Chapter 55 - Finishing Up
Cesca woke to the sound of her alarm, it was usually a sound that she detested a sound she despised but this morning was different, despite waking in the night to the surprise that Jonah had been working on she’d had the best night’s sleep she’d had in a long time, she felt refreshed and awake, Jonah was clearly shattered so she found herself rolling out of bed and heading for the shower, today was her last day at waterloo road before she finished to go on maternity leave, an exciting but daunting prospect, Cesca knew it would mean sitting around watching the trash that was day time television but at the same time it would be nice to be able to just relax enjoy the peace and quiet, with 2 babies to look after it definitely wasn’t going to be easy in the slightest, though she felt ready to take it on, she just wanted to see their tiny faces, see all their little features, it had been a long wait and it was almost over. Cesca enjoyed the cold water hit her back, it was refreshing, it was a warm day for once and it was nice to be woken to the feeling of cool air. Cesca dried herself, wrapping a towel across her body, hard to do when you bloat out round the middle, Cesca couldn’t wait to have her body back as much as she loved looking pregnant there were clothes in her wardrobe that she couldn’t wait to put on again and it was kind of frustrating not being able to wear the heels she was almost known for wearing. She rouged her hair as she came through the bathroom door back into her room, Jonah was still sound asleep, she stopped dead in her tracks as she found herself watching him, his face so peaceful, so beautiful. She didn’t want to wake him but knew that if she didn’t he would be late, she calmly walked over, perching herself next to him before stroking his face and replacing her hand with her lips. Jonah’s eyes fluttered open as he woke from a sleep that didn’t seem to be having the same effect as Cesca’s had. He resembled a zombie, his eyes were ringed with dark circles and blood shot eyes that were looking a little sore. “Morning”, Cesca said, seeing that he really was knackered. “You need to get up J, you look shattered”, “I am, I really... am”, his words got fainter throughout his sentence, “You go hop in the shower, see how you feel after that, I’ll got get Mia ready, I love you”, Cesca kissed him once more, not leaving the room until he had gotten out of bed, she watched his body stroll across their bedroom floor before waddling off to wake up Mia. Cesca was beginning to feel the effects of being up and about, she was in desperate need of her morning coffee, she may have felt and looked awake, but the truth was she couldn’t properly function without it. She opened Mia’s door to find content and sleeping Mia. She smiled; today was definitely going to be one of those days where morning weren’t going to be the Kirby’s thing. Cesca knelt down on the floor next to Mia’s bed, it was a struggle but she was determined to do it, prove to herself that she wasn’t as incapable as everyone else thought she was. “Morning gorgeous”, She whispered quietly, in attempt to not startle Mia. Mia’s eyes opened and her content face was replaced with a grumpy frown, “Come on, you’ve got school to get ready for”, Cesca was still in her towel, she needed to get ready just as much as Mia did and could feel that she would be the one that ended up making them late. She managed to find her feet once more and headed over to Mia’s wardrobe pulling out her red school jumper and summer dress before giving Mia her instructions. “Right, you’re going to get yourself dressed, like the big girl that you are whilst mummy finishes getting ready, I want you dressed and ready for me to do your hair when I get back”, Cesca’s instructions were clear, simple and straight forward. Mia made her way out of her bed; she took her school summer dress of the hanger and began to attempt at unbuttoning it so she could put it on. Cesca searched through her wardrobe in search of something to wear, she hated seeing all her lovely tight fighting dresses, tops and jeans at one end of her wardrobe, they were in sight but not reach, it was a horrible taunt, Cesca loved her clothes and just wanted to be able to wear them, it was a simple thing but a factor that caused so much frustration. She settled on a cute blue polka dotted tie dress, it looked gorgeous on, as Cesca usually did, she had her hair half up half down and decided on wearing some cute blue ballet pumps, simple and comfy yet still had an athouritive vibe going on. Cesca was happy with how she looked and was taking a final glance in the mirror before heading back to Mia, though Jonah had only just gotten out of the shower, “J, why don’t you just stay here?”, Cesca was trying to be kind, he would be no use at school, he