Circle Daybreak Preschool- Chapter 23- April Fools Fool!
Ahh it feels so nice to be back at the computer on this lovely Thanksgiving morning.
I KNOW what you are thinking!: WHAT? Actually writing after all this time on THANKSGIVING of all days? WTF is wrong with you Evelynn? And WHY did you keep us waiting so long?
Well as you know, my fathers mother died just a couple months ago, then not even a month we got back my mothers mom went into the hospital. She was there for about a week in serious condition but she's out now although she's not much better. It's just been SO crazy and insane I haven't even thought about writing! Plus my family has been in town.
Oh. My. God. Do NOT even get me started. Let's just say they are all a bunch of whiny, self-centered jerks who never to anything wrong (Eye roll) and nothing is ever their fault even if they might have been involved -.- I KNOW I sound terrible, but honestly they ARE THAT TERRIBLE!
And then they brought THEIR family who are not even related to us! And Joey is my cousin's cousin and he keeps staring at me O.o and he's like 11 and it's SO weird and he WILL NOT leave me ALONE! And I HATE it when people read over my shoulder when I write and when people go in my room.
HE. WENT. IN. MY. ROOM! UNINVITED! .
I'm an only child if you couldn't already tell…
ANYHOO!
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I won't keep you any longer!
Here it is! **Drum roll** The LONG overdue!
Circle… Daybreak… PRESCHOOL!
Jez did not want to go to school today. Well she didn't every day, but today was different.
"NO! You can't make me!" She screamed, kicking her pale legs out at her uncle.
"Jezebel Redfern you get up right now!" Her uncle growled, pulling on her leg to get her out of bed.
Jez's eyes flashed and she put up more of a struggle.
"Jez!"
"NO!"
Her uncle let go of her leg and started persuasively, "Maybe if you knew what today was you be more motivated to go…"
"What's today?" Jez asked cautiously.
"April First."
Jez rolled her eyes. "What's so great about April First?"
"It's April Fools Day." Her uncle smirked.
"What?"
"It means today is the ultimate-" Her uncle glanced around the room as if making sure it was just them and leaned closer to Jez, "- pranking day."
Jez's eyes lit up and she slowly smiled. "I'll be out in fifteen minutes."
"You're crazy Jez! There's no way!" Morgead folded his arms across he chest and looked pointedly out the truck's window.
"C'mon Morgead! It will be hysterical!"
"No!"
"What? Have you lost your awesome? You're seriously not going to pull a prank?" Jez demanded.
"I'll pull a prank, but this one is just crazy! He'll never forgive us and he'll claw us to shreds!"
((AN: Got a hint yet? ;D))
"No he won't! He'll think it's funny!"
"You are delusional!"
"You're a werewolf!" Jez screamed, insulting Morgead using their werewolf-replaces-chicken-insult inside joke.
Morgead gasped, "Jez!"
Jez smirked and Morgead gritted his teeth. "I'll do it."
"Good choice."
"Just don't kill him." Jez's uncle cautioned and parked in the preschool parking lot.
"I love today." Ash sighed contently watching Iliana's feeble attempts to get the caramel out of her hair and the jelly off her teary face.
"Why?" Quinn asked, scowling when Rowan, Thea, Mary-Lynnette, Maggie, and Hannah decided to help Iliana.
"It is April Fools. All pranks, no punishment." Ash laughed.
"True that!" Quinn and Ash bumped fists.
"Cut it." Ash commanded, when all of the girls were in the white box he had painted earlier.
Delos cut the rope connected to the wooden empty box he had provided dangling above said painted white box.
The box fell and the girls screamed. Thankfully the box was taller than them and no one got knocking in the head and the sides of the box were made of bars so they had air.
"I can't believe they missed that." Thierry shook his head, disappointed at the girls' lack of observation.
"ASH REDFERN!" Mary-Lynnette screamed.
"JOHN QUINN!" Rashel stormed over to him and smacked him hard.
Everyone waited in silence for Maggie to yell at Delos but there was only silence.
"Where's Maggie?" Delos asked, fear clear in his voice. What if the trap hit her in the head? What if she got in a car accident? What if she got kidnapped?
Delos started hypervenalating and Mary-Lynnette said, "Calm down. She talked to me last night. She's sick."
"WHAT?" Delos roared. His Maggie sick? He'd kill that parasite that infected her lovely, little, delicious veins!
Maggie suddenly jumped to her feet and all the girls trapped chorused, "APRIL FOOLS!"
"Now you let me out of this box right now Ash Redfern of I swear I will do very bad things to you and your hair!" Mary-Lynnette threatened.
