Ceres strolled quickly through the halls of FoxFire she knew exactly why she was being called to the office, and she knew she was in trouble. She really, really tried to stay out of trouble (which apparently was still better than her uncle Keefe,) but sometimes people just said things that were so absolutely idiotic, it was hard not to punch them in the face. This time, however, she hadn't started the fight but was still apparently the only one in trouble.

She walked into the office, and met her aunt Linh's eyes, the thing about her aunt Linh, was that she was great, except, she was also the Dame of the school, so being called to her office wasn't necessarily the greatest thing. Especially since she always gave her this pleading look of, 'please don't waste this, not everyone gets to be here.' and it made her feel almost as bad as when her parents looked at her and sighed deeply, which was the reason she tried to stay out of trouble. Well that and because she really didn't want to get kicked out of the school. Not that she thought that her aunt Linh would kick her out, but she was afraid that she would punch the wrong person, and their parents would tell the council. Today, however, a kid and tried to tackle her, and so she had punched her back and they had ended up fighting, and then the girl clawed at her face and she backed off, not without giving the girl a terrible death glare, but still she had definitely walked away more injured than the other girl.

"Ceres, would you please explain why Amethyst Melruth claims that you tackled her to the floor and, quote, unquote 'punched her in the gut so hard she felt as though she had been stabbed with a thousand tiny knives'?" she asked. Ceres gestured to the two large scratch marks on her cheek,

"She tried to scratch my eyes out like some sort if freaking wolverine!" Ceres exclaimed, aunt Linh sighed and sat back down in her desk, "plus she tackled me to the ground, I was trying to get her off of me," she explained.

"Ceres you do realise that this is the third time you've been i n trouble this semester? Don't you?" she asked

"Yes Dame Linh," Ceres responded, she in fact had not realised that it had been the third time until it had been pointed out to her, but thinking about it know this was the third time she had fought someone in second term,

"And you do know what that means, am I correct?" her Aunt Linh asked,

"Yes Dame Linh," and this time she really did know what that meant, getting detention three times meant parents got called, If your parents got called three times however you got expelled, the most times her mom and dad had ever been called to the office was twice in one semester, and once they got called twice in the first semester and then once more in the first month of the second semester, that was the closest she'd ever been to being expelled.

Ceres waited in the uncomfortable wooden chair that her aunt Linh kept in her office. She figured it would take at least thirty minutes for her mom or dad to show up and honestly, she hoped it would take longer. Before her little sister had started Foxfire her parents had been a little less.. Expectant of her, thinking that, it was probably just normal kid stuff. Now however they thought that her little sister was a 'normal kid' despite her sister having a tendency to be very well behaved, more than normal kids her age were. Of course this wasn't to claim that she didn't cause a little more trouble than the rest of her level, but they now took it a little out of proportion. The door of the office opened.

Ceres could already see the frustration growing in her fathers teal eyes, her mother had a look of, 'well she shouldn't have done that, but when I was her age, I read a king's mind illegally, then joined an illegal organization , invaded exile, and got sent to exilium, so I should try to be understanding." of course this was all a guess, although Ceres was a telepath, it would be illegal to read her mother's mind. She definitely didn't need any more trouble, and she knew from stories, that that was the sort of thing that got you in a lot more trouble than what she was in now.

"What happened this time?" her father asked. Ceres gestured to the scratch on her cheek,

" A girl tried to claw my eyes out!" she exclaimed dramatically. Her mother sighed her eyes going from that 'maybe she had to' to a 'again Ceres, please stop,'

"full story please," said her mother, sounding disappointed.

"Well this girl Amethyst, just out of nowhere freaking tackles me, so naturally I fight back, and I end up punching her, and then she claws at my eyes so I back off then she told a teacher and I got in trouble." she explained. Her parents both made exasperated faces. Ceres flopped back as they went to go talk with her Aunt Linh.

Ceres sat on the floor of her bedroom, her best friend Everly sat across from her. Everly rolled her eyes as she heard the end of her story,

"She did not do that, I swear my mom is so unfair." Everly tucked her wavy black hair behind her ears and pulled it into a loose ponytail. Everly looked like an exact mixture of her parents Linh and Wylie, she didn't tend to act like them though. Between her snarky attitude and her tendency to start fight Everly tended to be more rebellious than Ceres, but that was fine, Ceres didn't mind that there was someone who behaviour tended to be better than hers, and Everly was one of the sweetest people ever if you got to know her. When she was younger her and all her cousins had been really close, but then when they were around six they all started splitting into groups of two. She didn't mind too much most if the time though, sometimes she still missed them .

Ceres shrugged,

"My parents aren't too mad this time so it should be fine," Ceres told her. Everly sighed,

"I should get home." Ceres nodded and Everly left the room. Ceres stood up and fell back on her bed. She slowly drifted to sleep.

AN: Carin: What is this, I have been really productive today. Any ways in case you were confused Ceres is Sophie and Fitz's daughter. I know I'm not the first person to write something like this but I don't think I've seen one where Ceres acts like, well Ceres. Also if you guys s want some really high quality fanfic you should check out IggyChewingOnAShoe who is like one of the coolest people I know and she's writing some really awesome stories, Any ways hope you enjoyed,

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