Wicked Summer

Chapter 3: A Problem

Chapter 3: A Problem

Lonnie was up at 6:30 the next morning. It was the first day of school for the summer session. Lonnie didn't have any classes to attend, but she was having a floor meeting with her residents before school started and wanted to make sure they got up on time for their first day.

Turns out that Bernadette was an early riser. She got up and started getting ready when Lonnie's alarm went off without a complaint.

Lonnie didn't really have to get ready, once again, because she wasn't going to school, but she did change into regular clothes and brush her hair before going to wake the other girls up.

She knocked on both their doors. Not too long later, both the doors opened to reveal Desiree at one door and Claudine at the other. "There's a floor meeting in ten minutes. Get up and get ready," Lonnie told them. None of them looked excited to be awake. Lonnie couldn't blame them. It wasn't even seven and it was their first day of school, but the rules couldn't be bent for the VKs.

Lonnie went back into her dorm and grabbed a folder sitting on her desk. It contained all her resident's school schedules.

The time that she had left before her floor meeting was enough to put on some light make up. When she was done, she and Bernadette headed to the common room to wait for the other girls.

A few minutes later, Desiree, Bonnie, Mad Maddie, and Claudine entered the common room.

"Okay, girls," Lonnie stood up from the couch she was lounging on. "Today's your first day and the first order of business is your class schedules." She started handing them out. "It is important that you arrive on time to your classes and that you pay attention and get good grades. If you do not pass Remedial Goodness at the end of the term, you will have to repeat it in the fall and you will not be allowed to participate in any extra curricular activities. If you need help at all, do not be afraid to ask me or any of the other mentors. Alright, go get some breakfast!" They all shuffled out of the common room and Bernadette bid Lonnie goodbye before heading to breakfast.

Lonnie was about to go see if Jay wanted to get breakfast with her, but it was still early and he was definitely still asleep. So she went to Jane's dorm instead.

Jane was locking her door when she got there.

"Morning, Lonnie," Jane said.

"Hey, you heading to breakfast?" Lonnie asked her.

"Yep," Jane said.

"I was just gonna ask you if wanted to get breakfast with me."

"Haha, perfect timing."

They made their way to the cafeteria to get breakfast.

As expected, there weren't many people in the cafeteria and most of them were VKs. Jordan, Eli, and Neal were also at breakfast, probably figuring that as long as they're up, they might as well get breakfast. There were only a few other AKs there. Lonnie and Jane went to get breakfast and that sat down with Jordan, Eli, and Neal. While they were eating, Lonnie saw Audrey walk into the cafeteria with who she could only assume was Shawn. They seemed to be getting along pretty well. Lonnie couldn't decide if that was a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand, they wanted the VKs to get to know and make friends with the AKs. But on the other hand, they could be scheming against her.

Then Lonnie began to analyze Shawn. She didn't look a lot like Shan Yu. She could tell that she was from Northern Wei. She had the signature almond eyes, slightly different shade of pale, and the dark hair and dark eyes as practically everyone else from Northern Wei had, which means that her mother must have been from Northern Wei as well, otherwise she would look a bit more mixed. She hated to admit it, but Shawn looked absolutely stunning. She could see why flirty bad boy Jay had dated her.

Jane realized that Lonnie was looking off somewhere and not paying attention to whatever the rest of them were talking about. "Is that Shawn?"

Jordan looked up briefly. "Yep, that's her."

"Geez, you weren't kidding about her," Jane remarked, studying her as well now.

"Hey, you have cheerleading today, right?" Lonnie asked Jane.

"Yeah."

"Can you tell me if Audrey says anything about Shawn?" Lonnie asked.

Jane nodded, "Yeah, sure."

"Thanks," Lonnie said to her as she got up from the table. "I'm gonna go work out. See you guys later."

A couple hours later, Lonnie was finishing up her work out. The door to the gym opened and Ben walked in.

"What's up, Ben?" Lonnie asked.

He walked up to where she was sitting on a bench and stopped right in front of her.

"We've got a problem," he said.

"What?"

"Harry tried to escape this morning," he explained.

Lonnie was confused. "He's not my resident."

"I know, but because of certain circumstances, I may be sending you on a mission sometime in the future."

"What do you mean?" Lonnie asked.

"Come to my office and I'll explain," he told her.

Lonnie nodded, gathered her stuff, and then followed Ben out of the gym and to his office.

When they reached Ben's office, Lonnie saw that Harry was sitting in the chair across from Ben's desk and Jay and Fairy Godmother were standing to the side of the room. Lonnie went to go stand next to Jay.

Ben sat down at his desk. "'Alright, Harry, so you think that Uma is somewhere in Auradon?"

Harry nodded.

"Wait, Uma's still in Auradon?" Lonnie asked.

"We couldn't find Uma on the Isle when we went to collect everyone else," Ben explained.

"And you didn't think to tell any of us?" Jay questioned him.

"Fairy Godmother was informed but we didn't want to cause any panic," Ben put his attention back on Harry. "Here's what we're gonna do, Harry. I'm gonna put together a team to go find Uma, however no action will be taken to find Uma until I can trust you enough to go on the mission too."

"How am I supposed to do that?" Harry asked almost angrily. He seemed to be pretty on edge. Jay had said that Harry really didn't function properly when Uma wasn't around, and if Uma never made it back to the Isle, then he's been without her for months.

"You will go to your classes and you will behave, your teachers will be giving me weekly reports on you. And you will not cause trouble outside of class, Neal will also be giving me reports."

Harry huffed.

"If you wanna find Uma, you will do as I say," Ben said forcefully.

"Fine," Harry finally said.

"You will go to class now," Ben told him.

Harry got up and left the office.

"So why are we here?" Jay asked.

"You and Lonnie will be accompanying Harry and I when we go find Uma," Ben explained.

"Why us?" Lonnie asked.

"You two are our best fighters, just in case Uma fights back. We will be monitoring Uma's whereabouts; I've already sent Evie to the museum to retrieve her mirror. When the time is right, we'll head off to find Uma and bring her back here.

Jay turned to Lonnie. "Well, our lives just got a whole lot more complicated."