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After completing the nametags, finishing up the last preparations before school started tomorrow, Beth went home. She played with her sons and made dinner. After she put the kids to bed, she was able to talk to her husband, Greg.
"I went though my class list today," She started.
"Cool," he replied, "How many kids do you have this year?"
"24. It's a pretty big group but I can handle it. There's one girl…"
He looked at Beth, "One girl what?"
"Her last name is Hunt," She said. Greg knew all about Beth's ex fiancé.
He smiled. She did this every time. "Honey, you've had a few children with the last name Hunt over the years. Who even knows if he still lives around here."
"You're right," She laughed, "I'm just being silly."
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Beth greeted her students after they put their things in the locker with their name on it. She watched as the kids read all the nametags and found their seats. They chatted with their neighbors, waiting for the day to begin.
She noticed two girls come in together. They both seemed slight apprehensive about the situation – being in a new class on the first day of school but they were going to handle it together. By observing how close the two appeared, Beth knew they were best friends; they could have been sisters due to how close they seemed except that they were obviously very different. One was a red headed girl with slight Asian features, which was an interesting combination, and the other; a girl who had dark wavy hair and, Beth noticed when the girl looked at her, very blue eyes.
The girls found their nametags next to one another in the back table of the row on the left. Table three. The girl with the dark hair, then, was Emma Shepherd and the girl with the red hair was Mia Hunt. Mia Hunt has red hair. Beth shook her head slightly. It wasn't possible.
Beth was interrupted from any further speculation by the ringing of the bell. She began the day by introducing herself and going over the class rules – respect each other, respect the items in our community, respect everyone else's right to learn. Once they were done with going over the rules and classroom procedures, Beth had a way for all the students to get to know each other a little better.
"We're going to go around the room and when we get to you, I want you to say your name very clearly and then say something about you," She explained to them, "and be sure to talk loud enough so that everyone can hear you."
She gave them about a minute to come up with that they wanted to say the, started with table one. After hearing about pets and brothers and sisters and cousins and vacations, she got to Mia.
"My name is Mia and this is my best friend Emma but she's also like my sister and ours kinda goes together. We both wanna be surgeons like our parents," Mia explained.
Beth was curious, "What kind of surgeons are your parents?
"My mommy is a heart surgeon and my daddy is a…umm," she paused trying to remember what it was called, "trauma surgeon. He does surgery on emergencies."
"And my mommy and daddy are brain surgeons," Emma added.
"Wow!" Said Beth, "those are really cool jobs!"
Emma nodded, "We pretend surgeon with our little brothers."
"That sounds like a lot of fun," Beth smiled, and then continued on to the next student. She was more and more convinced that Mia was Owen Hunt's daughter but at the same time she was too nervous to actually find out. She hadn't seen or talked to him more than 10 years – since he worked on her father's case.