CH 13: First Day
"This is it," Ares grinned as he pulled the truck in front of the little school.
Today would be Emily and Bradford's first day of kindergarten. They were going to Elsa's Primary in Godric's Hollow which was for the magical children of the village.
The muggles and magicals of the family got along quite well but went to different schools on the simple agreement that muggles really didn't want to deal with accidental magic should a child get angry or upset.
"Do you have your lunches?" Athena asked as she kneeled in front of the kids as she fixed their hair and coats one last time.
"Yep," Brad nodded.
"Thea…Thea baby stop it," Ares stated pulling her up and wrapping an arm around her thin waist.
Athena looked a little teary eyed at the children.
"GO on kids and have fun! We'll be here at three on the dot," Ares smiled.
"Kay. Bye!" the children smiled running to the door.
"Love you mum."
"Love you dad."
"Love you kids!" the two waved.
They waited till all the children at entered the school before getting back in the truck and driving off.
"Ares I…" Athena started then trailed off.
Ares smiled taking her hand and kissing it gently.
"I'll park two blocks away," he stated.
She sniffed and smiled at him squeezing his hand.
The couple parked in a parking lot a few blocks from the school and snuck behind a dumpster before a crow and dove took their place flying to the school and perching on a tree.
"Okay kids I want you to draw me a picture of what you see at home," the teacher; Miss Appleby, clapped happily.
Brad sat at a table with a bunch of little boys. One was a boy with ruddy brown hair and blue eyes sitting by him. The boy's name was Tyler Graves.
"Hey what's that?" Tyler asked looking over at Bradford's work.
"Um this is my house in the morning," Brad stated.
The picture was of two kids; a boy and girl, sitting at a table with forks. By the stove was a man kissing a woman. All the people were stick figures.
"Oh is that your mum and dad?" Tyler asked.
"Sort of. It's my dad and aunt. My mum died when I was a baby," Brad stated continuing his drawing.
Over at another table Emily was drawing her and her mother in the garden taking daisies and making crowns out of them.
"You're mum looks nice," a girl with blonde curls and red eyes stated.
"She's the best," Emily nodded, "she can do almost anything!"
"I wish my mum did. She just sits listening to the WWN and drinks fire whiskey," the girl sighed.
Her name was Guinevere Crabbe; she didn't look like the other Crabbes Emily knew but she seemed nice enough.
"My mummy doesn't like fire whiskey….but she drinks wine sometimes," Emily stated. Guinevere nodded and returned to her picture.
The two birds watched the two dark haired children till ten minutes before three in the afternoon when they flew back to the parking lot dumpster and morphed into two tall ebony haired people.
"Oh they looked like they had so much fun," Athena sighed as they climbed in the truck and drove to the school.
"They did actually. They're going to be great love you'll see," he nodded as they parked in front of the school with several other parents' cars and brooms.
Emily and Brad ran out of school as the bell rang and ran straight to their parents after saying good bye to their friends.
"Oh mummy! Mummy it was so much fun! I made friends and I drewed this picture!" Emily exclaimed holding her picture up.
"Oh it's beautiful my little artist. It's going on the fridge," Athena smiled.
"Mine too?" Brad asked leaning over to her and showing his.
"Of course! I won't forget my little buddy," Athena winked as they all got in the truck and headed off for home.