G´day! Here is my second chapter! I hope you enjoy it and leave a review! Thanks for Reading! (: S!

Anny Tyler is twelve years, one month, three days, four hours, six minutes and 5 seconds old. She has been attracted to her school mate Mark since one year ago. He sits next to her in the classroom but he has never noticed her. Little Anny is the most brilliant student in her class and probably in the school however she wears glasses, braces and is really skiny for any boy to like her. However, she is decided to speak for the fist time to Mark that afternoon after his soccer practice. What was she going to tell him? She didn´t have idea, but it was now or never. The young girl crossed the school yard and walked toward the soccer playground. However in that moment she realised a terrible fact. The boy she had been attracted the whole year and his friends were about to kill a frog with a big rock.

"WAIT!" She screamed and all the boys turned around. "Leave that frog alone!"

"Or what?" Mark replied and with one hand pushed her back. "What are you going to do ugly Tyler? Hit m with your horrible braces?"

All the kids laughed and the little girl´s heart was broken for the first time. Mark left the rock fall down and killed the frog so quickly that Anny couldn´t do anything. The rest of the boys began to laugh but the girl felt such anger that she stroke back against the boy called Mark and punched his face until the rest of the scared boys called one teacher. She touched the frog just before she was taken to the principal and felt somehow releived to watch it jumping back to it´s mud. Anny Tyler was expelled from the school and received a punishment of one month in her home, nevertheless that day she learnt what would probably be the greatest two lessons in her life: falling in love wasn´t worth it and that she would always use her power just for helping the ones that really deserved it.

Now, seventeen years later the sweet and shiny like a sun, doctor Anny was in her home getting herself ready after a long day of work in the hospital. It was the very first time she used make up and combed her long hair for someone else. She had been waiting since the last night to see once again the Piemaker. The first lesson she had learnt the day Mark killed the frog maybe wasn´t completely true and still there was a chance for her to vanish the loneliness of her beutiful but empty house.

"Just be yourself." She sighed happily and ready to go to the Pie Hole.

In the meantime the girl named Chuck and the Piemaker were in their appartment chatting about Chuck´s day with her family and Emerson´s health.

"I went to see him today." She said smiling. "Doctors told me that he was much better and that now he was out of danger."

"I´m glad to hear that." Ned replied. "By the way, I invited her doctor tonight for a cup of coffee and a piece of pie. Just to say thank you for what she has done for our friend."

"Owww, Ned. That´s so kind of you! I can go with you if you…"

"Oh, no!... I mean, there´s no need, Chuck. She is just coming quickly and you are already wearing your pajamas."

"Okay." She accepted and smiled again.

At nine pm as they have arranged, Anny and Ned found each other in front of the Pie Hole. He opened the door and let her have a sit in the bar.

"I have passed in front of your restaurant lots of times, but I never had the chance to get in. It´s so beautiful!"

"Thanks. I hope you like pie too!" he replied smiling.

"Sure! You bake them all?"

"Yes. I do! So… now, please pick the flavor you want, doctor Tyler."

She chose a piece of apple pie and then he gave her a cup of coffee.

"It´s flawless!" Anny said with real joy. That was the best pie she had ever tried. "Thank you, Ned."

"It´s nothing." He replied kindly. "By the way, I noticed today that Emerson is much better."

"Yeah, his health has improved quickly… I think that´s because of you somehow. When you touch them and they revive, their health recovers three or four times faster."

"Well, those are great news too."

"Indeed. Soon he will be able to speak to the police about the attempt of murder he suffered. Do you have any idea of who can that assasin be?"

"Hmmm… I have been wondering the same and I even made a list of possible offenders. Emerson has a lot of enemies because of his job."

"Yeah, I can imagine."

There was a silence between them and Anny ate a piece of pie to simulate how nervous she actually was. Ned was nervous too wondering if that would be a good moment to talk her about Chuck. He was somehow in a hurry because even if Chuck hadn´t talked yet about the Europe tour he knew that she was expectig him to take a decision.

The Piemaker was about to speak when suddenly the light went out.

"Oh no!" she exclaimed.

"Are you okay?" Ned asked quickly.

"It´s just that I get really anxious when there´s no light… But… But I´m fine."

"Don´t worry, I will go inside and get some candles. Just wait here a minute."

Anny nodded with her head and Ned stood up quickly to get inside his cellar for some candles. He was looking for them in some boxes whn suddenly he heard a noice. He turned around fastly and in that momento he discovered that someone was pointing at him with a gun.

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"You… Raise your hands, Piemaker!" the man shouted.

"Okay, okay… Just calm down." Ned said doing as he said.

"Don´t tell me what to do. I´m tired of you and your detective friend!"

"You tried to kill Emerson!"

"Yes, it was me! But that bastard could make it out! You won´t have the same luck, Piemaker! This time I won´t fail!"

In that moment sweet doctor Anny hit the head of the man with Ned´s rolling pin and the criminal fell down.

"Ned, are you okay?!" she asked anxiously.

"Yes, I am."

