Circle Daybreak Preschool- Chapter 14- Happy Birthday!
Thanks to Elesary and Mara and LolaStarz2010 for the ideas for this chapter!
Suggestions are still welcomed! =D
And warning! Language!
"Okay class, today we are going to be learning about fire safety." Ms. Elizabeth announced one sunny Friday, the week after Hallow- Samhain.
Morgead raised his hand and Ms. Elizabeth inquired what his question was.
"The question's not for you, it's for Lucky." Morgead said.
"Okay, what's your question?" Lucky's brow furrowed as he leaned back in Elizabeth's chair.
"Don't you have a job, or a life, or something?"
"Morgead!" Ms. Elizabeth exclaimed, not sure how to react to such a question.
"What? I'm just curious." Morgead shrugged.
"It's okay. I work for the Las Vegas police department at night to make sure people keep in line." Meaning he made sure the Night People were staying inconspicuous and not feeding too heavily.
(AN: And I thought it would make sense for them to live in Las Vegas because that's where Circle Daybreak is anyway.)
"Oh." Morgead nodded.
"Was that your only question?" Ms. Elizabeth asked.
"Yeah." Morgead nodded again.
"Okay then. So fire safety…" Ms. Elizabeth began to explain the rules of fire safety and about the procedures if there ever was a fire.
"Now, we are going to test our new information and have a fire drill." Ms. Elizabeth said slowly, looking at each individual student.
Iliana raised her hand. "How do we know when to get up and stuff?"
"An alarm will go off to warn you about the fire."
"An alarm? Is it going to be loud? Is there actually going to be a fire?" Iliana's purple eyes went wide.
"No, there is not going to be a real fire and I have no clue how loud the alarm is." Ms. Elizabeth explained, her patience wearing thin.
"Ready Elizabeth?" Lucky called from the electrical box that held the fire alarm's switch.
"Ready, kids?" Ms. Elizabeth asked, wanting them to be ready first.
The class nodded and Lucky pulled the switch.
As you can guess, my wonderful readers, it didn't turn out according to plan.
Iliana began screaming; and Jez hit her with a wad of paper, Jade also began screaming, Delos made an unheard demand that the alarm be turned off, a few kids took the liberty of running out of the room to the playground, and others began to run in circles around the room.
"Would you all shut up?" Quinn yelled.
"Wow that alarm is loud." Mary-Lynnette called with her index fingers in her ears.
"What?" Ash called back.
"What?"
"What?"
"What?"
Morgead and Jez began pushing papers of desks, flipping over the vacant desks and chairs.
All the while Ms. Elizabeth was screaming at the kids, trying to get them to line up and go outside in an orderly fashion.
Lucky finally turned the alarm off and the kids panic switches turned off too.
Jez and Morgead pulled up the desk they had been in the process of knocking down, Iliana and Jade stopped screaming, the kids that had been running a muck collapsed and Mary-Lynnette and Ash stopped saying "What?"
"That was a complete failure." Ms. Elizabeth said, her voice raspy from yelling.
The kids that had been outside returned and among them, Eric asked, "What happened in here?"
"We had a little… problem." Ms. Elizabeth said. "Now, let's get the classroom cleaned up." She clapped her hands.
"Yeah." Quinn said sarcastically.
"Now." Ms. Elizabeth added sternly, looking directly at Quinn.
"On it." He muttered and got on his knees to retrieve some fallen papers.
In about ten minutes, the classroom was one again relatively clean and a visitor walked into the room.
"Mrs. Jordan! So nice to see you!" Ms. Elizabeth said cheerfully, hoping the children would behave better with a parent in the room.
"Hey, Elizabeth." Mrs. Jordan smiled.
"So what brings you here today?" Ms. Elizabeth asked.
"Well todays my Kitten's birthday." Rashel's mother smiled at her daughter.
"I knew that! I totally knew that!" Quinn claimed.
"So you came to wish her a happy birthday?" Ms. Elizabeth guessed.
"Yes. And I brought some cake- if that's okay." Mrs. Jordan held up the white box that held the cake.
(Ha! I just finished the Forbidden Game by LJ! Get it? The white box…)
"Yes, of course it's okay!" Ms. Elizabeth assured her.
"Today's Keller's birthday too." Galen spoke up, earning a glare from Keller, though her eyes said she was a little grateful.
"Well in that case…" Mrs. Jordan set the box down and pulled out a tube of red decorating frosting and added And Keller to the Happy Birthday Rashel on the chocolate cake.
Keller turned as red as the frosting and mumbled a thank you.
"You're timing is perfect, we were just about to have lunch." Ms. Elizabeth informed Rashel's mom.
"Yum cake!" Ash said jumping to his feet and many of the guys mimicked his actions.
"Sit down!" Ms. Elizabeth snapped. "You will have lunch, then cake."
"Fine." Ash muttered and did as he was told.
"Now you may get your lunches." Ms. Elizabeth said.
