Circle Daybreak Preschool- Chapter 12- Why Don't You Just Stake Me?
Welcome back to another installment of Circle Daybreak Preschool!
Warning, this is going to be a VERY, VERY LONG chapter!
Thanks to, JCullen The Cat, Kiki, Elesary, and pierulestheworld for your wonderful ideas! =D Thanks so much!
Part of being a preschool teacher was making sure the kids new their basic survival skills. So guess what they were having.
"A camp out slash picnic thing." Ms. Elizabeth repeated to the bewildered students and continued to pass out the permission slips on a clear Tuesday morning.
"When?" Thierry asked upon receiving his.
"Thursday night." Ms. Elizabeth replied, seriously dreading it.
"And what if we can't go?" Ash asked, plotting all the ways to convince his mother not to let him go.
"Then I'll call to see if I can change their mind." Ms. Elizabeth sighed.
Lucky chuckled in Ms. Elizabeth's chair, aware of how much she didn't want to do this.
You're going to help me, whether you like it or not. Ms. Elizabeth told him firmly.
Lucky's smile vanished and his eyes shifted to Jez, thinking of all the terrible things she could do.
~Lucky Flashback~
Lucky had stayed late with Elizabeth to help her with papers and to make sure she was fine.
When everything was done, Lucky walked out to his car, and stared at it.
"Lucky? What's wrong?" Elizabeth asked, locking the front door and coming up behind Lucky.
"Jez." Lucky said solemnly while Elizabeth gasped.
His car, a sleek, sliver convertible, was completely covered in silly string. It covered the seats and the tires, and the string was hanging from the rear-review mirrors.
Ms. Elizabeth choked on her own laughter. "You can ride with me." She managed.
"Thanks." Lucky said, tearing his eyes away from the car.
"Anytime." Elizabeth joked, turning away and openly laughing.
"Whose the poor sucker whose car is covered in silly string?" Ash asked, entering the classroom the next morning, which threw Elizabeth into a fit of laughter.
~End of Lucky Flashback~
Ms. Elizabeth smiled, reading Lucky's thoughts, and handed out the last of the permission slips.
The next day, all of them were returned, and all of the children could go.
"What have I done?" Ms. Elizabeth gasped, putting her head in her hands.
Lucky laughed. "I have no clue, Lizzy. What have you done?"
Elizabeth glared at him through her fingers.
Ms. Elizabeth then printed out a list of things the students would need, such as sunscreen, a sleeping bag, a pillow, flashlights, etc.
Lucky read the list over Elizabeth's shoulder and said, "I highly doubt they're going to need batteries. What would they use them for anyway?"
"Right." Ms. Elizabeth scratched it from the list.
"Um… What exactly are we supposed to be doing?" Gillian asked.
"Sitting quietly, not talking." Ms. Elizabeth glancing pointedly at Ash and Mary-Lynnette, who were having an argument about the color black.
"Color!"
"Shade!"
"Color!"
"Shade!"
"I'm telling you! It's a color!"
"No! Idiot! It's a shade!"
"Ash! Mary-Lynnette! Stop talking!" Ms. Elizabeth snapped.
"They're not talking," Kestrel said, slightly smug, "They're arguing."
"What are they arguing about?" Lucky asked Kestrel, though he was looking at Ash and Mare.
"Whether black it a color or a shade." Kestrel answered, which restarted the argument.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Lucky interrupted them. "Black is a shade."
Mary-Lynnette stuck her tongue out at Ash, who returned the gesture.
"When will you learn not to argue with her?" Mark asked, thinking about all the times Mary-Lynnette had beat him in an argument.
"When I win one." Ash replied.
"You do know that will be, uh, never, right?" Mark raised his eyebrows.
"No, it won't be." Ash turned back around.
Mark sighed, wishing Ash the best of luck.
Thursday came and as the kids came, they piled their over-night bags in the corner.
Ash dropped both his and Jade's bag in the pile. "Gosh darnit, Jade! What did you put in there?" He demanded.
"My stuffed animals." Was Jade's cheery reply.
"Why?"
