AN: Sorry it's so short, I'll try to make the next chapter longer if I can.

Hours later, Peter and Susan arrived home. Much to their surprise, the car was in the driveway.

"How...?" Susan started.

"I don't know." Peter said looking just as confused as she felt. "Let's just get inside."

They opened the door and we instantly crushed by hugs from a frightened-looking Lucy.

"You're back!" She cried happily. "I was so worried."

"You really had us scared." Edmund told them looking very relieved himself.

Standing behind their happy-faced siblings were two very upset looking parents.

"Where have you been?" Mr. Pevensie demanded. "We found the car by the house where Susan told us she was staying the night but the girls claimed they hadn't seen her for hours. We were going to call the police. People have been looking for you for hours." He turned to Peter. "Peter, care to explain why you took my car without asking?"

"I-" Peter didn't know what to say. It wasn't as if he could say, "Well you see, dad, Susan's actually a mermaid who goes wacky over the full moon. so when I found out it was a full moon I had to take your car and race over there right away only to be forced into the water and nearly frozen to death."

"It was my fault." Susan cut in.

"It was not." Peter glared at her.

"It was." Susan said firmly. "I left the sleepover early and took your car as part of a dare, it was stupid I shouldn't have done it, Peter tried to stop me...I'm sorry."

"Liar." Peter mouthed.

"Shut up." Susan mouthed back.

"You don't even know how to drive!" Her father looked more upset than ever. "What were you thinking?" Before Susan could say anything he went on, "I'll tell you what you were thinking, you weren't thinking at all!"

Susan and Peter hung their heads in shame.

"Well that doesn't explain, where you were all this time." Mrs. Pevensie said crossing her arms over her chest.

"We went for a walk and got lost, which was my fault because it was my idea to take a walk at that ungodly hour in the first place." Peter said before Susan could take the blame again.

Susan shot him the stink eye and frowned.

"What happened to your hands?" Mrs. Pevensie gasped suddenly noticing the burns on her son's hands.

"Long story?" Peter said knowing that wasn't a good answer.

"Go upstairs and change out of those damp clothes before you catch pneumonia." Mrs. Pevensie told them, even though Peter was the only one with clothes that were even slightly damp and Susan was completely dry. "We'll talk more about this later."

"I'm very disappointed in both of you." Mr. Pevensie said. "I'm so angry with you both, I don't know what to say right now."

Edmund and Lucy followed them upstairs. "So how moonstruck was she?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Peter said.

Later, Edmund, Lucy, Susan, and Peter sat at the table drinking tea while in another room, while their parents were out telling all the neighbors that they didn't have to have a search party after all.

"Whoever's playing with my foot under the table, stop it!" Edmund snapped suddenly, glancing at Lucy assuming she was the one doing it.

"It's not me!" Lucy insisted from the other side of the table. "I'm all the way over here. I can't even reach your foot if I tried." Lucy lifted her left foot out from under the table to prove her innocence.

Susan and Peter both turned very red in the face. They'd both assumed the feet they'd made contact with were each other's not Edmund's.

"Sorry." they blurted out at the same time.

"What's with you two?" Edmund asked them. "You're both acting kind of weird."

"Why would you say that?" Peter asked him. "We're not acting weird...weird...we're so normal it hurts."

Don't over do it, Peter, Susan thought shaking her head at him.

"Uh-huh..." Edmund shrugged and went back to sipping his tea.

"Susan, Peter," Their parents walked into the room. "We've been talking about what happened, and we've decided that you will both be grounded for a month."

"That means, no using the phone, no radio, no going places with friends..." Their mother spoke slowly as if they'd couldn't understand English and had never been grounded before.

"And you can use that time when you're not doing any of that stuff, to think about obeying house rules and not frightening us out of our wits." Mr. Pevensie said.

Well that wasn't as bad as it could have been. Peter thought to himself. Being grounded for a month wasn't too awful.

Because of being grounded, Susan and Peter were not going to attend a party three days later that their parents had been planning to take the whole family to. Now Only Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie and Lucy and Edmund were going.

"Next time you want to do something stupid, maybe you'll remember this moment." Their father said as they all left with out them.

Peter sighed and sat down on the couch. Susan sat beside him. They both stared at the wall blankly, feeling a little awkward. It was the first time they'd been alone together since he'd told her how he felt.

Peter got up for a drink of water from the kitchen. "Did you want anything for dinner?" He asked as he opened the fridge.

Susan got up and walked into the kitchen. "What was that?" She hadn't heard him.

He repeated himself.

"Oh, no thanks." She said. "I'm not hungry."

"Me either." Peter shut the fridge.

"Weren't you getting a glass of water?" Susan asked, noticing that Peter's hands were empty.

"I'm not thirsty." Peter told her as they walked through the downstairs hallway.

"Alright." Susan said, wondering what to say next. She noticed Peter was looking at her. "What?"

"Nothing." He looked away.

She turned and looked at him and then looked away again. Some how or other they'd ended up holding hands after that.

"Peter?" Susan asked.

"Yes?" He answered.

"What was our first kiss like?" Susan wished she remembered and it wasn't as if she could ask him about that in front of her family. And now felt like a good time to ask those sort of things.

Peter hesitated for a moment not sure if what he was about to do was right or if he'd regret it later. He decided to do it anyway "It was something like this." He leaned forward and kissed her.

At that moment, the front door opened and Mr. Pevensie walked in. He'd forgotten something in the living room and had come back to get it. Mrs. Pevensie was right behind him.

"Where did you say you left it d-" She started before she saw what her two eldest children were doing and stopped mid-sentence.

"Helen," Mr. Pevensie said through his teeth. "Tell Lucy and Edmund to go over to the neighbor's house." He didn't want them to hear him flip out. He turned to Peter and Susan and hissed, "The kitchen, both of you, now!"

Edmund and Lucy walked over to the neighbor's house feeling very confused.

"What do you think they did?" Lucy asked Edmund. She'd never seen her Parents look so upset.

"I don't know." Edmund admitted. "It must have been something big. Dad looked like his whole head was going to blow."

"We were gone for three minutes." Lucy said. "What trouble could they possibly have gotten into in such a short time?"

Edmund looked back in the direction of the house for a clue to what was going on but the door was shut and it looked perfectly normal. There was no signs of whatever was being talked about inside. Because he wasn't watching where he was going, he banged right into a girl carrying a map.

"Watch it!" She barked before she recognized him. "Edmund?"

"Julia!" Edmund exclaimed happily. "We meet again." He pointed to Lucy. "this is my sister, Lucy." He smiled at Lucy. "Lucy, this is Julia."

"Hullo." Lucy shook her hand. "Nice to finally meet you."

"You too." Julia said. "By the way, do you two know where this street is?" She pointed to the map. "I'm completely lost."

Edmund explained how to get to that street then he added. "That's where I live, over there." He pointed to the house which still showed no signs of giving away the happenings of it's indoors.

"Nice place." Julia told him.

"Thanks." Edmund didn't know what else to say.

"Nice running into you again, and it was nice meeting you, Lucy." Julia started walking away.

Lucy smiled at Edmund. "You like her." She teased.

"Yeah," Edmund said as soon as he was sure Julia was out of ear-shot. "I really do."

"I think you two would make a lovely couple." Lucy said supportively.

"Thanks for your blessing, Lu." Edmund laughed. "You're the best sister ever."

"I know." Lucy said, smiling back at her brother.

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