As much as I wish for it, I do not own the Night World. Too bad that also means I don't own Ash. =( Sniff. OH cruel fate!

Some random person: Dude! Ette! Lay of the Soap Operas!

Circle Daybreak Preschool

James Rasmussen, four years old, was on his way to his first day of a torture even a lamia vampire couldn't stand. Preschool. James was young, but he was smart enough to know he didn't want to go.

Still, James sucked up his pride, clung to his mother's arms and walked soundlessly into the preschool.

Poppy North was kicking and screaming. Her copper curls flying everywhere as she begged her mother not to make her go. Her twin brother Phil kicked feebly but wasn't having a tantrum like Poppy.

Their mother strapped them down in their booster seats, shut the car door, got in, and sped of to the place Poppy so wanted to avoid. Preschool.

The Redfern siblings, Rowan, Ash, Kestrel, and Jade, were getting ready for preschool.

Rowan was excited. She wanted to get to know new people; her siblings were getting to be a little much.

Ash didn't really care. His siblings (ehem, Jade) were getting seriously annoying. Besides, maybe he'd meet someone who wouldn't get old after three years

(A/N: I know the Redfern siblings are all different ages, but this is FanFiction. And Quinn will be here too. What do you think about Timmy?)

Kestrel was giving her mother the death glare. Which she knew wasn't very threatening coming from a four year old lamia with pigtails. Yes, pigtails.

"But Mommy! I don't wanna look like Jade!" Kestrel whined, folding her pale arms across her chest as her mother ran the brush threw the pigtail once more.

Her mother just frowned and replied. "You do not look like Jade."

Jade was dancing excitedly in her pink frilly dress. It was her first day of preschool and their mother was still getting Kestrel ready. All the girls had matching pigtails! Even Kestrel. Whose struggling was most likely the cause of their mother's usual late-ness.

Jade continued to dance until Rowan knocked on door and lead her out of the room toward the van. Their mother strapped them in, and they were on their way to preschool. With Jade singing all the way.

Mary-Lynnette Carter pouted in the car all the way to preschool. Her younger brother, Mark, was as equally quiet.

"Come on, guys. Cheer up. It was only preschool!" Their mother said, glancing at her two children.

Mary-Lynnette didn't reply. She did but didn't want to go. She wanted to go and learn some new stuff. (They may even learn stuff about the stars!) But she didn't want to be separated from her sensitive brother either.

Mary-Lynnette sighed and her mother pulled up to the preschool.

Mark glanced at his sister. He could tell she kind of wanted to go, but he didn't want to at all.

This is going to be crazy year. Great.

Thea and Blaise Harman, cousins, sat in the bedroom they shared, waiting to go to preschool.

"Why do we have to go?" Blaise whined, playing with her dark hair.

"It won't be that bad!" Thea insisted, always the optimistic one. "We may have a class pet!"

Blaise would have rolled her eyes if she knew what that was or what to do.

Grandma Harman opened the door to their room and said, "Okay, girlies! You ready?"

"No." Blaise murmured.

So what do you think? The next chapter will be the characters in the next Night World volume, the third volume the third chapter, then it's just going to be PRESCHOOL!!! =D Yea!!! Please comment! And it is my first Night World FanFiction.