The next day in the high school...
Jessica came into her school's hallway, then went int othe school's cellar and came to a magical door to a classroom which was hidden from mortal eyes.
"Ah, good old magic class." Jessica smiled. She walked in and took her seat with the other students in the class until the teacher would come in to educate on how to use their magic wisely.
"Where does Jessica go after gym class?" Stephanie wondered as she was in the locker room, getting dressed into her other clothes and out of her gym uniform.
Stephanie hoped she would get her answer soon, meanwhile, Cherry and Atticus were given a new student in their class.
"Everyone, this is Sabrina Spellman," the teacher introduced the blonde girl. "Sabrina, would you like to tell us something about yourself?"
The blonde girl shrugged. "Um... I used to live with my parents until they divorced, and now I live with my aunts, Hilda and Zelda, and their cat."
"Hello, Sabrina." The class smiled.
"Anything else you'd like to say, Sabrina?" the teacher asked. "What do your parents do?"
"Uh, well, my mom's an archaeologist and I don't know what my dad does..." Sabrina shrugged. "I havent' seen him since I was ten."
"Um, thank you, Sabrina, you may sit down now..." the teacher said.
Sabrina then walked over and sat down in a seat between Cherry and Atticus.
"Hey, I didn't know you two went to school here." Sabrina smiled at Atticus and Cherry.
"Small world." Atticus and Cherry said.
Sabrina smiled and seemed to feel a little bit better about being the new kid in this school. Atticus smiled, happy that Sabrina felt a little bit better. The day was not the best for Sabrina, but it got a little bit better since she had Cherry and Atticus with her and they decided to spend some time with her after school today.
"Okay, Dad, I'm gonna be going home with Jessica today," Stephanie said as she used the school payphone to call home. "She'll be coming over for dinner tomorrow."
"That's great, Steph, I hope you have a wonderful time there." Her father's voice smiled.
"Thanks, Dad, see you at 8:00." Stephanie smiled back and hung up before she went to class.
Jessica came back up from the cellar and closed the door behind her.
"Jessica, were you just in the school cellar?" Stephanie gave her friend an odd look.
"Yeah, so?" Jessica asked.
"Why were you in there?" Stephanie asked.
"Um... I was helping the janitor..." Jessica replied. "Come on, let's get some lunch, I hear there's cheese dogs."
"Okay?" Stephanie said, slightly odded out.
"Come on, let's go!" Jessica said and ran off to the cafeteria.
"What are you hiding, Jessica Fudo?" Stephanie asked herself before catching up with her friend.
The rest of the day of school soon went by fast. Stephanie took Jessica's bus home and they were on their way to start their family projects and the first night would be Stephanie staying for dinner at the Fudo house and tomorrow, Jessica would have dinner at the Tanner house.
"I can't wait to start." Stephanie smiled.
"Same here, this is gonna be quite the learning experience." Jessica smiled back once school was out.
"And I can't wait to meet the rest of your family," Stephanie smiled. "By the way, do you have a younger sister too?"
"I've always wanted one..." Jessica sighed softly. "Don't get me wrong, I love Atticus, but I think it'd be nice to have another girl in the house I could teach stuff to."
"Maybe someday you will." Stephanie suggested. "If not, maybe you'd like to trade."
"Very funny..." Jessica rolled her eyes with a smirk.
"No really, I would trade one of my sisters for Atticus." Stephanie said.
"Aw, Steph..." Jessica laughed.
"Seriously, how about DJ?" Stephanie suggested. "It won't be too long until she's in college."
"Forget it." Jessica said.
"Your family's fine just the way they are and so is mine." Jessica smiled.
Stephanie was still suspicious of Jessica because of what she saw yesterday, but she didn't bring it up. She then saw a little blonde girl with curly hair inside Jessica's house.
"I thought you said you didn't have a little sister?" Stephanie looked to Jessica.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Jessica face-palmed herself. "I forgot to tell you, we adopted a girl that Atticus found during his trip to Hollywood. I feel so bad, she's our family now."
"What's her name?" Stephanie asked.
"Darla Fudo, well, her last biological name was Dimple, but after adopting her, she's now Darla Fudo." Jessica told her.
"Wait, Darla Dimple?" Stephanie asked. "I feel like I know that name from somewhere..."
"She used to be a child star, but after that incident, she became part of our family," Jessica explained. "Please don't bring it up, she's very touchy about that subject."
"I understand..." Stephanie gave a small nod. "Too bad she's a little older than Michelle, they could become friends."
"Yeah." Jessica nodded.
"Okay." Stephanie replied.
With that, the two teenage girls came into the house.
"Welcome, Stephanie, to our normal household, where we are a normal family with normal lives, isn't that right, boy?" Patrick smiled and looked down to the puppy.