Ash swallowed and slowly made his way to the box. He slowly opened the hidden door and all the girls stampeded out.
"Never do that to me again." Mary-Lynnette kicked him.
"I won't." Ash said seriously. "April Fools!" He ran away as fast as his could.
"Jerk!" Mary-Lynnette yelled.
"Thea. I've decided I don't want to be a vet anymore. I'm sorry. But you're going to have to go to vet school on your own." Eric told Thea in a tone that reminded him of a break up tone. If that was actually a tone…
"Oh, really? Me too!" Thea smiled as if she was relieved.
Eric's eyes widened. "Wait! Are- are you serious?"
Thea laughed gently. "April Fools." She patted his shoulder and walked away.
"Not cool!" Eric yelled after her, flustered. "That wasn't funny!"
"You started it." Quinn told Eric, surprising calm even though Rashel had his right arm pinned behind him. "Ow! Ow! Okay I'm sorry ow!"
"Mhm." Was all Rashel said.
Mary-Lynnette gave Ash an expectant look. He raised his arms in surrender and exclaimed, "I'm not saying anything!"
Mary-Lynnette raised her eyebrows and Ash looked away, trying to stay composed. "April Fools! Yeah right! Sure you are Quinn!"
"Yeah, just keep talking Ash." Quinn said darkly. "April Fools!" He added quickly seeing as Ash was actually not going to shut up.
Rashel looked at Mary-Lynnette. Mary-Lynnette nodded. Rashel let go of Quinn's arm and did the same thing with Ash's she had done to Quinn's.
"Hey! What! No! Mary-Lynnette is the only person who can beat me up!" Ash protested.
Morgead finished squeezing the last ketchup bottle into the blue bucket and started with the mustard.
"Why exactly did we pick him again?" Morgead asked, laughing when the bottle made a farting sound.
"One; we hate werewolves. Except for Lupe. You know that wolf about our age that works for Thierry? She's awesome. And two;… Well I like Mary-Lynnette. She shouldn't end up a wolf." Jez explained.
Morgead raised his eyebrows. "Since when are you the Love Guru? Or are you just doing Ash a favor?"
((Know yet? ;]))
Jez snarled, "I haven't even talked to Ash about this. You know he's as subtle as a Quinn is insane."
"Hey! In Quinn's defense they're both crazy!" Morgead said, starting on the second bottle of mustard. "Mustard." He laughed immaturely.
Jez looked at him like Oh-And-You-Aren't-Crazy?
"Hey Hannah." Thierry smiled, taking his seat in front of her.
Hannah jumped and moved her arms in a karate chop movement. "Oh, hey. I'm sorry, I'm a little on edge today." She looked around warily.
"Understandable." Thierry shook his head. "Goddess, if they all worked for me…"
Hannah cocked her head in an unspoken question but Thierry just shook his head again.
Blaise sat at her desk, appearing like she was working. Ha!
"Yeah, I know right! And then she was all- wait! Hold the phone!" Mark paused in the middle of his story and looked over David's shoulder. "Is Blaise doing work?"
Blaise laughed and rolled her eyes. "April Fools, fool."
Mark glowered at the witch then continued his story about the time his family had gone camping.
"Wait! Mary-Lynnette really put caterpillars in your sleeping bag?" Galen asked with wide eyes.
"No! I did not!" Mary-Lynnette shouted. "They were worms!"
"Holy sheet of Iliana's ridiculous paper!" Delos spluttered.
"Yeah, we got to shave that down." James declared.
"I think we should make it longer!" Poppy announced.
"Really?" James stared at her.
"April Fools." Poppy said cheerfully. "Oh! And James you're meeting my brother today!"
"What?" James looked like he was about to have a heart attack.
"April Fools, fool! Again!" Poppy looked extremely pleased with herself.
"You should have said he was meeting your parents!" Mark laughed.
"That's really not funny Mark! You're going to meet mine tomorrow you know!" Jade frowned. "And my dad is a lot like Ash."
Mark choked on his own spit. "Are you kidding me?" He wheezed.
The Redfern siblings gave Jade a chided look, knowing Mark could never meet their parents.
"April Fools! And my dad is really nothing like Ash! He gets it from Lily!" Jade smiled.
"From who?" Mark asked.
"Our Grandma!" Jade explained.
"Jade, we're Garnet's grandkids." Kestrel corrected.
"Oh… But I thought…" Jade started.
"Yes, and you also thought Rowan had a tattoo." Kestrel reminded her.
"You what?" Rowan screamed. "How'd you know about that?"
Everyone stared at Rowan, completely flabbergasted.
