The teacher, Ms. Elizabeth, Iliana's mother, and Iliana burst through the now tidy classroom. James and Ash's small cuts and large bruises had already healed, so there was no proof of a fight between them.
"Oh, Iliana, it's okay. See? The room is nice an organized and there's no fight." Iliana's mother ran her fingers through her daughters pale hair.
"But-but." Iliana stammered, her violet eyes wide and she looked around the room to her mother, to Ash and James, to her mother again.
"Oh sweetie, you're just paranoid." Iliana's mother smiled. "I have to go, but I'll be here when preschool gets out. Okay?"
Iliana nodded slowly and released her mother's hand.
"Thanks so much, Elizabeth." Iliana's mother smiled. And with that she left.
"Okay, students!" Ms. Elizabeth said going up to the front of the classroom. "I'm your teacher, Ms. Elizabeth. And we'll be spending the next couple of years together!"
"Oh joy." Ash muttered and Rowan elbowed him.
"Now, I have a seating chart ready, so this first columns of seats will be James, Poppy, Mary-Lynnette, Ash, Mark, and Jade. The second column, or row, Kestrel, Rowan, Thea, Eric, Gillian, and David. The third row, Rashel, Quinn, Thierry, Hannah, Jezebel-," Jez hissed at the usage of her full name, -"and Morgead. And the last row, Delos, Maggie, Galen, Raksha, Iliana, and Blaise."
(A/N: Yeah, I know that Blaise should be with Thea, but I wanted all the Soulmates to be together, and if Blaise had been with Thea that would have upset the pairings. Sorry!)
The children noisily took their seats. Once they were seated, Ms. Elizabeth gave them all a warm smile and asked if anyone had learned their alphabet already.
Mary-Lynnette slowly raised her hand. "My mommy taught me and Mark."
"Would you like to recite the alphabet?" Ms. Elizabeth asked.
Mary-Lynnette shook her head, blushing and Rowan lifted her hands in the air.
"Rowan." Ms. Elizabeth smiled at the young lamia.
Rowan recited the alphabet and Ms. Elizabeth congratulated her and turned to write the letters on the dry erase board in an elegant font. The Night Children exhaled in relief when their eyes detected the barely visible black Delilah in Ms. Elizabeth's caramel ponytail.
Ms. Elizabeth turned back to the class. "Now, is there anyone who has not memorized their alphabet?"
A few tentative hands went up.
"Okay, that's perfectly fine. Well let's get started."
Ms. Elizabeth taught the alphabet to the kids who hadn't learned it yet. While she was teaching, Ash got bored, alone with some other troublemakers…
Ash leaned forward and started to play with Mary-Lynnette's hair.
"What are you doing?" Mary-Lynnette hissed quietly when Ms. Elizabeth was preoccupied.
"Playing with your hair." Ash replied.
"Why?" Mary-Lynnette asked.
"Because it's fun, and dark, and wavy, and pretty."
All the vampire children, who had been eavesdropping, on their conversation, rolled their eyes, slapped their foreheads, or rolled their eyes behind closed lids.
Mary-Lynnette turned to give Ash the 'What the heck?' look.
"Mary-Lynnette, turn around." Ms. Elizabeth said, returning to the front of the room with a confiscated pencil. Of Morgead's.
"And Morgead, don't get out another pencil." Ms. Elizabeth sighed. Morgead muttered something inaudible and placed the pencil back in his desk.
Before some new it, it was naptime.
"Finally! I'm beat!"
"Ash, it's noon!"
Kestrel, Imma vampire, Ash replied mentally.
Ms. Elizabeth handed out blankets and upon receiving his, Delos exclaimed, "I cannot sleep with this! I only sleep with cashmere."
"Yeah, and I only sleep with panther fur." Keller said with dark sarcasm.
Delos gave her a nasty look that only royalty can give and curled up with the cotton blanket.
"Oh! Mine's fuzzy!" Jade giggled and rubbed the material on her cheek.
"Oh! Mine's a blanket!" Kestrel mocked her sister.
"Kestrel…" Rowan said, giving her a look.
Kestrel looked down, muttering angrily about how she let Ash off the hook for playing with Mare's hair.
Well, we can't exactly control Ash. Rowan smiled and Kestrel threw her head back and laughed.
"Wow, your sisters are weird." Quinn said to Ash.
"Tell me about it." Ash murmured.
One the other side of the room…"Okay. So I'm thinking that whenever she's busy, we make a break for the door."
"But who's tall enough to open it?"
"I am. I'll do it."
"Or we could just say we have to go potty."
"But then she'd probably watch us go."
"Darn. You're right."
"I say we just make a break for it!"
"Yeah okay. We'll do that. When?"
"Whenever she's busy!"
"Ohh, right."
"Goddess, I hope this works."
"Me too."
So what do you guys think of this one? Hm? Hm? I would like to thank one of my readers for giving me the idea for a "jail break." And on the first day too! How bad can these kids get? I'll let you guess who's planning on going XD
Thanks to all my amazing readers, without you I would never have the motivation to write another chapter, must less post it. I know it seems a little earlier for thanks, but I love you guys! =D Thanks again! Please comment! It makes my day! =D
RaNdOmNesS! Okay, so when I was thinking about the name for the teacher, I wanted her to be a Ms. and I thought of James's Ms. Emma. But I couldn't really use her, and because Emma is a novel by Jane Austen and I'm ready a Jane Austen book for my book report (Sense and Sensibility) and because I decided to use another name from Jane Austen. The first name that popped into my head: Elizabeth. Like Elizabeth Bennet, from Pride and Prejudice. And I started thinking about a show that I watch, General Hospital, and there's a character on there whose name is Elizabeth, and I decided to base their teacher off of her. I hope you like her!