#stopdany

“What, you think a little thing like being publicly humiliated in front a few snobby Auradonian kids is enough to keep me away? Nah, Gi, you may have been dumb enough to trust them and fall for their pranks, but I know that when the time comes, your revenge will be sweet. And I, for one, would loooooove to be on your team when that goes down, let me tell you.”

“But what does it mean?” Riley asked, wishing Maya were there to tell her how she felt. But she wasn’t; it was just her, her and Zay, sitting in the bay window, where every important conversation ever seemed to happen. Her dad let Zay in with no problem, the same way he let Farkle in -- there was no chasing, no yelling, no shoe stealing. Not the way there was with Lucas.

Because Lucas was different... wasn’t he? Riley liked Lucas, and only Lucas.

But Jexica? She was a whole nother story. For a whole month now, Riley came home everyday, signed onto her fake profile, and talked to Zay until it was time for bed, smiling wider than she remembered smiling since they’d all visited Texas last year and everything had started to go wrong. She’d thought it was nothing, but sitting here, confessing to Zay that she was the Jexica he had liked so much all this time, it was... weird. The sense of missing something that wasn’t even totally gone yet, and Riley had kept rambling about how she liked talking to him more than anybody else, and she didn’t want it to stop. 

She turned to Zay, her eyes wide with panic as the truth she’d known for the past two and a half years started to seep away, and Riley started to realize that just like she’d grown and changed, her feelings had too. Fear crept into her voice as she asked Zay, one more time, “Zay, what does it mean that being Jexica and talking all night to you is one of my favorite things in the whole world now?”

Jonas swallowed hard at Lulu’s question; he’d took her out on this fancy dinner to tell her good news, but the more she expressed her insecurities about Ashley’s boyfriend moving away and dumping her, and whatever else was going on back at high school, the more he feared she might not take the news well. “No, of course that’s not going to happen to us,” he promised, picking his girlfriend’s hand up off the table and pressing a kiss to the back of it. “But, um -- I’m going to have to prove it to you, sooner than I thought, See, there’s this company in Japan...”

“Too desperate. Riles, I get that it’s hard to come across fellow vampires in this world, but you're going to scare off the first one you meet if you say that. Not that it matters -- you’ve got the only two people you need already anyway. I just got used to Ghost Boy, what do you have to go and make a new friend for anyways?”

Caleb glared at Kory. It had started out as just joking around, him begging to drive the van and making empty threats if he didn’t get to, the way he always did, but for some reason, something in him had snapped at their leader’s words. “Every other person on this team has quit at least once except me -- but poor, stupid Caleb, he doesn’t get to leave if he needs time off or if he wants to go do something else? No way, dude. If I want to leave for something, I’m leaving. Promises, schmomises.”

“But we didn’t save them, Maya,” Riley lamented. Their missions didn’t always go according to plan, and they sometimes messed up a lot of things along the way, but people in Townsville had always been safe when the Powerpuff Girls were done. “How can I feel like I didn’t do anything wrong if we let somebody get really hurt?”

They hacked the rio medical files, I think