was knackered, his eyes were heavy and his body slow and hunched over, “It’s fine, I’ll be in”, Cesca couldn’t bare to argue so just let him get on with it, she still had Mia to focus on. She walked in to Mia’s room to find her in her pants, “Mia, I told you to get dressed”, Cesca hadn’t had a chance to see how far she had gotten with getting ready until she saw her struggling with undoing the buttons, “Oh baby, pass it here, mummy will do it for you”, Mia passed her dress to Cesca “I almost did it”, Mia was clearly frustrated with herself “I know baby, it’s difficult, the buttons are very fiddly”, Cesca smiled and carried on quickly undoing the buttons on her dress before giving it back to Mia to put on, Cesca headed over to help her do it up again but Mia wouldn’t let her, “Mia, let me help you. It’s getting late and you need to have something to eat”, “No, I want to do it”, “Mia, we don’t have time”, Mia crossed her arms, Cesca carefully unfolded them, watching them swing down next to Mia’s body, she was in a grump there was no doubt about it. Cesca quickly finished doing up the last button before helping her to put her cardigan on, she was already Cesca just had to finish her off by doing her hair, she sat Mia down on the floor, Cesca sat on the edge of her bed as plait her hair into two French plaits, it looked neat and pretty, the ends of the plaits were two ringlets, she looked so cute. Cesca added in a flower to side of her head. “There we go”, Cesca looked at her watch as Mia bounced up and headed downstairs with a jump in her step despite being in a grump with Cesca. They were on time now, shame that Jonah wasn’t though. Cesca gave Mia her toast which was topped with raspberry Jam before heading upstairs to see how Jonah was getting on, he was now lying on the bed, he was only half dressed, his trousers were on but he hadn’t quite made it to his shirt. Cesca’s heart melted, it was sweet, she decided to leave him, she needed to get Mia to school, she wasn’t teaching her tutor group this morning so would be able to go back to the house before she headed off to work. Mia had finished her breakfast, Cesca wiped her face before telling her to get her shoes on, Cesca quickly wrote Jonah a note and left it in the hall in case he came downstairs she knew it was unlikely but didn’t want him to worry. She headed over to the twins rooms admiring the work he had done the night before, the reason that he was so shattered, she hadn’t had a proper chance to look at it properly, she was half asleep when she woke up last night. The note was in place, it read: J, taking Mia to school, will be back soon. I love you C x. Cesca headed downstairs to find Mia twirling round in circles, “Mummy I feel dizzy”, “I wonder why”, Cesca said as she opened the door letting Mia walk out first, she shut the door as quietly as she could behind her, however quiet she hoped she had been the shutting of the door caused Jonah to wake up.
Jonah scared himself, he was confused but only for a second, he had remembered where he had got to and quickly chucked his shirt on. He didn’t look scruffy, Jonah could never look scruffy, he grabbed his bag and headed down to get his shoes on, he had caught sight of the clock out of the corner of his eye and knew that he was running late, he had already guessed that Cesca left him to sleep, she knew how adamant she had been for him to get some rest, but Jonah wasn’t up for any of it and instead got on with getting ready to leave, he was now downstairs sat on the step tying his last shoe, he got up, bag placed over his head, he leant over to the hall table and picked up his car keys for a change, he read the note which only confirmed that Cesca had left and did the same thing. He unlocked his car, got in and sped into the distance, just as Cesca was returning from taking Mia to school; it hadn’t been a struggle Mia loved it. Learning new things, meeting new people, it was everything Mia loved doing, they loved how easy Mia was to please, she was sensitive but also understanding, she knew that she wouldn’t always get her way and that resulted in strops and tantrums just like any other child her age, but she understood why. Cesca noticed the car speed off in front of her, in fact it annoyed her, it was one of those moments where you think what idiot is driving that car, Cesca hadn’t realised that it was Jonah’s car, she recognised it but it hadn’t really hit her, she stopped the engine and got out of the car, she had promised Jonah that she would be back plus she needed to grab her stuff for school to. She unlocked the door, the house was still and quiet so Cesca just presumed Jonah was still asleep, she quietly called up, “Jonah... babe”, no reply. But Cesca didn’t expect one, she headed upstairs to grab her bag that she had managed to pack that