Circle Daybreak Preschool-Chapter 13- Happy Hallow- Samhain!
Thanks to GallagherGirlMacey and Lilly for the ideas in this chapter! =D
Now before Chapter 13…
Evelynn sat in the computer room of Thierry's mansion, stroking Jade's kitten Tiggy behind the ears.
Quinn was sitting on the floor in front of her, glaring at her with his signature black ice glare.
"You sent Ash on me!" Quinn growled, pointing to his rainbow coloured sparkling hair.
"Yes. I quiet like your hair. You look like Magnus Bane." Evelynn noted sounding cool and collected though she was laughing her head off in her shielded mind.
"Like who?" Quinn snapped.
"The High Warlock of Brooklyn." Evelynn replied.
"Brooklyn doesn't have a High Warlock. There's no such thing!"
"Last time I checked, you were a vampire, not a witch." Evelynn commented.
"And last time I checked you were a harmless thirteen year old lamia!" Quinn retorted.
"Oh, Quinn." Evelynn shook her head, chuckling. "No lamia is harmless." She grinned a very Kestrel-ish grin, showing her perfect white teeth.
"And plus, that's what you get for making fun of my story."
"Hey, aren't you allergic to cats?" Quinn asked, noticing the kitten in Eve's arms.
"No, Quinn. Lamia aren't allergic to anything." Evelynn said threw her teeth.
"Oh, right. I keep forgetting you're lamia. Anyway, you still can't harm me in your story."
Evelynn rolled her eyes. When would he learn? "You are dismissed."
"You don't get to tell me when I can go!"
"Then why didn't you leave earlier?"
"… I'll leave now."
"Good." Evelynn turned to the computer. She typed until she heard the door open again. She turned and smiled.
"You did good, Ash."
"Thanks. And Quinn hasn't even taken a shower yet." He smiled evilly.
Evelynn raised her dark eyebrows and Ash quickly explained, "I found the recipe for the slim on Nickelodeon and filled his bathtub with it, but had Thea make me a spell where you can only see it once your standing in it. And it's surprisingly slippery…"
"Fantastic." Evelynn sighed contently.
"So who's taking the blame for this?"
Evelynn thought for a moment.
"Morgead." They both said in unison, nodding.
"Soo… What now?" Ash asked.
"Now, I torture preschool Quinn."
"And how are you going to accomplish that, little cousin?" Ash raised his eyebrows.
"With Timmy."
Now on with the chapter!
"Wait! I need to talk to Delos!" Evelynn screamed.
"Fine. What?" Delos asked, walking in the room.
"I found out how to properly pronounce your name!"
"And how do you?" Delos asked.
"Well, I'm sure a lot of people pronounce it Dell-ose or Dell-os, but its Dee-loss!" Evelynn laughed. "Dee-loss! Hahaha!"
Delos was blushing like mad. "Just get on with the chapter!"
A couple months passed like normal. Ash and Mare continued to fight and eventually Ms. Elizabeth found out a way to try and get them to stop fighting.
She labeled a jar with Ash's name and one with Mary-Lynnette's name, and put 30 pieces of candy in each. "For every fight you get into or for very insult to each other, I take out a piece of candy, and at the end of the month you may take all the candy you have left home." Ms. Elizabeth explained.
"Hey Mom," Ash said a month later, "Ms. Elizabeth gave me a jar!"
Jez and Morgead continued to pull pranks, Iliana still had a hint of black paint in her fine hair, and Keller still went on hyper alert whenever either of them had a pair of scissors.
"What? I was just going to cut out this star." Jez shrugged, but Keller still held her tail close.
Nothing really noteworthy happened, until Halloween…
"Samhain!" Thea and Blaise sang that morning on the way to school both in a great mood.
Even Ms. Elizabeth was in a great mood. She only gave Morgead one detention instead of three for dumping pumpkin guts on Jade.
"Happy Halloween!" Thierry greeted everyone that Thursday morning.
"What?" Thea asked, looking like she was getting ready to be mad.
"Happy Hallow- Samhain! Happy Samhain!" Thierry corrected himself.
Some of the guys were trying to scare one another, but nothing was scarier then the announcement Ms. Elizabeth made.
"Okay kids, we have a new student enrolling today." Ms. Elizabeth said right as the door opened.