The preschoolers devoured their lunches and got in line for cake.
"Before we cut the cake, we're going to sing happy birthday to Rashel and Keller." Ms. Elizabeth said.
So they sang and Jez and Morgead replaced the final "Happy Birthday to You" with "Can we Have Cake Now?"
It turned out that there was enough cake for everyone to have two pieces, considering the face that no piece was thicker then Elizabeth's thumb. But when Jez and Morgead got their second pieces, they didn't eat it.
"Food fight!"
Cake flew in every direction and Ms. Elizabeth watched in horror as the frosting stained the carpet and a got number of peoples hair.
"You. Put. Cake. In. My. Hair." Mary-Lynnette said slowly and shoved her plate in Ash's face.
"Now you got it in my hair!"
"Well you put it in my hair first!"
"Ahh!" Iliana screamed and everyone froze and turned. Iliana's silky blonde hair was completely covered in brown and red frosting and she looked ready to burst into tears.
"Oh, no." Thea muttered as Iliana did burst into tears.
"Come on Iliana, let's try to get this frosting out of your hair." Ms. Elizabeth took Iliana's hand and took her to the bathroom. "And whoever did this is in big trouble."
Timmy looked away guiltily.
"Anyway… I'm having a birthday party at the fair this weekend and you're all invited!" Rashel announced.
"When?" Gillian asked.
"Tomorrow."
"Oh. I'll ask my mom."
"I almost forgot!" Quinn said suddenly and went to his backpack and got something out. He came back and handed Rashel a hand made birthday card. "Happy birthday."
"Aww, thank you, Quinn." Rashel's cheeks were tinted pink and she kissed Quinn on the cheek.
Quinn rubbed his cheek, looking extremely pleased with himself and said, "You're welcome."
Timmy was squeezing his juice box so hard it popped, spilling juice all over his desk, but he hardly seemed to notice; he was giving Quinn the I'm-Going-To-Kill-You-Because-You-Got-The-Girl-I-Like glare.
Quinn however, wasn't paying Timmy any attention; he was glancing at Ash, who was giving Quinn two thumbs up.
Ms. Elizabeth came back with a teary eyed Iliana, whose hair was better, but there was still traces of chocolate in her hair.
"So, who put the frosting in Iliana's hair?"
Timmy got an idea. "Quinn did it!"
"What? No, I did not!" Quinn yelled.
"He really didn't, I was with him the whole time." Rashel said, glaring at Timmy.
"Then who did?" Ms. Elizabeth asked.
"Timmy." Ash said, "I saw him."
Ms. Elizabeth crossed her arms over her chest and Timmy hung his head.
"I'm sorry, Iliana, it was a mean thing to do." Timmy said.
"You bet it was!" Iliana said and walked away.
"Detention." Ms. Elizabeth sighed.
"Fun." Quinn gave Timmy a smile that would become his signature-charming smile.
The rest day dragged on slowly but finally it ended.
…
That Monday every kid that came, came shaken.
"What happened? You all look like you've seen a ghost." Ms. Elizabeth frowned, not liking the look of most of the kids.
"Something happened to Timmy at Rashel's party." Galen managed.
"What happened?" Elizabeth's blue eyes shifted to Timmy's empty seat.
"He was killed." Even Ash sounded shaken and when Elizabeth looked at him he put two fingers on his neck to silently tell her it had been a vampire attack.
Ms. Elizabeth's eyes widened and many of the girls started to cry.
But no one knew the truth. Hunter Redfern had changed Timmy into a vampire.
"I always hated vermin." New Vampire Timmy said, looking at the preschool on Hunter's left.
Mary-Lynnette looked out of the window of the preschool and spotted what she thought was Timmy, so she blinked and when she looked again, he was gone, but she still had an eerie feeling.
"What's wrong?" Ash asked.
"Nothing." Mary-Lynnette was surprised and touched; it almost sounded like he cared about her. Almost.
"I can't believe Timmy's dead!" Rashel cried bolting for the bathroom.
"Personally, I'm glad he's dead. He was an ass." Morgead drawled.
What a great closing sentence huh? But that's when my brain stopped delivering words to my fingers, so sorry!
And I now believe I have *looks around nervously* Lazy Author Syndrome!
Ash: Hell yeah you do!
Eve: Ash! Don't start with me!
Ash: Whatever.
Eve: That's a girl word.
Ash: No, every word is a unisex word.
Eve: Period.
Ash: Now there's a girl word. And there's my cue.
Eve: Whatever.
Delos: How is "period" a girl word?
Eve: Oh, Delos. Ask Maggie.
Delos: O.o Okayyy. Maggie!
Maggie: Yes?
Delos: How is period a girl word?
Maggie: Oh, Delos. There's a lot we need to talk about.
Anyway! I'm sorry for being lazy! And I'm not making any promises about the next chapter! But reviews help! A lot!
And seriously, suggestions are still welcome!
Thanks!
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