morning before getting everyone up and ready, she walked into her room to find Jonah not in bed and his shirt that had been lying next to him gone, “Jonah”, she said with complete frustration in her voice. She picked up her bag and headed downstairs, she got to the bottom the note had been moved so he had seen it. She opened the front door, determined to be a little early despite thinking originally that she would be late, she rummaged for her phone, finding it in her oversized bag once she had reached the car, she chucked her bag in the back before seat belting herself up and checking to see if she had any new messages, none. This annoyed Cesca, she had been so nice to Jonah that morning and now he hadn’t even given her the common courtesy of telling her that he had gone into work. She drove off, she knew that Jonah was only being like this because he hadn’t had his nine hours sleep, Jonah didn’t function properly without them, just like Cesca didn’t function without her coffee, something she still hadn’t had so was defiantly going to be having once at school. She parked up, got out of the car, her face was filled with determination it was clear she was on a mission, and nobody was to cross her path. She didn’t look angry or cross but she definitely came across as being frustrated, the staff that passed her on the way into school knew her well enough to realise she hadn’t had her coffee yet. “Long morning”, Adanna called out as she caught up with Cesca, “You could say that”, Cesca almost laughed but didn’t quite, it was an awkward laugh not one of those early morning giggly laughs that she had. “What’s happened”, the girls walked into school, talking all the way to the staff room like they usually did, “Well Jonah finished decorating last night, it looks lovely, but he is shattered now and is being way to stubborn. I suggested that he stayed home caught up on his sleep, you don’t want to see him when he hasn’t slept properly”, “Right”, “so I left him to get ready whilst I helped Mia, who was in a grump, so she didn’t help with the situation, I checked on J who was asleep, which I was happy with so I left him to and took Mia to school, I left him a note so he wouldn’t freak out if he woke up but I wasn’t expecting him to, I got home and he’d gone, he had clearly seen my note but didn’t bother to even text me to say he’d gone in or anything”, “It’s clear someone got up the wrong side of bed this morning”, “I know, so I tried my best to help and he just threw it back in my face”, “Ces, don’t worry about it”, “Thanks Adanna, I’m not it’s just frustrating”, They reached the staffroom, both putting their coats on the coat stand before taking a seat ready to listen to the agenda of the day from Karen, but she hadn’t quite arrived.
Cesca caught sight of Jonah sat next to Tom, she headed over there her book that she had started to mark also in her hand, she sat down next to him and began to start up the questioning process, every question and sentence was said between gritted teeth and fake smiles and actions, the marking was just a cover up to avoid anybody looking to closely into it all, “Thanks for the note to say you’d gone”, Cesca began, “Oh for god sake Ces, we have work, I was going to be late, didn’t realise I had to tell you everywhere I go”, “You don’t but considering you were asleep when I left would have been nice to get some sort of note or something”, “Well I’m sorry, maybe I’ll give you a 3 page essay on it next time” Jonah finished. He got up to go and stand at the back where some of the other guys were standing, Cesca stayed where she was, her face full of disgust and annoyance, Adanna looked at her with an awkward expression, Cesca tried to just get on with the day, it was her last day and she wanted it to be nice, a chance to say goodbye to everyone before she left to have the twins, she would be back but she knew it wouldn’t be for a while. Karen and Chris entered the room, Cesca looked over at Jonah who just rolled his eyes at, she muttered under her breath, “for god sake Jonah”, as she turned to listen in to what Karen had to say that morning. “Good morning, right well today should be quite simple”, she began, talking about how there was something new being tried out in the food hall and that lunch and break were to be 5 minutes shorter as a result of all the problems that they had to deal with occurring at the end of break, they hoped with the new change that this would change. “Just to finish we want to wish Cesca and Jonah the best, with this being Cesca’s last day before having their twins”, Cesca smiled, the thought could only ever make her happy, she looked over at Jonah once again hoping that his topic might have lightened his mood but nope. His smile was the most obvious fake smile seen for centuries, Cesca could spot it a mile