[PIC ABOVE] - Map of Zodiac Street. I drew this so that you can have a visual understanding of what the main setting looked like. Apologies in advance if the sketch looked bad.
(In case you are wondering what the small handwriting is, it is the names of each character in their own houses.)

So in case most of you guys are wondering why I republished Chapter 2, it's because I need to show the layout of Zodiac Street. And also fix a bit of this chapter up.

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It was night time- a peaceful quiet night in Zodiac Street. Carol, Sabrina and Phoebe were fast asleep in their beds, exhausted from watching the movie and enjoying the pizza. The three girls were excited about Sienna's party, especially at the thought of meeting the other neighbours. Just think about it; new friends, partying, swimming and food! Who can say no to that?

Anyways, it was peaceful in the street.....until... barking.

Loud barking.

Carol opened her eyes immediately sat up on the bed. She instantly got off the bed and heard the barking again, "Huh?"

"Can't sleep?" a female voice asked from the doorway. Carol turned and instantly locked eyes with Sabrina, who was leaning against the doorframe with her arms crossed, "Don't worry, the barking woke me up as well."

"Did it wake up Phoebe?" Carol whispered.

"Nope." Sabrina replied, "The girl is fast asleep, after all, she slept earlier than us."

"Fair point." Carol sighed, "I think we should visit the dogs' owners and tell them to control their pets, what do you say?"

"Agreed. But on one condition- we can't wear these pajamas outside." Sabrina pointed out referring to her black singlet and red plaid pants, and Carol's blue pajama set.

"We can, but we need to wear coats."

Sabrina nodded, "I guess."

Carol nodded to Sabrina who walked off to her room. Carol walked to her closet and opened it, instantly being greeted by coats. She picked up a red coat, and also got black jeggings. After getting the clothes she closed the door and headed to her bathroom to get changed.

After getting changed, Carol made her way to the foyer, but before that she checked on Phoebe. She smiled when the pink-haired girl was hugging a huge white teddy bear, sleeping peacefully.

Carol smiled as she looked at the girl, "Sweet dreams Phoebe."

Then she left for the foyer.

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Soon Carol and Sabrina were both walking slowly through the neighbourhood, towards a dark blue house where the barking came from. Carol looked at Sabrina and noticed her friend didn't change anything besides wear a black open leather jacket over her black tank top.

"I am surprised that you even look awesome in pajamas." Carol laughed. Her friend gave her a nudge.

"Cut it out, I am simplistic." Sabrina huffed.

Carol chuckled, "If you say so."

The two females arrived at the dark blue house feeling more annoyed about the noise getting louder. Carol walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell, hoping the owners would understand the noise.

"Won't we wake them up?" Sabrina whispered to Carol.

"Their dogs woke us up, so they need to understand that-" Carol replied.

The door opened revealing a tall male with dark brown hair and bluish eyes. He was wearing a black singlet with grey shorts. The male was rubbing his eyes tiredly and wondered why the two girls were at his doorstep.

"Um.... hello?" the guy murmured.

"Hello." Carol replied, "You're the owner of the dogs barking, aren't you?"

"That's my housemate's dogs.." the guy frowned. His eyes widened, "Hold on, did Brownie and Cookie wake you up?"

"Brownie and Cookie?" Sabrina asked, raising an eyebrow.

"My housemate, Pete's two dogs." the male chuckled, "You have to get used to their barking at night. Everyone does." He looked at the girls, "Say, are you the new neighbours from House 8? I thought there are three of you."

"There are. The third one is sleeping." Carol replied, calming down from being annoyed. "I'm Carol, this is Sabrina."

"Sup." Sabrina nodded.

"Nice meeting you both. I'm Skyler." the male replied with a nod, "You guys wanna come inside? It's cold outside and I don't want to see you two shivering."

Sabrina and Carol exchanged glances then they nodded. They both walked inside only to be greeted by the warmth. Skyler led the two girls to his living room.

"Are you guys coming to Sienna's party? Heard it's going to be another big bash- one that I don't want to go to but here we are." Skyler asked.

"Yeah... our new friends Gilbert, Levin and Arlen told us about it. Apparently, the entire neighbourhood is invited." Carol replied.

"I see you met the guys from House 3, they are cool dudes." Skyler chuckled.

