A/N: Thank you all for reading and reviewing the first chapter of this fic. I really appreciate it. I'm sorry for not updating this, sooner. I've just been really busy, since posting chapter one. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy this second chapter.
Disclaimer: Alana is mine. Everyone else is not. I'm just borrowing them.
Alana stood at the front of the classroom, holding a math book in her hands. She waited until the children were quiet, to begin speaking to them. When they were finally quiet, she opened the book to a page.
"I need you all to open your math books to page twenty," said Alana.
The children did as they were told, but Luke was having some slight difficulty in locating that page. "I don't mean to alarm anyone, but I'm pretty sure someone stole page twenty from my book," he announced.
"It was Elle. I saw her with my own two eyes," Emily announced. "Mrs. Santos, you need to call the police and have her arrested," she pointed an accusing finger at Elle.
"Why would I steal a page from a math book," Elle furiously asked.
"Elle, just because you've never seen a cat wearing fake reindeer antlers, it doesn't give you the right to steal a page from Luke's math book," said Emily.
Elle was now equally annoyed and confused. "That doesn't make any sense," she said. "Why would a cat be wearing fake reindeer antlers?"
Emily attempted to slam her hand down onto her desk, but decided not to. "Yeah, I better not do that. Might cause an injury," she said. "Anyway, Elle," her eyes were completely focused on the annoyed brunette. "cats wear fake reindeer antlers, in order to trick the mailman into giving them expensive packages that were meant for someone else."
"Hey that's a really great story, but can we please focus on trying to get my page back," asked Luke. "Seriously, Elle, give it back. I don't go around taking your stuff, now do I?"
"I don't have your page," Elle snapped.
Watching the scenario play out before her very eyes, Alana was intrigued by the whole thing, but decided it was time she probably intervened.
"Luke, have you checked to see if maybe some of the pages are stuck together," she suggested. "That does happen sometimes."
Sure enough when Luke took Alana's advice, he found that page twenty was stuck to page nineteen. "Hmm… So it was here, this entire time," he said as he pulled the pages apart from each other.
"Now don't you think you need to say something to someone," asked Alana. "I'm sure she deserves it."
"What? Oh, right. I almost forgot," said Luke. "Emily, you're a really good detective."
"I prefer spy, but thanks," Emily proudly said.
"I was talking about Elle," said Alana. "Don't you think you owe her an apology? Emily that goes for you too."
Emily held her hands out in front of her. "Whoa, Mrs. Santos, I know it was wrong for Luke to call me a detective and not a spy, but it doesn't mean he needs to apologize for it," she said. "Seriously, it's not a big deal."
"No, I mean you need to apologize to Elle," Alana explained.
"Oh… Well why didn't you say so in the first place," asked Emily. She and Luke then apologized to their classmate, who then accepted their apologies.
"Okay, now let's get started with today's lesson," said Alana. "Today, we will be solving word problems. Would anyone like to read the first problem?"
"I will," said Spencer. He then began reading out loud. "Jana has twelve apples. She gives away three to her best friend, Aria. How many apples does she have left?"
Alana looked throughout the room. "Does anyone want to take a guess," she asked. She saw a few hands go up, but saw Maeve's, first. "Maeve, do you know it?"
"Nine," said Maeve, with confidence.
"Very good," said Alana. "Would you like to read the next word problem?"
"Sure," said Maeve. "Roger has three kittens. One day, he found four more. How many kittens does Roger have now?"
Stephen's hand was the first to go up. "Stephen, do you know it," asked Alana.
"Seven," Stephen answered.
"Correct. You may read the next word problem," said Alana.
Stephen began reading the third word problem. "Gregory bought four carrots from the grocery store. On the way home, he decided to go back to the grocery store and by seven more. How many carrots does Gregory have."
Alana saw Emily's hand go up before anyone else's. "Emily, would you like to solve it," she asked.
"Mrs. Santos, does a cow fly when you put roller skates on its feet," asked Emily.
Alana had a somewhat confused expression on her face. "No," she said.
"Well in that case, yes. Yes, I would like to solve that word problem," said Emily. "If Gregory was smart enough he'd take those carrots back and have zero," there's was an extreme amount of confidence in her voice.
"I'm sorry, but that is incorrect," said Alana. "Would anyone else like to…"
"How can that be," Emily interrupted Alana. "No one likes carrots."
"I like carrots," said Tara.
"That's good to know, Agent Glittery Shoelaces, but when you're in a spy mission, carrots are your worst enemy," said Emily.
