Chapter 6:

STILL SABRINA POV

We all walk through town to get to Boarman and Swineheart's police station. You see, they still work as construction workers when someone needs it, but they also decided that they really enjoyed being police officers.

We walk into the station and I started to call out for them.

"Hello? Anyone in here?" I asked.

"Sabrina?" A voice calls from the back.

"Mr. Boarman!" I call, and as if on cue, he walks over to us.

"Oh it's so good to see you!" He hugs me, and nods at Puck with a wide grin. Then he sees everyone else and smiles again.

"Hi, I'm Officer Boarman, one of the police officers here at Ferryport Landing."

My friends all smile, a little nervously, at Boarman and go to introduce themselves.

"Hi, sir. I'm Randy."

"Jenny." She waves sweetly at him.

"Um… I'm Matt," he said, awkwardly scratching the back of his neck.

"I'm Sarah." She holds her hand out to shake, which he does.

"And I'm Kevin." He says, with a smile,

"So where's Swineheart?" I ask Boarman curiously.

"Eh in the back or something. Or actually, he might be on his break…" He looks as though he's debating the options.

And then we heard a crash in the back.

"I think I know where he is." Puck said, grinning.

He goes through the door leading to the back area, and after a minute, returns with a blushing police officer, well really pig, with him.

"Hi, everyone. I'm Officer Swineheart." He said, waving at my friends, who are quick to introduce themselves again.

"So what kind of crimes do you guys solve?" Kevin asks curiously.

"Well Ferryport Landing isn't really a crime, or mystery, filled town." Boarman says, causing me to snort and for Puck to start actually laughing, so he has to turn it into a fake coughing fit.

"Oh, so nothing really cool then?" Kevin asks disappointedly.

"Well, there's always the occasional robbery or something like that, but… er that's about it." Swineheart answered.

I roll my eyes in response to that.

"So what are you kids doing here?" Boarman's quick to change the subject.

"Sabrina's taking us on a tour of Ferryport Landing." Sarah explains.

"Oh then we shouldn't keep you from your tour." He says.

"Alright, bye Boarman, by Swineheart!" I call.

"Oh, Sabrina! Hamstead called us and told us to give you and your family his number so you can keep in touch with him so you don't have to go back to New York to see him." He hands me a slip of paper with a number scrawled on it.

My friends turn around at that. "Back to New York?" Jenny asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Um…" I hastily change the subject. "We have to go to Sacred Grounds and see Briar now, but thanks for everything, guys!" I say quickly, and walk outside quickly.

Everyone follows and my friends look kind of angry.

"You were in New York a while back and didn't tell us? You could have looked for us or something!" Matt said, sounding annoyed.

"I'm sorry, you guys. Puck was really, really sick and the best doctor for treating his sickness was back in the city. As you can imagine, my mind was on other things. And then his dad died." I said, watching Puck's reaction carefully. "And of course, a couple of other things happened, but I was really busy at the time. But our family friend, Hamstead, came with us and stayed there with his new wife-Bess." I explain quickly so no one interrupts.

Everyone (except Randy) softened after that.

"Are you… Okay now, Puck?" Sarah asked gently.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine now."

Randy was glaring hard at Puck. "So you didn't come to see us because of him?" He asked angrily.

I looked at him, surprised. "Um… yeah. He was badly sick-like he cou-could have died." My voice caught, I didn't even realize it myself until the end.

By then we had arrived at Sacred Grounds, and we walked in.

"Sabrina! Puck!" Briar yelled happily when she saw us.

"Hey there, Briar." I said with a tired smile

"Can I get you guys anything?" She asked with a lovely smile.

"A vanilla scone and a hot chocolate please." I ask.

"Anyone else?" She asks.

"Uh… two double chocolate muffins and a strawberry smoothie please." Puck asked.

"Puck you just ate, how can you still be that hungry?" I asked incredulously.

"I'm a growing boy." He said, and the two of us froze at his words.

It was true, of course, but I knew that he still wasn't necessarily happy about it.

I clear my throat awkwardly and look back up at Briar.

"I think that'll be it, anyone else want anything?" I double check.

"Uh can I just have a small cup of green tea?" Sarah asked, and Briar nodded.

"Thanks Briar. Oh and Uncle Jake said to meet him at home around 7:30 or 8, if you can."

She blushed.

"Of course." She said shyly.

She left to go get our food and came back a moment later balancing everything on a tray.

"Here you go." She said cheerily.

"Thanks." We all said in response.

"So do you guys want to go anywhere else today or do you just want to go home and relax?"

"I'm exhausted." Jenny said.

"I am too." Kevin admitted.

"It doesn't really matter to me." Matt said shrugging.

"I think I'm done for today." Sarah said, sipping her tea.

We all look at Randy. "Whatever you want." He said looking at me.

"Let's just go home then." I say and everyone nods.

Puck was too busy slurping his smoothie and attacking his muffins to say anything, but I think he agreed.

So as soon as we were all finished and paid Briar, we started our trek back home.

We arrived after just a bit and were greeted by an eager Daphne.

"How was your tour?" She asked excitedly.

"It was great!" Sarah said.

"Who did you see?"

Kevin answered for her and she smiled.

"We should take them to see Baba Yaga!" Daphne exclaimed, her palm in her mouth.

Puck and I exchange looks and immediately shake our heads.

"I don't think so Marshmallow." Puck said, tousling her hair.

"Aww why not?"

"You know she doesn't like me!" I interject and Daphne giggled.

"Can I brush your hair?" She asked, changing the subject.

"Sure," I said, and followed her to our room, waving to everyone.