By Day One Way By Night Another
Chapter 38
Ivy winced at the bright light coming from her window and tried to pull her blanket to cover her face. When the blanket didn't budge, Ivy admitted defeat by rubbing her eyes and sitting on the corner of her bed, taking a long look around her messy room. Even after they clean it up last night, it still was littered with blankets, snacks, and people passed out of the floor. She let out a quiet yawn before glancing up glanced at her clock. "I can't believe it's almost noon," Ivy whispered to no one before slipping out of her bed, trying not to wake a peaceful Kori who was currently hogging all the covers. She let a small giggle as she tiptoed passed Adrienne and Gar, who were wrapped up in the same blanket on the floor. "Ya'll both knew I had more blankets," Ivy giggled again before she quietly slipped out of her room and started to silently creep down the stairs.
Ivy rubbed her temples, trying to recall what happened after they rode around the neighborhood, embarrassing the boys. She let out another yawn and finally remembered making cupcakes and trying to clean up the house a little before Kori insisted on putting on a Disney film on in the living room, so everyone could watch and munched on the rest of the cupcakes. After a small argument on which Disney film to watch, the crew finally settled on Cars and within the first thirty minutes, Kori was passed out on the living room floor. She slightly remembered guiding Dick to her room as he carefully carried a snoozing Kori and set her down in Ivy's bed. That was her last memory before she exhaustively passed out next to Kori.
As Ivy got to the end of the stairs, she headed directly towards the kitchen, where she heard some light talking.
"Good morning, sleepy head," Sarah exclaimed quietly from her spot on a bar stool as Ivy slowly walked in. "It's taking everyone forever to wake up."
"You can't blame them," Victor chuckled as he flipped a pancake from one of Ivy's mom's pans, "Most of us stayed up until like five."
Ivy just blinked at the two of them, confused. Instead of trying to comprehend what was going on, she just shook her head and slid into the bar stool next to Sarah. "I don't think I'm fully awake yet," She admitted before laying her head on the cold counter.
"We can kind of tell." Sarah let out a light laugh as she patted her friend on the back.
"Who all stayed the night?" Ivy lifted her head, looking a little more awake.
"I think all the boys who crashed our sleep over stayed expect for Roy." Sarah laughed, "I still can't believe how fun and thrilling last night was."
"You're not going to get in trouble for having us over, are you?" Victor asked with a concerned voice, feeling a little guilty since none of the boys exactly asked to pass out around her house.
"I doubt my parent will ever find out." Ivy hopped off the stool and walked over to the fridge to get out some orange juice. "They left to go to my grandmother's for the weekend so us girls could have the best sleepover of all time. She thinks that I'm having a hard time making friends since we just moved here."
"Your parents sound so cool." Sarah giggled as Victor finished his final batch of pancakes.
"How many are you making?" Ivy asked as she poured herself a glass of orange juice.
"I have a dozen moody teenagers to feed!" Victor motioned to the huge piles of pancakes, "I don't think this is going to cover it."
"Speaking of moody teenagers," Sarah started, "where are Jennifer and Wally?"
"I hope they're fine," Ivy sighed, remembering overhearing their intense argument last night.
"What are ya'll talking about?" Victor asked.
Sarah and Ivy just exchanged a look, not wanting to tell someone something that they barely knew.
"They're sleeping outside." A voice said from the doorway. The three of them turned to see Dick rub his half closed eyes. "For some reason, they're decided to pass out by your big oak and hold each other like they're in a romance movie." He muttered, making them laugh.
"Nice bed head." Sarah giggled, thankful for the somewhat change of subject.
Dick walked to the fridge to check his reflection to find his hair sticking up in all kinds of directions. "It's only before I had to sleep on the floor!" He quickly rushed his fingers through his hair, trying to contain its mess.
"We'd you sleep on the floor? I have to couches in the living room!" Ivy laughed.
"They're hogging the couch!" Dick half laughed as he started to fix himself a plate of pancakes.
"I'll show you." Sarah grabbed Ivy's wrist and pulled her towards the living room. "It's actually really cute."
They enter the living room to see that the TV still had the Cars movie home screen on and Karen cuddled into Ivy's love seat. Sarah put her finger above her lips, indicating Ivy to be quiet as they traveled to the front of the room to see who was on the larger couch. Ivy had to cover her mouth to try to suppress her giggles, Garth was sprawled out on the couch, facing the ceiling with one of his arms dangling towards the floor. Lying between his legs, Toni peacefully was sleeping on top of Garth and using his chest as a pillow.
"If Karen wakes up before them, she'll never let it go," Sarah said in a hushed voice, making their way back to the kitchen,
"I think he'll be out for a couple more hours." The two heard someone say as they reentered the kitchen.
