Chapter 18

"I love how all the kids get to go to a carnival while we're stuck going to this meeting," Jax quietly complained to his wife from his chair, leaning towards her ear.

"Jax," Emma admonished, "this applies to our daughter, don't you want to be involved with her school?"

Jax groaned, knowing there was no answer he could say that would let him win. However, he donned a wicked grin, as a particular answer did come to mind. Leaning even closer so now his lips softly brushed her ear, he spoke lowly, "I would rather us be involved in something else, right now." He pressed a soft kiss to her lobe.

Emma blushed scarlet, still being able to make her do that after all these years swelled him with pride.

"Jax," she squeaked a whisper, "not here! There's people around!"

"Who cares?" He teasingly grazed his teeth over the soft skin.

"Jax, please," Emma begged, not being able to hold herself back much longer. If he kept this up, they'd be making out in a classroom full of other kids' parents.

"Alright, Em," he sighed, pulling away. "But I expect to pick this up when we get home."

She held back a shudder at the darkened look in his eyes, a look she knew all too well. A look he gave her on their wedding night, the morning after, the night when Rose was-

"Hey, Em! Sup, Jax?" Andi Van Pelt greeted with a smile, effectively distracting Emma from those naughty thoughts.

"Andi!" Emma smiled, standing to pull her best friend in for a hug.

"Hi, Emma," Philip smiled, "Jax, how're you? Haven't seen you since Thanksgiving," he joked.

Jax stood, shaking his friend's hand. "Yes, it's been far too long," he chuckled.

"I told you we were going to be late, Dan!"

The group turned to see a displeased Mia Miller, with Daniel walking by her side.

"We're not late, Mia. They're starting in a few minutes."

"But everyone got here before us," she frowned, then her eyes lit up at the sight of her friends. "Hey, guys!"

The Millers walked over to greet their friends, Emma and Daniel smiled and acted as though they never dated. Seriously, there wasn't any awkwardness at all; that all ended back in high school.

"Hey, where's Maddie and Diego?" Emma wondered.

As if on cue, they all heard a shrill, "PROXY!"

"Does that answer your question?" Mia smirked.

Maddie Rueda stomped inside, with her husband trailing behind her.

"I told you not to make those pizzas this late, and now we are late!"

"Relax, Madds," Diego replied calmly, "we're not late. See, everyone's talking."

Maddie looked around, seeing if Diego was right. A light lit in her eyes at the sight of her friends.

"Hey, everyone!" she smiled, running in her heels to go greet them. Diego silently walked behind, shaking his head with a smile.

"Emma," Maddie gushed, hugging the other witch, "it's great to see you!"

"Same to you, but we saw each other on Thanksgiving," Emma giggled.

"Yeah...speaking of that, I'm really sorry that Diego almost burned the turkey," she turned to glare daggers at her husband, "trying to get it cooked just right," she mocked. She turned towards her friend again, "I told you, I can buy you another turkey so you can have a perfect meal."

"Maddie, it's fine," Emma laughed, "it's no problem at all! You don't have to buy me another turkey. But how is your shoe fashion going? Any new styles I have to test out?" she grinned.

The blonde giggled, "no, but I'll tell you when we make the new designs!"

"Are Gigi and Sebastian coming?" Emma suddenly asked.

"No, they have to do the night airing of the news tonight," Maddie replied with a frown.

"Parents, Guardians, if you may all take your seats, we can start the PTA meeting!" Mrs. Jones called out.

The group of high school friends sat in the chairs in the first row.

Mrs. Jones cleared her throat. "Now, there have been complaints of allowing a soda machine in the cafeteria, as soda is unhealthy and we would prefer the kids have a healthier drink choice. We need to-"

Jax Novoa raised an arm.

Mrs. Jones tried her best to hide her eye roll, "yes, Mr. Novoa?"

"Uh, yeah, if you wanted the kids to have a 'healthier drink choice,' then why install the machine in the first place?"

Emma could've died in a hole right then and there; she hated unneeded attention, and it didn't help that her husband liked to joke around and sometimes be a smart-alec. Andi took her hand comfortingly.

"Uh, well, we got it for the students to drink..." Mrs. Jones replied, not really knowing what to say.

"If it's there to let them drink, then why take it away?" Jax argued his point.

Some other parents started whispering, few were nodding their hands.

"Are you saying that you would like for your daughter to drink soda each day and have her suffer ill health?" Mrs. Jones countered with a raised brow. She remembered Jax back when she had him for a student, and she wasn't about to let him outsmart her now.

