A/N: Thank you all for the wonderful reviews in the previous chapter. I love them all. I'm sorry for the long wait. I just decided to go on a little break from fanfiction for a while, but I'm back now and ready to post the next chapter. Hope you all enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I only own the teacher. The children do not belong to me.
It was early Monday morning and all the children were quietly sitting at their desks, coloring. Miranda was at her desk, watching the children.
"Maeve, I need you to go back to your desk. Jennifer needs to concentrate on coloring her picture."
"But Miss Norton, JJ took my pink crayon and I really need it to color my flower." Maeve whined.
"Jennifer, did you take Maeve's crayon?" Miranda gave JJ a look.
"It's JJ and yes and no." JJ replied back.
"It's either yes or no. Which is it?"
"Both. I sort of borrowed it without permission. Well without Maeve's permission, but someone did give me permission to use it."
"JJ, who gave you permission to take Maeve's crayon from her?"
"You expect me to just throw someone under the bus?! I can't rat out one of my friends! That's just really_ Okay it was Alex."
Miranda's eyes landed on Alex. "Alex, is that true?"
"Mmhm, but Maeve wasn't using the crayon."
"It was in my hand when JJ took it from me!"
"Calm down Maeve, you'll get your crayon back. Now Alex, that wasn't very nice of you to allow JJ to take Maeve's crayon. And JJ, that wasn't very nice of you to take Maeve's crayon while she was still using it. I'd like you to give it back to her now, please."
JJ obeyed her teacher and handed the crayon back to Maeve and Maeve went back to her desk with her crayon.
"Now what am I supposed to color the sun with?!" JJ whined.
"JJ, the sun is yellow, not _."
RING RING RING RING RING RING RING
Miranda was interrupted by the sound of the bell constantly ringing. The children all seemed frightened by the sound.
"What's happening?" Ashley asked with worry.
"It's alright children. We're just having a fire drill. I need you all to stay calm and line up."
FIRE?! WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!" Morgan began to run frantically around the room. He then stopped and said, "Wait a minute. What am I saying? I'm a child!"
"Derek, please stop running around the room and get in line with the rest of us, okay?" Norton said.
In less than five minutes, the entire school was outside, safely away from the building. Miranda's students were all huddled together, crying.
"I can't believe our beautiful school is gone!" Kevin wailed.
"I can't believe we didn't know this would happened today! We could have had smores!" Prentiss chimed in.
Miranda knelt down to her students and said, "It's alright children. The school isn't really on fire. We're just all practicing for if it really does catch on fire someday."
The children all stopped crying and stared at their teacher in disbelief.
"You lied to us?" Clyde asked.
"That wasn't very nice, Miss Norton. Didn't your mommy and daddy ever tell you that lying is wrong?" Anderson asked.
"Yes, they've told me that before, but I wasn't lying to any of you. We were just having a test and you all passed it. I'm very proud of each of you." Miranda smiled at her students.
"How come you didn't tell us about this test? We didn't even get to study for it?" Reid frowned.
"You don't need to study for this kind of test." Miranda reassured the young boy.
"Can we have a treat for passing this fire test?" Gideon asked.
"We sure can. How about some cupcakes? There's a tray of them in the fridge in the classroom." Miranda said.
The children were all smiles as they nodded their heads in a yes motion.
Miranda and her students were now back in the classroom. As the children sat at their desks, Miranda passed out chocolate and vanilla cupcakes to each of them. After she had finished passing out the cupcakes, she took one for herself and sat down at her desk with it.
"Miss Norton! Spencer is trying to take my cupcake!" Beth whined.
"I'm just making sure it's safe to eat!" Reid retorted.
"You don't have to try to put it in your mouth!" Beth glared at her classmate.
"Spencer, please stop trying to eat Beth's cupcake. You have your own." Miranda said.
"He's just practicing for when he gets to be a doctor when he grows up. He might of saved your life, Beth." Rossi chimed in.
"Oh I can't lie! I just wanted the cupcake because I love junk food. If it really was unsafe to eat, even I wouldn't have eaten it. I can't take the chance at ruining my life. I'm sorry. Wait… You're not putting this on my permanent record, are you? I really want to get into an excellent college." Reid looked at his teacher with fear and worry in his eyes.
With a reassuring smile, Miranda said "No dear. We'll pretend this never happened."
Reid breathed a sigh of relief. "Thanks Miss Norton."
End of chapter three. I wanted to add more to it, but I just couldn't think of anything else. Please let me know what you thought of it. Chapter four will be up soon.