away, she turned back around as Karen and Chris both walked out, she picked up her bag smiled at Adanna and headed for her first lesson, year 9 girls, they would definitely allow her to have a nice last day, there class was relaxed and chilled, there was a great respect for Cesca in this year, and Cesca had a lot of respect for them to. Cesca pushed the staffroom door and headed off, Adanna waited for her to leave before approaching Jonah. She walked over, Tom and Charlie took a sharp exit, Tom was only to use to this particular facial expression and knew exactly where it was going, “For god sake Jonah, you don’t get enough sleep and fire evils at your own wife all day” “what difference does it make to you Adanna”, “She’s my friend, I’m going to look out for her, you need to calm down, wake yourself up somehow, you can’t start blaming Cesca for the fact your tired how old are you”, that was possibly the worst possible thing to say, playing on the fact that Jonah was younger than all of them ,still more naive than the rest of them, “Look I admit it, I’m tired and I probably have taken that out on Cesca”, “Probably taken it out on her, most definitely is more the word I would use”, “Alright, look I’m shattered I tried to do something nice for Cesca”, “The twins room, I heard”, “Yes, but she didn’t seem happy about it, in fact she dismissed the entire thing, she just sent me back to bed”, “Is this why you’re in such a grump, that an the fact you didn’t get enough sleep”, “Yeah, can you imagine being up all night just to please the person you love to have it all thrown in your face”, “You couldn’t be more wrong, she loves it. She thought it was a lovely thing to do, but she was half asleep last night you can’t be angry at her for that, look you need to talk otherwise this childish arguing is never going to end”, Adanna rubbed his arm with encouragement before walking off to carry out her duties set by Karen. Jonah sighed, he needed to wake up quick, he didn’t mean to stress out Cesca, he would never intentionally do that, he didn’t mean to snap at her either when she tried to talk to him about it. This was going to play over and over in his head until he spoke to her, he had a free period so decided now was as a better chance as any, maybe things really did happen for a reason. He headed off to her classroom. Cesca had registered her class, there were smiles and laughter as Cesca had her usual chat with them, they were getting on with their work as well as chatting, which always went down with Cesca and any teacher for that matter. There were looks shot between the class and smiles and laughter and apprehensive movements until one of the girls Lydia was her name finally spoke, Cesca was looking down at some work that she had to finish marking, everything had to be up to date by the time she had left, the cover, who was going to be Chris, had to be up aware of where they were all up to. “Miss”, Lydia said, “Yes”, Cesca said enthusiastically. She rose from her seat in the strangest way Cesca had ever seen before, her arms are behind her back she hadn’t twigged what was going on, instead looked at her strangely with a smile on her face and eyebrows raised. Lydia pulled what was from behind her back out in front of her, “This is for you”, Cesca took what seemed to be the biggest envelope she had ever seen from her hands, her mouth seemed to hit the floor, “What’s this then?”, “Wait a second”, one of the other girls, Millie called out as she passed the present that she had been hiding for them all under her desk to Lydia to give to their favourite teacher. It was wrapped up neatly in pretty wrapping paper, clearly had a girls touch. “Aw girls, your too kind”, “Miss, you deserve it, it’s just a little well wisher card from all of us and the rest of our year, the boys as well”, “Well I am impressed if you managed to get the boys to sign it thank you”. Cesca’s face was gleaming; she looked radiant and shocked it was such a lovely surprise, Cesca felt the present in her hands curious to know what it could be it was fairly big. “Miss open them”, one of the other students called out. Cesca giggled, “I’m going to save them to open with Mr Kirby later, I’m sure he’ll really like them to”. Speaking of the devil, Jonah appeared at the door, gently tapping it which grabbed Cesca’s attention, she was in a really good mood which was slightly lowered by the fact Jonah had been so annoyed and snappy with her this morning, she wasn’t sure she wanted him to ruin her good morning, “Mrs Kirby can I have a quick word” “Sure”, Cesca said as she attempted to balance the huge card on her desk, placing the present next to it, the girls watched as she left the room, “Carry on with your work girls, I’ll only be a minute”, she closed the door behind her, “What is it, I’m teaching”, “I know, I