CCS does not belong to me.
Well, I'm finally posting. Ulala was writing this story, but NO, she HAD to forget...this is for her.
"Mind Your Own Business!"
"Uh, Nakita?" Kanari asked. "Wanna come to the Ice Cream Parlor with me after school?"
"Uh, is Yuki going?" Nakita asked, tucking a strand of dark brown hair behind her ears, and jamming the last of her books into her locker.
"No." Kanari said. "She said she had to baby-sit."
"Okay, then I can't go." Nakita said, locking the locker and dusting herself off. "I promised Yuki I'd help her baby-sit, since she's baby sitting Ulala, and her younger sister Meredith."
"Can I come too?" Kanari asked.
"Rather not." Nakita said. "Yuki might get mad, since Ulala's mother had to pay to have me there, and I don't think she would be too happy to pay for three baby sitters when two would be fine."
"Oh, okay." Kanari said. "C'mon, we're going to be late for 8th period."
"So this is it?" Nakita asked.
"Yeah." I said. "They have a really great house. I'm glad you agreed to help me out. Ulala's really wild, but while usually I can handle her, I can't handle a baby at the same time."
"Meredith is a baby?"
"Well, she IS three years old, but she still sucks her thumb and demands candy and cries."
"Oh." Nakita shrugged. "No problem. I can handle little kids."
"Okay." I opened the door with a key. Holding up the key, I said, "Their mother left me the key."
Ulala was sitting on the couch, watching an episode of "The Fox and the Hound." She was half asleep. Meredith was crawling around the floor, sticking crayons in her mouth.
"No, Mere." I said, pulling them out, and then carrying her over to the kitchen to wash her mouth out. "Bad, bad."
Nakita looked around the living room. It was a mess! Crayons and coloring books lying around, along with plastic trains, pistols and knives. Nakita tidied up a bit, and then picked up one of the magazines nearby.
"I wonder how old she is." Nakita said. "Yuki said she was eight, but kids her age don't read this." Nakita shrugged and put it down.
I brought a shrieking Meredith into the room, waking Ulala up. Setting Meredith down, I said, "Okay." And handed her over to Nakita.
"This is going to be quite a job." Nakita said. To Meredith, "Come here, sweetie." Meredith giggled and ran up the stairs. Nakita grunted and ran after her.
Ulala giggled, and stepped off the couch. She ran to the kitchen and tried to pour herself a glass of orange juice out of the container, but knocked over both. While I cleaned up, she ran out of the room. After cleaning up the juice, I heard Nakita shriek.
I ran to help.
Nakita was in Gwen and Klein's room, the boy and girl twin. I titled my head in confusion.
"I thought your mother was taking you to the fair." I hissed. Gwen shrugged.
"We were grounded, so she took the rest of them and left us home." Gwen said. "She said you wouldn't mind." Out of the distance, the toilet flushed and there came the sound of girls laughing.
"I'll stay." Nakita said. "You go." I rushed to the bathroom. The water in the tub was almost overflowing and the girls were splashing each other in it. I rushed in, picked Meredith out, wet clothes and all, picked Ulala out (they didn't weigh all that much) and then turned the water off and pulled the plug open. The water went down the drain. Meredith laughed and spun in circles. I caught her and forced her to stand still while I rubbed her semi-dry and called, "Nakita!" Nakita came running.
"How are the twins?" I asked. She shook her head.
"Hectic." She said. She looked at Meredith and Ulala. "They don't cause a lot of damage, but are sure annoying."
"Take Meredith and get her changed, and I'll dry Ulala." I said, grabbing spare towels. "Ugh."
Five minutes later, everyone was dry and in the kitchen, except for Klein and Gwen, who were playing loud music in their bedroom. I poured Ulala her glass of juice, but kept a napkin handy, making sure that she did not spill it. Meredith sank into a deep sleep, and Nakita volunteered to take her to the bedroom.
"I would be more careful." I whispered. "She is as sneaky as an opossum, and plays asleep too." Nakita nodded, and walked up the stairs. Ulala demanded more juice. I sighed.
The music had been turned down, a good sign that Nakita had talked to the twins. I gave Ulala another cup of juice, and when she finished that, I disposed the cup before she could ask for more. Ulala knew that when the cup was gone, there would be no more. I slung Ulala over my shoulder and ran up the stairs.
