SPACES [Editing]

Raconteur

Song of the chapter:

- Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You? By The 1975
- Don't Let Me Go by Harry Styles
- Say (All I Need) by One Republic
- A Bad Dream by Keane
- Be Still by The Fray

Louis Tomlinson

"Thanks. Now you have two options, either you wait here or go home." I told Harry as I went down from the car.

"What? You're going to make me wait outside?"

"No, you have another option. You can go home." I said as I walked to the school.

After arguing about him driving me to school, we've finally come to a compromise. Since he insisted on taking me to work, I agreed for as long as he doesn't interrupt with my teaching.

When we got in the car, he told me about how he wanted to stay inside the classroom with the children but I didn't allow him so now I'm giving him a choice.

"What if I starve here?" He yelled out to me.

"Look, if you told me you didn't attend preschool when you were a kid and you want so badly to know how it feels to be a child, I'd completely understand. But I know that's not possible so I don't care if you starve outside because you clearly have a choice. I'm not holding you hostage, you're free to go. Go home and eat whatever you want to eat." I told him before I continued walking to the school.

If there was one thing I'm not going to let him take over, it's my job. It's practically the only thing I have left. Without this job, I'm going to be his freeloader husband, something I clearly don't want to be.

I don't want to seem like a gold digger but from an outsider, that's how it's going to look like. We're not in love with each other and he's rich-- if I lose my job, it's going to look much much worse.

"Fine." He said as he went back inside the car.

I entered the classroom and it was chaos. The kids were running around, their toys are already all over the place.

"Kids, settle down. Today I'm going to teach you how to make paper lanterns." I said. It was pretty hard to make them follow whatever I was saying and it came to a point wherein I had to repeat what I was saying again and again so that they would obey, but I knew I had to do it.

From the teacher's table, I could clearly see the outside. Specifically, the playground. And just when I thought he already left, I saw Harry there, hanging on to the monkey bars.

He probably doesn't see me, but I watched how the sun's rays were hitting his skin, and then his hair.

"Hey, cut it out!" Kelly told Jacob who won't stop teasing her and playing with her hair.

"Okay class, do we have our materials ready?" I asked the children and they answered enthusiastically.

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It took me almost two hours to teach them how to create the lanterns. I had to assist them one by one to make sure they were being careful with their scissors.

"Hey, who's that man?" Thomas said as he pointed okay the window. Harry was on the swing, trying to get as high as he can. It was weird seeing him that way, a man who dressed up like a millionaire farmer who's trying to keep in touch with the child in him.