Chapter Eleven: Worries


"What are we supposed to tell my mom?" Sam asked. "There's no way she went home in this weather, but when she does get home..."

"You're fine. Just say you were hanging out with us." Nat replied.

Everyone was ready to sleep, with the exception of the three under the spell. Nat and Alan had taken the couch, leaving Sam, Sky, and Edgar to the floor.

"What about school tomorrow?" Sam continued, not really wanting to sleep.

Natalie yawned before answering.

"We don't have to go."

"But then she will definitely find out, Nat."

"True. Well, what are we supposed to do? Go to school and get the shit beat out of us by Dalia in gym, then get detention from Kuff?"

"Only you will get detention from Kuff."

"All of us will for leaving class unexcused."

"We can get out of that somehow, right?"

"Nope. Don't think so."

Alan started snoring. Natalie went to wake him up, to save him from the nightmares, but Sam stopped her.

"Don't wake him up. He needs sleep for tomorrow." He told her.

"But-"

"Can you two shut the hell up so I can sleep?" Edgar groaned.

"Sorry Edgar." They both apologized. Sam rolled his eyes, making Natalie laugh.

Edgar put his pillow over his ears. Sky was asleep, he was the only one awake besides Nat and Sam.

"So what are we gonna do tomorrrow?" Sam whispered.

"Go to school so your mom doesn't find out. Just explain the detention thing to her by telling her that you were just talking in class. You could always tell her something about vampires, too, so you can stay with us until we kill Dalia and the witches." Nat whispered back.

"Then she definitely won't let me leave her. Plus, there's all those broken windows at the house and I'm probably going to get grounded for that so..."

"Let Edgar and Alan make up an excuse."

"They always do that, though. I think Mom's catching on..."

"Then let me make an excuse."

"What are you going to tell her?"'

"That we have some supernatural related issues that she can't know of and that it requires your help."

"Uh-huh." Sam said sarcastically. "She'll believe that."

"We'll have to see because that's what I'm gonna do."

"But-" Sam tried to protest.

Natalie made really loud fake snoring sounds to shut him up.

"Shut up!" Edgar yelled, throwing his pillow at Nat. She grabbed it and threw it back.

She and Sam chuckled and they soon fell asleep.


{The Next Morning}

Nat had no clue how she had woken up so early. She got off the couch and looked at Edgar's watch.

9:38

She sighed. It felt like the past was replaying itself. She woke up first, then Alan, Edgar, and Sam, then wherever Sky falls in. She went into the kitchen and got a drink of tap water.

As if on cue, Alan's eyes fluttered open.

"Morning," She said. "We have to go to school. We might be late, but Lucy will never trust us if Sam misses."

"How are we going to do that? Go to class dressed in the clothes we've had on for two days?" Edgar asked.

Creepy... Natalie thought, recalling one of her last days as a human in the summer.

"No...we have to go home real quick and change." She told Edgar.

"Ok then. Sounds good to me." Sky said, her eyes still closed.

"Since when were you awake?" Nat asked.

"Since...about three sentences ago." Sky replied.

Sam woke up then.

"No pancakes?" He asked.

"Ha-ha Sam. No, no pancakes." Nat replied.

"Aww! I was hoping for a rematch." Sam laughed. He got up, walking over to Nat and mock punched her shoulder.

"Guess we're just going to have to deal with this!" Nat said, running the water faucet and splashed some on Sam.

"Well, you're going to have to deal with this, then won'tcha?" Sam said, grabbing her waist and dragging her outside.

She laughed the whole way to the water line, where Sam dropped her in the water. It seemed to Nat that overnight they had become like best friends. While Sam laughed, she grabbed his ankle and dragged her into the water also. She laughed, got up, and ran back to the house.

Her clothes were soaked when she came back in.

Alan gave her a confused look. In fact, everyone did. It was odd, like they had suddenly bonded somehow. Sam barged in the door, he was soaked with ocean water also.

Everyone was staring at them awkwardly. Sam cleared his throat.

"Well, then, um, we should probably be getting back to, um, our houses, so we can, um, ya, get, uh, changed." Sam stuttered.

"Yeah...we should probably be getting home." Alan said, walking by Sam with a suspicious glance. He swung his arm around Nat's shoulder and waked out of the door.


After everyone had changed their clothes, and Natalie had kindly explained the situation to Lucy, they went to school.

They were all nervous of gym class. They were going to have to see Dalia then, no matter how much they ignored her during the rest of the day.

They walked out of the locker rooms, Dalia following close behind Sky and Nat. When Natalie and Sam moved to sit next to each other, she smirked.

They played baseball once again, with the same teams as last time. Alan was placed on Dalia's team, as was Edgar, much to their dismay.

The whole game all Dalia did was take out her anger on them. She would throw the ball at Natalie's bad hand, or throw towards Sky's face.

Dalia couldn't help but think of what was going to happen to them. They would never see it coming.