"No!" Gwen was screaming, kicking her legs up and down on her bed. "I want my music." Nakita handed the disk to me. I shrugged and threw it into a cluster of other clothes and disks.
"Do your homework." I grumbled, setting Ulala down. Ulala started to bounce in the pile of dirty clothes.
"If we behave and do our homework, can we go to the park?" Klein asked, flipping a comb through his red hair. I nodded. "Sweet!" Klein jumped out of his bonk bed (the top bunk) and sat down in his desk, doing his history paper.
"Did mom give you a list of homework?" Gwen asked. I searched in my pocket for all the things Mrs. Bennett had given me. I nodded. Gwen sighed. "She never forgets." Gwen plopped down beside Klein and started to do her history paper also.
There was a series of wailing and banging. Meredith walked into the room shortly.
"I'm bored." She announced. I exchanged looks with Nakita.
"Well." Nakita said. "Let's fix you all something to eat." Nakita led the way down to the kitchen again. She fixed crackers and cheese for all of us (while I assisted to Ulala's constant demands for Orange Juice). While e ate, Nakita looked out the window.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"No rain." Nakita said. "The crops are failing." I shrugged. Nakita was always concerned about everything. She added, "That means prices are going to soar."
Ulala jumped off of her chair and ran to the window. She suddenly ran back. Nakita and I stared.
Klein and Gwen ran down, and handed us their history papers. After skimming it quickly, I said, "Get your jackets." All four of them rushed off.
Going to the park, Klein was telling Gwen about his baseball cards when it began to rain. Nakita was carrying Meredith.
"It can't just rain in the middle of this!" Nakita cried. I gasped.
"Two things." I whispered. "The sun is out and I'm sensing something." Nakita gasped.
"Who?"
"Ulala." Nakita put Meredith on the ground.
"We have to go home." She said. "Since it's raining." Klein and Gwen groaned and started saying that they could play in the rain. "No, you will not catch cold, let's GO!" We followed Nakita. The whole way back, I was frowning.
"What's wrong?" Nakita finally mouthed. I pointed to the sky, to the one cloud that was emitting the rain.
"Clow Card." I mouthed back. Nakita groaned. I saw Ulala playing with something orange. Snatching it from her, I declared, "ULALA, What IS THIS?" Ulala held her head up as I gazed at the Orange Jewel. She tried to snatch it back.
"Give that back!" She said. "Mind your own business."
"Ulala, I'll trade you this for that." Nakita held up a bottle of wite-out. I sighed.
"Tell me you can do better than that." I said.
"Not now." Nakita said. To Ulala, "Please?"
"Mother will make you give it back." Ulala whined. We were almost wet now from the rain. I just wanted to jump on my Fly Card and seal the card. Tucking the jewel safely into my pocket, I said, "We'll see if we should give it back." Ulala pouted and marched the way back home. Gwen and Klein ran up the steps, taking Meredith with them. Ulala stepped in the doorway and declared she wouldn't let us in until we had given her back her jewel.
"Where did you get it?" I asked. Ulala frowned.
"It's none of your business!" She whined, stamping her feet. "Just give it back!"
"No." I held it away from her. The rain made us cold, wet, and in a case, hungry. "Ulala, let us in." I would have barged right in, but I wanted the information.
"Okay." Ulala said. "There was this one girl named Mo, and she was walking home by our house, and she stopped to eat a sandwich on the sidewalk, and she was littering on her lawn, so I went up to her and she told me to go away and gave me the jewel."
"Liar." I mumbled under my breath. "Well, is that all you remember?'
"Yeah, now give it back." Ulala said. "C'mon!" Suddenly, I figure stopped down and a small knife was put up to Ulala's neck.
"Hand over the Jewel." The masked figure said.
"Never to you, Eriol." I said, even though I wasn't really sure it was Eriol. His hair didn't look very blond, but that was my best guess, and his voice was scratchy. Ulala started to cry.
"Ulala, please tell me what happened." I said. Ulala whimpered.
"The girl told me to go away, and I cursed at her, and said a lot of stuff, including something about the jewels she was wearing (I hit my forehead and sighed) and suddenly, she fainted and an Orange Jewel shot out into my hand."
"And then what happened?" I asked. The masked figure didn't do anything, but listened attentively too.
"I went back into the house, and sat down on my bed to puzzle over what happened." Ulala said, on the verge of tears. "Gwen and Klein went out to play, and discovered her dead!"
"Dead of what?" Nakita asked.
