Chapter 4: Rude Awakenings
Excerpt from the memory of Violet Baudilaire
Beep, beep, beep
'Stupid alarm clock.' I rolled on my side and hit the snooze button. 'Why does Klaus never wake up to the alarm he sets?' "Ugh" I rolled out of bed and walked into the bathroom and began brushing my teeth with the new toothbrush Kitt had gotten me while she was out the other day.
When I finished changing into my new clothes, I walked into the bedroom to find Klaus still sleeping. Five minutes had past and the alarm was going off again. Klaus rolled over on his side so he was facing the wall. I turned the alarm off, not bothering with the snooze. I sat on the edge of Klaus' bed and put my hand on his shoulder and began to shake him. "Klaus, wake up it's… seven o' five!" 'What does Klaus want to wake up so early for?' He rolled over and looked at me "What?" He looked at the clock. "Oh, okay. I'm up." he said sitting up. Quigley entered the room from the door connecting our two rooms. "Hey," he said rubbing his eye, "How did you guys sleep?" I stood up from Klaus' bed and walked over to him, "Great. You?" I asked pulling him into a hug, "Good." he answered hugging me back.
We were soon talking about the dream Quigley had. I wasn't surprised to hear that Count Olaf was still looking for us, hell, I was expecting it. When Kitt came back she was carrying more bags. "I went back to the store and got Quigley some new clothes as well as picking up the finishing touches for our disguises." she said, putting down the bags on the table in our room. We all looked at each other, "What?" I asked, after no one answered, tilting my head slightly. "We get to color our hair," she said excitedly pulling four boxes out of the bag. I looked at her, speechless, "W-why?" finally finding my voice. "Because, we need to look different, and the best thing to do would be to change our hair color. Count Olaf, who is undoubtedly still looking for you, won't notice you as much if your hair is different." She had a point. We all nodded our heads, "Ok, what color do you want Violet, dark brown, light brown, blonde, or red?" "Um… Dark brown" I said pointing to the one on the far left. "Ok, and you Klaus? What color would you like?" I looked at my brother after examining the box I now held in my hand. "Um, light brown." He said a little nervously. Quigley groaned, the only two choices left where blonde and red, he would look weird with either. "Quigley, what about you?" She asked after handing Klaus his box of coloring, "Uh, blonde. I guess." He said hesitantly, and was handed his box as well. "Sunny doesn't need to color her hair. She's too young anyway." Kitt said picking up the final box, "That makes me. The red head." she said smiling.
The most of the day was spent coloring our hair and trying on the rest of the clothes Kitt had gotten us. When Quigley walked out of the bathroom with blonde hair, Klaus and I couldn't help but laugh at him. He looked so weird with blonde hair, but I'm guessing I did too with dark brown hair. Kitt looked the weirdest, with bright red hair, it reminded me of kid that used to live near our old house. Thinking about our old neighborhood brought a tear to my eye that only Quigley saw. "What's wrong?" he asked with concern in his voice, "Nothing." I replied wiping away the tear, which I think confirmed his thoughts about something being wrong, "Uh, right," he said sarcastically. After he pressed the matter further, I finally gave in and told him what happened. He pulled me into a hug and told me not to think about things like that.
That night we went out to eat at one of our favorite restaurants in the city. While walking to the restaurant, since it was only three blocks from the hotel, we saw Count Olaf in Café Salmonella with Esmé and the rest of his theater troupe. We weren't sure what to do when he looked out the window straight at us. I nearly would have run if it weren't for Quigley grabbing my hand to stop me, as well as reassure me nothing would happen. It wasn't until Count Olaf looked back at Esmé that I relaxed. 'He didn't even realize it was us. These disguises must be working.' I noticed Quigley was still holding my hand as we reached the restaurant, he only let go when we sat down to eat.
When we got back to our rooms we talked for a while about what we were going to do until the V.F.D. meeting, and how weird it was not to have Count Olaf notice us. Sunny had fell asleep in my lap, so I put her in Klaus' bed (we agreed that every other night she would sleep in my bed) and went into Quigley and Kitt's room with. Klaus said he was also tired and went to bed as well. Kitt said she had to go out again and would see us in the morning. Quigley and I ran out of things to talk about at around ten so I decided to end the day and go to bed as well. "Goodnight." I yawned getting up from his bed; he got up to and walked me to the door that connected the rooms. "G'night" he managed to say through a yawn, and without thinking I kissed him. He blushed so much his cheeks were almost as red as Kitts newly colored hair. "Goodnight." I said again and went to bed without even bothering to change out of my clothes. I lay awake for a while thinking about what I had just done. 'God that was stupid' I thought, mentally slapping myself upside the head 'stupid, stupid, stupid.' After saying that to myself a lot more times, I finally fell asleep.
A/N: So yeah, I had a little fun doing this chapter; making Quigley blonde, among other things… 1,108 words, not to shabby. Oh yeah, F.Y.I.: Violet was wearing jeans and a white tee, Quigley, jeans and a jumper that was white with vertical blue strips, and Klaus black slacks and a blue jumper. Jumper nice looking shirt that you would wear under a business jacket sorta thing, it's a British term.