"Because, you know I can't sleep without them!"
"Why are we cursed with the stupid siblings?" Kestrel groaned.
"I have no clue, Kestrel." Rowan sighed.
The school was calmer than you would think. Or at least as calm as these kids ever get.
Instead of eating lunch in the classroom, the class went outside to eat.
Iliana was just about to take a bite out of her sandwich when she noticed something.
Iliana dropped her sandwich and screamed. "It's a sandwich!"
"Yes. It is a sandwich." Keller, the closest to Iliana, nodded slowly at her.
"No! It's a sandwich! There's sand in it!" Iliana continued to scream.
Everyone looked at the contents in t heir sandwiches and threw them down.
"Ew! Ew! Eww!"
"That's disgusting!"
Jez, Morgead, Quinn, and Rashel were all snickering.
"I hope none of you have drunk the juice yet." Rashel managed.
Mary-Lynnette, who had currently been taking a drink, spit it out and "accidentally" got most of it on Ash.
"Thank you so much." Ash said, wiping off his face with a paper towel.
"You're welcome." Mary-Lynnette said sweetly. "Now what's in the lemonade?" Mary-Lynnette peered into her cup, and screamed. She dropped the red plastic cup and spilled it, once again on Ash.
"Oh, come on! Why does gravity hate me?" Ash whined.
"Because everything hates you." Mary-Lynnette said sweetly.
Ash glared at her. "And why is that?"
"Because you irritate everything."
"Well at least I don't bore anything to death." Ash retorted, earning a kick in the shins.
"Ash, Mary-Lynnette, if you don't knock it off I'm going to put you both in time out." Ms. Elizabeth threatened.
"I'd put the kids who messed with the food in time-out." Ash muttered, rubbing his shin.
"That's a great idea. Jez, Morgead, go sit over there, where the gravel meets the grass, and Rashel and Quinn, go sit right in front of the wall and face it."
"How did she know it was us?" Jez hissed as she and Morgead sat down.
"Jez, she's not stupid!" Morgead reminded her.
"Right…" Jez looked down and began playing with the gravel.
After five minutes of time out, Ms. Elizabeth called all the students around a cooler and announced, with as much cheerfulness as possible, that they were having a water balloon fight.
"You're going down." Ash informed Mary-Lynnette.
She rolled her eyes and told him no one wins in a water balloon fight.
"Everyone get your balloons!" Ms. Elizabeth instructed. "Get ready! Water balloon fight!" She blew a whistle produced from her back pocket.
Water balloons soared threw the air, droplets spraying everywhere when they smashed into their targets.
Ash and Mary-Lynnette circled each other; water balloons in hand, ready to strike.
"Oh, my, God, they're pathetic." Kestrel, Rowan, Jade, and Mark watched the couple as they continued to circle.
Finally, Mary-Lynnette released the balloon as soon as Ash did.
Ash got Mary-Lynnette's shoulder and Mary-Lynnette got Ash's stomach.
They glared at each other before running toward the cooler to get more balloons.
Meanwhile, Jez and Morgead were kicking ahh- butt! Jez popped the balloon right over Blaise's head, causing the witch to freak out and drop her balloon, which she was saving for Thea.
Morgead, on the other hand, was throwing balloons left and right with deadly accuracy. He got the guys in the groin, and the girls where ever.
"Lizzy, this wasn't part of the schedule." Lucky said, watching the fight, half amused, half serious.
"Yes, but this way, the kids will practically pass out at the end of the day." Ms. Elizabeth smirked.
"Brilliant!" Lucky praised her idea for a slip second before a balloon got him right in the face.
"Sorry!" Iliana squealed, amazing the two adults by even throwing it.
"Oh, that's okay." Lucky deflated when he realized the delicate girl would never intentionally throw the balloon at him.
"You owe me." Iliana informed Morgead sweetly.
"I know. Thanks Iliana." And with that, Morgead released a balloon, getting Quinn where the sun don't shine.
Quinn doubled over, and Keller took the opportunity to peg his back.