Rowan smile triumphantly. "April Fools, fools."
No one's expression changed.
"You don't give me nearly enough credit. I am a Redfern." She shrugged modestly.
That expression was stuck on everyone's face.
"Good morning class! I'm sorry I'm late!" Ms. Elizabeth entered the classroom. "What's wrong?" She inquired.
Everyone shook their heads and took their "seats".
Ash and Quinn switched, Mary-Lynnette and Hannah switched then Mare and Thierry switched, Blaise and Eric switched, and Kestrel and Rashel swapped seats.
Ms. Elizabeth set her stuff on her desk and had to do a double take of the class. She sighed. "Really Hannah and Mary-Lynnette?"
They blushed.
Ms. Elizabeth however let the children sit where they please.
Mary-Lynnette, who was now sitting behind Ash, ran her fingers through his hair and brought scissors very close to the tips of his blonde hair.
"What… Are.. You… Doing?" Ash hissed, hearing the scissors.
"Cutting your hair." Mary-Lynnette lied with a devious grin.
"YOU'RE WHAT?" Ash exploded, causing Elizabeth to drop her blue dry erase marker.
Mary-Lynnette burst into fits of laughter and almost rolled out of her seat.
"A-Ap-April Fools! You stupid idiot!" She howled, falling to the floor.
"That is SO NOT FUNNY!" Ash yelled.
"What the heck is going on?" Ms. Elizabeth demanded, getting impatient.
"She told me she was cutting my hair!" Ash pouted.
They all tried. Honestly they did. But five seconds later everyone but Ash had joined Mary-Lynnette ROFL-ing.
Lucky came into the room, looking a little freaked. "Oh, sweet mother Goddess." He closed his eyes. He opened them and walked over to Elizabeth and helped her to her feet. "Please tell me today is not April first!"
"I- I'm sorry!" She gasped, but he couldn't tell if she was apologizing for the date or her excessive laughter.
"What are you all laughing at?" He asked tentatively.
Everyone pointed to Ash, then to Mary-Lynnette, and then giggled something like "scissors".
"Mary-Lynnette tricked Ash into thinking she was cutting his hair?" Lucky guessed. "Or she told him she was emo and he started freaking out?"
Everyone laughed harder and Lucky had to strain to keep Elizabeth on her feet.
Ash looked away broodingly.
Jeremy was almost literally howling with laughter.
Iliana stopped laughing and looked at Lucky completely composed. "What does emo mean?"
"It's slang for emu." Keller lied and Iliana nodded, believing Keller completely.
"I-I need a tissue!" Poppy cackled, trying to catch her rapidly falling tears.
James tried to reach for the box, but he was laughing so hard he was so physically weak he couldn't lift himself up.
"They sound so alike." Iliana smiled understandingly.
"I have diarrhea." Someone announced stupidly.
The laughter paused for a moment then continued, thankfully not as loudly as before.
"I need my inhaler." Mark disclosed, reaching for his backpack.
"Okay, okay let's all calm down." Ms. Elizabeth hollered.
"Am I the only mature one here?" Lucky smile half-heartedly.
"Hey! I'm plenty mature!" Delos jumped onto his desk but quickly collapsed and fell onto the carpet.
Jez and Morgead rolled onto into the corner where their, uh, mixture was sitting disguised.
They, being the truly careless people they are accidentally pulled it down in their attempt to stand up straight.
Jez screamed as the ketchup/mustard/relish/mayonnaise/coleslaw/onion/ sauerkraut/lettuce/tomato/every other hotdog topping you can think of cam crashing down on her and Morgead.
Everyone stopped laughing with difficultly, but they all wanted to hear their explanation for this.
"What is this?" Ms. Elizabeth asked.
Jez and Morgead exchanged a look. "Hot dog condiments…"
Ms. Elizabeth sighed. "Who were you going to dump that on?" She asked although she already had an idea.
"Jeremy…"
Everyone, including Ash, excluding Jeremy, started laughing again. The Night Children found this especially funny.
"Mary-Lynnette!" Jeremy cried incredulously.
Mary-Lynnette formed "I'm sorry" on her lips but she didn't have enough breath to say it.
"What are you gonna do now Hot Dog?" Quinn and Ash leaned on each other for support.
"Go running to Mommy?" Quinn collapsed on the floor again and Jeremy threw a badly aimed punch at Ash.
Ash caught his fist and dug his nails into the back of Jeremy's hand.
"Let go!" Jeremy growled.
"Let- let him go." Mary-Lynnette commanded sitting up and throwing her arms around Ash's shoulders to keep herself up.