Sabrina started coughing making the other two raise an eyebrow at her. Sabrina then folded her arms and acted nonchalant.

"Yet Gilbert is a weirdo by fangirling over me calling him 'creepy'." Sabrina huffed.

"He likes you Bri, just accept that." Carol giggled.

"No. Just NO." Sabrina grumbled, placing her hands on her hips.

Carol laughed. She then walked ahead and stopped in her tracks, before teasing, "I would like you to think again. Just wait until the vows-"

"Is she always like that?" Skyler whispered. But Sabrina was blushing red like a tomato.

"CA-ROL-"

"Gilbert is always weird, and flirty when it comes to the girls he likes." Skyler laughed, "I must advise you to wear swimsuits and bring extra pairs of clothes. The party is going to include a pool."

"I think we already heard that one, but we will." Sabrina pointed out.

The three arrived at the living room where a racing game was on the TV screen. There were two guys sitting on the couch. One of the guys had ginger hair and brown eyes. The other guy had black hair and brown eyes. The ginger-haired guy was busy playing the game while the black-haired guy watched the game on the TV.

The black-haired boy noticed Skyler with Sabrina and Carol, and the boy instantly snickered. The ginger-haired guy paused his game and snickered as well.

"Looks like Skyler got himself some girlfriends." the black-haired guy teased.

The ginger-haired guy cracked up laughing. Skyler rolled his eyes, "Very funny you idiots. These two are just two of the new people from House 8."

Skyler then turned to the two girls, "Sorry about that. Those two guys are my roommates. The ginger-haired guy is Colin while the other dude is Pete. Pete owns the dogs."

"Oh! The new neighbours! But, I thought there were three.." Pete pointed from Sabrina to Carol.

"Yeah... our friend Phoebe is back home asleep." Carol replied, "Hi, I'm Carol. This is Sabrina."

"Carol and Sabrina just came over here due to the dogs barking," Skyler explained to his housemates.

"Let me guess... you woke up from the barking?" Colin asked.

Carol and Sabrina nodded back. Pete got up from the couch and walked towards the girls.

"We often get asked to keep the dogs down." Pete informed, "You have to get used to it. You're coming to Sienna's party aren't you?"

"Of course." Sabrina and Carol replied.

"That's all they say here." Sabrina then muttered quietly under her breath.

"Great! Make sure to bring swimmers, it's going to be a blast!" Pete chuckled, "I mean- as in a lot of fun. Not literally. Anyways, want to meet the dogs?"

"Of course."

Pete smiled. He walked towards a glass sliding door leading to the backyard and opened it, letting the cool air enter the room. He whistled and two dogs, one golden retriever and one husky bounded into the room tackling Pete with licks.

"You can tell which one is which by their fur. Cookie is the Husky while Brownie is the Golden Retriever." Skyler whispered to Carol, "They're adorable."

"Sure are. But Carol, should we get back now to the house?" Sabrina asked her friend.

"I think later, I want to know the dogs and get to know our new friends better." Carol smiled.

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(The next day, at night: Sienna's party)

"This must be it...." Carol whispered as she stared at a light red house with remix music playing loudly in the background. She was ready for the party with Sabrina and Phoebe.

Phoebe was wearing a cute white dress with black heels and her hair was in pigtails. Sabrina wore black ripped jeans, and a black t-shirt with the word 'Devil' in red and black boots. As for Coral, she just wore a dark blue square-neck top with white shorts and white canvas shoes. All three girls wore their swimsuit underneath and they all carried a bag with their extra clothes.

"To be honest, I am actually excited for this party. It's rare." Sabrina smiled, admiring the house, "I didn't want to come but here we are."

"Parties are the best! But I am still wondering why you two were really sleepy in the morning." Phoebe added.

"It's a long story, Phoebe." Carol laughed, "Basically we met new friends."

"Aww..." Phoebe pouted, "I wanted to meet them..."

"You'll see them at the party." Sabrina pointed out as she and her friends walked up to the front doorstep. Sabrina sighed and rang the doorbell, "They're nice people Phoebe."

"If you put it that way. I can't wait to meet them!" Phoebe smiled.

The front door opened and a brown-skinned girl with wavy black hair and dark eyes answered the door. She wore a purple party dress with purple heels. The girl smiled, "You must be the ever so popular neighbours everyone is talking about. I'm Sienna, your host for tonight! Welcome to my party!"

