The second chapter of this Fanfic is here before you wow.
The sun shone through the window of Pepper's and Penelope's room onto Pepper's bed. Dust motes shone in the early morning light as birds chirps filled the morning air outside her and Penelope's room with morning music. Pepper sat up in her bed, it was time to get up. She'd sat awake most the night, and then had that horrible dream again before starting awake in time to watch the sunrise. Penelope wasn't in the room at all she'd probably was sleeping in the hallway chair again.
Climbing out of bed Pepper, grabbed the outfit she'd set out on her dresser. She took off her white nightgown and pulled on the pink and white dress shirt and tight blue jeans. She pulled the assemble on with a slight ceremony and then tidied the wrinkles out of them. Then She grabbed her hair brush and walked to the floor-lengthe mirror that hung on the wall. She styled her straight dark brown hair, pulling her fringe bangs back into a almost Chinese styled bun/pony-tail then she looked at herself in the mirror without any trace of a smile that any other girl her age would wear while getting ready. Her light brown skin glowed warm and alive but the dark rings under her eyes made them look sunk in. She straightened her already straight outfit out and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth.
Persephone woke with a start, sitting up in a flash and searching for the cause of her fears. The room was empty except for her and Parker's childhood belongings. Her fears subsided as the early morning light spilled through the curtains and Parker stirred in her bed. Prince was already up and moving in his room next door getting dressed. Pepper was making breakfast. The smell of coffee and pancakes flitted in from down stairs through the door. All in all a perfect Friday morning in late August. It was the end of the first week of school and Pain was getting used to the schedule. She climbed out of bed, stretching.
"Parker! wake-up!" Persephone yawned stretching.
"Don't wanna," Parker said before sitting up and rubbing her tired eyes. She clambered out of bed to stand with her sister. Pepper leaned in with and smirked.
"Glad to see you two are among the living," Pepper smirked. Persephone made a face at her, and Parker stuck out her tongue. Pepper ducked out of the room before either could reply with anything else.
"Morning to you too," Persephone shouted in her childish way.
"Later," Parker called after her.
"Let's get dressed before they eat all the good stuff," Persephone finished. Parker put on an over sized black shirt that with a smiley face that had it's mouth duck taped shut. There were words under it or there had been at one time now it was mostly faded letters.
"So how did you sleep?" Parker questioned. Tugging on a pair of blue jeans. Then she turned to a mirror and began fussing over her short strangely red, messy hair. It was short enough that it didn't need to brush it out it she chose not to. Her pale skin was nearly white and her eyes were a almost green blue, the green was almost unnoticeable, and had dark marks under them from lack of sleep.
"I actually slept through the night," Persephone said pulling on a pair of tight. "It's almost worse than not sleeping at all." She said a haunted look in her eyes as she remember some unknown dream. She was pulling on a pair of almost too short shorts but the black tight made them less inappropriate. "I had this really..." She trailed off looking even more haunted than before as she paused while pulling on her red plaid tank top corset. "Weird dream." She supplied and Parker thought she would have said something else if it had been Penelope or Pepper asking.
"What was it about?" Parker asked.
"It's nothing to worry about Persephone answered. "Quiet hogging the mirror," She complained in her almost baby talk voice that she got when she was upset. Parker stuck her tongue out and then left the room smiling. Persephone looked into the mirror brushing her long black or dark brown hair into sleek smoothness looking at her smooth light brown skin and chocolate brown eyes and the dark rings under them. There was a slight paleness to her face and skin it was almost unnoticeable under her light brown coloring. She looked tired that was all and maybe sad and that was all understandable.
She'd just lost her grandmother who'd raised her and her sisters since they were little babes and now she was gone, with school and funeral arrangements and no adults around except Leo who was only their guardian by name, and the fact that he lived her. Persephone pulled her hair into tight neat pony tail with loose bangs and fringe bangs falling down the side of her face.
Penelope sat up in the hallway after Pepper had shaken her awake, for a while she just stared tiredly at the wall. She hadn't been in her room since her grandmothers death. Then she stood up almost acrobatically and teetered to her bedroom door. She got dressed in a blur pulling on the cloths that Pepper had left out for her. It was a black tight T-shirt and a pair of black dress pants, The shirt was tight but it looked professional with the black pants and wasn't so tight that it wouldn't have been without them. Over that a light jean jacket was thrown on also picked by Pepper. She brushed her shoulder length black hair, and looked into the mirror on the wall. Her skin was a tiny bit lighter than Pepper and Persephone's but not as light as Parker or Prince. There were dark marks under her eyes, but they were less prominent since she'd started to sleep in the hallway, and actually sleeping.
Penelope met Persephone and Parker in the bathroom. Parker was rinsing out her mouth and Persephone was brushing her teeth. Parker left the bathroom as Penelope put toothpaste onto her toothbrush. Persephone left her alone in the bathroom a moment later.
Then they all met back up at the kitchen.
Prince was in his seat he was cutting at a pair of pancakes on his plate, orange juice sat next to it and he gulped some of it down as he chewed a mouth full of Pancake. Pepper sat next to him on one side. Penelope sat next to Prince on his other side. Persephone and Parker sat on the other side of the table. Leo wasn't there, usually he had other things to look after and he was just there to keep the children out of foster care.