"Hurry! We will be too late!"

The little girl in the back seat yelled excited. She was used to her mother always being too late, even when she picked her up from her Granny's.
"Someone's pretty excited to be finally going to school, hu?" The taller one grinned teasing, not letting her eyes leave the road once.
"Sometwo!" She protested in response. She lifted her star shaped pillow high and added "Nataly is excited too" with a wide smile. It showed that she had missing tow of her teeth causing her to slightly lisp.

The car turned left and stopped. The early excitement was suddenly gone and instead the girl was scared.
The tall woman left the car, went to the other side and unbuttoned her daughter. She lifted her out of the car, took her hand and placed the tiny rucksack on her own back.
"Come princess, we're going to look for your class room"

Once they arrived the girl didn't want let go of her mother's hand. She had started crying on their way here when the older one tried to leave. The little ones chocolate eyes were having a red frame.
"See, I will be standing right there in the back of the class. Whenever you're scared you look back and you will see that I'm not gone" she smiled.

It broke her heart to see her own daughter that scared but she knew that she would feel save soon enough.
The class slowly filled with people: mothers, fathers and most of all children. Two boys took a seat on each side of the afraid girl. They tried to cheer her up successfully and a small giggle even escaped her sobbing throat.

The boys, about 6 years old just like her, introduced each self.

"I'm Nathan," the left boy said,
"and I'm Lucas. We're twins" the right one added.

Both of them had proud grins on their faces. They must feel very unique about the fact that they are both twins although they didn't even look that much like twins at first sight. Giving them a second look their relation was really obvious. You know that, when two people don't look exactly alike but you still know they are related? It's the same with these two boys. Nathan had dark brown hair with slight waves, while Lucas had light brown hair with tiny curls and his hair was way shorter but both had those piercing blue eyes.

"I'm Sofia," the little girl who, other than the pair, had blond hair, said "You have the same name as I do" she turned to the right boy.
"but my name is not Sofia?"
"not that, but my name is Sofia Lucas so-"
"you have a boy's name?!" Nathan laughed.
"No I do not!" Sofia wrapped her arms around Nataly as a furious gesture.
"You just said it yourself! You have a boy's name you have a boy's name!" The twins started in union.
Sofia was close to tears again. She looked around the room searching for help and ended up back at her mother who gave her an encouraging smile.
Sofia looked at Lucas and said, "Maybe you just have a girl's name?"
The boys seemed to have lost their voices. They obviously weren't ready for that to come.

Just that moment a young woman entered the class and the bell seemed to welcome her with it's ringing.
She had short, dark hair and skin as white as snow. Her eyes were light green to blue, like ocean and her cheeks blushed red.
"Hello" Her voice had warmth in it, no wonder she was a teacher the children were taken by her already.
"My name is Mary Margaret Blanchard, and I'm going to be your teacher…which is amazing for me. I'm sure we are going to have a lot of joy discovering new things together. I also welcome the parents."
Mary looked around the classroom, enjoying the presence of everyone. Sofia's mother couldn't help the feeling that she'd know Mary already. Maybe, she figured, it was her memorable presence.
"How about we all introduce ourselves? Let's start-" she searched the class and ended up in the front row "-oh here. You introduce yourself, and your parents also. Your name, where you live and your favorite animal, then you ask one of your classmates."

The tiny boy's eyes grew wider. He had red hair and freckles placed all over his face
"I'm August" he swallowed nervously "i i i live in Storybrooke and my daddy is over there and our dog Pongo is at home. my fa-favorite animals are crickets"
The class started laughing at "crickets" which made his cheeks turn as red as his hair. The whole class laughed except for Mary Margaret, and the parents though. Mary lowered herself to be on eye level with the boy and asked "Crickets? That's a very extraordinary animal. I have heard they are wise" her smile made little August more comfortable. His eyes filled with a surprised joy and so he said "They taught me not to lie and I could whisper them everything"
Mary looked at him for a moment before saying "Great choice. Do you want to ask another classmate?" She felt a relieved sigh from Geppetto, his father.

Several children got asked and the parents already liked their children's new teacher.
The major's son, Henry so they just figured, asked Sofia and she introduced herself with the excitement she had this morning. Sofia was always rather outgoing and easy to make new friends. She had learned that from an early age ever since she was with her mother at her Granny's who owns the towns most loved diner. She had lost most of her fear so she started.

"My name is Sofia. I'm as well from Storybrooke. My Granny makes the best pancakes ever." She turned her head and pointed, "This is my mummy, her name is Ruby" she smiled proudly and thought for a moment "oh, and my favorite animals are wolves."
The blonde was getting really hyper at this point, and Ruby started to giggle at her.
"She's adorable" Ruby heard someone whisper to her left. She turned and was faced with a young woman, probably her age, with an inviting smile. Ruby's face blushed and she turned her face to look at her daughter. "Thank you, I know," She giggled proudly.

