Darla came to Atticus with a permission slip from school and tugged his shirt as he was on the phone.
"Oh, excuse me for one second," Atticus said to the person he was one the phone with before looking over to Darla. "Yes, Darla?"
"Could you sign this?" Darla handed the slip over. "I need chaperons for this week's field trip to the museum."
"Oh, of course," Atticus smiled as he signed the slip for his little sister. "Going to the museum, huh?"
"We're gonna hear about the Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Darla beamed.
"Awesome, if Cherry came along, she would most likely be the most excited." Atticus smiled.
"You wanna invite her?" Darla asked.
"Hang on..." Atticus said, then got back on the phone. "Cherry, wanna go to the-"
"No." Cherry said flatly while sipping a milkshake while on the phone with him.
"Alright, then I guess the Legend of Sleepy Hollow doesn't mean anything to you." Atticus said as he pretended he was about to hang up.
"Wait what?" Cherry asked, on the edge then.
"Goodbye, Cherry." Atticus smirked.
"HEY!" Cherry yelled out. "What's this about Sleepy Hollow?! One of my all time favorite stories."
"Oh, it's just part of the museum me and Darla are going to since I'm her chaperon." Atticus said.
"And I'm not going?" Cherry asked flatly.
"You said, you-" Atticus tried.
"Don't put words in my mouth, Wiccan Boy, I'll be there." Cherry cut him off.
"Okay then." Atticus smirked.
Darla looked curious.
"Cherry's in." Atticus said while lowering the phone and covering the audio piece.
"You knew that would bring her along, didn't you?" Darla smirked.
Atticus chuckled and nodded, he was then given a dial tone and hung up. "So, you wanna go to the museum?"
"I'm sure it'll be better than before George came along with Mr. Ted." Darla replied.
"Sure has been a while since we last saw them..." Atticus smiled in memory.
"Yeah." Darla smiled.
"Don't worry, I'm sure that wasn't the last we've seen of George and the others." Atticus said.
"This boy in my class is rumored to be descended from Ichabod Crane, his name's Nick and he's really jumpy." Darla replied.
"Sounds like he doesn't really like Halloween." Atticus said.
"Yeah..." Darla nodded about her classmate.
"Well, then I'll be able to make sure he loves Halloween." Atticus said.
"Good luck with that..." Darla fluttered her lips in disbelief.
"Wear a sweater or a jacket, it's quite chilly this time of year." Atticus warned.
"Okay." Darla smiled.
Atticus ruffled up her hair.
Darla giggled and went off to her room.
"Hey, Goldilocks." Urchin sat on her window in his human form.
"Urchin?!" Darla looked surprised.
"Surprised to see me?" Urchin smiled.
"Very much..." Darla replied. "What're you doing here?"
"Drell gave me a free day to become human, I thought maybe I could spend it with ya." Urchin smirked.
"Well, I'm going to a school field trip, so if you wanna be human, you're gonna have to learn." Darla replied.
"Alright." Urchin shrugged.
Darla then took out her jacket and laid it out so she could bring it to school with her so she wouldn't forget.
"So, what's school like?" Urchin then asked.
"You learn, make new friends, eat lunch, sometimes play..." Darla listed.
"Cool." Urchin smiled.
"If you say so..." Darla chuckled.
"I've always wanted to go to school," Urchin said. "We don't have that in Atlantica."
"How do you learn?" Darla asked.
"We kind of learn on our own and with some help from our parents." Urchin said.
"I see..." Darla commented. "Well, maybe if you come on this field trip, you'll kinda see what school is like."
"I just wanna go 'cuz you'll be there." Urchin smiled bashfully.
"Why, Brown Eyes, such a gentleman." Darla blushed.
Urchin blushed a little.
"Ya know, you could maybe blend in with the class..." Darla curled her finger in her blonde hair shyly which twisted one of her curls. "Who's gonna know?"
"I doubt anyone would know." Urchin said.
"Exactly." Darla smiled as she then let go of that curl as it bounced back.
"So when do we leave?" Urchin asked.
"It's tomorrow, we're leaving the school at 9:00 to get on the bus." Darla informed.
"9:00 in the morning?!" Urchin's eyes widened.
"Can't handle it?" Darla smirked.
"Of course I can." Urchin said.
Darla giggled as she then put her clothes out for the next day.
"Hopefully I can become a human permanently, then we can be together..." Urchin whispered to himself as Darla got herself ready for school tomorrow.
"What was that?" Darla asked.
"Uh, nothing?" Urchin smiled nervously.
"Weirdo..." Darla rolled her eyes.
"But I'm your weirdo." Urchin smiled.
Darla rolled her eyes while Urchin stuck his tongue out with a smirk. Atticus passed the room and hid a smirk at the two as they were clearly in love with each other.
"Keep walking." Darla told Atticus.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Atticus chuckled to his little sister as he walked down the hall to his own room.
"Older brothers..." Darla sighed.
"He sure is an amazing brother." Urchin smiled.
"Yeah, he's pretty cool." Darla smiled back.
"I miss Ariel..." Urchin sighed. "I'd visit her on land, but I mostly wanna use those trips for seeing you."
Darla blushed to that. Urchin blushed right back at her.
"So, Patch, you know anything about the Legend of Sleepy Hollow?" Atticus asked his puppy, though he was sure he hadn't and would happily tell him all about it.
"Not that I know of." Patch said.
"Great!" Atticus beamed.
"Oh, boy, story time!" Patch smiled.
"Yep, sure is." Atticus smiled back.
Patch smiled back, excited to hear about the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Atticus then told Patch the story about a schoolteacher named Ichabod Crane and his adventure in Sleepy Hollow which contained a Headless Horseman. Patch soon shuddered at the mention of someone being headless.
Cherry then came to tell Forte her plans so he could make sure she would be safe. "So we're going with Darla's field trip to the museum, I hear there's a new Sleepy Hollow exhibit."
"Well then, we better make sure that the book doesn't get stolen and placed inside a Jack-O-Lantern." Forte said.
"Uh... What book?" Cherry asked.
"Seriously?" Forte asked.
"What book?" Cherry asked.
"It's in the museum now, but it's the original manuscript written by Washington Irving himself," Forte explained. "Written in 1819."
"Of course you would know about that." Cherry slightly deadpanned since he was three centuries old.
"Anyway, if it lands in a Jack-O-Lantern, then it will bring the Headless Horseman here." Forte said.
"But it was just a legend, a story!" Cherry defended.
Forte shook his head.
"You were there then...?" Cherry then asked as though it seemed like the Legend of Sleepy Hollow was all true.
"Yep I was." Forte nodded.
"Of course you were..." Cherry rolled her eyes slightly. "So, I guess you knew Katrina and Ichabod then."
"Yep," Forte nodded. "And where I even advised her to only marry for love."
"You don't say." Cherry commented.
"No really." Forte said.
"Uh-huh..." Cherry sounded very disinterested.
"Would I ever lie to you?" Forte asked.
"Not to me, I guess..." Cherry shrugged.
"So we have to make sure that it doesn't end up in a Jack-O-Lantern." Forte said.
"Okay, go in your teenager form though so you don't scare people." Cherry said about him coming along.
"You got it." Forte promised. He soon changed into his teenage form.
Cherry rolled her eyes and then took her leave until tomorrow.
