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Teacher's Pet
Chapter 13

"Setsuna you know I can't drive your car, why didn't you bring mine?"

"Because yours is being reupholstered…remember."

I sighed before climbing into the passenger side of the older vehicle. I watched Setsuna help Rune into his seatbelt before stepping into the driver's seat and pulling away from the hospital. I looked up at it for, hopefully, the last time in a long time.

"Mommy, you OK now?"

I turned around to look at him, a soft smile playing on my lips. "Yes, mommy's alright now. I'm sorry if I scared you honey."

"Nope, I knew you were going to be alright!" I watched him shift in his seat and could only smile more. How could I possibly think that killing myself would make it all better? It may end my own pain, but he would be heartbroken for the rest of his life. How could I have been so stupid?

"Michiru told me this morning that she'll come over to the house after school today to see how you're feeling." Setsuna came to a red light and looked at me. "She does seem to care for you."

"Yea Ms. Kaiou loves you mommy. She told me herself!" I blushed and looked back at the cheerful little boy.

I smiled and thought of the events over the past week. Whenever Setsuna and Rune weren't there, Michiru was there to keep me company and make sure I was doing alright. Each morning she would leave to go and teach her class, and then she'd return to my side, usually bringing me real food.

"Where are you going Sets? I thought we were going home?" I looked down the road as we passed it that lead to the highway. "The road is back there that we need, remember?"

"I'm quite aware of that, did you ever think I was hungry? Besides by the time we finish eating your SUV should be finished. I had them replace the cloth seats with leather." She had a grin on her face.

"Oh I love you Setsuna!" When I got the vehicle, it was the only model that I liked, and it did not have leather seats. I had been meaning to have the new seat covers installed for a while.

Michiru's POV

I walked into the school early that morning. I stopped in at the main office to grab my mail before heading down the hallway toward my classroom. I tilted my head to the side as I came to a sealed envelope with just my name hand written on it. I tucked the other papers safely under my arm as I reached for my keys to unlock the door. 'What the…' I frowned when I looked inside and saw that the lights were already on. I tried the door and found it was unlocked.

"Can I help you?" I looked at the older woman who was cleaning things from my desk. "What are you doing in here?"

She looked up at me and frowned. "You haven't gotten your notice than I take it?" She threw a recent picture of Haruka on the top of the box then I watched her open up one of the desk drawers.

"Hey be careful with that!"

"All I was told to do was clean up, not be gentle." She grabbed a stack of paperwork from the drawer and placed it on top of the picture. I frowned when I heard the glass of the frame breaking.

I opened up the envelope and slowly read the words that were typed on the paper:

After you gather your things from your former classroom, please see me.

Headmaster Matsuo

I frowned at it. "What's this about?"

"I don't know Michiru, but I just know what I was told to do. Here, I think this is the last of it. Double check to see if I've forgotten anything." She quickly walked from the room, never looking back.

I dug out the picture of my beloved and placed on the top of the pile inside the box. Thankfully the cracked glass was only near the frame itself, not in the middle. I sighed and looked through the desk, grabbing a few pens and pencils that were forgotten. What's going on? There's no way they could have found out about Haruka and I so soon, let alone know that she was in fact a she. I know they've seen Haruka come in and out of school, but probably assumed that she was Rune's father.

I walked into the office and was barely greeted by the receptionist. "Mr. Matsuo is in his office waiting for you Michiru." I nodded and walked to the end of the hallway and went inside the room.

"What's this about?"

"It's come to my attention that you've been dating one of your students' parents."

"What's wrong with that?"

"It's considered a conflict of interest Michiru." He finally looked away from his computer screen, his eyes meeting mine.

"Then can't you move Rune to be with the other teacher?" I set the box down on the floor because of its weight.

"You see, we were going to do that, until we found out that the person you've been seeing is a female. You know if other parents were to find out the teacher of their 5 year old was a homosexual they'd pull their children out of this school."

"I don't understand though. You'd rather bring in someone who hates children and who will yell at them everyday then keep me, someone who's gay. Can you explain that to me?"

"I'm not doubting your skills as a professional Michiru. But surely there's something else you could do with your life. I don't think teaching would be right for you, due to your choices in life."

"Choices? Choices!? You think I choose to live like this. Knowing I wanted to go into a career where I would have to live a lie every day of my life just to please you and your bosses. You all think this is a choice that we live. That apparently we choose to live a life full of torment and lies. Do you choose to be straight Senichi? Can you answer me that?"

"No, but that's different."

"No it's not. " I took a deep breath and grabbed my box before storming out of the room. I ignored the receptionist as she bid me farewell. I knew if I didn't get out of there quickly I'd start crying in front of them all.

11:00 AM – Haruka's POV

"What do you say to your auntie Sets Rune?" I helped Rune out of the backseat of the car and watched him run around to hug the taller woman.

"Mommy told me to tell you thank you auntie Sets." He hugged her tightly before running across the gravel toward my car.

I shook my head and smiled. "Thank you." I pulled her close to me and hugged her tightly. "Thank you for everything you've done over the past week."

"Oh shut up. You know as well as I do that sometimes you need another woman around. I just hope that now this one's around you won't forget about me."

I smiled at her. "Rune would never let me forget his auntie Sets." I pulled away from her and turned toward the vehicle. "I'll give you a call later, alright?" I climbed into the vehicle and waited until Rune got his seatbelt hooked before I pulled away. "You ready to go home little guy?"

"I'm not little mommy!"

"Sorry honey." I smiled. "You ready to go home, we can make a special dinner for Ms. Kaiou tonight. You can help me too."

"I want to make cookies!"

I chuckled at him. "We can make cookies after Michiru comes over. I think she'd like to help us, what do you think?"

"Yea, that sounds like fun."

The rest of the ride home we discussed which cookies we should make. Talking about the positives of each of them, from sugar cookies to chocolate chip. Rune quickly decided for us that sugar cookies were too boring and the only way we would make them is if he was allowed to put sprinkles on them. I told him that since we'd have to go to the store for sprinkles, that chocolate chip would be better.

"Looks like Michiru's already here." I frowned when I saw her older car sitting at the top of our driveway. She was supposed to be in school, she shouldn't be here until after 3 PM this afternoon. "Why do you suppose she's here already?"

"Maybe the school blew up!"

I laughed aloud at what he had said. "I doubt that honey." I frowned when I saw her sitting on the porch swing, slowly rocking back and forth. "Rune when we pull in the garage, go inside and watch TV alright?"

"OK mommy." He unhooked his belt. He knew I didn't mind if he did that once we were on the driveway. I saw the teacher look up from her spot, her eyes were read. I pulled into the open garage door and unlocked the door so Rune could go inside before I walked back out to Michiru. "What's wrong?"

She quickly turned her eyes away from mine. Trying to hide the fact that she had been crying. "I got fired…"

"What? Why?" I sat down next to her and wrapped both of my arms around her smaller frame.

"They found out about us. They said that if parents found out their children's teacher was gay, they'd pull their children from the school. Ruka, I told you this would happen if they found out. Why can't they just treat us fairly?" I frowned as I felt her body start to shake with more tears. "Ever since I could remember I wanted to be a teacher."

"What about your art? Your art is amazing…"

She shook her head. "I could never make anything from my art, it's not good enough."

I sighed and thought of something to change the subject. "Rune and I were going to make supper for you. But since you're here, would you like to help us?" I gently tilted her chin upwards to look into her eyes.

She let out a small smile and nodded. "I'd like that." She leaned closer to press her lips to mine. I shivered in response. Each one of her kisses feels like the first one all over again. I love them.