My Niece's Teacher

CHAPTER 3: Back To School

DEUCE

        Brooke threw me off guard when I found out that that was Paige's teacher. I had expected her to be older and well, just different.

        She has no right to place judgement or to lecture me about anything.

        As much as I do appreciate all that she has done for Paige, she needs to back off and to know her place.

        It's the next day and I woke up before Paige did. Luckily school was closed cause of it being a holiday so I thought I would wait for Paige to wake up and have some breakfast and see what she would like to do.

         Last night Angela and Frank both headed back to the clubhouse to help take care of things while I was here.

         I heard the door open up a little bit from Paige's bedroom as I leaned forward over the counter, drinking some coffee.

         "Good morning Munchkin." I smiled at her.

         "Morning Uncle D." She says while rubbing her eyes and with her hair all messed up.

         She walks up to me and I pick her up and she lays her head on my shoulder while I give her a kiss on the forehead.

         "How'd you sleep?" I asked her.

         "Okay. I miss my mom and dad." She says and my heart just breaks.

         "I know sweetie. Me too." I assure her as I hold her tighter.

         "Uncle D.?" She asks me while lifting up her head.

         "Yes sweetie?" I ask her.

         "Can I please have some pancakes?" She asks.

          "Anything you want." I tell her then set her down and start making her some pancakes.

         After we got done with breakfast and got dressed, we headed towards the park and played a little bit then went to grab some lunch and then came back to the house, watched a couple of Disney movies and then I drew a bubble bath for her.

          As soon as she git into the tub, I went back into the living room to clean up the little bit of trash we had from the snacks we got for watching the movies and as soon as I began walking over towards the kitchen to clean up some of the dishes, I heard a light knock on the door.

          Out of habit of course, I gripped my gun in the back of my pants as I walked to the door.

          "Who is it?" I asked before opening the door.

          "It's Brooke. Paige's teacher." She says.

          "Oh." I say then open up the door. "What do you want?"

          "Wow, okay, um, well, I just came by to drop off Paige's things she left at my house and was hoping I could say hi to her real quick and see how she's doing." She says.

          "Thanks." I tell her as I grab the backpack from her hands. "She's fine. Goodnight." I tell her and then shut the door.

         My god, this must have been annoying to my brother and his wife.

         I set down her backpack and then go and knock on the bathroom door.

         "You okay there Munchkin?" I ask Paige  from outside the door.

         "Yeppers, Uncle D." She replies.

         I swear, she is such a great little girl. I'm so lucky to have her.

         Now I need to just figure out what I'm gonna do with her. No matter what, I'm gonna keep her with me and keep her safe. Rather that's here or back where I live. I need to make a decision soon but for now, I will just enjoy these moments with her.

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         It's been almost two weeks since Paige's parents died and Paige wanted to stay out of school for that whole week. Though right now, I am taking her to school and I haven't done this in a long time, not to mention that we're running late cause I woke up late and ot took forever for me to do her hair. She kept telling me that it was okay and that Ms. Myers (aka Brooke) would braid her hair. But I didn't want to give her teacher the satisfaction of me not being able to do Paige's hair.

          Which by the way, whoever made up the french braid, seriously, what the hell make it so complicated?

          After we pulled up to the school and got off the bike, we ran quickly into the office to explain what happened and the lady at the front was nice enough to cut Paige some slack and just said to go on ahead off to class.

          Paige wanted me to walk her to her class so I decided to do just that.

           As soon as we got to the door, I looked in the window on the door and saw Brooke teaching and doing some kind of movement with her hands doing I don't know what but it seemed to make the kids laugh.

          I am snapped back to reality after hearing Paige tell me, "I'm okay now Uncle D. I've got it from here." She says.

          "Of course Munchkin." I smile at her. I then crouch down, give her a kiss on the forehead. "Have a great day and I will see you at two."

          "Okay. I love you." She says and gives me a huge hug.

          "I love you too." I tell her as I hug her back.

          She then opens up the door and walks in and I notice everyone saying hi to her including Brooke.

          'Wow', I thought. Sounds like she's pretty popular. Which of course she would be, she's amazing.

          Throughout the day as I waited for her to get out of school, I had no idea in what to do. So I watched some TV and made sure her bed was made then even searched a few things of what to do and how this all works. Taking care of a kid and everything.

          Not that I ever thought this was ever easy, but damn, didn't know there was so much to know about parenting or even taking care of a kid.

Next chapter will be posted soon! :)