Title: Kindergarten!
Chapter Three: Class Pet
Disclaimer: I Don't Own Rugrats.
Mrs. Pepper decided it was a good idea to buy a class pet. It would help the children learn responsibility. Every week she would pick one student to take the pet home over the weekend to care for it. Mrs. Pepper thought fish would be the perfect pet, so she brought a small fish tank with three fish. The children were crowded around the desk the fish would be placed on throughout the whole school week until Friday when I special child would be able to take the fish home.
Natalie was standing in front of all the children being the first one to noticed the tank. She smiles happily while watching the fish swim around. Juliana was standing on the other side of the tank looking through smiling. Natalie stood up straight looking over towards her sister.
"It would be cool if we were the first one's to take it home huh?" Natalie asked while walking back towards her seat with her sister following closely behind her. The two twins had a pet fox at him so bringing fish to the house would be such a bad idea. "It would be cool but Roxy would probably eat the fishes". Juliana nods in agreement while taking her seat, Natalie sitting down afterwards.
"If I bring it home Phil probably might try and eat them". Lillian replied with a sigh while looking towards the fish tank from her desk. She wanted to be the very first person to bring the fishes home. She thought still be the coolest kid in kindergarten to have gotten the fishes first.
Natalie looks over towards Lillian and tilts her head shrugging "You're chances are rather low of being the first". She said making Lillian frown at her comment. She rolls her eyes playfully and laughs softly. "But me and Juliana don't mind helping you". This comment made Lillian's face brighten up quickly into a huge smile.
Evelyn hearded their conversation and walked over towards their table. She rolls her eyes while crossing her arms over her chest. "Oh please, I will be the first to bring the fishes home!" She snapped. She definitely was going to crush their dreams of winning, she had to make sure she won.
"Why would Mrs. Pepper pick you?". Lillian snapped back standing up from her chair. She points towards her, her face slightly red from anger. "Are you nothing but a bully and no one likes you". Natalie and Juliana both nodded their heads in agreement, Evelyn was nothing but a bully.
"My brother told me bullies never win anything!" Natalie said with a smirk while sticking her tongue out towards the girl. She didn't like her and would try anything in her power to make Lillian win and bring the fishes home. She faces away from Evenly with a pout, she couldn't stand her.
"Just you two idiots wait and see I will be taking them home". Evelyn said while walking away over towards her table with her two other friends. They were the only three that actually liked her and would just follow her like she was a leader. Natalie and Lillian just wanted to wipe that smirk off her face and winning the fish was just what they needed to do Iin order to do so.
After a couple more minutes of looking at the fishes Mrs. Pepper told the kids to take a seat. She was standing in front of the classroom holding a box in her hand. The kids were wondering what she was going to do with the box. She places the box down on the desk that was placed in front of the classroom. Mrs. Pepper grins while opening the box reveling it was empty.
"This is the voting box, every monday we will be voting for someone we want to take the fish home on the weekend, you are not able to vote for yourself". She said in a stern voice, she closed the box and sighs softly. "Since today is Wednesday, we will be starting the voting today before class ends, I will be counting the cards, there are only 24 students in the class so I better see 24 cards, I will see who won and reveal it on Friday."
Mrs. Pepper grabs the box and walks into the back of the room. She unlocks the closest and places it on the very top shelf. She walks back into the front of the class and claps her hands. "Okay, today we will be doing group work". She smiles and holds up a paper. "You and your group would have to match the numbers with the colors". The kids looks at her with confusion while tilting their head to the side.
Mrs. Pepper laughs and looks at the paper. "For example, one it red". She picks up the red crayon and starts coloring in all the number ones on the picture. She holds up the picture once she finished and holds up the crayon as well. "Match the color with the number".
She split the class into groups, Tommy, Natalie, Kimi and Phil was group one. Lillian, Oliver, Chuckie and Juliana were group Two.
