Hey guys... I'm extremely sorry i didn't keep my promise... i promised i would upload a chapter every 2 days... however it has been 2 months since i last updated. I had multiple essays and tests due for school as well as a multitude of cultural holiday stuff... thank you if you still remember the story after this long. If you are new i recommend you read from chapter 1... if you already read this story feel free to go back and re read it or dive right into the continuation. Enjoy

As the weeks began to pass, early fall turned into winter (REAL TIME CONTINUITY FOR THE WIN!) ,

Sunil had been getting along with the pets better increasingly, and it was all thanks to Pepper. The pets

also began to notice that he would talk better English following his increased integration with the pets ,

he started to speak faster and his voice became naturally louder. He got closer to the pets and felt more

comfortable around the group of friends, and with that came the pets first exposure to his natural talent

as a magician. Sunil, although closer to the pets was still quite quiet towards the pets, but not the day

when he brought his Little magic kit to the shop .

"Guys guys... can i show you something?" he gestured them over with his hands excitedly... they all

stopped what they were doing and gathered around with intrigue. He threw on his shiny cape and

pulled a shiny black hat and long wand out of his magic kit, all the pets gawked at the shinyand

mysterious objects, waiting on his every move to fulfill their lusts of intrigue.

"I am needing a volunteer to give me something to put in it", Pepper gleefully handed over her

cowboy hat that she used to wear.

"MAKE IT DISAPEAR SUNIL... MAKE IT DISAPEAR!" Zoe yelled out, describing with great detail to

Vinnie in the present how dreadful the ten gallon looked on Pepper. He took the hat and began to

shove it in length by length (as Peppers hat was bigger than his magic top hat) when he finished let out a

nervous grin... ready to show the pets his handiwork, he tipped over the hat to face them... and

nothing was there. The pets cheered loudly, congratulating Sunil left and right... except Pepper who

stayed in the back, letting out restrained giggles and trying hard to keep a

straight face, a weird display as he had made her hat disappear and performed a cool trick, zoe

explained normal person would either be mad that their hat had disappeared or amazed at the trick, not

laughing under her breath or certainly not physically trying to keep a straight face. Russell began to

speak when the crowd quieted down.

"So where did you hide it Sunil? Did you funnel It through and

opening in the top into your cape or does it have a secret compartment inside?", Sunil

visibly froze up... his face turned to abject terror and his body became stiff, Russell had found it out one

way or another.

"Rusell!" Penny yelled..."Just because your intelligent doesn't mean you get to ruin your friends secret

trick!".

"Yes Russell" Zoey added "Don't tell us where the hat could have disappeared... PLEASE don't tell us

where the hat could have disappeared".

Sunil sprang up with glee, he had quickly come up with a solution, the clockworks in his mind fixing the

problem. "Behold as i wave my magic wand over the hat, and make the item reappear in front of your

eyes", he waved the wand and reached into the hat. However when he put his hand in he stopped... his

face became twisted and confused, he felt around in the hat, each passing second his expressions

becoming more visible. Pepper made an audible muffled snort, trying to keep back her laughter. Sunil

finally gave up afterA quarter minute of trying, he tipped the hat up to see what was wrong, he reached

in and fiddled with the bottom of the hat, tapping the outer top to get the hat to come out... and it did

... as he tapped a full litre of disgusting green mush flowed/fell from the hat, the revolting liquid

poured all over the mongooses face and the floor, and along with it came Peppers hat covered in the

liquid. The mongoose looked with abject horror at his peers... drenched in the wet slimy liquid...

looking to them as a gazelle would a lion. Pepper began to shriek with laughter, rolling on the floor in a

ball, as she the rest of the pets began to snicker and snort... trying to hold it back like Pepper had

before.

"Looks like it was hid in the ... snicker... COMPARTMENT!" The pets began to laugh

along... shrieking and rolling in unison. Sunil looked with terror understanding full well what had

happened... Pepper was a prankster at heart... Sunil had known that from the two months he had

claimed her as a friend. She would misplace things of his and then present them after some laughs, a

hand buzzer, whoppie cushions and the like... he had never minded it much no matter how bad it got as

it was small, sometimes it made him laugh and others made him annoyed but nonetheless he put up

with it for friendship sake. But this was different, this was a spur of the moment crime, she had planned

this. Pepper had been shown the trick multiple times as he was her closest friend, he trusted her most

and was the she was the first friendly guinea pig to see his handiwork , Sunil had

remembered with happiness and joy as his friends eyes lit up at the trick when she first saw it, how

intrigued she was and how much her friend had impressed her . He showed that trick and many other

to her over and over, and after many weeks of pent up curiosity she asked him how they worked...

of course Sunil said that it was the magicians secret and that he couldn't tell, but after pleading he

couldn't deny his friend. Pepper was showed the secret compartment, and she looked upon the new

info with innocence and intrigue... but that wasn't the case earlier today. He had seen her fiddling

with his hat while giggling, poking at it and fondling the inside of it.

"Oh nothing Sunil, i'm just having fun with it", she said when she was asked what she was doing.

"Well ok but do not break anything". He had trusted her and didn't think much of her suspicious actions,

with both his tools and his friendship he had trusted her.

And in that moment... as he was covered in

green pudding, his friends laughing hysterically... his childlike mind couldn't take it. The wet pudding on

his fur, his friends laughing mockingly at his mistakes, the realization of his best friend in the world

betraying his trust, as he took it all in he began to cry... louder... louder... louder... until he was near

screaming. He scurried away from the area... tears flowing madly from his eyes, shrieking like a

banshee all the way.

Holy crap was that dark for me to write... it gets better soon I promise... anyways review and tell me what you think... peace.