Author's note: THIS IS MY FIRST FANFIC WOO HOO!

I have been writing this story for a few months, it took that long because of my low English vocabulary and I suck at English (not a native English speaker, so this will be fairly easy read). It took a lot of daydreaming to come up with ideas, but I hope you enjoy the upcoming chapters!

I enjoyed Wally and Anne's relationship in "Wally and Anne" so much and I want to make a fanfic series to furthermore improve their relationships. Wally is my favourite character in Amphibia because he's a wise person that doesn't care about what people think of him, which is a good counter for Anne's apprehension about her reputation both back home and Amphibia. This story will hopefully allow more people to appreciate Wally more as a character.

I already have the next few chapters written so you don't have to wait a long time for it! I just gotta fix some unnecessary parts and repetitive lines.

2 points to not cause misunderstanding for the upcoming chapters.

• I strictly do NOT ship Anne and Wally, not only they're a different species, the age differences don't add up either.

• Wally is going to have more Uncle/Mentor relationship with Anne than a romantic relationship.

This chapter is quite short and Wally won't be present here but expect him to appear soon.

A day after the tragic events that's happened at the toad tower, everything seems to slowly start going back to normal. Leopold's shop and Felicia's Cafe reopened, Maddie is back to work at his father's bakery (still spooking people out), Stumpy's restaurant is loaded with starving frogs, and Mayor Toadstool is back running the town. Many frogs seem to be thankful of Mayor Toadstool for helping the frogs escape the tower even though he's a toad himself and helping them would mean he's a traitor to the toads he worked for. The frogs expressed their gratitude by sending him flowers, in which he proudly accepted and then boasted about it to everyone, calling himself a "hero that everyone doesn't deserve but a hero they needed" everywhere he goes, he even thinks of using it as a way to boost his next champaign.

Everyone is already back at doing what they usually do in their daily life... except for Anne.

The 13 years old, Thai-American human girl, still feeling horrible for leaving Sasha with the dangerous toads, locked herself inside of the Plantar's home and didn't leave it for days. The Plantars were honestly worried about her because she rejected their offer to go outside all the time and preferred staying inside the house. She would spend most of her days in her room playing her phones unless she's eating with her family or going to the bathroom. Hop Pop, as her honorary grandfather, took the responsibility in taking care of her. He didn't give her any chores work to do because it's too overwhelming for her right now. He instead makes her favourite pillbug pancakes once in a while if she's hungry. He also often checks up on her asking if she's alright and offered to talk to her, even if he has to abandon his farm job, his grand-daughter is way more important to him. Anne however, refused to talk to Hop Pop or even Sprig and Polly because Anne rathered shut her mouth and avoid talking about what happened because it might make her feel even worse. She already caused too many troubles to her family that she doesn't want to burden them more with her own personal problems that they don't have to get involved in.

Sprig wanted to go back adventuring with Anne, however, Hop Pop kept telling him to be more patient. Sprig ended up wandering around the town by himself.

Every night, her mind still wanders around Sasha, wondering how she's doing far away.

The last time Anne saw her was before Grime took her into a shelter, she was in a bad shape and probably passed out from shock. Grime gave her a vengeful glare after seeing her condition, hinting he might come back anytime soon for revenge.

Anne scrolled through her phone's gallery and found pictures she took with Sasha on her 13th birthday, they both looked happy although deep inside, Anne wasn't, she was the whole reason why they were transported here in the first place. But despite everything that she's done, Anne doesn't have it in her to hate Sasha COMPLETELY, no matter how wrong she was. Parts of herself felt thankful for being transported into this magical world because she wouldn't have met amazing people like the Plantars, and she wouldn't have realized that Sasha was a bad influence on her.

Anne became sleep-deprived as she continues overthinking at night as she lost many hours of sleep, soon enough small eyebags started forming underneath her eyes, which worried Hop Pop even more.

Eventually, the town people, even the mayor, began to notice her absence as everyone in Wartwood was talking about her whereabouts. They decided to pay a visit to the Plantar's home to send their letters or a gift as a way of appreciation and encouragement for Anne. Stumpy also cooks for Anne occasionally, in the morning he'll cook the special Thai-insects fusion dishes that Anne taught him and delivers it to the Plantars.

Anne almost cried from what was written in the letters, a lot of "We miss you"s, words of encouragement and wishes for her fast recovery. She also began to enjoy and appreciate Stumpy's cooking more than ever. Everything the town did makes Anne more hopeful that her lives will get better from here on as the town will and always support her.

At last, the Thai-American girl feels she's ready to go back adventuring and doing her usual activities with her friends and family.

Although Hop Pop hesitated at first, Anne wanted him to give her chores and work to do. Hop Pop reluctantly agreed, he started by only giving Anne light chores such as cleaning the dishes to not put too much on her plate at once.

Sprig was joyful when Anne told him she wants to do something together like old times. Then they had a lot of fun afterwards, like when they unintentionally provoked Harold the giant, multi-headed mole after accidentally bopping one of his little buddies, watching movies together with her frog family, going on scenic routes and even being launched with a giant cattail. Those were the most fun thing Anne did with her family since she's locked herself in. She admitted she missed the feeling of heart-racing and excitement from the misadventures and troubles that she and Sprig caused in the past, it's good to be back.

The Plantars promised her that they'll do whatever they can to get her home; despite Hop Pop still being secretive about the music box, however, she knew home is still a long way to go. She doesn't mind staying longer here as long as she got her family and the rest of Wartwood by her side. After all, Amphibia feels like her home too.