The Monster That Stole My Reflection

Chapter 6: Just Add Water (Part 1)

Jim's POV                The Next Day

The first class of the day was health. Claire, Toby and I walked in confused as we saw bags of flour sitting on the floor behind the teacher's desk.

'Are we going to be cooking?' I thought to myself, finally something I was good at.

"Wow, Jimbo I wonder what those bags of flour are, maybe we are gonna do some cool experiment," Toby exclaimed.

"I don't think it's for any experiment," Claire explained, as she pointed to diapers and baby clothes on the floor sitting on the other side of the room.

"Quiet everyone," Coach Lawrence yelled, everyone then became silent and paid attention to the front of the class. He grabbed multiple bags of floor and stood by Mary's table

"Alright, here it is. For the next 24 hours, this is your baby." He said as he placed a bag on her table.

"Are we gonna learn how babies are made?" She gasped,

"At the flour mill, apparently." He sarcastically said, as he headed back towards the class.

"Your assignment is simple. You will name it. You will care for it. You will never let it out of your sight," He shouted as he placed a hand over the bags protectively.

"Look who you are seated beside. That is your partner." Coach Ordered he then stood at the left of my table.

"If it comes back in one piece, you pass." Coach passed my table and placed the bag as he went. I looked over to the table beside me, my partner was Claire. We celebrated by fist bumping.

"If it doesn't," he paused as he placed the bag of flour on Toby's desk behind me, "You fail."

"Piece of cake, "Toby smiled and rested his hands behind his head and recorded in his chair.

"It's not cake! Don't eat it, Domzalski!" Coach corrected, the classroom exploded with laughter. Coach continued to pass around a bag to each group.

"So you cheater don't turn in a fake, personalise your babies to begin the joy of parenting." He said as he walked back to the front of the classroom.

"Hmm... Ah!" Toby exclaimed, Darci looked worriedly at him.

"I'm kinda worried. Toby, I really need to pass this class or else I lose my mascot position." She worriedly explained her concerns, as Darci was talking Toby was happily drawing on the bag of flour. The sudden opening of the door shocked me a bit as Steve ran into the classroom. He had a worried look on his face as he stood in the doorway for a moment. He had some slight bruising on his cheek where the dodgeball impacted his face. A feeling of guilt stung my chest.

"Don't worry we're team Darby! We got this! I'm great with ki-" Steve interrupted Toby as he was hurriedly making his way to a table in the back of the class. Toby's hand was knocked into the newly decorated flour bag. Toby chuckled nervously as Darci slammed her head onto the table.

"I am totally gonna fail," She grumbled.

"Sorry I'm, uh... late, coach. Things got a little weird," Steve apologised as he sat at the desk.

"Well it's about to get weirder. You're raising a baby with Pepperjack," Coach explained.

"What?!" Eli and Steve shouted. While all this was happening I was decorating Claire and I's baby. I drew black hair resembling Claires along with hair clips plus a blue bow.

"It has your eyes," I smiled as I showed her our baby.

"It has your nose," She smiled back as I chuckled.