Patch barked with a friendly look so Stephanie would know he wasn't dangerous.
"We are happy that you will be staying for dinner, Stephanie." Emily smiled.
"Thank you for having me," Stephanie smiled back. "This is a really nice home, Mrs. Fudo."
"Thank you very much." Emily beamed.
Stephanie then went with Jessica to put her stuff away.
"The kids better not use magic this time," Patrick said to Emily. "Drell said if we get another strike, he's going to turn Jessica into a mouse and move her into the forest and he's going to turn Atticus into a cat and make him stay in the other realm for 100 years."
"What will he do with Darla?" Emily wondered.
"I don't think he's aware that we have custody of her..." Patrick replied with a shrug.
"Thank goodness." Emily sighed.
"He used to be kind of mean..." Patrick sighed himself. "He was as harmful as a playground bully when we were kids, I mean..."
"I blame being Head of the Council..." Emily replied.
Patrick nodded in agreement.
Cherry came to visit Atticus's room as he was working out extra hard due to Drell being stronger than him.
"How can that guy be stronger than I am?!" Atticus grunted. "It's not possible!"
"Well, I guess when a warlock becomes Head of the Council, that warlock becomes stronger than anyone, including someone as strong as Hercules." Cherry said.
"That's not faaaair!" Atticus whined.
"Um, you don't think he's scary, do you...?" Cherry asked.
Atticus stopped and looked up to her.
"I-I mean, for who he is..." Cherry smiled nervously. "I mean, he can't really be that scary, even though he shoved me inside of his mouth."
"Yes, yes, he is when he wants to be." Atticus grunted as he continued lifting his weights.
'I just hope we never see him again..." Cherry sounded nervous.
"Cherry, are you scared?" Atticus asked.
"What? No way!" Cherry replied in denial. "I'm a goth, why would I be scared of anything?"
"Because Drell could possibly make anyone's life a living nightmare." Atticus said.
Cherry laughed nervously. "Don't be so silly, Atticus... I better go home, I have to put away the leaves and wash the garden..." she then zipped out of the house.
"She is afraid of him." Atticus said before grunting again as he continued to lift his weights.
Patch came into the room and smiled.
"Hey, boy!" Atticus smiled, then took a break. "How was your day?"
"Would've been better if I could've spent it with you..." Patch looked down to the floor.
"Patch, you know dogs aren't allowed in school." Atticus said.
"I know..." Patch pouted.
"Hey, let's play until dinner since Cherry's gone home..." Atticus suggested. "Whatever you want."
"Yay!" Patch cheered.
Atticus laughed and went to the backyard with Patch. Jessica and Stephanie were in the girl's room until they would be called down to dinner. Atticus and Patch were now both in the backyard and where they were both playing tug-of-war.
Stephanie kept looking around like she expected something to happen.
"You okay, Steph?" Jessica asked.
"Uh, fine..." Stephanie replied as she took out a magazine to read with her. "Say, you think Leonardo di Caprio would ever come to our school and ask someone to marry him?"
"I think our only chances of that would be 5%." Jessica said.
"A girl can dream, can't she?" Stephanie smiled with a shrug.
Jessica rolled her eyes with a smirk before looking itno her own magazine. "Besides, I'd rather have Nick Carter."
"He is rather hot." Stephanie smiled.
Jessica giggled with Stephanie as they read their teen magazines.
Patch and Atticus continued to pull on both ends of their rope.
"Good boy!" Atticus called, both struggling, but playful.
Patch kept pulling as he snarled with his grip on the rope. The both of them continued to have fun with the rope not holding back any of their strength.
"Ready to give up?" Patch muffled.
"Never." Atticus smirked.
Patch muffingly laughed as he tugged on the other side of the rope. Atticus began to tugged on his end of the rope. Patch pulled with his mouth, trying to back up with a small snarl. Atticus began to pull much harder on his end. Patch laughed as he enjoyed this very much. Atticus was happy that he could make Patch happy. Patch snarled and pulled harder.
Atticus then knew he could win this one, but he decided to let Patch win this one to put his mood even better and stumbled and fell onto the ground. "Oh, no, lost balance, you won, Patch!"
This caused Patch to howl out of victory.
Attius smiled and pet his puppy. "Good game, boy."
"Do I get a biscuit as a reward?" Patch smirked.
Atticus smirked back before giving his dalmatian a dog biscuit.
Patch ate the biscuit and beamed. "Oh, yeah... I love being me..." he smiled proudly as his tongue dangled slightly.
"Dinner time!" Emily's voice smiled.
"Oh, boy!" Patch beamed. "I'm starving!"
"Starving?" Atticus laughed. "You just ate a biscuit!"
"Yeah, but I'm a dog." Patch smiled.
Atticus rolled his eyes and walked in the house with him.