Eighty Nine

What is going on here?” The loud voice pulled me out of my sleep.

I stretched and yawned, blinking my eyes open. The light was on and I had to shield my eyes from its brightness. I was not in my room, that was the first thing I noticed. But my brain quickly walked me down memory lane. We had picked here to avoid going to school.

I wanted to sleep more. I laid back down but I was a pull by my left leg spoiled that plan and caused annoyance to brew instantly. “I want to sleep a bit more.”

“Get up there, Katherina May Salvatore!”

Mom? I sat upright and stare into her annoyed face. The boys? My eyes roamed the length of the room to see that Trenton was up already. Baron too. Zach and Lucas seemed to be unperturbed by the noise. I turned to my side, Aaron was just waking as well.

I watched mom lift the small pail of water, scooped some in her palm and dripped them on Zach and Lucas, but Lucas only muttered something incomprehensible and went back to sleep, Zach just changed his sleeping p