"Of course not, I love my Rosie." Some mothers started awww'ing while fathers smiled; Emma's in particular was pretty big. "I want her to have great health. I'm just saying that it's nice to have a soda once in a while, and it's nice to have a choice and not be subjected to only one or two drinks. Besides, what kid drinks soda everyday? Don't a lot of them like to drink those sport drinks and water? Let the students have their choice in a beverage for their lunch, it's bad enough that the food is terrible already, because I highly doubt it's changed since I've attended Iridium High."

Parents started clapping, laughing, and cheering, remembering their days of eating the terrible cafeteria food. Emma looked over at Jax with an amused gleam in her eye, remembering the day when she warned him of Taco Tuesday.

The science teacher, embarrassed, slightly shrunk inward. "Guess that answers that, then." After trying to pick up whatever dignity she had left, she cleared her throat and signaled for the crowd to be quiet. She mentally sighed; some things just never change.

"Let's move on to the science project I plan to give the students in the Spring, it's about raising butterflies-"

"ACHOO!"

Everyone looked at the sniffling man. Mia rolled her eyes, then leaned towards Daniel. "There's not even butterflies here!"

"I know," he accepted a tissue from a woman behind him, "it's just that sometimes even the mention of them makes me sneeze!"

Mia inwardly groaned, waiting for him to finish wiping his nose. Not knowing what to do with it, he stuffed it in his jeans pocket.

"As I was saying," Mrs. Jones glared, "this project is about the students raising...um, those flying insects, and releasing them into the wild. I think it will be very educational for the kids, teaching them about the miracle of life. Does anyone oppose?"

No one raised a hand, except Daniel.

Mrs. Jones sighed, "yes, Mr. Miller?"

"None of the kids will have to take one of them home, right?" he asked a nervously.

The science teacher closed her eyes, breathing out her nose. "No, Mr. Miller, they won't have to."

Daniel breathed a sigh of relief.

After the meeting ended, all the friends smiled and hugged each other, parting ways. When Jax and Emma arrived back home, they were surprised to see that their daughter hadn't come home yet.

"It's 10:30, she should be home," Jax growled, his over-protective instincts kicking in.

"She's probably just hanging out with Alex and Jimmy, there's nothing to worry about," Emma soothed, "remember when we used to hang out with our friends at night?"

"Yeah," Jax sighed, "but that was when there was a magical issue, like that time we all got trapped in Mia's basement. Or then there were the other times when we-"

The wizard stopped speaking, his face going from a smile to a frown, remembering what he and Emma used to do this late at night...

"That's it, I'm going after her!" He decided, lifting his finger with blue magic ready to engulf him.

"Jax, stop!" Emma demanded, putting his arm down. "Relax. Rose is fine, I'm sure of it. She'll be home soon."

"She better be home within five minutes," he threatened.

10:50

"What if she's getting into trouble, what if she's in trouble," Jax worried.

By now, Emma was getting worried as well. However, she still had faith in her daughter. "Honey, we know Rose. She wouldn't do anything bad. And if she was in trouble, she could always tele-transport out of it...and end up in the pool. She can take care of herself."

"What if she's making out with some boy?" Her husband glared at the floor, "right up against our fence?"

Now his wife had to laugh. "Jax, I highly doubt there are two teenagers making out against our fence."

"You'd be surprised, remember all the places where we made out?" he had to grin.

Emma blushed, recalling a certain memory with a washing machine...

The door opening shook her from her thoughts. Rosalyn Novoa stood in the doorway, looking a bit dazed.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS?!" Her husband thundered.

A/N: Well, there's the PTA meeting chapter! Next one will once again revolve around Rose and the gang.

angelcreature13: Thank you!

Jemmalover1: Hmm...I wonder how Nick's gonna take the breakup. Lol, yeah, that would've been funny in the show XD

multishipper123: I bet he loved that too XD

TotallyCray-Cray: Darren? Lying? Hmm...

CelestialTitania: Roserren ;) And that's awesome ;D

lovethatignites: I killed you more last chapter, I can't imagine how you are in this chapter XD And yes, kind of, only when Jax said it, it was louder more angry-sounding. Thank you so much, I'm happy you loved it :D

Guest: Mr. Dreamy X'D

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shadowhunter167: Jax slays ;D

harmonizergirl1202: I hate to tell you, but no, they're not... *laughs evilly while Roserren shippers are crushed* X'D And next chapter will have some answers!

Guest: Rose agrees.

delightisadream: Omg I'm not going to even say anything to that X'D Yes, you spelled it right! And thank you! :D

tierrayaoi: I picked it because it's Pao's fav ice cream flavor.

Guest: Um, I don't even know what 21 is...and I'm not going to have the last part in her pov, I don't want to repeat chapters. Sorry :(