"Of a weak heart or something." Ulala said, crying. "There was a hole in a part of her body, and they buried her in that cemetery." Ulala pointed down the street. "Now will you please get this knife away from me?"
I was shocked. I had taken care of Ulala since she was a little girl, and had never expected that she murdered someone. The masked figure seemed to have the same approach. Instead of demanding the jewel once more, he summoned a girl (she had brown hair and blue eyes, but I didn't recognize her, and supposed that she was wearing a facial mask.
"Police." He said, handing Ulala over, and then shaking himself like a dog. The rain was drenching us. "Stupid rain card." The girl was dragging Ulala away, and Nakita was helpless to help.
"Ooh, Key of Clow, Power of Magic, Power of Light, Surrender the Wand, the Force Ignite!" I took out my wand. "Fly." I flew up beside the little Rain Card, who followed me trying to get me wet.
"I'm tired of you, Rain Card, Return to Your Power Confined!" I flew up and captured it. "Yes!" I returned to earth, and the police were arriving.
"Well say to Mrs. Bowman that this one girl called the police to say that her little baby Ulala was charged for murder." Nakita said. I sighed.
"It just doesn't sound very convincing."
"Hey, who's talking?" Nakita said. "Hey!" The masked figure and girl disappeared. Ulala blurted out her story in tears.
"She's going to ruin this for us." I whimpered.
"Too late now." Nakita said. "We can't even memorize her."
"Mrs. Bennett is NEVER going to let me baby-sit again." I said as I ran to the kitchen and dialed Mrs. Bennett's cell phone number.
"Hello?" Mrs. Bennett's voice was tired.
"Uh, Mrs. Bennett?" I asked.
"Speaking."
"The police are here." I said.
"WHAT?"
"Ulala says that she murdered someone and this girl on the street called the police to tell them and they are arresting her to take her to the police station." I said. "I'll meet you there, okay?"
"I?" She asked sharply.
"I'm going to leave Nakita to take care of Meredith and the twins." I said. "I'm really sorry this happened." Mrs. Bennett grunted.
"Not your fault, and I'm going to UGH (Mrs. Bennett groaned), well, Ulala better be joking, but any way, this is not happening!" Mrs. Bennett sighed.
"Err, I'll meet you in the station." I said. Mrs. Bennett acknowledged that.
"What did she say?" Nakita asked.
"She's meeting me at the St. Joes Police Station ASAP." I said. 'You're supposed to baby-sit the rest of the kids while I'm gone. Don't worry, you'll do fine and I'll fill you in. Just put Meredith to bed, and say that since Meredith is sleeping, you'll take the twins to the park after a couple games of scramble or something." I said quickly. The twins raced down the stairs and cluttered at the front door to watch the excitement. The police car honked.
"Do the best you can, call Kanari if you have to, and Mrs. Bennett will probably be bringing the rest of the kids home first." I said, dashing out the door. "Bye and good luck Nakita!" Nakita waved as I ran into the car. Ulala was sniffing sadly, muttering,
"I didn't mean to." I patted her on the back.
"I know." I said. "It was an accident (although I really didn't think so. The police officer in the passenger seat cleared his throat). You'll be all right."
"Will I go to jail?" She asked.
"Will she?" I asked. The officer sighed.
"I'll tell you when we arrive at the station." He said. We drove past the clinics and WALGREENS and Lowe's and kept on going until we arrived at the Police Department. I looked around with curiosity. I had never been here and everything looked so strange that I could not kept wishing that someone I knew was there also.
The officer took Ulala into a small room to question her, while I waited in the lounge. Mrs. Bennett arrived soon after.
Mrs. Bennett was a plump lady with reddish hair and small blue eyes. She didn't have any of the children with her, so I supposed that she had dropped them off earlier. Poor Nakita. I hoped she would be okay. I didn't know how Mrs. Bennett was able to handle so many children. Mrs. Bennett hardly looked human at the moment. Mrs. Bennett wasn't the type of calm and composed person, but she usually wasn't as frantic as she was now. Her red hair was out of place and her blue eyes were small and wild.
"Ulala." Mrs. Bennett said, clinging to my arm. "Where is she?" I pointed to a small room down the hall. Mrs. Bennett rushed to it before I could stop her, and looked in the small window in the door. I sighed and paced the room. Then I remembered the Jewel.
I fingered the edges of the Orange Jewel in my pocket. I thought it was a very good reward for a days work. Suddenly Mrs. Bennett started to sob.
