged a bemused yet knowing look, as if they were the parents and Mr. Rocca the moody teenager. Mrs. Rocca hid a smile.

Vida explained, "Look, Nick and Madison… honestly they're like a fairy tale."

"Like we're not?" Chip interjected, sitting up straight but Vida stuffed his mouth full with a muffin from her mother's plate before he could protest further.

"Anyway, those two from what we've managed to wheedle out of them fell for each at first sight and have just kept falling."

"Our plan is if they're not together in 2010 we'll lock them up in the Rock Porium's closet until they are!" Chip cheered, having finished the muffin. Vida gave him a look.

"Shush, that's a secret. Not even Xander knows so he can't rename it 'Plan Xander' instead of 'Plan Vip'. Vip. Why did you name it that again?"

"Vida plus Chip equals Vip! Just like Madison plus Nick equals Maddick. Or Kira plus Trent equals Krent."

Vida gave her boyfriend a very long look, then turned to face her parents.

"If you're okay with me dating Chip you HAVE to be okay with Madison dating Nick."

Mr. and Mrs. Rocca burst out laughing. With an easy-going shrug Chip resumed eating his cereal.

"Good point," Mrs. Rocca conceded when she and her husband finally stopped laughing. "Besides, if you two believe Nick has no bad intentions towards Maddie we'll believe you."

"Oddly it's because he loves her so much that he isn't dating her or telling her how he feels," Vida shook her head. Chip responded, "I know the feeling."

Vida kissed him on the cheek.

"I hope they'll end up as happy together as we are someday."

"Is that even possible?" Chip questioned earnestly. Vida just slugged him in the arm, making him grin.