She turned to ask Nathan as only Lucas had been asked before. "My name is Nathan. We live in Storybrooke too and this is our mommy Belle"

His tiny finger pointed to the woman next to Ruby.
"So you are-"
"Belle" Belle said.
"Ruby" Ruby gave as reply. They shock their hands and Belle's face started blushing as well.

Although they had just met, Ruby felt that Belle was a nice, honest person.
"Our kids seem to get along well-" Ruby whispered but soon was cut of by her very own daughter. "Psh, Mom!" The little blond gave her a daring look, with her finger on her lips. As soon as she turned back to listen to Mary's words, Ruby and Belle couldn't help their laughter.
"We've heard her, we ought to pay attention" Belle said swallowing yet another laugh.
"Agree, not that Ms Sofia will get mad at us or worse" Ruby gave as response. She had to bite her lip. They sighed and looked back to face the front. Both had red blushed cheeks and both had to work really hard to not let out another round of loud laughter.

The bell rang for the last time that day and the three of the children hurried to run to their parents.

"Can we go outside to the playground, Mum?" The boys asked their mother, holding each their hands as they would pray to the gods the new and the old for their mother, who, in response smiled and answered "Of course, but hey stay on the playground."

Ruby and Sofia watched that scene and Ruby didn't even have to look at her daughter to know that she is watching her with big, puppy eyes, still hugging her pillow.

Ruby kneeled down and asked, "How would you like it to go outside to play with the boys?"

Of course she was excited and let out a tiny "yay" and before they knew, the kids were outside. Belle and Ruby only heard "Nathan, Lucas wait up for me!"

"We better look after them, you know?" Belle suggested. Ruby agreed and the both went outside.

It was about noon and it was a warm autumn day. The sun was high. The school had a big playground right in front of the building with many digits to play. Both were searching the playground for their little ones.

"You got'em?" Ruby asked. Her hand was giving her a saving spot of the sun.

Belle narrowed her eyes and looked in the other direction "There they are." She said and pointed to the swings.

The two boys were playing "free swing, taken swing". Basically, it's Sofia asking if she could swing for once and one of the boys stands up, he says then "free swing". When she's walking towards the free swing he seats himself down again and says, "taken swing. You should have been faster." Which only causes that the boys laugh and Sofia frowns.

Lucas didn't do it as often as Nathan did, and indeed after several minutes he offered Sofia the swing for real. Nathan looked a bit upset, and started to laugh at Sofia for no reason.
"You can't swing as high as I can!" He stretched his legs high in the air and back to the ground, getting speed, all while Ruby and Belle were watching.

Ruby thought it was kind of cute, though, while Belle thought her son had a mean behaviour.

Both of the women hadn't spoken much since they came here, instead they supervised their kids.

Belle was about to open her mouth. She wanted to tell Nathan to stop it but she was stopped by Ruby who placed her hand on her arm. "Hey" Ruby said with a smile "it's okay, she can take it. You not know this yet but my little one is tomboy. I'm surprised none of your boys started crying, yet" she smiled at Belle who didn't find it so amusing, though.

Ruby tried to calm her once more, "He's just teasing her a bit, wanting to show off, make a point that he's the boy here." Now even Belle was smiling. She was right, though, and Belle knew that and soon after that the three of them played together, Tag it, Ruby guessed.

The sun was now at its highest point. Belle and Ruby had started a proper conversation, which often caused them to end up laughing at the most banal things but not all too serious matter. They gave each another advice and they even argued about what's harder: to raise one girl or two boys. They came to the conclusion that they didn't know.

Ruby looked at her watch. It wasn't until then that she realized that it's already been 1:40 pm meaning her shift at the diner would start in 20 minutes.

"Oh shit" She said under a breath. After explaining herself to Belle she yelled "Sofia! We need to go!"

"Please Mommy, not yet!" The little ones ran to their mothers and Sofia's hair swayed with the wind.
"Please Mommy, pleeeeeease" Sofia pulled at the end of Ruby's purple shirt, begging to stay.

"You know Granny will be upset if we're too late again" The corner of Sofia's eyes started to fall. "Please Mommy" She whispered, it almost broke Ruby's heart but it most definitely broke Belle's heart because that moment she said: "I have got an idea"

The kids listened up, as she lowered herself to their eye level. "How about we all go to get lunch at Granny's diner?" The kids looked at each another with a sudden grin on their faces. All four faces, including Belle's, looked up to Ruby with an asking expression.

So many cute faces…, Ruby thought for herself. She looked at her swatch nervously then to the faces then back at her swatch. "Okay! But we need to hurry, okay guys?"

The kids hugged their mommies and they ran to the parking lot. Belle didn't seem to have a car so Ruby asked if she needed a ride.
"We'll be fine, thank you. Uhm… we'll meet at the diner! Sofia can go with us though, she wouldn't have to wait for the boys" Once again, Ruby didn't even have to look at Sofia to know that she's making another one of her infamous puppy faces. Nobody, not even Granny who's stubborn as hell can say no to that little puppy face of Sofia's. "Okay! But please be there as soon as possible. Please."

