||Hello Neighbour: A Better Timeline||

||Chapter 48: Work On The Room||

Mr Murtaugh sat at his desk, his class catching up on the world they hadn't done and cheated off one person.
He was being nice and not expelling them if they do the work properly and at least get a B; It will be let off the hook.

He walked around, checking on each student, they tensed as they passed.
He then went to the back of the room, Nicky was working quietly on his own work.
"You doing alright?"
Mr Murtaugh made sure to keep his voice down,"Yeah, I really like the work.", Mr Murtaugh nods, he was glad to have a student that enjoyed the subject and the work.
. . .
He wasn't one that was a fan of children, but Nicky really made him enjoyed his job.
He knows, he shouldn't get attached to anyone. . . Usually it leads to losing them, and he knows he'll be killed if it was found he was getting attached to the possible enemy, he never really understood why kids are the enemies but they are smart kids, but at the same time it's not like they know what's going on.
"Mr Murtaugh?"
"Yes, Nicholas?"
He sat next to Nicky, as he pointed to a question that he didn't understand.
"Ah; This one is a trick question."
. . .
He'll just enjoy it while it lasts.

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"Thanks again, Miguel."
"No worries; Glad you're doing Nicky's room up?"
Miguel and Jay finished painting Nicky's walls, they put the piant buckets by the garage door to put away later.
"Coffee?"
"Sounds nice."
Nicky was sitting on the sofa, going through the photo albums his mom had been sorting through to either put on a shelf somewhere or put in the attic.
A lot of pictures from their college days or childhood, well. . . Mostly his dad's, he couldn't find many pictures of mom when she was younger.
"Hey Mom?"
"Yes, Dear?"
Nicky held up the album, pointing to a Photo of Jay and a lady with black hair.
"Who's this? Is she a friend??"
Miguel seemed to nearly choke on his coffee, Jay was just smiling and then his mom took the album from him, losing and seemed to have a bit of a forced smile while she was a little. . . Pink in the face?
"That uh- Old Friend. Old friend of your Father and I."
She closed it, Nicky looked at his Dad and Miguel's Dad, noticing how Miguel smiling and Jay was chuckling.
"Why are Dad and Miguel laughing?"
"I dunno."

Miguel laughed as did Jay, Luanne was red in the face as she put the album on the shelf with the others.
"Not a word about my pathetic emo phase."
Luanne sat the island, hiding her face that was very red at that point, Jay rubbed her back,"Awe, it looks good Luanne.", she grumbled as Miguel poured her a cup of coffee, didn't expect Jay to have kept the photo.

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. . .
Luanne went to check on her husband, putting Nicky's new bed together.
She peeked in, finding Nicky helping him put it together as they talked about the Alien Movie that they had watched.