And the update comes sooner than anticipated!  This chapter doesn't really go anywhere, but have they ever?  At least it's an update.  As always, enjoy!  And I must say, all these reviews are very nice!  I hardly ever get any usually… *teary* I feel so special… *sniffle*  *bursts into fake tears*  Ahem, yes, well, I suppose I should just shut-up and let y'all read the story.  *all readers nod heads*  Read on, my friends!

~Chapter Seven~

                "Wheeeeeeeee!"

                Cari, Adria, and Shannon all awoke at the same sound the next morning.  In addition to the high-pitched 'wheeeeeeeeee' there was another strange sound, sort of a combination of something scraping and rolling.  The three girls looked up groggily to see, then immediately lay back down with simultaneous groans.

                Regina was in Jack's swivel chair, pushing herself in circles around the room hyper-actively.

                "How long have you been up?" Shannon asked agitatedly.

                "Three hours!" Regina chirruped cheerfully.

                "Ugh, I forgot how she doesn't need sleep," Cari groaned.  Regina just laughed and continued flying about the room on the chair.

                "Well, I guess we need to go back to the whole 'gotta find a way to get back home' thing," Adria said sensibly, arching her back and stretching.  The sound of the swivel chair had faded slightly, but then came back with a vengeance as Regina swerved back into the room.

                "Hey, Jack already left!" she cried forlornly.

                "So?" Cari snapped.

                Regina proceeded in sticking out her tongue at her, and Cari just yawned.

                "Well, does anyone have any new ideas?" she asked, scratching the back of her neck idly.  Silence all around.

                "Great…"

                Shannon dropped back defeatedly and Adria rested her chin on her fist in a pensive position.  It took them several moments to notice that the swivel chair sound had ceased.  At the same time they all looked at each other, then around the room.  Regina was looking longingly out the window.

                "Look, you can see everybody…" she murmured, staring down at the town square.  "There's the werewolf and the vampires-"

                "Vampires?!  Let me see!" Adria cried, jumping up to join Regina at the window.

                "And there's the little mummy kid, and the winged demon kid too…" Regina continued, pointing out all the residents of Halloween Town to herself.

                "Hey, that little bat kid was cute; I wanna see…" Cari alleged, getting up and coming to the window.

                "Oh, way to focus, guys," Shannon grated sarcastically, but at no reaction from the other three, she got up and went to the window as well.

                As the three stood there, watching the citizens of the town going about their business, Regina naming all of them off, they began to think this could be fun.

                "You know, there's really nothing that wrong with us staying here…" Shannon said slowly, her eyes never leaving the window.

                "Yeah, I don't really want to go back home to that biology test, you know…" Cari said in the same slightly dazed way.

                "Hey, there's the harlequin demon and the creature under the stairs!  I love that guy…" Regina went on.  "And the undersea gal, and the clown-"

                "Clown?!?  AHHHHHHH!"

                At the mention of the clown Adria immediately hit the deck, curled in a fetal position and began rocking back and forth.  Cari, Shannon, and Regina all looked down at her, then at each other.

                "Then again, maybe we should really be going," Shannon said, and Cari nodded her agreement.