"But I don't want them to be my worst enemy," Tara whined.
Emily just shrugged her shoulders. "Sorry, but I don't make the rules," she said. "You'll have to talk to my Grandmother's neighbor's sister's pet giraffe, Agent Lemonade Frizzy Eyelashes about them," she said.
"Does she really have a pet giraffe," Kate asked in amazement.
"Actually it's a chicken, but it likes to think it's a giraffe," Emily explained. "And we don't like correcting it. That is a huge no no. We let it believe it's a giraffe."
"What happens if you correct it," Clyde curiously asked.
"It gets really angry and farts fire," said Emily. "One time my great uncle was visiting my grandmother and he told her neighbor's sister that she had a lovely chicken. Well, long story short, Agent Lemonade Frizzy Eyelashes got really angry and jumped onto my great uncle's head and farted on him," Emily shuddered as she explained. "Ever since then, he's had orange hair. He can't get it to back to its natural gray color."
"None of that's possible," Elle said in an annoyed tone.
"Well no one thought it was possible for the sun and the moon to get married, but they did," said Emily.
"Really? When," asked Kevin.
"Yesterday morning. It was all over the news," said Emily.
"I watched the news, yesterday, and I don't remember seeing anything about the sun and the moon getting married," said Maeve.
"Did you blink at all while you were watching the news, yesterday," asked Emily.
"Yeah, I did a few times," said Maeve, truthfully.
"Then that's why you missed the scene about the sun and moon getting married," said Emily, matter of factly. "It was one of those blink and you miss it scenes."
"Okay, let's continue with our word problems," said Alana. "Would anyone else like to take a guess at what the answer is?"
Haley raised her hand and Alana called on her to answer.
"Is it eleven," asked Haley. She was unsure if she had guessed correctly.
Alana could tell Haley was not confident with her answer. She smiled at the young girl. "That's correct. Very good, Haley," she said. "Would you like to read the next problem?"
Haley nodded her head in a 'yes' motion and began reading the next problem. "Riley has four sisters and two brothers. How many siblings does Riley have?"
Many hands were raised, but Alana saw that Kevin's hand was up, first. "Kevin, I saw your hand go up first," she said. "What do you think the answer is?"
"Seven," said Kevin.
"I'm sorry, but that's incorrect," said Alana. She saw the defeated look on Kevin's face. "Good job at taking a guess, though," she gave Kevin a reassuring smile. "Does anyone else know what the answer is?"
Many hands were once again raised, but Aaron's hand was raised first. Alana called on him to answer.
"Six," Aaron answered.
"That is correct," said Alana. "You can read the final word problem."
Aaron shrugged his shoulders. "Eh… I'd rather not," he said. "Sorry, but I'm not a fan of reading out loud."
"That's fine," said Alana. "Would anyone else like to…"
"I'll read it," Emily interrupted Alana. Without waiting for her teacher's approval, she began reading the final problem. "Candace and her friend, Diego each have ten pieces of candy. How many pieces of candy do they have all together?"
Alana saw JJ's hand quickly go up before anyone else's. "JJ, I saw your hand up first," she said. "What do you think the answer is?"
"I don't think. I know," JJ stated matter of factly. "The answer is none. Simply for the fact that I beat them up and took all their candy."
"That's incorrect sweetheart," said Alana. "Does anyone else know the answer," she saw Ashley had her hand raised. "Ashley, what do you think it is?"
"Twenty," said Ashley, confidently.
"That's is correct. Good job, Ashley," said Alana. "Okay, now I want you all to turn to pages twenty three and twenty four and work on all those word problems, alone."
As Alana sat down at her desk, the children began working quietly on their math work. Within seconds, Spencer was already finished with his work.
"Mrs. Santos, what do we do when we're finished," he asked.
Alana was a bit surprised. "You're done, already," she asked. "How can that be? It's hasn't even been a minute."
"I'm a very fast reader and I'm considered as a genius," said Spencer.
Alana was finding it difficult to believe Spencer. She had only known her students for a week and no one mentioned to her about Spencer being a genius. "Can I check your work, please," she asked. "I just want to make sure it's all correct."
"Sure," said Spencer. "You want me to bring it up to you?"
"Yes, please," said Alana.
After checking the work in Spencer's math book, Alana handed it back to him. "It's all correct," she said. "You can read a book if you want, until the rest of the class is finished."
End of chapter two. I'd love to know what you all thought. So please leave me some reviews. I'll have chapter three posted as soon as possible.