Circle Daybreak Preschool- Chapter 16- The Lazy Author has Written!
Thanks to , Separate Entity, Lundybundy15, and Elesary for the ideas in this chapter! =D
Ms. Elizabeth stared at the faces of her students. Mostly all of them had gotten over Timmy's death but some still looked slightly shaken, which is why Ms. Elizabeth was dreading telling the student the following news.
"Okay kids, tomorrow we are getting a new student." Ms. Elizabeth said slowly.
"Hmm… I hope this one doesn't turn out like the last," Morgead said.
"Who is it?" Thea asked, ignoring Morgead's comment.
"His name is Jeremy Lovett." Ms. Elizabeth answered.
"Oh, I know him. He lives in my neighborhood." Mary-Lynnette said.
"Is he the kid who's always mowing the lawn?" Mark asked.
"Anyway," Ms. Elizabeth interrupted, "He'll be here tomorrow, and you will all be nice to him." She glanced at Morgead, who was suddenly very occupied with his thumbs.
"He won't be mean to the anyone like… Timmy was." Mary-Lynnette said, choking slightly on Timmy's name.
Most of the guys looked at Ash, expecting him to be snarling with narrowed emerald green eyes.
"How can you be sure?" Ash asked; giving the guys the exact response they were looking for.
"Because I know him." Mare snapped.
"Do you?" Ash asked partially to annoy her.
"Are you jealous, Ash?" Mary-Lynnette asked, with wide blue eyes.
"No!" Ash replied too quickly.
"Now that I have made that announcement, it's time to get back to addition." Ms. Elizabeth said firmly, cutting off Mary-Lynnette's reply for the second time that morning.
"Yeah." Delos said sarcastically.
Ms. Elizabeth gave Delos a sharp glance before proceeding with the lesson.
"Lunch time!" Ms. Elizabeth nearly yelled at the drifting students.
"Huh? Wha?" Morgead's head shot up and drool dripped from his chin.
"Elegant." Jez commented sarcastically.
"Shut it, Jezebel." Morgead angrily wiped his chin.
"Still there." Jez said smugly.
"Hey! Princy!" Morgead called to Delos.
Delos did not look happy. "What?" He growled.
"Can I use one of those fancy wash clothes you have?" Morgead asked.
Delos raised his eyebrows. "Did you drool again in your sleep?"
"No!" Morgead said too quickly.
"Then no." Delos turned. "And you're awfully disrespectful." He added.
"Why would he need to be respectful? You're four." Mary-Lynnette asked.
"Has anyone ever told you you're way too curious for your own good?" Delos asked.
"Ash tells me that all the time." Mary-Lynnette nodded.
"You should listen." Delos said and went back to Maggie.
Mary-Lynnette frowned and then looked at Morgead. "You have dried drool on your chin."
"Dangit!" Morgead began rubbing again.
"So what are you guys think about getting a new kid?" Eric asked, sitting next to David in the guys' circle.
"Fresh meat!" Quinn said and earned himself a slap from James.
"We'll see." Ash said, picking at his sandwich methodically. (Like a cliché businessman with his cat, only he's picking at a sandwich XD)
"Well no duh we'll see." David said.
Ash set his sandwich down and looked at David. "I was trying to set up a mood there."
"Annoying?" Mary-Lynnette guessed, looking over his shoulder.
Ash turned back to look at her with his mouth in a hard line. "No one asked you're opinion."
"No one asked you to set a mood." Mary-Lynnette retorted.
"No one asked either of you to be born." Delos interjected and Mary-Lynnette went back to the girls' circle.
"So… Keller…" Galen tried to find words as he stood next to his crush. Galen really liked her, but he didn't know how to tell her. Maybe he'd try to be cliché romantic. Like his dad whenever he upset his wife. "Do you like poetry?" Galen had always liked poetry.
"No. Not really." Keller frowned liked she was remembering something.
"Oh." Galen frowned. Think! Think! Galen chanted in his head. Was he just not ready to talk to her? "Well… Then…"
"Do you like poetry?" Keller asked, looking at him with those stormy gray eyes, reminding him of Gray Eyed Athena, the Greek goddess he often heard about in his bedtime stories.
"Yeah. I do." Galen nodded. "Not that it's not cool, that you don't like poetry. I mean it's just an opinion- right?" Galen said quickly. He expected sweat to start dripping down the side of his face.
"Yeah, but I guess poetry is alright." She pursed her lips and Galen thought he was going to pass out.
"Yeah…" Galen desperately tried to think of another thing to talk about. "So… What do you like?"
Keller frowned, her dark brows pulling together, and Galen couldn't help but think about how kitten-adorable she looked.
Before Keller could answer there was a loud crash as one of the short shelves tipped over.
Everyone stared at it and then looked at the couple closest to it.
