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rafe didn't get any sleep whatsoever. why you may ask? because he was up all night drawing in his notebook. rafe was startled by the sudden beeping of his alarm clock.

"you guys wanna handle this for me?" he asks his characters.

"on it, boss." one of the heads of the two headed beast responds.

"on it." replies the second.

"I just said that."

"why do you even set this thing, rafe, if you're not going to sleep?" the drawing pops out of the book and went over rafe's leg.

the two heads fought over the blaster, which soon results in both heads getting blasted off.

rafe chuckles and hears the familiar footsteps of his mother coming to his room. in panic he quickly shoves his notebook under the covers.

"rafe? rise and shine buddy." jules says. "rafe? are you up? wake up." she says, walking to rafe's bedside.

"what? oh boy, is it morning already?" he says, turning around and stretching his arms out.

"please tell me you did not stay up all night drawing again." jules groans.

"no, of course not. no, the only reason I would ever be up all night is just because I'm so excited to go to school today. but I wasn't up all night." he lies.

"come here." jules says.

"why?" rafe asks, as jules licks her thumb and wipes it across rafe forehead, trying to remove the ink stain.

"gross. what are you doing?" rafe asks.

"I'm wiping the excitement off your face. It looks a lot like ink." jules replies, as she holds out her hand expecting something from him. he sighs handing her the notebook.

georgia, his younger sister, came in to rafe's room holding her cavin giggles, their pug.

"mom, where's my breakfast?" she asks.

"It's coming." jules replies, while flipping through papers in the notebook.

"georgia, for the millionth time, calvin's not allowed in my room." rafe says, crossing his arms as clavin whines.

"for the billionth time, it's mr. giggles to you. and just because you're grumpy doesn't give you the right to make the rest of us miserable." georgia says.

"okay guys, come on." jules says, still focused on the pages filled with drawings.

"let's go calvin, we don't have to take this." georgia says.

"you know, hon, I have to say, really impressive updates for the vinlothian star cruiser." jules says.

"thanks." rafe replies, as he reached for his notebook, but his mother pulled it away.

"look, I know it's hard, starting a new school mid semester, and I don't want to take this away from you, but you have to promise me you won't spend every waking, sleeping moment working on this when there's a whole big world our there." jules says.

"mom, there's a whole big world in there, too." rafe says.

"I'm talking about the real world. give it a try, would you? for me? hmm?" jules asks.

"okay." he replies.

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"on the menu for today, we have farro basil salad with tomato coulis." jules says, as rafe walks in the kitchen.

"you know, georgia and I would be completely fine if you just made us, like, a bologna sandwich." rafe says, taking a seat in the kitchen chair.

"I'm a sous-chef, not a chemical engineer. oh, and for dessert, we have deconstructed lime tart." jules says.

"why'd you deconstruct it?" rafe asks.

"I don't know. I don't wanna do something the same old, regular way. where's the imagination in that? If you wanna stand out and make a difference, you gotta think outside the box." jules replies, chopping vegetables.

"did you order an uber?" rafe asks, as a car honks.

rafe stood up and looks outside the window to see georgia driving jules car, as handclap by fitz and the tantrums play through the speakers with the windows down.

"oh man! she's gonna get me arrested." jules says.

"better you than me." rafe says.

georgia honks multiple times before jules and rafe finally make it out of the house.

"hello? not getting any younger here." georgia says.

"uh do that again and you're not getting any older either." jules says.

"I was just pulling it around to same time." georgia explains.

"never again. move." jules commands.

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"you should want to be early too considering your track record." georgia says.

"I'm sorry. I cant hear you." rafe says.

"fine, shut me out. but I'm the only one willing to give you the cold hard facts. you been kicked out of two schools in one year." georgia says.

"georgia, i'll handle the lectures." jules says, turning around

"go for it." georgia says.

"no, thank you. I'm tired of that lecture." jules says, looking through the review mirror.

"see, you're exhausting people. this is the last school that'll take you. and if you mess up here, you're gonna end up at a new school called "prison elementary." so get your head out of your keister." georgia says.

"uh-tut-tut-tut-tut!" jules shushes them.

"I'm just trying to help a brother out, mom." georgia says.