Chapter 21

After I dried off, the normal way, Zane walked me back to the house. I was surprised to walk in and see Bella and Cleo waiting for me.

"Rikki, I am so sorry. I didn't want you to go out by yourself and look for her," Cleo said as she ran up to hug me.

"It's okay. It was worthless anyway. They moved their base and took Emma with them. I searched the whole building," I told them.

"Maybe this is a good thing," Bella said.

"How is this a good thing?" I asked her.

"We can finally focus on our lives. You can figure out wedding plans and I could try to get Will to propose and Cleo could try and get Lewis to propose."

"Wait, since when is my love life your business?" Cleo asked her.

"Since we became friends," Bella answered.

"We do need to focus on our lives more. I was so focused on Emma and my dreams that I forgot about the wedding planning. I also forgot to lock the door last night." I smiled at Ash who just blushed. I started to laugh as he tried to say sorry.

"I really am sorry. I need to learn to knock then wait till you answer," Ash said.

"Wait, what happened?" Cleo asked me.

I whispered what happened in her ear and she burst out laughing. Cleo told Bella what I told her and we were all laughing while Ash just blushed.

"I'm going to get some food. Anyone hungry?" Zane asked us.

"I am. I'm starving."

Zane walked into the kitchen and I heard the doorbell.

"I got it!" I screamed. Who could it be? It was probably Lewis.

I opened the door and found Charlotte with a girl in her arms.

"What the hell are you doing here?" I asked her.

She walked past me and put the girl on the couch. I didn't get a good look at the girl yet.

"She needs your help Rikki. I saw you heal Zane. Heal Emma," Charlotte told me.

"Emma?" I asked her. She pointed to the girl on the couch.

"That's Emma?" I looked at the girl on the couch. She had scratches all over her face and cuts all over her body. I looked at her stomach and found a bullet wound. It was Emma. I could still tell.

"Oh my god!" I said. "Zane, get me water!" I screamed.

Cleo, Bella, and Ash rushed into the room.

"Charlotte?" Cleo said.

"Not now Cleo. Where's the water Zane?" I screamed yet again.

Zane ran into the room with the glass of water. I dumped the water on me and fell to the ground when my tail appeared.

"Is that Emma?" Ash asked me.

"Yeah, but stay back. I need to concentrate."

I took my hand and placed it on Emma's bullet wound. In a couple of seconds it healed, but not completely.

"What? Why isn't it healing completely? I've healed things completely before."

"You're probably just week," Zane said. "You've really used your powers lately. At least the wound is almost healed."

"What about the scratches? She needs to be healed more," I said to him.

Ash ran over and checked her pulse. "She's still alive. That's the important thing."

Cleo turned to Charlotte and asked her, "What are you doing with Emma?"

"After Rikki and Zane escaped, they let me go. I found where Emma was and took her before they could notice. I didn't know where you lived so I looked around. That's why t took a while to get here."

Right when she was talking, Lewis walked into the house.

"Hey you guys!" He saw Charlotte and Emma on the couch and asked, "What did I miss?"

Cleo filled him in when I tried to heal Emma more. I healed one or two scratches, but Zane stopped me.

"You need to rest," Zane said.

"No, I have to heal her."

He grabbed me and turned me to face him. "You can heal her more tomorrow. Ash, bring her up to the spare room. Do you mind sleeping on the couch? I think that Emma should sleep in a bed."

"I don't mind," Ash said.

Ash picked her up and bought her to her room. I just sat there in the living room. I still had my tail. I started to dry myself off and Zane started on dinner.

"Charlotte, do you have a place to stay?" I asked her.

"No," she told me.

"Okay, well thanks for bringing Emma to us. You've been a great help. Bye!"

I started to push her out the door, but Zane stopped me.

"Charlotte, you can stay here," Zane said to her.

"What. No!" I screamed.

"Rikki, she has no place to stay."

"I don't want her in my house. Do you not remember what happened between me, Charlotte, Cleo, and Emma? I don't think that Emma wants to wake up and find Charlotte here."

"She's staying here."

"And you're staying in the basement!" I said as I walked away. "Charlotte, if you touch anything, I will burn you to hell!"

Bella and Cleo started laughing as Zane just stood there with his mouth open.

"Wait, Rikki!" Zane screamed to me.

"Yes?" I asked him.

"Do I really have to sleep in the basement?"

"Yeah, until I'm not pissed anymore!" I said to him, smiling.

"Come on, I was just trying to be nice."

"There's a difference between nice and annoying. Go make dinner." He went to make dinner.

"Guess he has to get on your good side now," Bella said.

"Yeah, unless he wants to sleep in the basement for the rest of his life."

We all burst out laughing.

"Charlotte, I really don't want you staying here."

"I know, but I have nowhere else to go. I'll stay here and watch your house. I can also help with Emma. When I left to go to college, before they found me, I was studying to be a doctor," Charlotte said.

"Fine, but you are sleeping on the floor in Emma's room. I got to call Emma's mom and tell her that Emma's okay."

I went to get my phone and Zane grabbed me.

"What?" I asked him.

"I'm sorry."

"That's not enough. She tried to make me lose my powers in the past. Oh, and she was a bitch!"

"I know and I forgot."

"Yeah sure," I said as I walked away.

Zane is the least of my problems right now. I walked into Emma's room and sat on the chair near her bed.

"Please wake up Emma. I really need your advice right now."

I took out my phone and called her family. They were so happy that she was okay.

"Can we come see her?" Emma's mom asked.

"No! I mean, she really needs to rest and can't have any visitors."

"What happened to her?"

"I'm sure she will explain all of that when she wakes up."

I said goodbye and hung up.

Emma shifted in her sleep.

"Emma?"

She mumbled something, but I couldn't understand her. She went back to a deep sleep and I went to my room. The girls had left and Charlotte walked into Emma's room. Ash slept on the couch and Zane bought me my dinner. I ate it after Zane went downstairs. He really did sleep in the basement. At least now he knows not to mess with me.