just feel so bad about this morning. You didn’t deserve how I acted towards you”, “J”, Cesca was trying to forget all about it. It was a blip. “I love you and I’m sorry”, “I love you to, I was only trying to think of you, your shattered”, “I know you were, I’ m sorry. I thought you didn’t appreciate what I had done, it frustrated me”, “Appreciate. I loved it J, it’s beautiful, but it was 2am, I was shattered you couldn’t expect me to fully show how much I loved it”, “I know that now, I’m sorry.”, “Any way you might as well come in”, “What?”, “Well the girls have made us a card and a present, they wanted me to open it but I didn’t want to do it without you”, “Well I think that’s an offer I can’t refuse”, Cesca gave off her flirtatious giggle before taking his hand and leading him into her class room, she let go of his hand once in her class room again, she didn’t want Karen walking in and deciding that she was being inappropriate in class. “So how are we getting on with the work then?”, Cesca asked as she strolled around the room checking to see how far they had got, as usual the class had finished it all, “Right well since your all finished, I think there might be time to open your present and card”, she looked over at Jonah who joined her, pulling up the spare computer chair next to her. She gave him a sexy smile before asking which he wanted to open first, “The card, it’s huge. Whose it from?”, Jonah asked as Cesca began to position it so that he could help her to unwrap it, “It’s from year 9”, “Well that’s sweet of them”, They had finally unwrapped the card and had opened it to find stars and pink and blue dummy confetti fly out of it, which only made Cesca and the class laugh. “I knew that was going to happen”, Jonah said, “Well thanks for warning me”, Cesca said, still giggly, the pair of them had a quick glance at the card, there were so many messages, they would be sure to read them all together later once they were home. Jonah took the card from Cesca’s hand as Cesca picked up the present, giving her class a curious look, she held it waiting for Jonah to be ready, she was getting impatient, “patience is a virtue that your clearly don’t have Mrs Kirby”, Jonah teased her, it would have been a moment that Cesca would have playfully slapped him, but they were in her classroom so she thought that action through before doing it, she looked down at the paper saying her next sentence through a smile, quiet enough for her class not to hear but for Jonah to. “You are so going to get it later, just you wait”, Jonah liked the idea of that and gave out a cheeky smile. They both began to tear the paper away, to reveal two boxes of gorgeous baby shoes, one was filled with some cute pink and white spotty espadrilles and the over some cute blue plimsolls, Cesca’s mouth once again hit the floor, Jonah took them both in, they were great, so cute. It was luck that there was a pair of shoes for a baby boy and girl, they hadn’t told anyone of this yet, they were acting as if they didn’t know which made it all that much more exciting. Tears began to fill Cesca’s eyes, Jonah comforted her with a hug, the girls were all so happy for them both and chuffed that they liked the presents so much. The bell rang and the girls left the room, “thank you girls”, Cesca called out, leaving Jonah and Cesca alone in her classroom. “You really do bring out the best in people Ces”, Cesca blushed and bit her lip, “Look I’m really sorry, I love you so much”, “Oh stop talking Kirby”, Cesca gave him a long passionate kiss before watching him head off to class, today definitely had lived up to Cesca’s expectations if not exceeded them, it was so lovely to see the students being so supportive, Cesca couldn’t get over the surprise, she couldn’t wait to read each individual comment written in the card, she knew that they were bound to make her smile possibly even cry.
Jonah scared himself, he was confused but only for a second, he had remembered where he had got to and quickly chucked his shirt on. He didn’t look scruffy, Jonah could never look scruffy, he grabbed his bag and headed down to get his shoes on, he had caught sight of the clock out of the corner of his eye and knew that he was running late, he had already guessed that Cesca left him to sleep, she knew how adamant she had been for him to get some rest, but Jonah wasn’t up for any of it and instead got on with getting ready to leave, he was now downstairs sat on the step tying his last shoe, he got up, bag placed over his head, he leant over to the hall table and picked up his car keys for a change, he read the note which only confirmed that Cesca had left and did the same thing. He unlocked his car, got in and sped into the distance, just as Cesca was returning from taking Mia to school; it hadn’t been a struggle Mia loved