Chapter 6: Morning

Knock Knock! I groaned, slapping a hand on my alarm clock to try and silence the noises that were waking me up. I could hear Autumn snoring from her bed, but I just pulled my pillow over my head to block it out and rolled back over to fall back asleep.

Knock Knock Knock! It began to occur to me that whatever the banging was wasn't coming from my alarm clock, and therefore wasn't going away anytime soon. I groaned again, this time throwing my pillow in the general direction of the door. It hit the - apparently unlocked - door knob, prompting whoever was knocking to open it and step inside.

"Rise and shine, Sunnie!" Ben's voice called out to me, somehow managing to be louder than Autumn's horrendous snoring.

"Ugh, what time is it?!" I whined, only slightly turning my head so that i could be heard through the mattress.

"It's 6:30 in the morning." I wailed and burrowed back under my blankets, earning a chuckle from my supposed best friend. I cocooned myself, ignoring any further complaints from the soon-to-be king so as to get a little more shut-eye.

"Would it help if I said I brought coffee?" I froze, one eye shooting open to stare at him.

"Double chocolate chip frap?" I asked, and he nodded.

"With white mocha syrup," he added, and I quickly shot up to grab the cold beverage out of his hand. I took a long sip, moaning when I tasted first whipped cream then the actual coffee on my tongue. He laughed again, but this time I ignored it.

"So," I started, taking sips of my coffee as I moved to sit on the edge of my bed, "mind telling me exactly why you're standing in my room with coffee at 6:30 in the morning?"

"Well, if I was standing here without coffee at 6:30 in the morning, you'd kick me out." I glowered at Ben, who smiled cheekily back at me.

"I might still kick you out if you don't give me a straight answer, Benjie." He shook his head.

"I was gonna ask you to join me in escorting Mal and the others to breakfast this morning," he replied, "Besides, I know you hate being late to dance class...which may have been moved to your first period..." I nearly choked, brows touching my hairline as I stared up at Ben.

"What?!" I screeched, standing, "Why was my schedule changed?"

"Fairy Godmother and I thought it might help if the new students had someone with them in all of their classes," he said, putting his hands on my shoulders, "You still have some of the same classes, but this way you start the day with the one class that none of them are in." I let what he said sink in, nodding. It made sense; they were new, it'd be easier on them if they had someone they knew in each class.

"Okay, I understand," I said, and I began moving to the closet to pick out my clothes for the day, "Who's gonna be in my classes, then? Surely not all four of them." Ben shook his head, smiling.

"No, Evie and Carlos are gonna be in Autumn and Doug's classes. You and I are gonna share our schedules with Jay and Mal." I hummed in confirmation, tossing a pair of overall shorts and some blue-ish crop top onto my bed.

"Ok," I replied, "I think that'll work. Give me just a few minutes to get ready." I gestured for him to sit at the desk before grabbing my ballet tights and leotard and moving into the bathroom to change. I returned a few minutes later, wrapping a pink and black dance skirt around my waist, to see Ben hovering over Autumn's - still snoring - form, beginning to draw something on her face with a red pen. I stifled a laugh, moving over to hit his arm.

"Don't!" I whispered, trying my hardest not to smile, "She's already gonna be in a bad mood when she wakes up because of how tired she'll be; you're just gonna make it worse!" He laughed, but thankfully moved away. I moved at sat in front of the vanity in the corner, running a brush through my hair.

"You go get the others," I told him, "I'll wake up 'Sleeping Beastly' over there and we'll meet you in the cafeteria in five to ten, okay?" He nodded and walked out, leaving me to deal with the monstrous process of waking Autumn up while still getting myself ready.

Almost twenty minutes later, Autumn and I finally left to meet up with the others. It had taken forever to wake her up, and even longer for her to get ready, but luckily we still had plenty of time to eat breakfast before first period started. I held onto Autumn's elbow as she stumbled down the stairs, somehow still not awake enough to walk in her red heels.

"Why did you wake me up again?" she asked me as she tripped over her own feet for the tenth time.

