Chapter 12: Breaking in? Stealing? A Typical VK Day.

Patrick and Snowi walked down the hall early in the morning the next day nonchalantly, to the headmistress's office. You'd think if you saw then walking to the headmistress' office would mean that they got in trouble or she needs to speak to them. But that wasn't the reason at all. They were going to break into the headmistresses office ((authoress: bad idea)) and take a peak around.

Snowi was glad she could freeze water, and freezing the water in the pipes to where they burst was perfect, after all, Amelia would be watching them fix it so it would be done the right way. Olivia would keep an eye out and would send them a text saying the headmistress was on her way. Then they'd get out and walk the other way as if nothing had happened.

Patrick was having a little difficulty picking the lock. He hadn't done this before, kicking some a door, or just turning the nob, was easy. Picking a lock, it was like so hard, trying to get each peg down in the right combination to unlock it.

He groaned taking out the lock picking tools. "They make it look so easy on TV!"

Snowi looked at the brown/yellow clad boy. "Patrick, its TV, its always gonna be easy!" She said with a groan. "Are you going to do it anytime soon?"

Patrick rolled his eyes at the bossy princess. "I'm working on it!" He said looking up at the blue-haired princess.

"The headmistress will be here before you pick it," Snowi sighed, looking at her nails as Patrick was getting ready to try again when the ice princess stopped him. She laid her hand on his. "Patrick, let me try." She said, looking at him and going to take the lock picking tools.

Patrick pulled them away. "And what makes you think you could do it any better?" He asked. He didn't believe Snowi out of all people could pick a lock.

"Watch me," she said, taking a bobby pin from her bun, then bending down to the door knob. After a few wiggles in the key whole, the door made an unlocking sound. Snowi smiled happily putting the bobby pin back in her hair. "Piece. Of. Cake." She said opening the door and walking in.

They walked in, it was pretty big. Lots of file cabinets, all with locks. A big desk with a computer, and a few other things that a headmistress might need, staplers, pens, files laid out, a apple with a bottle of frozen solid water. Many pictures of Amelia with her daughter, nieces and nephews, one of her younger with her mother, her with her two sisters and brother, who were younger than her.

"Wow, this place is huge!" Snowi said walking over to the deck looking at the pictures.

"Stop looking at the pictures and look at the files." Patrick told the ice princess, going over to a file cabinet that was unlocked and shuffled through it.

Snowi rolled her eyes at the bossy boy she was helping. "You know I can multitask, right?" She asked him with a smile.

Patrick looked at her and shook her head. He didn't really care weather she was a multitasker or not. Either way, they had a job and

Snowi opened one if the drawers in the desk and pulled out key chain full of keys for each file box, which was about 30 keys, some had two if the same. "Whoa, my mom was way more keys than this for all her makeup boxes."

Patrick rolled his eyes. "Just look." He told the princess as she rolled her eyes at him and began looking through the files boxes.

Snowi unlocked one and started to look thought it. "I am! Can't we like multitask?" She asked opening the files and looking through them. "What are we looking for again?"

"We are looking for old files about how to break the Isle's barrier," Patrick told the ice princess, knowing how she cared about her beautiful and girly things, than important things. "and/or for secret catacombs or cellars, you know, for our parents, when we take over the world?"

"Oh, right, then we take pictures of them?" She asked, getting those words stuck in her head so she wouldn't have to asked the same questions again.

Patrick nodded in agreement to the ice princess, who smiled and squealed happily. "Yes, but we need to hurry, we gave no idea when it will be done!?"

"I know that," she said pulling out a drawer on the headmistress' desk and looking through it. All she found in this drawer was rubber bands, staples, extra pens, White Out, sticky notes and pads of paper. She closed it and went to the next one below.

Patrick opened up the top drawer on the file cabinet, looking though each file, seeing what was inside. So far he had only found files of the attendees of the school when he began, which he could care less about. He put the files back, closed it and locked it then went to the one below it.

"Where are all the good files?" He asked himself as he looked through the files, only to find more of the school attendees and useful things.

"Ooh, I found the headmistress report cards!" Snowi squealed with a smile then frowned as she read them. "Whoops, these aren't report cards, its her grocery list." She put the papers back in the drawer and closed it, locking it as she moved on to another one.

Patrick unlocked another file case and looked through them. He stopped half way through, after a look, he knew it was important. "Snowi?"

Snowi looked up at him, from moving on from the desk. "Yeah?" She asked walking over to him, wondering what was so important.

