I'm sooooo sorry for taking longer than hoped to upload this but college got in the way. This is by far my longest chapter and I hope you like it. Thanks so much for all the support it really keeps me going :D
Disclaimer: (oops haven't done one yet) I don't own New girl
Chapter 4: Filed Trip: Part 2
"Ok class because Mr Miller has replaced Mrs Jefferson he will be taking group 4 around." Jess got everyone into their groups fortunately Matt was in group 4 so he could keep an eye out for his uncle. Jess was group 1, Mr Johnson group 2 and Mrs Smith group 3. Jess gave each teacher a booklet of sheets for the children and a schedule of what group will see what first. They handed out the sheets to the kids to fill in throughout the trip and Nick took to looking at the schedule that was passed to him. They were first going to see what was found in abandoned air shelters then see a film about women in factories, next an exhibit on racial difficulty in WWII, finally finishing off with a tour of the museum with a member of staff. Then Lunch!
"So each grown up knows where to go then after lunch you are allowed 2 hours of free time, to look around the museum, go to the gift shop or look at the exhibit again. During the free time you will pick an area you want to go and a teacher will take a group of you but you are allowed to spend more time there and choose. But you are representing the school best behaviour. We will have a break at 11am the restart at 11:30am for a 1:30pm lunch. Ok go put your bags on the shelves over there and then we can start."
As the kids walked off Jess turned to Nick. "Thank you so much for doing this and I'm sorry you have to be in charge of a group but their some of my best students so you shouldn't have a problem."
"Good I don't know what I do if one of them kept acting up."
"If they do miss behave tell them off, and if they carry on say they will have detention for a week and if that still doesn't work tell them I will call their parents to pick them up."
"Ok I think I can do that, hopefully Matt will take it easy on me." Just then all the kids came back Nick and Jess smiled at each other one more time before Jess walked over to her group and said to the class, "Ok meet back here at 11am have fun best behaviour."
With that Jess lead her group off to the film, Mr Johnson lead his off to the tour and Mrs Smith the racial difficulty exhibit. "Right we are going to see things discovered from abandoned air shelters. Let's go"
Nick lead off the group following the signs he kept looking over his shoulder to make sure his group were following him until the came to a stop at the destination.
"I don't know any of your names so quickly tell me them and we can look at the exhibit."
The kids said their names, Matt, obviously, Jake, Jerry, Tom, Sam, Sophie and Rachel. Hopefully Nick could remember that. With that they went to look at the exhibit.
11 came around quickly they had just finished the film and were heading back to the common area for break when Matt came up to Nick.
"Nick you did really well everyone seems to like you." Matt beamed at his uncle he was so happy that he wasn't embarrassing and sometimes kinda funny. The first half went really well no one miss behaved, they were polite and didn't mind Nick at all.
"Thanks buddy, it was actually interesting. Are you enjoying yourself?"
"Yeah I am, and it's really cool having you here, I've met Sarah's mom she kinda scared me but it's a shame Sarah had to miss this." Nick and Matt were silent for a bit until "Nick…"
"Yeah" Nick said still concentrating on walking and making sure his group were still behind him "I saw you with Miss Day earlier you guys seemed to be friendly."
Nick was taken aback by the statement thrown at him "umm… yeah… she's …. uhhh nice."
"You know it's fine if you like Miss Day she's cool and I like to see you happy." Nick looked down at his nephew since when did a 7 year old get so perceptive of grownup affairs. Nick didn't know what to reply but luckily they had reached the common area, everyone was there and Jess told the kids to grab what snack they wanted from their bag and come and sit back down. Once sat down Jess re-took the register and the kids then began to talk. After Jess had finished talking to Mr Johnson and Mrs Smith she came up to Nick. "How did it go?"
"Surprisingly well, Matt said they all seemed to like me and I even learnt something."
"Well I'm glad" Nick and Jess sat on the table near the kids and began discussing the museum but once that conversation ran dry, they both looked at each other wondering what to say. They then both looked at each other and smiled, Nick finally saying the first thing that popped into his head.
"So how long you lived in LA?"
"About 13 years I think, I'm from Portland and my best friend and I moved down here. What about you?"
"15 years I moved down here for college. Funny thing is I still live with my old college roommate."
"Well he must be a good friend. And by your accent you originally from Chicago?"
"Well he's alright bit of a d-bag but he's my best mate. And you guest correct I am from Chicago born and bred."
Jess smiled at him, "So if you moved down for college when did Matt and his family get here?"
"It was when Matt was 1 and Jamie and Dana wanted some help, why they thought I was a good choice because at the time I dropped out of law school and had worked in a bar for 3 years? But here they are and the rest is history."
