A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews and follows guys! This made me want to make the second chapter ASAP. I hope you will tune in until the end. =)
SO HERE IT IS!
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He winked.
He winked at her. 'Was he trying to flirt?' she thought. Oh how she wanted to erase that smirk from that gorg— awful face of him. She had the urge to show him her ring right now to smack on his that she was very much engage and didn't have time to flirt with him.
Elsa shook her head and descended on stairs, wishing that she won't see him ever again.
How wrong she was about that.
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Jack bit the corner of his lip as he watched the retreating form of the woman. He didn't know why but the moment their eyes met, he suddenly felt drawn to those blue eyes of hers. He knew the feeling was mutual especially when he noticed her scrutinizing every detail of his face. He was sure about that, because from his wise estimation they had been in that awkward position for a minute. Well, he didn't mind it though; he was actually enjoying the way the softness of her hand sent tingling sensation on his body as they held hands. It was amazing that how a simple contact brought hundred effects on him, that letting go of her would be the last on his mind…screw that crazy janitor that he wanted to strangle, he just ruined their wonderful moment.
Shaking his head he continued on his way towards his destination as he silently wished to meet her again.
He stopped on his tracks when he reached a blue door decorated with colorful butterflies surrounding the large tree made of cartolina, and art works that he guessed was made by the students were glued on each leaves. He smiled at himself as looking at the door brought him pure nostalgia. Thinking that he had been staring at the door for a while he twisted the knob and opened it. As he greeted the sight of the classroom there was one thing that he was sure would happen.
His sister will surely kill him.
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Elsa parked her car in front of the Bennett's residence, since she didn't have any urgent to do she decided to just give Ethan's report card on Pippa, plus she would like to hang out with a friend for awhile. She emerged from her car and walked towards the front door and was about to knock when—
"YOU GOT DISTRACTED?" yelled a familiar voice inside the house, whom she thought was talking to a phone.
"What time did you get in there anyway?"
Elsa thought that the woman inside calmed down because of the silence filling the house but…
"10:45?! I SAID YESTERDAY THAT THE MEETING STARTS AT 9:30 NOT 10:45!...SHUT UP BIG BROTHER, I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR EXCUSES, GOODBYE!"
"Is she talking about the PTA meeting?," Elsa wondered. She was about to knock when a cheerful voice called out her name.
"TEACHER ELSA!" a four year old brunette little boy standing at the entrance gate with a greyhound squealed.
She faced the little boy and grinned as she spread her arms wide, "Ethan, come here little guy!"
Ethan ran towards his teacher who enveloped him in a bear hug, his greyhound pet behind him.
"Where have you been?" Elsa drew back and sat just enough to meet his height.
The little boy beamed at her question, "Abby and I went to park,"
"Abby?"
"She's my pet and best friend!" he gestured to the greyhound. The brown and white dog thinking that she finally got their attention jumped on Elsa and started to lick her face. Elsa giggled rubbing the greyhounds head much to the dog's delight and looked back at Ethan. She knew how talkative the little guy was that he would story tell everything that happened at the park.
"— and then there's a little house with a super big ice cream on its roof and then there's a man with ice cream that giving other children ice cream, so I and Abby went there and waited to give me ice cream."
"So did he give you some?"
Ethan puffed his cheeks, "No, the ice cream guy didn't, and I asked him if I could have one, but he asked me if I have money…but I remembered my uncle said if some weird guy asked me some money then I should run back home because that guy must be a boogeyman. So I yelled at the ice cream guy and ran!"
Elsa fought back to laugh, her student must have thought that the ice cream vendor was a from what he said 'a boogeyman', "How come you thought that he was weird?"
"Well he lives in an ice cream like the witch in the 'Hansel and Gretel' who lives in a candy house and he is also giving ice cream to the children, but I don't know why he didn't give me any and ask for money instead and that made him weirder!"
"Well, what did you say to him?" she moved her head in curiosity.
