Isadora-Tnn

3. 'Happy families'

Isadora walks up to the office, seeing winter and Marjorie inside.
"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt" she apologised,
"It's alright my love, have you met winter?"
"Briefly, hi" Isadora smiles at the man,
"Hello again"
"I just needed to check a file for Carly about one of the babies?"
"Right over there my love" Marjorie smiles, gesturing to the file cabinet.

"Thank you" Isadora goes to search through the files just as another woman enters the room,
"Hello my love"
"My sweet" the couple greet each other. Isadora turns round to face the woman, and Autumn catches her eyes instantly.

She looked at the girl with such intensity. Like she had just seen a ghost, which did not go unnoticed,
"Hello" Autumn broke the sudden silence
"Hi, I'm Isadora, you must be autumn" she smiled,
"Yes" Winter and Marjorie both started to feel the uneasy tension, looking at each other confused.

"Have we met before?"
"No I don't think so, I'm new to town" Autumn still seemed unsure. She wasn't sure what it was about the girl, but she seemed to know her
"Are you alright my love?" Winter asks which snaps her from her trance
"Yes my sweet" Isadora still felt uneasy and decided to make herself scarce,
"Well I should get back to the baby room, it's nice to meet you Autumn"
"And you" she replied,
"Thanks Marjorie" the woman smiled as Isadora left the room.

"His five minutes are up, I'm going back" autumn spoke,
"No need little sis I'm here" Reece smirks as he walks in the room, he was holding the tiny baby in his arms wrapped up in her blanket.

Marjorie stands from her desk to get a better look at the baby,
"Hello, oh she is precious" she smiles, Autumn and Winter glance at each other before looking back at the three,
"She's perfect"

Reece hands the baby back to her mother who holds her close,
"And she has the best mum in the world" he smiles "And uncle"

...

Further down the hall, the owner of the knight nursery stood with his soon to be bride,
"I'm leaving it to you to ensure things run smoothly, can you at least do that?" He questions,
"You know Janice and her staff will put up a fight against Marjorie"
"I should have fired her when I had the chance" the man shakes his head,
"It's not Marjorie's fault" the woman replies. She didn't particularly like Marjorie, but she didn't like Janice even more.

"Since when do you like Marjore?"
"I don't"
"And I don't care what happens with the staff as long as the parents are bringing in my money" the man huffed. His anger was slowly rising and Siobhan did not want that.
"Okay. I'll make sure nothing happens"

"I am meeting with Janice soon, so go make yourself useful" the blonde nods and quietly leaves.

...

In one of the rooms, Vivian waits to pick up her son when another parents approaches her,

"Hello" the woman smiles,
"Hiya"
"You must be from one of the other nurseries because I don't think we've crossed paths before"
"Yeah I'm Jamie's mum"
"Nice to meet you i'm Rosamunds mother, my names Pamala"
"Vivian" the women introduce themselves.

The woman continues to talk, yet Vivian wasn't paying much attention as she waffled on about the size and amounts of children and parents.

"Mm such a shame to see" the blonde shakes her head, which catches Vivian's attention,
"Shame?"
"yeah. All these fathers bringing there little ones into nursery in the morning and them collecting them again in the evening. Such a pity"
"Sorry why is that a pity exactly?" She questions,
"It just goes to show how much things have changed over the years. It's no longer the man goes to work and the woman stays at home with the children"
"Right. We've come along way"
"Absolutely" she agrees,"Come along way in the wrong direction haven't we?" Vivian looks back at her with her brow raised,
"No I mean it's a good thing that that's where we're at in society now. I mean, it's still got a long way to go but it's going in the right direction"
"Oh I see! you're on that side of the fence. You see, I assumed you're the same belief as me because you're here and I'm assuming dads at work?"
"I have know idea what dads doing I haven't seen him in years" Vivian shrugs, looking over at the bathroom to see if she could see her son,
"Oh, oh god broken family. You see so many of them these days"