Title: Parent Teacher Conference
Pairing/Characters: OT4, mentions of Alejandro, OC!Teacher
Rating: K+


"I'm sorry," Antonio blurts out the minute they enter Alejandro's teacher's classroom. Flor Mendoza Suarez is a good friend of his, a fellow teacher and a former classmate, but she's not called this meeting to catch up or go over teaching materials together.

Lovina smacks his shoulder. "She hasn't even said he's done anything wrong, don't apologise."

Flor laughs and motions to the four chairs she's placed in front of her desk. "We're meeting with all the kids' parents, remember?"

"See, stupid, I told you he wasn't in trouble. Shouldn't you know that? You work here." Romano is the first to sit down, followed by Lovina and Antonio, Antonia lagging behind, as she's a little distracted looking at all the childish art up on the classroom walls.

Antonio's foot taps nervously against the floor and unfortunately for him he's right in between Romano and Lovina, who appear to be taking turns stepping on his toes to cease all the unnecessary movement.

"He's really not in trouble," Flor insists. She pulls out a little portfolio, filled to the brim with drawings. "Alejandro's a very sweet boy, and we already discussed the little goat incident, I'm just giving you a check up on how he's doing."

"Looks like he's killing a lot of trees," Romano says, taking the huge stack of drawings when he's offered it. A picture of himself, Alejandro, and what looks like a clothing rack is on top and he raises an eyebrow.

"Alejandro says you're very fashionable," Flor explains.

"Damn right I am."

"Are there ones of me too? There are!" Antonio takes half the stack and soon Lovina and Antonia are looking too, barely paying attention to anything else until Flor clears her throat.

"He talks about you all a lot, he's a very happy little boy," she says. "And he gets along well with all the other children—"

"Goat incident aside," Lovina says, glaring at Romano.

"Goat incident aside," Flor agrees. "We've been practicing with them writing their names too," she adds, pointing out one of the pictures that has ALEJANDRO scribbled across the top sloppily.

She goes on for a few more moments, about childhood development and what they're going over in class, all things they already know because Antonio's been teaching the same things, at this exact school, for years, but they're more than willing to listen to any praise their four-year-old son gets.

"You can take the pictures." Flor stands up, holding a hand out to shake each of theirs. "And I'll let you know if he ever actually is in trouble." She winks at Antonio, who was no longer worried about that but is again, now that mentions it. "But there's no big problems with him, I promise."

Lovina stacks the pictures all up neatly and puts them back in the portfolio. "Hear that, Antonio? Romano didn't fuck him up, good job."

"It was a team effort." Antonia grins and pinches Romano's cheek. "Don't worry, we believed in you."

"Yeah yeah." Romano grabs the elbows nearest to him, Antonio and Lovina's, and Lovina grabs Antonia's because she's once again getting distracted when she finds Alejandro's self portrait up near the chalkboard, and they all walk out together, very much glad they've survived their first official parent teacher conference.