"Because," I stressed, practically yanking her down the last step, "we're meeting up with Ben and the new kids for breakfast. And after first period, we're going to be sharing classes with each of them to help them get used to things around here." With that, we reached the cafeteria to see it half-full, with Ben sitting in the corner with Mal and the others, all of whom were already eating. Ben looked up at us and waved, and I returned it with a smile before dragging my exhausted roommate into the food line.

"So, Autumn, how'd you sleep?" Ben asked as we sat down with them, setting our trays down in front of us. She scowled at him for a moment, unmoving, before loaded her spoon full of oatmeal and aiming it at his head. I quickly intervened and knocked the spoon back onto the tray, causing her to turn her glare on me instead.

"What the heck, Sunnie?!" she exclaimed, but I waved her off.

"Any other meal, I'd look the other way at let you two have at it with a full-on food war," I started, spreading cream cheese on my half of a blueberry bagel, "But from now on, breakfast is not the time for you to be flinging food all over the place. If I get even one tiny stain on my uniform, Madame Babette will have my head." She groaned and banged her head on the table, landing the bow on top of her yellow hat into her oatmeal. I just rolled my eyes, taking a big bite of my own breakfast.

"What kind of uniform is that, by the way?" Evie asked, and I smiled at her, swallowing my bagel.

"It's my ballet class uniform," I answered, "I take the dance class here, and Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are ballet days. Tuesday and Thursday are jazz." Autumn sat up again, frowning in confusion.

"But wait, I thought you had dance right after lunch?" she questioned.

"Ben decided to change our schedules around so our new friends here would always have at least one person they somewhat knew in each of their classes," I replied, "You and Doug are gonna help Evie and Carlos, and poor Mal and Jay here are stuck with me and Ben." Jay scoffed, smirking at my comment as best he could as he continued to cram bacon into his mouth. I smiled at the sight.

"Slow down, man," I joked, playfully smacking his shoulder, "You're gonna choke at the rate you're going!" He ignored me, shoveling another forkful of eggs into his mouth. We all continued eating our breakfast, Ben and I cracking lame jokes and everyone just enjoying our meal before the bell rang and the school day officially started.

I walked out of the locker room after first period ended, changed into normal clothes with my bookbag slung over my shoulder. I pulled the bobby pins from my bun, letting my already-braided hair fall down to my waist as I made my way down the hall to my History of Misfits and Pirates class.

Walking into the classroom, I saw Jay had beaten me there, lounging in his desk at the back of the class. I shook my head, pulling my beanie out of my bag and putting it on my head before moving to sit next to him.

"Did ya have to pick the back of the class?" I asked, setting my bag on the desk to pull out my notebook. He shrugged.

"I'm not sitting at the front," he said simply, crossing his arms as he glanced over at me. I nodded, writing down the notes our teacher had already put up on the board.

"Fair enough," I replied, "How was your first class?" He groaned, somehow managing to lean even farther back in his seat.

"Boring," he responded, "although Fairy Godmother said that Carlos and I should try out for the Tourney team later today."

"Are you gonna do it?" He shrugged again, not answering as our teacher finally entered the classroom. I smiled over at him, leaning closer to whisper, "Well, if you do, I'll be cheering you both on, okay?" He smirked at me, and I pulled back, feeling my cheeks heating up.

"I-I mean, it's not like I've got better plans." He raised a brow at my stutter, and I frowned, sticking my tongue out at him before returning my attention to the whiteboard at the front.

A/N: Well, here's chapter 6! Thanks so much for the support so far, you guys! I'm really enjoying be able to write this and share it with all of you. Hopefully, I'm keeping the characters at least mostly in character. Please let me know if I make them too OOC, okay? Thanks!

Oh, and I noticed that some people might be having trouble getting to my polyvore page and the tumblr blog. Apparently, posting links on FanFiction has gotten far worse in the past nine years or so since I joined, so I'm going to put the URLs at the bottom of this chapter. Like I've mentioned both here and on my profile page, in order to use the links, you must remove the spaces after each period and backslash.

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