Circle Daybreak Preschool- Chapter 26- It Looks Like an Alien

YELLO! Yellow. Mellow. Fellow. HELLOW! Kitty. O_O

As you have probably gathered, I have no clue what the fuck I'm doing. So yep, it's still me :)

NOW I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ALL THINKING- AGAIN: "WTF? SHE CHANGED HER PENNAME AND GAVE US NO WARNING!"

Well I DID do that :D Sorry. This was kind of an impulse thing, but I HAVE been thinking about it for a while now. TheSpiraloftheStairs sounds more... sophisticated. And I want to be more sophisticated with my stories now that this story and Couples Therapy are reaching their ends.

This chapter is for ! In the hopes of making her smile just a little bit. Just a teeny bit. Just a tug on the corner of your mouth.

And lamia vampress and Danielle-Redfern, I'LL BAKE YOU PIES! FOR YOU TO EAT IN THE HUNGER GAMES! XD Love ya!

Thanks to Nessie for the beta! You're the best beta-reader/friend/best friend EVER, NESSA!

Everyone knew Ms. Elizabeth was going to go on maternity leave, but no one knew when that day was going to come.

So it was a very sad day for some of the preschoolers when Ms. Elizabeth announced that today was her last day.

And honestly, no one was really surprised.

"She's been looking especially fat lately." Morgead said.

"Morgead!" Jez slapped the back of Morgead's head- hard.

"You know Morgead, when you get pregnant and get fat I'm going to laugh so hard." Iliana informed him, in what she thought was a superior tone.

"What are you laughing at?" Iliana asked the kids as they rolled on the floor, laughing at her stupidity.

"Iliana, boys can not have babies." Ms. Elizabeth explained gently.

"But then how did my Daddy have me?"

"That is a story for another time, Iliana." Ms. Elizabeth told her. She looked round at all of her kids and thought about how much she would miss them, even if they were pains in the ass.

"Jez, what is so funny?" Ms. Elizabeth asked.

Jez had been the on laughing hardest at Iliana's remark towards Morgead and hadn't stopped laughing with the other kids.

"Morgead is fat." Jez roared. "He just carries it well."

"WHAT? I am NOT fat, Jezebel." Morgead retorted.

That shut Jez up. "Well I'm going to give you a big, fat knuckle sandwich!" Jez lunged.

That was one thing Elizabeth was not going to miss.

"Lunch time! Let's go out side to eat today!" Ms. Elizabeth announced.

The kids filed outside and sat in the circles in the grass.

"Ugh, I hate this grass." Mary-Lynnette shifted uncomfortably. "It's dead and pokey."

"You can sit in my lap if you want." Ash suggested suggestively.

Mary-Lynnette rolled her eyes and ignored him… Until the ants started crawling up her leg and she jumped into Ash's lap, spluttering about being allergic to ants.

"Aw, aren't they cute?" Poppy asked James as Ash killed all the ants on Mary-Lynnette's leg… By slapping them.

"OW! That hurt you moron!" Mare shoved Ash and jumped out of his lap.

Ash fell back and yelled, "Well that's not painless either!"

That was another thing Liz was not going to miss.

"Such beautiful eyes! I'll bake you pies! We're just two guys!" James and Poppy sang together.

"I don't even know what the Hunger Games are." Poppy said cheerfully.

"Neither do I. I think they're a book or something." James mused.

"That would make sense." Poppy smiled dreamily. "You're so smart, Jamie."

Quinn snorted, "Yeah, Jamie."

"I'm going to miss Ms. Elizabeth." Thea said to Eric.

"Me too." Eric sighed. "But you know what? At least it's not the end of the school year and we'll never see her again."

"Yeah… She'll come in, right?"

"Right."

Thea looked sideways at Eric. "Are you usually this good at cheering people up?"

"Nah, just girls. I have a little sister." Eric said. "I love her, but she's such a pain sometimes."

"I feel you there." Ash said dryly.

"It's hot." Gillian complained and fanned herself with her hand. "I miss winter."

"I don't. Summer is great! We get to swim! And have no school! And get to do whatever we want!" David caroled.

"But it's hot." Gillian repeated.

"Want me to squirt you?" David asked.

Gillian looked a little apprehensive. "With what?"

"Water." David replied like it was the most logical and obvious thing.

"Oh." Gillian said. "With what?"

David held up a little, itty bitty, blue squirt gun about one and a half inch by one inch large.

"Oh. Sure." Gillian closed her eyes and waited for the squirt of water.

David shot Gillian's cheeks and forehead with the gun. "Better?" He asked and handed her a napkin to wipe her face.

"Much." Gillian smiled and wiped her face.