"Look," Wendell told her pointing to the file. Snowi scoffed and played with her hair.

"Its a file, what's so special about it?" She asked, putting her hand on her hip. She didn't know why he was pointing to the file, she looked over it and there was nothing there.

"No Snowi! Look here!" He told her as she gasped and ripped the file out of his hands and read it.

"Oh my, this is a file about the Isle," Snowi said as she scanned through what it said. "I knew it! I knew there was a secret tunnel under the Isle through the sea!"

Patrick shook his head at her. "No Snowi, its a secret tunnel from here, France out to a underwater cave that's a dome!" He told her as she slowly got it.

"Ooh, where did ya find this at?" She asked looking at the file, then up at Patrick.

"It was laying at the bottom of the other files," Patrick said taking out his phone and taking pictures of each page, where they could still read it. "We have struck gold!"

"Yeah!" Snowi agreed as Patrick put the file back and started to look for other. The ice princess joined in hoping to find something else.

'We are so gonna rule!' Snowi thought to herself as she opened file after file, looking through it, seeing if it was of value or not. File after file, it was just notice of intents and school attendee files. Nothing as special as an underwater cave. Snowi's phone buzzed. She pulled it out and seen a text from Olivia: SHE'S ON HER WAY, HURRY UP ~ OLIVIA. "Come on, she's coming!"

Patrick closed the file cabinet and put his phone back in his pocket. He threw Snowi the keys, who quickly put them back in the headmistress desk. They didn't know how long it would take her to get, but they knee they needed to get out. Patrick went to the door followed by Snowi, as they closed her door and walked quickly in the opposite direction, to get back to there dorms.

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Mean while Wendell had persuaded Rosemary to show him where they kept all the staffs and wands for the old plays. With the help of Lyra's magic, they could create a magic wand themselves, but not a one to break the barrier, only powerful wands - like the Zinnia wand - did, this one would only be used when Lyra wasn't around and Wendell could have his own magic.

"Remind me again why you want to see these things?" Rosemary asked, looking up at Wendell. She thought it was a little off he wanted to see a staff, but yet again, they weren't real, and even people she knew were fascinated with those type of things.

"Oh, well, I'm curious if they happened to put on a play about my father," Wendell said quickly thinking about it, then mentally face palming for what he had said.

"Oh, we did actually, sixth grade, I played Annika, I don't remember who all else was in it though." Rosemary said with a smile, as they went up the stairs to the school's attic.

"I hope they did my father justice!" Wendell said, then realized the probably didn't make him look good, like they was Wenlock had explained it.

Rosemary shrugged at what he said. She didn't really know much about it, yet again is was a while ago. "Well, you night have to as Annabelle, she would know, her mom keeps track of everything!" She explained, then told him about all the file cabinets she had.

"Whoa, that's a lot!" Wendell said, knowing Snowi and Patrick would have to have lots of time to look through. He took out his phone and sent a quick text. Then put it back in his pocket.

Rosemary giggled at his words. "Yeah, its like Storage Wars almost, put without all the wonderful things that could be worth so much!"

"It does kinda look like my father's shop though," Wendell said.

Rosemary looked at him puzzled. "Your father has a shop?" She asked opening up the door to the attic.

"Yeah," Wendell said putting his hands I his pocket. "back on the Isle, most people had shops, just not ones like here, it was mostly second or third handed stuff."

"Oh," Rosemary said then she got the idea that everything someone didn't need they'd drop it off at the Isle Donation box. Then it would get brought to the Isle of the Lost.

"But hey, its the norm for us Islanders." Wendell said as he locked in a box with a bunch of hats, feather boas, thick beaded necklaces (like the ones you get at Mardi Gras), huge plastic sunglasses too. "What did you put on here, The Old Ladies Society?" He jokingly asked as Rosemary walked over and looked in the box.

Rise giggled at his words. "Not to sure, it wasn't my class, it was a year ago, who really knows?" She said looking through a box full of feather boas.

"How many feather boas can you seriously have?" Wendell asked, swatting away the falling feathers from around him.

Rose shrugged. "I never really liked them myself. I prefer real bird feathers over fake ones." She said closing up the box and walking to another one.

Wendell opened another box and pulled out a sombrero. He out it and and grabbed some maracas. "Hey, Rose look," he said to her as she turned around and looked at him.

She snickered what they way he looked. "Oh my, you look so funny!" She said covering her mouth with her hand.