it. Learning new things, meeting new people, it was everything Mia loved doing, they loved how easy Mia was to please, she was sensitive but also understanding, she knew that she wouldn’t always get her way and that resulted in strops and tantrums just like any other child her age, but she understood why. Cesca noticed the car speed off in front of her, in fact it annoyed her, it was one of those moments where you think what idiot is driving that car, Cesca hadn’t realised that it was Jonah’s car, she recognised it but it hadn’t really hit her, she stopped the engine and got out of the car, she had promised Jonah that she would be back plus she needed to grab her stuff for school to. She unlocked the door, the house was still and quiet so Cesca just presumed Jonah was still asleep, she quietly called up, “Jonah... babe”, no reply. But Cesca didn’t expect one, she headed upstairs to grab her bag that she had managed to pack that morning before getting everyone up and ready, she walked into her room to find Jonah not in bed and his shirt that had been lying next to him gone, “Jonah”, she said with complete frustration in her voice. She picked up her bag and headed downstairs, she got to the bottom the note had been moved so he had seen it. She opened the front door, determined to be a little early despite thinking originally that she would be late, she rummaged for her phone, finding it in her oversized bag once she had reached the car, she chucked her bag in the back before seat belting herself up and checking to see if she had any new messages, none. This annoyed Cesca, she had been so nice to Jonah that morning and now he hadn’t even given her the common courtesy of telling her that he had gone into work. She drove off, she knew that Jonah was only being like this because he hadn’t had his nine hours sleep, Jonah didn’t function properly without them, just like Cesca didn’t function without her coffee, something she still hadn’t had so was defiantly going to be having once at school. She parked up, got out of the car, her face was filled with determination it was clear she was on a mission, and nobody was to cross her path. She didn’t look angry or cross but she definitely came across as being frustrated, the staff that passed her on the way into school knew her well enough to realise she hadn’t had her coffee yet. “Long morning”, Adanna called out as she caught up with Cesca, “You could say that”, Cesca almost laughed but didn’t quite, it was an awkward laugh not one of those early morning giggly laughs that she had. “What’s happened”, the girls walked into school, talking all the way to the staff room like they usually did, “Well Jonah finished decorating last night, it looks lovely, but he is shattered now and is being way to stubborn. I suggested that he stayed home caught up on his sleep, you don’t want to see him when he hasn’t slept properly”, “Right”, “so I left him to get ready whilst I helped Mia, who was in a grump, so she didn’t help with the situation, I checked on J who was asleep, which I was happy with so I left him to and took Mia to school, I left him a note so he wouldn’t freak out if he woke up but I wasn’t expecting him to, I got home and he’d gone, he had clearly seen my note but didn’t bother to even text me to say he’d gone in or anything”, “It’s clear someone got up the wrong side of bed this morning”, “I know, so I tried my best to help and he just threw it back in my face”, “Ces, don’t worry about it”, “Thanks Adanna, I’m not it’s just frustrating”, They reached the staffroom, both putting their coats on the coat stand before taking a seat ready to listen to the agenda of the day from Karen, but she hadn’t quite arrived.
Cesca caught sight of Jonah sat next to Tom, she headed over there her book that she had started to mark also in her hand, she sat down next to him and began to start up the questioning process, every question and sentence was said between gritted teeth and fake smiles and actions, the marking was just a cover up to avoid anybody looking to closely into it all, “Thanks for the note to say you’d gone”, Cesca began, “Oh for god sake Ces, we have work, I was going to be late, didn’t realise I had to tell you everywhere I go”, “You don’t but considering you were asleep when I left would have been nice to get some sort of note or something”, “Well I’m sorry, maybe I’ll give you a 3 page essay on it next time” Jonah finished. He got up to go and stand at the back where some of the other guys were standing, Cesca stayed where she was, her face full of disgust and annoyance, Adanna looked at her with an awkward expression, Cesca tried to just get on with the day, it was her last day and she wanted it to be nice, a chance to say goodbye to everyone before she left to have the twins, she would be back but she knew it