"Oh- oh my God." Maggie gasped, somehow managing to be across Delos's lap at the bottom of a dog pile.
Keller was at the top of the pile and was probably the least… punch drunk out of all of them.
Mark was breathing in the inhaler like his life depended on it… Which it kind of did.
"You okay?" Jade accomplished looking the proper amount of concerned.
Mark nodded and put the inhaler back in his backpack, smiling.
"I can't believe this!" Jez screamed. She shook out her normally flaming red hair, trying to get some of it out.
Morgead didn't look that happy either, but he was a boy and liked getting dirty.
Then Iliana did something that shocked everyone. She went up to Jez and said very slowly and clearly. "Suck it."
"Oh… My… God…" Thea whispered.
Iliana nodded, smirking smugly and walked away in a very Blaise-like manner.
There was silence. Until Poppy screamed, "SHE'S BEEN TAKEN BY ALIENS!" Then started running around in circles.
Mary-Lynnette rolled her eyes. "POPPY THERE IS NO SUCH THINGS AS ALIENS!"
Poppy slowed down and slumped to the floor. "You mean my entire life has been a lie?"
"Poppy, you're 4. Get over it." Jez snapped savagely.
James glared at Jez.
"What?" Jez challenged haughtily.
James shook his head, his eyes giving Jez a warning.
"Oh I'm in too bad of a mood to care right now." Jez looked away grumpily.
Several snickers emanated from some students and soon they were all laughing again.
"Okay! Okay!" Ms. Elizabeth called over the noise. "Now before we go to recess, I have an announcement."
"Let me guess. You're pregnant." Quinn said seriously and everyone laughed again.
Ms. Elizabeth gave Quinn a look and he lowered his gave to the top of his desk.
"I think you all already knew that John, thanks anyway." Elizabeth smiled sweetly at him. "But what I wanted to say was next month you are all going on a field trip with the other preschool class."
"Oh! My brother's in that class! He didn't get in this one because it was too full even though it's kind of ridiculous we took in a new student in the middle of the year." Poppy informed the class.
"My brother's in that class too!" Maggie squealed.
"No way!"
"Way!"
"That's so awesomely, epically, funny!"
"Isn't it?"
"Totally!"
"Sweet!"
"Like Snickers!"
"I love Snickers!" Ash interjected.
"Who doesn't?" Maggie asked.
"I don't." Jez snarled.
"…Well." Poppy turned her attention back to Ms. Elizabeth.
Ms. Elizabeth rubbed her temples. "Anyway I'll give you you're permission slips before we leave today."
"You're funny. You really had me convinced we're going on a field trip." David smiled.
"David… I think we really are." Gillian said softly.
"What? No, I heard that most classes take field trips earlier in the year."
"I'm serious David." Ms. Elizabeth confirmed. "Now go to recess."
For once all of the kids were reluctant to leave the classroom. Everyone watching his or her back for a prank that could be anywhere.
Poppy threw herself into the center of the circle the girls had formed. "Oh my God! Do you watch Nickelodeon?" Poppy asked excitedly.
Most of the girls shook their heads.
"Okay, were there is this really funny show called Big Time Rush and all of the guys are super adorable! And they can sing!" Poppy pulled James's iPod out of her jacket pocket.
"Why do you have James's iPod?" Rowan asked.
"I stole it so I could put Big Time Rush on it."
"Nice." Keller and Rashel laughed.
"Thanks. Now listen!" Poppy pulled a small portable speaker out of her pocket as well and plugged it into the iPod.
So the girls sat there listening to Big Time Rush for about a minute before Poppy started gushing about the TV show and the guys.
"It's so funny because there's this one guy named James but he's more like Ash! But he looks like James! Oh, and then there's Logan who reminds me of Mary-Lynnette because he's all scientific! And Carlos reminds me of like a combination of Jez, Kestrel, Jade, and me!"
"That is scary." Gillian shivered.
"Okay maybe I'm exaggerating… Lastly there's Kendall who's the least hot of them all but he's like Hannah!"
"Really?" Hannah asked.
"Kinda." Poppy smiled. "But it is such an epic show!"
"That 70's Show?" Mark questioned.
"Mark! You aren't allowed to watch that show!" Mary-Lynnette scolded.
"Neither are you, but I know you watch it."
Mary-Lynnette flustered. "I'm older than you!"
"Wait, you watch That 70's Show?" Ash asked.
"Yes." Mary-Lynnette admitted, looking at the grass.
Ash grinned. "You are awesome!"
Mary-Lynnette's cheeks flushed but she didn't say anything but instead waited for the "April Fools".
