CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE, spike fright

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Once Emilia grabbed everything she needed from her locker, she shut it behind her before turning around to leave, only to see someone walking up to her. "Hey, Emilia."

"Oh, hey Sabrina." Emilia smiled kindly. "What's up? Are you okay?"

"I'm good thank you." The blonde nodded. "But I just wanted to run something by you first."

"Sure, what is it?" Emilia asked.

Sabrina sighed. "Well, I wanted to ask you if it's okay if I ask Chase to help me with my chemistry project." She spoke nervously. "And it's just that! It's nothing else, I swear. I promise you, it's not because I have an interest in Chase, because I don't."

The auburn-haired girl nodded and thought over her words. "Okay. Well, if it's just for him to help you out with chemistry and it's nothing about a crush, then I'm fine with that." Emilia approved to her idea, making the blonde smile.

"Thank you." Sabrina replied. "And don't worry, I have no intention of getting in between you and Chase because you two are so adorable together. I like someone else anyway." She reassured.

"Well, I'm glad." Emilia chuckled lightly. "But, if he annoys you, you come and tell me, okay?"

"I will, don't worry." Sabrina laughed before she was guided away by Emilia who wrapped her arm around the girl.

"By the way Sab, you've got to tell me about your crush later! Are they cute?" Emilia gushed as the two walked away. "And if anything happens, they better treat you right."

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Back in the hallway, Emilia sat alone, thinking to herself after remembering how Chase reacted to Sabrina asking him to team up with her on the chemistry project. She was glad that Sabrina had talked to her beforehand, but why did Chase react like that?

It's probably nothing. Emilia thought to herself, not wanting to make a huge deal out of it until she talked to Chase. Soon, Emilia was brought out of her thoughts when she felt someone touch her hand, so her reflexes quickly kicked in, and she grabbed the person's arm and bent it backwards.

At the sound of her boyfriend in pain, Emilia had snapped out of it and quickly let him go. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I didn't know it was you." She apologised, hovering her hands over her mouth with a gasp.

"It's okay, totally fine." Chase mumbled under his breath, holding onto his arm. "I probably kind of deserved it anyway, after the way I reacted in the cafeteria." Emilia sighed before sitting back down on the bench with Chase next to her. "But, I just wanted to make sure you knew, you don't have anything to worry about. It was just me being me, because apart from you, and Bree, though we're related so that doesn't count, Sabrina's the first girl who wanted to actually talk to me."

Emilia's face softened, continuing to listen at his next words. "Nothing is going to happen, because the only girl that matters to me is sitting right in front of me." The girl looked at him closely before smiling softly as she kissed him on the lips. "I love you."

"I love you too, bub." Emilia giggled.

"What's so funny?" Chase wondered.

"I wasn't worried about Sabrina anyway." Emilia told him. "She came to talk to me about it before lunch, and reassured me that she wasn't into you in that way so I told her it was fine, but you on the other hand..."

"Again, I apologise for how I acted." Chase sighed softly.

"Chase, it's okay. You were just being nerdy little you, I get it." Emilia reassured before pointing a finger at him, accusingly. "But as long as I'm the only love interest for you..."

"I swear, you're the only girl for me." He stared at her with a beaming smile. "Besides, why would I want anyone else? Like Bree said before, we're soulmates, and I only love you." He held up his hands in the air to show trust before he slowly leaned in.

"Ooh, you want another kiss, do ya?" The Hunter girl smirked before grabbing her bag from below and started to get off the bench. "Well, you're gonna have to catch me first."

Emilia let out a giggle, throwing her bag over her shoulder as she ran off, hearing Chase following behind her, laughing at her antics.

There really is no one else he'd rather call his girlfriend.

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Chase and Sabrina were at the house, working on their chemistry project, so Emilia decided to go and hang out with Lizzie who she met the other day at school.

After hanging out at the mall, and grabbing some food, Emilia arrived back at the house but before she could touch the door handle, she stopped her movements, looking confused when loud yelling from inside reached her ears.

Quickly, Emilia unlocked the door before walking into the house, her eyes immediately widening at the sight of the living room looking a complete mess. Everything was broken and ripped apart.

"What the fuck is going on?" She let out a scream in shock and ducked down when she spotted a chair coming towards her way.

"Emilia!" She turned around at the voice to see a scared looking Sabrina, hiding behind the couch.

"Sabrina? What's going on?" Emilia dropped her bag onto the floor before looking over to Adam and Chase.

"Hey! Let's play catch." Chase called. "I'll throw, you catch with your face." He growled and began to throw expensive pieces towards Adam who was dodging them, making the objects break as they hit the wall.

That didn't sound like Chase though.

Why did Spike's voice just come out of Chase?

Ohhhh no.

As Adam retaliated, aiming his heat vision at his brother's alter-ego, Spike had dodged it before he threw a metal pot back at Adam who ducked just in time. Emilia ushered Sabrina away, and moved her behind the small red chair as her new hiding place while they watched the boys fight.

"Guys, please stop!" Sabrina exclaimed. "You're scaring me."

Spike looked over at the girls and spoke. "Don't worry sweethearts. It'll all be over soon. Unless you want him to suffer." He smirked. "Whatever the ladies want." That's when he realised Emilia was there and his smirk widened. "Ooh, look. My favourite girl is back."

Emilia's eyes hardened at Spike before he took a hold of a red vase before smashing it over Adam's head. "Okay, that hurt." He groaned in pain as Spike growled at him. 

