Chapter 5

4 more days passed and the whole team (except for Lucy) seemed to notice Robert continuously getting more competitive. The 3 bunnies' arguments did get more heated, too. Kelly was, once again, not speaking to Austin. Then again, that wasn't hard considering how he hadn't shown up again since that night.

Then Sarah went out and heard something in an alleyway. She looked down the alley and had the nerve to walk into it…bumping into someone. "Sorry!" she said as she got up, "I wasn't—Hey! You're that Austin guy that warned Kelly about the Ghosts."

Austin looked at her as he got up. "And you're her sister."

"Yeah, uh, Sarah."

"I know."

"Figures."

"Have you noticed her acting weird lately?"

"Yeah, I wonder what's up with her."

"I don't know either. She keeps…changing her mind on me. Last week, she decided she didn't want to talk to me anymore. 3 days later, she told me that she was overreacting. And now, 4 days ago, she stopped talking to me again."

"Hey, you've not come along for 4 days. It's not that hard to ignore someone you can't see." Sarah thought about that. In more ways than one. She may actually like him.

"Well, I guess I could ignore the ignoring…if that makes any sense. I'll just leave and see you around." With that, he walked off.

"Later." Sarah made her way back home.

Meanwhile, Kelly sulked down the hall of HQ and bumped into Jack. She fell on the floor—as did he—and her necklace fell out from her top. Before she could hide it again, Jack noticed it. His eyes glowed orange and then the whitish-blue.

"What's that?"

"What's what?" Kelly asked, hiding the necklace as fast as she could. Jack gave her a look. "It's my birthday present."

"They gave it to you early?" Jack demanded.

"Well, not really…it was just lying around." He looked at her again. "In Dad's lab. In his closet. Which was locked. And completely full. And hiding a loose floorboard. Just don't tell anyone, it's bad enough that Nadine, Benny, Lucy, and Robert all know."

"Aha! So that's why they've been acting weird!"

"I don't think that—sure, why not?" Kelly got up and walked off for her room.

Jack, meanwhile, before getting up from the floor, noticed a crystal lying around on the floor. It had fallen out of Kelly's uniform's pocket when she fell. Jack looked at it, thought about it, looked off in the direction Kelly had gone, picked up the crystal, looked at it again…and stuffed it in his pocket and walked away.

That night, Kelly was once again tossing and turning in her bed. Finally, her eyes snapped open. The dreams kept getting worse and worse. She got up and looked through the window out to the street below. She saw Austin leaning against a lamppost and looking at her, but he quickly looked away. She could tell he was pretending to be casual, but she knew he was still out for her…the definition of which was still questionable. She looked at the clock. It was well after midnight. She was never going to get anymore sleep now, at least not right away. She snuck out of her bed and out of the room. She snuck down the hall, down a flight of stairs, and into a spare room that the team didn't use for anything but research. She looked at the bookshelf and searched until she came to what she was looking for: "Mystical Creatures for Dummies" (Daniella never touched it because she thought the title was offensive). The wall opened up and Kelly snuck in, hitting a button on the wall on the other side so that it closed behind her. She pulled on a switch to light up the room and revealed a music room. Kelly had been using it for years whenever the team was out and now, with her magic, she'd been able to put up a few extra barriers to completely sound proof it. Kelly went over to a stool and picked up a guitar, got out a notebook (holding it up with her magic), and started playing. " You see me standing here, and act like you don't know me, but last night you calling me saying you want me, oh, why you always make me feel like I'm the one that's crazy? You've got my heart racing, my-my heart racing. Boy, I need you here with me, we can't go on this way, I'm falling hard for you, all I can say: we're going round and round, we're never gonna stop going round and round, we'll never get where we're going, round and round, well, you're gonna miss me, 'cause I'm getting dizzy going round and round and round. You try to pull me close, and whisper in my ear, you always tell me lies, I've cried out all my tears, I push my feelings to the side but then you bring 'em back, bring-bring 'em back, now you got me saying 'Boy, I need you here with me, we can't go on this way, I'm falling hard for you.' All I can say: we're going round and round, we're never gonna stop going round and round, we'll never get where we're going, round and round, well, you're gonna miss me, 'cause I'm getting dizzy going round and round and round." While she played the next few chords [lightly], she magicked the pencil through the air, writing down everything in the notebook. "Love me or love me not, I'm staring at the clock, I take them flower petals off, and then I watch them drop. Love me or love me not, I'm staring at the clock, I take them flower petals off, and then I watch them drop. Boy, I need you here with me, I can't go on this way, I'm falling hard for you, all I can say-ee-ay-ee-ay-ee-ay: we're going round and round, we're never gonna stop going round and round, we'll never get where we're going, round and round, well, you're gonna miss me 'cause I'm getting dizzy going round and round and round and round, we're never gonna stop going round and round, we'll never get where we're going, round and round, well, you're gonna miss me, 'cause I'm getting dizzy going round and round and round. Ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa, ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa, ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa… " Kelly dropped everything and sighed. She put down the guitar, closed the book, got up from the stool, went over to the door, turned out the lights, and left the room. First thing in the morning, she was apologizing to Austin again. She was no longer letting some dumb dreams that may or may not be visions get in the way of…whatever they had.

Just before sunrise, Kelly snuck out of the building entirely and went out into the street. "Austin?"

"What now?"

Kelly didn't react that shocked. She was a little taken off-guard, but she was used to it by now. She whirled around to face him by the alley. "I'm sorry…again."

"Again?"

"Again."

"How many times is that now?"

"Look, I know I overreacted with the whole dream thing…my point is, it could've just been a plain old nightmare."

"I understand that part. Superheroes obviously always go through this kind of thing. What I don't understand is why you…" He trailed off. "Look, what I'm saying is…this can't…"

"…ever be anything? I'm the girl here and I don't even know what we have. For one thing, we just met a few weeks ago…"

"…and for another, I'm older."

"How much?" Austin just looked at her. "I get it. So…no boyfriend-girlfriend, no awkward silence, no love altogether. Got it. I think I know when I'm being rejected, nice knowing you." Kelly walked off, offended. Austin just stood there and sighed, disappointedly. "Oh, who am I kidding?" Kelly ran back over there and quickly kissed him. "Couldn't help myself. But we're still not together. Later." She ran off.

"And I repeat: what just happened?"

Sorry it took me so long. Writer's block. Anyway, yay! We finally saw Kelly's hidden music room! I can't wait for Kelly and Austin to start dating...that is, if they ever do. I hope you liked it! Keep reading!