"Thanks for inviting us here." Carol smiled, "I'm Carol these are my friends Phoebe and Sabrina."

"I know." Sienna giggled ushering the girls inside the house. She winced at the really loud music, "I told them to tone down the music." Sienna then smiled widely, "The boys from House 3 and 4 told us about you guys. Me and the others have been waiting for you guys for a while."

"What do you mean?" Phoebe asked.

"It's hard to explain, but let me show you around. Ok, the snacks are in the kitchen where Aika, Lily, Sam, Skyler, Arlen, Tyler and Levin are. I will be hanging out there as well food is food, and food is amazing. On the couches, we have chess and Just dance available, and there's Cameron, Vivian, Cleo, Tahlia and Vincent. The earth buddies always hang out together... I don't know why. And outside is the pool where you will meet Alyssa, Alex, Gilbert, Giselle, Colin, Leo, Lizzy and Pete. Any questions?"

"Yes. Who is who? There are so many names to remember." Sabrina asked.

"Well, you'll understand them later on. Have fun at the party. And oh yeah... you can get changed in the bathrooms, but it will be a line." Sienna smiled before running off, "Have fun! If you have any other questions, come find me I'll help you out!"

Carol, Sabrina and Phoebe exchanged glances. The three girls smiled.

"We better split up. I'll go to the food section." Phoebe told her friends.

"I'll hang out at the pool," Sabrina added.

"And I'll be at the couches. I'll meet you guys later." Carol smiled.

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The first thing Phoebe noticed at the kitchen were the many delicates they had to offer. Such as; spring rolls, sausage rolls, french fries, chicken nuggets, kebabs, fruit punch, chocolate milk fountain, lollies and many more.

Phoebe's eyes twinkled at the sight of the food, and then she smiled when she saw Skyler, Levin, Arlen and Sienna with a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, a girl with black hair tied into two low buns, a guy with brown hair and hazel eyes, and a taller guy with brown hair and dark brown eyes. The group were busy making their own pizza slice from the ingredients.

"These look delicious!" Phoebe gushed.

"Its 'Make Your Own Pizza'!" Sienna chuckled, "Grab a plain pizza slice and create your pizza!"

Phoebe nodded and got a plain pizza slice. She smeared tomato sauce on the slice ad sprinkled cheese on it. The blonde-haired girl offered Phoebe some olives.

"So you're Phoebe." the girl smiled.

"Yeah, that's me. And I'll pass on the olives, thank you." Phoebe replied.

"At least I got the name right. Welcome to Zodiac Street. I'm Lillian, Sienna's housemate. You can call me Lily. This female next to me is Aika while these two guy are Sam and Tyler. Tyler is taller than Sam though, Sam is younger."

"Hi!" Sam, Aika and Tyler greeted.

"Nice meeting you all." Phoebe smiled, "Where are your pizzas?"

"Let's see, Tyler, Sam and Skyler's pizzas are cooking while the others are busy working on theirs," Sienna replied. She offered Phoebe pepperoni. "Pepperoni?"

"Yes please." Phoebe smiled, "I looooove pepperoni."

"Same!" Sienna smiled, "We should be pepperoni besties!"

"Yeah, we should!"

Sam rolled his eyes, "Looks like no one would be offering pepperoni around you two."

"Shut it Samson. You're just jealous." Sienna then poked her tongue out.

"It's not THAT jealous. I'm just stating something, that's all." Then Sam kept an eye on the pizzas baking.

"Where's your housemates Phoebe? Skyler, Arlen and Levin told us about them but did they come to the party?" Aika asked, taking a cup of punch and sipping it.

"Of course they did! Carol is hanging out at the couches and Sabrina is outside at the pools." Phoebe replied, reaching for the pepperoni and sprinkling over her pizza, "I wonder what they are doing..."

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When Carol arrived at the couches the first thing she saw was two girls (one curvy girl with straight brown hair tied into a side braid and brown eyes, and a shorter girl with dark brown hair and brown eyes) playing a dancing game on the TV. There were also two guys playing checkers (one of the guys had brown hair and glasses, while the other had Asian features and black hair and dark eyes). There was another chest-length brown-haired girl watching the checkers game making sure no one cheated.

