A Series of Unfortunate Events One Shots

Those First Eleven Days Part 3

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~Normal POV

The days passed the same way for the Baudelaires and the Quagmires. Their routine began with them having breakfast, going to class, then lunch, then back to class, then dinner, and finally ending the day with a terrible violin recital. It was worsened by the fact that Olivia still had not found the book they were so desperate to find. But it wasn't all bad for them because they at least had each other.

Duncan and Violet had started a trend of passing notes regularly during class to entertain themselves from Mr. Remora's boring stories. On more than one occasion Carmelita would drop a teasing note to the two about their rumored relationship, but they ignored her. Though the inventor and the journalist had begun harboring secret feelings for each other, neither one wanted to ruin what they had and kept their attraction silent. Or at least that's how they intended to do it. Klaus could often catch Violet staring at Duncan when they were all together, and Isadora was well aware of Duncan's real feelings for Violet. She could always tell when her brother was interested in a girl. Klaus and Isadora hadn't fared much better the past few days. Their attraction to each other was far more obvious despite how much they wished to hide it.

And Sunny couldn't help rolling her eyes when she watched her siblings interact with their crushes. She was still very young, and didn't understand these feelings yet, but she would change her mind someday when she's older. She was happy for them really; she wanted them to be together. She just thought teenagers were weird.

As Violet sat with Duncan in Mr. Remora's class, her mind was slightly distracted by thoughts of her newfound attraction. Sure Violet Baudelaire was no stranger to cute boys, but she had never had feelings like this before. Something inside her said that there was more to this than just a crush. What she didn't know was that Duncan was thinking the same thing about her.

The bell rang for lunch and Violet and Duncan stood from their desks to leave. Unfortunately, Carmelita decided to play a nasty trick on Violet today, and tripped her just as she started walking. Thankfully, Duncan caught her as she fell.

He helped her regain her balance, "Are you alright?"

Violet smiled at his sweet concern for her, "Yeah I'm fine. Thank you for catching me."

Duncan ran a hand through his hair nervously; her smile had melted his insides, and said, "You're welcome. I wasn't going to let you get hurt."

They met up with their siblings and went to lunch without another word on the incident; although they definitely thought about it more than once afterwards in secret, not that their siblings needed to know of course.

"I think Mr. Remora just went through a pretty bad break up. His last 8 stories today have been about his miserable love life," Violet joked as they ate their lunch.

"Mrs. Bass would have been pissed," Isadora said, "She must have the worst romantic luck because every time someone mentions relationship issues in class she gets super mad."

"She gets so mad she lectures us for an hour instead of having us do her pathetic excuse for schoolwork," Klaus added.

"Perhaps she's just bitter," Duncan suggested casually.

"Good morning cakesniffers!"

The five children held back groans as Carmelita walked up to their table. She smirked and placed her hands on the table and leaned forward slightly.

"I couldn't help overhearing your conversation. I just wanted to say that none of you will have to worry about relationship issues yourselves. Especially you, Isadora, you're so ugly no guy would ever want to date you!"