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Chapter Fourteen: First Day of School
"Kara, your mother is here to pick you up!" Skyler's father called from downstairs, catching both girls' attention. Both of them groaned and slowly got up and headed downstairs. At the door, Cuddy and Skyler's father stood silently, watching both of them. Kara and Skyler walked down the stairs and hugged each other.
"I'll see you at school on Monday, okay? And remember the OMM." Skyler said, pulling herself away from Kara and standing beside her dad.
"Okay." Kara told her, waving at Skyler's father before heading out of the door with her mother. They got in the car and before Kara knew it, Skyler's house was out of view. Kara looked out of the car quietly before looking back at her mother. "Are you mad?" She asked restlessly. Ms. Charles always did the quiet treatment before Kara got punished.
Cuddy looked over at Kara surprised. "No, dear. Why do you think that?" She asked.
Kara looked away shamefacedly. "Ms. Charles would always get really quiet before she punished me." She explained.
Cuddy chuckled. "No, you're not in any trouble. Did you have any fun at Skyler's?" She asked instead.
"Yeah, I did. Thanks for letting me go over there." Kara told her, nodding her head.
Cuddy smiled affectionately. "You're welcome. Now, let's go see if that uniform is at home." Kara groaned and slumped in her seat. Why did her mother have to remind her about those dreadful uniforms? Kids had to express their individuality! If they didn't, how could they be the best that they could be?
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Sunday went by so quickly that Kara wished it would come back. Monday meant school and uniforms, which every kid reviled. Kara wished that she had a watch that could either stop time or fast forward so she wouldn't have to go to school. That wish didn't come true and morning arrived all too soon. "Kara, honey, time to get up for school." Cuddy said shaking her head as the child wriggled herself deeper into the twisted sheets. Cuddy flipped the light switch on and turned to look at her daughter once more. "Your father's coming shortly. We're both going to see you off for your first day of school." She added before turning around and leaving the room. So her daughter wasn't going to kindergarten but Cuddy and House should still be there to support their daughter.
Kara dazedly sat up, glaring at the ceiling. "Curse Thomas Edison for making the light bulb." She grumbled unhappily, getting out of bed and heading towards the kitchen. A plate of eggs, bacon, and toast sat on the table in front of her. Kara looked up at Cuddy skeptically. "Why the sudden effort?"
Cuddy frowned slightly. "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It jumpstarts your metabolism and gets your mind working." She explained, watching as Kara picked up the piece of toast carefully.
"So it's going to make me work better in the morning?" She asked guardedly. Cuddy nodded. "Mind if I skip breakfast?"
"Eat." Cuddy told her, smirking at her daughter's behavior. Kara reminded Cuddy of a mild college aged Gregory House. She picked up her fork and began to eat the breakfast. "Orange juice or milk?"
"Milk, please." Kara said, her answer muffled by all the food in her mouth.
"Don't talk with your mouth full, Kara. That's very unlady like." Cuddy fussed as she turned to the refrigerator. "And don't stick your tongue out at me with food on it either. You're just like your father was except he was in college." She said as Kara started to open her mouth behind Cuddy's back. "And no, I don't have eyes in the back of my head. I just use my brain." She turned around and smiled at the flabbergasted expression on her daughter's face. "I'm not a Dean of Medicine for nothing, you know."
"Nothing can get by you." Kara told her, using her fingers to pick up some eggs that didn't make it on to her fork.
"You have bread. And yes, I know your fingers are used for picking up things but you weren't born in a cave. You are civilized and you shall use your fingers to pick up your utensils and bread." Cuddy said smiling happily.
"I give!" Kara cried, grabbing her bread and using that to help get food on the fork. Cuddy smiled and turned back to the stove.
House came in a few minutes later going straight for Cuddy's coffee maker. "Breakfast is on the table if you want it, House." Cuddy told him, watching him grab a mug and pour himself some coffee without asking. House grunted at her and made his way to the table, sitting opposite of Cuddy.
