Christine was at the table just finished her dinner amongst the others.
"George can we stay here tonight?"
"Cause you can" He smiled
"Can you get him to sleep whilst I have a chat with Nikki?" Christine asked again
"yeah sure not a problem" George smiled getting up "Come on son bedtime"
"owh" he moaned as he was picked up and taken upstairs
"Nikki as you know I can't just hand you a job" Christine said sipping her drink
"I know and I don't want you too"
"However, as you may or may not know there is a merger happening and there looking out for a few new teachers to train up to qualified teacher status in various areas, it might be worth applying for"
"Oh okay then"
"Im sorry I cant do much more but a the end of the day the LEA will decide who gets the job not me" She said
"Christine its okay honest thankyou for letting me know"
Just at that moment Nikki's phone buzzed it was a message on Facebook she typed back Christine watching her smile.
Are you free to come round now and teach?
James, its like 8pm not tonight im with my family if that's okay.
Yeah no problem, how about a coffee tomorrow? Then come back to mine?
Yeah sounds good see you at 11?
Yeah 11 sounds good.
"Someone I know?" Christine asked smiling at her
Nikki looked up and smirked "No…it's a guy I met in group today his lovely very lovely"
"That's good your both supporting each other I hope"
"yeah, his a really lovely guy"
Christine smiled "Okay well I'll let you know when you can apply"
"Christine thankyou generally for your help"
"No problem at all"
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The next day Nikki was at the café with James. He had just come in and he bought over two Mocha's for them both.
"How do you know that's my favourite drink?" Nikki asked
"I guessed" he smiled
Nikki smiled biting he tongue a little as she took a sip "How much was it" She smiled with a frothy lip
"Don't worry my treat" he smiled pointing to his lip
"Oh thank you…Oh shoot" she smiled wiping her face with a napkin leading them both to giggle "So what did you want to know"
"Well just generally, how would you go about teaching a class"
"Well I would definitely plan make it interesting and enjoyable, but your going to have the odd kid that will play up maybe more than the odd kid, but you need to learn control. I find that punishments work better for kids as they don't want them so will behave"
"Well I never thought of it like that, that's a good idea" He smiled "Have you applied for anything yet?"
"Nope you?"
"Theres nothing going" He sighed
"Your find something im sure"
"eventually yeah" James said "Listen Nikki erm…would you like to go out for dinner some time?" He asked uneasily not knowing how she felt
Nikki looked over at him "Are you asking me out on a date?"
James looked down and nodded "I think your so lovely"
"is that what all this is about?"
James nodded again "I knew from the moment I set eyes on you, we would match"
Nikki didn't know what to do, she sat there staring into space.
"Nikki?"
"What?" She asked
"Do you want to go on a date with me?"