The Education Chapter Six

Bette shuffled nervously. Crossing and uncrossing her hands, while the blonde still stared on in disbelief.

“I’m sorry about that I -,” Bette started.

“It’s quite alright.” Tina stated bluntly. “I am checking on how the jungle gym is going? I see you havn’t started.”

Bette raised her shoulders in defence of Tina’s tone. “Yeah,” she mumbled, “about that, well you gave me these instructions, but uhm, I don’t know you’re aware of it, but their in Chinese.”

“I am perfectly aware of that Bette, we ordered it in from the Chinese castle discovery corporation. You’ll have to make do with that.” She said, before turning on her heel and storming back into the building.

Bette scowled and kicked the oak frame, before cursing at the pain in her toe.

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Inside Tina found Alice turning off the lights in the nursery, with all the children having their afternoon nap. The four eldest children sat on couches, two of them reading, and the other two playing Super Mario Racing. She smiled at them, before gesturing to Alice to come talk with her.

Al spoke up first, “Okay, so I know you’re not happy, and I get that I shouldn’t have been playing with the enemy earlier, but Tee, you need to admit, she’s a hot enemy.”

“Hot or not, she’s still the enemy,” Tina retorted.

“Aha!” Alice cried, only to have Tina glare and point at the nursery where the kids were napping. Alice shrugged and lowered her voice. “But despite being the enemy, you still think she’s hot. You’re single, she’s probably single, I’m sure you can wriggle your way behind enemy lines.”

“Alice, who said I wanted that, Bette Porter was a mean pretentious child at age eleven, why would she have changed, form what I got earlier, she still treats everyone like she did then, especially the ones she gets romantically involved in.”

“Okay, fine, I hear ya, I hear ya, man give you see that ass though – hot.”

“Al, not helping.”

“Right, right. Check, no more ass admiring. Okay, so will you start maybe opening up, helping her settle in a little, she’s gonna be here for six weeks after all.”