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38. Robert

Carly and I were just doing handover when I noticed there were not three children left!

A little boy named Robert had just vanished and after practically panicking I left Carly with the rest of the kids to go and let Marjorie know.

"Robert!" I shout down the hallway
"Have you lost a child?" Crap. The gossipy parent. Quick Char think of something now
"No, no, we've lost a chicken"
"I didn't know you kept chickens"
"Yeah we got them today and uh, one has gotten lose so I'm trying to find him. Robert! So um, I need to carry on looking for him uh, Robert!" I spit out practically in one go and quickly rush off. Well I'm going to be in the group chat tonight. Lovely.

He is no where in the building or the garden so I went outside to look down the road. This is really really bad. Terrible.

"Robert!" Suddenly I notice Robert and his mum tuning the corner
"Oh, uh, hi! Excuse me"
"Oh Charlotte, hello" she beams at me. I take a second to catch my breath and calm myself down. "Did we forget something?"
"Yes you forgot to let us know you were taking Robert!"
"Oh. Well you and Carly were so busy so I just grabbed him and left"
"Yeah" I pull my phone from my pocket, "and you initiated a lockdown procedure" I quickly go to text Marjorie that he is okay,
"A what?" She asks
"A Lockdown. We thought that Robert had gone missing so we had to lockdown the nursery and Marjorie was minutes away from calling the police"
"You locked down the entire nursery because I didn't want to do handover?" She questions
"No. We did a lockdown procedure because you took with without telling anyone you were taking him and we thought he'd gone missing"
"Ohh, well then, consider this a great learning opportunity" learning opportunity? For what?
"How so?" I ask,
"Well if I was able to come in and take him without you even seeing, maybe you should look at that" oh you have to be kidding me.

"Well considering how much security we have in place to stop strangers coming into the building to do that, it's not really in our radar to expect the parents to come in and stealthily take their children either"
"Well I didn't stealthy take him, okay? I simply opened the door and he came out to me" she replies.

"Okay. Well if in future if you wouldn't mind just sticking around and doing handover with one of the children in the room, that would be great" I tell her,
"Yeah, I know. But when you and Carly are both talking to parents it means I've got to stand there and wait, okay. I really just wanted to get in and get out" she replies.
"Okay well at the very least, could you just make sure you've been acknowledged by one of the staff members next time okay? Otherwise we're gonna have a repeat of the situation again"
"Okay very well. Robert, let's go. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye" she takes his hand and they walk away. Well that was a completely preventable situation. Marjorie's name pops up on my phone and I answer the call,

"Is everything okay? What happened? Where is he?"
"It's absolutely fine Marjorie, his mum just came and got him without telling anyone. Uh, side note, we need to get a chicken called Robert"
"A what?"
"Yeah I'll tell you when I get back"

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A/N
Another little skit chapter because of course we need Robert the chicken! Anyway, brace yourselves for the next chapter...
Xoxo- I