itsmssherlocked asked: If you're still taking drabbles requests here's one. First day at school for one of the kids. Happy, sad, funny, your choice :)


Izzy Watson was excited. She was so excited she couldn't hold still long enough for her mother to button up her brand new, specially-bought-for-the-first-day-of-school cardigan. It was bright yellow with little red flowers on it, and Izzy loved it. Aunt Molly had picked it out for her, and she and Uncle Lock were coming to see her off on her first day of school. "Hold still, wiggle worm!" Mummy said with a laugh. "Else you'll go to school with your buttons all mis-matched, and we don't want that, do we?"

Izzy obediently stilled herself, as best she could. Didn't Mummy know how excited she was? Daddy did, because he was smiling at her, but Izzy crinkled her forehead in confusion. "Daddy? Are you crying?"

He sniffed loudly and said, "No, silly, of course not!"

But Izzy knew when Daddy was fibbing, and her forehead-crinkle got deeper. "Daddy, don't be sad! I'll be home after school and Mummy says teacher might let me draw something!" Her eyes brightened as she added, "I could draw something you'd like!"

Then Daddy hugged her, even though Mummy was still fussing over her cardigan, and he kissed her on the cheek and Izzy hugged him back. She'd miss Daddy, but he went to work all the time, and Mummy did too on some days, so now it was just her turn, Isabelle Anne Watson, to do something big and important outside the house. Everyone got to, except Robbie, and Izzy was so proud to be such a big girl that she didn't even let the little poop-maker spoil her morning.

The doorbell rang, and Izzy pulled out of Daddy's hug to rush over and open it, stopping with her hand on the knob and calling out, "Who is it?" Because Mummy and Daddy and Uncle Lock always told her not to just open the door even if she thought she knew who it was. Safety first!

"It's the big bad wolf, who do you think it is?"

Izzy giggled and threw the door wide open, wrapping her arms around Uncle Lock's waist and beaming up at him. "You're not the big bad wolf! You're the brave woodsman!"

Uncle Lock looked confused, and Izzy stamped her foot in exasperation. " Uncle Lock! Did you delete Little Red Riding Hood again?"

"Izzy! Kisses!" Scarlett and Edmund hugged her and demanded good luck kisses from her, even though she was the one going to school, and then Mummy was taking her hand and she was putting on her backpack and off they all went to the bus stop. Izzy was extra proud of the fact that she was old enough to go on the bus, even though Daddy wanted to drive her. But she wasn't a baby and Uncle Lock had 'vestigated the driver and it was her special first day of school. She smiled and waved as everyone - well, not Scarlett and Edmund, who looked super jealous, and not baby Robbie, who looked like he was pooping - took pictures with their mobiles. Then she was off, feeling very pleased and happy, knowing that school was going to be the best adventure ever.

And so it was.