"And here he is! Everyone meet Timmy!"
The students all turned to see a small boy with black hair and wide blue eyes. Timmy.
"I don't like him." Quinn hissed quietly.
"I think he looks okay." Rashel said.
Quinn hissed again.
"Easy, Jealous." Thierry laughed.
"Timmy, you will be sitting right over there in the empty seat next to Delos." Ms. Elizabeth showed Timmy to his seat.
"No! I refuse to sit next to him!" Delos declared.
"And why is that?" Ms. Elizabeth asked.
Because I don't like the look of his thoughts. Delos thought.
Yeah! And I here you! The telepaths replied.
Ms. Elizabeth gave Delos a look like I-thought-so-now-behave. "So, Timmy. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?"
Timmy stood and cleared his throat. "I'm Timmy. I like racecars and ice cream and bugs. I don't like vermin."
The Night Children's eyes went wide and they all sat shocked. Even Ms. Elizabeth and Lucky seemed taken aback by the obviously human child.
"What do you mean by vermin?" Ms. Elizabeth was the first to recover, though she instantly regretted it considering the possibility Timmy wasn't human.
"Rats and cockroaches." Timmy shuddered.
The Night People relaxed and let go of the breath they'd all been holding.
"Timmy, cockroaches are bugs." Mary-Lynnette pointed out.
"Well I don't like those bugs." Timmy snapped.
Ash scowled at Timmy. "No one is rude to Mary-Lynnette but me." He said menacingly.
Timmy looked very confused and then turned to look at Ms. Elizabeth, who was rolling her blue eyes.
During free time, Timmy sat with the girls, seeing as the boys didn't like him all that much.
"What's wrong Quinn?" Galen asked after noticing Quinn glaring at the back of Timmy's head.
Quinn turned and looked at the center of the guy's circle. "He's… He's… He's taking Rashel from me!" Quinn blurted out.
The boy's were silent for a moment before howls of obnoxious laughter.
"Quinn," Ash said putting a hand on Quinn's shoulder, "If she really does like you, she would be over there anyway. And if she doesn't like you, then she'd be showing more interest in Timmy, or in any one of us." He gestured to the rest of the guys, holding in their laughter.
"I… I guess you're right… She doesn't seem all that interested in Timmy… But he seems interested in her!"
"If she really likes you," Ash repeated, "Then him hitting on her won't matter."
Quinn's eyes widened. "He's hitting her?"
"No!" Ash and the boys said quickly in unison.
"It's a figure of speech, Quinn. What I was trying to say is if he's trying to get her to like him, or flirting with her, she won't notice because she doesn't like him." Ash said.
Quinn nodded. "Okay. Thanks."
"Anytime."
"Hey Ash?" Morgead was snickering. "What if I told you Mary-Lynnette was flirting with Timmy?"
Ash's eye widened and his face paled a little. Then he shook is head and said, "That's not any of my business."
"You like her." The boys chorused.
"Well." Delos said smugly, "I guess it's a good thing she's not, so that must mean she likes you too."
"And how do you know Mary-Lynnette likes Ash? Not any one of us?" Thierry asked.
"Are you kidding me?" Mark rolled his eyes.
"Hey, isn't that Jez's line?" Eric asked.
"Whatever, but Mare barely notices you guys. She knows you exist, but she only really pays attention to Ash." Mark said.
"And you don't really pay attention to what's behind you." James said.
Behind Mark, Mary-Lynnette stood with a cup of water.
"You know that's not true baby brother." Mary-Lynnette said sweetly. "And do you know what else is true?"
"What?" Mark asked, looking very guilty.
"You're very wet." Mary-Lynnette tipped her cup a little.
"I'm sorry, Mare! I won't ever say anything that's not true ever again! I promise!" Mark pledged.
Mary-Lynnette held her cup upright. "Good."
"Hey James, Ash, Eric, David, Quinn, Thierry, Morgead, Delos, and Galen." Mary-Lynnette nodded to each of them, just to prove to her brother she did pay attention to them.
Mary-Lynnette was about to leave, but before she turned she said to Ash, "It's really not true." And with that, she returned to the girl's circle.
"It's totally true." Mark whispered.
"Totally." James agreed.
Ash blushed but controlled his expression. "Well I believe her."
