- Chapter 20 -
"King Of Kings"
Casey pulled up to the preschool and looked over to hunter who was yawning ever so cutely
"So are you ready for your big day?"
"Uh, I think so"
"Ok good"
"So what are we doing with them today"
"Well oddly enough today's theme is royalty" Casey smirked
and so hunters first day of preschool began...
Casey held her white bag, clad with a yellow duck full of her teaching supplies, with her "Ms. Gresham" stitched on the side.
"I got that" hunter carried Casey's bag for her and she smiled at his gentleman ways
"Thanks"
"No problem"
Casey led hunter down the drawing filled hallways, everything so colorful. The front desk secretary greeted Casey, and glared at hunter, none of the other teachers or parents new what to think of hunter, especially his size...
Hunter stepped into an empty room, empty of the children anyways. There plenty of tiny chairs, hundreds of books, and more toys then a toy store, this was definitely the most colorful room hunter had ever been in. Casey walked into a back office that was off of the classroom. Meanwhile jenna showed hunter around/
"So Mr big man"
"Yes jenna?"
"He he well how have you been?"
"Good, and yourself"
"Great"
"And Derek"
"Same as always," jenna smiled
"Well why don't I give you tour of our little place here"
"Sounds good" Hunter stepped over the tiny blocks
"This is the art area, hence the fingerpaint's and crayons"
"Oh I love finger painting" Hunter said with a big smile
:silence:
"Um", Jenna put her head down, never fathoming she'd hear triple h himself say that...
"Well were finger painting crowns for royalty day so make sure you get in on that action" Jenna winked
"Then here we have dress up" Hunter saw princess dresses, crowns, fireman outfits, and stethoscopes.
"Over there where the cushions and bean bags are is story, and also where we have circle time"
Hunter smiled at how tiny everything was
"And there is the kitchen where we have lunch and snack, and as you can tell where breakfast is set up"
"Ah, so what are those things exactly" Hunter saw heart shaped bread with what looked like jelly in the middle"
"Oh, jenna smiled, those are queen of heart tarts, there heart shaped toast with red jam in the middle, to kick off royalty day"
Casey then came out of the office, looking cute as ever in her overalls.
"So did you get the tour"
"Yeah, uh royalty looks like a blast"
"Well good because you have the greatest roll of all"
"What, hunter pointed to himself, me? What am I?"
Jenna looked at Casey who held something behind her back, Casey told hunter to close his eyes and so he did, with great fear. Casey placed a crown on his head while jenna tied a blue robe around him. Hunter opened his eyes and saw himself in the tall dress up mirror. He raised his eyebrow and turned around as Casey and jenna burst int laughter.
"What is this?" hunter said
"Well, you're the...king"
Hunter put on a big smile, swallowed his pride, and went along with their idea
"Well...if its for the kids"
"Yeah yeah, go sit in your throne we decorated while we get dressed"
Hunter sat looking at his surroundings...in a crown and robe...
Jenna then came out dressed in blue, with a princess crown, not far behind her came Casey, dressed from head to toe, as a queen.
"Well uh wow, you too look great" hunter balled laughing
"How did you know I was going to be here?" he asked
"We didn't, jenna was going to be king, but since you're here, she made the crown a bit bigger to fit you, and grabbed a princess crown and robe for herself"
"Wow, well I guess on with the show" "uh do you need any help?" he asked
"Well their going to here soon so can you help put out the cups"
"Sure"
" The cups are color co-ordinated, the kids get the same color everyday, but we bought plastic goblets and glued jewels to them for today's theme, but there still all co ordinated, the charts n the wall , and their names are on their chairs"
"Ok"
"Ill fill em up and you can set them" Casey smiled.
They had a little assembly line going and hunter put each cup to each child according to the chart
Chase is dark blue, Owen is green, Maggie is pink, Bridget is yellow, Samantha is red, Kj is blue, anna is purple, Zephan is black, Caroline is baby blue and Robbie is orange...
"Done" hunter smiled
Jenna sat at the breakfast table waiting for the kids to come and eat. Casey and hunter stood at the entrance waiting to greet the kids. Each child arrived at about the same time and sat and wrote their names, said goodbye to their mom and dads, and placed their backpacks in their lockers. Each locker had a child picture on it, and their name. Casey bowed and said a royal hello to each child, as they all entered with excitement.
"Well hello Prince Owen, and welcome to our castle"
Owen replied hello, "Ms Gresham" and Casey announced "Today I am Queen"
The kids all looked up at hunter, some with smiles, awaiting until they get to climb the big tree jungle gym man, and some with fright of the big scary giant.
They all sat and hd breakfast, King Hunter sitting in-between Samantha and carline who later fought over who would marry him after the queen died of "apple poisoning" After breakfast carline Samantha and Maggie dragged hunter to dress up where they took turns brushing his hair...