"No!" The exclamation rang through the commotion. Everyone froze and turned toward the location where the sound came from.
"What's wrong?" Ms. Elizabeth asked frowning, looking at the group of boys surrounding the cooler.
"All the water balloons are gone!" David cried.
Ms. Elizabeth suppressed a smile. "We were bound to run out sooner or later."
"But we were having so much fun!" Galen frowned.
"Well I'm glad, but…" Ms. Elizabeth shrugged, unsure of how to finish.
"Should we start picking up the balloon remains?" Lucky asked.
"Nope." Ms. Elizabeth replied, popping the P. "They are environmentally friendly balloons, so they'll dissolve in a while."
"Cool." Lucky nodded, getting towels for the children to dry off with.
"Yeah, less work for us." Ash accepted a towel.
Everyone suppressed an eye roll.
"Morgead! How did you get so dirty?" Ms. Elizabeth asked suddenly, appalled at the preschooler caked in sand.
"Jezebel pushed me in the sandbox when I was soaking." Morgead explained through his teeth.
"Jez!" Ms. Elizabeth began to scold the young girl.
"What? He-,"
"I don't want to know what he did!" Ms. Elizabeth held up a pale hand, silencing Jez. "Time out." Ms. Elizabeth pointed to where Jez had been sitting fifteen minutes earlier.
Ms. Elizabeth turned to Lucky. "There's a hose around the left side of the building, would you take him to wash off?"
Lucky nodded and lead Morgead around to the hose to wash off.
"I wonder what he did." Rashel mused, looking back and forth between Jez and Morgead.
"You do not want to know." James promised.
"So, what now?" Thea asked, running her fingers threw her wet blonde hair.
"Now, we learn some basic survival skills." Ms. Elizabeth answered when Lucky and Morgead had returned.
"What are four year olds going to use survival skills for?" Ash asked quietly.
"Well, they're always good skills to have. Better now than later." Rowan explained softly.
"Whatever." Ash sighed, zoning out of Ms. Elizabeth's lecture.
If you're going to think about Mary-Lynnette, you might want to shield your thoughts. A very smug Kestrel mentally told her brother.
Ash blushed and did as she advised.
The rest of the day flew by faster than Toothless. (AN: I love How to Train Your Dragon! It was the cutest movie! My friend and I want a Night Fury now XD)
"I can't believe we had actually sandwiches for dinner." Delos shook his head.
"Why not? Too peasant-like for you?" Jez snapped.
"No! It's just that you wouldn't really expect sandwiches after… sandwiches…" Delos referred to the lunch incident.
"Oh." Jez walked away snickering.
"Okay, kids! Gather around!" Ms. Elizabeth waved everyone in a circle in the grass. "It's time to get ready for bed."
That earned many groans and a "But it's only… Hey, what time is it?"
"It's bed time." Ms. Elizabeth said solemnly. "Now, I will be sleeping inside for anyone who wants to sleep outside, and Lucky will stay outside in case any of you would prefer to sleep out here."
"But wait! We can't go to bed with out roasting marshmallows!"
Ms. Elizabeth sighed. "We don't have marshmallows."
Jade held up a bag of nice, fluffy, white puffs of sugar.
"We don't have a fire pit." Ms. Elizabeth used that for her excuse.
Jade frowned and put the bag of edible hyperness back at her side.
Ms. Elizabeth told the student to go get in their PJ's brush their teeth and get ready for bed.
When everyone was done and once again formed in the circle Ms. Elizabeth handed out sleeping bags and such.
"Now anyone who want to come inside and Jez and Morgead, come with me!" Ms. Elizabeth led Jade, Thea, Eric, Gillian, David, Hannah, Jez, Morgead, Delos, Maggie, Iliana and Blaise inside, when everyone had their belongings.
"Why do we have to go inside?" Morgead grumbled.
"Because she's afraid we'll ditch in the middle of the night." Jez sighed.
"Smart woman." Morgead praised. "But she doesn't trust Lucky?"
"Well he'll have enough on his plate with Ash and Mary-Lynnette out there."
