Morning.
Sitting on the floor with both hands stretching to tie the lace her oxford shoes, Alexa's face wrinkled.
Her mother woke her up two hours before the school starts and now, she has one-hour extra time.
With her face emotionless as a rock, Alexa murmured, 'I could have slept more,' she groaned and turned to Selena sleeping on the lower bunk bed, her face was so peaceful.
She heard a phone buzzing, it was 7 in the morning, who could have called her this morning.
She picked up her phone, only to find it with a black screen.
'Oh yeah, I don't have friends!' her eyes rolled, she didn't mind not having friends, she had Maribeth which was the monkey she grew up with and her mother took her away.
She sighed as she wondered whose phone was buzzing.
Her ears concentrated on the sound, soon she found Selena's phone buzzing under her pillow.
Her hand moved to take it, seeing the name Alejandro on the screen, her face wrinkled.
'She's sleeping,' she said as she answered the phone.
'oh!' the man on the other line said.
'Do you want me to wake her up?'
'No, it's fine,' Alejandro answered.
Alexa shrugged; her other hand shook Selena's shoulder to wake her up.
'Hey, Selena. Your brother in law is calling you,' she said after seeing Selena's eyes opening.
'What?' Selena's voice was hoarse as she speaks.
'Here,' she placed the phone on Selena's ear and walked out.
Before leaving she heard Selena saying, 'What do you need Killian?'
She giggled; she was about to leave the room when a pillow landed on her head.
With her face wrinkling in anger, she turned to Selena, 'Selena! I spent 30 minutes ironing my hair!' after barking, she shuts the door behind.
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On the other side, Leo had just combed his hair. He was whistling as he stared at his reflection through the mirror.
The excitement was shining in his eyes, he made sure that his uniform was clean before leaving the bathroom.
On the way out, he saw Louisa coming down from the attic.
'Good Morning,' he said in a cheery voice as his hand messes her hair.
The girl smiled at him, she stretched both hands, asking for him to carry her.
Leo frosts, he doesn't want to wrinkle his uniform.
'Can I just carry you later?' he said as he bents his body to level his face to Louisa.
The girl shook her head, and seeing her lips slowly pouting, he sighed.
With a dull face, he gave her a piggyback.
They went downstairs, Alexa and Ethan were at the dining table, eating their toast while their mother was busy washing the dishes.
'Mom, why are you not using the dishwasher?' Leo asked, gently lowering Louisa down to the chair.
'It's not so much dear," his mother smiled at him.
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After eating, the triplets and Louisa left the cafe. Their mother asked them to rush or else they will be late to school again, now, they have forty-five minutes before the school opens.
They have a car but their mother asked them to take the bus. So now, standing at the bus stop, the triplets and Louisa waited patiently.
Ethan decided to open his book. As he adjusted his glasses with his finger, he realized that he had brought the wrong book. He sighed and with a dull face, he shoved the book in his bag.
Meanwhile, Louisa was standing next to Alexa, both of her hands were on her sides, while Alexa was looking at her reflection on the screen of her phone, pouting her lips like a duck.
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They waited for almost twenty minutes for the bus, none of them thought of checking the bus schedule before leaving their house and now if they won't rush, they will be late in their school again.
After the bus stopped in front of their school, the triplets and Louisa rushed towards the gate.
As their feet stopped in front of the rusty gate, the bell rung, Alexa - with a victorious smile on her lips grinned at the security guard. It was the same guard that didn't let them in yesterday.
The triplets decided to walk Louisa in her classroom.
The public school has six buildings. Since Louisa started her school early, she's now in grade eight even though she's only ten years old. They don't know how their parents convinced the school to accept Louisa but somehow, they did.
Even though it was a public school, the surrounding is clean. The students were rushing back and forth as they tried to reach their classroom in time.
So many faces, Alexa thought. At her previous school, there were only ten students in each room so seeing the students swarming around like bees around has made her face dulled.
Louisa's room was in the building next to them. When they dropped Louisa in her classroom, her homeroom teacher asked her to throw the skull she had with her but, Louisa refused and sat on the chair in the last row.
Alexa could see the fear in Louisa's classmate's face. It didn't come as a surprise, even herself finds it weird that Louisa always carries a skull with her.
'Louisa, we will go now, bye,' Alexa said her goodbye, the girl gave her a nod and coldly stared at the teacher in front.
For a moment, Alexa hesitated whether to leave Louisa alone. There are around twenty students in the classroom, and in every table, there are two students but Louisa – sitting at the last row was alone.
She sighed; heart throbbed for her sister.
'Do you think we could ask uncle Ken to let his son study here? Look oh! Louisa is alone,' she blew out her cheeks, feeling guilty for leaving her sister alone.
On the other side, Leo and Ethan started laughing, heads shaking after hearing their sister question.
'Do you really think Uncle Ken would let his only son - a prince, by the way, to be in a public school?' Leo said in between his laugh.