"No matter how much it hurts." Delos said dramatically.
Ash snarled at his cousin.
"You do like her!" James said, stunned slightly.
"Do not!" Ash said.
"Yea, and I don't like Jez." Morgead said sarcastically and laughed, then realized what he said and the color rose in his cheeks.
"You mean like I don't like Poppy?" James said, sarcastically.
"What?" Poppy asked, looking at James with wide, tearing, green eyes.
"No, Poppy! I was kidding! I really do like you!" James said earnestly, going over to Poppy.
"Why would you kid about something like that?" Poppy demanded.
"Because we were talking about how Ash and Mary-Lynnette like each other-,"
"Do not!" The two exclaimed simultaneously.
"- And Morgead said "Like how I don't like Jez" when Ash said he didn't like Mary-Lynnette, and so I said "Like how I don't like Poppy" when I really do like you!"
Before Poppy could reply Ms. Elizabeth interjected, "Aren't you all a little young to be worrying about this type of thing and having crushes and whatnot?"
"I'll be five in three months!" Ash sounded offended.
"And you'll be mature… Never." Timmy said.
"Ohhh." The class said, completely shocked that anyone beside Mary-Lynnette would dare to mess with Ash. He was one scary soon-to-be-five-year-old.
"Did you just say what I think you said?" Ash asked, but he wouldn't dare do anything with Lucky and Ms. Elizabeth right there.
"Yea, I think I did, or are you hard of hearing?"
Timmy continued with the insults to everyone one of the guys, planning them perfectly so the girls would never know.
When it was Morgead's turn to take the Tinsults, as they had begun to call them, Morgead resolved no matter how bad they were, he would not punch Timmy in the face… So instead he punched the wall.
"What in the-?" Ms. Elizabeth asked, running over to the two boys with Lucky.
The both stared at the gaping hole in the wall for a moment.
"You punch a hole... in the wall…?" Lucky asked Morgead, sounding breathless.
The other kids had begun to gather around to see what had the adults so flabbergasted.
"Morgead Blackthorn!" Ms. Elizabeth said.
"What? It was either that or his face!" Morgead gestured to Timmy, who looked simply horrified.
"Morgead!" This time both Elizabeth and Lucky said it.
"Well he was being mean to me!" If he had said it in a whiny tone, it would have been so cliché.
"Morgead!" Thea and Blaise both stormed forward. "You are ruining this Samhain!" Thea yelled.
"Yeah, well guess what? I'm not a-,"
"Morgead!" All the Night People screamed.
"I thought people would be screaming my name when I was older. I guess the early bird gets the worm!" Morgead said.
Before anyone could react, Blaise stepped forward, slapped Morgead across the cheek and made a very dramatic exit.
The children then began to go back to their desks and Ms. Elizabeth briefly closed her eyes.
"Lucky, could you go to the hardware store to get something for the wall? Timmy you have a time-out for being mean to Morgead, and Morgead you now have a weeks worth of detention." Ms. Elizabeth said.
"But Ms. Elizabeth may I point out that Timmy was being mean to all of the guys, not just me." Morgead said.
"In that case, Timmy apologize to all the boys and you now have detention." Ms. Elizabeth changed the punishment.
Morgead and Timmy then took their seats, and Ash leaned forward and said to Mary-Lynnette, "I really don't like you."
"I really don't like you too." Mary-Lynnette replied as Jez slipped Morgead a piece of paper.
You are so dead. Don't like you too.
Happy Samhain,
Jez R.
"So you really like me?" Poppy asked for reassurance and James nodded, smiling.
…
"But seriously Mary-Lynnette, I don't like you."
I am so, so, SO sorry about this, I've been kind of brain dead since the last chapter, which is perfectly understandable because the last chapter was super long! So I just wanted to apologize for the lateness! I assure you I already have an idea for the next chapter! So hopefully, it will not be this late!
And I wanted to give a shout out to my beta reader Vampire-Domo! Woot! =D
And in other news, I was wondering how you all liked the little opener story in the beginning of this, and another, chapter? I'm sure it was a little annoying because you wanted to read the chapter, or you just completely skipped over it, but it's a fun way of telling you all stuff! Dee-loss! Haha! Lol! Anyhoo, tell me what you think of it!
Sorry again for the lateness!
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