I'm so sorry about the long wait. I just entered my last term in my freshmen year of highschool and all my teachers are giving me three hours of homework a night. I'm in two shows at the moment and life has just been hectic. I have some more free time now and I hope I'll be updating quickly. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Nina sat in her room, brushing her hair. Her friends and their families were going to be over in a little over ten minutes. It was a tradition that they had started when all the kids started school. They would all go over to Maddie & Diego's house and have a huge cookout. The kids liked hanging out and the event reminded their parents of when they were in high school.

"Nina, you almost ready?" Diego asks, standing in the doorway of his daughter's room.

"Yeah, I'll be ready right about..." Nina says, brushing one last piece of hair before standing from her spot in front of the vanity. "Now. How do I look?" Nina was wearing the same outfit she had worn to school that day but had put on a little more makeup and she redid her hair.

"Beautiful," Diego says, kissing his daughter on her head, "Now come on, I can hear someone pulling up now." The father-daughter duo head downstairs together and reach the foyer as the others pull up. The two head out to greet their friends and head to the backyard with them.

"So, how was swim practice?" Kelsey asks the group as the six kids walk to their spot. Back when they were little, they found a huge tree in the backyard. They built a tree house in it, hung a rope swing, and put a picnic table under it. While they didn't hang in the tree house as much anymore, they still stored blankets and other supplies in it for cookouts.

"Good, except Nathan was really off. Thirty seconds off to be exact," Nina says, smirking at Nathan.

"Oh please, at least I didn't come in last for the free style," Nathan fires back before he and Thomas start climbing up to the tree house to grab some stuff for the table.

"Ugh, I don't want you two to argue. You're both good swimmers and this arguing is annoying," Cassie says, sitting down at the picnic table with Kelsey and Nina.

"Kels, how did the meeting go? Did he reveal the fall play?" Carter asks Kelsey, sitting across from her. The first drama club meeting had been that afternoon and Carter had to miss it due to swim.

"It was good and he revealed the play. Try to guess it," Kelsey says, smiling.

"Give me a hint."

"It's Disney."

"Hmm, Little Mermaid?"

"Nope, two more guesses."

"Cinderella?"

"Nope."

"Um, Peter Pan?"

"Nope. Here, I'll give you another hint. They're doing my favorite disney movie."

"We're doing Sleeping Beauty?"

"Yup! I'm so excited!"

"Me too. This will be awesome!"

"Alright, enough with the drama club talk. Carter, come catch these supplies," Thomas says, holding a pile of blankets. Carter walks under him and catches the pile, passing them to the girls. They spread the big blue blanket over the table and place the rest by the side. The other boys walk over, placing lanterns and pillows on the table. The guys join the girls at the table, sitting on the pillows.

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On the other side of the yard, the adults were sitting at their own table. Diego and Phillip were manning the grill while the others sat next to them and chatted about their days.

"I can't believe our kids are already in high school," Maddie says, looking over at the kids.

"It was bound to happen one day. They weren't gonna stay little toddlers forever," Daniel says.

"It feels like it was just yesterday when Carter and Cassie first got their Kanay powers," Mia says, thinking about to when the kids were eight.

"Kelsey and Nathan were a pain when they got their powers," Jax says, "They couldn't control it and probably would have destroyed the house if we weren't around."

"Do you think we should tell them?" Emma says, causing all eyes to to turn from the kids to her. None of them had to ask what she was talking about, they all knew. When the kids were born, they all agreed to not tell about what happened to them during high school. I mean, the kids knew about the magic realm and the Council. They knew about Lily and loved when she visited them. They knew that kanays and witches used to fight, but had made peace a while back.

They didn't know about many of the adventures their parents went on in high school. They didn't know about the Principal or about Maddie and her mom trying to take Emma's powers. They didn't know that Jax tried to take over the realm and they didn't know that Mia tried to destroy all the witches. They didn't know that Mia turned Daniel evil or that Philip used to be a zombie on a video game.

The parents wanted their kids to grow up normally. Well, as normal magic beings can grow up. They didn't want them to judge their parents based on their past and wanted to wait until they were old enough to understand the situations that they went through while going to Iridium High.

"Do you think they're ready to know?" Andi asks.

"I don't know. I mean, we were their age when it all started," Emma says. "And one of the twins is going to become the next chosen one soon and they should know what comes with that type of power." When Emma first found out she was pregnant, Lily came to see her and explained that when the twins were about 15, one of them would gain the powers of the chosen one. Emma would still have her powers, but they wouldn't have been as powerful as before.

"I'm not sure if they should know yet," Diego says.

"And even if they are ready, I'm still not sure I'm ready to tell them about everything," Mia says.

"I'm not saying we should go up to them right now and tell them everything. I'm just suggesting we start thinking about telling them," Emma says and the others agree to start thinking about it.

I hoped you liked the chapter. What did you think? Favorite part? Again, I'm super sorry about the lack of updates but I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.