"Mrs. Bennett." I said, trying to help. She shook her head. "Go." She said. "I'll be home before five, and give you your pay. Please help Nakita take care of the other kids." She shooed me away before realizing that I couldn't drive the car. Mounting my Fly Card, I decided I would just saw I took the cab (there weren't many cabs in town, but I don't really think Mrs. Bennett would notice) home.
I was intercepted on the way home by the masked figure, who demanded the Jewel. When I refused to give it, he started threatening. Suddenly, he grabbed a nearby girl (actually, this was his partner, but I was too shaken to realize that, and besides, her hair was now blond and she had blue eyes, which means she had changed into another wig and gotten different contacts) and held a knife up to her throat. I hated him more than ever but still refused. He attacked me without my wand, and my hand slipped. The Orange Jewel fell out, along with my velvet bag. He grabbed the Orange Jewel first, and I was able to snatch the velvet bag and take flight before he was able to do anything. Since the masked figure lacked the ability to fly, he could not pursue in the chase and I quickly flew back home with a sinking feeling in my stomach.
Nakita was there, on the verge of screaming. All the kids had ruined the neatly tidied room.
"Why didn't you call anyone?" I asked. Nakita sighed.
"No one was home except for Doughboy who didn't want to come." Nakita said. "Even if you do get paid, he thinks baby-sitting is a waste of time." I scowled fiercely.
"What does Doughboy know?" I said. "Geez!"
"Yuki, we should tidy them up and leave ASAP." Nakita said. I nodded and then reported what had happened quickly.
I found out who days later that Ulala would spend a total of twelve months in a rehabilitation center, since she was under age and ignorant. Ulala had told the police and her mother that she had cursed at this girl on the street who had a weak heart, and that Mo had fainted. She had decided to not get involved in this Jewel case, which I thought was a smooth move. The Police didn't believe her, that she actually murdered someone, but Mrs. Bennett insisted on having Ulala out of the house for a while. So we were still safe, although no one was quite happy that an eight-year-old had discovered the jewel first.
But what could you do about it?
The answer: nothing.
The fact that remained was: there was still one jewel left, the Indigo Jewel.
And please review before you read the next one.
Well, I'm finally posting. Ulala was writing this story, but NO, she HAD to forget...this is for her.
"Mind Your Own Business!"
"Uh, Nakita?" Kanari asked. "Wanna come to the Ice Cream Parlor with me after school?"
"Uh, is Yuki going?" Nakita asked, tucking a strand of dark brown hair behind her ears, and jamming the last of her books into her locker.
"No." Kanari said. "She said she had to baby-sit."
"Okay, then I can't go." Nakita said, locking the locker and dusting herself off. "I promised Yuki I'd help her baby-sit, since she's baby sitting Ulala, and her younger sister Meredith."
"Can I come too?" Kanari asked.
"Rather not." Nakita said. "Yuki might get mad, since Ulala's mother had to pay to have me there, and I don't think she would be too happy to pay for three baby sitters when two would be fine."
"Oh, okay." Kanari said. "C'mon, we're going to be late for 8th period."
"So this is it?" Nakita asked.
"Yeah." I said. "They have a really great house. I'm glad you agreed to help me out. Ulala's really wild, but while usually I can handle her, I can't handle a baby at the same time."
"Meredith is a baby?"
"Well, she IS three years old, but she still sucks her thumb and demands candy and cries."
"Oh." Nakita shrugged. "No problem. I can handle little kids."
"Okay." I opened the door with a key. Holding up the key, I said, "Their mother left me the key."
Ulala was sitting on the couch, watching an episode of "The Fox and the Hound." She was half asleep. Meredith was crawling around the floor, sticking crayons in her mouth.
"No, Mere." I said, pulling them out, and then carrying her over to the kitchen to wash her mouth out. "Bad, bad."
Nakita looked around the living room. It was a mess! Crayons and coloring books lying around, along with plastic trains, pistols and knives. Nakita tidied up a bit, and then picked up one of the magazines nearby.
"I wonder how old she is." Nakita said. "Yuki said she was eight, but kids her age don't read this." Nakita shrugged and put it down.
I brought a shrieking Meredith into the room, waking Ulala up. Setting Meredith down, I said, "Okay." And handed her over to Nakita.
