If 13 was lucky (ASOUE)

1: Quagmires!

*+* Violet's POV *+*

I woke up to the sound of three bells ringing behind me. My siblings woke up too. I got up from laying down behind the concierge desk. I looked out the glass door looking outside.

"It's Thursday." I said, walking towards the door. My siblings went out with me. We saw the self-sustaining hot air home. Isadora and Duncan were looking over the door.

"Baudelaires!" They said, opening the door. I hugged them immediately. Hector came out behind them.

"Hello!" He spoke in a soft voice. "I will be your guardian now." I froze. I was too stunned to answer. Behind me I heard the door open. I turned around and when I say I was stunned too early I mean I was stunned too early.

"Baudelaires and... Quagmires?" Mr. Poe said. "Well, I guess." He paused like he was thinking about something important. "I'll send you back to Prufrock Prep!" he remarked.

"But-" I started, remembering Carmelita and Count Olaf and Vice Principal Nero and the Orphan Shack.

"But you will be safe." He said, placing his briefcase on the grass of the outside of the Hotel Denouement. He gestured for us to follow him to his car. We all crammed in the back seat. It could barely fit three, but it definitely could not fit five. I swallowed and looked toward Duncan who was to my right side.

"Is Quigley okay?" I whispered so Mr. Poe wouldn't hear. He looked down and shook his head slowly.

"He never came to see us, but we got his telegram." He whispered back. I gasped in horror. Kit had told us Quigley would meet them. Where could he be then?

"You alright?" Mr. Poe asked as he heard me gasp in horror at the fact Quigley hadn't met the Quagmires in the self-sustaining hot air home.

"Yes, It's just a tight fit." Isadora said. Eventually, the school came in sight.

***

"Here we are." Mr. Poe got out and we did too. We walked in the school and went to the vice principal's office.

"You... go to the room you belong in." A person who was not Nero said.

"Who are you..." I asked. He got up from the chair.

"I'm Mr. Remora." He said with a banana half in his mouth.

"We don't have a room..." Isadora said, looking around the cluttered office.

"All the rooms are to the right and even if you are orphans, which you are, still do that." Mr. Remora said and sat back down.

"Thanks!" I said and went to the rooms.

"Here!" Isadora said and opened the door to an empty room. We sat on the chairs in the room.

"We need to change." Klaus said because we were still wearing our clothes we wore when we were concierges. I nodded and we changed in the bathroom. When we were done, we sat in the chairs.

"We have classes but what about Sunny?" Klaus asked, worried Sunny was going to be what she was when they came here months ago.

"Daycare." Sunny said, pointing to a building with the words "Daycare" on it. I smiled and hoped that was what her fate was. All I hoped for was the violin recital that Nero did when we were at Prufrock months ago to not be mandatory. But that's just me.

***

We heard a powerful knock on our door. I ran to open it just to see Mr. Remora.

"Class starts tomorrow. Klaus and Isadora are in Mrs. Bass' class and Sunny goes to that place out the window or whatever." He said, sounding bored.

"Daycare." Sunny corrected.

"Bye then." He said and slammed the door. I looked outside and the clock. It was 5:56.

"Let's get dinner in the cafeteria." I suggested. Everyone agreed so we went there. After we ate, we went back.

"Is Carmelita here?" Isadora quietly asked, putting down her poetry notebook. I didn't want to say yes, but I didn't know for sure to say no.

"It depends on how you look at it." Klaus said, answering for me. Isadora smiled and picked her notebook back up. I passed the time by making an invention to keep a book open for you and turn the pages. I got the materials from the closet, which had metal and tools in it. I eventually got it to just hold the book but by that time I had already tried till it was 9:30 and stopped to go to bed. There were four beds, so I shared a bed with Sunny. Sunny bit a carrot she got from dinner to help her fall asleep. Today was quite eventful. I'm just scared for tomorrow. Why? Nero's coming back from the Hotel Denouement.

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