Circle Daybreak Preschool- Chapter 8- The Cooties!

Hey! Thank you to all the amazing readers who gave me ideas for this story! The first suggestion that really stuck out to me was given to me by I-Got-A-Screename663! So EXTRA SPECIAL thanks to you! So here you are! Chapter Eight!

Because Ms. Elizabeth was tired of the fights breaking out between family (*Cough* Lamia *Cough*) she decided they should have a field day for bonding.

The looks on Jez's, Morgead's, Delos's, Ash's and Kestrel's faces were priceless.

"It won't be that bad," Rowan tried to console her two pouting siblings.

"Are you kidding, Rowan? It will be terrible!" Morgead scoffed.

"It's first day all over again!" Jez put her head in her hands.

"Quiet! Now, lets go outside!" Ms. Elizabeth said, lining the class up and leading them outside.

"The first thing we will be doing is a three legged race!" Ms. Elizabeth announced, clapping her hands together in feign happiness.

There were a few fake cheers and many jeers.

Ms. Elizabeth sighed. "Now here are the pairings."

(A/N: Because I'm too lazy to type out all the pairings, I'll just tell you that everyone is paired with their Soulmate. And Blaise and Iliana)

"But I can't be paired with a boy!" Mary-Lynnette said.

"Why not?" Ms. Elizabeth asked, knitting her slim brows together.

"Because boys have cooties!" Mary-Lynnette stated.

"We do not!" Mark yelled, glaring at his sister.

"Oh, you do to!" Mary-Lynnette retorted stubbornly.

Ms. Elizabeth shook her head smiling. She bent down to Mary-Lynnette's height and explained softly, "Mary-Lynnette, boys do not have cooties."

"Then do girls have cooties?" Ash asked, with innocent, wide, blue eyes.

"We do not!" Jade stamped her foot.

"Whoa! Déjà vu!" Delos exclaimed.

"No, Ash. There is no such thing as cooties." Ms. Elizabeth said, almost through her teeth.

"That's not what Morgead said."

Ms. Elizabeth closed her eyes briefly and turned to look at Morgead who was whistling and nudging gravel in the behind the building with his foot.

(She must hate him… XD JKJK! Or am I…?)

Ms. Elizabeth turned back to the young Soulmates. "There is no such this as cooties." She said firmly and stood back up.

"Do you believe her?" Ash asked Mary-Lynnette."

She didn't hesitate. "No."

"Now I'll come around and tie your ankles together, and then when you're all ready, I'll give the signal and you start running." Ms. Elizabeth explained and began tying James and Poppy's ankles together.

When the preschoolers were all situated, Ms. Elizabeth raised a small square green flag. "Ready… Set… Go!"

Poppy and James had difficultly only because Poppy was so short, other that that, they made it okay.

Ash and Mary-Lynnette were terrible. They were constantly tripping and constantly arguing about which foot they were supposed to walk on.

"No you idiot! I said left foot!"

"Which foot is my left?"

Jade and Mark didn't go very fast due to Mark's asthma.

(Seriously, he has asthma!)

Rowan and Kestrel were made third place, and earned many mild curses from their brother.

Thea and Eric were okay. They only stumbled a little.

Gillian and David had the same problem as James and Poppy.

Quinn and Rashel made second, defeated by a mere second.

Thierry and Hannah were forth, not traveling too fast, but going faster then average.

Jez and Morgead smoked everyone but Rashel and Quinn. First place, baby!

Maggie and Delos also had the size issues. Not as extremely as the other too, but Maggie was teeny compared to a vampire prince.

Keller was annoyed with Galen for not being able to keep up with her speed, but he was technically a human until he assumed a Shape.

Blaise and Iliana stumbled almost as much as Ash and Mare, and Blaise decided this girl had never walked with out her mother's hand until preschool.

By the time the final couple had stumbled across the finish line, still yelling at each other, Ms. Elizabeth had a major headache.

"I told you! Left, right, left, right! Not vice versa!"

"What does vice versa mean?"

"Not the other way!"

"Ohhh…"

Kestrel laid her head on Rowans shoulder and muttered, "We have the stupidest brother."

Mark, who had over heard, said, "I have the smartest sister."

"You do. My brain can't process these big words." Morgead rubbed his forehead when Mary-Lynnette called Ash a turd.

"That's quiet enough!" Ms. Elizabeth interrupted. "The winners are Jez and Morgead, Rashel and Quinn, and Rowan Kestrel!"

A few kids clapped.

(This is such an enthusiastic class! XD)

When Ms. Elizabeth began talking about the next activity, Ash and Mary-Lynnette restarted their argument.

"I blame your cooties!"

"Boys do not have cooties! Girls are the ones with cooties!"

"You don't know anything!"

"I know more then you!"

"Oh, no he didn't!" Iliana murmured.

"Oh, yes. He did." James looked deeply amused.

"How dare you! I know more now then you ever will, pee brain!"

(3 Harry Potter! =D)

"Prove it!" That was the biggest mistake of Ash's life.

She proved it too him alright.

The class sat stunned will Mary-Lynnette went on a ten-minute blabble about the solar system before she finally ended the mini speech with, "And you have cooties!"

Ash just sat in the grass, looking up at Mare with a totally lost expression. Slowly, he stood and said in a flat voice, "I think a part of my soul just died in agony."

Mary-Lynnette narrowed her eyes at him and kicked him in the shins as hard as she could.

Ash stumbled backwards, holding his shin and hopping on one foot. "Ow! That kinda hurt!"

"And you're kinda an idiot!" Mary-Lynnette retorted, storming, as only a four year old can, over to her newly made friends who were looking at her flabbergasted but her actions.

And so the war between Ash Redfern and Mary-Lynnette Carter began… And ended five minutes later when Ms. Elizabeth got her voice back.

"Now you two apologize!" Ms. Elizabeth demanded, pulling them over to the side.

They were both silent for a while until Mary-Lynnette mumbled and apology.

"What was that, Mary-Lynnette? I couldn't hear you." Apparently inaudible apologizes were not acceptable to Ms. Elizabeth.

"I said," Mary-Lynnette sucked up her dignity, "That I was sorry for calling you name and kicking you in the shins."

"And I'm sorry for calling you names, too." Ash replied.

"There we go!" Ms. Elizabeth looked proud. Then her expression turned slightly smug. "Now hug."

"What?"

"No way!"

"He still has cooties!"

But in the end, they ended up hugging, and when Ms. Elizabeth turned to address the class again, the two kids glared at each other.

"This isn't over."

"I know."

"You know everything."

"I know."

FINALLY! Something LONG! Yea! I'm super happy with the way this turned out! YEAYEAYEA! =D ^^ W00TW00T!

And so the war begins! Wow, this is SO childish! XD Gee I wonder why! Lol!

So, please, please, PLEASE review!

And thanks again to I-Got-A-Screenname663! =D