"Yea. I hope she flattens him." Morgead had a very literal picture in his head of that happening.
Jez rolled her eyes. "Yea, but there's no way. For one thing," Jez lowered her voice and spread out her sleeping bag in a corner, "she's vermin. And second of all, Ash has sisters, and he so knows how to handle girls."
"But Mary-Lynnette does have a brother." Morgead pointed out.
"Yea, I guess she does. Well, whatever." Jez shrugged, climbing in her sleeping bag. "Good night."
Ms. Elizabeth called, "Good night." And the lights flipped off, except for a nightlight near the exit.
Morgead climbed into his own sleeping bag. "Good night, Jezebel."
"Don't call me that, idiot." Jez mumbled.
"Of course. It will never happen again Jezebel." Morgead smirked.
"I'm warning you." Jez yawned.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good night, Jez."
"G' night."
"Quinn, I have a question." Rashel stated.
"Ask away." Quinn replied.
"Why do you keep telling your dad that preschool is evil?" Rashel then added, "And don't tell me because it is!"
"Because my dad is a very religious person, so I think that if I keep telling him that preschool is evil, he'll let me stay home." Quinn explained.
"Oh. And do you think it's working?"
"Absolutely not."
"Well, instead of being absolutely annoying, why don't you be absolutely silent and go to sleep?" Keller suggested.
(AN: Gotta love Keller! =D)
Good nights were exchanged, and Keller's demands were fulfilled.
"Why are you sleeping out here?"
Mary-Lynnette rolled her eyes. "So I can star-watch." She lifted the binoculars out of her sleeping bag.
"Aren't you supposed to use a telescope for star-watching?" Ash raised his eyebrows.
"And how was I supposed to accomplish getting that here?" Mary-Lynnette retorted.
Ash shrugged. They both fell silent, Mare looking at the sky, and Ash watching her.
"You looking at the Trifle Nebula thingy?" Ash asked.
"The what?" Mary-Lynnette asked, lowering the binoculars to look at him. "Oh, you mean the Trifid nebula!"
"But the other day you called it Trifle." Ash replied stubbornly.
"I was hyper!"
"So?"
Mary-Lynnette closed her eyes, thinking of a reply. "I'm to tired to argue with you now. It's the Trifid nebula, end of story."
"Whatever. So what are you looking at?" What could he say? The boy was curious.
"I can't see much." Mare frowned. "The light is bleaching everything out."
"That's a shame."
"You sound so sincere." Mary-Lynnette snapped.
Ash shrugged and they both started when it suddenly became darker out.
"The lights went out." Ash explained.
But Mary-Lynnette wasn't listening. She had brought the binoculars up and was looking intently through them.
"Ohh look!" Momentarily forgetting their rivalry, Mare handed Ash the binoculars, giving his direction in where to look.
"It's that pretty?" Mary-Lynnette asked, intently watching his face.
"Mhm."
"Oh! An if you look…" Mary-Lynnette continued to show Ash the night sky.
When Ash finally handed Mary-Lynnette the binoculars, she looked through them and set the binoculars back in her sleeping bag. "And now the moons out."
"And now," Lucky approached the two kids, "It's time to go to bed."
"Fine." Ash said, settling in his sleeping bag.
"Good night." Mary-Lynnette replied, already half asleep.
"'Night." Kestrel and Rowan said simultaneously, laying on Mary-Lynnette's right side.
"Good night." Ash mumbled, his words almost inaudible for he was snoring the second after the words left his lips.
"Why is so bright?" Keller asked, rubbing her eyes the next morning.
"I think it's so bright because it wants to irritate us." Quinn sat up stretching.
Keller, Galen, Rashel, and Quinn had all slept in a cross shape with heads in the center. The only reason Galen was even out there was because he had a slight crush on Keller. A teeny, teeny crush; about the size of, let's say, Jupiter.
It was dawn, and the sunrise was practically yelling at the kids, who had slept outside, to get up.
Lucky sat up and laughed. "I guess Elizabeth didn't take that into consideration."
"Consider-what?" Ash asked, stretching like a cat then falling back asleep.
