It was a cold morning.
It was winter.
And by a miracle, or better described, a disaster, both the mom's alarm clock and the girl's ones didn't ring, or maybe one didn't ring, and the other one was turned off by two teenage girls who wanted
to stay in the warm bed for two more minutes.
The boys is the house obviously didn't own an alarm clock, because of the simple reason that they knew all the girls in the house will wake them eventually.
So this was the beginning of that cold, winter morning.
"Oh crap" were the first words Lena heard in that morning.
She opened her eyes quickly, this was not how she was used to wake up.
Her wife showed her the time.
It was half an hour later then they should have waken up.
"Carp" Lena said.
The two moms got up and went to their kids's rooms.
"Wake up guys! Its already 7:30! We're late! Wake up!" The two moms said going from room to room waking the 5 sleeping kids.
"You got 10 minutes to get up, we'll grab something to eat on our way to school" The moms said.
So they all got up and were ready to go in just under 25 minutes.
Lena and the 5 kids went together on one car, while Stef went on the other car.
"Mom I'm late. Mr. Cooper will be mad at me" Mariana said, She had Spanish first period and the teacher already disliked her after she only nearly passed the last test.
"I'll write you all notes, thats the good thing when your mom is vice principle" Lena answered.
"Thanks" they all mumbled still half a sleep.
suddenly there were two phones beeping, two phones that got a massage in the same time.
The 6 people looked down at there phone, and found out that Mariana, Jesus, Callie, and Brandon were all invited to a party.
"Whats that?" Their mom-vice principle asked
"Its nothing" they all answer simultaneously.
But it wasn't nothing.
Every year around the middle of winter, collage kids that have graduated from their high school came back and threw a huge collage-like party to all high schoolers.
They were all 100% sure if their mother knew about it they will not be allowed to go and they all also knew that they just had to go.
Jude sat behind Brandon, and he could see both Brandon's phone and Callie's phone.
He hadn't have enough time to read the full text but he realized that there is a party, and after the other kids lied about it, he knew it was big.
They got to school and Lena wrote notes to all of their first period teachers that explained why they were late.
They each went to his or hers class.
Jude had algebra.
He hated it.
He hated the teacher, Ms. P.
He sucked at algebra and the teacher hated him for it.
She wasn't a great teacher.
They were studying a new subject that day, multiplying negative numbers.
It was weird and he could not understand it, partly because he came in 20 minutes late.
Ms. P did this thing, where she said a name and you had to stand up and answer the question she asked.
She always gave him harder questions.
"Jude" She said, looking at him.
"How much it is negative 7 time positive 8?"
"Ummm…" Jude could not think.
He had no idea.
Everyone were looking at him.
"I don't know" he said quietly.
"Say again?" Ms. P. acted as if she didm't hear him.
"I DON'T KNOW" Jude half yelled.
"Its negative 56 Everyone knows" a boy named Marcus said, making the whole class laugh.
Jude was angry, but he knew he should try to stay calm.
He tried as hard as he could, but Marcus kept teasing him.
"Every fifth grader knows that" He said.
Jude's face turned red.
But he stayed in his place.
For a moment he was about to get up, then he thought to himself what would his brothers and sisters do?
He thought Jesus would get up and leave the room or hit him.
Brandon would have probably ignored Marcus.
Mariana might taunt Marcus a bit or cry.
And Callie would punch the guy and run away.
He decided to ignore Marcus, partly because Brandon used to stay out of trouble, and partly because Marcus was twice his size and he could not punch him, and obviously he could not cry, that would only make them laugh harder.
So he kept quite, and slowly the class calmed down.
The rest of the day he did not speak to anyone, only saying he's here when the teacher called his name and hi to his siblings when they passed one another in the halls.
At the end of the day they all went home together.