Book 3. Choices through time and space.

Enter, Rio, the Ice Queen!

A,N: Well here is the next chapter. By the way we have over 1000 reads and 28 hearts! At least on the other website I having. Lol. Thank you so much anyway. I am still so proud that I actually got many reads on this site too. Along with all the comments. I just wanna say I appreciate them so much! Thank you. By the way, if you were wondering why a certain character can recover so quickly, by Zaira's 'cough' punches, is it because a certain rock kinda creatures have a high pain tolerance. Well have fun reading.

Normal p.o.v.

The project week was officially over at Heartland academy, and Artimus Stanley rushed out of the classroom with the biggest smile Zaira had seen on him yet. She wasn't surprised however. Not with the A they both had scored. Zaira had asked Astral for advice, on how to handle her partner, and Astral told her everyone had their own strength, and it was her job to find the use for those different strengths. So Zaira had finally come to terms with Art's drawing personality, and agreed to his idea with the WDC, but they were doing things her way. It was modern history in some way. That resolved in them going on many interviews, and Art drawing awesome pictures of each individual. After all that kid loved to draw. That kept his focus on this project, which was one of the reasons they Aced it. That and her crowning achievement. Getting Kite to do an interview. They interviewed every WDC finalist they could find, including herself of course, and the committee. Vetrix was nowhere to be found though, and Shark's interview was made by Art himself, since Zaira still hadn't forgiven him completely as of yet. Their relationship was still in a deep mess, even though Yuma and the others tried with all their might to make them make up. That however just made everything worse, since no one forced Zaira to do anything! However school soon returned to normal..

Shark's p.o.v.

Late in the evening. At Shark's place.

"Ahr come on! Come on! Pick up!" Shark sneered annoyed and tapped with his fingers at the desk in his room.

Seconds later he tsked annoyed when he entered the answering machine for the, he didn't know how many times now. Zaira's voice did ring through his gazer. That she wasn't able to pick up and blab, blab, blab. The sentence ended with that if this was Shark, he dared put a message on her gazer. Then the familiar beep sound could be heard. Shark just sneered and turned off the gazer.

"Damn it miss Stubborn. How can we ever make up if you are too stubborn to pick up my calls!" he sneered angrily and slammed his hand at the desk.

He felt like life was so unfair right now. Okay, he may have messed up and said the taboo words to her, but she couldn't be angry at him forever. Shark let out an angry cry now.

"Reginald?!" a voice suddenly said and Shark flinched a little at that. He turned around to see Rio at the doorstep. Shark sighed inside. He had forgotten Rio had moved in here once again, and that she was healthy enough to start school soon.

"What?!" He sneered out in a cold tone "I am in the middle of something".

"Well whatever that something is, it clearly involves a lot of screaming" Rio pointed out and chuckled a little "Wanna talk about it?". Shark glared angrily at her.

"I don't need your help Rio" He replied firmly "I can handle this on my own".

"Oh yeah right, says someone who comes home like a wild shark on rampage every day" Rio replied and grinned again "You can't hide anything from me Reginald. So either you tell me what is wrong, or you pay for a new front door".

Shark glared angrily at her, but then in the end, he sighed and began telling Rio everything.

"So let me get this straight, you ditched a date because of me" Rio said and looked firmly at him. Shark nodded slightly at that. Rio sighed deeply "Oh Reginald, don't you know it is almost illegal to break up a date with a girl. Especially on the day you are supposed to go, and then for some petty reason as visiting me in the hospital. I could wait one night". Shark glared at her, but didn't say anything else.