Circle Daybreak Preschool- Chapter 22- There's a Day for This?
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Idea for this chapter provided by bookgirl07!
So I posted a new story, a song fiction series for Ash and Mary-Lynnette! [: Formerly called AshxMare Song Fiction Series, but I changed it to Songs About You, because that sounds better! ;) Check it out! :D Please!
Also I know I haven't posted anything in a while and the explanation for why I was gone for so long is in the bottom along with some other news Oh and imagine me saying that in an overly cheerful voice that people use when they are, like, totally pissed!
So here's the chapter!
"Valentine's Day?" Ash asked sounding horrified.
"Yes," Ms. Elizabeth said, her patience wearing thin.
"Valentine's Day?" Ash repeated.
"Yes." Ms. Elizabeth growled.
"Valentine's Day?"
"ASH REDFERN WOULD YOU SHUT UP?" Mary-Lynnette, Kestrel, Keller, Jez, Quinn, and Morgead yelled in unison.
"… Creepy." Ash said and Mary-Lynnette gave him the 'Seriously shut up' look and Ash put his hand over his mouth.
"But seriously! That sound's weird! Why can't I have a day?" Ash continued, rolling his eyes.
Mary-Lynnette's head hit the desk, as did many others.
"You can't have a day, because you're stupid!" Jez snapped. "I, on the other hand…"
"Are stupid too, now would you all shut up?" Keller snapped, still having a headache from carpooling with Iliana this morning.
"So, when is this Valentine's Day?" Ash asked, completely ignoring Keller's demands.
"Tomorrow. And you all are supposed to bring in cards that tell people they are special. You can get them at the store." Ms. Elizabeth said dryly, rubbing her temples.
"Ew! That sounds disgusting!" Morgead scowled.
Ms. Elizabeth rolled her eyes and wished dearly for the day to end.
"So what is Valentine's Day for?" Ash asked.
"Valentine's Day is a day to celebrate love and all of that good stuff." Ms. Elizabeth explained vaguely.
"There's a day for that?"
Finally the day did end, and Keller was forced to another agonizing ride with Iliana and no baby aspirin.
The next day, a surprising amount of kids brought in cards.
"Love the cards Ash!" Quinn laughed.
"What? I didn't get cards." Ash frowned in confusion.
"Oh really?" Morgead snickered showing Ash the card with kittens on it and Ash's name signed in big, feminine print at the bottom.
"JADE!"
"Shocker." Rashel said wryly. "Mary-Lynnette's cards have stars on them."
"And Morgead's have motorcycles on them." Kestrel continued.
"Morgead brought in cards?" Poppy said loudly, shocked.
"It wasn't me! Jade did it!" Morgead laughed from across the room and a hysterical Quinn and Delos had to hold Ash back from beating Morgead up.
Rashel rolled her eyes and continued sorting through the pile of Valentines cards. "Oh, God!" Rashel threw the card down and put a hand over her mouth as if she was going to barf.
"Rashel? What's wrong?" Hannah asked, concerned.
"I saw Iliana's card!" Rashel replied, still pretending she was going to barf.
"What does it look like?" Thea asked.
Rashel closed her eyes and blindly reached for the card. She could tell which one it was from the fur on the card.
"Oh, Goddess." Even Thea sounded horrified.
Iliana's cards were covered in multi-colored hearts and dots with random hearts of fake pink fur with "I love you!" In gigantic, loopy, horrible cursive.
"Wow…" Hannah said while Kestrel and Poppy both pretended to barf.
"What's up you girly girls?" Iliana asked cheerfully, appearing out of nowhere.
"Don't Kestrel!" Rowan's uncharacteristically sharp voice rang threw the silence as Kestrel pulled her fist back.
Kestrel looked away, pouting as much as Kestrel Redfern ever pouts. Which is actually less than Ash… Oh wait! The Great Ash Redfern never pouts! Yeah right! Hahaha!
What's this? Keller asked herself as she sorted through the surprising amount of cards. She picked up a folded card that was too large to be one of those crappy store brand cards.
"Dear Keller," the card read, "I wrote this poem for you one night when I couldn't sleep. Not that I think about you when I go to bed… I hope you like it. Love Galen."
"Aww." Keller said softly, and then reread the part about thinking about her before he went to bed and wished she could take back the "Aw".