"C'mon lover boy." Quinn dragged Ash away.
"Whatever Family Guy. Ha!" Ash mumbled, then laughed upon realizing what he'd said.
"Poppy... What are you doing with my iPod?" James asked slowly.
Poppy looked down at the music player in her hands then back at James. "Funny thing… I found-"
Poppy cut off in the middle of her sentence and bolted away at a dead run.
"Poppy North!"
Everyone was shocked.
"He's never used her last name before!"
"Oh, he is P O-ed…"
"Make it count,
Play it straight,
Don't look back,
Don't hesitate,
When you go Big Time!" They heard the iPod sing.
"How ironic." Keller smirked.
A couple lines later: "Hey, hey, don't you feel the Rush?"
"I'm sure she's feeling the rush." Kestrel commented a bit sarcastically as James almost got Poppy on the monkey bars.
"Hey, hey, better take your shot now!"
Poppy pulled a Mary-Lynnette and kicked James in the shin and ran like heck again.
"C'mon shake it up,
What you gotta loose?
Go and make the luck with the life you choose!
If you want it all,
Lay it on the line!
It's the only life you got, so you gotta live it Big Time!"
"That's oddly fitting." Poppy mumbled to herself, being a lost witch of excellent premonition… Too bad she didn't know it!
"Uh, uh, uhh, uh!" The girls sang with the song.
"Hey, hey, give it all you got now!
Hey, hey, isn't it a Rush?
Hey, hey, finish what you start now!"
James lunged for the iPod, but Poppy was fast! She dodged him and barely ran a couple feet before James had his arm around her waist and was reaching for the iPod in her extended arm.
Some of the girls sang the rest of the song along with the track, knowing it because only because it was the fifth time in a row they'd listened to it.
Eventually James got his iPod back.
"Doesn't feel good, does it?" Ash asked James when he noticed his cousin rubbing his shin where Poppy had kicked him.
"Shut up Ash you deserve it." James grumbled.
"And like you didn't?" Ash seemed very amused.
"… Shut up." James repeated.
"But I have to tell you I'm impressed. You've never used Poppy's last name before." Ash observed, ignoring James's request.
"I don't like people listening to my music." James shrugged.
"Obviously."
James glared at Ash and Jez said, "Someone's in a foul mood."
"Everyone's in a foul mood." Morgead corrected.
"Especially me." Iliana placed her hands on her hips. "April Fools!" She said cheerfully and bounded off like some sort of… Bambi or something.
"Why?" Jez asked.
"I have no clue." Morgead shook his head.
"FML." Ash looked at the sky.
"FML." Jez solemnly repeated.
"FML." Morgead nodded slowly.
"What does that stand for?" Jade asked.
"Uh…" The trio exchanged looks. "Facebook is my life!" Ash offered.
"But you don't have a Facebook." Jade frowned in confusion.
"Exactly!" Jez said, glancing at Ash, daring him to retaliate.
"I don't get it… Oh well!" Jade skipped off in a way similar to Iliana.
"Of course my sister is exactly like Iliana." Ash rolled his eyes.
"She's not that bad." Hannah told him softly.
"April Fools." Ash did half-hearted jazz-hands, though he clearly didn't mean it.
Hannah gave Ash a look that reminded him of Rowan.
"Why are there so many people like my sisters? I on the other hand are an original." Ash used gestures as he spoke and when he looked back at his friends, he saw Quinn mimicking him.
"Douche." Ash smacked him.
"Oh! It's on Redfern!" Quinn threw himself at Ash and they wrestled.
Ms. Elizabeth called the students back inside and broke up Ash and Quinn.
By the end of the day, everyone was expecting someone to do the biggest April Fools day prank ever…. And what they got was close.
"Mark, I'd like you to meet my parents." Jade said cheerfully hugging the pant leg of James's Dad.
Mark's blue eyes rolled into the back of his head and he passed out.
"Mark! Mark!" Jade snapped her fingers in front of his face, all the humor gone from her features. "Mark! APRIL FOOLS!"
"You… UGH! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THAT TO ME!" Mark yelled and hugged onto to Mary-Lynnette.
"You baby." Mary-Lynnette told her brother, trying to walk with him attached to her.
"Jerk."
"Oh, April Fools fool!"
Wow. 10 pages. See how much I love you ;D
Holy sheet I did a lot with this chapter! It's a Song Fic! O_o
Serious, HEART BIG TIME RUSH! Go listen to them! Gooo!
And That 70's Show! Heart! Watched it with my cousin last night!
But anyway, I'm sorry for the delay!
Thanks again to YayNessa! :D Who never fails to crack me up ;D
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