"This is going to be quite a job." Nakita said. To Meredith, "Come here, sweetie." Meredith giggled and ran up the stairs. Nakita grunted and ran after her.
Ulala giggled, and stepped off the couch. She ran to the kitchen and tried to pour herself a glass of orange juice out of the container, but knocked over both. While I cleaned up, she ran out of the room. After cleaning up the juice, I heard Nakita shriek.
I ran to help.
Nakita was in Gwen and Klein's room, the boy and girl twin. I titled my head in confusion.
"I thought your mother was taking you to the fair." I hissed. Gwen shrugged.
"We were grounded, so she took the rest of them and left us home." Gwen said. "She said you wouldn't mind." Out of the distance, the toilet flushed and there came the sound of girls laughing.
"I'll stay." Nakita said. "You go." I rushed to the bathroom. The water in the tub was almost overflowing and the girls were splashing each other in it. I rushed in, picked Meredith out, wet clothes and all, picked Ulala out (they didn't weigh all that much) and then turned the water off and pulled the plug open. The water went down the drain. Meredith laughed and spun in circles. I caught her and forced her to stand still while I rubbed her semi-dry and called, "Nakita!" Nakita came running.
"How are the twins?" I asked. She shook her head.
"Hectic." She said. She looked at Meredith and Ulala. "They don't cause a lot of damage, but are sure annoying."
"Take Meredith and get her changed, and I'll dry Ulala." I said, grabbing spare towels. "Ugh."
Five minutes later, everyone was dry and in the kitchen, except for Klein and Gwen, who were playing loud music in their bedroom. I poured Ulala her glass of juice, but kept a napkin handy, making sure that she did not spill it. Meredith sank into a deep sleep, and Nakita volunteered to take her to the bedroom.
"I would be more careful." I whispered. "She is as sneaky as an opossum, and plays asleep too." Nakita nodded, and walked up the stairs. Ulala demanded more juice. I sighed.
The music had been turned down, a good sign that Nakita had talked to the twins. I gave Ulala another cup of juice, and when she finished that, I disposed the cup before she could ask for more. Ulala knew that when the cup was gone, there would be no more. I slung Ulala over my shoulder and ran up the stairs.
"No!" Gwen was screaming, kicking her legs up and down on her bed. "I want my music." Nakita handed the disk to me. I shrugged and threw it into a cluster of other clothes and disks.
"Do your homework." I grumbled, setting Ulala down. Ulala started to bounce in the pile of dirty clothes.
"If we behave and do our homework, can we go to the park?" Klein asked, flipping a comb through his red hair. I nodded. "Sweet!" Klein jumped out of his bonk bed (the top bunk) and sat down in his desk, doing his history paper.
"Did mom give you a list of homework?" Gwen asked. I searched in my pocket for all the things Mrs. Bennett had given me. I nodded. Gwen sighed. "She never forgets." Gwen plopped down beside Klein and started to do her history paper also.
There was a series of wailing and banging. Meredith walked into the room shortly.
"I'm bored." She announced. I exchanged looks with Nakita.
"Well." Nakita said. "Let's fix you all something to eat." Nakita led the way down to the kitchen again. She fixed crackers and cheese for all of us (while I assisted to Ulala's constant demands for Orange Juice). While e ate, Nakita looked out the window.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"No rain." Nakita said. "The crops are failing." I shrugged. Nakita was always concerned about everything. She added, "That means prices are going to soar."
Ulala jumped off of her chair and ran to the window. She suddenly ran back. Nakita and I stared.
Klein and Gwen ran down, and handed us their history papers. After skimming it quickly, I said, "Get your jackets." All four of them rushed off.
Going to the park, Klein was telling Gwen about his baseball cards when it began to rain. Nakita was carrying Meredith.
"It can't just rain in the middle of this!" Nakita cried. I gasped.
"Two things." I whispered. "The sun is out and I'm sensing something." Nakita gasped.
"Who?"
"Ulala." Nakita put Meredith on the ground.
"We have to go home." She said. "Since it's raining." Klein and Gwen groaned and started saying that they could play in the rain. "No, you will not catch cold, let's GO!" We followed Nakita. The whole way back, I was frowning.
"What's wrong?" Nakita finally mouthed. I pointed to the sky, to the one cloud that was emitting the rain.
"Clow Card." I mouthed back. Nakita groaned. I saw Ulala playing with something orange. Snatching it from her, I declared, "ULALA, What IS THIS?" Ulala held her head up as I gazed at the Orange Jewel. She tried to snatch it back.
