Jessica was lying in her bed, a little nervous. "Man, I almost messed up big time with Stephanie... Luckily, we got away with it this time... But why do I feel like something big's gonna happen at Stephanie's tomorrow?"
"Jessica, have you seen Atticus?" Patch asked.
Jessica looked over to him. "I thought he was with you?"
"He isn't in his room or in the backyard." Patch frowned.
"That can't be right..." Jessica frowned back. "Maybe he's in the bathroom?"
"Nope, the light's out..." Patch shook his head.
"Darla's room?" Jessica frowned.
Patch pouted.
"I-I-I'm sure he's fine..." Jessica smiled nervously, then took out the phone and called Cherry's house.
Cherry yawned and crawled into bed. "For the first time, I feel really sleepy..." she then batted her eyes before shutting them and started to snore, but then her eyes cracked open as her phone rang and she answered it. "Somebody better be dying!"
"Atticus isn't home!" Jessica said out of worry.
"Oh, how terrible..." Cherry yawned. "Let me know when you find him... K, thanks, bye..." she then tried to hang up.
"You must know where he is." Jessica said.
"I haven't seen Atticus since after school and when that fat guy took us into the other realm." Cherry yawned.
"You mean Drell?" Jessica asked.
"Yeah, him..." Cherry yawned. "He said he wanted to see us about something, I thought he sent Atticus home after he sent me home."
Cherry then remembered where Atticus was going to be staying sense he looked sick.
"Anything else?" Jessica then asked.
"He was kinda nauseous on the way out," Cherry remembered. "He ate spinach... I don't blame him, that stuff is nasty."
"How did he eat it?" Jessica asked.
"He was gonna eat it with a spoon, but then that Drell guy made him chug it from the can like some animal." Cherry replied.
"That's why he looked nauseous, he shouldn't eat like that." Jessica said.
"That fatso told him to..." Cherry said before yawning.
"I know, I know, I guess we'll have to let him stay with Drell for a little while." Jessica said.
"Can I go back to sleep?" Cherry asked.
"Yeah, sorry, Cherry, you have a good night." Jessica said before then hanging up.
"Finally." Cherry sighed before hanging up and going back to bed.
Jessica then hung up and sighed. "I just hope Atticus will be okay spending the night with Drell."
"Is Drell really that bad?" Patch asked.
"He wasn't so bad when I was growing up, but when I became a teenager, he became a hassle," Jessica replied. "Especially when I became more boy crazy than focusing on my magical studies, he was mostly sore because of his wedding about 300 years ago."
"Wow." Patch said.
"He's really... Not the best..." Jessica shrugged, not sure how she could talk about Drell nicely. "I'm just praying that Atticus will be fine i nthe morning."
"I hope so too." Patch frowned.
"Patch, would you like to sleep here for the night?" Jessica offered.
"Please...?" Patch gave a small pout.
"Come on up." Jessica allowed him to sleep at the foot of her bed like he did on Atticus's bed.
Patch then hopped onto her bed and got comfortable.
"I know it's not the same, but I think you would like sleeping with someone better than no one at all." Jessica smiled.
"Heh... Yeah..." Patch said. "Ya know, I'm a grown puppy, how bad can it be sleeping in Atticus's room alone?"
"Okay, but my door's open for you if you wanna come in." Jessica offered.
Patch then went into Atticus's room and he shivered slightyl as he looked too nervous and scared to have the bed all to himself and Atticus wasn't in the room with him, it felt very different and kind of a creepy atmosphere.
"Wow, I-I never noticed how spooky it is." Patch frowned.
There was then a lightning strike outside with rumbling thunder.
Patch whimpered and curled up into a shaking ball. "JESSICA!"
"Yes?" Jessica was on the other side of Atticus's bedroom door.
Patch walked over to her. "Um... I think I should sleep with you tonight... Just to make sure you sleep..." he then smiled sheepishly.
"You can't sleep without Atticus, right?" Jessica guessed.
Patch stared at the floor. "You must think I'm being silly..."
"I guess you're just so used to sleeping with someone," Jessica soothed. "I mean, before you had Atticus, you had your 98 brothers and sisters."
"That is true." Patch nodded.
"Come here... Up you go." Jessica patted the foot of her bed.
Patch smiled to her, climbed up, then got comfortable. "Ah,..." he then yawned as he felt instantly sleepy and a lot happier. "Night, Jessica."