"Careful, she knows every move you're going to make." Kara warned him. House looked at Kara strangely, his mind obviously not in full processing mode since he seemed to not understand a word that Kara had said. He should have listened to her though since Cuddy snapped at him twice as much as she did to Kara.
"Go ahead and get ready, dear while I educate your father on his table manners." She told her, smiling tenderly at Kara before glaring at House. Kara nodded and wiped her mouth, getting up and walked out of the kitchen. She stopped suddenly, realizing this would be an opportune moment to eavesdrop on the parents. She snuck to her room and closed the door whilst she was still on the outside. She quickly snuck back to the hall. "She is unquestionably your child." Cuddy said as she heard the door close.
House looked up at Cuddy, chewing his eggs slowly, savoring the taste. It wasn't everyday that he got a hot breakfast, unless he was letting Wilson live with him. "Were you thinking otherwise?" He asked.
"Swallow your food and no, I wasn't. I'm just saying she's like you in more ways than one. She's like a miniature you except she's the girl version." She explained quickly.
House eyed Cuddy carefully. "You're jealous, aren't you?" He asked, leaning forward. He pointed his fork accusingly at her.
Her cheeks turned a light pink. "What's there to be jealous of?" She asked instead, crossing her arms and looking off towards the clock.
House laughed taking a sip of his coffee. "You're jealous that Kara's acting more like me than she is you."
Cuddy's cheeks turned a darker pink. "No I'm not! Stop acting juvenile, House. You know that's not me." She told him heatedly, furrowing her eyebrows at him. Her heels were tapping against the floor agitatedly. House grunted and stuffed some more food in his mouth. Cuddy looked over at the doorway and frowned slightly. "Kara?"
Kara quickly came out of hiding, forcing herself not to pull out the innocent face. "Where's the uniform?" She asked nonchalantly, as if she just walked over to the kitchen.
"I put it in your closet." Cuddy answered. Kara nodded and quickly headed to her room. That was a close one.
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Kara stood in front of Cuddy's full length mirror inelegantly, glancing at her parents before looking back at herself. "I don't really have to go to school wearing this, do I?" She asked miserably, looking down at the clothing. The uniform consisted of a pressed white collared, half-sleeved shirt with a plaid navy blue, white, and black scarf. Then a navy jacket on top with the school's emblem on the right side of the jacket. A long plaid skirt like the scarf that ended about Kara's knees, long navy socks, and black shoes. Her mother brushed her hair and put in it a tight ponytail and applied some natural makeup and gloss to her lips.
"It's not that bad, sweetie. You look so adorable though. All the boys won't be able to keep their eyes off of you." Cuddy said joyfully.
House looked at Cuddy apprehensively before looking back at Kara. "Wash your face." House told her.
Cuddy rolled her eyes at House. "Oh please, I doubt thirteen year old boys all think about sex. They are still fascinated by women's breasts." She assured him, touching Kara's head as she walked closer to her parents.
House frowned. "I was a thirteen year old boy before. You obviously don't know anything about them." House chided, crossing his arms.
Kara looked up at her parents. "Let's go back to the subject of me looking pretty." Kara told them. Cuddy smiled and kissed her daughter's head.
"Come on, go get your school stuff and meet us at the car." Cuddy told her, pushing her lightly out of the room. Kara nodded and left. Cuddy walked the opposite direction, hearing House walk behind her slowly. "Stop staring at my ass." She told him, turning around quickly and seeing him jerk his head up. She grinned. "You see, I know how thirteen year old boys are because you still act like one, House."
House raised an eyebrow at her mockingly. "Well, that's only because you're happy to flaunt your body parts into other's visions." He told her, going past her with a smirk. Cuddy glared at him and followed him.
As she passed him going to the driver's seat, she gave him a cold glare. "I do not flaunt. Your eyes seek." She told him briskly. Kara exited the house after that, locking the door as she was told before heading to the backseat. The drive to Princeton Academy was a long and quiet one. Kara cursed herself for not getting to the car quick enough. Finally, the large school appeared and Cuddy parked in front of the school, where all the kids here hanging around waiting for the bell to ring. Kara peered around and got sight of Skyler near the oak tree, talking to a group of kids. "Here we are." Cuddy said brightly, unbuckling herself and turning around in her seat. House didn't even buckle himself in to begin with.