"Un-believable." Kestrel rolled her eyes, already up.
"You know, you don't seem like a morning person." Quinn observed.
"Oh, I'm not." Kestrel grinned at him, showing teeth.
Quinn raised his eyebrows at the lamia and shook his head, also getting up.
Mary-Lynnette sat up carefully; feeling her face to make sure Ash hadn't tried anything while she was asleep.
When she was positive Ash hadn't messed with her, Mary-Lynnette stood up and noticed the snake on her sleeping bag.
Mary-Lynnette, who was deathly terrified of snakes, screamed for all she was worth.
That woke Ash right up, and he burst out laughing when he realized what she was screaming at.
"Haha! It's a fake snake! Haha! Hey that rhymes!" Ash laughed, grabbing the snake.
"You- you! I hate you! That's not funny!" Mary-Lynnette cried, still freaked out.
Quinn was obviously on Ash's side. He was laughing almost as hard as Ash, who was on his back laughing.
"Ash Redfern! That really wasn't funny!" Rowan scolded, hugging Mary-Lynnette. "Was it Kestrel?"
But Kestrel wasn't the right person to ask. She was stifling laughter with her hand.
"Kestrel!"
"What? His laughter's contagious." Kestrel gestured toward her brother.
When Mary-Lynnette had calmed down, Quinn came over to Ash and said, "Well at least you got a point now!"
"A point?" Ash asked, confused.
"Aren't you keeping score? Of how many times you pull successfully something on each other?"
"No." Ash stared at him like he was crazy.
"Oh, well, whatever. But that was awesome!" Quinn praised.
"I know!"
"You don't know anything!" Mary-Lynnette called from over on the other side of the field.
"Oh yea? I know you're scared of snakes!" Ash called back, sending him and Quinn into fits of laughter.
"You know," Lucky said crouching down by the two boys. "It's easier to tell a girl you like her instead of pulling pranks on her."
"I do not like her!" Ash folded his arms across his chest.
Lucky just raised his eyebrows and Ash let his arms fall to his side. "Okay, maybe just a little. But only because messing with her doesn't get old!"
"Ooo." Quinn laughed a laugh that sounded awful close to a giggle.
Ash rolled his eyes and Lucky stood up chuckling thinking, Kids.
"It's too early to get up." Jez complained loudly, loud enough to wake the other kids up.
"Ugh. What time is it?" Blaise asked.
"Breakfast time!" Jade squealed. "Are we having my marshmallows?" Jade held up the bag.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes and said, "No, Jade. We're having cereal."
"Lucky Charms?" Jade asked, definitely a morning person.
"Sure." Ms. Elizabeth replied, going over to the back door and opening it. She called for Lucky to bring the other kids in.
The outside sleepers filed in, extremely hungry and tired.
The preschoolers all got in a line for cereal. One by one the children were given a Styrofoam bowl and plastic spoons and choices of cereal.
One by one the children sat down at their desks, eating quietly.
Mary-Lynnette could hear Ash shifting in his seat. She froze, carefully set her spoon in her bowl, and quickly turned around with her hand out.
Her hand smacked into Ash's, causing him to loose his grip on the rubber snake and sending it flying across the room.
"What was that for?" Ash demanded when the snake had impacted with the wall.
"What was that for?" Mary-Lynnette was wondering the same thing.
They began an argument and Ms. Elizabeth watched them with dread.
"What's wrong, Lizzy?" Lucky asked quietly.
"They are fighting, and it's not even time for school."
"So Jezebel. How did you sleep?" Morgead asked, grinning.
Jez didn't dignify that with an answer, but merely looked at the ceiling and asked, "Why don't you just stake me?"
Okayyy. I know this chapter is extremely late (not that there's really a due date for it…) but I need you to understand! This chapter is EIGHT PAGES on Word. Eight pages. I think it's the longest one ever.
Yea, I really doubt that there would actually be a sleepover in preschool for such an occasion as learning survival skills, but I needed an excuse for there to be a sleepover! So, the survival idea came to mind!
Anyhoo, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Sorry for the lateness!