A/N: Hello there, it's been a while since an update for this story, huh? Well, AnnaleaseTurner and I started this RP back up again a couple of days ago, but unfortunately, after this chapter, there'll be another hiatus. This is a Halloween chapter in honor of the crazy traditions our creepy and kooky family shares. Remember, we only own our OC's and everyone else is Charles Addams. Read & Review!

October neared quicker than anyone may or may not have anticipated. Penelope was excited with it almost being Halloween. This also meant that the kids in school could dress up in their costumes and walk around the playground as a parade for the other grades. Some tricky teenagers were loading up on egg cartons and toilet paper for childish pranks, even more childish than dressing up and ringing door bells for candy. Amanda was speaking with her family, saying that she was going to have to go out-of-town a bit during the Halloween holiday and trusted her husband to not let their daughter go out for candy and dress up. Payton dressed up as a colourful business accountant... something that wasn't liked much by the family, so being the perfect costume. Penelope was dressed as a murdered princess, she even had red splatters over herself to look as though she had either been skinned alive or stabbed to death in a way familiar as Julius Caesar.

"I remember when I got older for Halloween," Wednesday told the children as they were getting in costume. "I wore my normal dress to be a serial killer, they look like everyone else."

Payton smirked a tiny bit. He picked up a briefcase. "Board room meeting at 3:00." he said, emotionlessly.

"Boring!" Penelope nearly chirped.

Payton hid a shudder at the chirpiness, but looked up at his mother.

"You look very sharp, knock them dead in school." Wednesday told her foster son.

"Not literally this time." Gomez warned the boy about last time when he took that phrase seriously.

"Yes mother, I understand, Grandfather..." he said. He knew that now, after having knocked a person off the monkey bars.

"That's great paint, Penelope, looks so realistic." Gomez smiled at his granddaughter's blood splatters.

"Grandmother put it on," the dark girl smiled proudly. "I don't know where she got the paint though..."

Payton looked and shrugged.

"I hope you two will do alright out there, and remember, when you get home, Halloween is an important tradition in our house and we'll do anything you want." Wednesday told the twins.

"Yes, Aunt Wednesday." Penelope nodded respectively.

"Yes, Mother." Payton agreed.

"Good." Wednesday didn't really show it, but she was actually proud of the twins and how far they had come to become true Addamses.

Penelope looked out the window and saw that it was actually a cloudy day and looked to be in the middle of the night in contrast to a bright shiny day before Halloween night, a true autumn person's favorite celebration.

Payton looked at Penelope. "Let us go then." he said, monotonously.

Penelope looked at her brother and nodded. "Yes, of course, the sooner the better."

Payton nodded and inclined his head to his mother and grandfather. Pugsley came along with his hands filed with the gruesome treats he and his family liked. Penelope walked out with them, their feet crushing and crackling the crisp, nearly dead autumn leaves along the pavement. There was a mailman who seemed very hesitant about delivery to the Addams family.

Payton looked at him. "Post..." he said simply and held out his hand to the man.

"Aww... You're actually kind of cute..." the mailman cooed at little Payton, not knowing how suicidal that was to say to a boy like him.

Payton's face darkened. He however took the post and handed it to Penelope. He then slipped on a hand buzzer and held it out, it not being visible. Penelope took the few letters and a brown box that was addressed to the house, but on the outside it said for both of the twins.

"Happy Halloween, kid." the mailman smiled softly, and shook his hand, then jolting at the sudden buzzing and was nearly getting electrocuted, more extreme than the childish prank everyone knew. There was even steam coming out from him and his hair looked like a heavy metal guitar player now.

Payton gave a chilling scary smile. "Happy Halloween..." he said icily.

The mailman twitched in his vehicle, a little stunned.

"I believe that was the tricking in the trick or treat, brother." Penelope said as she handed the letters to the adults and kept the package.

Payton looked at her. "I know." he said simply.

Penelope looked down from him and looked at the package. "I wonder what it is...?"

"You can either take it to school with you and open it at break or you can wait until you get home." Wednesday advised them the way Gomez and Morticia did whenever she got something in the mail before going to school.

