Elijah's POV

All of us giggled after hearing Kristine and Jessica's story. However, I did choke on my rice from laughing too hard. 

"Eliza and Elijah should have been present there, to do what they do best! Freeze Zack!" Kristen suggested. 

"Oh little bro..." Kristine laughed. 

"I kinda pity Zack after what you've done to him." Harold scratched his head.

"Poor boy, anyone who receives Kristine's punch is sooooo dead meat." Henry ticked his tongue.

I was still coughing, backing away from the table, hitting my chest. Only until I bumped into someone from the back and fell down, the coughing stopped. "Sorry, sorry, sorry!" I struggled to get up, turning around. Crap, the person I bumped into was Sabrina. "Sorry Sabrina." I said. 

"It's ok." Sabrina helped me up. Well, that wasn't expected. "I was looking for you guys."

"Oh?" I asked, surprised. "Well, the rest are there?"

Sabrina and I walked to the table. Eliza's expression immediately changed when she saw Sabrina was beside me. Jessica gave me a crazy look, mouthing me 'why did you bring her here?!' I mouthed back to her 'donno' and beckoned to Sabrina. 

"Sabrina! Well this is a surprise." Kristine stated. "Or are you still mad at me for bugging you so much these few days? If you wanna throw your anger, I'm here." 

"No, no, no." Sabrina hesitated. "Well... You see, I want to tell you something." I saw Harold quickly covering Henry's mouth just before he was about to speak. 

"Kristine, I.... I'll accept it." Sabrina finally said and heavily sighed. 

"I beg your pardon?" Kristine asked, unsure. I didn't understand it either. 

"Um... I'll accept your help, all of your help, to bring Shade back to normal." Sabrina blurted out.

"Wait, really?!" Kristine began squealing, running to Sabrina and gave her a hug. Sabrina quickly pulled away from the hug. "What are you doing?!" She asked.

"I'm just hugging you?" Kristine asked. "Is there something wrong with a hug?"

"I don't like hugs. Well technically, that was the first hug I had ever received. And I don't like it." Sabrina said firmly.

"Are you... Serious? You're accepting our help?" Eliza asked still in doubt.

"That is a first isn't it?" I leaned to Jessica and whispered. She looked at me and nodded.

"Look, I might be accepting your help but that does not mean we're friends all right?!" Sabrina snapped. Well, famous last words, spoke too soon. I said in my mind.

"Oh just wait, you'll be friends without even realising it." I heard Jenna saying softly.

"I think I'm fine with that." Kristine smiled. "What's important is that we get your brother, Shade back. Battle stations everyone!"

"What's the plan commander?" I joked.

"We force Pitch to remove the spell on Shade!" Kristine declared.

"Wait what?!" Eliza exclaimed. "But it's not use Kristine, I've tried asking him, reasoning with him, begging him, nothing worked on bringing Shade back." Sabrina said at the same time.

"Well, plan B." Kristine thought hard.

"Challenge accepted." I chuckled. "Say, how's that Sandman that day?"

"It was a never ending battle." Sabrina sighed. There was a awkward moment of silence which  I don't know why. Maybe none of us knew what to say. Only when Harold broke the silence. "Ouch!"  He turned around. "Shade! Or should I say, robot Shade?"
"It's me Harold." Shade giggled. "It's the normal Shade you're talking to. And what I want to say is,"  Shade walked to Sabrina and stood in front of her. "Thanks, sister. Though I thought I would never called you that in all of my life."

"Great now you're just being cheesy and weird." Sabrina rolled her eyes. "I only accepted their help to return you back to normal. After that, everything  will be back to the way it was."

"Don't speak too soon, you will be overwhelmed and surprised." Shade smiled. And his smile faded along with  his golden eyes.

"Was he talking about himself when he said don't speak to soon you will be overwhelmed and surprised?" Sabrina asked. "Like, oh look, he's back to the spell on him."

"No, he was talking about you." Jessica pointed. Now how can you not understand that Sabrina?! I yelled in my mind.

"You need to be more open minded." Henry blurted out. "Oops."

With a couple minutes of break time left, we continued discussing about how to bring Shade back. Kristine asked Sabrina questions nonstop, trying to get every piece of information. Harold calculated our chances and all, but it wasn't helpful, not even a bit. After Sabrina explained everything, it didn't help much cause none of us could come up with a good plan. Heck, we're just kids, what can we do?

"We'll need time." Eliza stated."There's no way we can think of a way that fast. Besides, I'm not good at planning."

"So if Sandman defeats Pitch, what will happen?" Harold asked.

"Justice perhaps?" Jessica asked. "After all, he IS a... Criminal." She whispered.

"Do you have anything in mind, Sabrina?" Kristine heavily sighed.

"Kristine, if I did, I wouldn't be here!" Sabrina crossed her arms.

DON'T FORGET TO

READ

COMMENT

VOTE

SUGGESTIONS WELCOMED!