Title: The Goat Incident
Pairing/Characters: OT4 mentions, mostly just Antonio and Alejandro + some OC teachers in this one
Rating: T


There are many things Antonio loves about having Alejandro go to the same school that he works at. They get to go in together in the mornings, leave together in the afternoon. Alejandro usually eats lunch with him, and when their two classrooms do activities together, Alejandro is always more than willing to hang out with his papá.

"Papá!" Alejandro runs into his room right in the middle of snack time, eyes wide and red-rimmed, followed by the new school principal, Antonio's boss.

He also loves the fact that, should there be a problem, he's right there to deal with it and nobody needs to call anybody else at work.

Antonio quickly picks Alejandro up and follows the very irritated principal out, thankful he's got an assistant already in the room to watch his class. "What happened, Alejandro?"

"Your son has a very dirty mouth," the principal says. She stares up at Antonio over her glasses, and though he's looking down at her, he can definitely see why Alejandro is probably very frightened of her.

Antonio laughs nervously. He's already anticipating the argument Romano and Lovina are going to have over this. "Does he now? He's three, if he said anything bad he probably doesn't know it means."

"He told another child to," the principal stops and looks around, dropping her voice to a whisper. "Fuck a goat. When he took a book from him."

Romano's fault, then. "He doesn't know what he's saying, I'll talk to him later. No need to upset the small children, ma'am."

She ignores him, continuing to glare up at both him and Alejandro. "And then when I took the other books from him and told him we were going to talk to his parents about this, he told me to as well."

"Mean," Alejandro whines, pointing at the woman and snuggling into Antonio's neck.

"You need to learn some manners, young man," she snaps back, and Antonio can already tell he's not going to enjoy having her as a boss.

"He's three," Antonio says again, sounding exasperated. "If you can't handle children acting like children, then you shouldn't be working at a preschool."

"Children should not say—"

"He shouldn't, no, but yelling at him about it isn't going to do any good."

Antonio walks to Alejandro's classroom, balancing the boy on his hip, and deposits him back in his favourite little red chair, ignoring any calls for him to come back that are trailing behind them.