Payton allowed his sister to choose what they would do.

"Take it with us... Maybe we could use it after school tonight." Penelope shrugged.

"That's good thinking, Lope." Gomez smiled down at her.

Payton nodded. Pugsley gave the two a small bag of the treats each.

"Thank you, Dad." Penelope took her bag after putting the package in her backpack to make things easier to carry so she could keep her hands free.

Payton took it with a small nod.

"See you both tonight." Wednesday told the twins before Lurch drove by to take them to school like always.

Penelope gave a nod and joined her brother to ride to school. She just loved this holiday, she was sure her relatives did too, but they weren't as animated about it as she was. She never knew or understood why. Well, Pugsley was but that was just a given. Payton looked out bored. Penelope was eager to see Alice again, even if they were having a forbidden friendship. Payton looked at her and then ahead again.

Alice, meanwhile, was forced to dress up as a fairy by Amanda. Alice's father was in another room, getting a camera to take a picture of the girl before taking her to school.

Alice pouted. "I don't want to be a fairy..." she muttered.

The man of the house came with a smile and shuddered at Alice's fairy costume, but put on a smile. "Oh, sweetie... You're going to win all the candy in the neighborhood." he said, encouragingly to get on his wife's good side.

Alice crossed her arms.

Amanda smiled at her husband then gave Alice a nudge. "Smile, sweetheart, don't slouch and keep your arms from crossing." she said.

The man took out his camera and had it aimed for Alice and he tried to allow her to get it over with, though he had to agree that the fairy costume seemed a little too juvenile and not fitting for his and Amanda's daughter.

Alice did as her mother said and faked a smile. Amanda frowned a little, but at least Alice was smiling. FLASH! went the camera. "Okay, that's good." he smiled gently at the two women in his life.

Alice looked annoyed she had to go as a fairy.

It didn't take too long until the Addams twins were at the school and Alice's father had dropped her off. The school was decorated for the scary holiday and a lot of children were dressed up as they should be. Some were scary creatures, but didn't look too scary and a lot of the girls were either princesses from Disney films or fairies like Alice. At least Penelope had creativity in her costume and called herself Princess Di after her death. Alice scowled at all the babyish and too bright outfits. Payton looked at the others, disgusted. Penelope wrinkled her nose at some of their fellow students.

"Try to have a good day, pumpkin, Mom won't be home tonight." Alice's father said gently, before driving back home to allow her to have a good day at school, even if she was forced to become a fairy.

Alice waved and huffed "Ugh, this costume..." she muttered.

There was a boy dressed as a scout and he had some popcorn. Payton looked around.

The boy scout went up to Payton. "Would you like to buy some boy scout popcorn?"

"Is it made from real boy scouts?" Penelope asked, before finding Alice.

Alice saw Penelope. "Hi..." she said.

Payton awaited the answer.

The boy blinked and walked away from the twins.

"Alice!" Penelope rushed to the girl, then stepped back, shivering. "Ugh, that costume is so atrocious! Oh, no offense..." she bit her lip, hoping that it wouldn't make the girl want to stop being friends with her.

"Don't worry, I hate it too... Mom forced it on me." her friend said.

"It's so unflattering..." Penelope sighed, but cheerfully smiled, even if she represented one of the most infamous controversies in the world. At least she wasn't something offensive or hurtful like a Muslim terrorist. "I'm Princess Diana after the Paris car crash."

"Very creative." Alice said.

"Yeah, this paint looks so realistic, my Grandmother did it," Penelope smiled to her best friend in school. "I love Halloween."

Alice chuckled.

"I wish you could come over..." Penelope sighed, knowing how Amanda forbade Alice from going out and getting candy like a normal kid.

"Well, Mom is out tonight, and I could ask Daddy." she said.

"You could always come to our house," Penelope suggested. "We do a lot of great things."

Alice smiled. "I'd like that... But, I can't wear this..." she mumbled.

"Maybe we could get you something better after school." Penelope shrugged, trying not to poke her eyeballs out with a pencil with the bright colors displayed in front of her.

Alice nodded. "I'll ask Daddy..." she said.

"I hope he says yes." Penelope nodded as well.