"I told him that the police will be coming to get him!" Ethan said as he dabbed his chest proudly.
Elsa couldn't contain it anymore and laughed, their noise must have been heard because the door behind her suddenly opened revealing a petite woman with chestnut hair, her eyes widened at them. "Elsa? What brings you here?"
Elsa stood up and faced the woman, "Well, since I don't have anything to do, is decided to drop by and give you Ethan's card."
"How nice of you, come, come make yourself at home," Pippa smiled at her and ushered her inside of the house and made her sat on the couch. Pippa went to the kitchen to grab some juice and cookies and went back to the living room where she found her son talking like a proud hero to his teacher. She approached the two and gave each a glass of juice and placed the cookies on the table. She sat beside Elsa and ushered her child to come to her, "And where have you been to young man?"
Ethan beamed and ran to her mom who started to wipe his sweat with a towel before changing his shirt. He began his story at the park.
"You thought that he was a 'boogeyman' because he looks weird and asks for your money?" Pippa's eyes widened in shock.
Ethan nodded his head vigorously.
"How come you think that he was a 'boogeyman' by him being weird and asking for your money?"
The little guy jumped from his seat and grinned, remembering someone he adore so much, "My best uncle in the world!"
Pippa rolled her eyes, "Dear, that's because he is the only uncle that you got."
Elsa laughed and faced the little boy, she should tell him the truth, "Well Ethan, the ice cream guy is not actually a 'boogeyman'."
The boy looked at her in confusion, "But he lives in an ice cream—oh because he is a 'candy man', right?"
Elsa sighed, "No he is not a candy man to, but the house that you're saying is probably an ice cream stand."
"But he is asking for money."
Elsa ruffled his hair, "That's because he thought that you were going to buy an ice cream."
"Buy an ice cream?"
"Yes, because he is an ice cream vendor."
"But he is giving other children with ice cream!"
"Are those children with someone?"
Ethan bit his lip as he tried to remember, "Well, they have their parents with them."
"That's because their parents are the one who is paying their ice cream."
"Pay?"
Pippa answered this time, "Yes darling, you should have money to pay in order for you to buy the ice cream."
Ethan slumped on his seat realizing everything, "So, he is neither a boogeyman nor a candy man?"
"Yes, he is an ice cream vendor."
"So uncle is lying to me about the boogeyman."
Pippa scratched the back of her head. Oh how it was hard for her to explain everything to her son, especially this time when a wonderful brother of her said something to her son without even explaining it right. She noted to herself that she was really going to kill a certain someone later.
Elsa noticed her friend's difficulties, "Well, your uncle must probably talking about a swindler."
"A swindler?" Ethan eyes widened.
"Yes, a swindler is a person who lies to other people in order to get money from them," she explained hoping that the little guy would understand.
"Ohhhh" Ethan nodded his head slowly. Then suddenly a a light bulb occurred to him, "What if that guy is a swindler pretending to be an ice cream vendor!" he exclaimed with a tone like he just had solved a mystery. He jumped from his seat and faced the two women, he gave them a hug. "I will be upstairs for awhile for my research," with that he ran to the stairs with Abby following behind. "I'm sure uncle will be thrilled about this."
The two woman face-palmed, "Well, let's just let him be," Pippa chuckled.
Elsa grinned, "Well we all know how an imagination of a child runs wild," then she remembered something. "Oh, about Ethan's report card…" she opened her bag and fished out a brown envelope and gave it to Pippa.
Pippa opened the enveloped and smiled when she saw stars—meaning excellent drawn on different subjects and skills and characters. "I'm so glad that he improved," she commented.
"Well, Ethan actually has his excellent talents and skills in the first place he was just to shy, especially when he didn't know anyone inside the classroom, but when he got comfortable to everyone and be friends with them he just suddenly opens up to us and shows those skills that he has been hiding," Elsa smiled, "I was actually surprise to discover how talkative he is."
Pippa sighed, "Yeah, enough for him to be in a noisy list."
