Chapter 10
The kids were having art class with Mrs. Donner, their main class teacher. The teacher distributed each of the classmates a sheet for the kids to work on for the part of the lesson.
„Okay students, this is a simple task for you. You have there a field with twelve boxes. From A to D and 1 to 3. The sentences on top are telling you, what exactly you have to draw inside those boxes and in what color. You'll have around 10 minutes to finish this task, then I'll take it back. After we're all done, we move up to the next task, which I'll explain later on,"
The children took a look at their task, seeing small sentences above the box, then Mrs. Donner sat down and picked up her portable, then removed the keyboard to repurpose it into a tablet and shove a cable into it to use it later on. „While I'm quickly inserting the image on the wall, who would like to try to read the first sentence?" Questioned the teacher watching all the kids remain quiet, and glanced at each other to see, who would volunteer to. Cody raised up his hand, making Mrs. Donner smile and move her hand towards the boy.
„Number one. A3 has a…... red ball...balloon," Cody read making Mrs. Donner nod.
„So students, you've heard it. Look for A3, what do you think, where exactly here on the sheet is A3?" Questioned Mrs. Donner turning on the projector to show the empty chart with the letters on top of it and on the right, vertical side was a number on each row. Rouven raised up his arm, then was picked by the teacher.
„Down there next to the three is A3," Responded Rouven.
„Very well, Rouven," Complimented the teacher using her tablet pen to draw a balloon on it, afterward the students did the same while the teacher observed them. About a minute later, the students had glimpsed back at the teacher so they could all continue and Mrs. Donner looked around and watched Ruby Langerak raise up her arm.
„Ruby," Mentioned Mrs. Donner watching the raven-haired girl look down at the sheet to give it a try.
„Number two. The sun as….e….ee….yellow as a lemon. Y...ou will find it on 1D," Read Ruby and looked at her teacher's face, which smiled at the girl.
„Very well, Ruby. What do you think? Where do you find that?" Questioned the teacher and Ruby pointed at the right corner, where the D was under the first box. „Excellent!" Complimented the teacher making the girl smile and pick up a yellow pencil to draw the sun.
Elliot moved his arm up along with Nathalie, Eireen and Debby, thereafter the teacher analyzed the students and tipped at Eireen, which looked down at her sheet to read.
„Three. Birds of every race…...race?" Questioned Eireen looking at the teacher, which smiled amused at seeing the Danish girl tilt her head confused.
„Race means a type of bird. For example all these gray birds here we see in Paris are one type of race. They're pigeons, then we have the yellow ones, which are known as canaries,"
„Okay," Responded Eireen. „Birds of every race. On 2C a tri-o of birds fly together. They are black birds,"
„Grandiose," Complimented the teacher, then Eireen pointed at the middle, then watched her teacher hold her pen above the 2B, then Eireen shook her head and moved her finger aside to see the teacher move forward to the 2C making the kid nod. „Perfect!" Complimented the teacher.
„Alright, what about I now pick somebody on my own?" Questioned Mrs. Donner watching Elliot, Nathalie and Duarte raise up their hands. „You're interested, Nathalie?"
„I want to try," Said Nathalie making the teacher nod.
„Go on,"
„A kid in a pink sk….irt is walking to get the balloon back…...She is at 3B," Read Nathalie, then looked at the image on the wall and pointed at the empty box beside the ball. „There next to the ball is the right place,"
„Good job, Nathalie," Commented the teacher adding into it a stick figure, then watched the class add the last two figurines on their sheets. „I have seen many of you have already practiced at home, before starting the school here," Mrs. Donner mentioned watching the students nod. „Who's up to read the next page? Asked the teacher seeing Duarte along with Deborah moving up their hands and the teacher looked at the boy, to pick him. „Duarte,"
„A brown picnic table is low…..located under the sun. You will find it on 3D." Read Duarte, then moved his finger up at the sun and moved it down at the last field making the teacher smile at the correct answer.
„Superb," Spoke Mrs. Donner, then looked at Deborah, which moved her hand up hastily making the teacher cackle. „Alright Deborah, it's up to you to read the last sentence.
„Number six. It is getting cloudy. Up on 1B, there's a gray cloud," Debby read making the teacher nod, then the girl pointed at the screen. „Up there over the man,"
„Excellent. You all did a good job together,when you've finished drawing the characters, bring the sheet back to me and I'll handle you out the next sheet as promised. Oh and don't forget to write down your name,"
„I'm done," Commented Rouven, then looked back at Eireen and Nathalie, which were still working on their sheet. „You're not done yet?" Questioned Rouven watching Eireen put down her pencil.
„I just wrote down my name," Commented Eireen, then Rouven looked at Nathalie, which was still working on her sheet and Rouven got up to look at the girl.