"Give that back!" She said. "Mind your own business."
"Ulala, I'll trade you this for that." Nakita held up a bottle of wite-out. I sighed.
"Tell me you can do better than that." I said.
"Not now." Nakita said. To Ulala, "Please?"
"Mother will make you give it back." Ulala whined. We were almost wet now from the rain. I just wanted to jump on my Fly Card and seal the card. Tucking the jewel safely into my pocket, I said, "We'll see if we should give it back." Ulala pouted and marched the way back home. Gwen and Klein ran up the steps, taking Meredith with them. Ulala stepped in the doorway and declared she wouldn't let us in until we had given her back her jewel.
"Where did you get it?" I asked. Ulala frowned.
"It's none of your business!" She whined, stamping her feet. "Just give it back!"
"No." I held it away from her. The rain made us cold, wet, and in a case, hungry. "Ulala, let us in." I would have barged right in, but I wanted the information.
"Okay." Ulala said. "There was this one girl named Mo, and she was walking home by our house, and she stopped to eat a sandwich on the sidewalk, and she was littering on her lawn, so I went up to her and she told me to go away and gave me the jewel."
"Liar." I mumbled under my breath. "Well, is that all you remember?'
"Yeah, now give it back." Ulala said. "C'mon!" Suddenly, I figure stopped down and a small knife was put up to Ulala's neck.
"Hand over the Jewel." The masked figure said.
"Never to you, Eriol." I said, even though I wasn't really sure it was Eriol. His hair didn't look very blond, but that was my best guess, and his voice was scratchy. Ulala started to cry.
"Ulala, please tell me what happened." I said. Ulala whimpered.
"The girl told me to go away, and I cursed at her, and said a lot of stuff, including something about the jewels she was wearing (I hit my forehead and sighed) and suddenly, she fainted and an Orange Jewel shot out into my hand."
"And then what happened?" I asked. The masked figure didn't do anything, but listened attentively too.
"I went back into the house, and sat down on my bed to puzzle over what happened." Ulala said, on the verge of tears. "Gwen and Klein went out to play, and discovered her dead!"
"Dead of what?" Nakita asked.
"Of a weak heart or something." Ulala said, crying. "There was a hole in a part of her body, and they buried her in that cemetery." Ulala pointed down the street. "Now will you please get this knife away from me?"
I was shocked. I had taken care of Ulala since she was a little girl, and had never expected that she murdered someone. The masked figure seemed to have the same approach. Instead of demanding the jewel once more, he summoned a girl (she had brown hair and blue eyes, but I didn't recognize her, and supposed that she was wearing a facial mask.
"Police." He said, handing Ulala over, and then shaking himself like a dog. The rain was drenching us. "Stupid rain card." The girl was dragging Ulala away, and Nakita was helpless to help.
"Ooh, Key of Clow, Power of Magic, Power of Light, Surrender the Wand, the Force Ignite!" I took out my wand. "Fly." I flew up beside the little Rain Card, who followed me trying to get me wet.
"I'm tired of you, Rain Card, Return to Your Power Confined!" I flew up and captured it. "Yes!" I returned to earth, and the police were arriving.
"Well say to Mrs. Bowman that this one girl called the police to say that her little baby Ulala was charged for murder." Nakita said. I sighed.
"It just doesn't sound very convincing."
"Hey, who's talking?" Nakita said. "Hey!" The masked figure and girl disappeared. Ulala blurted out her story in tears.
"She's going to ruin this for us." I whimpered.
"Too late now." Nakita said. "We can't even memorize her."
"Mrs. Bennett is NEVER going to let me baby-sit again." I said as I ran to the kitchen and dialed Mrs. Bennett's cell phone number.
"Hello?" Mrs. Bennett's voice was tired.
"Uh, Mrs. Bennett?" I asked.
"Speaking."
"The police are here." I said.
"WHAT?"
"Ulala says that she murdered someone and this girl on the street called the police to tell them and they are arresting her to take her to the police station." I said. "I'll meet you there, okay?"
"I?" She asked sharply.
"I'm going to leave Nakita to take care of Meredith and the twins." I said. "I'm really sorry this happened." Mrs. Bennett grunted.
"Not your fault, and I'm going to UGH (Mrs. Bennett groaned), well, Ulala better be joking, but any way, this is not happening!" Mrs. Bennett sighed.
