Inning of Love (Complete and being edited)

Scarlett.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

My alarm clock goes off too early. I roll over to grab my cell phone and press snooze to close my eyes for five more minutes. It seems only like not even a minute later, my phone starts to beep again. Time to get my ass up I suppose. I roll out of bed, throw my robe on, and trek out to the kitchen. As I start to make a pot of coffee and pour milk into my life cereal, I hear the doorbell ring. Who in fuck sakes could be at the door at this time in the morning? Seth has left for work and Val is still sleeping, so I go and peek through the peephole of the front door to find a patiently waiting Nina. I open the door and look at her with heavy eyes, I shouldn't have stayed up so late watching Netflix. It takes me a second to realize she is wearing pajamas still, her hair in a messy but cute braid. She smiles at me and then walks in with a wave. "Well good morning to you too," I say groggily.

"Morning sunshine!" She replies way to eager. "Can I have a bowl of cereal?" Nina asks.

I nod as I sit down at the kitchen counter taking my first bite of cereal. "And coffee?" She asks gesturing towards the coffee.

I giggle silently and reply with, "Go for it. By the way, what brings you over at 6:30 in the morning?" I ask with no enthusiasm. I watch as Nina grabs out two coffee mugs and is pouring coffee in them with a little bit of creamer. "Can you put more creamer in mine, please? Like a lot more?" She looks at me and laughs.

"A little coffee with your creamer huh?" Nina says while handing me my mug.

"But of course, just the way I like it." Nina sits down next to me begins to eat her cereal, still not answering my question. I am about to ask her again when she speaks up.

"So I am guessing you forgot about this week right?" She arches her brow looking at me as she sips her coffee. I talked to her yesterday when I had texted her that I wasn't going to be able to make it to play ball and all she said was okay and see you tomorrow morning. I know it's the dance this week....oh....wait.

My eyes grow as I realize it. "Spirit week. Crap, I forgot." I say honestly. She hands me a piece of paper with the list of the schedule. Every day is a different theme and every student may participate. It seemed pretty fun, I just forgot about it. Today is Monday, pajama day, explaining why Nina is in her bright purple footsie pajamas. "Pajama day, right?" I grab both of our bowls of cereal and then finish off my coffee.

"Yes, it is. Like mine?" She smiles and lifts her leg to show off her footsies. I laugh with her.

"Guess I better go change then," I say and start heading to my bedroom, leaving her to finish her coffee. I brush my teeth, throw my hair up in a messy bun, and then apply some mascara. I glance in the mirror at the outfit I fell asleep in and it is a pair of short spandex and my white spaghetti strap. I decide to take the too short for school spandex and replace them with my favorite pair of cotton pajama pants, red and black plaid. I leave on the same shirt and remove my robe, and then slip on my slippers. "Okay, I am ready! I hope I don't get too comfortable and fall asleep in class." I joke with Nina as we step out of the house.

Once we get to school, I see that almost the entire student body is wearing pajamas. Some are really funny and some are just a little extra. I walk into English and spot Phoebe and she's wearing white short shorts, a white top, and a black see-through robe that stops at the middle of her thigh. As I go to sit in my seat behind Dean, he looks at me with that sexy side smile before I sit down. He is wearing just a normal black tank and....wait...are those..."Boxers?" I think out loud. He turns around and looks at me still smiling.

"I see you got into school spirit too. I like the Harley Quinn inspired pants." He says, getting my nerd self to smile.

"She's actually my favorite villain believe it or not."