fandomhigh | Child Development- 1st Period- Class #1

"Hey, guys!" Lily greeted everyone. "I see a couple familiar faces here, good to see you again. For those that don't know me, I'm Ms. Aldrin, and I've been teaching here since the summer. Some of you know that my background is as a kindergarten teacher, and now I teach you all. So, I have a little experience with kids of most ages by now. Now, some of you might be here because you like kids, or want to go into teaching, or because you've had to babysit tiny versions of your teachers or something and want to know what you're doing the next time. Or you just ended up in the wrong class, in which case I'll try to make it not suck too hard.

"What we're doing here is learning about kids and how they grow up," she went on. "We're going to cover the physical, emotional and social development in the major age groups, and focusing a little more on the really early stages because that's when so much development takes place. We're also going to go delve a little into psychology and sociology, and there'll be a bunch of little things you can do to up your grade.

"Starting now. This week, you can all sign up for the chance to wear your own empathy belly!" This was said way too excitedly as she walked to the other side of her desk and picked up the... device to show it off. "It's completely optional, but for credit, you can sign up to wear one of these for a day. It simulates some of the effects of pregnancy, including the thirty pound weight gain. Girls and guys can both do this, and two or three people can sign up on a day to do it at the same time. Pick it up ~~handwavily~~ the day of, return it ~~handwavily~~ at the end, and report back on it next week.

"For now though," Lily said, "you can stand up, give us your name and something interesting about yourself, and tell us all why you're taking this class. I'll pass up the empathy belly sign-up sheet while you're doing introductions."

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Chad did a slow sort of double-take before realizing that the girl was smiling at him rather than something interesting and potentially amusing that was going on behind him. Or, at least, it was that, or the girl was extremely amused by absolutely nothing, because that was what was going on behind him.

It confused him for a second, rubbing the back of his head, but it would have been rude to not respond, especially since she was new, and so he lifted his hand in what was kind of a wave.

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Omigod. Omigod, he waved!

Claudia waved back. ~~Spastically~~ Casually.

"You're new, right?" Chad asked, knowing that he was going to feel really bad if she wasn't.

She nodded. "Yeah. I'm from Connecticut. But my grandmother was totally from Japan."

"I'm from Japan," Chad offered.

Durrrrrp.

Of course, it was followed up with, "And Mexico."

Claudia stared at him.

"Are they close together?"

Chad shook his head. "No," he explained, "they're way far apart."

And, to demonstrate this, he stretched out his hands. It definitely was a great distance, all things considered.

He dropped them back to his side. "I went back and forth a lot."

"In your flying car?" Claudia asked. She was trying to pretend like she fit in.

"No," Chad said. "Just a plane."

There was a pause, a slight frown of confusion.

"We didn't have a flying car."

"Us either!" Claudia said, sounding relieved. "We have soooo much in common!"

No you don't, Claudia.

Hey, they both had Japanese grandmother, no flying cars, and were in the same class.

That was quite a lot in common in Chad's book, too. Enough for a thumbs-up, at any rate.

"Cool," he said, and then tried to think back through all the introductions he just sat through to remember her name, "Claudia, right?"

He remembered her name. Claudia was mentally drawing up the guest list to their wedding and designing bridesmaid dresses.

"And you're Chad!"

Both their names started with C. That could be another thing in common.

Excepting that Chad wasn't his real name at all.

He nodded, grunting in agreement. "Yup."

Claudia immediately began doodling "Claudia+Chad=4EVA" next her sketches of Priestly and Zayne.

Not fickle at alllll, this girl.

"And you like kids?" Another thing in common!

"I love kids," Chad said without even a beat, nodding. Because someone was making up for being a total jerk as a kid.

"I've been babysitting since I was twelve!" Claudia squealed.

They were sooo meant.to.be.OMG.

Chad thought of mentioning that all his family was dead when he was twelve, but thought better of it.

Instead, he just said, "Yeah? So this class should be easy, huh?"

"I hope so!" Claudia said. "I'd hate to flunk out. It seems so cool here."

Yeah, the chances of anyone flunking out of Fandom High were pretty slim to none.

"I'm sure you'll do great," Chad grunted encouragingly.

EEEEEEEEEE. Chad thought she'd do great!

Claudia grinned at him. "Thanks!"

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