wouldn’t be for a while. Karen and Chris entered the room, Cesca looked over at Jonah who just rolled his eyes at, she muttered under her breath, “for god sake Jonah”, as she turned to listen in to what Karen had to say that morning. “Good morning, right well today should be quite simple”, she began, talking about how there was something new being tried out in the food hall and that lunch and break were to be 5 minutes shorter as a result of all the problems that they had to deal with occurring at the end of break, they hoped with the new change that this would change. “Just to finish we want to wish Cesca and Jonah the best, with this being Cesca’s last day before having their twins”, Cesca smiled, the thought could only ever make her happy, she looked over at Jonah once again hoping that his topic might have lightened his mood but nope. His smile was the most obvious fake smile seen for centuries, Cesca could spot it a mile away, she turned back around as Karen and Chris both walked out, she picked up her bag smiled at Adanna and headed for her first lesson, year 9 girls, they would definitely allow her to have a nice last day, there class was relaxed and chilled, there was a great respect for Cesca in this year, and Cesca had a lot of respect for them to. Cesca pushed the staffroom door and headed off, Adanna waited for her to leave before approaching Jonah. She walked over, Tom and Charlie took a sharp exit, Tom was only to use to this particular facial expression and knew exactly where it was going, “For god sake Jonah, you don’t get enough sleep and fire evils at your own wife all day” “what difference does it make to you Adanna”, “She’s my friend, I’m going to look out for her, you need to calm down, wake yourself up somehow, you can’t start blaming Cesca for the fact your tired how old are you”, that was possibly the worst possible thing to say, playing on the fact that Jonah was younger than all of them ,still more naive than the rest of them, “Look I admit it, I’m tired and I probably have taken that out on Cesca”, “Probably taken it out on her, most definitely is more the word I would use”, “Alright, look I’m shattered I tried to do something nice for Cesca”, “The twins room, I heard”, “Yes, but she didn’t seem happy about it, in fact she dismissed the entire thing, she just sent me back to bed”, “Is this why you’re in such a grump, that an the fact you didn’t get enough sleep”, “Yeah, can you imagine being up all night just to please the person you love to have it all thrown in your face”, “You couldn’t be more wrong, she loves it. She thought it was a lovely thing to do, but she was half asleep last night you can’t be angry at her for that, look you need to talk otherwise this childish arguing is never going to end”, Adanna rubbed his arm with encouragement before walking off to carry out her duties set by Karen. Jonah sighed, he needed to wake up quick, he didn’t mean to stress out Cesca, he would never intentionally do that, he didn’t mean to snap at her either when she tried to talk to him about it. This was going to play over and over in his head until he spoke to her, he had a free period so decided now was as a better chance as any, maybe things really did happen for a reason. He headed off to her classroom. Cesca had registered her class, there were smiles and laughter as Cesca had her usual chat with them, they were getting on with their work as well as chatting, which always went down with Cesca and any teacher for that matter. There were looks shot between the class and smiles and laughter and apprehensive movements until one of the girls Lydia was her name finally spoke, Cesca was looking down at some work that she had to finish marking, everything had to be up to date by the time she had left, the cover, who was going to be Chris, had to be up aware of where they were all up to. “Miss”, Lydia said, “Yes”, Cesca said enthusiastically. She rose from her seat in the strangest way Cesca had ever seen before, her arms are behind her back she hadn’t twigged what was going on, instead looked at her strangely with a smile on her face and eyebrows raised. Lydia pulled what was from behind her back out in front of her, “This is for you”, Cesca took what seemed to be the biggest envelope she had ever seen from her hands, her mouth seemed to hit the floor, “What’s this then?”, “Wait a second”, one of the other girls, Millie called out as she passed the present that she had been hiding for them all under her desk to Lydia to give to their favourite teacher. It was wrapped up neatly in pretty wrapping paper, clearly had a girls touch. “Aw girls, your too kind”, “Miss, you deserve it, it’s just a little well wisher card from all of us and the rest of our year, the boys as well”, “Well I am impressed if you managed to get the boys to sign it thank