"Night, Patch." Jessica smiled back as she then fell asleep.
And soon the two of them went to sleep. Jessica and Patch were still worried about Atticus, but they slept a lot better and easier that night since they talked about it and still had each other.
The next day...
Skippy woke up an hour before everyone else as he got out of his bed, made his bed, got out of his clothes, took a shower, brushed his teeth, put on his working clothes, and started to make breakfast before he would go to wake up Drell.
Atticus soon woke up before he saw that he was in a different room. "Huh?" he looked around the room. "Where am I...?"
Skippy came into the room and collected dirty laundry into a basket, then looked over to see Atticus had woke up and he gave a friendly smile with a small wave. Atticus soon returned the smile and wave back to him. Skippy then continued to collect the clothes and then tipped his hat to Atticus and went back out of the room, shutting the door behind him.
"I must be in Drell's house." Atticus whispered.
Skippy tossed the clothes into the washing machine and clicked it on, then checked his watch and gasped as he hurried to another room. Atticus walked out and explored as he was in the Supernatural Realm. He came into the gym which was a cloudy blue place with an enormous tree with very large pieces of fruit, such as green and red apples as big as boulders, but there was also a treadmill, a weight-lifting barbell set, and many more.
"Cool." Atticus smiled.
Drell snored loudly in his bed as he was sound asleep. Skippy came to Drell's bed and tried to shake him awake. Drell then turned over and slept on top of Skippy, wrapping his arms around the smaller man while snoring loudly and drooling sloppily. Atticus walked back into Drell's room and where he could see him sleeping on top of Skippy. Skippy wiggled and struggled underneath Drell.
Atticus looked worried and moved Drell so Skippy could get out and breathe. Skippy took a gasp of air and smiled thankfully to Atticus. Atticus smiled back, happy that Skippy got to breathe. Drell kept snoring soundly.
Skippy cleared his throat as he took out a spray bottle which was magical and he sprayed it into his mouth, smacked his lips, and smirked. "Oh, Drell darling, please take me back, I'm so sorry for getting mad at you~" he then suddenly said in a feminine voice which made Atticus stare in shock and curiosity.
"Hilda Spellman?" Drell's eyes cracked open.
"Hilda?! How and when did you get in here?!" Atticus asked.
Skippy giggled innocently.
Drell looked to Atticus. "You know Hilda Spellman?"
"Yeah, me and Cherry know the Spellmans." Atticus said.
"Interesting..." Drell sounded demented now, then grabbed onto Skippy's tie and pulled him over so they would be face-to-face. "Have you run my bath water?"
Skippy nodded.
"Good... I'll be soaking until breakfast." Drell said.
Skippy simply rolled his eyes. Drell then let go of Skippy and collected his bathrobe and wrapped his towel over his shoulders as he went int othe bathroom. Skippy fluttered his lips and went into the kitchen to start cooking.
"What's for breakfast?" Atticus asked.
Skippy pointed to the egg carton, the pancake mix, honey baked ham, and sizzling bacon.
"Mm." Atticus smiled.
Skippy smiled to him as he continued to cook.
After a few minutes passed, Drell was done with his bathroom. Skippy was then scooping up the breakfast foods to serve Drell.
"Well, I better get going now." Atticus said.
Skippy's eyes widened to that.
Atticus was on his way out. "Mom and Dad oughta be worried sick."
Skippy soon grabbed Atticus's legs with a begging look.
Atticus looked down. "What's wrong?'
Skippy put his hands together with tears in his eyes with small whimpering and sniffling.
"Wait, are you begging me to stay?" Atticus asked.
Skippy nodded.
"But why?" Atticus asked.
Skippy stood up and ruffled up Atticus's dark brown hair.
"Why do you want me to stay?" Atticus asked.
Skippy pointed to Drell who looked happy to have Atticus's company.
"I'd like to stay, but I really need to go, my education comes first!" Atticus pulled Skippy's arms off of him and went to find a way out of the realm.
Skippy began to go into a begging position.
"I'm sorry, but I need to go!" Atticus said, then saw a door and opened it and walked through it, then closing it and made thunder and lightning go off.
Skippy looked incredibly nervous and put Drell's plate down in front of him and rushed to the kitchen to distract himself. Drell soon came out of the bathroom. Skippy smiled nervously as he continued to cook.