Chapter Daybreak Preschool- Chapter 11- Sugar and Silly String

Before the kids knew it, it was Monday.

"But Mommy!" Could be heard through most of the households. Except for Delos's, where you heard, "I demand you do not take me to school! No! Put me down! Put me down, idiot! I can walk just fine!"

The Redfern siblings just sat at the counter watching their mother pack their lunches.

"Mommy," Jade said, batting her eyelashes, "Can you put some candy in our lunches?"

"Absolutely not." Their mother replied shortly.

Jade frowned. "Why not?"

"Jade, do you remember what happened last time we gave you candy?" Ash asked his sister.

"It wasn't my fault that guy was in my way and he fell into the punch!" Jade folded her arms across her chest.

"Whatever, I'm just glad we aren't going in pigtails." Kestrel said.

Rowan gave her a chided look and their mother stuffed the last of the sandwich in the paper bag.

"I hate vermin food." Ash whined, watching his mother.

"Ash, how many times must I tell you? Humans aren't vermin; humans are friends." His mother rolled his eyes.

"Humans are vermin, not friends." Ash twisted his mother's words.

All his sisters smacked the back of his head.

"What?"

"Is Mary-Lynnette vermin?" Rowan asked, knowing her brother had a soft spot for the human girl no matter how he disguised it.

Ash did fall unusually quiet and threw shields up around his thoughts.

"Ooo." Jade giggled and Ash glared at her.

Their mother rolled her eyes and shooed them along to go to school.

"Wait! I need to get something first!" Jade turned around as the rest of them entered the garage.

Jade snuck into the pantry and laughed at her parent's stupidity to put the candy in a reachable place.

Jade stuffed as much candy as possible in her butterfly backpack and had just finished zipping it up when her mother called her name.

"Coming!" Jade screamed, running toward the garage.

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Later in the day, right before lunch, Lucky stopped by again, resolved to visit Elizabeth as much as possible to make sure she didn't have the inevitable mental breakdown during the first half of the year.

Ms. Elizabeth, obviously pleased with his unexpected visit, let the kids have an early lunch.

In the girls' lunch circle, Jade dumped her backpack in the center, spilling out all the candy.

"To our first week!" Jade said, happily grabbing a handful.

"Jade!" Rowan scolded her younger sister for nabbing all the candy.

"Jade!" Kestrel was just scolding her for not telling her.

"What's going on over here?" Thierry asked, peering at the candy in the circle.

That grabbed the other's attention, and the girls expanded their circle to let the guys in so they could also have access to the candy.

"Un-freaking believable!" Mary-Lynnette said when she realized who was sitting next to her.

Ash just rolled his eyes and inquired where Jade had gotten the candy.

"Why? Got a secret stash or something?" Mary-Lynnette snorted.

"No. Of course not." Ash replied much to quickly and innocently.

"Mhm," Was Mary-Lynnette's reply.

"It's under your bed isn't it?" Kestrel asked.

Ash rolled his eyes, "No."

"In your underwear drawer?"

"No."

"It's in his toy box." Rowan stared at the ceiling.

"Rowan!" Ash had never felt more betrayed in his four years.

"In you toy box?" Jade asked.

"Well you guys never go in there anyway!"

Meanwhile, Poppy began to bounce up and down in place, talking gibberish to the rest of them who weren't really listening.

Thea, of all people, began to show sign of being hyper, Gillian began shaking from the sugar, Hannah had started to annoyingly tap her feet and Keller's ears and tail were twitching and swishing.

And you would not believe what Jez was doing.

Jez was bouncing off the walls. With a can of silly string in each hand.

The others, who were hyper, also began to jump around, and didn't stop when they were being wound in silly string.

"Jezebel!" Ms. Elizabeth sounded shocked.

Her and Lucky rushed over to the students, each of them getting a little tipsy.

"Did you know that the Trifle Nebula…" Mary-Lynnette had a very weird was of being hyper. "Did you know that Andromeda…"

"Andra-what?" Ash asked, looking at Mare like she was insane when his pupils were dilated and he had silly string covering his head.

"An-drom-e-da." Mary-Lynnette pronounced it for him.

And on to another conversation!

Rowan had her head in her hands, watching Jade quiet literally bounce of the walls with Maggie and Gillian.

"C'mon, Rowan! It's not that bad! Is that bad? I forgot what's bad!" Kestrel gushed quickly, bouncing in place.

Thea and Eric were pretending to be vets, nursing a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup back to health.

David, Quinn, Thierry, Morgead, Delos, and Galen were all playing catch and release with a pack of M&Ms, Peanut M&Ms and… a cell phone?

"How the heck did they get my phone?" Ms. Elizabeth asked looking around the room looking like that breakdown was just around the corner driving a racecar.

"Ms. Elizabeth!" Iliana approached her teacher. "Do you want to dance? I dance with my mommy all the time!"

Ms. Elizabeth managed a smile at Iliana, "No thanks, sweetie. But I'm sure. Rashel would love to dance with you."

"Okay!" Iliana skipped away.

"Don't worry, Elizabeth." Lucky began to rub her shoulders. "Everything will be just fine."

Lucky came around to stand next to Elizabeth and bent to retrieve an empty silly string can from the floor.

Jez, taking advantage of his height aimed her full new can at him, and pressed.

Lucky stood back up, eyes closed, silly string hanging from his head and shoulders.

"Why do you even have silly string?" Morgead, the least hyper of all of them, even Thierry, asked.

"I was going to vandalize some dude's car later." Jez admitted before spraying him and dashing off to make a horrible silly string crown on Delos's head.

"Fine?" Ms. Elizabeth asked, trying to keep the smile off her lips and the "I told you so" off her tongue.

"Yeah. They seem like a really bright group of kids." Lucky wiped the silly string from his view. "Too bright."

"I know, Lucky. I know."

"Who do you think you are? Mary-Lynnette?" Ash asked as he passed by, not being able to hold his tongue when he was hyper.

Yeah! Another long one! =D

Thanks to Snow Angel5466 for the sugar idea!

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