Happy New Years and a late Merry Christmas! 2009 is gonna be fiiiiine! lol, okay hope you enjoy! (anything in italic is thought)
EPOV
I sat bored in Mrs. Stanley's Home Ec Class, Mrs. Stanley was about twenty-five years old and loved her job, she was very nice. I picked this class to be alone, and so far it wasn't that
hard.
"Well class, we have a very big surprise for you all," Oh I hope they love it, "starting today you will have your own kindergarten buddy!"
A girl named Susan raised her hand, "How are you sure these kids will get along with us?"
"Well, if you remember those personality tests I give you every other week? Well, the kindergartner's have been taking similar ones, and with those, we've decided who will go with
who."
There was a knock at the door and Mrs. Stanley quickly opened it, in stepped a woman in her early twenties, obviously the kindergarten teacher.
"Hello everyone, I am Mrs. Nickels, and this is my class." In stepped twenty-eight little children, and automatically, Mrs. Stanley began calling names.
"Susan will get...Ben" Mrs. Nickels led Ben to Susan.
She called everyone's names except mine, and the last kid was a cute little girl in a purple dress with a matching bow. She had on a pair of black Mary-Jane and her sock had some sort of
around the top. I've been hanging around with Alice too much. The two teachers whispered to one another before Mrs. Stanley brought the little girl over to me.
"Edward Cullen, this is your kindergarten buddy, Diana Marie Sullen."
"Ree." the little girl corrected, "My mommy calls me Marie, but everyone calls me Ree."
"Yes, I apologize Ree, would you like to go grab a coloring book from Mrs. Nickels?" Ree walked over to where her teacher was pulling tons of things out of a big duffel bag. Coloring
books, crayons, markers, a CD player, CD's, flashcards, boardgames, books...
"Edward," Mrs. Stanley began, "I need to talk to you about Ree."
"What's wrong?" was she a child who threw tantrums and was horrible? She didn't look it.
"Ree is a very very special child, she should have skipped to about third or fourth grade, but she did not want to move, she really is extraordinary. Like a Matilda I guess," she joked,
"But we partnered you too up, not only because you two almost matched each other's tests, but because we think that you would be the best for her. Please be patient, in a way
she's had a very hard life." She walked away as Ree came back holding two coloring books and two crayon boxes.
"Do you like to color?" she asked in a soprano voice
"Yes."
She smiled brightly, "Me too, which book would you like?" There was one of teddy bears and the other sport cars.
"This one." I picked the cars of course.
"Okay." She passed me a box of crayons and took one herself. We colored silently for a while, until Mrs. Nickels passed around a paper of things to ask your buddy. I looked at it.
"What does you Mom do?" that was question number seven.
"She has different jobs, sometimes she writes for the newspaper, but she mostly works at the diner, but she wants to be an author! Like Jane Austen, what does your mommy do?"
I thought for a moment, what does Esme do? "She's a stay at home Mom."
Her little pink lips made a little o, "Your Mommy gets to stay home all day and play with you? Your so lucky! What does your daddy do?"
"My father's a doctor at the hospital. What about yours?"
She stopped coloring and looked down, "I don't have one."
Shoot. "Oh, I'm so sorry Ree."
"It's okay, he just doesn't know about me, he left my mom before she knew."
"I'm sorry."
"It's fine," she looked over at my coloring page, "Oooh, a silver Volvo, pretty."
I had a feeling I would like this little girl.