"Are you sure you guys don't want to try to home school me? You're both doctors. You guys are smart." She offered feebly.
"Sorry, kiddo. We doctors are very busy saving precious lives." House told her sympathetically.
"School's not scary at all. It's sort of fun." Cuddy offered her.
House looked at Cuddy skeptically. "Only if you're from teacher's pet land." He said, rolling his eyes. "Look, you'll do fine. Now, get out of the vehicle. Your mother and I have to go to work."
Kara took a deep breath and looked out the window again. "Bye, honey. We love you. Make good choices and don't be like your father." Cuddy said quickly before Kara opened her door. Kara looked over at her mother inquisitively.
House scowled. "Don't listen to your mother, Kara. If any of those boys bother you, just punch them in the nose." He offered happily grinning at the horrified look on Cuddy's face.
Kara rolled her eyes. "I'll be what I want to be." She said snappily, causing both parents look at her. She lowered herself a bit. "I mean, uh, bye Mom, bye Dad, love you!" She muttered quickly, opening the car door.
"Unbuckle yourself!" House started but watched as Kara was pulled back into the seat. He failed to suppress his laughter. Cuddy scowled at him with disapproval.
Kara unbuckled herself and exited the car. "If you really love me," She began, holding the car door open.
"Go." Both Cuddy and House snapped at her.
Kara frowned and closed the door, turning around and looking at the schoolyard. Skyler waved over at her and Kara slowly trudged towards Skyler. Her group of friends consisted of one boy and one girl, excluding Skyler. Kara swore that there had been more when she saw them in the car. The boys' uniform was hardly any different except that they wore a tie and navy pants. "Guys, this is my best friend Kara. Kara, these are my new friends Carissa and Riley." She introduced quickly. Carissa looked a lot like Skyler in a way except Carissa had green eyes instead of Skyler's ocher eyes. Riley had reddish brown hair and dark eyes and he was taller than all of them.
"Hi, Kara! I've heard a lot about you. Skyler talks about you quite highly. So I understand that you were an orphan like Skyler was?" Carissa gushed quickly, smiling brightly all the while. It seemed that Carissa had the innocent blonde image working for her. Kara was going to have to get use to Carissa. It was the type of stupid blonde people that made Kara want to deck them but Carissa seemed like a nice girl.
"Yeah." Kara answered apathetically.
"So, what's your schedule?" Riley asked instead.
Kara pulled that out of her jacket pocket. That had came in the mail on Saturday as well. Her mother had forgotten to get the mail until Sunday. She handed it over to Riley and watched as Carissa and Skyler looked over his shoulders. "You've got first period, homeroom, third period, and seventh period with me." Riley told her.
"Just second and seventh period with me." Carissa said sadly.
"First, fourth, fifth, and seventh with me." Skyler announced. "Carissa and I have homeroom across from Riley and you so we'll see each other in the hallway. But you got sixth period all by yourself."
Kara sighed and heard the bell ring. "Oh joy." She said unhappily, turning towards the school.
"Come on, we'll show you where your locker is." Skyler said, grabbing the extra material of Kara's jacket and beginning to pull her towards the school.
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First period ended up being English. The school kept that kind of old feeling in it since most of the furniture and stuff were made out of dark wood. The first teacher was Mr. Lasseder and he had a hideous comb over with his thinning brown hair. He wore large, bug-eyed glasses and seemed to squint every time he was looking at someone. "Attention, class. We have another new student today. Her name is Kara House. Kara, would you like to share something with the class?" He began.
Kara slumped in her seat, pink tingeing her cheeks slightly. "I'd rather not." She muttered quietly. Besides her, Riley and Skyler both smirked.
Mr. Lasseder smiled. "Well, you can talk to the class for a few minutes or you can write a two page paper. Which one would you prefer?" He asked happily, bending slightly to look at her.
