Cherry and Atticus's Secret Life: chapter 18

The next morning came quicker than expected, but Atticus felt refreshed once he woke up.

Cherry was holding an orange in the hallways and kept staring at it. "Cupcake... Cupcake... Cupcake... CUPCAKE!"

"Cherry?" Mo asked. "What are you doing?"

"Trying to practice my dream-bending..." Cherry looked back to Mo. "I can make my fantasies and dreams into realities, but this orange won't change into a stupid cupcake!"

"Have you tried to focus on changing it into a cupcake?" Mo asked.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Cherry narrowed her eyes in deadpan.

"Oh, right." Mo said sheepishly.

"Hey, girls." Atticus said after arriving.

"Hey." Penelope greeted with a smirk.

"WHY WON'T YOU TURN INTO A CUPCAKE, YOU ANNOYING ORANGE?!" Cherry skyward screamed.

"Maybe you're trying to hard." Atticus said.

Cherry lowly growled and tossed the orange in the trashcan. "Meh."

"Maybe Salem can help..." Penelope shrugged as a suggestion. "He's a really good teacher."

"You look crashed," Mo said to Atticus. "Did you get to sleep okay?"

"Yeah, I did and luckily, I was able to finish both mine and Sabrina's homework." Atticus said.

"You really didn't have to do that..." Mo said to him gently.

"Trust me, if I know Salem, he'll either cut Sabrina some slack or if my theory is correct, he'll be a real teacher and let her do more homework with the rest of us." Atticus said.

"I go with the latter..." Cherry said. "Salem's been more of a mentor to Sabrina these days ever since Quigley left when Hilda and Zelda were free from their sentences as teenagers."

"Yeah." Atticus nodded.

"Why were they turned into teenagers again?" Penelope asked.

"Because your dad wanted to punish Hilda for breaking his heart on Valentine's Day," Cherry explained back in their middle school days before Drell and Hilda finally tied the knot, but they didn't live together just yet, but would in the near future and Sabrina would live with her parents now that they were both witches. "Seriously, your dad is such a drama queen sometimes."

"He's watching us." Atticus whispered to her.

"Oh, that's just an exaggeration..." Cherry said nonchalantly as it was revealed that they really were being watched on Drell's crystal ball. "He said he was gonna keep an eye on things with Penelope back in school, but he doesn't mean it."

"Wanna bet?" Drell scoffed as he was sitting in his chair until a meeting would start.

"Cherry, I'm serious." Atticus said.

"So am I..." Cherry leaned back against the locker behind her.

"Let's just hope that Salem doesn't get to be too harsh on Sabrina." Atticus said.

With that, they came to their magic classes in the door hidden from mortal eyes. Cassandra actually seemed to be on top of her lessons and was doing very good in classes other than making fun of the others. Well, not all of the others as she saw Atticus was doing just as good as she was and which annoyed her dearly. Cherry wrote in her dream journal while Salem was waiting for Sabrina to come in, she seemed to had been running late today.

Atticus, not wanting Sabrina to get in trouble, decided to give her a little boost and teleported the blonde witchling straight into the classroom without anyone looking. Sabrina looked surprised once she was in the classroom earlier than when she would normally come in. But she then saw Atticus secretly winking at her, telling her that he teleported her inside.

She then smiled and winked back as she took her seat. Salem greeted the class and gave another lecture. The students all took notes about how to use basic magical incarnations. Sabrina did not however, she was doodling hearts and flowers in her notebook. She still thought she would get good grades no matter what since Salem was her teacher now.

"But can anyone tell me who recast the levitation spell?" Salem asked.

Cassandra raised her hand as well as Atticus.

"Mm... Atticus." Salem pointed to the Wiccan boy.

Cassandra put her hand down with a low scowl, but said nothing.

"Leo the Lightweight in 1036," Atticus replied. "Just before the first warlock flight to the moon."

"Very good, Atticus." Salem nodded.

Atticus smiled.

"Maybe you should try answering a few questions, Sabrina." Salem said to the blonde witchling.

Sabrina looked up from her paper briefly with a small smile. "Oh, yeah, sure, as soon as you ask me where you can find the best burger in town."

Cherry groaned and face-palmed that reply. Atticus, Mo, and Penelope groaned the same way.

"This girl is so going to get a failing grade if I don't help her with her next chapter or chapters." Atticus face-palmed.

"Sabrina," Salem let out a not-so patient sigh. "How do you expect to ever become a full-fledged witch if you don't know your magical roots?"

"If I need to know something, I always just ask you." Sabrina replied innocently.

"Maybe, but now, he's your teacher and teachers don't make it easy for any student." Atticus said wisely.

"Trust me..." Cherry added to that statement. "I know..."

"Oh, come on, guys, Salem's not gonna be so hard with me," Sabrina defended. "I'm family!"

"Family or not, he's not going to cut you any slack." Atticus told her before the bell rang.

"All right, class, that's it for today," Salem told his students. "For tomorrow's homework, I want you to read the next two chapters in your textbook."

Cherry jotted that down real quick in her daily planner before she stood up with the others to leave the classroom.

"That's not so bad." Cassandra sincerely smiled.

"Yeah." Atticus sincerely smiled as well.

"Two whole chapters?!" Sabrina was outraged however and glared to the others, but specifically her fellow witch. "You can stop brown-nosing now, Cassandra, I'm not the teacher."

"I'm not brown-nosing," Cassandra replied. "This stuff really is cool."

"Yeah, check this out." Cherry took out an orange, she then shut her eyes for a moment and when she opened them again, the orange was now a cupcake like she had been struggling with earlier this morning.

"Whoa." Sabrina said, surprised.

"This class is actually kind of fun." Atticus smiled.

"Of course, next to Penelope, this History of Warlocks class is easy for me because all the great warlocks in history were our relatives." Cassandra added in as she took her leave.

"You could open your book and learn something, Sab..." Mo suggested as she followed after. "I suggest study hall so you don't fall behind."

"Yeah, I'll even study with you there and at your house so you won't have any trouble studying." Atticus said.

"Okay, I'll see you after school..." Sabrina sighed in defeat. "I'm gonna go check on Maritza."

"You do that..." Cherry said as she accidentally made dozens of cupcakes appear. "No, wait, STOP!"

"Looks like you need more practice." Penelope said.

"At least you can turn things into something else now..." Mo chuckled as she took some cupcakes and started to juggle them.

After a little while, the cupcakes stopped multiplying.

"Oh, thank goodness..." Cherry looked relieved. "Uh, cupcakes, anyone?"

The others laughed and took one cupcake each to help Cherry with the load.

"You've got a lot of practicing to do." Atticus smiled.

"Yeah, yeah..." Cherry said. "Let's see what happens when I go to sleep tonight."

"No study group tonight with me," Atticus reminded the others. "I'm gonna be with Sabrina."

"Maybe she'll actually learn something." Mo whispered about Sabrina, but hopefully would work out with Atticus being with her.

"You and me both." Atticus sighed.

The group went off until the final bell and they would go home, but Atticus would be at the Spellman house. And where Patch would go along with him.

"Come on, boy." Atticus cooed to his puppy gently.

Patch smiled and followed him to Sabrina's house once school ended for the day.