Thank you all again for your reviews. I'm already thinking of writing stories with Mia and Emma. I'd like to know what you think of that idea.
Hopefully the way I've done the line breaks will work this time. Grrrr
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The year started off really well. Beth felt she had a great group of kids and they all seemed eager to learn. The only problem was Mia and Emma. She had learned that their mothers were best friends so they were practically family. Being so close meant they spent a lot of time together in and out of school. They got along just fine. The problem was the talking.
Mia and Emma's little brothers – Lucas Hunt and Ethan Shepherd, she learned, were born on the same day and they were currently in afternoon kindergarten (also best friends). After lunch, the girls would have found out something from their brothers about their "patients" - which happened to be stuffed animals. The play was good. They were pretending to be surgeons and Beth thought that was a fantastic idea – they learned from their parents and put that knowledge into play which was a great way to expand themselves. However, when it interrupted her class, it was not as good.
"So Floppy Bunny had some compilations but he'll be fine," Mia was explaining to Emma while everyone was working on math worksheets.
"Ok good. Our interns can be so lazy sometimes," Emma replied, talking about their little brothers.
Beth, not a fan of pointing out student's misbehavior in front of the class, went over to the girls and crouched between them.
"Girls, I hate to do this but I'm going to have to separate you. I warned you yesterday. You can't keep talking when it's supposed to be quiet."
Emma shook her head.
"No Mrs. Moore," Mia countered, "We'll be good."
"I'm sorry. I told you the next step was moving you," Beth told them.
Beth pulled out Mia's desk and exchanged it with Nicole Stevenson's.
"Mia, Emma, the next step is sending a note home to your parents and I don't want to have to do that," Beth explained, getting them settled. But she would send a note if she had to.
"Ok," the girls replied glumly.
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The girls seemed to be doing well after that. But a week later, during quiet reading time, Mia got up, crossed the room to Emma's desk and began telling her about Misty Kitty.
"Lucas said Misty Kitty's lab results showed some abnomolies so he and Ethan ran more tests but they had to go to kindergarten so they don't know what's going on yet," Mia told Emma.
Emma nodded. "Ok, well we can find out when we get home. We also have to surgeon on Rover when we're done with our homework."
Beth, sitting at her desk, sighed softly.
"Emma, Mia, would you come here please?"
The girls, realizing they were in trouble, went up to Beth's desk.
"You girls were doing good for a week," she told them, "Unfortunately I'm going to have to send a note home to your parents. I want one of them to sign it and you need to bring it back, ok?"
They nodded.
"Ok, I'll give you the notes at the end of the day, Now please go sit back down and finish your reading."
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It was Meredith's day to pick up the kids. Being an attending had its perks. Any one of the four of them could work a half day once or twice a week so that they could switch off on picking up the kids from school. Any one of them who wasn't picking the kids up, ended up going in late after dropping the boys off at kindergarten and stayed late that day.
She gathered Ethan and Lucas then waited for Emma and Mia to meet her at the front. She piled all the kids into the car and headed to her house. Cristina would come over when she was done with her shift and have dinner there. Owen had to work late because he dropped off the boys this morning.
"How was school?" Meredith asked, which started the four of them talking the entire way home.
Once freed from the car, the boys ran inside to play and Mia and Emma followed.
"Girls, do your homework before you play," Meredith reminded them. They all tended to parent everyone's kids.
Mia and Emma did their homework. Once they were done, Emma took her note from Beth up to Meredith. Mia went with her.
"Mommy, Mrs. Moore needs you to sign this," Emma said, holding out the note for Meredith to take.
"What is it for?"
"Mia and me were talking at school again," Emma told her.
Meredith read over the note from Beth, stating that was indeed what happened and that if it happened again, there would be a phone call.
She finished reading and looked at the girls. "We've talked about this. We've all talked to you about this," meaning her, Derek, Owen, and Cristina, "I know you two like to play surgeon but that is for at home. You can't talk about it when you're supposed to be working on other things. If you're at lunch or recess that's fine. But when you talk during school time, you disrupt the other kids. You wouldn't like it if someone was talking to their friend while you were trying to do your work, would you?"
They both shook their heads and said no.
"Ok," she nodded with a smile to show them she wasn't mad. "No talking to each other during quiet work time."
"We won't," Mia and Emma both agreed.
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Mia and Emma walked into class the next morning and they each handed their notes to Beth before taking their seats and starting their bell work along with the rest of the class.
She checked to make sure the notes were signed. Emma's had the very neat signature of Meredith Shepherd. She then checked Mia's to see if maybe her father signed in. Then she could find out if Mia's father was, indeed, Owen.
The signature read…
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Will Beth find out if Owen is actually Mia's dad or will Mia's mom had signed the note?! Tune it to find out!