„How are you doing…...wow, you're drawing very good!" Complimented Rouven amazed by her decent art skills.
„Well thank you," Commented Nathalie as she had drawn a cloud, which had a more realistic look compared to Rouven's version. „I sometimes have drawn together with my father during vacation,"
„Did you draw with him a comic book?" Questioned Luka's son making Nathalie shake her head.
„My dad showed me how to draw simple things I could learn fast. Three or more drawings I have sent to my mother, when she was back in Italy to work," Explained Nathalie.
„Your mother loved them, right?" Questioned Eireen making Nathalie nod.
„Dad likes the previous homework from the other day. This one he will love a well. At the moment I don't know about my mother. She doesn't have any memory of us yet,"
„She may like it, but it's going to be different I feel," Mentioned Nathalie, then moved up at the corner to write down her name.
„Your mother will be okay. I asked my father about what your mother has and he told me it takes a while for her to recovery. We just have to be patient," Zheng mentioned looking back at the girl.
„Thank you, Zheng," Commented Nathalie getting up to bring the sheet back to the teacher encountering Elliot on the front along with Ruby.
„Uh how is your mommy doing?" Questioned Elliot scratching the back of his neck. „Is she doing well?"
„She doesn't remember us, but she's healthy," Answered Nathalie, then Ruby placed her hand on Nathalie's shoulder.
„You have to think positive. It helps you better to get through this. You're not alone there at your house there. Your dad and maybe friends are there too for help, right?"
„My mother is her mother's best friend," Commented Elliot. „And Rouven's dad grew up together with Nathalie's dad,"
„Oh cool," Commented Ruby and took along with the kids the sheet they will have to work on later. „What do you think? Could we become friends?" Questioned the Swedish girl making Nathalie think about it and nodded.
„Yes," Responded Nathalie making Ruby smile, which opened her arms and both shared a hug.
The rest of the class picked up their next task as they retrieved back their previous exercise and awaited Mrs. Donner's preparations to continue.
"Okay children, this sheet here is about the European cup from last Summer in Croatia. The first page contains about five question you have to answer and on the backside you have to draw three different things related to this topic. The easiest one is to draw your native country's flag on task A. Task B you'll have to draw the symbol of your team and C the is to try to do the lines of your country," Explained Mrs. Donner making Rouven chuckle.
"Hey Nathalie, will you do Italy?" Questioned the boy looking at the girl, which shrugged her shoulders. "It's a boot actually,"
"It's up to her," Commented the teacher. "After all, many of you here are multicultural,"
Ruby moved her hand up, so she would get picked by the teacher.
"So since both my parents have two nationalities and I have four, I will have to pick only one?"
"Yes, which country of them do you feel more attached to?" Questioned the teacher making Ruby shrug her shoulders.
"I don't know, to be honest. Maybe Sweden," Responded Ruby, then Duarte moved his hand up in the air.
"Mrs. Donner, Mrs. Donner,"
"Yes, Duarte,"
"I have no idea how to draw the Portugal flag properly. Is this bad?"
"No it's not. Just do it the way you can or took a look on the real flag and follow it as good as you can. It doesn't have to look perfect," Commented the teacher.
"I don't find Portugal so hard to draw," Added Zheng. "Imagine you had to draw Croatia or something," Added Zheng, then he had a question as well and moved his hand up. "Wait, what about me. I'm not from here,"
"I know, you can still draw your country if you want. Just the front page is solely about the countries from our last tournament,"
"Well, I think I'm going to pick France or Croatia," Commented Zheng, then watched the kids look down at their sheets, then a few turned the sheet around to begin with the drawing, while the others started at the front.
Eireen looked at Nathalie, which was observing her sheet, and nudged her with the elbow.
"I'm curious about what you're going to pick," Mentioned Eireen.
"I can't decide, if I should pick Italy or Germany. What do you think is the best choice?"
"I don't know. Maybe Italy?" Suggested Eireen, then Rouven looked back at the girls again.
"What about Germany? That would be something different I think,"
"I think I know more about Italy. I've never been in Germany like the times I've been in Italy. My dad also doesn't have a lot to say about Germany. He grew up most of his life here. I will probably pick Italy,"
"Great, will you pick Denmark or France?" Asked Rouven looking at his cousin.
"I think Denmark," Commented Eireen. "Originally I am Danish. I just got into this city because of the social people,"
"What are those?" Questioned Nathalie confused.
"I don't know if this is the right name, but they take us to a new home, where we live with other kids, that don't have parents as well," Explained Eireen making Nathalie nod, which picked up her pencil to read the first sentence.
"Favorite country," Read Nathalie and wrote down on the paper the name of her mother's country.
