Chapter 11: The Little Things Give You Away

It was six AM and Morgan was looking in the mirror of her bathroom, putting on concealer under her eyes to hide her lack of sleep. She kept having the dream, and it had been over a week. But, it was friday and it was the very first game of the season. Therefore, Morgan was required to wear her cheer uniform to school. It was kind of funny because the cheer uniform broke the one dress code rule that was the only one really enforced aside from midriff. The skirt was definitely shorter than her mid thigh, but at least she had her cheer spanx on. The uniform was primarily black, but the top was half purple, half black, separated by a V of four stripes alternating between white and silver. Across her chest was the word SPARTANS in white letters with a black outline. The skirt was all black with five thin stripes at the hem, silver, white purple, white, silver. There was a small slit up the hem just over the front of her left thigh. Morgan liked how the uniform looked. She decided that now that she was already dressed and had so much time on her hands, she tightened her ponytail and made sure that her black and silver cheer bow was straight at the top of her high pony. She pulled out her makeup and did a smokey eye with bronze and gold with thick cat eyeliner and mascara. She dawned taupe lipstick and crystal stud earrings along with her many small silver hoops in her many piercings that she got in her ears in the last couple weeks. By the time she was finished, it was six fifteen. Morgan groaned.

She grabbed her no show socks and put on her cheer shoes, making sure they were tight enough and making sure that her socks weren't showing, per instruction from the captains. She was happy that the uniform had a control top so she didn't have to change out of her bra and into a sports bra when it came time for cheering later that day. She checked the weather and found that it was raining so she grabbed the hairspray and made sure her hair was perfect before storing the bottle in her backpack and put on her varsity jacket. It was black with a big white 'S' for Spartans outlined in purple on the left breast. It had a black and white collar and wrist cuffs and purple sleeves. She double checked to make sure her demon knife, and a new knife that she found in the bunker storage. It was half silver, half iron. It was exactly what a young hunter needed incase of emergencies. Morgan snapped her fingers, her dog immediately hopping off her bed to follow her. Morgan grabbed her backpack and walked out of her room, her phone in her jacket pocket since she didn't have a jean back pocket for it.

"Watch out, Sammy," Dean warned as Morgan walked by, "Queen Bee might get you." Sam laughed as Morgan aggressively dropped her backpack by the table and kept walking to take her dog outside before she went to school.

"Bite me," Morgan snapped at him, both Sam and Dean laughed as she opened the front door and just stood there. She didn't want to get wet, but she couldn't not watch her dog as the greyhound-pitt trotted over to the tree line to do her business. It wasn't long before the dog came back and Morgan could finally shut the door. She walked back down to the table and sat down, leaning back in the chair and crossing her legs up on the table.

"Someone's getting sassy. Do you think that gaggle of girls that she's surrounded herself with are bad influences?" Sam asked Dean as her father slid a plate of eggs and two pieces of bacon in front of his daughter. She took her feet down and leaned in and started eating, slowly this time. She actually had time to eat this morning, so she took her sweet time.

"My friends are not bad influences. Just don't mess with me when I'm tired," Morgan told her uncle and father, glaring between the two of them.

"Sammy, do you think we should introduce her to the heavenly gift from God that is coffee?" Her father whispered and Morgan groaned.

"You know I can hear you right? Besides, I can't drink coffee, it's a diuretic and I can't have a diuretic while I'm in cheerleading and hunter training. It's too much water loss," Morgan explained her logic in between bites off cheesy scrambled eggs. "And thanks for the food, Dad," she flashed a tired smile to her father before getting back to eating.

"You're welcome, kiddo," Dean said oddly. She must not have said that often to him when he gave her food. Especially food that he made. Morgan made a mental note to do that more considering he didn't have to make her food. She was perfectly capable of feeding herself and yet he did these things for her.

"I wonder if that ponytail is too tight today…" Morgan heard her father say behind her.

"It's not that," Morgan responded. Dean froze.

"It's not what?" Sam asked her.

"My ponytail is not too tight today. Don't make mock me for trying to be nice," Morgan snapped at her father. Dean could not stop giving her that expression. "And quit looking at me like that!"

"But he didn't mock you," Sam said. But her father just kept looking at her like she just said the weirdest thing he's heard all week, which is hard to do considering he's a hunter living in the Men of Letter's Bunker.

"Yes he did." "But I did." Morgan and Dean said at the same time. Sam gave Dean a look.

"Whatever, I have to get to school early to put posters up for the game," Morgan said as she finished her breakfast. She stood up and with the flick of her wrist, her backpack floated right up into the air for her to slide her arms into the straps.