Jess reached her hand across the table and grabbed Nicks giving it a light squeeze. "I think they made a brilliant decision. From what I have seen you are really good with Matt and giving up your day off so he could have a good day is admirable." They locked eyes and a smile spread across Nick's face. "Thank you Jess that's really kind of you to say." What they didn't realise was they were still holding hands lost in each other's eyes.
"Jess its 11:30." Mr Johnson came to stand next to Jess, "Jess; Mr Miller..." Mr Johnson shook Jess' shoulder waking her back into reality.
"Oh Sorry…" Jess looked at her and Nicks hand awkwardly removed her hand, "umm yes … I was just leaving." Jess stood up and looked back at Nick. "Mr Miller,"
"Miss Day"
Jess walked over to where the class was, "Ok It's 11.30 and we are going back to our activities. Please go line up behind your respective adults." All the kids put their bags back and stood in their groups. "Everyone be back here for lunch. Ok everyone enjoy." With that everyone filled out of the communal area. While Jess was walking out of the room all she kept thinking of was Nick and how comfortable it felt holding his hand. They were lost in the own world oblivious to the surrounding reality. But this wasn't the time to day dream there were kids to look after.
After that the day went pretty fast and before Nick new it they were coming to the last stop at the museum tour and it was 1:20pm. "So this is the last area we have at this museum, Ancient Egypt." "Over here we have the mummification process, here are their religious beliefs, and here is a time line of Tutankhamun. You can look around but don't touch anything because these are the oldest artefacts in our museum. Feel free to look around." After everyone looked around they came back to the tour guide. "That's it for the museum I hope you enjoyed it, I heard you have free time after lunch you can go and look at your favourite part in more detail, that's it from me enjoy the rest of your trip."
"Guys say thank you to Lisa here." Nick said looking at the class; he was really enjoying this authority thing. There was a big thank you coming from the group. Nick turned round to face Lisa shaking her hand "Thank you again. Right guys we have lunch to get to." Nick and the group started moving to lunch smiling at Lisa they all walked away.
Once back Jess took the register again got everyone seated with their friends having lunch and made her way over to where Nick was. "Hey Jess I am just going to pop down to the canteen and buy some lunch is there anything I can get you?"
"Umm can you get me a coffee Henry is really tiring me out."
"Yeah sure no problem" Jess was pulling out her purse, Nick put his hand on her shoulder "Don't worry about it Jess it will cos like a dollar." "Thanks Nick." Jess smiled at Nick replacing her purse in her bag. "It's no problem. I'll be right back."
"Hey Sam, how are you?" Matt said while Sam made her way to sit with Jake and Matt.
"I'm good Matt todays been great your uncle is so kind for coming with us. How are you?"
"I'm brilliant and even though my uncle was here he wasn't even embarrassing."
Matt, Jake and Sam had been friends most their life because they met in kindergarten. They immediately became the best of friends and have been inseparable ever since. They all had other friends like Sophie who Sam sat on the coach with, but no one is as close as them. But Matt had always thought Sam was amazing. He would always go into a depression if she was sick from school and last summer she went away for 2 weeks Matt had never been so sad. Obviously Jake still came round but he missed her. Even though they are 7 Matt adored Sam and never wanted to stop being her friend. They were all talking about what they were going to look at after lunch when they stopped and looked over at Mr Miller and Miss Day they were both laughing and their smile never left their faces.
"Miss Day and Mr Miller I can see the wedding invites now." Sam cooed "Matt you alright with our teacher and your uncle."
"Yeah me and Jake were talking about it earlier and I like my uncle happy." Matt smiled
"That's really nice of you Matt," Sam smiled back.
"Matt, stop staring at Sam," Matt hit Jake, "Ow, but look at your uncle."
Sam blushed but her and Matt looked at his uncle. Nick and Jess were in their own little world again they were even holding hands, again. "They really are hitting it off."
The three of them got distracted and began laughing at Steve because he had just tripped over Henry's foot.
Miss Day snapped out of her Mr Miller induced coma "Henry apologise to Steve, and everyone stop laughing and Henry detention tomorrow after school."
Jess sat back down with Nick "Sorry about that."
"Don't worry about it." Nick smiled. Then an awkward silence spread across them. They had just been talking about the trip and Nick reached over to her hand she was still saying thank you for coming and he was saying it was no problem. But like what had happened before happened again and they were lost in their own world.
"Umm yeah, so what are you up to when you're not enriching the lives of 7 year olds?"
"I normally hang out with my friend CeCe, we go out sometimes but to be honest I don't have much of a social life. What about you?"
