"Alex, do you understand?" Jerry asked his daughter in a stern voice.

"Yeah, I got it no magic unless completely necessary." She answered in an annoyed tone.

"Maybe I should take your wands with me. All three of you are proficiant in hand magic basics anyway."

A round of 'No dads' came from the three wizards sitting in front of him on the couch.

"Jerry, their keeping their wands, we agreed on this last night." Theresa's voice came from upstairs.

"But honey..." Jerry began but was quickly cut off.

"No, I feel safer leaving them here with their magic, as much as it terrifies me, it also calms me." Theresa finished as she reached the bottom of the stairs with her final bag.

"Alright, but if I find out any of you used magic inappropriately not only are you grounded, but you lose your wand for a month."

"What!" Alex was the only one to react this time.

"You heard me, that goes for all three of you."

Max and Justin nodded their heads in agreement with their dads rules. Alex, begrudgingly, followed suit.

"Okay then, let's go." Theresa said grabbing her purse, leaving Jerry to carry all the luggage. He muttered something about being a glorified pack mule and made his way out the door.

The three Russo kids jumped up and ran to the balcony where they could see Teresa waiting by the cab. Once Jerry got there, and put all luggage in the trunk, they made their way to the train station.

Calmly, all three kids walked back inside and looked around.

"We're alone." Max stated.

"Yep." Alex and Justin agreed.

"With our wands." He stated again.

"Yep." They agreed again.

"Celebration?" He asked.

"Yep."

Max took out his wand and confetti started shooting out as the three of them ran around like mad men enjoying their new freedom.

After ten minutes of that, it was down to business.

"Okay," Justin started, sitting at the table with his siblings, " let's just set a few ground rules."

Max and Alex both nodded their heads in agreement.

"First off, lets try and do minimal magic while out side the house okay." All three agreed with that.

"Second, no big or untested spells. We don't need to be calling dad to ask how to 'hypothetically' undo a spell." Agreement on that as well.

"Hey, don't we have some kind of cap on our magic from that potion that dad gave us?" Max asked, suddenly remembering last night's dinner as he burped.

"Gross Max." Alex said and moved away from her brother.

"Dude for real." Justin also moved away. Max just looked satisfied with himself.

"He has a point though." Alex stated.

"Well, lets go find out what dad did to us then." Justin got up and walked down to the layer followed by Alex and Max.

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After arriving at the station and getting settled Jerry sat down and opened his laptop.

"What are you doing?" Theresa asked, but she already knew the answer.

"Just making sure everything is okay." Jerry said while entering a security code.

"We just left them, how bad can it be?" Theresa asked.

"This bad." Jerry said turning the screen to her.

On it she saw her living room covered in confetti and streamers.

"Are you kidding me? Not even two hours and it looks like a pinata bomb went off." She stared in disbelief at the live security camera feed.

"I told you we should have taken their wands." Jerry said as he began cycling through the other cameras looking for the trio, but he couldn't find them.

That ment one of two things, either they all left the house to hang out with friends or ...

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"Justin are you sure it was this book?" Alex asked as sat in their dad's chair.

"Yeah, I'm positive. I saw the cover when he put it up." He answered frustrated.

"Can't you just do that thing you do when you wave your hand over a book and it opens to the last page it was on?" Max asked walking over to his brother.

"That only works if i put a magical bookmark on the page." He explained.

"Hey, are these the ingredients dad used." Alex asked standing at the far end of the table her brothers were at.

"Yeah."

"Turn to the index in the back of the book." she said while turning the labels so she could read all of them.

"That's a great idea Alex." Justin said realizing what his sister was doing.

"What is?" Max asked while seeing if his invisibility poncho still fit, which was kind of hard because it kept becoming invisible.

"Okay lets see we got; ground newt, dragon scale, pixie dust, griffin hair, hydra saliva, and a jobberknoll feather."

"Okay found it." Justin turned to page 157, the only page all the ingrediants had incommon.

"It's not a limitation spell, it a truth spell."

"What?" Alex asked confused and looked at what Justin was reading.

"Actually, it a sobriety test."

"What?"

"It looks like they were trying to see if we've been using drugs or drinking alcohol."

"Why would they think that?"

"Stupid dragon trap." Max muttered as he tried to remove one of the may items he ordered from the back of wizard magazines.

Alex and Justin watched him try and remove the rather simple trap now understanding why their parents would test them.

"We all turned green so that means he's completely sober." Justin said after looking over the potion one more time.

"Wow." was Alex's response as she watched her brother struggle with the trap. "Well you can take care of this, I've got things to do." With that she made her way upstairs to change before she headed over to Stevie's place.

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Stevie was siting on her couch channel surfing.

'Man 500 channels and nothing on.' She thought to herself.

A knock at the door finally got her to actually move today.

"Hey Harper." She greeted her before she even saw who it was.

"Why do you always thinks it's me knocking, it could be Alex." Harper said walking into the apartment with a bag full of old clothes.

"One Alex would never knock, and two she always..."

Before Stevie could finish her sentence Alex popped into the middle of the room.

"Hi everyone." She greeted in a cheery voice before dropping down on the couch and drinking the last of Stevie's soda.

"Babe, could you get me some more soda, thanks." She stated holding the empty cup up in the air.

"Sure thing honey bun." Stevie answered back in the most annoying way she could think of to Alex.

"I told you don't call me that, pet names are so dumb."

Stevie and Harper laughed at Alex's hypocrisy.

"You want anything Harper?" Stevie asked while taking the empty glass from Alex.

"No thank you. I'll be in my room if anyone needs me." She said and made her way to the back of the apartment.

"Her room?" Alex questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Should I be worried that she calls it that?"

"Maybe." Alex answered in a teasing tone. Stevie gave her a not very amused look.

"It's only for a week until her parents get back in town." Alex said trying to comfort Stevie's uneasiness.

"Why did I agree to this?" Stevie asked out loud, tough more to herself.

"Because I asked you to and you said yes because you love me." Alex answered while smiling a 1,000 watt smile at Stevie.

"Now I remember, you were wearing that sundress and I wasn't focusing on the conversation." Stevie said in jest.

"Har har. But now I know how to distract you and get you to agree to things." Alex smirked.

"Damn." Stevie whispered.

Alex grabbed the remote and started to channel surf while snuggling up against Stevie.