Keller then moved on to the poem, which said,
"Eyes as cool and wise as Athena's,
Hair as black as the midnight she roams,
Graceful as the panther that is her soul,
So alert, so focused, so beautiful,
Oh what I wouldn't do,
For Raksha Keller."
Keller felt warm tears sting the back of her eyes. The only thing that kept them from flowing with the fact he used her first name. She hated that. But the rest of the poem was the most amazing thing she'd ever read in her short reading life.
Keller searched for Galen in the sea of preschoolers and found him talking to Thierry near the time out corner.
Galen felt eyes on him, and looked at Keller, hoping it was she. It was. And she was smiling.
He had made Keller smile. He felt like doing a happy dance.
She nodded to him, still smiling and looked back down at the card.
Galen allowed himself a fist pump and turned a quarter of his former attention back to a slightly confused Thierry and the rest of the attention to Keller's silhouette in the corner of his eye.
Mary-Lynnette played with the pile of cards in her small hands as she talked with Rowan, Gillian, Jez, Hannah, and Maggie. An envelope fell from the stack of Valentine's cards and Mary-Lynnette opened it, nodding to something Rowan said that she hadn't caught.
The card was from Ash she just knew it was. Mary-Lynnette unfolded the paper and realized with a start that it was a star chart. In white crayon, Ash had traced her name in the stars.
Mary-Lynnette grinned like an idiot. He had traced her name in the stars. Mary-Lynnette giggled, feeling ridiculously touched that he would even do that. Sure her name was the only thing it said, but it was still sweet!
"What's that? What are you giggling about?" Jez asked, appearing not interested at all.
"Nothing." Mary-Lynnette said quickly, carefully refolding the paper and sticking it in her desk.
"Sure, sure. But tell me does it have anything to do with the reason Ash is blushing like an idiot and staring at you every three seconds?" Jez asked with a pointed glance directly at Ash.
"Maybe." Mary-Lynnette giggled again and the other girls leaned forward enthusiastically. Waiting.
Mary-Lynnette grinned. "I'm not tellinggg." She sang.
"Pleaseeee!" The girls begged.
Mary-Lynnette just shook her head.
Quinn was pleasantly surprised to have received something obviously homemade from Rashel. Rashel didn't seem like the kind of person to do this kind of this.
It was a simple card, but Quinn couldn't help smiling.
"Quinn, I'm not sure how to say this, so I'll just get it out. I'm glad we're "married". Sure it's super embarrassing, but it's kind of sweet at the same time. I think it started out as some sort of joke, but I really like you John, and hope you don't think it is a joke.
I know it would've been better to tell you this face to face, but if you didn't feel the same, I wouldn't be able to stand that.
You don't have to reply. I just wanted to let you know.
Rashel."
Quinn felt bewildered. If he hadn't liked Rashel, he never would have "married" her! He did like Rashel! Heck, he didn't even remember his best friend's birthday but he'd remembered hers!
Quinn backed out of the circle of guys talking about random topics, all of them avoiding todays date. Once he was out had practically ran over to Rashel's desk. She was quietly reading her card again and looked up when he reached her desk.
"Oh, hey." Rashel blushed.
"Hey." Quinn replied. "Rashel, no offense, but you're kind of an idiot if you think I don't like you."
Rashel blushed red, partly from embarrassment and partly from anger.
"Listen, Rashel," He held out his hand for her to take, and she did, "I really do like you. I wouldn't have "married" if I didn't. And c'mon! I didn't even remember Ash's birthday!" He laughed.
Rashel smiled happily, her green eyes shining, and gave his hand a squeeze.
Gillian opened the card slowly. It was from David. Okay, so she had a crush on David and was so nervous about opening this card it was stupid! David would never say anything mean! But what if he said he didn't like her like she liked him? Or didn't like her at all?
Gillian peaked under the flap of the card and narrowed her violet eyes. She opened the card all the way to find the drawing of an angel. It was hand drawn, but he couldn't have drawn this! Could he?
Gillian slowly stood and approached the crowd of boys Quinn had just exited. She hesitantly tapped on David's shoulder and he turned and looked down at her.
"Hey, uh... I was just wondering… Did you draw this?" She asked, pointing to the angel.