Carol bit her lip. She noticed the group seemed so focused, especially the guys playing checkers. She shrugged and decided to watch the two girls playing a dancing game on the TV. She noticed the shorter girl was doing better than the girl with the braid.

By the time the game was finished the shorter girl cheered. "I WON! I WON!!!"

"That's because you are hyper Cleo." the other girl frowned as she stretched, "I haven't done this game for a while." The girl then noticed Carol watching and her eyes widened, "I am sorry! Are you about to go on?"

"Oh... no, don't worry.  I am not. I am just watching." Carol stammered.

The shorter girl gave a cheeky smile to Carol, "Are you new here? I haven't seen you here."

"Cleo Caster! What did Vivian say about greeting the new neighbours?" the other girl scolded. 

Cleo sighed, her shoulders slumped, "She said 'Be polite when greeting others 'cause that's what a lady does'."

"You even quoted what she said. I am surprised."

"I hate her stupid rule."

"I do too, but you know your sister," The other girl then turned to Carol, "Sorry about Cleo, she's like that. I'm Tahlia by the way."

"That's a nice name." Carol smiled, "I'm Carol."

"Thanks... it's my great-great grandmother's name. Carol is a nice name, it reminds me of Christmas carols." Tahlia blushed in embarrassment, "Anyways, this female playing with me is Cleo. She's the youngest here."

"Pleased to meet you, Carol!" Cleo smiled at Carol.

"Is that one of the new neighbours, Tahlia?" the brown-haired girl inspecting the checkers game asked Tahlia. Carol noticed the girl had stopped focusing on the chess game and decided to see what was going on. The Cancer female also noticed the two boys had stopped playing chess, just so they can meet Carol.

"Yes Vivi, this is Carol one of the new neighbours." Tahlia introduced. Carol managed to give a shy wave.

"Oh, that's cool. The name's Vivian. The guy with the glasses here is Cameron while the other guy is Vincent." the brown-haired girl smiled, "Welcome to Zodiac Street."

"Thanks for the welcome. And it's nice meeting you all." Carol smiled. She looked at the checkers set, "I guess you are still playing the game."

"Yeah. Vincent is beating me again." Cameron huffed. "He's the chess and checkers champion."

Vincent smiled with pride showing. He looked at Carol, "You wanna play? You have played checkers before haven't you?"

"I do want to play but sadly, I don't know how to play checkers." Carol frowned. Vincent smiled reassuringly.

"It's all simple really. All you really need to do is to get the opponent's pieces out... allow me to explain if Cam would mind moving out of the way."

Cameron nodded and sat down on the couch allowing Carol to sit down on his spot before.

"Ok what colour for the checker pieces do you want? Black or White?" Vincent asked.

"I feel like I want to choose black," Carol replied.

"Which leaves me with white." Vincent replied giving Carol the black pieces, "Ok, first of all, you meet to set the checker counters on the dark squares in the first three rows from you. Follow my lead."

Vincent had placed his checker pieces on the dark squares. Carol copied him by doing the same thing to her side.

"You can only move on the black squares but you need to be aware of your opponent. Also, you can't go on the white squares nor move backwards." Vincent instructed, "Understand?"

Carol nodded. She and Vincent began playing through the game whenever suddenly Carol noticed her piece was near Vincent's piece which had a gap between his two checker squares.

"Aha. You see that. Make your piece jump over my piece. Then you can take my piece." Vincent smiled.

Carol did just that and smiled. "My first white piece in my dungeon."

"But I can take your piece." Vincent chuckled taking over Carol's piece.

"Ah." Carol mumbled. She then laughed. "Anything else I need to know?"

"Yes. There are kings. Once your piece reaches the other side, you grab your opponent's taken pieces and put them over the counter. The king counter can move forwards and backwards on the black squares, so you better be careful with it.  Any questions?"

Carol chuckled, "Nope!"

"OK, let's continue our game."

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Meanwhile, Sabrina was outside in the backyard walking towards the pool. She was wearing her black two-piece swimsuit, and her hair was tied into a high ponytail. She noticed a large group, three females and five males, wearing their swimmers.

Sabrina recognised three of the males cracking up together; Colin, Pete and that creep Gilbert. But she also noticed a tanned skin with curly black hair male, a blonde-haired and brown-eyed male, a brown-skinned girl with her brown hair in a high ponytail, a blonde-haired and blue-eyed guy, and a red-haired female with freckles. The red-haired girl was having a diving competition with the blonde-haired guy while the tanned skin guy, blonde-haired girl and the brown-haired girl were watching the competition from the ledge.
Pete, Colin and Gilbert, however, were trying to push each other in the pool.