"Err, I'll meet you in the station." I said. Mrs. Bennett acknowledged that.
"What did she say?" Nakita asked.
"She's meeting me at the St. Joes Police Station ASAP." I said. 'You're supposed to baby-sit the rest of the kids while I'm gone. Don't worry, you'll do fine and I'll fill you in. Just put Meredith to bed, and say that since Meredith is sleeping, you'll take the twins to the park after a couple games of scramble or something." I said quickly. The twins raced down the stairs and cluttered at the front door to watch the excitement. The police car honked.
"Do the best you can, call Kanari if you have to, and Mrs. Bennett will probably be bringing the rest of the kids home first." I said, dashing out the door. "Bye and good luck Nakita!" Nakita waved as I ran into the car. Ulala was sniffing sadly, muttering,
"I didn't mean to." I patted her on the back.
"I know." I said. "It was an accident (although I really didn't think so. The police officer in the passenger seat cleared his throat). You'll be all right."
"Will I go to jail?" She asked.
"Will she?" I asked. The officer sighed.
"I'll tell you when we arrive at the station." He said. We drove past the clinics and WALGREENS and Lowe's and kept on going until we arrived at the Police Department. I looked around with curiosity. I had never been here and everything looked so strange that I could not kept wishing that someone I knew was there also.
The officer took Ulala into a small room to question her, while I waited in the lounge. Mrs. Bennett arrived soon after.
Mrs. Bennett was a plump lady with reddish hair and small blue eyes. She didn't have any of the children with her, so I supposed that she had dropped them off earlier. Poor Nakita. I hoped she would be okay. I didn't know how Mrs. Bennett was able to handle so many children. Mrs. Bennett hardly looked human at the moment. Mrs. Bennett wasn't the type of calm and composed person, but she usually wasn't as frantic as she was now. Her red hair was out of place and her blue eyes were small and wild.
"Ulala." Mrs. Bennett said, clinging to my arm. "Where is she?" I pointed to a small room down the hall. Mrs. Bennett rushed to it before I could stop her, and looked in the small window in the door. I sighed and paced the room. Then I remembered the Jewel.
I fingered the edges of the Orange Jewel in my pocket. I thought it was a very good reward for a days work. Suddenly Mrs. Bennett started to sob.
"Mrs. Bennett." I said, trying to help. She shook her head. "Go." She said. "I'll be home before five, and give you your pay. Please help Nakita take care of the other kids." She shooed me away before realizing that I couldn't drive the car. Mounting my Fly Card, I decided I would just saw I took the cab (there weren't many cabs in town, but I don't really think Mrs. Bennett would notice) home.
I was intercepted on the way home by the masked figure, who demanded the Jewel. When I refused to give it, he started threatening. Suddenly, he grabbed a nearby girl (actually, this was his partner, but I was too shaken to realize that, and besides, her hair was now blond and she had blue eyes, which means she had changed into another wig and gotten different contacts) and held a knife up to her throat. I hated him more than ever but still refused. He attacked me without my wand, and my hand slipped. The Orange Jewel fell out, along with my velvet bag. He grabbed the Orange Jewel first, and I was able to snatch the velvet bag and take flight before he was able to do anything. Since the masked figure lacked the ability to fly, he could not pursue in the chase and I quickly flew back home with a sinking feeling in my stomach.
Nakita was there, on the verge of screaming. All the kids had ruined the neatly tidied room.
"Why didn't you call anyone?" I asked. Nakita sighed.
"No one was home except for Doughboy who didn't want to come." Nakita said. "Even if you do get paid, he thinks baby-sitting is a waste of time." I scowled fiercely.
"What does Doughboy know?" I said. "Geez!"
"Yuki, we should tidy them up and leave ASAP." Nakita said. I nodded and then reported what had happened quickly.
I found out who days later that Ulala would spend a total of twelve months in a rehabilitation center, since she was under age and ignorant. Ulala had told the police and her mother that she had cursed at this girl on the street who had a weak heart, and that Mo had fainted. She had decided to not get involved in this Jewel case, which I thought was a smooth move. The Police didn't believe her, that she actually murdered someone, but Mrs. Bennett insisted on having Ulala out of the house for a while. So we were still safe, although no one was quite happy that an eight-year-old had discovered the jewel first.
But what could you do about it?
The answer: nothing.
The fact that remained was: there was still one jewel left, the Indigo Jewel.
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