Natalie looks down at the picture and grabs a green crayon and colors in number 4. She sighs softly with a frown while coloring. "Evelyn loves to make me upset". She slams the crayon down on the table getting the attention to the three other children in her group.
Tommy looks up from his paper and looks over towards her whilw tilting his head towards the side. "What did she do this time?".
"Other then calling me and Lillian idiots, she said that she was going to win the fish". Natalie snapped.
Phil rasied an eyebrow after hearing that Evelyn had called his sister an idiot. He sister was the smartest girl he knows, he thought Evelyn was cute at some point but now she was ugly like her personality. It was weird how she would never bother him though.
"I want to help Lillian win this, but im going to need you guys help, vote for her okay?". Natalie asked. She grabs a red crayon and starts coloring in the number one, she wanted to quickly completely this group assignment so she can help Lillian with telling kids to vote for her. She couldn't wait to wipe the smirk off of Evelyn's face.
"I will vote for Lillian, no one calls my sister an idiot". Phil said while coloring in the number 4 with a blue crayon. He turns and looks over towards the table his sister was at. He knew if she didn't win she would cry all day at home and Phil hated seeing his sister sad or crying. If that means being on Evelyn bad side he didn't care, he rather help out his sister then help out a bully she called his sister an idiot.
Mrs. Pepper watched over the children making sure they were actually doing the assignment. She knew all these children wanted the fish and would probably vote for themselves, it would be amazing if they didnt. She just hoped that Evelyn wouldn't bully anyone just to vote for her.
When she first met her she was such a sweet and loveable child. She had been acting up and bullying a lot of children lately. Mostly the whole class was scared of her and would vote for her just with the snap of his finger. Evelyn was smart for her age and was using it for all the wronf reason. She would hate to do this but after school she was contacting her mother to have a little meeting later on.
Chuckie and Oliver were the first ones to finish their work and walked over towards the fish tank looking into it. Oliver grabs the fish food with the teachers permission he was able to feed the fish but was told to only put a little. Oliver had developed a small crush on Lillian and was planning on voting for her so she could win the fishes. He smiles and places a little bit of fish feed into the tank and places it away.
"Chuckie who are you planning on voting for?". Oliver asked. He looked into the tank watching the fish eat the food laughing.
"I don't know yet, I was planning on voting for Natalie maybe why?" Chuckie asked.
"Because I want you to vote for Lillian, Evelyn was being mean to her today and I heard Natalie asking people to vote for her so I am". Oliver answered while standing up straight looking over towards Chuckie. Chuckie blinks in confusion wondering if he should vote for Lillian or Natalie. If Natalie was going around asking people to vote for Lillian she would come to him asking the same thing or she would think he would already be voting for Lillian.
Chuckie shrugs his shoulders with a smile. "Lillian is my best friend and I just met Natalie so i'd gladly vote for Lillian". He replied while walking away from the fish tank back to his seat. Everyone else in their group was done and handed the papers into the teacher.
After all the groups were finished it was around lunch time and they all lined up and went into the cafeteria. They had gotten their lunch and sat closely to each other. Juliana had brought her own lunch from home because she couldn't eat the school lunch . Kimi was sitting beside her while talking to her, all she could do was nod her head while smiling listening to every word Kimi was saying.
Oliver was sitting beside Lillian while eating his sandwich. He glances over towards her every once in a while, he finished his sandwich and rubs the back of his neck. "I just wanted you to know I voted for you" he said bluntly while trying to have a conversation with his crush.
"Thanks Oliver!" Lillian smiles and kisses his cheek happily. She was happy to have his support.
It was nearing the end of the day and Mrs Pepper had taken the box out of the closest. She smiles while the children take their sits excited to vote for the person they liked. Some hoped for votes while the others really didn't care or weren't a huge fan of taking care of fishes. She called up each kid one at a time and helped them write down the name they wanted and places it into the box. After the last kid had went it was the end of the school day. Lillian had completely faith in winning but she couldn't know untik Friday which was two days away from now.