Adrien Agreste arrived sitting inside the car at the entrance of the parking spot of the Agreste manor, then rolled forward to the side of the stairs and turned the engine off. Adrien removed his seat belt, then jumped out of the car and sprinted the stairs up and entered into the hall of the manor, then whistled.
"Guess who's back!" Announced Adrien looking around, then saw the door to the dinning room had a small open gap, afterward opened it to find at the other end of the table Elliot doing his homework while beside him sat Hope Agreste as well doing hers as well. "Hey Elliot," Greeted Adrien earning the son's attention, which smiled at his father's presence.
"Hi Dad, I'm still doing my homework," Commented the son, then Adrien walked across the dinning room to get to his son, then pecked him on the side of his forehead and looked at his sheet.
"What are you drawing?" Questioned Adrien, then Hope held up her smartphone to show it to her older brother. "You've received homework related to soccer? Nice,"
"I'm trying to draw the symbol of France as good as I can," Commented Elliot looking down at the oddly looking stripes, that were supposed to form the rooster on the chevron. "I'm not as good at drawing as Nathalie, but this does look like a rooster, right?"
"It looks good. You know with more practice you can make improve and make it more closer to the original. Important is, that your teacher will know, what it is and I can recognize it,"
"I just have to finish painting the blue background, then I'm finished for today," Mentioned Elliot making Adrien nod.
"That's all for today?" Questioned Adrien making the boy nod. "Wow, this means we can both spend some time together as I promised, right?"
"Yes, papa," Commented Elliot, then the brother looked down at the sister, which was doing the geography homework by herself.
"Hope, have you seen Kagami?" Questioned Adrien, then Hope pointed up at the top.
"She's up there with a woman, because of the puppies," Stated Hope, then Adrien nodded and left, to go upstairs so he would meet his wife along with the dogs. After his arrival in their bedroom, he encountered a foreign woman held in her arms one of the puppies while Kagami stood in front of her.
"Good afternoon," Greeted Adrien looking at the two women, while making Kagami smile.
"One of the first puppies has already found her home," Commented Kagami making Adrien smile, then the woman showed the blonde her puppy.
"I named her Jade," Commented the woman, while Adrien smiled.
"How was the exam?" Questioned Kagami. "We've been talking a little bit about medicine. She's one of the rescuers from the air rescue team at the airport,"
"Oh cool, I had no idea," Said Adrien approaching the women. "This means this little girl here will be able to help out other people in danger,"
"Indeed," Commented the woman.
"Are you going anywhere?" Questioned Kagami making Adrien nod.
"I thought about going to the park with Elliot," Mentioned Adrien. "You've got something else in mind?"
"I thought about the park too, but we should take the puppies with us. The bodyguard already left them out on the backyard a few times. A bigger outlet for them would be good too,"
"Okay. They could need it," Admitted Adrien. "But what about Elliot? I had promised him to spend the day with him,"
"Maybe your mother or father can come with us. So you and Elliot can focus on your time together and we are around with the puppies making sure they're not misbehaving or anything,"
"Okay and if you need help, we're around," Stated Adrien, then turned around to leave the bedroom and encountered on the commode of their clothings their cat Shadow lying on top of it thereafter Adrien placed his hand over the pet's head to caress him.
"What a life you've got there, little guy," Commented Adrien watching the cat yawn and stretch his front paws showing off his claws, making Adrien grin. "Really cute, he he's got his claws out," Commented Adrien followed by a chuckle making Adrien wide his eyes in shock and he ran out, followed by transforming into Cat Noir leaving Kagami back which flinched her teeth together at the presence of the woman and noticed, that luckily the woman had been with her eyes glued on the little puppy she had on her arms. Kagami sighed about the sudden transformation, caused by the kwami.
Later at the Champs de Mars, Adrien, Kagami, Hope, Elliot, Emilie and the puppies walked all together along the path across the park. Each of the person guided a puppy on the leash watching the puppies walk a little hasty due to their curiosity of the new place. Elliot was the only one, who didn't guide a dog, but observed his father and his younger sister trying to bend the puppy they led.
"They're quite interested in the new place here," Stated Adrien making Kagami chuckle at Adrien's low knowledge about dog walking.
"You would need to call his attention. You need to tell him, it's not good for him," Spoke Kagami making Adrien nod, which stopped watching the puppy continue, then notice the leash wouldn't let him continue. The puppy looked back at Adrien, which shook his head.
"No, you're going to fast," Mentioned Adrien watching the puppy stand while looking at him. "That's better," Spoke Adrien, then Kagami lend Adrien from a small bag, she had attached on her belt a small dog snack, which Adrien used it to gift it to the puppy. "Here, you deserve one,"
"Elliot, what has your father planned to play with you?" Questioned Emilie looking at her grandson, which shrugged his shoulders.