"Oh, good morning Jenn," Sarah said carefully, eyeing her friend who was leaning on the counter. Jennifer's cheeks were slightly puffed due to last nights crying, but other than that she looked perfectly fine wrapped up in Wally's football jacket.
"Good thing that Wally's asleep, otherwise he'd eat all the pancakes in a heartbeat." Dick joked before stuffing his face with a spoonful of pancake.
"Should we wake the others?" Victor asked as everyone sat at the kitchen table.
"Nah, let them sleep." Jennifer poured cherries all over her pancakes, "Plus, it's quieter this way."
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That's it. I know, this chapter is extremely short. It's actually the shortest chapter I've ever written. Anyways, this was kind of a filler chapter but I really wanted it to be done so I did it. There's a bit of symbolism in this chapter so that's always fun to look for.
Anyways, I promised you guys some sweet treats, so here they are…
1.A personal note from me to you.
Anyone who has kept up with this story since like last January would know that there were long gaps when I wouldn't update. Sometimes it would be weeks, and others months. I remember that I actually stopped updating for a whole 6 months.
This story has never left me.
It's always on my mind. Anytime I do something fun or exciting I always think to myself 'I have to add this to my story'. Or when I'm watching TV and a character says something funny, I'll pause the TV and write it down so I can use it in the story. When I read, I underline phrases and words that I would like to start using in this story to make it more fluid.
So don't ever think that this story ever disappears from my heart.
Also, you, my dearest reader, have shaped me and this story more than you'll ever know.
I don't care if you weren't here when I posted my first chapter or don't review every chapter.
You make me feel important.
You give me a purpose.
Like about everyone else in this world, I am still struggling with finding my purpose or what I'm good at. Every review, favorite, follow I get reminds me someone likes my, an average human being's, work. It reminds me that I have the ability to make people laugh and feel butterflies for the rest of their day.
You have become a big part of my life.
In all honesty, when I took that huge 6-month break from writing, I was deeply considering quitting my story altogether. I thought my story was forgotten like an old sunken pirate ship. I didn't want to go on. I was going to leave without an explanation.
I convinced myself that I could quit writing on only one condition. I had to read all the reviews I'll ever receive from the story and if I still felt like quitting than I could.
I spent a good 2 hours reading all of the reviews. I spent another hour crying, realizing that there were out there that actually people out there that enjoyed something I've created and I had to go on. I wanted to go on.
You made me powerful.
You gave me hope.
Thank you.
I mean it when I say I love you.
2. Our Perfect Paradise
If you've visited my profile, you've hopefully seen this title. If this is the first time seeing this then it's okay.
This is the title name of my next Teen Titans fanfiction.
Does the name excite you?
PERFECT? As in no flaws or anything? No crime? Just happiness?
just the opposite.
I hope you're a walking dead fan because this story will drag the Titans through broken world filled with zombies, villains, and insanity.
So basically…. Walking Dead + Teen Titans= Our Perfect Paradise
Excited?
Can you imagine the Teen slaying zombies?
Also, this story isn't going to to be restricted just to the main Titans. I'm going to try to include all of the Honorary Titans.
ALSO IF YOU"RE A BIG COMIC BOOK FAN, A COUPLE OF PEOPLE (heroes, villains, civilians) WILL BE FEATURED IN THIS STORY. If you're not, don't worry. I won't make it super confusing. I'll make it so everyone understands. I'm just saying that there will be Easter Eggs.
Well… in my profile I set the release day to be this summer. Well, as you can obviously see, that didn't turn out as planned.
GOOD NEWS: This story isn't just a floating idea that been sliding through my mind. My best friend, X, and I have actually been working on the plot of the story for a couple weeks now.
WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG? Because for the first time I am being a little more professional and am actually trying to plot the whole series before I go gun blazing and start writing.
Honestly, I just make up stuff as I go for By Day One Way, By Night Another.
This story isn't going to be like that.
This story is going to be filled with amazing story arcs, symbolism, and character development.
So what do you think of the idea? I would really appreciate some output from you!
3. By Day One Way By Night Another: WATTPAD
That's right, I'm adding this story to watt pad!
I just feel like expanding my story.
Also, the watt pad version is going to be a rewritten version of this story. The main plots and characters will stay the same, I'm just going to clean up the story and add or remove parts need be.
I just wanted to let you guys know.
But this website will always get the updates first!
4. IMPORTANT
IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! As I mentioned earlier, I kind of just make up this story as I go as I've currently ran out of ideas. That's why this chapter was really short because I had nothing else I felt I needed to write about. SO PLEASE HIT YOUR HOME GIRL UP WITH SOME IDEAS! PLEASE!
Anyways, as always. Thank you so much for taking some of you time to read my story!