Control - Enoch O'Connor [ON HOLD]

WAKING UP once at the same time as the day before is for some people a funny coincidence.

Waking up at the same time for three days seems a little weird but most people don't think much of it and on the fourth day,they usually break the cycle.

Although for some people who relive the day over and over for decades,centuries to the point some even reach millennium,it's just another day like every other. They stop questioning how it's possible after a while.

I would usually wake up at eight twenty five,every moring,every day, ever since I came in Miss Peregrine's loop in ninety forty one but today was different.

For the first time in this loop,I was awaken by someone shutting the door with way to much force than needed.

After the realisation finally hit that I was awake,I decided to head down to the dining room and get something to eat. I stood up from my bed,changed into one of the few dresses I had,a beautiful,simple, dark green dress with a white top part. I brushed my hair,my teeth and headed downstairs to see a only a few of the older ones at the table.

Abe and Emma were having a conversation by whispering to one another as if anyone would pay mind to what those two would talk about.

Millard and Horace were talking about one begin in the others dream and the meaning behind it. Although after a closer look,Millard was rather pestering the poor Horace with questions the boy had no choice but to answer.

Fiona seemed to be thinking,sitting a in a corner of the table,alone so I naturally went over to her.

"Good morning Fiona." I managed to get my first words while sitting next to her and pouring myself some hot tea. I'm not really hungry.

"Hello,Atena,you are up early. Any dreams that woke you up?" She asked,now looking at me.

"Not really,I don't usually have any. Someone did shut the door a little too loud for my liking and I woke up." I left out a laugh.

Fiona was the first person to talk to me when I here,even if she was a little shy at first and we just sat next to each other for a few days until I managed to start a conversation with her. She ended up becoming my closest friend and also my best friend.

After a while,everyone was awake and the dining room was bought back to life with chatter,laughter and even whispers from a few ends. That at least until Miss Peregrine came in with Enoch right behind her,both of them sitting at the two ends of the big table.

"Good morning everyone,I will have you know,you have half an hour until you will have to start your chores so start eat if you haven't." The took a break,looking at each one of the children until her eyes fell next to her on Fiona and —— then on me.

"And Miss Corbu,you are actively burning your hands holding that hot tea like that." As soon as those words left her mouth and I and the other children got to register what she said,earning a few looks my way from the others and a scoff from the peculiar sitting at the other end of the table,I put the mug down and tried,for some reason,to justify the action.

"Miss Peregine,my hands are cold,very cold" I told her,putting my elbows on the table and my hands up,as if to show her the cold. Only getting a stern look from the headmistress,my hands being red from the previous holding of the hot mug.

"Atena,I suggest you lern to control your own blood then" She smiled at me while I tried my best to keep myself from rolling my eyes. On my side I heard a quiet laugh —no,not a laugh— a snicker,as if too mock me. Looking to my side,I see Fiona trying to not laugh and coming closer and closer to my hear.

"I suggest you lern to control you peculiarity in all points of view." She let out another quiet laugh.

"One day,I will and when the moment comes,I will make you slap yourself." I bit back,earning a dramatic gasp,yet only I could hear it.

"You're all just bark anyways." She said,smiling and remembering she still had food on her plate,starting to eat again,looking once up from her food to look at me and them at Hugh,who sat across from her.

Taking it as a sign that the conversation was over, I, as always was the first one to get up from my seat,making my way outside where I had to first sit and wait for Fiona to finish her food since we shared our chores.

For a few minutes I sat in a quiet environment,hearing nothing but the cool morning breeze and a few birds every now and then. That until I started to hear a pair of footsteps who stopped right at the entrance of the greenhouse,making me turn around.
"You didn't eat anything."

"Is that a question?" I asked,answering a potential question with another one,my way of keeping a conversation.

"Why would I ask you that,if I have a perfectly good pair of eyes?" He asked back,making a rather annoyed face and looking up as if to ask God for an answer to his question.

"Enoch,could you please move?" Fiona. Finally. With a faint signaling Enoch to either move out of the way or completely go away. Either way, he took it as the latter and with a scoff,left not even once looking back.

"That was the first time I ever saw you to even as much as talk to one another." She told me,looking a little surprised while picking up the gardening tools.

"Yes and I don't think another time will exist,not in the near future at least" I told her,taking a weeder in my hand.

"Because she future doesn't exist in a loop or because you refuse to talk to him?"

I smiled at her joke while she left out a louder than usual laugh. "Because he seems just a little too aggressive for my liking" I tried explaining.

"Why,does he bite?" She laughed,a little too hard to the point she tripped on a kneeler and fell,making us both laugh.