The BSC Legacy - Book 3: When Numbers Really Count
By: CNJ
PG-13
3: Countdown To Class Time
Objective for SHS students: Be at school by 8:30 in the a.m.
06:00 hrs: Kristy wakes up, yawns, then leaps out of bed. As usual, she's the first one up. Puts her already-packed backpack by the door. Throws on the first ratty T-shirt her hand hits when she gropes through her closet. Grabs a pair of black ripped jeans to go with it.
Eeny-miney moes between her Louie baseball cap and her beach cap. Decides on the Louie cap Can't decide whether to have her hair hang loose or put it in a ponytail. Even braids it, mumbles, "Gross..." then finally puts her hair in the usual ponytail and puts the cap on with the visor backwards. Hears other family members getting up and with several of her stepsibs, goes hurtling down to breakfast.
06:45 hrs: Dawn rolls out of bed and gets dressed in her favorite Save The Earth T-shirt and green jeans. She checks to see if Mary Anne's up. No, she isn't. She debates waking her up, but decides to let her sleep until 07:00 hours. She's glad to be back in Stoneybrook for junior and senior years of high school.
07:00 hrs: The alarms wakes Mary Anne up. Mary Anne punches the off button, muttering, "Ohhh, shit..." then rubs her eyes for a minute. She had a few nightmares last night, so she's a bit shaky and feeling pretty scared. Her stomach is queasy. Tigger seems to sense Mary Anne's fear and crawls on her bed and tries to soothe her. He licks her nose.
"It's here, Tiggy..." Mary Anne tells him. "What do you say we get up and eat. Can't get out of it." Tigger sits back and gives Mary Anne a long stare with his big green eyes. Mary Anne shakily slides out of bed.
She gets dressed in the light blue blouse, puts on black jeans, and her low black boots that she had put out last night. She looks a little pale and her heavy brows are taut in worry, she notices in the mirror as she brushes her newly cut hair.
"Oh, boy..." she whispers at her reflection. She has the feeling that today might be difficult. She sets her jaw, grabs her already packed backpack (which has her new notebooks organized alphabetically by subject) and gets ready to face the day with her usual grim gritty determination as she goes to the kitchen to attempt to eat some breakfast.
07:15 hrs: Claudia stumbles out of bed. She steps over various art projects, clothing, junk food wrappers and gropes her way to the closet.
"Oh, damn..." she mutters when she can't decide what to wear. She tries on a purple shirt and black leggings, then the purple shirt with the green stirrup pants, sticks her tongue out at that, then finally picks out a tie-dyed shirt and a multi-colored wraparound skirt.
She hunts for her backpack and finds it under her bed buried under a heap of M&M bags, dumps out last year's notebooks and papers on the floor, muttering, "I'll deal with that later..." then puts her new school stuff in it and heads down to eat.
07:17: Stacey slowly gets up, roots through her closet, deciding what to wear. She considers a gold skirt and bright red layered top, ditches that idea and goes for the bright purple loose top with a glittery Statue of Liberty on it, then bright magenta jeans. Her stomach is jumping around and she sits for a minute, trying to calm down, wondering why she nervous. Maybe it was the IN clique last year. Her mom peers in and asks if she's all right.
"I guess I'll be..." Stacey tells her.
07:20 hrs: Anna wakes up, then wakes Abby up. Abby groans, tosses a pillow on the floor and crawls out of bed. The alarms screams just then and Abby slaps it off, ordering it to shut up. The twins get dressed then Anna heads down first, Abby stumbling after her, still half-asleep.
Their mom is already there and wishes them good luck, especially since she knew about the trouble they had with the IN clique last year. After they eat, their mom gives them a good luck hug as she's leaving for work and the girls are leaving for school.
Same hrs: Mona Vaughn is a new student. She used to a student at Burkeview High in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She's moved to Stoneybrook this past summer and wakes up apprehensive about her first day at SHS.
She lies there a minute, thinking, then decides, "Nothing to do but get up and face today." She pulls on an old T-shirt with a cat on it and the first pair of jeans she bumps into in her closet.She heads down to breakfast and her mom wishes her good luck. After they both eat, as Mona is leaving for school, her mom gives her a good luck hug and wishes her well at Stoneybrook High and encourages her, that she knows Mona will make good friends there.