This chapter is a tad shorter, but I thought we should have something from the other's point of view. Enjoy
"Rikki, could you please stop doing that?"

The blonde girl didn't even bother to look back at her friend. "I'm not doing anything, Emma," she replied innocently, but she kept on looking around the school grounds.

Emma rolled her eyes, but Cleo was the one who responded. "You've been waiting for Charlotte to walk across, haven't you?" She instinctively grabbed hold of Lewis's hand, or rather, the one that wasn't in a cast. Cleo wasn't scared of her former rival, far from it. Lewis had made it very clear that Cleo was the only one for him, and Charlotte's concede had only made it official that there was to be no more tug-of-war for Lewis's affection. Cleo, Emma, and Rikki had been mulling it over all weekend; before getting her powers, Charlotte had hardly seemed the type to attack someone like that. True, as Lewis kept pointing at, he had surprised her, but still, had breaking his arm really been the correct response? In fact, how had she done it?

Rikki affirmed what the brunette had been asking. "Well, Charlotte broke his arm, Cleo. Did you forget that?"

"Little hard to," Lewis interjected, holding his cast up.

"So, when she gets here, I'm gonna find out why the hell she did that."

Lewis sighed. "Look, guys, when she gets here, let me talk to her, okay?"

"What?!"

Lewis smirked at the three's simultanious response. "Guys, did you see her when she walked into the cafe?" They all shook her heads. "She looked scared. Alone."

Cleo and Emma looked at each other guiltily, while Rikki just scowled. They had barely spared the former mermaid a second thought after she had lost her powers. For a while, they had almost forgotten she existed. Charlotte never seemed to talk or interact much in class, and outside of Cleo, Emma, and Rikki, it wasn't like she had many friends to begin with.

"Don't defend what she did," Rikki snapped. She refused to sympathize with the girl who more or less tried to destroy them all.

"I'm not defending her. I'm just saying, it's a little tough to break a bone. And I could feel her strength. It was incredible." He gave Cleo a reassuring kiss on the cheek to show that he didn't mean it like that, and continued. "What if something else is going on with her?"

The group sat in silence for a few minutes

Emma checked her watch. "It doesn't matter, we need to get to class." The others stood up, but Rikki didn't make a move.

"Emma, the world could end, and you would still be obsessed with getting to class on time. Just chill."

"You didn't do your homework either, did you?"

Rikki didn't bother answering.