"Come on Aishaaaaa" Nabu whines for what seems like the thousandth time today as Aisha shakes her head, stubborn as always. "Where were you three? You just disappeared off of the face of the planet for a while and then suddenly reappear and all we get is a bombshell about Flora's parent's being arrested. What's going on there?"

"Nabu, I've told you a hundred times already..." Aisha starts causing Nabu to sigh knowing what is to come next.

"It's not my story to tell." Both Aisha and Nabu finish at the same time, the conversation being practically rehearsed at this point.

"Nabu..." Aisha warns playfully as she places her hands on her hips.

"Aisha..." He teases in return, more than ready to provoke the yet another play fight between the two of them. "I guess it's fair of you not to tell me - after all it's Flora's business and she will tell us if or when she's ready and wants to... that doesn't mean I can't tickle you for now though!" With a over dramatised battle cry, Nabu takes off running toward Aisha earning a shriek of laughter from the curly haired brunette as she dashes away from him through the house.

Nabu's mother can only shake her head with an amused smile as she enters her house to the sounds of roaring laughter and fast paced footsteps above her head. The two teens could be so childish at times that it took her back to her own youthful days.

(DIVIDER)

"I just can't believe they'd leave us on edge like that! And so dramatically at that!" Stella complains to Brandon once more, the couple were wondering the mall aimlessly hand in hand as Stella voiced her inner thoughts and concerns regarding the temporary 'missing' status of the three of their friends.

"I'm sure they have a good reason sunshine, besides, with that cliff hanger they left us on it sounds serious. They probably aren't ready to share yet."

"I know that, I do, really. I just... hate being in the dark."

"So that's why you like the sun so much!" Brandon exclaims in mock surprise, earning himself a playful smack from Stella.

"You know what I mean."

"I do, but it'll all work out in the end, you know it will."

(DIVIDER)

"Hey Bloom... do you think that they're going to be alright?"

"Huh?" Bloom asks her boyfriend in response, caught off-guard by his random question. "What? You mean Helia, Flora and Aisha? I'm sure their alright Sky, if it was serious enough that they were still in danger they would have surely told us by now."

"I suppose you're right, I just can't get over it. I guess it's just a bit strange..."

"Sky, if they needed us then we'd know. For now we just need to let them have their own time to deal with it."

A/N Sorry guys, I fell asleep before I got round to writing yesterday's chapter so I'm posting two today. Two more days left of school and then it's finally the Christmas holidays for me.

I had another idea for a Christmas advent story today and honestly I'm so annoyed that I didn't go with it originally. Maybe I'll write it up at some point?

Hope you enjoyed this chapter and make sure to leave some reviews below - thanks to all of you who have already done so on previous chapters :)

- Mae xxx