I'm sorry. I don't own W.I.T.C.H. magazine or TV. Serie so... this could not be what is happening on either of them. (what am I saying? This is not going to happened in either of them!!)
Chapter 15: Sun and beach. Tar, roads, books and cars.
"I hate this place!!" Irma said nearly yelling when the van stopped on the same cottage's main door. "Why do we have to come here every summer?"
"Cause this is sea and we are on family holidays." Mss. Lair said smiling as Mr. Lair took the baggage from the police van that he had used to carry them all and the bags there.
"But I don't like this!" Irma said.
"Young miss." Her father then said. "You have to be here, this is our family holidays so you are not going to ruin this."
"But..." he said. "Ok. Could I at least go with my friends to a holiday when we go back, please..." she begged.
"No. You are too young!" Mr. Lair said going on the car. "I've got to return to the office, but I'll be back for dinner, ok?"
Then he left.
"Don't worry Irma." Her mother said smiling warmly as Christopher began running around the house. "I'll speak to him and I'll try him to allow you to go."
"Thanks mum!!" Irma said smiling.
"But in exchange you have to behave while we are here, ok?" she said then. "First you have your family holidays and then your friends' ones, done?"
"Mum, you are the best!" Irma said smiling. "Wait till I tell the rest!"
"By the way, where are your friends?" she asked as they began unpacking.
"Will is at a resort with her mother." Irma began saying. "Tara is at her hometown, Cornelia is probably at a cool beach and Hai Lin is at Heatherfield."
"Oh, yes." The mother said. "I remember her restaurant never closes... And what about that new friend you made this term?"
"You'd better sit down." Irma advised her. "She is supposed to be with Karmilla on tour around Europe!!"
Meanwhile, on Heatherfield, Phobos was sitting with Cedric on his bookshop.
"Is it always so boring?" he asked.
"Yes, and this was the alibi I used to have when I was looking for your sister Elyon." Cedric said taking the dust out of some new books he had bought from a private collector.
"I still have to get used to living here." Phobos said. "I have to go to a school full of brainless teens, study, learn bilges... And also having to treat that fool of Caleb well."
"Oh, and how is to live with that guardian?" Cedric said. "It has to be worse than being a mere human."
"No." Phobos said. "In fact... it's pleasant. She is nice to me and cooks for all of us. Yet I hate when she tells me off cause I have clean bad. But what did she expected?! I have never had to clean a single thing! I was a prince!!"
"Perhaps I should frighten her." Cedric said.
"Don't even try." Phobos said. "She has beaten up some armed men just herself. Furthermore... she is not that bad."
"She forces you to do silly cleaning tasks." Cedric said. "That's insulting."
"Well... I must admit I hate to clean, but at least she takes care of that servant and me." Phobos said. "In fact, I'm beginning to miss her a bit."
Cedric then looked at his prince in shock. He had never missed anyone, not even him. He had always cared just about himself, the rest of people were importantless.
Such was the shock that the duster he was cleaning with fell from his hands. He couldn't believe he had heard such words coming out his master's mouth. That was it, he must have heard wrong.
"Don't get angry, but you can't cook as well as her and she was clever enough for keeping a chat with her and making me enjoy it."
Cedric couldn't believe what he was hearing. He never spoke so highly of anyone. He had no friends. Why was he speaking so highly on such a girl as the long red haired one? What kind of tricks she had put him under to control him?
"Prince Phobos." Cedric then said. "What...? I can't believe you have forgot about taking a revenge on her. You wanted to use her to get to the heart of Kandrakar and recover your power!!"
"I have another plan." Phobos said. "Chairman."
"What?!" Cedric said.
"She has told me that would match me wonderfully. I would get power and money by working on that."
"But..." Cedric said white as a sheet.
"I have informed myself. Chairmen are powerful men with lot of money, respected by nearly everyone... and for that I will just have to go to the university get a career and begin to climb positions on a company till I can have my own one."
Then Cedric sat down on the counter, to be more accurate he fell over it cause his legs turned as if rubber made. That was too much for him to assimilate it on one go. His beloved prince, the king of evil suddenly turned into a good man by a single woman, no fights, no death menaces... just chats!
"Did you knew I had some detentions in the high since I got here?" he then said.
Well, perhaps he was not such a good man after all.
"I wonder what the rest would be doing right now." Phobos said.
"Such little girls?" Cedric said. "They will be doing silly things. Anyway, didn't your dear flat mates told you where they were going?"
"The servant just disappeared and told he was being missing some days." Phobos said. "And the girl said she was travelling to a place called Europe to met someone."
"Europe." Cedric said taking a world map. "Europe is a whole continent."
"Perhaps I should phone her?" he said.
"Don't bother." Cedric said. "She has different time than here."
Then he began explaining him about the time areas on the earth according to some lines the planet was divided by.
After that, they went to have meal at the Silver Dragon. Hai Lin had told them to go there cause she was the one in charge of keeping an eye on Phobos while Isabelle was out. Three times a day was more than enough.
While she was not at the restaurant and she had some free time she went skating or doing some artistical things. Furthermore, on the weekend of the first week alone, Eric came to the town and visited her. He would stay there for summer so they would met when she had free time.
That made Hai Lin smile wide when she knew. That would be a good chance of them hanging around together.
Perhaps she would not miss so much the other guardians.