"He said, we would see it when we got here," Responded Elliot, then the family moved further along the path, then the grandmother noticed the signs pointing at different ways and found one, which led to a playground,"
"Oh Elliot, what about you go with your father to a playground?" Questioned the blonde woman. "Or the field behind it?"
"Cool," Said Elliot, then grabbed his father on the arm and pointed at the signs. "Dad, can we go to the playground?"
"Oh sure, Elliot,"Agreed the father, then watched Elliot ran off and Adrien ran behind his son on the other path, that led the duo to a park, where already were children playing and a few parents stood on the outside glimpsing through the large fence looking at them.
"Hey, what's that spinning circle over there?" Asked Adrien pointing at a spinning climbing frame, where three kids already were on and had enough space for at least four more.
"Can I go there?" Asked Elliot making Adrien smile.
"Will you like to have your old man there?" Questioned the Frenchman making Elliot chuckle.
"You're not that old, dad," Said Elliot grabbing Adrien by his hand, then entered into the playground to approach the climbing frame, which had stopped as one of the kids noticed the two approach.
"You want to come?" Questioned the brunette boy on the device making Elliot nod.
"Can my dad come too?" Questioned Elliot making the kid nod, then Adrien helped Elliot climb on the net to hold himself.
"Can your father pull this for us all?" Asked the brunette kid, then Elliot looked at his father which nodded.
"Sure, how exactly do I have to do this? I never played this before,"
"You have to hold it and ran around making this spin around, then you jump on it and hold yourself fast on the cord," Explained the kid. "It's easy,"
"Good, I give it a try," Said Adrien grabbing the edge of the thick rope, then began to push it, to make it spin around, afterward he ended up tripping leaving the kids spin only one circle around making two of the kids chuckle. Adrien got up on his feet, then wiped the dust off his legs looking at the amused kid's faces after seeing the adult's mishap. "Don't worry. I'm trying again," Said Adrien grabbing the net, where the kids stood, afterward he had a plan and placed his right foot on top of the rope. "I'm going to do it this way, kids," Warned Adrien, then moved his foot against the ground to swing on it around. The kids began to laugh excited at the ride, giving Adrien the joy to carry on with his ride, afterward Adrien got on top of the device holding himself tight on it and grinned as he felt the air blew his hair aside due to the spinning.
"Woohoo!" Chanted the kids happily along with Elliot. He looked back at his father, which had joy from the ride, afterward both blondes exchanged looks and Adrien nodded and stepped with one foot down on the floor again to push forward to speed their ride up a little. The joy of the kids raised making Adrien happy, which continued to step on the ground and returned up.
"This is amazing!" Announced Adrien happy, then got down again to repeat the move again and jumped up at the rope to spin around.
Afterward, Adrien got down again making a bad step and trip to fall down on the ground lying on top of the fall protection, and began to laugh.
"Man, that was funny," Commented Adrien, then watched Elliot on the carousel jump off it on top of his father, making him puff as the boy landed on his stomach. "Hey my stomach," Complained Adrien making Elliot giggle.
"Let's do it again!" Asked Elliot watching Adrien get up, then helped his son up, afterward two new kids showed up to climb up on the carousel and an older, blonde man grabbed on the side to help them spin.
„Oh Elliot look, we gotta go somewhere else," Commented Adrien showing his son the news kids, which got on top of it.
„Let's do something else," Mentioned Elliot, then Adrien placed his hand behind Elliot's back and walked along the park, then they passed by the basketball field, where they saw on one side a small teeny group of boys play with each other on two baskets placed on the half side of the field. On the other half, the three baskets were taken by a few kids, that were there with two other adults fathers and a woman playing basketball in a smaller group.
„I haven't brought the ball with us, you think they'll let us play with them?" Questioned Adrien looking at Elliot, which looked at the persons on the field and recognized one of the kids, that had received from her father a high five.
„Dad, that girl over there is from my class. Her name is Deborah," Introduced Elliot making Adrien smile.
„Why don't you ask her?" Questioned Adrien, then Elliot got into the field to look at the girl, which watched her own father dribble in front of her. Afterward, the girl noticed Elliot, then waved at him with a smile.
„Hello Elliot," Greeted the girl, then the light-blonde father looked back along with the girl at the boy.
„Hello Deborah, can we play together basketball?" Questioned Elliot. „We forgot our ball at home,"
„Is that okay, dad?" Questioned Deborah making her father nod, which held out his hand towards Adrien, which smiled to greet the adult.
„I'm David," Announced Deborah's dad.
„I'm Adrien, nice to meet you," Responded Elliot's father, then Deborah held up the ball up to show it the two adults.
„I and my dad play against you and Elliot, is that okay?" Questioned Deborah making Elliot nod, then she handed the ball out to the classmate and the two dads walked to the near of the baskets watching the two kids in the middle get ready to start the match together.