The mothers looked into each another's faces and Belle saw that Ruby was worried. Of course though, a woman she hardly knew offered to take her only child for a walk but Belle didn't have any harm on her mind. Belle laughed out loud "Hurry! We'll be there latest 15 minutes, promise!"

With that Ruby found trust. She stepped into her car and before she turned on the motor to drive off, she let out a last deep sighed and looked at her daughter, who laughed sincerely.

1:58pm. "Close enough" I thought to myself. Just when I entered the diner Granny walked towards me with her hands in the air. "Where the heck have you been?" She looked around noticing that I was all alone, "where's the little one? Ruby-" I could hear the slight panic in her voice.

"It's alright, Granny. She's playing with kids and will be here soon to eat. And thank you, I'm grown up myself I think I can handle the responsibility to be here in time not to mention, take care of my own child!"

I couldn't help but laugh, slightly shaking my head at how wonderful Granny actually is. Although she's stubborn, she's so caring especially for our little princess. I made my way in the back to the kitchen, to prepare some French fries for the kids already so they wouldn't have to wait all too long, but I figured that I didn't even know for sure if they wanted French fries so instead I waited.

Leroy entered and ordered his usual let's call it "afternoon snake", which included a portion of fries, a strawberry milkshake, a cheeseburger and a hamburger to go. For a short man like him he sure can eat a lot. Not many people came in that afternoon anyway, some couples to have a coffee and the sheriff to have his tea.

After about 15 minutes after Ruby's arrival Belle and the kids entered and filled the diner with loud laughter. Sofia ran to a table and yelled, "First!" and the two boys tickle-attacked her. It looked adorably cute until Belle called them off. "Guise, behave! We're in a restaurant"

The kids had noticed that she wasn't all too serious about it but they still calmed down a bit. I took a sip from my water when Belle looked for me and finally caught my eyes. A calm smile peaked on her face. Granny had already brought them milkshakes and all three of the kids got different coloured milk-moustaches. At the sight of it I choked on my water, causing it to slip out of my mouth and right on my shirt. Bless I wasn't wearing a white shirt.

I looked up and found an all too much giggling Belle looking right at me. She shook her head at me and then turned to the kids. "So guise, what do you want?" Belle asked the round of children with moustaches.

Lucas was the first to answer, "I want french fries!" I heard him say, shovelling one portion into the boiling oil. Nathan asked for a cheeseburger and I knew Sofia would like to have pancakes even for lunch. I prepared the things and brought them to the table.

"What do you want?" I smiled at Belle's face. She hadn't quite paid attention instead she was busy reading a book. It seemed heavy but the cover looked amazing. She looked really cute while reading each line with new excitement. Belle lifted her head and thought for a brief moment before she answered that'd like waffles. Sofia raised her tiny hand and demanded a high-five.

It didn't happen often that she'd find someone sharing her love for breakfast at any daytime.

I finished the waffles and along with honey-syrup and fruits I placed them in front of Belle.

"Here ya go. Oh and I also brought you an iced tea, I thought you might be thirsty."
"uh thank you" Belle looked up to me again and gave me the most genies smile which I've received from her so far, which caused me to almost drop the plate I was holding.

The afternoon passed by so fast. The kids had run upstairs, as Sofia needed to show them her toys. There were only Belle and I left in the diner, but I had to clean up so she was just ghosting around.

"Need some help?" She asked with that adorable Australian accent of hers. Before I could answer anything she was already in the kitchen. Of course I said no but she kind of overheard it on purpose.

Belle's a bit shorter than I am, although she's wearing high shoes. She walked to the other side of the kitchen, looking for anything she could do until she found the sink filled with dirty dishes. She picked up a pair of plastic gloves. I was watching her curiously asking myself what she might do next.
Woops, and there went a whole bottle of soap. I figured she might be more of the dishwashers-type.

In front of her built a tower of white bubbles. She was trying to reach the faucet but obviously couldn't find it behind the white wall. I couldn't stop the laughing to be quite honest. She was already wearing a crown of bubbles then I realized that the wall was close to breaking in.

I hurried up to the sink. My hands smashed into the wall, making it fall over us but hey at least I could turn of the water. I still laughed like a maniac when I caught Belle's sight. She looked like a scared puppy for some reason and she kept apologizing until I made sure that it was all right.

I took a hand full of the bubbles and placed them under my chin so I was wearing a beard. I cleared my throat and she was smiling at me. I tried to fake a southern slang and said "howdy yang lady. Let's just clean up, y'all." This made her laugh out and I laughed with her.

I turned around to get some sponges. Right when I turned to give her one, I was bombed with bubbles. "Oh" I said knowing while she looked innocent at me with a huge grin on her face. That was a dare, "Oh, it is on."

A/N: it was a pleasure to write this and oh so much fun. i would really love to hear your opinions on this and i plan further chapters! So review review review!
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