David's cheeks flushed and he nodded.
Gillian felt a smile tug at her lips. "Well it's beautiful. Thank you!" She quickly hugged him and scampered back to her seat.
Poppy returned to her desk after gossiping at Mary-Lynnette's desk. Okay, it wasn't really "gossiping" but she had finally made Mary-Lynnette spill about the card. Popp had "aw'-ed so loudly Ash looked like he would like to crawl under a rock and die. After Jez had pointed this out, Poppy had said, "Or maybe crawl under the stars with Mary-Lynnette!" And Mary-Lynnette had turned the same red as Ash.
Anyhoo, Poppy returned to her desk to find a red poppy sitting on the top of her desk. There was a note tied to the top of the steam that said "To: Poppy, From: James."
Poppy squealed loudly and ran at James and threw her arms around him, laughing happily.
James took at step back to steady himself from falling over. He wrapped his arms around Poppy and laughed too, but he was laughing more at her reaction.
Poppy let him go and ran over to Mary-Lynnette's desk, poppy flower held tightly in her fist.
"Why didn't you do anything like that for me?" Jade asked loudly and slapped Mark across the face. "Just kidding! I love you!" Jade then hugged Mark tightly.
Mark looked hurt, shocked, confused, scared, and bewildered all at the same time.
Ash fell back laughing and said, "I told you she was crazy!"
Mark didn't reply, just looked around helplessly.
"Hey I have an idea!" Maggie nearly screamed, trying to get a very pissed Mary-Lynnette's mind off of killing Jade. "Let's play Jail Break!"
"Great idea! Except it's not recess!" Quinn said.
"It is now." Lucky noted after looking at the clock as he came in the door with a brown box.
"Race you outside!" Morgead yelled, already out the door.
"No fair!" Jez yelled, right on his heels.
"Wait! What's Jail Break?" Delos called after a surprisingly fast Maggie.
"Okay, Jail Break is like capture the flag without having to capture a flag. There are two teams. One team are the police, the other are the criminals. The police have to capture the criminals and put them in a "jail" and the only way they get out is if a free criminal touches the "jail" and says the name of the person they want free." Maggie explained.
Delos nodded slowly. "And the game ends when recess is over?"
"Yes!" Maggie smiled happily.
"Girls criminals!" Jez screamed and the girls cheered.
"Yeah, because Ash, Quinn, Morgead, and Delos would totally ever be a cops." Mary-Lynnette said sarcastically and Ash started tickling her.
"This can be the jail." Thea said, laying a hula-hoop at one end of the field.
Everyone agreed and the kids took their place at either end of the field. Iliana screamed shortly, signaling them to start and they all started running.
Poppy scream-giggled as James ran after her in circles. Ash had corners Mary-Lynnette in the corner of the field and was slowly creeping in on her. When he got close enough, Mary-Lynnette kicked his shins and Ash rubbed his bruised shin but his face still held a smile. Mark was guarding a giggling Jade in the hula-hoop jail.
Kestrel and Rowan ran from Jeremy, one always distracting him and the other knocking him down and running again. Hey, Rowan might be gentle, but she was still a Redfern! Eric caught Thea's arm before she could fall into the sand after tripping on a rock.
"Thank you." Thea blushed.
"No problem." Eric smiled and starting tugging Thea toward the jail.
"What are you doing?" Thea asked.
"Taking you to jail." Eric grinned, squeezing Thea's arm gently.
"Oh crap!" Thea frowned then slapped her hand with her free hand.
Eric let go of Thea's arm to hold his sides as he laughed at how much Thea's cousins had influenced her.
Thea grinned, her plan working, and took off behind a bush were Eric couldn't find her.
"Protect me Rashel!" Gillian nearly tackled Rashel as she ran from David
"Holy- moly!" Rashel, keeping her language intact, toppled a bit but took a firm grip of Gillian's hand and they ran from a laughing Quinn and a breathless David.
"Why am I protecting you?" Rashel asked, more sharply then she had intended, but she was not going to lose!
"Because you're awesome?" Gillian offered.
Rashel glanced back at her and Gillian tried again. "Because you're so smart, and strong, and good at fighting?"
Rashel shrugged and Quinn started gaining on her.
Rashel did the first thing she could think of. "Get him Kes!"