It was until Colin noticed Sabrina, and waved, "Hey Sabrina!"

The male ended up getting pushed into the pool by Pete and Gilbert. The other people at the pool noticed and they turned to Sabrina.

"So you're Sabrina, aren't you?" the blonde-haired girl asked, "One of our new neighbours from House 8?"

"Yep, that's me," Sabrina replied with a nod.

"Cool. Welcome to the neighbourhood. I'm Lizzy, from next door." the blonde-haired girl smiled.

"Thanks for the welcome. Everyone has been saying that a lot." Sabrina sighed.

"Of course they would, you're new." the person next to Lizzy smirked as holding Lizzy's hand, "Hi, I'm Alex."

Sabrina rolled her eyes, "I know that I am new. And it's nice meeting you too Alex. Who are the others? I know there's Colin, Pete and that loser Gilbert."

"SHE CALLED ME LOSER!!!" Gilbert squealed. Everyone else rolled their eyes.

"You'll get used to him," Lizzy whispered, "He normally acts like this. Don't fuss about it too much."

"Noted." Sabrina whispered back.

"Allow us to introduce them. The girl with the brown hair, that's Giselle, my best friend." Lizzy smiled, exchanging a smile with the brown-haired girl.

"And the blonde-haired guy is Leo," Alex replied, nodding to the blonde-haired guy swimming up to the surface. Leo noticed Sabrina and gave a cheery wave.

"AND I'M ALYSSA!" the red-haired girl yelled, "I am the awesome one of this group who gets admired for her actions!"

"Yeah," Lizzy muttered, rolling her eyes. "Totally admired for her actions. Alyssa- you made the Science Lab go on fire when you were sixteen-"

"At least some students were happy." Alyssa shrugged.

"Uh-huh. The students happy were you, Sienna and Leo." Giselle pointed out, "It could have burnt down the entire school WITH US IN IT."

"What happened exactly?" Sabrina asked the others.

"Long story cut short. Alyssa, Sienna and Leo decided to make the Science Lab on fire." Lizzy frowned, "They ended up being sent home early."

"I would love to see that happen." Sabrina chuckled.

"Trust us, you DON'T." Alex frowned.

"Yeah you don't." Gilbert smiled, walking up to Sabrina, "Where did you get that swimsuit? It looks stunning on you Juliet-"

Gilbert ended up being pushed into the pool by Sabrina. Sabrina then ended up being pushed into the pool by Alyssa. Alyssa laughed but she was pushed into the pool by Leo, who was pushed into the pool by Cleo (who was wearing a swimsuit and came out of nowhere).

"HA." Cleo laughed. Pushing the others in the pool. Everyone else came to check in what is going on, but Cleo pushed them in except for her sister. It was until Vivian pushed her sister into the pool.

"HA." she smirked. She then frowned, crossing her arms. "There's no way I'm hopping in."

"YOU'RE BORING," Gilbert called out. Vivian glared back, not noticing Cameron sneaking up from behind.

"I said no. I am not even dre- GAH!!!" Vivian got pushed into the pool.

Cameron tried to look innocent, "Oops. I am so sorry. I tripped."

Vivian swam up to surface and glared at Cam, "CAM! THAT WAS MEAN!!!!"

Cameron poked out his tongue and ran inside the house. Vivian sighed and climbed out of the pool. She stormed after him, "I SWEAR YOU ARE SO SCREWED WHEN I FIND YOU-"

"Are they dating?" Phoebe asked Aika, who was next to her.

"No. Vivian and Cameron are best friends since they were small." Aika replied, "You'll understand once you get used to everyone here. Plus Cameron doesn't like girls in that way."

"I SWEAR TO GOD CAM, WHERE THE F*** ARE YOU?" Vivian yelled from inside the house.

"Should we help them?" Carol asked, looking at the others.

There was an awkward silence. The group shook their heads.

Carol smiled. She looked around at the other members, excited to know them a lot more. She giggled when she heard Vivian yell in the distance.

"OH MY GOD CAMERON. YOU KNOCKED THE LOLLIES OVER-"