There was a familiar boy who was dressed a lot like Payton in his normal, everyday clothes. Payton looked at the boy. He raised an eyebrow. The boy turned to Payton, revealing to be Jeffry in costume.

"I do believe I feel honored." Payton mumbled.

"I can change if you want... I just thought it'd be cool." Jeffry shrugged to Payton, but smiled apologetically. He really hoped he could be friends with the boy, even if he was very dark and demented.

Payton held out a hand, the one what was free of the buzzer. Jeffry took his hand. Payton shook his hand once, then let go.

Jeffry nodded, then looked at Payton's costume. "You look like my dad when he goes to work."

The school bell then rang, summoning the students inside to start their day and put off idle chit-chat for now. Alice linked arms with Penelope and went into class. Payton walked inside too.

Ms. Shimmer did not appear to be in the classroom, but the school principal was as the students filed in one-by-one. He wasn't wearing a costume himself, he found it to be very childish and a pointless waste of time. Payton and Alice looked at the headmaster.

"Hello, children..." the principal greeted, nearly cold. He seemed to not really like his job and looking after children in a schoolhouse.

Payton looked coldly at the principal too. Alice sat down at the table where Penelope, Payton and Jeffrey sat.

"Aww... Aren't we cute? All dressed up to barge into people's houses for candies?" the principal glanced at the students.

Penelope had an unsettling feeling about the man in charge of the school, he seemed very mean-spirited, even more than her Aunt Wednesday and that was saying something. Payton was planning to destroy the principal.

"Where's Ms. Shimmer?" Jeffry asked, blinking.

"Ms. Shimmer had to take some personal time away from teaching," the principal said, not removing his sharp accented voice. "She said something about a child taking over the classroom."

Some of the students visibly shook in front of Payton as he said that. Payton didn't even blink. He looked dead on at the Principal. Alice looked at the headmaster, frowning.

"I bet you're all ready to get back to your homes for your trick or treating adventure tonight, but you're all in school now and it's time to get to work, pop quiz on long division!" the principal laughed darkly.

"But, sir, we're in first grade, we don't know how to do that!" a girl dressed as a bunny cried.

"Oh, what a shame... I won't mind seeing you all fail miserably." the principal smirked back.

Payton raised an eyebrow a fraction.

"Sir, you can't do that... My mom is leader of the PTA group..." Alice says calmly.

"Oh, stop your whining... You're lucky I don't give you all detention." the principal nearly threatened, then handed the papers to the students. "Tell you what, if any one of you can solve this paper, I'll let you all have recess all day."

Penelope took her paper and smiled to herself. Math was her strong suit and she was able to fill out the paper like it was preschool addition. Payton strugled on just one question. Alice frowned and was trying to solve them. The other students were just as miserable. Penelope turned to see her brother having issues. She explained the problems solved in the best way she could for him to understand since this was a breeze for her, despite being only six years old. Payton nodded his thanks, finishing the one hard problem.

Alice found it too hard to do, math was not her strong point. Penelope decided to also help Alice. Payton placed his pencil down. Alice smiled at her friend as she was helped. Jeffry did some problems, but he had pretty good guesses. Penelope smiled at her twin and friend, pleased she helped them.

Payton waited. Alice may not have got them all right but she had some done. The principal was sitting behind the desk, not noticing what the Addams twins had done along with their friends, Jeffry and Alice. Payton rested his chin on his hands, looking forward asleep with his eyes open again. Alice placed her pencil down.

"Too bad this is faux..." Penelope took Alice's wand that came with her fairy costume and observed it.

Alice smiled slightly.

The principal stood up from behind his desk. "Pencils down!" he commanded sharply, making the students do as told. He chuckled as he collected Payton and Penelope's papers and was shocked. He saw that they got nearly every answer correct. He stared at the papers, then at the two black and white haired twins.

"I believe you owe us an early recess, sir." Penelope stated, sounding quite mature.

Alice nodded. Payton merely seemed to look at the headmaster.

The principal sighed in defeat. "Very well, class dismissed..." he mumbled, putting his palm to his face.

