Zana: "𝓞𝓾𝓻 𝓛𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻"

Chapter 3: "Upgrading to Pre-k."

Nathan sat in his plastic blue chair with arms crossing on his chest.

He refused to do nothing ever since he came to pre-k, which was 30 minutes ago. The only thing he would do was draw while the other kids were socializing and playing with each other.

"Do you like to draw too?" a little boy tapped his shoulder. Nathan didn't brother to look up from his stick figure drawing.

He ignored him.

"Can I sit next to you?"

Before he could answer, the boy dropped his stack of paper and crayons next to him.

"Um.." Nathan stammered, surprised by his sudden move.

"My name is Charlie, but my girlfriend calls me pauper! I don't know what it means, but it has a nice ring to it, she must really likes me!" Charlie was a werewolf with dyed blue ears and a tail.

Nathan remained in silent except for his black crayon being pressed down on the paper and being dragged around it.

"What are you drawing?" Charlie forced himself on the table, brushing Nathan's shoulder.

There was three stick figures and a house.

"Whose that?" he said, pointing.

Charlie bumped into Nathan's shoulder, making a large scribble go across his paper.

"Oh no! I'm-"

"Go away!" Nathan snapped, pushing him off the chair.

Charlie, know on the floor looked up at him in tears. He stood up and cried to the teacher, tattling on him.

The teacher dragged Charlie behind him and tapped Nathan's shoulder.

"Nathan Ro'mave, that wasn't too friendly of you to push Charlie like that."

Silent.

"You owe him an apology."

Laughing children ran past them.

"Nathan, I'll give you the count of three or I'll call home."

Home? That's all Nathan wanted to do, go back home.

She held up her clenched right hand to her face, releasing one by one as she counted, "1... 2..."

"Sorry.." he murmured.

"We can't hear you Nathan."

"Sorry!" he yelled, this time he had the tears in his eyes.

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"Plwease! I don't wanna go back.." he muffled, squeezing Nana's shirt.

Nana patted his head, looking up to her husband for advice.

He went towards the couch and sat next to them.

"Its the weekend, so you won't go back until.." he paused, looking at Nana's squinted eyes. She was signaling him to 'shhh!'

"Right," Zane corrected himself. "If it makes you feel better, you were invited to Liliana's, Lily's, and Lance's birthday party tomorrow."

He lifted his head.

"O..Okay.." he rubbed his eyes.

Liliana, Lily, and Lance was Katelyn's and Travis's triplets. Liliana had Katelyn's dad darker blue hair, and Travis's once green eyes, Lily had Katelyn's blue eyes and Katelyn's blue hair, and Lance had Terry's green eyes and Travis's hair. They were going to turn 3 tomorrow. Liliana, Lily, Lance and Nathan may not look like they were friends, but if you watched closely, they held a cute friendship.

Nana stretched, standing up and walking behind the couch to grab Nathan.

"C'mon Nate, it's bed time." she said, watching him catching himself fall asleep.

She leaned and kissed Zane on the head.

"Feel free to join us anytime," she smiled.

Nana walked up stairs with Zane trailing behind her. They traveled quietly in Nathan's room and tucked him in his bed.

Walking out of the room, they perched on their bed to discuss something.

"How can we fix this?" Nana slightly panicked.

She never been a parent before, so you couldn't blame her.

"It's alright, we'll find a way later." Zane comforted her.

"How about we-"

"Nana, later." Zane sighed, "it's only Nate's first day, things can clear up by itself, and if it don't, it's still not the end of the world. We'll find a solution in the morning, but not right now. You need to sleep."

She calmed down, her breathing going at a steady pace.

"Okay.. Okay. Maybe I'm over thinking things. But you know me, I've had to hide myself for years and I don't want Nathan to follow that lead.."

"He's not going to follow that path because you're a great mom."

"And you're a great dad."

They both share a little, but passionate kiss before lying down into bed.

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