Chapter 3: Plan B

POV Biana

The next morning, they all woke early and ate breakfast. Soon they were off.

Biana vanished and soon her and Anna were at the nearest library.

They decided to split up. Biana started at isle 1 and reached isle 6 before she realized she hadn't seen Anna for a long time.

She searched the store and soon found her in a corner, on a phone call. When Anna saw her, she quickly put it away. Biana came up to her, her eyebrows raised. "Sorry." Anna said sheepishly. "It seemed like a good way to eavesdrop." Biana nodded. They searched the library for the next few hours and then returned home.

The team reported their findings. Surprisingly, no one had found anything. No stores sold KOTLC books, nobody was talking about them, or thinking about them.

The whole team was surprised. They decided to move on to bigger problems. How did this book get into Anna's hands? Who wrote it?

Before anyone could say anything else, Sophie's imparter rang.

She answered. It was Mr. Forkle. The whole team gathered around Sophie. "Hi!" Sophie said cheerfully. "Hi." Said Mr. Forkle. "You are in serious danger. Some of the Neverseen agents are tracking you to our location. You must stay in the human world. We have a place for you." The whole team looked terrified. "I believe it is 324 Woodlock Road." Mr. Forkle said. The whole team stared at him. He sighed. "Did something happen while you were gone?" The group nodded. "Tell me about it later. Sophie, you will stay at 324 Woodlock Road. Keefe, you will too. Fitz and Biana, you will stay at 330 Woodlock Rd. Dex, you will stay at 332 Woodlock Road." The gang nodded. "Go right now." Was Mr. Forkle's last order. They cut off the imparter and started to file out.

POV Fitz

Fitz and Biana were the first to leave the house. They walked down houses until they got to a blue three story one that said 330 Woodlock Road. They knocked on the door and stepped inside.

A woman with long brown hair, green eyes, who looked about 30, opened the door. She smiled at them. "You must be the new kids we adopted. Forgive us for not picking you up, my husband's car broke down. My name is Heather. What are your names?"

Fitz was surprised by Heather's words. Apparently that's what these people thought had happened.

"My name is Fitz. This is Biana." He said.

Heather smiled. "What interesting names! Come on in. Jerry, my husband, is on a trip. He's coming home in two days."

The kids nodded. Heather showed them upstairs. "Biana, we heard you were a girl, so we made you a girly-ish room. Fitz, your room is on the more boy-ish side."

She showed Fitz to his room. It was a forest green with a lime green bed. The rest of the furniture was a wooden brown.

"We have some clothes for you, dear." Heather said, walking in. She dumped a pile of clothes on his bed and left. He started to put them away, wondering if the humans ever thought of gnomes.

POV Biana

Biana emerged in a purple room, with a blue bed and white furniture. There was a pile of clothes waiting for her to put them away. She ignored them and gazed at the view outside her window.

POV Dex

Dex walked up the side walk until he got to a yellow one-story house that said 332 Woodlock road. He knocked.

A red haired woman in around 40 opened the door. She smiled at him.

"About time you got home! Amanda's waiting." Her crystal blue eyes sparkled in the sunlight.

Dex frowned. Apparently, to these people, he had lived here for his whole life. And he knew someone named Amanda.

He walked into a smallish room with a bar to his right and a couch to his left. The walls were a yellowish color and there were many gadgets in the room he didn't understand.

A girl was sitting at the bar. She had huge, dark blue eyes, and dirty blonde hair. She looked about 7.

He waved nervously to her, and rolled her eyes and waved back.

The red haired woman entered the room. She smiled cheerfully at them and Dex sat down.

"So, how was everyone's day?" She asked, sitting down next to them. "Dex, how was your sleepover with Keefe?"

Dex gave her a strange look before remembering that's what she thought had happened.

"Uh, it was fine." He said. "We didn't do much."

The woman nodded and turned to Amanda. They started chatting. Dex interrupted them.

"Um...I think I left my...iPod...at Keefe's house. Can I run down and grab it?" He said, thinking quickly.

The woman sighed and nodded, and he raced out the door.

As he was running toward Anna's house, he saw Fitz running there too. Fitz caught sight of him and slowed down, so that they were walking together.

"Told Heather that I left my book at Keefe's."

Dex nodded. "My...fake mom thinks I left my iPod there. Apparently we had a sleepover."

"Yeah," Fitz said.

"I need more information!" Dex exclaimed. "I can't pretend like I live in a place when I don't know where the bathroom is!"

They soon reached Anna's house.

They knocked. The blonde haired woman opened the door again and let them in, smiling.

They dashed upstairs, where Keefe, Sophie, Anna, and (to their surprise), Mr. Forkle.

The group waved as the came in. They all sat down on Anna's pink bed. Mr. Forkle smiled at them.

"I take it you're here for answers?" He asked. The boys nodded.

Mr. Forkle handed all of them a sheet of paper. "Here, this has all the information we have on your new families," He said.

Dex looked at it. It read:

Dexter Diznee's foster mother info:

Name: Amy Dizelle

Age: 40

Married to: Joe Dizelle

Has one child (besides Dex)

Dexter Diznee's Foster sister info:

Name: Amanda Dizelle

Age: 6

Dex Diznee's Foster father info:

Name: Joe Dizelle

Age: 39

Married to: Amy Dizelle

Has two children

Family thinks Dex has lived with them their entire lives.

Dex looked over at Fitz's. It read:

Fitz and Biana Vacker's foster mother info:

Name: Heather Hunter

Age: 31

Married to: Jerry Hunter

( Adopted Fitz and Biana)

Fitz and Biana's Foster father info:

Name: Jerry Hunter

Age: 31

Married to: Heather Hunter

Family thinks they have adopted them.

Dex sat the paper down. "Thanks." He said.

Mr. Forkle nodded. "I have some news." He said.

"You will all be going to school. Sophie and Anna can teach you about human schools.

"Sophie, this is the same school as the one you left in the human world. Everyone thinks you moved to Vermont, and now you're moving back." Sophie nodded, her face unreadable. "Also," Mr. Forkle continued, "Dex, Anna, and Biana will be in their 2nd year of middle school. Keefe will be in his 3rd year, and Fitz will be in his 1st year of High School. Sophie, you will be in your senior year of high school, like before."

Mr. Forkle left. We all sat in silence. Fitz walked over to Sophie and sat next next her. Sophie leaned her head on his shoulder, and silent tears streamed down her face.

Dex didn't understand why she was crying, but no one asked. They all sat there, watching Fitz and Sophie cry together.

Then it hit him.

If he had been the smartest kid in his entire class, he would have been teased. That's what Sophie went through when she was raised by humans.

And he could only imagine hearing all of their nasty thoughts.

And now she had to do it again.

Dex stood up and walked over to Sophie.

He saw the truth slowly dawn on the others faces, and soon we were all crying, knowing that, even though we had to go through teasing, Sophie had it the worst.

They all soon had to go back home, so they said their goodbye's and left.

As Dex and Fitz walked home, Dex checked his watch.

"Ahhhh!" He yelled. He had told Amy (his fake mom), that he was going to get his phone. That had been an hour ago.

Fitz checked his watch and gasped.

"I gotta get back home!" He yelled.

They both took off running to their fake homes.