Penelope collected the package from the mail and left with Alice to go to the playground. Jeffry stood up from his table and pushed in his chair to go with Payton while the other students went out the room, laughing cheerfully to an early recess. Alice went off with Penelope. Payton merely stood up and filed out with Jeffry.

Penelope took out the package, eager to open it now. "I can't wait any longer!" she nearly squealed.

"What's that?" Jeffry noticed the box in the girl's hands.

"It's a package from family outside of our town." Penelope explained as she sat down to open it.

Alice sat next to her. Payton woke up and watched.

Penelope opened the package and saw a box wrapped in plastic. "Man, I hate security postal service! Does anyone have a knife or something?"

Alice shook her head.

"You don't?" Jeffry raised an eyebrow at the girl.

Payton took his ruler out of the briefcase and pulled it apart to reveal a blade.

"Thanks." Penelope took it and used it along the plastic to get the box open. The box had a piece of paper in it and Penelope took the paper to read it.

'Dear, Payton and Penelope,

Have you ever wanted to have your very own pet but the store had nothing you were anxious to purchase? Well, fear no more, because on the back of this letter is a set of instructions I want you two to follow, I discovered it myself when I was about your ages without your mother/aunt's and father/uncle's help, but with a little help from my mother. Follow these rules carefully and you two shall become proud pet owners like your grandmother with her exotic plants.

Best wishes, Pubert.'

"Uncle Pubert..." Payton muttered.

"I thought Aunt Wednesday ate him..." Penelope murmured, but was anticipating to try to follow the code on the back of the letter.

Payton looked at his sister. "This shall be... Interesting." he said.

"Wow, make you own pet!" Jeffry sounded excited. "I wonder if my dad would let me have a fire-breathing turtle..."

"I could make you one..." Payton then told his friend.

Jeffry looked back, smiling.

"Would it be so horrible if we tried to do it in school?" Penelope asked, nervously of what their parents might do if they would hear about this at home.

"Well, if it caused panic, but not much harm, Mother wouldn't mind..." Payton said.

Alice looked a little confused.

"That's true," Penelope nodded. "Where do we get such ingredients."

"I'd go to the school science lab." Jeffry suggested, knowing how there were very unusual things in that room.

Payton looked at him. "Let us go then." he said.

Alice stood up and helped Penelope up. Jeffry made sure no one was watching them and went to get the door open for them. Penelope walked with Alice and kept the paper close to herself so no one would see it or think it was trash. Payton followed Jeffry. Alice smiled a little at her friend.

Jeffry saw the science classroom door was conveniently opened. The science teacher of the school stepped out and looked around. He was either an actual mad scientist or that was his costume, but he wore a white lab coat with yellow rubber gloves with wild snow-white hair and had brown eyes. He looked a little elderly. Penelope and the others hid, to avoid being seen by the man. Payton's eyes glinted with inspiration. This man looked like a true mad scientist. Alice covered her mouth to quieten her breathing.

"Who's there?" the man sounded like he could sense the children. He looked around to find them.

Penelope blinked, but said nothing.

Payton was itching to go talk to the man, only Penelope actually able to see that though. Alice kept quiet.

The man looked and found the children. He wasn't annoyed or mad at them, just surprised. "Aren't you four a little too young for advanced chemistry?"

"Oh, please don't let us get in trouble!" Jeffry nearly moaned.

Penelope was still quiet.

"I actually am interested in science myself... I have a small lab set at home, sir." Payton said, his voice almost sounding like it had emotion. His eyes glinted with actual happiness at being able to speak with one of his new role models.

"Really now?" the science teacher sounded intrigued. "I suppose you'd like to come in."

"If you don't mind, sir... We were thinking of making something." Penelope added in.

"If you don't mind, sir." Payton said, sounding almost as respectful as he did to his grandfather which was a lot.

Alice smiled a little.

"Mind? Of course, I don't mind, come along then, though I can't say I've seen children your age creating things." the science teacher let them inside, actually seeming to be nice and friendly unlike anyone else who was almost a jerk and wasn't a member of the Addams family.

"Our uncle sent us some instructions about making our very own pets." Penelope explained.

