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"Excuse me? I thought I heard 'our darling love child'. There must be something wrong with my ears," Trey said.

"There is nothing wrong with your ears. That's what he said," I said. "Jill, give me my bag."

Jill handed me my bag and said, "I will prepare a sandwich. He must be starved."

"He must be around here," I started to look for the stone in my bag.

"Excuse me? Do you say you put your child in the bag? There must be something wrong with my ears," Trey said again.

"Here it is." I took out the stone from my bag and gave it to Adrian.

"Really? Your son is a stone?" Trey cried.

"Hey, Hopper will be offended," Adrian said. "Sage, maybe you should hold him, you are his mother."

I knew why Adrian did not want to hold Hopper; he wanted to cover his ears. He was sure Hopper would produce that screeching noise as Hopper had not been fed for a few days.

"No, you are his father; you have to hold some responsibility. I have to say the incantation." I started to chanted the incantation and place my hands over my ears.

"Wait!" everyone except Trey shouted. Adrian put the stone on his lap and put his hands over his ears.

"Do you know what they are doing, Angeline?" Trey asked.

Angeline covered her ears and shouted, "Cover your ears if you don't want to be deaf!"

"If you can, please cover my ears too," Eddie said. He was driving and could not spare his hands to cover his ears.

"Why?" Trey asked. He still did not understand what was going on.

I chanted the incantation and the stone turned to Hopper. An annoying screeching sound followed. Jill threw the sandwich she made to Hopper. Hopper nibbled the bread and soon the sound stopped.

"Next time please tell me what is going on. I can't hear anything now!" Trey cried.

"I told you to cover your ears but you didn't listen to me! Stupid Trey!" Angeline said.

"What is that?"

"Hopper, our son," Adrian said.

"An adorable demon," Jill said.

"Not a demon, a dragon," I said. I still refused to call him a demon. "He will warn us if dark magic is nearby."

Hopper finished eating and started that screeching sound again, only more annoying.

"That is the proof we need, dark magic is following us. 'The lady' is using magic to track us or our car."

"How can we stop that? I can't hear anything, I can't think!" Trey cried.

"I think there is a spell in this spell book that can shield ourselves from the one tracking us. I have just read that around here. Here," I turned to a page on the spell book.

I chanted the spell and felt the magic poured from me. I nearly fainted after casting the spell since I had to shield everyone on the car including the car from the tracker. Hopper stopped shrieking. That meant the spell worked, at least for a short period of time. This spell would not last forever, I was sure. I had to find a more long lasting method.

"Are you okay, Sage? You look exhausted and is about to faint," Adrian looked worriedly at me.

"I little tired." I took out the chocolate and started to nibble it. I was sure I would gain a few more pounds after this escape. I had to go on diet if we survived this.

"Why did that thing stop shrieking?" Trey finally recovered from the 'sound attack' from Hopper.

"I shield us from the tracker but that would not last forever, I have to find a stronger spell. I can't even contact Miss Terwilliger here." I was still feeling a little weak.

"One more question. Why did you just call that dragon your son? And why is Adrian the father? He is not that responsible as I can see. I think you will choose a more responsible man to 'marry', Melbourne," Trey asked.

"That is because Miss Terwilliger tricked me."

"Into marrying Adrian?"

"No, tricking me into summoning this dragon without telling me the consequences which is a joint custody of the dragon with him. He has proved to be not the most dedicated of 'fathers' from day one. He was supposed to name him and I was the one naming him in the end."

"Hey, I looked after Hopper when you go to meet another guy," Adrian said.

"Any other thing you have done for Hopper?"

"Buying pies for Hopper."

"Yeah, that's a lot of work. Even Jill did more things for Hopper than you."

"Yes, I am like an aunt to Hopper. I even make Sydney gave him toys and a bed," Jill said.

"Your family is so complicated. I don't want to be involved in it."

"Oh, you are already involved," Adrian said. "You are involved with the most troublesome one. By the way, welcome to the family. I couldn't throw you a party here but I will throw you one when we are back in Palm Springs."

"Good luck. You will need this. Once you are part of the family, you can never escape," Eddie nodded and added, "Welcome to the family."

"What does that mean?" Trey shouted.

"Hey! What does the 'most troublesome one' mean?" Angeline shouted at the same time.

"You mean you are not the most troublesome one?" I asked. "Welcome to the family, Trey. From now on, Angeline is your responsibility," I smiled.

"Why? She is your 'cousin', not mine."

"Welcome to the family," Jill smiled sweetly. "You know in this family, we look after each other. Adrian looks after Sydney and vice versa. Eddie looks after me." Jill blushed.

"No one is responsible to look after Angeline. Yeah, we do look after her, but now the responsibility is on her boyfriend, you," Eddie said.

"I don't want to do that," Trey shouted.

"Do you love me or not?" Angeline demanded.

Trey didn't say anything and sighed. He seemed to accept reality.

"Oh, look how cute he is," Jill shouted.

Hopper curled up into a ball and was now sleeping on Adrian's lap.

"Too bad we didn't bring the aquarium with us. His bed is in it," Jill sighed.

"No one will bring an aquarium when they are running away, Jill," I said. "Put Hopper on your cardigan and on that empty seat next to Angeline."

Jill made a bed with her cardigan and put it on that empty seat next to Angeline. Adrian put Hopper gently on the 'bed'.

"Be careful, Angeline. Don't seat on him," Jill said worriedly.

"I am not an idiot. I know what I could not do," Angeline shouted.

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