The boys then got hunter to help them build a bridge with blocks, but ended up using him as the human jungle gym. Soon enough it was circle time and queen Casey got zephan to help her put out the sitting mats, where each child sat on their color. Hunter sat in the back drinking apple juice watching Casey, in her element. She sat singing the "weather song" what's the weather, what's the weather, what's the weather, like today? The kids used arrows on a chart to point to sunny and then sang the days of the week song. Hunter watched Casey smile, and glow, and she listened to the kids say all the days of the week and pick a story to be read, he had never seen her happier. Casey looked over to hunter and winked at him. Hunter then helped jenna set up snack time which consisted of marshmallow stacked into a castle with a graham cracker floor. The kids had their snack. Hunter noticed little Robbie sitting the corner very sullen looking.
"Is Robbie ok?"
"Yeah, see he's the tiniest in the class, even compared t the girls, so sometimes the boys don't let him play" Casey frowned
"Ill go talk to him" Hunter nodded Casey grabbed hunters hand and kissed it,
"good luck"
Hunter sat next to Robbie and Robbie kept his head down, his little legs not even letting his feet touch the floor in the chair he was in
"hey Robbie"
"Hi"
"Why are you sitting over here?"
"Zephan and Owen said that I couldn't help them build the building cuz im too short"
"Oh, well that's not fair is it?"
"No" Robbie shook his head
"Well why don't you go play with something else?"
"Cuz when I try I just get sad too because I dun like pwaying alone"
"Oh"
"I dun wanna be small all the time"
"Well do you want to know secret?" Robbie looked at hunter, who towered over him even sitting down at his level
"Ok?" Robbie look over barley picking up his head
"When I was in first grade, like you'll be next year, I was the smallest too"
"You were small like me?" Robbie sniffled
Casey watched wondering what they were talking about
"Yeah I was, I had the smallest hands, and the smallest feet, and I couldn't ever go on the swing because I was too short to reach it"
"Did they let u pway though?"
"No they didn't, so I asked the teacher to help me on the swing, and I practiced everyday, and after a while I could swing higher then all the bigger kids"
"Really?"
"Yeah, because guess what, I was smaller, so I got more air"
Robbie giggled and hunter used his big hand to wipe off Robbie tears and gave him a tissue to blow his nose
"how about you and me go build a building, and we can make our building the tallest?"
"Ok!" Robbie ran to the blocks and started building. Casey watched and smiled at hunter, it was the most adorable thing, to see robbie tiny hands hand hunter's hands the blocks, they both work4ed together and soon their tower was the tallest, Robbie giggled the whole time, Casey was amazed...
Soon it was art time and the kids sat down to fingerpaint their crowns. Jenna looked to hunter "Would you like one little boy" Hunter smiled
"Yes please princess ice"
"Very funny" Jenna placed the tiny crown on hunters nose
He sat and everyone finger painted, Caroline getting paint on hunters nose by accident
"Hey, so hunter wiped his paint on Maggie's hand"
"Hey" she said, and they all giggled.
Soon came lunchtime, a royal feast of finger food. After lunch came potty time , and then naptime. The kids were told to say goodbye to king hunter, but thy begged for him to read the naptime story. Owen ran and grabbed "The napping house" and hunter sat on his giant bean bag thrown and the kids climbed on top of him and all found a spot and listened, his deep voice calming all of them... this gave Casey and jenna time to clean up and eat lunches of their own.
"I don't believe him case"
"I know, its priceless" Casey grabbed a camera and snapped a shot of hunter with the kids, the lights dimmed and the kids falling asleep snuggled up to him, made it the most priceless photo in the world...
"Did you see him with Robbie?"
"That was great, he's just...amazing"
hunter sat reading . "there is a house, a napping house, where everyone is sleeping..."
soon the kids were all out, and the story was over, hunter could not move because he was covered with kids...literally
jenna and Casey carried them all to their mats and tucked them in with their blankies. Hunter then stood up, tiny Robbie in hand, and placed him on his blanket, tucking him in.
The day was done and a half an hour later the parents came to pick up their children and the room was all picked up. The kids said goodbye and thank you to king hunter for visiting. He waved and Robbie hugged his leg goodbye, hunter heard robbie little vice telling his dad how the king helped him build the tallest tower, and that he was going to big someday...
"Well, id say you had a pretty good reign today king"
"Well my queen, what do you say about some royal dinner tonight?"
"Sounds good...uh your not going to wear those pink braids in your hair re you?"
Hunter looked confused until he looked in the mirror... he didn't realize they were still there from the girls doing his hair...
He laughed
"Come on, help me take em out, your so mean"
"I am not, if I was mean I wouldn't have told you until we sat down in the restaurant"
"Yeah good point"
"Help me ...there stuck" "CASEY"
"Ok ok hang on"
"Ahhhhh ow ow ow"
Jenna snapped a pic of hunters new due... for 'blackmail' purposes she said...
"To the world you may be one person, but to one child, you may be the world"