Jeffry looked around the classroom in awe seeing the big desks with stools behind them, a lot of shelves had the best science literature, and there were beakers, bottles, and microscopes almost everywhere. The chalkboard was even engraved with the Periodic Table of Elements. It looked more like a college or high school room than for younger children. Payton looked around and if he was one for showing emotions would be giggling with glee. Penelope looked at the recipe list and looked around for the chemicals.

"Do you kids need any help?" the science teacher asked as he went to hand them goggles if they wanted to see anything.

Payton put the goggles on. "If you want to help sir, you are quite welcome too." he said.

"Well, I am a professional." the science teacher told the boy.

Penelope slid hers on and handed a pair to Alice. Jeffry had his on and he felt smarter. Payton nodded. Alice put hers on, but didn't get too close.

"Please excuse the mess, it's not often I have students willingly join my class older than you lot," the science teacher said as he cleared a desk for them. "Kids these days just don't get interested in science, though when I was a little older than you all, science became a passion of mine. Funny how things work when you do something you love when you have no one else to share it with."

Payton wondered it he should bring an experiment of his into school the next time to show the science teacher.

The science teacher read some of the ingredients. "Let me tell you kids, your uncle sounds like a very interesting man, I haven't heard of most of these ingredients used to make pets, but maybe we could give it a shot." he shrugged, then allowed the twins to make their separate concoctions.

Jeffry stood back with Alice as this was happening. Payton got to work, the air around him seeming to crackle with madness. Penelope wasn't as mad in the mad scientist bit as her brother, but was excited. She added in the last drop of a purple, fizzing chemical and dropped it in, making a tiny foom appear over the beaker. Payton did pretty much the same only a little faster.

"According to my calculations, when they use a volt of electricity... We're all gonna see some serious stuff." the science teacher told Jeffry and Alice as they watched Penelope and Payton at work.

Alice looked awe-stricken. Payton got the battery that was used and placed the wires in before setting it on to electrify the concoction. Penelope looked at her brother, gave a nod with him, then they sent the electricity to their respective beakers which powered up in that room, but caused every other room of the school's lights to go out. Payton allowed a brief dark but awkward laugh. Alice shivered. Jeffry blinked at Payton's laugh, never hearing him really laugh before.

The beakers were glowing, Payton's was glowing bright green like it was radioactive acid and Penelope's glowed a bright purple like it was alien snot mucus of sorts. Penelope's beaker shook a little and it fell to the side. It had steam coming out of it and there came a foot that looked like a rabbit's foot. It grew another foot and it was trying to get the beaker off. Penelope blinked and grabbed the end of the beaker to help her new pet and removed it to show a cute and cuddly gelatinous bunny rabbit. Payton reacted the same only his became a creepy looking frog. Alice smiled at the bunny.

Penelope blinked and took out a treat for the rabbit. "I wasn't really expecting that..."

The bunny rabbit was then shown to have razor-sharp teeth like a piranha and devoured the treat quickly and nosily like it was a fresh piece of meat.

"Wow." Jeffry blinked.

Payton watched his frog. The frog saw a fly and a barbed tongue shot out to eat it.

"Oh, she's so precious." Penelope held her bunny rabbit as it was still eating and devouring the treat and licked its muzzle clean.

"What a couple of interesting children..." the science teacher blinked at the twins.

Payton held a hand out. The frog jumped into it a croaked.

"I assume you both know that pets are a big responsibility, especially those two." the science teacher warned them, serving as a mentor to them more than their regular teacher or principal ever would be.

"Oh, yes, our grandmother taught us about responsibility with her own pets." Penelope nodded as she stroked her bunny, despite the creature being very slimy and disgusting, but she didn't mind.

Payton nodded. The frog jumped on his head and sat there.

The science teacher looked up at the frog, not sure what to make of it. "Hello there, amphibian..."

"What are you going to call your pet?" Jeffry asked the girl twin.

"I'm not sure," Penelope shrugged as she held her new animal. "Probably Calpurnia..."

"I like that name..." Alice chips in.

"She was an ancestor of ours," Penelope explained. "She was burned at the stake for witchcraft in 1706. Grandmother told me she danced naked and enslaved a minister. Aunt Wednesday looked up to her."