Kara smiled. "Talking is fine." She said with a nervous laugh.
"That's good; now please go to the front." He told her.
Kara groaned inwardly and walked to the front of the class before turning around to face them. "I'm Kara House. I use to be an orphan until I went to a clinic to get my daily checkup." She began, looking over at the teacher. He didn't make any impression to tell Kara stop so Kara turned back to the class. "I kept on getting these constant headaches and sore throats all the time. I really didn't think anything of it until the day I went to the clinic." Kara glanced over at Skyler, who smiled. "Skyler and I met this really mean doctor named Dr. House and this bossy Dean of Medicine, Dr. Cuddy. While I was there, I ended up getting really sick and I was put under the care of Dr. House. Not only did he find out what was wrong with me, he also found out that Dr. Cuddy and him were my biological parents. So, they ended up adopting me which led me to here." Kara finished.
"That's an interesting story. What did you end up having?" He asked, watching Kara sit back in her seat.
"Lyme disease." Kara answered.
He nodded. "Thank you for that enlightening story. Alright class, take out Friday's assignment and pass it up front." He said.
The other teachers didn't make Kara stand up and talk to the class. It was almost as if they didn't even notice she was the new girl. Once she had to explain to the teacher that today was her first day because the teacher asked why she didn't have twenty two sheets of homework. Homeroom was basically like study hall and that was also when the school did assemblies. Second period was History, third was Science, fourth was arithmetic, fifth was athletics, sixth was work period in the school, and seventh was music class. Work period just meant that the students would help out around the school. Wash floors, hand out papers, shelf books, wash dishes, etc.
The day finally was coming to an end and seventh period was left. "Ms. Kasper and Mr. S are really cool teachers. Ms. Kasper teaches the choir and Mr. S is with the orchestra. The class splits up and half goes to orchestra and half goes to choir. Everyone has to do both." Skyler explained.
"Orchestra is okay but choir is horrible." Riley added, looking forlornly at the exit door before turning back to the hallway.
"I enjoy choir more. It's fun." Carissa told Riley, opening the auditorium door. Kids were already sitting in the front of the auditorium, relaxing in the plush blue chairs that the auditorium had.
Skyler shrugged. "I don't really care which one. I like them both." She said, picking the left side. She looked at Kara. "Good thing, Ms. Charles taught us how to play some instruments. Mr. S says that I'm pretty good on the flute."
Kara nodded. "Do they have a piano? I say that's the one instrument I can play really good on." Kara said. "You know, I saw a piano at my dad's place. I think I get my music skills from him."
Skyler nodded. "Cool." She was able to say before two teachers came on to the stage.
"Good afternoon, class. We will have a lovely time today. Mr. S is going to take the right side and I'm going to take the left side. Now, get up and go to your stations." Ms. Kasper said contentedly, clapping her hands together. She looked more like an art teacher than a music teacher. The left side got up and began to get up on stage, pass all the chairs, and into another room with those moveable bleachers in it. "Sopranos on the right, altos in the middle, basses on the left." She quickly said, turning to Kara. "Hello, my dear. Do you know which group you are suppose to be in?" Kara looked over at the bleaches, seeing Riley and Skyler in the alto area and Carissa in the soprano.
"Um, no." Kara said.
"Then repeat after me. La, la, la, la, la, la, la." She sang quickly, waving her instructor's wand wildly.
Kara eyed everyone in the bleachers before taking a deep breath. "La, la, la, la, la, la, la." She repeated quietly.
"Breathe from your diaphragm, dearie!" She said, hitting Kara in the stomach lightly. Kara rolled her eyes and repeated it again. "You're an alto but sing louder next time." She said, pointing to the altos. Kara let out a sigh of relief and joined Riley and Skyler. Fifteen minutes were devoted to the scales and then fifteen minute was used on learning 'Somebody to Love'. Finally, Ms. Kasper dismissed them and Skyler lead Kara to the stage again.
"Grab your instruments from the room and come here quickly." Mr. S informed us insipidly.