"Let´s call the police!"

"But there´s no light here and probably in all the building."

"I left my cell phone in my bag outside."

"Fine. You go for it and call the police while I stay here with him."

Quickly doctor Anny went out of the cellar and carefully walked toward the chair where she had left her bag. She looked for it desperly and a second later she found the mobile.

"911…"

"There´s a man trying to kill us! Please send some help! We are in the Pie Hole…"

But in that moment she heard a gun shoot. Her heart stopped for a moment and the mobile slipped through her fingers.

"Ned…"

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A thousand thoughts crossed Anny´s mind the second after the gun-shoot. She could just run and try to sabe herself, she could hide and wait for the pólice to arrive or she could try to save Ned… Though it was just the second time she spoke to him, if he was dead she was decided to touch him, even if that meant not to be able of touching him ever again.

The doctor heard some steps coming from the cellar and she could just run to hide behind the bar. It was the assasin and he was escaping quickly from the crime scene. Once he was out, Anny approached carefully to the window and looked at the car´s plate when he passed in front of the Pie Hole. She made sure of memorizing it while she ran to the cellar again.

"Oh my god, Ned!" she cried discovering him laying on the floor.

She bent swiftly next to him and put her finge ron his chest. However no glow happened. Anny touched him again and again.

"What happens?!"

"I´m not dead, Anny." Ned whispered. "His bullet just injured my shoulder."

"Ow, thanks god!" She sighed and helped the Piemaker to stand up again. "We have to take you to the hospital. You are bleeding."

Ned hesitated. He wanted to tell Chuck what had just happened, but perhaps it was better not to worry her. She was now probably sleeping and he didn´t want her to be scared. He finally nodded and went inside doctor Tyler´s car.

A couple of hours later the Piemaker was already fine. Anny had healed his injury and had given him a pill for the pain. The young doctor had to leave for a moment and now he was waiting for her to arrive and give him his permition to leave the hospital.

Meanwhile, sweet Anny Tyler was filling the paper for Ned in the reception and talking to the police. She gave them the plate´s code and all the details about the attept of murderer of that night. When the officers finally left a girl called her from behind.

"Yes?" she said turning around.

"Hello, Doctor Tyler. My name is Chuck Charles. A nurse has just told me that you are Ned´s doctor." The girl explained. Her voice was quite worried.

"Yes, indeed. What can I do for you, miss Charles?"

"Well, I´m Ned´s girlfriend. The nurse told me he is fine, but I´m really worried. I just want to know if I can see him."

In that very moment, Anny Tyler´s heart broke in pieces like seventeen years ago with her classmate Mark. However she disimulated her deep sadness and smiled at the Piemaker´s girlfriend being as profesional and kind as she could.

"Mr. Ned is fine. I was just about to give him his permission to leave. Don´t worry, Miss Charles. He will be here in a few minutes."

"Thank you very much!"

Anny went back to Ned´s room and found him sitting on the bed´s edge.

"Here is your permission, Mr. Ned. You just have to take care of that shoulder and take your pills as I indicated you." The doctor said.

"Before I go I wanna apologize with you, doctor Tyler. I just wanted you to have a little break from your job and we almost end killed by that maniac."

"It´s okay. The good thing about this is that you are safe and sound."

"Thanks for touching me without even hesitating. I mean, we have just met. You didn´t have to…"

"Well, I couldn´t just let you die. You are the only person like me. I couldn´t let that happen."

"Well… thanks again!"

There was a deep and quick silence but she broke it by smiling again and adding.

"Very, well. It´s time to go home, Mr. Ned. Your girlfriend is waiting for you outside so, don´t make her wait."

"Chuck is here?"

"Yeah, she is quite worried, so better hurry." Anny left the permission on the bed and opened the door again. "Good bye, Ned."

The Piemaker thought about telling to her new friend about the situation between him and Chuck and the great favor she could do to change their lives, but at the end he didn´t dare. She had done enough things for him already, even saving his life, taking care of Emerson, calling the pólice and helping to catch the criminal and in Exchange he had just gave her a piece of Apple pie that she could note ven enjoy. No, he didn´t haave the right to ask for that favor, not yet.

"Good bye, Anny." He smiled only and sawthe door closing.

That night, once Chuck and Ned were again in his appartment he told her the whole story of what had happened in the Pie Hole. Chuck listened with attention and finally smiled.

"She must be very brave, don´t you think, Ned? She saved you and she has also saved Emerson. Maybe you should at least bake her a pie, for the one she couldn´t eat here."

"Yes, that´s what I´m gonna do."

They embraced theirselves and then they went to sleep.

That night young doctor Anny cried a little while holding her fishbowl. She felt stupid for believing that the first love lesson would change now. She didn´t want to see the Piemaker ever again now that she knew that his heart was already taken by that beautiful girl named Chuck. There was no chance for her as it had never been. Anny cleaned the tears from her eyes and left the fishbowl on the table. She laido on her bed and stared at the stars outside her window until she fell asleep.

To be continued…

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