The alarm clock went off. Under normal circumstances a person might have snaked out a hand and turned it off, or shot out of bed and started getting ready for the day. Instead, the clock's owner murmured a little in her sleep, and rolled over, pulling the blanket over her head and upsetting the perch of the small black cat who had been sleeping on her back. The cat rolled off the bed and onto the floor, grateful for her feline balance as she landed on her feet, but then she was jolted so much by a simple phrase spoken from downstairs that she banged her head on the bed frame anyway.
"Serena! Serena!" A voice called, as it's owner climbed the stairs towards the sleeping girl and concussed cat in the pink bedroom, "Get out of bed! You'll be late..."
"Nnnnn..." was the only recognizable response from the mound that was still buried in the sheets, blankets and comfortable warmth above where the cat was regaining her senses.
The black cat contemplated curling up again. Perhaps she was just concussed or not awake enough. It sounded like Ikuko's voice, but the words were definitely wrong. Maybe if she slept and woke up again everything would be back to normal and she could get a good attack on Usagi and wake her up the way things normally happened. She jumped back up onto the bed and was about to settle back down in the warm nook that Usagi often made above her buttocks when she curled up that way, when the door burst open.
"Please, dear! Get out of bed!"
The blonde head disappeared further beneath the convers, and the cat, Luna, jumped out of the way as the covers were ripped from the bed by the blue-haired woman.
"Momma!" the girl complained, curling up tighter trying to retain her warmth. She still wasn't awake. Her voice sounded thick and the response was instinctive.
"Don't give me that, Serena! You should know the routine by now! You have school!"
The blonde's eyes blinked open. She couldn't have been more awake if she'd acquired a caffeine IV, "Serena?" she inquired, "Who's that?"
The blue haired woman looked at her with puzzled expression, "Why you are dear..." she gave a nervous laugh, "What's the matter? Did something fall on your head while you were asleep?" Tinny music could be heard from downstairs and the blue-haired woman turned away distracted, "Sammy! You'd better not be playing video games. You have school too!" she turned back to the bed, "There are pancakes downstairs, now hurry up!" she disappeared out of the door again, yelling down the stairs as she went about video games and homework and getting out of the door pronto.
The blonde turned to the small black feline who was jumping back up on to the bed again, "Don't look at me, Usagi-chan," Luna answered, "I'm just as confused as you are."