"Well since I took over the bar management I don't have much free time but it will settle down soon when the back logs done. Other than that me and my roommates hang out drink beer watch sport normal guy activities." They both laughed at that shredding the awkward atmosphere with it.
But Jess looked down again wondering if it was too soon to ask the question that has been floating around her head. "So umm no umm special someone in your life? ..." There was an awkward silence "umm you don't have to answer that it's kinda awkward," Jess giggled half-heartedly.
"Nah Jess its fine. The answer is no, I haven't really met someone since well this might sound kinda lonely but for about 7 years. I have had a couple but nothing sticking." Nick said and looked down "Wow that was probably more information than you wanted."
"I'm not here to judge I haven't umm had a long term relationship for about the same amount of time. And haven't found anyone that … well you know make a life with since. I don't think I trust people as much as I used to. I put up a front that I do but deep down I find it hard to really trust someone." Jess paused and laughed softly." And here I am telling you all about my sucky love life."
They both looked at each other smiling widely, now finding out that they both haven't had their luck in love.
Nick raised his coffee to Jess "Here's to finally finding the one." The clinked their polystyrene cups, locked eyes and an unknown tension fell between the pair. Jess broke their eye contact and looked down at her watch "oh look its 2pm lunch is over."
"Guys time to pack up your lunch stuff." All the kids collected their rubbish throwing it away in the rubbish bags the teachers were holding, put away their bags to come back over to Miss Day.
"You have about 2 hours free time; we will meet back here at 3:45pm the coach comes at 4pm to leave at 4:05pm. You are representing the school so best behaviour, if one of us or a member of staff at the museum sees you messing around you are to come back here and stay with one of us. Ok get into groups to go around with always stay with someone. We are trusting you to be good ok. Where are people wanting to go?"
"Can we go back to see the animal section?" Asked Steve his group of friends and Rachel's wanted to go there first so Mrs Smith said she didn't mind taking them.
"Can we go back to Ancient Egypt we want to watch the whole mummification video?" Asked Matt, he was with Sam and Jake and some of the other guys that wanted to go so it made the group back up to about 8. Nick said he would take them and Matt was more than happy with this arrangement.
Others wanted to see the WWII exhibit again and of course Henry's friends choose the gift shop. Jess decided to go back to the WWII exhibit and Mr Johnson said he'd go to the gift shop.
Everyone left again ready to have some fun.
About 3:15pm Nick's group decided to go to the gift shop. They had been to the Ancient Egypt exhibit, Romans, WWII and the animal exhibit again and they wanted to quickly hit the gift shop before they left. They got to the gift shop everyone fanning out to look for what souvenir they wanted. Nick was busy looking at cuddly animals, when he felt a tap on his shoulder, turning around he was faced with his Nephew. "Hey Buddy did you find anything you like if it's a bit more than you have I'll slip you some extra cash." Nick laughed then noticed a small paper bag in his hands. "I see you have already got something."
"Yeah I uhhh… got it for you as a thank you for coming." Nick was blown away by this it was really no trouble. Matt passed him the bag; Nick took out the present it was a key ring of an American spitfire and engraved on the bottom said greatest uncle in history. "Oh my word Matt this is lovely thank you so much." Nick ruffled his hair and gave him a hug. Immediately after Nick pulled out his keys and put his first key ring on them. This was the best present he had ever received. After that Matt and Nick got everyone back together when it was about 3:40pm they quickly made their way back to the common area, seeing that Jess' group was the only ones back. The kids went straight to their bags while Nick made his way over to Jess. "Hey"
"Hey" Nick and Jess then discussed what they had been doing when Mr Johnson and Mrs Smith's groups came back. Jess re-took the register and by the time everyone had got all their stuff together it was nearly 4pm so they made their way back to the coach.
After an hour coach ride they were back at the school to see all the parents there to pick up their kids. Once off the coach Jess signed everyone out Matt had said his goodbyes to Sam and Jake making his way back to Nick and Jess. "Thank you again for today we couldn't have done it without you." Jess exclaimed.
"For the 100th time it was no issue. I really enjoyed myself and I never thought I say that about hanging out with kids. But I did." They both smiled at each other when Matt reached Nick.
"Ready to go buddy?" Matt Nodded, "Yep, you?"
Nick nodded back, quickly turning back to Jess. "So I guess I'll see you around."
"I guess so it was nice seeing you." Nick smiled and leaned in and gave Jess a kiss on the cheek. "Goodnight Miss Day"
Jess blushed and smiled shyly "Goodnight Mr Miller." With that Matt and Nick walked off to Nick's car with cheeky grins on their face.
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