Chapter 2. Little pleasures.
A month had passed since their arrival at the professor's house and all the children seemed to get along very well.
"Cedric, quiet you'll wake them up! If the professor catches us we'll be in so much trouble!"
"Well hurry up then and put those cupcakes down!"
"I must be dreaming.." Peter said to himself, half asleep, until he hears a loud crashing sound and knows he isn't dreaming.
"What did Edmund do now!" he thinks, still half-asleep, and half annoyed, as he grudgingly gets out of bed and ties up his robe.
"Are you alright?" Celeste says to Edmund.
"Yes, I'm fine thanks, what happened?"
"Yes, what happened exactly Edmund care to explain?"
Peter stood there with his arms crossed throwing an awful look at Edmund.
"I..I don't know.. I got up to go to the bathroom and then I opened the door. The next thing I knew the three of us were all on the floor."
"It's not Edmund's fault Peter, well not really anyway." Celeste spoke up.
"I baked some cheese cupcakes this morning, so I decided to surprise you all with a little cupcake beside each of your beds when you all woke up... But as I was about to enter the room, Edmund appeared out of nowhere, and me, Cedric and Edmund all fell to the floor."
Everyone seemed to think it all very funny. But Peter did not.
"Nice going Ed, now get back to bed." Peter said very sternly.
Edmund looked as if he were about to punch Peter, but then he looked as if he were aboutto collapse in tears. He pushed his way past everyone and ran back into their room.
"You don't have to be so hard on him, it was just as much his fault as it was mine, and it was only an accident." Celeste said, sounding incredibly annoyed.
"He has to grow up and stop being so childish."
"But Peter he is a child!" Celeste exclaimed angrily as she left the room. Which was odd because she and Peter almost always got along.
"Don't worry about her, she's just upset because I used to do the same thing to her when she was young, and besides, she likes you." Cedric said smiling
"Well, I'm going back to bed, goodnight everyone."
And he walked back to his room.
"She likes me?" Peter whispered to himself.
"What was that?" Susan asked, even though she knew what he had said.
"err.…He hates me. Edmund…"
Peter lay awake that night standing by the porch thinking about Edmund. "I probably was too hard on him, but he does nothing but sulk around the whole day!" "And Celeste, She…" Peter sighs "She's such a nice person…"
"You like her don't you Peter?" Susan suddenly said as she walked out onto the balcony with Peter.
"Well, everyone likes her. I mean she's.."
"Beautiful, smart and pretty?" Susan said half laughing.
"Yes... I mean no! I mean she is but I.."
"Ask her out Peter, trust me. she'll say yes."
"How do you know?"
"Because you're all she ever talks about, that's how. And besides she hasn't had a boyfriend since..forever, and Cedric told me she stopped dating when the four of us arrived, and I'm sure it's not because of me, Lu, or Edmund."
"Cedric said that?…you too have been spending lots of time together..."
"We're just friends, unlike you and Celeste."
Susan smiled.
"Me and Celeste are just friends, Susan." Peter replied firmly.
"Peter, you and I both know that you and Celeste aren't just friends."
Peter smiled.
"Isn't it time you got to bed?"
"Yes sir!" Susan said jokingly.
Susan went back in to sleep. A few minutes later, Peter went off tobed too. But for reasons he didnt know, or couldnt understand, he couldnt sleep.
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Well thats it for chapter 2. I know you think it's all happening too fast, but this chapter happened about a month after they all met. please leave a review, thanks!