Not far away, Jez and Morgead watched the display with interest. Too much interest.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Morgead asked.

"I think we are." Jez smirked. Devious smiles lighting up their faces with an inner fire of mischief.

Silently, they both got up and snuck over to the side of the building and grabbed the hose.

"On my signal." Jez murmured and started out with the hose hidden under her armpit.

Once she got back to the circle, she stood there and gave Morgead the signal. She whipped her hair.

Morgead turned on the hose and came running back calling "WATER FIGHT!" like a battle cry.

Jez gave no mercy as she drenched her fellow classmates. And she even playfully sprayed Morgead.

Out of everyone she got, she got Iliana the worst.

Iliana was dripping from head to toe, completely soaked through to the bone.

Jez and Morgead waited in glee for Iliana to burst into tears. They ignored everyone and everything, not wanting to miss Iliana's tears.

Yet, as Poppy cried over her favorite shirt, and Ash and Blaise fretted over their hair, even as Thierry offered Hannah half of his sandwich after hers had been soaked, and Galen helped dry Keller's tale, no tears fell on Iliana's face.

"Why isn't she crying?" Jez asked Morgead, disappointment clear on her face.

"Oh, maybe because you've been doing this to her all year!" Mary-Lynnette snarled/yelled and rung out her wet hair.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and started at Mary-Lynnette.

"What? You think I can't be nasty? Well I have my breaking points too and you two," she pointed accusingly at Jez and Morgead, "Have been nothing but horrible to Iliana ever since the first day! And you act all high and mighty when really Iliana is the high and mighty one for dealing with you two without filing any harassment charges! She's used to it by now, idiots. Now stop."

"Thank you, Mary-Lynnette." Iliana smiled.

"Well… Um… Jez and Morgead you two have detention… And I would lecture you, but Mary-Lynnette seems to have already done a fine job of that." Ms. Elizabeth said after a moment of awkward silence.

After the rest of what the kids could still eat for lunch had been eaten, the kids laid out on the Jungle gym to dry off. Except Jez and Morgead who had to clean up all the food and go put the hose back.

"You know, that was really quite attractive how you yelled at Jez and Morgead like that. Even if I hate Iliana." Ash told Mary-Lynnette.

"Even if it's not attractive if I yell at you?" Mary-Lynnette snorted.

"Of course not." Ash winked.

"You know, this is actually kind of nice." Quinn said.

"What is?" Rashel asked. "Ms. Elizabeth leaving, the heat, or getting soaked and getting to tan?"

"All of the above." Quinn answered.

Rashel dug her elbow into his gut. "I like Ms. Elizabeth! She's the best teacher I've ever had!"

"Ow! She's the only teacher you've ever had!" Quinn shot back.

"So? She's a good teacher and I'm going to miss her."

"Fine. She was a good teacher and I'm going to miss her too." Quinn grumbled.

"Thanks for giving me half your sandwich." Hannah thanked Thierry. "Mine was all soggy and gross and I was starving."

"No problem. I wasn't that hungry today." Thierry smiled.

"I don't know how you can be! With all this heat! You tire so easily." Hannah took a swig of water from her water bottle.

"Yeah. Well you just have to keep drinking water." Thierry said. He felt kind of awkward because he didn't drink water, just blood.

"Want some?"' Hannah held out her water bottle, putting Thierry in a very awkward position.

"Uh… Sure." Thierry took the bottle and took a very small sip. He immediately began coughing as his body rejected the fluid. "Just went down the wrong pipe." Thierry wheezed trying to assure Hannah he was all right.

"Guess I won't offer you water from now on." Hannah laughed weakly.

"Yeah, please don't." Thierry managed to stop coughing.

"Sorry." Hannah frowned guiltily.

"It's okay. I'm fine, don't worry about it." Thierry smiled.

"Okay, if you insist." Hannah smiled.

"Do you think that we should still go through with our operation?" Morgead asked.

"I don't know." Jez replied weakly. Her legs swinging feebly off the edge of the gym.

"Mary-Lynnette mad me feel lousy." Morgead frowned.

"Me too." Jez pouted.

"Should we make her feel lousy too?" Morgead suggested.

"No. Ash would kill us. Like he needs any more reason too."

"True." Morgead said dejectedly. "I hate feeling bad."

"Me too. Maybe we should apologize to Iliana." Jez sat up.

"No, then my pride will feel bad too."

"I am so throwing Jez and Morgead in the dungeon the next time they come over." Delos growled and shook his wet head for the millionth time.

"Okay, seriously Delos you need to stop threatening to throw your family in the dungeon." Maggie told him sternly. "It doesn't make you sound good."

