Jasper was sat with his feet on the desk, whilst Eleanor was looking around the colourful walls for evidence of Sarah-Alice's work. She quickly found a piece that showed a girl in a crown holding hands with a caterpillar.
Before she could call Jasper over to show him, the door opened, and a middle age woman walked into the room. She saw Jasper immediately.
"Who are you, and how dare you put your feet up on my desk?" she demanded.
Jasper just sat there, laughing at her, before Eleanor moved to the doorway behind the woman and coughed.
The teacher spun around, and Jasper got up and went to stand behind Eleanor.
"Your Highness, to what do I owe this honour?"
"Well, I would like to know, what kind of grown assed adult, especially a teacher, picks on a child?"
"I'm, I'm sorry your Highness, I don't know what you mean."
"Sarah - Alice?" Eleanor asked, her voice and eyebrow rising when she said Alice.
Jasper watched as the colour drained from the teachers face.
"Why is it, when a seven year old says that her house is the palace, is your first instinct not to believe her, especially seen as though there are an abundance of photographs out there with her father protecting the king?"
"Why is it, when she says that her two favourite people in the world live in the palace, which is us by the way" she pointed at her self and Jasper "do you openly mock her and encourage her peers to do the same?"
Eleanor had started to advance on the teacher, her voice rising with each question, to a point the teacher walked into her desk.
"And WHY IS IT, that I get a call, while, I was on my holidays, that a little girl was crying because she was not only being bullied by her peers, but by her teacher as well?"
Eleanor stopped advancing on the teacher, and gave her time to answer, but all she could do was to stutter.
Jasper grabbed Eleanor's arm to indicate they were running out of time, and that the class were about to enter their classroom from their afternoon break.
"I think that you owe Sarah-Alice one heck of an apology." Eleanor told the shocked woman, before turning on her heel and following Jasper from the room. They managed to get back to the car without being seen, for the second part of their plan, passing the time attempting to do a crossword that Jasper had found in a paper on the teachers desk.
Before they knew it, there were several parents outside of their car. They watched out of the tinted windows for the perfect opportunity.
It wasn't long before they saw Sarah-Alice. She looked upset and was looking around for James, and they could see several parents talking and pointing at her.
Jasper nodded at Eleanor, opened the car door and stepped out, straightening his suit jacket as he stood there, seconds later, he held out a hand to assist Eleanor getting out of the car. A space was quickly cleared in front of them, as they waited by the car.
Parents soon started to notice them, and their attention was diverted away from Sarah-Alice and onto Eleanor, who did not take her eyes off the young girl. She smiled as she caught Sarah-Alice's eye, and she watched as Sarah-Alice smiled like she had never in her life smiled before.
Sarah-Alice curtseyed at Eleanor, before running full pelt at her and jumping into her arms and wrapping her legs around Eleanor's waist.
"Your dad couldn't pick you up today, so I said I would. Is that OK?" Eleanor asked her, whilst making sure her voice carried over to the closest parents.
Sarah-Alice nodded, and Eleanor put her down. She ushered Sarah-Alice into the car, before she climbed in herself, with Jasper bringing up the rear, and closing the door, cutting them off from the gobsmacked parents.
Over the next few weeks, Eleanor, Jasper and Liam took it in turns to drop off and pick Sarah-Alice up from school, until the other parents acknowledged that Sarah-Alice did in fact live at the Palace.