Jeffry bit his lip, but nodded once. "Cool." he was never really what to make of his new friends, he found them interesting and disturbing at the same time, but at least now he had friends this year.

Alice blinked, but smiled. Payton merely looked emotionless. The frog croaked happily.

Payton looked at the teacher. "Thank you, sir." he started.

"Such brilliant minds I could mold..." the science teacher smiled fondly at the twins. "Do you two do experiments often?"

"When not playing or having family celebrations, sometimes." Penelope said as she allowed Alice to pet her bunny.

Alice gently stroked the rabbit.

"It's my favorite hobby, I plan to do a brain experiment..." Payton said, in a monotonous tone, as usual.

"Fascinating," the science teacher was amazed by the twins. "What sort of brain experiment?"

"To see if I can expand the brain's capacity to learn." Payton explained.

The frog croaked and jumped over to Jeffry.

"Fascinating." the science teacher was intrigued by the six-year-old's intelligence.

The rabbit blinked at her master's friend and shivered, bearing its fangs.

"No, Calpurnia, Alice is my friiiieeend..." Penelope tried to soothe and calm the mutated creature.

"I won't hurt you, Calpurnia." Alice said gently.

The rabbit settled down and was now calm around Alice. The girl smiled. Penelope smiled as Calpurnia and Alice were getting along now. Alice smiled happily.

"This has been a good day at school." Penelope smiled at her pet and best friend.

Calpurnia seemed to had purred at the girls. Alice giggled gently.

The boy with glasses blinked and he remained calm as the frog was around him. "Hello, little fella..." he greeted sheepishly.

The frog jumped onto Jeffry's shoulder, croaking.

Jeffry blinked a bit at the sudden croaking, but smiled at the creature, just hoping a fly wouldn't come out and its tongue would stab him.

The science teacher marveled at the twins, hoping they could all become friends. "You and your sister are quite interesting, Payton, I look forward to teaching you in the future."

"Is there no way to start today?" Payton asked.

The frog merely nuzzled Jeffry.

"I'm afraid not today, but this can count as your first day of my class." the teacher said, sounding apologetic.

Jeffry smiled at the frog, but shook some chills around his body, it felt unusual, but tolerable.

Payton nodded. "Anphi show your gratitude..." he said.

The frog jumped over to the teacher and croaked.

"Great Scott!" the science teacher uttered out, surprised at the frog for doing that so suddenly, but smiled.

Jeffry felt slight force as the frog hopped from him to the older man, but he was fine.

Calpurnia seemed to be withdrawn over something.

"You okay, girl?" Penelope cooed. "Are you thirsty?"

Payton nodded.

"What do mutant rabbits drink?" Penelope asked herself, though she was sure Jeffry and Alice wouldn't be able to answer that question.

The science teacher twinged and saw he had a cut in between his fingers. "Damn!" he muttered, hoping the kids wouldn't imitate him or feel hurt that he cursed in pain.

Calpurnia blinked and glanced to see the fresh blood drawing from the man's fingers and looked peckish.

Payton looked at the rabbit. "Penelope..." he warned.

Alice looked too. None of them seemed worried about the curse.

Penelope blinked and took her pet over to the bleeding man. "Care to give up a pint or two?" she asked like a next-door neighbor coming to visit and ask for a cup of sugar.

"I don't know if that's such a good idea... I saw a movie like this, only it wasn't a bunny, it was a killer plant..." Jeffry's tone sounded haunting.

Payton simply went over to the teacher and took his handkerchief and held it over the cut. "Not this teacher..." he said simply.

Alice shivered at Jeffry's tone.

"Sorry." Jeffry saw the normal girl's nervousness.

Alice gave a smile.

"Is that better?" Jeffry smiled a little.

Alice nodded, cheered up again now.

Calpurnia whimpered a bit, but some of the handkerchief allowed some of the blood to drop into her mouth and she felt a little bit better.

"Maybe we should get Daddy to go to the blood bank before this evening." Penelope blinked as she tried to soothe her mutant pet.

