"Ok, Jone's think your ready for Kindergartens?" asked Mark a big smile on his face. Joni merely nodded, she was ready all right. She was going to show those kid's! She would go thier and teach her little brain out, and come out and be a genius! Then maybe her brother's will help her research.
"Jessica!" said Matt entering the kindergartener classroom.
"Matt! Oh my goodness!" she said running over giving him a hug. "I haven't seen you in age's!"
"Yeh, sorry I was gone all summer."
"Out with Liz I heard." she winked nudging him in the arm. He turned a slight color of pink.
"How is -actually Where is she?" he asked looking around the classroom full of kindergartener's.
"Uh-oh! Joni!" said Mrs. Jess.
"Yes Mrs. Jessica?" asked Joni coming from the hallway innocently.
"How did you get outside?" she asked gesturing to the dirt on her cloths.
"Well...I sort of got up from my arts and craft's table. Walked out the door.... down the hallway.... out the other doors...and then I was outside." she said smiling brightly. Matt arched a brow.
"The quote is 10 kids to a teacher, I was suppose to have help but Kiki was out today." she shrugged.
"Yeh umm ok...Matt?" she said taking his arm. "Am I a genius yet?" Matthew Pryce arched a brow and grinned slightly.
"First Grade Joni...." Matthew said as they sat on the bench waiting for the yellow school bus.
"Yeh I know."
"Can you smell fear?" he asked arching a brow and leaning back and remembering Wren telling him that piece of advice before he started teaching as a sub for first graders.
"What?" she said as if it was the silliest thing she has ever heard.
"Uuh never mind."
Joni lay on Matthew's chest, listening to his heartbeat and drifting off to sleep as she had done so many time's before. She'd fall asleep
on him because they would be watching a movie, or TV. Yet usually it was the nightmares. The nightmares about her parents. Her parent's unlike Luke and he didn't abuse her. They neglected her, ignoring her. She learned to take care of herself, even if she was a child. Sometimes Matt would have a conversation with Joni and totally forget she was only 7. Yet it was at moments like this that it reminded Matt that she was just a little girl. Just a little baby, and 3 years later after the first fateful night with her first nightmare...Matt's heart still feels like it had gone through a blender.
Eule: I hope you like the short little non-angst stories. I know most of you are wondering about Luke. Well currently writing the sequel to "Lies My Friend Told Me, " and he is so important to that story that he gets his own Matt/sibling story. So be patient and everything will fall in to place.