"I don't care what I sound like. I want justice!" Delos slammed his fist on the slide. Apparently, he put too much force behind it, because his wet fist slid down, dragging Delos down as well.

"Karma will always come back to bite you!" Maggie called.

"Good to know." Delos grumbled into the sand.

"Can I kill Jez and Morgead?" Keller asked to no one.

"I would not advise that." Galen answered. "And c'mon, as if Ms. Elizabeth's last day hadn't already gone horribly wrong."

"True. Fine, but only because it's Ms. Elizabeth's last day." Keller mumbled. "But tomorrow, I am using them as scratching posts!"

"Why do I always get stuck with you?" Blaise sneered at Iliana.

"Because all the future couples somehow always end up together." Iliana answered, not fazed at all.

"True." Blaise scowled. "Goddess, that makes me feel lonely."

"Me too. Oh, well. At least we have each other to keep the other company." Iliana said, just as the other preschool class came out.

"Phil!" Iliana and Blaise called and waved together.

They looked at each other for a moment; silently battling for Phil. Blaise discreetly scooted toward the nearest slide, which was right behind her. Iliana blinked, and Blaise was sliding down and running toward Phil.

"No fair!" Iliana jumped off the jungle gym and chased after her rival.

All in all, Elizabeth had a good last day. At least there was no tampering with food, or serious fights, or migraines.

"Goodbye, Ms. Elizabeth! You'll come visit us right?" Gillian asked later when her mom came to pick her up.

"Yes, I will." Elizabeth promised with a smile.

Elizabeth watched sadly as the last parent care pulled out of the parking lot and left.

Two weeks later, Lucky entered the classroom. He hadn't come back since Elizabeth left, but he wanted to tell the kids ASAP.

"I'm sorry for the interruption Mrs. Carly," Lucky apologized when he entered, looking breathless and excited.

"Not at all. What brings you here?" Mrs. Carly, the new permanent sub, asked.

"I just wanted to tell the kids that Elizabeth had the baby!" Lucky announced, a light shining in his eyes.

There was an excited outbreak amongst the girls, and the boys just didn't care.

"Can we see a picture?" Iliana asked excitedly followed by many murmurs of agreement.

"Here." Lucky pulled out a picture of a tired looking Elizabeth holding a bundle of blankets where a small face was visible.

The kids all gathered round and passed the picture around.

"It looks like an alien." Morgead said.

"Oh, I knew it looked like something!" David took another look at the picture.

Mary-Lynnette rolled her eyes. "Is it a boy or a girl?"

"It's a girl. Named Katherine Luna." Lucky announced proudly.

(Today is my aunt Kathy's birthday. She died in 2008 to Pancreatic Cancer so I thought it was appropriate Eliza's and Lucky's daughter was Katherine.)

"Aww what a cute name!" Poppy gushed.

"I still think she looks like an alien." Morgead said.

"She won't look that that forever." Lucky said, annoyance coloring his tone.

"She won't?" Morgead asked.

"You didn't." Lucky replied coolly.

There was an outbreak of laughter among the kids; never had Lucky ever said anything like that to any of the students.

"Anyway, I better get back to the hospital." Lucky left, with promises of more pictures for the girls.

"So Quinn," Ash clapped Quinn on the back, "When's the baby coming?"

Quinn punched Ash, blushing furiously. "It's not."

"Sure." The blonde sniggered and took his seat behind Mary-Lynnette.

It was hard for the children to concentrate on schoolwork the rest of the day; the news of Katherine Luna was too excited to get them back into a work mode. So Mrs. Carly let the kids have free time for the rest of the day.

"Let's play Chutes and Ladders!" Jade suggested. (I used to love that game!)

"Sure." All the kids went into teams of 4.

"Your turn Morgead." Jez told him. "Morgead?"

Morgead was staring off into space, obviously thinking very hard about something.

"MORGEAD!" Jez screamed.

"What?" Morgead growled, rubbing his ear.

"It's your turn to spin!" Jez growled.

"Oh." Morgead spun the wheel.

"What were you thinking about?" Jez inquired.

Morgead shifted uncomfortably. "Jez… Did I really look like an alien when I was born?"

"Yes." Jez didn't miss a beat. "You were the ugliest little thing."

"Burn!" Ash, James, and Quinn caroled together, causing more fits of laughter.

"Well you weren't exactly the prettiest thing either Jez." Morgead scowled at his best friend.

Jez flipped her hair. "Bitch, I was born flawless."

LOL! XD Gotta love Jez! ;D

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! :]

I hope you're feeling okay Sophia! :D

I'm jumping on those pies, beautiful eyes! ;D

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TheSpiraloftheStairs.