Stonebrook High School

Chapter 3

"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you..."

Jesse groaned and slammed his hand on his phone, turning off the alarm. The sound of Rick Astley was all too familiar.

"Don't break your phone..." mumbled Jess as she wrapped herself tighter in her blankets.

"I can't believe it's already seven," he moaned. "Ughhh..." Very sleepily, he rolled over and fell out of his bed, pulling the sheets down with him. "It's so hot... we should've brought a pair of fans in here... I don't even know how you're so comfortable under that."

"It's very hot, but I'm sleepy..."

"... Welp, I guess I'm out of bed now," Jesse grumbled, rolling away from the blankets. Sluggishly, he got up and fanned himself, dragging himself to the bathroom. He turned on the faucet and splashed his face with cold water, bringing him to full consciousness. "Oh my god. Ugh. Why did it start to get hot on the first day of school?"

He could hear Jess muttering under the covers from the bathroom. "Because we're on our way to school."

He smiled as he looked at himself in the mirror. "Not bad, Jess. Not bad."

"Thanks," he heard before a loud thud startled him.

"You okay?"

"Yeah..."

~*Ω*~

"Aunt Carrie, you really outdid yourself!" laughed Jesse. "How many are here, again?"

"Fifty," the woman smiled.

"Auntie, how much is fifty to you?" giggled Jess. "A little? A lot? Enough?"

"The right amount," she winked. "Now I need to get you two to school, hurry along. Get to the car."

"Well, we're going to need some help with the cupcakes," the two joked before scurrying off with most of the cupcakes.

~*Ω*~

They waved to their aunt before she drove off, leaving them in front of the Stonebrook High School campus with fifty cupcakes surrounding them.

"You think any of the teachers' rooms are open right now? I'm not sure the office would let us keep these there," Jess laughed.

Jesse chuckled and picked some of the boxes of cupcakes up. "Let's try Mrs. Gonzalez's class."

~*Ω*~

After asking their previous biology teacher to hold their cupcakes for them, they made their way over to the multi-purpose room, or MPR for short. The orientation for those who weren't able to attend the meeting during the summer were supposed to come before school. The doors to the building were locked. Patiently, they waited outside one of the doors and waited some more. Some more students came and waited next to the twins, obviously nervous from their little habits such as nail-biting and fiddling with the buttons on their freshly-ironed shirts. Eventually, a proctor came and opened the MPR to them. As they walked in, they saw multiple other students flooding the building through the other doors and they quickly made their way to where they were supposed to be standing- in the middle of it all.

"Still don't understand why the sophomores and freshman have to stand in the middle," Jesse shrugged as others jostled him and Jess. She also shrugged.

"Lucky seniors," muttered Jess. She eyed some of the last-year students who were sitting peacefully on the seats to the side.

"Hey, isn't that Petra over there?!" Jesse pointed off to his right excitedly and made Jess turn around as well.