Morgan was sitting at a picnic table outside. It was lunch and she was sitting with her friends. Jonah was to her right, and he was talking to the twins, Matthew and Joseph. They were two redhead twin brothers that were big on sports. They weren't on the football team, they were more into soccer. They were in the off season at the moment, but they play at the same time that Jonah will be in Lacrosse. Next to Matthew was this auburn haired girl, his girlfriend, named Lexi, and across from her was boy named Tyler who was quietly holding hands with his girlfriend, Madison. The same girl from cheerleading that Morgan was becoming really good friends with and was sitting right next to her. One might even say they were becoming best friends. She and Madison were the only two in cheer uniforms at the table, but they were also seated with their friends. Sophie Barty was next to Madison, and yes, they always called her "Sophie Barty" because there were multiple Sophie's at Oak Hills. This bronze haired girl was "Sophie Barty" because her last name was Bartholomew, and that was by far the biggest mouthful of a last name out of all the Sophie's.

Then, there was Aiden and Marissa. Aiden was an extremely physically fit individual and his girlfriend Marissa was a mousy little blonde. Not mousy like she looked like a rodent, she was a beautiful girl, but she was mousy in the way that she was extremely shy and you would always see her as the shy girl unless she got to know you well enough to open up. But Aiden, he was another football player with Jonah and the two of them were the big boys at the table. Maybe not the most mature, but definitely the biggest. That was them. They had other friends who would sit with them from time to time, but that was who sat there the most. The people that were sitting there that day.

There it was. Morgan was staring off into space, but she realized that she was looking right at Jonah. He noticed, looking away from his conversation with Joseph. It was like a pit in her stomach as his blue eyes met hers. The two of them shared a slightly awkward and embarrassed smirk. Morgan could feel her face growing hot as his smirk became a smile. She looked down, trying to recover her sanity for a moment. Out of nowhere, she felt a tough nudge in her side. Morgan looked over to see Madison with a look of amusement. Morgan knew her face must've been bright red at the moment, so she was glad that she was already done with her food. She said her quick and nonchalant goodbyes to the group and walked away. She felt her phone vibrate, but she ignored it as she went straight to the bathroom near her next class. She was just about to unlock her stall and walk out when she heard someone crying.

"I'm so sorry he broke up with you. Did he say why?" Morgan heard a girl say. She wasn't one to eavesdrop, so Morgan fumbled with the lock and was quick to go wash her hands and get out of there.

"He just said he wasn't in love with me anymore," a familiar voice said, Morgan almost laughing. They were just high schoolers, what did they know about love. She got out of there and walked to class, finally checking her phone as she walked into her science class and sat in her usual seat. Morgan was just sitting there when she read the text. The teenager nearly fell out of her seat. Then, Madison came running into the room, nearly shoving their other classmates as she took her usual seat next to Morgan.

"Is that true?" Morgan questioned her nearly out of breath friend. Madison was laughing as she flashed her the biggest, devious smile.

"Yeah. Jonah dumped Lainey last night. They went on a drive and when he pulled into her driveway at her house he dumped her. It was a total screaming match. Jonah told the twins that she just sat there screaming at him and he just kind of took it until she got out of his car and ran up to her house," Madison relayed. She seemed so excited about this break up.

"Good for him, she was a psycho… wait, but Madi why are you so excited about this?" Morgan questioned. The teacher walked in. Jonah walked into the classroom and was making his way over to his usual seat. His seat was the other one next to Morgan.

"Because now my OTP can finally be a thing," Madison whispered to her as Jonah was getting closer.

"And who might your OTP be?" Morgan inquired quietly, hoping that no one could hear her.

"You and Jonah." Madison smirked as she whispered. Jonah finally sat down next to Morgan and gave her a smile before he got to writing down the notes that their teacher was putting up on the board.

"But he doesn't like me like that," Morgan whispered to Madison. "We're just friends, Madi. That's it!" She quietly fought with her friend.

"That's not true, but whatever. We're just going to wait for homecoming. I will be proven right and you will be proven wrong or vice versa or whatever when we see who he asks as his date to Homecoming," Madison said. Morgan looked over to Jonah and realize he had been staring at her, but quickly averted his eyes to avoid not getting caught. Morgan felt herself blushing and her heart almost beating out of her chest, so she did her best to hide her face and hold still as she rushed taking down the notes the teacher was putting up on the board. Madison was just laughing quietly to herself while Morgan tried her best not to look to her left, to look at him.