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Jaz had a miserable first day at school. The first thing she'd discovered is that there were more than one bathroom - and which one you chose was important. Which had led almost immediately to ridicule by her new peers.

"Why'd you go in the BOY'S ROOM!?" "HaHa, Jazmyn thinks she's a BOY!"

Mortified for something she hadn't known was wrong was horrifying, and Jazmyn spend the rest of the day trying to hide from everyone.

Coming home to the chaos of the Malone household.. was strangely, calming. Because in this house, it was easy to be alone, and forgotten.

She skirted past one of the twins (she hadn't looked close enough to find out which), and grabbed some fruit salad off the filthy counter. (Since she hadn't really had lunch...) After eating quickly, Jaz headed outside for some precious alone time.

Watching the clouds morosely, she finally started to feel more at peace again. Her usually calm demeanor returned, and she headed back inside.

She walked past Myles and her mother working on his new school project. They were so busy they didn't even notice her walk past - which was fine by her.

Bennie was, of course, watching Sports instead of paying attention to the store downstairs. Jaz thought he had said there was a gig tonight, but apparently the winter games in Komorebi were more important. Jaz wasn't about to remind him.

With everyone off doing.. something.. the bedroom was a haven of quiet. (So long as you ignored the sounds of the mice chewing the cheese off the end of the mouse trap in the hole in the wall...) She sat down, and began drawing. The clouds had inspired her, and, losing herself in her art, she managed to forget her horrific day.

In the living room, all hell had broken loose. Phoenix was practicing for his music lessons (badly, as the case might be..), one twin was ripping up a book he'd found on the floor... and Bennie was yelling at the other twin. For what? Who knows. He was just yelling.

In the bathroom, Benji was mourning a horrible day, as well. For his senior year of high school was supposed to be the king - and he had managed to say something really stupid to his crush. Getting his "queen" was seeming even more unlikely, when all she did was laugh at him and grab Cade's arm, pressing her body against him as they walked away. By the time he'd finished crying his eyes out, he snuck back out of the bathroom, and immediately noticed a rank smell in the air. Frowning, he found a diaper, and went to locate the smell.

Brett was still blithely talking to his dad, who was, not surprisingly, still nagging the toddler for who-knows-what.

Everyone had managed to find the fruit salad on the counter, since dinner didn't seem to be happening tonight with the project still being worked on by Myles and Marnie. Everyone found their beds, with Bennie being uncharacteristically nice and helping the twins get all tucked in after putting yet another mouse trap in the wall.

It wasn't long before little Braydon had a nightmare, though.. (although the vampire randomly sneaking around the house throwing trash everywhere might have played a factor).. and he ended up going to wake up his parents.

Jaz rolled her eyes, flipped over in bed, and pulled the covers over her head. At least the other twin wasn't awake.. yet.. and Braydon hadn't decided to come in the kids' room instead of their parents'.

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