Summary: Edward never knew what it was exactly that he really wanted most…. Was it acceptance? Or a loving family…? Was it love? Or what it simply to have his Father back? Or maybe it was something less inevitable… something he had never experienced before? The love of a mother.
Chapter Two: Show and Tell
The doorbell rang and Peg answered it. Standing in the hall, was Edward and his lips were drawn back into a huge, smile. Peg had never seen such a smile one him before other than when he sees Kim.
"So, Edward… How did Show and Tell go today?" She asked him. Edward continued to smile and he nodded slowly. He looked at the tiled floor, then back at Peg, as if waiting for her to give him permission to speak. "Oh." She giggled softly, "Tell me about it…?"
"Well..." Edward took a deep breath, as if he had a lot he was going to say. "I had a lot of fun." He nodded after the sentence. Peg nodded awkwardly too. "I would like to do it again." Edward added.
"Really…?" She asked. "Edward…?" He gave her his undivided attention. "Have you considered going to school to learn for yourself?" Edward's face distorted a little, and he shook his head.
"My father taught me all that I needed to know." Peg nodded, that he did, and she couldn't deny that.
"Yes, but, have you considered… a lot of things that your father taught you are not practiced anymore? We have new ways of doing things; you've been up there by yourself for so long, you can't possibly know a lot of our new education." Edward stared at the floor, lost in thought. Perhaps Peg was right…? Perhaps he should go to school and learn something? After all… he did kind of feel like dead weight on the family. Doing nothing but sculpting with hedges and providing for extra scissors or to cut food.
Edward lost himself in his thoughts for a moment until he found himself shaking his head slowly. Peg smiled and she hugged him gently. She made his thoughts for him, "Well, we can see if we can enroll you in some kind of school… and see how you like it." She nodded. "At least."
Edward's lips curled into a catty grin and he nodded in agreement..
"Class…" There was a pause in the room. "This is Edward Boggs." The teacher spoke, she couldn't help but keep glancing down at his "hands", and though she tried to avert her gaze, her eyes would keep finding their way back down to his blades. "He is going to be in our class now… so please welcome him." The rest of the children in the class only stared at him. One, thrill-seeker raised their hand to ask the teacher a question.
"Yes?" She asked.
"Mrs. Brown, what's wrong with his hands…?" The class laughed obnoxiously, and though they were more so laughing at the kid's stupidity rather than at Edward, he couldn't help but still feel embarrassed. He lowered his head and slowly backed away from the laughing children. Mrs. Brown touched his shoulder's gently and whispered to him,
"Don't pay them any attention, Edward…" then, she turned to the rest of the class, "Stop it!" She yelled, "You guys are too old for this. Now, Edward is new here and he wants to learn just as much as everyone else." The class quieted down a little until there was little to no sound at all. The teacher nodded, "Now Edward… There's an empty desk over there for you to use." Edward nodded and made his way over to the empty seat.
Throughout the day, Edward sooner realized he wasn't ready for first grade yet. He couldn't hold a pencil, he couldn't write on the blackboard, he didn't know the answers to ANY of the questions, and mostly… he didn't even understand half of the things they were teaching. The only thing Edward could do were the arts and crafts… and the only thing he could do well with arts and crafts was cutting paper.
He also hated the way the class always stared at him whenever he was having difficulty writing a sentence or trying to open his desk.
The rest of the day, he stayed silent with his seat and stared at his lap idly.
"I don't want to go to school anymore." Edward said right away as he came home.
That was the end of that.
Author's Notes:
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