fandomhigh | Getting Out of Tight Situations- Period 5- Class #7

This week, the students and any kids they brought with them would find themselves on a playground, complete with a slide, swingset, jungle gym, and all that fun stuff. This might have had something to do with the fact that beside Jaina was Chak, who for the record was kind of dying to get to playing. "Hi, everyone," she greeted them. "Happy to see some younger faces that I'm not used to. I-"

"Hey, can I do this part?" Chak asked.

While Jaina wasn't sure what he was going to say, she was sure it wasn't going to be anything bad. "The floor's yours."

Smiling a little at suddenly feeling in charge, he began, "Hi, my name's Chak, and this is my mom. This class is all about getting out of bad situations, like when someone won't share, or you get caught trying to sneak out... Not that I ever did that." Liar. "Or when you have a class planned but Fandom has bad timing. And sometimes getting out of bad situations means saying bad words and ditching the old idea and letting us play."

"You had to tell them that part, huh?" Jaina asked, looking down at him.

"Well, you did!"

"Just don't repeat it," she said. "The kid's right, though. Take the hour to go play, and if you don't have kids here to worry about... Push someone on the swings or something."

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"Uh oh. What'd you do?" Jaina asked warily, going to grab the first aid kit. Because you better be sure she had a first aid kit with the kids around.

"I just caught my finger in the swing," he explained. "No blood, see?"

"And why, exactly, do you need a bandage then?" she asked, stopping with one in her hand.

Chak shrugged. "They look neat. I can put it on myself," he told her.

Jaina shook her head, but handed over the Band-Aid anyway. "We have got to have a long talk about injuries looking cool."

"It's not 'cause it looks cool, it's 'cause you and Dad got all your scars doing good things," he explained, carefully putting the unnecessary Band-Aid on his finger.

"All our scars?" That... was worrisome. Despite all her injuries, she didn't have a lot of permanent reminders of them.

Chak looked up, realizing he might be getting into a bad topic. "I shouldn't talk about that."

Jaina studied him, kind of figuring she knew what the issue was. "Your uncle?" she guessed.

"I'm not gonna talk about it," he said. "You get sad, and there's no sad on the playground. It's a rule."

There was a part of Jaina that was sad, because it seemed like in every reality that seemed to happen. At the same time, her eight-year-old son was protective of her and she couldn't help but want to hug him for it. "Did you just make that rule up?"

"Yep!" he said immediately. "I'm going to go back now."

"Wait," she said, getting to him before he got too far away to pull him into a hug.

"Mooooom," he complained, "not in front of the other kids!"

Jaina smiled, but released him to let him go back to the playground, trying to ignore the feeling that she was close to figuring something out.

Getting Out of Tight Situations- Period 5- Class #7

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