"I insist you sign this and let us..." the teacher began, however Suki glared over at her.
"either you stop trying to tell me how to raise them or I will pull them from this school and even I know that you lose any more students at this hell hole and you will be shut down!" she snapped, taking the woman by surprise.
"you insolent little.." the woman began however Suki glanced over at her, her eyes piercing.
"Go ahead, give me a reason to draw them out." she challenged as she made eye contact with the man who use to be her principal.
"And you better not even open your mouth or I will. Don't think I forgot about you just standing there while those idiots beat me." Suki snapped as she turned to leave the room.
"Girls, come on. We're leaving." Suki snapped, causing the four children to glance at each other nervously.
"Mom, what happened?" Cerecere asked and Suki sighed.
"I'll explain later, lets jut go." she snarled as she walked out of the building, trailed by her wards.
"Were are we going?" Parpara asked her softly, seemingly almost afraid to speak and Suki sighed.
"I'm going to the lake I don't know what you're going to do." the seventeen year old answered as she got in the car.
"What do you mean?" Vesves asked, her voice full of hurt.
Suki rolled her eyes as she retorted "there's a park not far from the lake, you guys could stay there if you want."
that information seemed to cheer the young girls up a bit as they too got into the car.
"Mom...I know you're probably still mad at me for the hawk prank but can I ask you for a small favor?" Vesves began after a few minutes of silence.
"Ves, I'm not mad at you. What kind of Favor do you want?" Suki replied, glancing in the rear view mirror.
"She wants a..." Parapara began however Vesves elbowed her.
"OW! Momma! She hit me!" the blue haired girl exclaimed, on the verge of tears.
"Oh grow up!" Junjun snapped at Parapara, causing the younger girl to burst into tears.
"You're the one to talk Junjun! You woke up crying last night because of a nightmare!" Cerecere exclaimed from the front seat.
"Enough! All of you. If you don't start at lease trying to get along I'm not doing anything for anyone!" Suki intervened, trying hard not to scream at them.
"as if you do anything for us anyway!" Junjun retorted, crossing her arms in front of her.
"What does that mean?" Suki asked coldly and the little girl glanced down, tears stinging the backs of her eyes.
"can I tell her jun?" Cerecere asked, her voice concerned now and the green haired girl sighed and nodded before putting her head against the back of the passenger seat, tears slowly trailing down her face.
Suki was concerned as they pulled into a parking space and she slowly got out of the car.
"Cerecere...what's going on?" She asked, seeing the green haired girl rush out of the car and toward the restrooms.
"can we go for a walk? I'll explain everything." the pink haired girl whispered in reply and suki nodded as they began to walk toward the worn trails.
Once far out of the other's hearing range Cerecere glanced up at Suki and sighed as she began to speak.
"you take care of us and stuff but sometimes we, especially the younger ones kinda want more. We do think of you as our momma but you're so distant toward us most of the time. Junjun can't remember our real parents much and she and Parpara really would like to spend time with you." the preteen explained softly, a look of longing in her eyes as she spoke.
Suki noticed this and gently brushed the young girl's hair from her face.
"I think you'd like that too." Suki pointed out and the pink haired girl smiled slightly.
"Well we have the whole day ahead of us." Suki added as she wrapped her arm around the younger girl as they began to walk back toward were the others were.
As they walked back toward the park they both noticed that Junjun was sitting on the ground, her knees drawn to her chest and her arms wrapped around her knees and her face buried into her arms.
"girls, why don't you go play? I think I need to have a talk with your sister." Suki whispered, as she began to walk over to where the young girl was sitting.
"hey." Suki whispered, sitting beside the green haired child.
"what do you want?" Junjun whimpered in a tear thick voice, causing Suki to sigh.
"Cerecere told me what's wrong. Now I want to talk to you about it." the seventeen year old whispered as she lightly put her arm around her.
"You always seem so distant! Like you really don't want us around you!" Junjun exclaimed in a mixture of anger and hurt.
Suki sighed as she gently caught the tears with the pad of her thumb.
"I'm sorry it seems like that, but I can assure you its not like that and I hope I can prove it." Suki whispered in reply as the young girl leaned into her.
"Mom...I know I'm probably too old to be asking this but..." Junjun began then glanced away "never mind its stupid."
"Junjun, what is it?" Suki prompted, her voice light and inviting.
"nothing. Can you just please make yourself more opened to us?" the young girl whispered, looking hopeful.
"yes." Suki answered as she stood and held her hand out to the young girl.
"Want to go see what your sister are in to?" she added and the green haired girl smiled as she took her hand.
"why not." she retorted.