As the boys resumed fighting, Emilia turned back to the blonde beside her. "Sabrina, what the hell happened here?" She looked worried, wondering what made them get to this place.

"I don't know." Sabrina sighed. "Chase and I were just working on the project, when Adam came in, and he was kinda teasing Chase, which I think he got embarrassed by and now he's turned into that."

"Adam." Emilia cursed under her breath at Adam putting Chase in this position when there was no reason for him to be jealous in the first place. She looked back at the blonde. "Okay, Sabrina, listen to me, I'm going to help Adam out but if it gets too dangerous, I need you to leave. Okay? I don't want you to get hurt."

She nodded vigorously, and gulped down nothing before asking. "Are you gonna be okay? How are you gonna stop him? He's not hearing us!"

"Oh," Emilia tilted her head. "He'll hear me. Just cover your ears when I tell you too, okay?" At the girl's nod, Emilia stood up from behind the red chair before super speeding over while Spike was distracted by Adam, and pulled him away, with her hands wrapped his neck in a head lock.

"Come on Chase, I know you're still in there." She muttered in Spike's ear, with him gaining enough strength to grab both her hands and pull her over his shoulder and she landed on the floor with a groan.

"Don't bother trying to get to him." Spike looked down at Emilia with a smirk. "It won't work."

Emilia quickly rolled over to avoid a hit from the boy before jumping up to her feet. She turned to Spike once again, mirroring his smirk. "I'm still faster than you." She used her super-speed and kicked him in the stomach.

Spike hit the wall, finding a shard of a vase before he grabbed it and threw it towards Emilia. As she tried to stop it with her molecular kinesis, it had managed to cut her hand slightly, making her let out a wince. "Son of a bitch." She cursed quietly before looking back at Adam and Sabrina. "Cover your ears!"

She turned back and reached her arm out to push Spike's down before opening her mouth and let the scream come barrelling out of her throat as she screamed Chase's name.

Emilia watched Spike hit the wall before he fell to the floor unconscious. "Ah!" She seethed before gripping her left hand to see blood seeping out of the cut. "I think I need help."

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Since it was only a small cut, Emilia was fine with just a bandaid on her palm while she rested for a bit in her room. Fluttering her eyes open, Emilia woke her from her slumber before she started to remember what happened.

The house was a complete mess.

Spike.

And she screamed Chase's name.

With her bionic super-hearing activated, the girl shut her eyes at the sound of loud voices coming from downstairs. She pulled the blanket off her, before quietly getting up from the bed and began to walk out her room to check what the noise was.

She tip-toed down the stairs, stopping before she rounded the corner before poking her head out to see Adam and Chase arguing, while the others stood around, feeling worried.

Douglas and Donald were trying to stop them but Chase was so angry about what happened, their voices went through one ear and went out the other. Emilia frowned before stepping out of her hiding spot and walked down to the bottom of the stairs.

"What's going on?" As soon as they heard Emilia, everyone turned around and sighed in relief.

"Oh, thank god. Sweetie, are you alright?" Tasha was first to approach the girl with Bree and Leo following.

"Yeah, I'm okay. Thank you."

"How long have you been up?" Douglas asked.

"Not very long. I came down when I heard people arguing." Emilia answered and nodded towards the boys. "What's going on?"

"Adam turned me into Spike." Chase spoke first with narrowed eyes. "If that didn't happen, you wouldn't have gotten hurt."

Emilia huffed out a breath before being engulfed in a hug by Adam. "I'm so sorry, Emmy. I didn't mean for you to get hurt. If I didn't make Chase turn into Spike, you wouldn't have had to step in and help me." He rambled through his apology.

"Adam, it's fine. You didn't know." She reassured the boy as he pulled away. She looked around at everyone else and sighed. "Okay, look. Yes, what Adam did was stupid. But, seeing Chase working on the chemistry project with Sabrina, he acted in jealousy because he liked her."

"You were jealous?" Chase furrowed his brows at Adam who nodded.

"Adam, you had no reason to be jealous." Emilia sighed at him. "Sabrina came to talk to me before and said she only asked Chase to help with her project as a friend. She had no interest in Chase, and he didn't have an interest in her, okay? So in the future, maybe let's not include Spike in your revenge plans."

Emilia turned to her boyfriend. "And Chase, stop blaming yourself because I got hurt. It's a small cut, I'm fine. You didn't know what you were doing, so clearly it's all Spike's fault. Just be glad that I'm okay and stop arguing, you two! Now, apologise to each other and hug it out."

The three adults shared a look of surprise as Bree and Leo smirked, watching as the boys turned to each other with a sigh before doing as Emilia said.

"I don't know why you guys look surprised." Bree scoffed at the adults. "Emilia's always the one to solve our sibling arguments. She encouraged me and Chase to stop fighting that one time." She turned to the boy next to her. "Leo, remember when Chase once dressed as someone from a marching band?"

"That was a good day." Leo laughed.

"Well, she is meant to look after those three. She has better parenting skills then we do." Douglas chimed in with a smile.

"And that is something I can agree on." Donald chuckled.

"Okay, I get it. I'm amazing, now can you all just shush and let's watch a movie." The Hunter girl interrupted, making the others cheer.

"I'll get the snacks!" Leo called as Bree followed him into the kitchen.

"I'll get the drinks!"

Emilia laughed as Chase approached her slowly, wrapping his arm around her shoulder before he pulled her closer to him and kissed the top of her head. "I love you." He mumbled into her hair.

"I love you too, bub." Emilia grinned, kissing him softly on the lips before jumping to her favourite spot on the couch — the corner, with Chase next to her.

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