"I swear it just tipped over!" Quinn said, with his hands held at shoulder height.
Ms. Elizabeth said a colorful word.
"Liz!" Lucky said from the entrance, having heard her curse.
"Sorry. It slipped!"
"What does that mean?" Jade asked.
"What does what mean?" Kestrel snapped.
Jade repeated the word and Lucky and Elizabeth gasped. Ms. Elizabeth went and bent in front of Jade.
"Jade that is a really bad word I should have never said, and it's best if you never say that word ever again." Ms. Elizabeth explained.
"Okay!" Jade agreed, happily.
Later already?
"Hey, Mom! Guess what Jade said today!"
"Jade said what?"
Really? The next day? Dang you're lazy!
Everyone tried to get to school early to try and get there before the new kid. Jeremy Lovett.
"Dang, he's cute." Thea whispered to the rest of the girls.
"I know right." Mary-Lynnette giggled.
"He's okay." Blaise said, bored already.
"Yeah. I've seen cuter. But he is really okay." Jez agreed, surprising herself by even joining this conversation.
"Who do you think is cuter?" Mary-Lynnette asked.
Jez blushed and didn't answer.
"What do the rest of you think?" Thea asked, looking at the rest of the girls.
"Were… Were… Ahhh!" Keller screamed and ran outside and disappeared from sight.
"Uh… Okay… Hey Mary-Lynnette." Jeremy waved, noticing his friend.
"Hi." Mary-Lynnette waved back and Ash glared at Jeremy.
Galen, who had run after Keller, couldn't find her anywhere. He rested against a tree next to the monkey bars and caught his breath.
"Where is she?" He asked aloud. He heard a strange noise from the tree and looked up to see Keller, her cat ears twitching at the faintest sound and her claws extended.
"Keller! What are you doing in a tree?" Galen asked, climbing up the tree.
"He's a werewolf!" Keller hissed.
"And?" Galen never had like prejudices.
"And?" Keller repeated. "And that means he's a dog! Galen! I'm a cat!"
"Oh." Galen breathed. Then he got an impulse to laugh. "Keller, he won't hurt you. Mary-Lynnette's knows him, so he can't be all bad."
"'All bad.'" Keller quoted.
Galen rolled his eyes and promised, "If he hurts you, I swear as the Prince of the First House of Shapeshifter's, that I will personally kill him."
Keller slowly came down from the tree and Galen came after her.
"You sure you're ready to go in?" Galen asked.
Keller nodded and together they came back into the preschool.
Unlike Timmy, Jeremy hung out with the guys… And had the occasional conversation with Mary-Lynnette.
Every time Jeremy did so much as look at Mare, Ash's blood pressure rose a little more.
Morgead and Quinn had a bet to see how long he'd last.
Finally, Jeremy turned around to talk to Mary-Lynnette again, and with a cry, Ash lunged.
"She's mine! I saw her first!" Ash yelled.
"No! I saw her first! She's mine!" Jeremy yelled back, fighting Ash back.
Mary-Lynnette just stared at the two boys. Fighting over her.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Lucky and Elizabeth came over to the fighting boys.
"What's going on?" Lucky asked, peeling Jeremy off Ash.
"He attacked me!" Jeremy pointed.
"He was flirting with Mary-Lynnette!" Ash pointed.
"And that upset you why? I thought you didn't like her." Lucky asked.
Ash flustered. "I... Well… I don't want her being deceived by the untrustworthy." Ash glared at Jeremy.
"'Untrustworthy'?" Jeremy spat and glared. "If anyone's untrustworthy it's you!"
This time Jeremy lunged at Ash and the boys skirmished again.
"Wait!" Mary-Lynnette threw herself between the boys. "Why would either of you be untrustworthy?"
The boys glared over her shoulder and to cover up the silence Ms. Elizabeth said, "I think I'll unlock the bathroom so the boys can wash up and everyone can take a bathroom break."
Ms. Elizabeth unlocked the bathroom. The construction workers had made a terrible screw up when they were building the school and instead of having a boys and girls bathroom, they had one large boys and girl's bathroom.
Good thing they're four!
Ms. Elizabeth, too tired to even give a math lesson, called "Is everyone done?" And before even waiting for an answer she flipped off the light and shut the door, locking it behind her.
"Who turned off the lights?" Mary-Lynnette asked in a slightly high-pitched voice.
"I don't know." Ash replied.
(The author apologizes if she starts typing lyrics instead of words because she's tired and listening to catching music… So sorry if that happens…)
Mary-Lynnette flushed the toilet and opened the stall. "I can't see!"
"Neither can I!" Ash lied; his eyes had already adjusted, due to the white light coming in from under the door.
"Is anyone else in here?" Mary-Lynnette asked.
"No." Ash asked after a few seconds of silence.
"Where are you?" Mary-Lynnette asked.