you”. Cesca’s face was gleaming; she looked radiant and shocked it was such a lovely surprise, Cesca felt the present in her hands curious to know what it could be it was fairly big. “Miss open them”, one of the other students called out. Cesca giggled, “I’m going to save them to open with Mr Kirby later, I’m sure he’ll really like them to”. Speaking of the devil, Jonah appeared at the door, gently tapping it which grabbed Cesca’s attention, she was in a really good mood which was slightly lowered by the fact Jonah had been so annoyed and snappy with her this morning, she wasn’t sure she wanted him to ruin her good morning, “Mrs Kirby can I have a quick word” “Sure”, Cesca said as she attempted to balance the huge card on her desk, placing the present next to it, the girls watched as she left the room, “Carry on with your work girls, I’ll only be a minute”, she closed the door behind her, “What is it, I’m teaching”, “I know, I just feel so bad about this morning. You didn’t deserve how I acted towards you”, “J”, Cesca was trying to forget all about it. It was a blip. “I love you and I’m sorry”, “I love you to, I was only trying to think of you, your shattered”, “I know you were, I’ m sorry. I thought you didn’t appreciate what I had done, it frustrated me”, “Appreciate. I loved it J, it’s beautiful, but it was 2am, I was shattered you couldn’t expect me to fully show how much I loved it”, “I know that now, I’m sorry.”, “Any way you might as well come in”, “What?”, “Well the girls have made us a card and a present, they wanted me to open it but I didn’t want to do it without you”, “Well I think that’s an offer I can’t refuse”, Cesca gave off her flirtatious giggle before taking his hand and leading him into her class room, she let go of his hand once in her class room again, she didn’t want Karen walking in and deciding that she was being inappropriate in class. “So how are we getting on with the work then?”, Cesca asked as she strolled around the room checking to see how far they had got, as usual the class had finished it all, “Right well since your all finished, I think there might be time to open your present and card”, she looked over at Jonah who joined her, pulling up the spare computer chair next to her. She gave him a sexy smile before asking which he wanted to open first, “The card, it’s huge. Whose it from?”, Jonah asked as Cesca began to position it so that he could help her to unwrap it, “It’s from year 9”, “Well that’s sweet of them”, They had finally unwrapped the card and had opened it to find stars and pink and blue dummy confetti fly out of it, which only made Cesca and the class laugh. “I knew that was going to happen”, Jonah said, “Well thanks for warning me”, Cesca said, still giggly, the pair of them had a quick glance at the card, there were so many messages, they would be sure to read them all together later once they were home. Jonah took the card from Cesca’s hand as Cesca picked up the present, giving her class a curious look, she held it waiting for Jonah to be ready, she was getting impatient, “patience is a virtue that your clearly don’t have Mrs Kirby”, Jonah teased her, it would have been a moment that Cesca would have playfully slapped him, but they were in her classroom so she thought that action through before doing it, she looked down at the paper saying her next sentence through a smile, quiet enough for her class not to hear but for Jonah to. “You are so going to get it later, just you wait”, Jonah liked the idea of that and gave out a cheeky smile. They both began to tear the paper away, to reveal two boxes of gorgeous baby shoes, one was filled with some cute pink and white spotty espadrilles and the over some cute blue plimsolls, Cesca’s mouth once again hit the floor, Jonah took them both in, they were great, so cute. It was luck that there was a pair of shoes for a baby boy and girl, they hadn’t told anyone of this yet, they were acting as if they didn’t know which made it all that much more exciting. Tears began to fill Cesca’s eyes, Jonah comforted her with a hug, the girls were all so happy for them both and chuffed that they liked the presents so much. The bell rang and the girls left the room, “thank you girls”, Cesca called out, leaving Jonah and Cesca alone in her classroom. “You really do bring out the best in people Ces”, Cesca blushed and bit her lip, “Look I’m really sorry, I love you so much”, “Oh stop talking Kirby”, Cesca gave him a long passionate kiss before watching him head off to class, today definitely had lived up to Cesca’s expectations if not exceeded them, it was so lovely to see the students being so supportive, Cesca couldn’t get over the surprise, she couldn’t wait to read each individual comment written in the card, she knew that they were bound to make her smile possibly even cry.