The blonde woman laughed, "Well…to tell you the truth he is actually the one I'm assigning to list those names of his classmates who are being noisy."
"Let me guess, so that he in return would shut up and behave because he is holding a big role." Pippa grinned.
"How did you know that?"
"Well, it's the same case of my favorite big brother. He is the noisiest in their classroom that makes him the first one to be listed in the 'noisy list' and even a simple scolding from his teachers won't make him shut up, so instead they assigned him to be the one who will list, and that made my brother finally behave, because he knew how much trouble he will got from his classmates when he don't act well. If he didn't keep quiet and still being noisy guy, just imagine the complaints of his classmates being listed by him where he should be the one being listed instead. (A/N: I hope you understand what I wrote in this.) Pippa shook her head from the memory.
"And the same case happened to his nephew." Elsa added.
"Don't mention it. I wouldn't be surprise if ever my brother will have a son and be like that too." Pippa cringed at that thought.
Elsa nodded, "Anyway, may I ask you a question?"
"Go on."
"Well, I was wondering… why weren't you able to attend the PTA meeting earlier?"
The chestnut-haired woman scratched her head, "Actually, my mom called me yesterday and she said that she is not feeling well. So Jamie drove me and Ethan to her house to look for her, and I and Ethan stayed overnight, while Jamie was on his sister up until now, he's teaching her for a preparations for her midterms. We just got back here earlier…I think 10:30? And yeah. I'm really sorry for troubling you to come here," she apologized.
Elsa smiled at her, "It's okay really, not a big deal. You've done the right thing about taking care of your mom. About me coming here…I actually don't have anything to do so you're not holding me for any meetings. Besides, I also wanted to hang out with you and Ethan."
"Thank you Elsa, I'm glad to have you as my son's teacher and my friend," suddenly the chestnut-haired woman remembered something that made her twitch. "Actually I send someone there as my replacement."
"Replacement?"
Pippa nodded, "Yeah, I knew that neither Jamie nor I would be able to attend the meeting because of our own agenda, I send my oh-so favorite brother in our place instead."
Elsa didn't know what she should say, "W-well…uumm—"
"He thought that the meeting would be at 10:45 that's why he got in there at that time. I can forgive him for that, because knowing you…you would still be at there at that time to wait for us in case we come late. But then, he got distracted by a woman and forgot the task that he should do especially when the time is running."
Elsa scratched her head nervously as she watched her friend gritting her teeth and hands closed tightly. She was sure that Pippa would want to choke her brother now, and the look on her face made her squirm on her seat. "W-well…t-that…b-brother o-of yours…is f-funny. I-It w-would be n-nice t-to meet …h-him s-someday," she stifled a nervous laugh.
"If you got the chance to meet him, I swear you can't stand being with someone like him," Pippa sighed, Don't get her wrong she loved her brother...so much, there were just times when he could act so annoying like an immature child.
"Come on Pippa, maybe your brother didn't intend to-," she was cut off when the front door came bursting open.
"Emma Sophia Bennett! Your favorite and loving brother…" the man who came in, stopped on his tracks as he noticed a familiar woman sitting on the couch beside her sister. He could say that the woman was as surprised as he is based on her reaction.
"UNCLE JACK FROST!" Ethan came running from the stairs and hugged his uncle's legs.
"…is here," was the only thing that Jack could say because of the sight of the woman in front of him.
But the woman in front of him A.K.A. Elsa had other thing in mind.
Pippa was right.
She wouldn't be able to stand being with him.
And she mean it.
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A/N: that's it for this chapter. Sorry if there was no Jelsa scene, and also for boring you… I just wanted to introduce the other characters that will be part of this fic. So, Jamie and Pippa here are married and they have a son named Ethan. I just thought that jack's sister would be nice to be with jamie. Ummm...if you're wondering...no, Jack doesn't live with them, he has his own pad and a lot will happen in there.(evil smirk).
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-PrimaVera