Chapter 3
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" Sunny, wake up," Violet said as she woke her baby sister. Sunny had fallen asleep on a pile of reports she was to staple and missed dinner. She roused herself from her nap.
"Takub," Sunny said groggily. She probably meant something like, "Oh, hello, Violet."
"Come on, Sunny, we can't be late for Vice Principal Nero's recital," said Klaus. He picked Sunny up off of the papers and walked with the rest of the children out of the administration building and towards the auditorium.
"Although, I really can't see why you'd want to go," Duncan added.
"Huyu?" asked Sunny. She meant, "Who are you?"
As if he understood her, Duncan waved and introduced himself and his sister. "I'm Duncan Quagmire," he said, and motioned over beside him. "This is Isadora."
"Mrs. Bass said that you were twins," said Klaus. The five of them took their time on their way. "You do look alike."
He looked over at Duncan and his sister, their eyes downcast. Isadora broke the eerie silence between them. "We're not twins. We're actually a set of triplets, but our brother Quigley died in the fire that landed us here."
"But," said Duncan, "even though he's not with us, we're still triplets."
"Right," said Violet. "If you ask me, though, you couldn't possibly have gotten luckier (A/N: note the sarcasm). You're like us—magnets for misfortune."
"Good point," said Isadora, as the fivesome took their seats—as far as possible from the stage. As the music started and some students, armed with bottles of ibuprofen, braced themselves, Isadora pulled out her diary and began to write.
The Baudelaires seem nice. As we went to find Sunny, Violet told me about all of her inventions, and Klaus and Duncan discussed their favorite authors and journalists. As long as we have them with us, school may be a whole lot less p
And, all of a sudden, in a din of screaming and fumbling around, the lights in Prufrock Prep's auditorium went out with a flash as the "music" stopped...
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