Payton nodded. He handed the handkerchief to the rabbit after the teacher's cut had stopped bleeding. Calpurnia suckled on the handkerchief a bit like it was fresh mother milk.

"Thanks, Payton..." Penelope said softly.

"Now you are safe, sir, and the rabbit gets her needed drink." he said simply.

"Thank you." the teacher said, allowing himself to heal and take a quick break.

Penelope removed the handkerchief as Calpurnia finished her feeding and put the bunny over her shoulder to 'burp' it. As she did, the bunny burped up some flames outside the window, making some of the kids on the playground scream. "Sorry!"

Payton raised an eyebrow. Alice looked at Anphi. Penelope patted Calpurnia's back a last couple of times and then set the bunny on the floor to allow her to hop around.

"So, you named him Anphi?" Jeffry looked at the frog as well, asking Payton.

Payton nodded. "Yes." he said simply.

"That's an interesting name." Jeffry looked back at the boy.

Penelope looked outside to see some kids together in their outfits pretending to be who they were dressed up as to make a game out of it. Payton cleaned up. Alice cooed at Calpurnia. The lunch bell rang.

"Wow, time for food already?" Jeffry sounded surprised.

Penelope smiled at her pet and friend. Payton looked at the teacher. Alice looked surprised too.

"Well, I suppose you're all hungry, unfortunately, I don't allow eating in the classroom, I'm sorry, but it's the rules." the teacher told them apologetically, not wanting to kick them out, but it was a safety and health hazard.

Calpurnia hopped into Penelope's arms obediently and looked to her friends and brother to dismiss for meal time in school.

"Do you have lunch too, sir?" Alice asked.

Payton picked up Anphi.

"Yes, usually in he teacher's lounge." the teacher told her with a smile.

"Oh, yeah, the mysterious teacher's lounge..." Jeffry smirked as he held his stomach with it rumbling slightly.

Alice nodded once. "Oh, okay." she said.

"Why don't you all get your lunch and head back to class?" the teacher helped them out. "I really enjoyed your company."

"Thank you for having us." Penelope said, really grateful. She was always the more emotional twin due to being raised by Pugsley and he was more happy than his sister was.

Payton merely nodded. Anphi croaked his goodbye. Alice waved and led them out.

"Feel free to stop by anytime." the teacher told them, smiling.

Penelope nodded and carried Calpurnia out, following Alice.

Jeffry left with his friends to get his grub on, he was excited about the candied brownie his dad packed him for with his lunch.

Soon the kids were where they could eat lunch. Jeffry opened his lunch box and took out the brownie he was anxious about getting to.

"Hey, kid, that's a nice snack your mommy and daddy packed for me." a big kid dressed as a football player came and swiped it from him.

"Hey, that's not yours!" Penelope glared at the boy.

Payton looked at the boy. Anphi gave an evil croak and took the brownie back off him and returned it to Jeffry. Alice stood up squaring up to the bully.

The bully backed up, surprised at the frog. "Stupid toad! Stupid bunny!" he looked down at Penelope's pet and grabbed it by the ears.

"Oh, I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Jeffry warned.

The bully snorted. "Why not, four eyes?"

Calpurnia grew aggressive and bared her fangs, looking red-eyed and angered with the tormenting boy who was disrupting her master and friends. Payton blinked slowly. Anphi watched.

Alice giggled. "That's why..." she said. She tried to pry his hand off Calpurnia's ears.

Calpurnia nearly barked at the bully to make him go away.

"You're all freaks, freaks I tell you!" the bully backed up and ran away, learning to never bother Jeffry, Penelope, Alice, or Payton ever again and would learn to think twice before doing so.

Penelope pet the bunny as she watched the rogue boy run for his dear life, though no one was harming him at all.

Payton petted his frog. Anphi croaked happily. Alice sat back down. Penelope found a disgusting vegetable in her lunch box and gave it to Calpurnia as a reward.

"Thanks, frog." Jeffry smiled at the mutant for helping stand up for him.

"Anphi..." Payton reminded.

Anphi croaked happily.

"Anphi." Jeffry corrected himself.

Calpurnia nibbled at the vegetable like a normal rabbit. Penelope smiled, feeling like a mother.