Skyler turned to Kara. "Go introduce yourself. I have to get my flute." She said, pushing Kara towards Mr. S before heading to the right of the stage.
Kara slowly walked towards Mr. S. He was really tall and had lots of blonde hair. "You're the new girl, right?" Mr. S asked as he turned around and looked at her. "What instrument do you think you can play?"
"Ms. Charles taught me how to play the piano. She said I had a natural talent for it." Kara told him quietly, folding her hands behind her back. Mr. S looked somewhat surprised.
"I hadn't had anybody able to play the piano in awhile. You think you're good enough for it?" He said. "Humph. We'll see about that. I'm always persnickety about my piano players." He walked over to the piano on the side of the stage and threw off the blanket that was covering it. He opened it up and motioned for Kara to join him. An old music sheet lay on top of the wooden piano and Mr. S grabbed that and placed it in front of her. "Play that and you can play my piano." Kara nodded and sat on the bench, looking at the music sheet. She placed her fingers on the ivory keys and let her fingers fly on the keys as she stared at the music sheet. It was an old piece of music that Kara hadn't heard before, yet she sounded like a pro when she tried. Kara probably didn't get halfway through it before Mr. S took the sheet back. "Good. I needed a piano player badly." He told her, smiling down at her before looking over at the class.
Kara saw Skyler seated in front, looking back at her. She gave Kara a thumbs up before turning her attention back to Mr. S. Kara was thankful that they weren't playing the music of 'Somebody to Love' because she swore if she heard that song one more time she'd scream. Carissa was playing the violin and Riley was percussion. Kara had to admit that she like Orchestra better than Choir. Finally, the bell that dismissed school rang all too soon. Kara let her hands drop to her lap listening to the last words of Mr. S before closing the piano.
Kara took out all of her homework stuff for tonight out of her locker before turning to look at Carissa, Riley, and Skyler. All four of them had lockers apart from each other so they just went to each other's lockers together. "Well, I guess I'll see you three tomorrow then?" Kara asked hesitantly, wringing her wrists somewhat apprehensively. They all nodded and turned to exit the school.
"That's my dad. See you later!" Carissa said as soon as they walked on the grass outside.
"There's my parents." Riley also pointed out, looking in the opposite direction. They both waved and headed off in their separate directions, leaving Kara and Skyler alone.
"So?" Skyler asked eagerly as soon as both Riley and Carissa were out of earshot.
Kara shrugged unenthusiastically. "Riley and Carissa are nice, but I don't think they'll ever reach the same level as you." She told her.
Skyler smiled at Kara. "Of course they won't. We share a special bond, Kara. We got something they can't try to give. That's my mom. Are you sure your parents are coming?" Skyler said.
Kara nodded, looking confident. "My parents won't forget me." She told her. Skyler nodded and headed towards her mother's van. As Kara watched Skyler leave, a cold pit began to start down in her stomach. Her parents wouldn't forget her, would they? She didn't even know the hospital's number! She looked around worriedly and gave a sigh of relief as her mother's vehicle pulled into view. Kara shouldered her backpack and headed over to the car.
She slid in but paused, looking at Cuddy and House who were looking at her expectantly. Kara buckled herself in and stared at them boorishly. "So, how was school?" Cuddy finally said.
Kara shrugged, glancing at her backpack. "Okay, I guess." She said indifferently. "I got homework."
Cuddy and House slowly turned around and faced the windshield. "Thanks for the revealing aspects of your first day of school." House told Kara sarcastically.
Kara smirked. "Anytime." She told him. A small smile graced Cuddy's lips. "So where we going now?"
"Back to the hospital. You're father and I still have to work. You can work on your homework." Cuddy answered.
"So, the hospital is going to be like my third home?" Kara asked resignedly.
Cuddy looked up at the rearview mirror. "Third?"
"Yeah, I've got Mom's house, Dad's house, and the hospital." Kara informed them, looking out the window. Cuddy and House glanced at each other guiltily before Cuddy quickly averted her gaze back to the road. The rest of the trip was quiet.
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