Wendell smiled but became serious. "Buenas tardes, señorita," He said in a fake Spanish accent, putting a smile on Rose's face. "How art thee," he then picked up her hand and kissed it.

Rose was blushing like a tomato and softly giggling at what he was doing. "Wendell!" She exclaimed as he began to shake the maracas. "You look funny!"

"Ah si señora, I do," Wendell replied as he continued to shake the maracas and do a little side step moves.

"I'm guessing you don't mind embarrassing yourself." She said crossing her arms but still blushing and smiling. Her cheeks were starting to hurt she was smiling so big.

"Eh," Wendell stopped and started to put it back. "We really didn't get to have fun growing up, and I don't couldn't that embarrassing."

"Oh," Rose said, slowly figuring out that the life on the Isle wasn't like it was for her growing up.

"You get use to it after a while," Wendell said closing up the box, then walking to another.

"I didn't know it was that bad." Rosemary said looking in another box. She lifted up down hats and looked in them.

"Outsiders don't." He said simply. "They will never know. Because they will never go into the Isle. They think they're to good for that."

Rose looked at him. "Some people do, its just they can't do anything," she opened the box, looking through the costumes.

Wendell looked at her with a quizzical look. "Really? Well that's a first," he said closing up the box and moving onto another one.

Rosemary felt bad for the VKs. She opened a box with cardboard signs that said: BAKE SALE or PROM, things like that. She moved them around, seeing if there was anything else in there, which there wasn't, so she closed up the box and when on to another one.

Wendell took out a huge heart. "Gee, talk about a Cupid being here," he said looking at the arrow through the heart.

Rose looked up. "It was for a Valentines day show we put on, I was Aphrodite, Alan was Cupid, Connor was Romeo and go figure who was Juliet, Octavia, it was just a bunch of romantic people in mythology or stories that we would act out in a little show, gosh we were like 10 when we did it," she said smiling at the thought.

"You do make a beautiful Aphrodite," Wendell said sheepishly, making Rose blush bright red as she turned her face away so he wouldn't notice she was smiling like the Cheshire cat.

"Uh, thanks," She said breathlessly opening another box, looking through some more costumes. She didn't know why she got so blushy around Wendell. 'It couldn't be love,' she told herself. 'We just only met a few days ago, plus I don't know what much about him!'

Wendell looked through a box and pulled out a staff that looked just like his fathers. "Whoa, I does look like my fathers! Just smaller," he said seeing how it was three feet tall, instead of five.

Rose walked over and looked at it. "Yep, that is a replica of your father's, just not magical in a bad way,"

Wendell nodded. "Yeah, that's true," he said with a hint of disapproval about it.

"Hey, if you want I can ask Amelia is she could help me find the videos of plays about our parents, if you want." Rose suggested with a smile.

Wendell nodded with a smile. "That'd be cool, then we can point out all the inconsistencies about it."

"But its probably cringe worthy, again we were like ten/twelve when we put it on." Rose said with a laugh that was shared with Wendell.

"Then we should let it slide, unless it was deliberate?" He said with a smirk as he spun the staff.

"I promise it wasn't on our part," she said with a grin.

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First I want to thank all of you for your support and understanding, its been a tough time, lots of tears and goodbyes, which are ever so hard to say. Its been a trying last week.

Sorry it was so short, don't be mad, tough week, will make up for it, I promise!

Anyway I would love you to check out these songs from Within Temptation - such a great band - The Howling - I personally love, its great for a battle song and Somewhere - gosh that song gets me teary eyed, it's so beautiful. They're a gothic/alternative rock/soft rock or whatever band, which is my new favorite band! And go look up Anna Blue and her song The Silent Scream, gosh that its such a beautiful music and makes my cry everytime, cuz I can relate to that song with my life.

I'm thinking of adding a brother to Octavia, names Octavian, who kills stuffed animals (get the reference?) idk I've still got other characters to add in, but hey, how knows!

Answer from chapter 14:

PrincessGeekelle: She is, that's why I live Rose! And yes Octavia is a ... you know what I mean, she's a spoiled rotten brat! And yes I'm sure he will, after all, when the love spell comes, a whole lot will be changing ^^

TurquaTortle:

Yeah poor Annabelle, I've been there plenty of times and oh yes to bad Snowi wasn't there. Yep she is and yeah she's sassy! Yeah it is cute, I'm sure they will become better friends later! Casper is so cool, he is my new fave ^^ why yes she will and Octavia will go down, and yes you are right about that!

So the next chapter will be a fun, not anything to do with the story, bonus chapter to make up for this one!