Kestrel turned at the perfect time and knocked Quinn flat with her fist.
David tripped over Quinn and Kestrel and Rashel laughed victoriously.
Gillian thanked Rashel and watched as Rashel disappeared into the bushes. Gillian stopped at the swing set to catch her breath.
On his way to tag Jez, Morgead tapped Gillian's shoulders and yelled, "To jail with you little tiny person!"
Gillian sighed and joined Jade in the hula-hoop.
Hannah and Mary-Lynnette laughed, gripping each other's arms as Thierry advanced on them, seeing as they could swear Ash was crying as he lay on the nearly flat mini slide holding his shin where Mary-Lynnette had kicked him repeatedly.
Morgead and Jez chased each other, each running at top speed, trying to take each other down one way or another…
Delos half-heartedly chased Maggie around the field. He wasn't really motivated for this game especially because he didn't really understand it…
Keller was in her panther form in a thick tree where no one would see her.
"Boo." A soft voice said behind her.
Keller jumped and growled quietly at Galen. He held up his hands in surrender and Keller watched them warily.
"I won't put you in jail. Promise." Galen smiled and put his hands down.
Keller relaxed and her and Galen watched the game in amusement.
Iliana and Blaise just sat back at the top of the monkey bars seeing as no one was really interested in chasing them and they really didn't want to be chased.
Ms. Elizabeth called the students in from recess and they slowly came in, drinking huge gulps of water and… other liquids…
The brown box Lucky had brought in before recess turned out to be a box of chocolate cupcakes with red, white, and pink frosting and little Sweetheart candies on the tops.
Everyone ate theirs except for Jez and Morgead who licked the frosting off and shoved it in each other's faces.
"Well this certainly has been an… interesting Valentine's Day." Ms. Elizabeth chuckled lightly, licking the frosting off her own cupcake.
"What makes you say that?" Lucky asked, tilting his head toward her.
Ms. Elizabeth shook her head. "Well for one thing-"
"Ash Redfern you should not have your own day!"
"Yeah we know that." Morgead flipped his untrimmed hair in an imitation of Ash when his hair got too long. "But I should."
"No, Morgead." Ms. Elizabeth said firmly. "If you had a day the world would end up a pile of ruins."
Everyone who wasn't already laughing laughed at that and Mary-Lynnette said, "Well actually the world would-"
"Mary-Lynnette." Mark said gently. "No one cares."
"I care." Ash said quietly, watching Mary-Lynnette's frown.
"Aww! You're sweet!" Mary-Lynnette smiled.
"Hear that Ash?" Quinn grinned ruffling Ash's blonde hair. "You're sweet!" Quinn said like and idiot, laughing like one too.
Mary-Lynnette then added sweetly. "Oh, and Quinn, you're a douche."
My, my! Mary-Lynn where'd that come from?
I need to start adding Elizabeth and Lucky more!
Okay so you want you know why I haven't updated in forever? Here's you're explanation!
Okay so three weeks or so ago my dad got a call from his siblings that their mother- my grandmother- wasn't very well at all and she was hospitalized. SO my dad flew out to an undisclosed location and left me COMPLETELY out of my writing mood! Because you certainly aren't going to be writing a comedy/parody when a family member is in the hospital!
A week or so later, my mom came into my room in the morning and told me my grandmother had passed away. So that very morning we set out after my father.
We stayed in the undisclosed location for a full week and because I keep my stories on an actually computer and not a laptop I didn't have any of the chapters I had started! And I probably wouldn't have written even if I did have them!
Only five days after we returned I got grounded from the computer for a full week. My sentence was just lifted and I worked my ass off to get this to you as soon as it did! Especially with all the make up homework THAT I STILL HAVE And the tests I have on MONDAY! So you're welcome!
Also, I know that most of you love this story, but please don't tell me "FINALLY YOU UPDATED!" Because I feel terrible enough for not updating as regularly as I should and that really does NOT make me feel any better! I know that you are just excited, but still. If you're going to say that, please add something else! And also please don't tell me what to do. I know I need to update, thanks for the reminder, but I have my own life and things to do and shit to deal with so please don't tell me what to do.
Well now that that's cleared up…
Thanks to YayNessa for the Beta read!
Thanks for reading,
BookVampire.