"Right here." Ash moved toward her, trying to walk as if he couldn't see.
"Oh, my gosh, I can't see!" That thought seemed to make her hysterical.
"I know." Ash tried to sound calm, but her hysteria was rubbing off on him.
He finally reached her and she clung to him like a life preserver.
"Hey, it's okay." He put a hand on her shoulder.
"Okay? We're locked in the bathroom!" Mary-Lynnette pointed out.
Then something sunk in. "Wait, someone should have noticed we're missing." Now Ash started to go hysterical.
His hysteria cleared her head. "It's nap time. They won't realize for a while."
"But... We can't wait in here for an hour!" Ash stated.
"We might have too." Mary-Lynnette said quietly.
"No, I can just open the door! The door can only lock from the outside."
"Okay, try." Mary-Lynnette nodded.
"I can't reach the handle!" Ash exclaimed.
Suddenly the lights dimmed further and Mary-Lynnette clung to Ash again.
"Ms. Elizabeth turned off the lights." Mary-Lynnette realized.
"I can't see!" Ash complained.
"Neither can I!" Mary-Lynnette said.
"Come on people! Realize we're gone!" Ash said, staring at the spot where the faint light was coming from.
"Maybe we could bang on the door!" Mary-Lynnette said suddenly.
So they tried, but the door was thick.
"Let's just try to sleep. Might as well." Mary-Lynnette said, sitting down and curling in a ball on the dirty tile.
Iliana sat up and stood and carefully and made her way to Ms. Elizabeth's desk.
"I have to potty." Iliana whispered.
Ms. Elizabeth nodded and opened the bathroom and stared at the two bodies on the floor.
Mary-Lynnette had he head on Ash's shoulder and he had his arm around her torso.
"Aww." Iliana squealed.
"Lucky." Ms. Elizabeth motioned for Lucky to come over.
"You grab Ash, I'll take Mary-Lynnette." Ms. Elizabeth said and detangled Mare from Ash.
"You go ahead an go potty Iliana." Ms. Elizabeth flipped on the lights and took Mary-Lynnette to an extra mat.
"They're going to be confused when they wake up." Iliana said cheerfully and went to the bathroom.
And the next day! In my head… Dang it stupid catchy song!
(Ash Redfern to the person who can guess what I'm listening to! JK I love Ash too much to give him up like that! XD)
"Hey, guess what the totally random fact of the day is today." Delos said, coming up to Maggie and Mary-Lynnette.
"What?" Mary-Lynnette asked, wondering when they got totally random facts of the day.
"My dad gave me a fountain pen yesterday." Delos took the pen out of his pocket and showed the girls.
"Shouldn't you put the cap on?" Maggie asked, pointing.
"I have no clue where it is though." Delos frowned.
"Aren't you worried about staining your clothes?"
"They're all dark colors anyway." Delos said.
The next moment the fountain pen erupted and Ash sprang in front of Mary-Lynnette. The ink covered Maggie's hair, part of Ash's and part of Mare's.
Delos stared for a moment. "I'll throw the pen away and get some wipes." He said and walked off.
Delos returned and gave a wad to Ash and Mare and turned to Maggie.
"I'm really sorry." Delos said, moving the wipe across her delicate cheekbone.
"It's okay. I didn't even know they did that." Maggie said.
Delos looked into her deep brown eyes and got a shock. She really didn't blame him. He could see it in her chocolate, warm, dark eyes…
It was then that Delos Redfern, vampire prince, became Maggie Neely's Designated Royal Protectenator. Royal, because he was a prince and protectenator because everything sounded cooler with 'enator' at the end… enator. Snicker.
"Why did you jump in front of me?" Mary-Lynnette asked as she wiped her hair again.
Ash looked her in the eye. "Because. Without you there to keep me from going insane, my hair wouldn't matter."
"Wait, hold up. I keep you sane and give meaning to your hair?" Mary-Lynnette asked.
"Well you provide a distraction from all things annoying…" Ash trailed off staring at Jade. "And I guess the last part didn't come out right. So let me try again. Without you, my hair is doesn't matter."
Before Mare could reply, Morgead went, "Puke."
Sup FanFiction!
I don't have much to say about this chapter… So I'll give you other random stuff to read!
Thanks Elesary for the awesome lines said by Ash and Delos at the end! XD
I apologize for not using some of the other Soulmates... I tend to stick with my favorites (Ash and Mare) and the troublemakers (Jez and Morgead) because it's easier for me to write with them. So I'll try to use some of the other Soulmates more!
My dentist's name is M. John Quinn… I nearly screamed when I found that out…
And I have a few new stories up!
Rippled Water: It's a Percy Jackson fan fiction I'm writing with my best friend about two twin sisters of Poseidon. I threw in a little Night World, but not much. Reviews are highly welcomed!
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