Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 6

"That must be her." Patch whispered before silently coming over to the sleeping girl.

"Wait..." Cherry whispered herself, holding him back by collar.

Someone creaked the door open in a very grotesque and horrifying witch costume. As the girl slept, the moon crescent necklace glowed as a gloved hand came up to her, but she woke up instantly before she could get scared. The girl removed the mask, showing a rather young girl.

"Surprise!" the younger girl quietly cheered.

"You can't be a princess for Halloween like every other little girl in the world?" the older girl glared at her.

"Hey! Hey! You were supposed to surprise her, not scare half to death." Another older girl said.

"Now?" Patch whispered.

The girl smiled in mild amusement as she sat on her bed and saw a bowl with a birthday candle in it. She then looked back to Cherry and Patch. "Who are those two?" she asked, frowning slightly. "And why did they come to see me in my pajamas?"

"Uh-Oh, what do we do, Cherry?" Patch whispered so low that only Cherry could hear.

Cherry shrugged.

"Did you let them in?" the older girl narrowed her eyes to the younger girl.

The younger girl shrugged.

"Umm..." Cherry stepped forward. "We're sorry for intruding, we're new in town and we just wanted to see if anyone loved Halloween as much as we did..."

"Well, I have a pretty good excuse..." the older girl shrugged with a smile as she took her bowl. "Halloween is also my birthday."

Patch, not wanting to surprise any of them, simply barked while smiling and then goes up and begins to lick her as his sign of saying happy birthday.

The older girl chuckled. "Thanks..." she smiled to the Dalmatian puppy. "What's his name?"

"Patch." Cherry stated.

"Hi, Patch!" the older girl smiled. "I'm Alexandra, but you can call me 'Alex'."

Patch barks and sits while panting and smiling.

Alex chuckled.

"Happy Birthday," the oldest female told Alex. "We're serving you breakfast-on-the-couch to celebrate."

"I made it," the youngest girl said. "Strawberry yogurt, cereal, an candy corn." she then listed the ingredients.

'Ooh.' Patch thought to himself while looking at the breakfast.

"Aww..." Alex cooed, then blew out the candle with a smile. "Thanks for remembering."

"Oh," the older female remembered something important. "My mom says she will see you tonight. She was afraid she'd miss her bus waiting for YOU to wake up..." she then walked away, crudely.

"Why's that?" Cherry asked.

"Because she sleeps practically forever!" the older girl rolled her eyes.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Alex said, placing the bowl down. "I was writing in my journal and before I knew it, it was after midnight."

"I don't know when you sleep," the older girl glanced to her. "Your mom always says..."

"'Whenever the moon's up, I'm up, it's like I'm part werewolf'." Alex said.

"Do you miss your mom?" the younger girl asked.

"Nicole!" the older girl called in a scolding tone.

"What?" the little girl pouted.

Alex batted her eyes a little. "Yeah..." she said softly then, playing with her necklace. "I really do... Thanks for asking." she then tickled Nicole to clear up the sad situation.

Patch looked up at Alex, sad and confused, not knowing what happened to her mother. Alex then talked with the older girl about birthday plans, Alex insisted on looking for a job, deciding to do something different since she was 21-years-old now.

"This is really good!" Alex told Nicole.

"Thanks, Alex," Nicole smiled softly. "Happy Birthday."

"Excuse me a moment." Alex told Cherry and Patch, excusing herself to get dressed for the day.

"We have got to make sure that they are reunited." Patch whispered.

Cherry nodded. "We have to make them run into each other somehow..." she tried to think of ways for it to be possible. "But how?"

"I don't know, but I hope their guardians are going to be helping us get them to reunite." Patch whispered.

"I hope so..." Cherry sighed.

Alex and Camyrn were going go through their normal days, except this time with their new friends.