The woman’s harangue left the teacher’s face completely flushed. For a moment, the poor teacher stammered as words failed her.
Arianne drew a sharp breath. “Excuse me, ma’am, but what you’ve accused just now was pure slander. Look, they are kids about two-or three-years-old, they got into a bit of a scuffle, but there’s still nothing a mutual cooperation between parents cannot achieve, right? You putting on this overdramatic attitude is a bit excessive, ma’am. Sure, I’ll be mad if my son was the one being hit too, but what’s done is done. The only thing left for us to do is to get together calmly and solve this together, a verbiage just isn’t helpful.”
“Yes, Mrs. Tremont has got a point,” the teacher quickly piggybacked on Arianne’s rejoinder. “Especially when it really isn’t as serious as you’re making it out to be, ma’am. Just a bit of a nosebleed, honestly. If the medical check-up revealed nothing serious, then I think some medical compensation as well as a private talk with your children should suffice. “Look, I’ve been in the business of young children’s education for many years, I’ve seen a lion’s share of similar incidents. Really, there is no need to fan this into an issue of hurt feelings and resentment, yes? Children are unpredictable this way, and we adults often don’t understand their reasoning. The only way we can play a role is in guiding them.”
Unfortunately, no matter how hard they tried, the victim’s mother refused to relent and concede. She reacted as if the wounded child was the emperor of their household, and any physical attack was a severe crime that should only be settled by a large sum of compensation and a retaliatory action, the woman threatened to persuade the pre-school into suspending Smore and Lil’ P.
Arianne was not in the mood to argue with shrews like these. From the looks of it, favonovel.com was a woman in favonovel.com thirties who dressed extravagantly enough to imply that favonovel.com might belong to the upper-class. Regretfully, none of favonovel.com effort to look the part imbibed the couth and grace of the class favonovel.com so desperately tried to portray, instead, favonovel.com acted like a boorish harpy.
Arianne’s head was just about to hum when Tiffany had arrived. Seeing favonovel.com friend inside the office, the two exchanged an embarrassed smile. “Hi?”
Tiffany’s first reaction was to question favonovel.com son first. “What did you do? You literally just enrolled into the school and already you punched someone in the face?”
Before Lil’ P could answer her, though, the Victim’s mother interjected with a disdainful snort. “And the mother turns out to be another young woman. Why am I surprised?” favonovel.com gibed. “My guess is that they were young homewreckers who managed to seduce some rich old sugar-daddies into making them official. No wonder you girls don’t deal with reason… You girls even have the audacity to put on airs despite being wrong!”
Tiffany’s eyes widened in choler. In a flash, favonovel.com had pushed favonovel.com cuffs up to favonovel.com elbows as though favonovel.com was about to duke it out, Rambo-styled. Fortunately, the teacher stopped favonovel.com with a well-timed grip on favonovel.com shoulders. “Please, Mrs. West! Don’t be heedless! This is a school. The children are watching. As the adults, we have a duty to set good examples for them, so please, do not make this physical!”
“Now, since our parley is obviously unfruitful, then maybe we should talk in separate groups. Before the two of you came, I had a long talk with the other parent, so now, please stay with Mrs. Tremont while we comb through what happened. After that, we’ll head to the hospital to check on the injured child. Is that all right?”
Tiffany trained favonovel.com finger at the mother’s face and glowered, “You better watch the way you talk, pal. Spew another load of bull again, and I’ll slap your mouth off your face!”
The woman simply reacted with an eye roll of contempt before turning away.
Seeing Tiffany regain favonovel.com composure relieved the teacher, who exhaled a sigh. “All right, I’ve checked our CCTV footage and here’s what it shows. During their class, favonovel.com son had snatched Plato’s toy. Likely owing to how young favonovel.com is, Plato couldn’t get the toy back, so favonovel.com went to his best friend, Aristotle, and he… Well, Aristotle threw a punch on favonovel.com son’s face,” favonovel.com recounted. After a pause, favonovel.com added, “Mrs. Tremont, if I may be frank, I think your son has quite an anger management issue. Beating people up isn’t the way to solve disputes, so please, talk to favonovel.com about this at home, okay? You’ve seen how the child’s mother reacted, too, which is also… less than stellar, I’d say? Either way, we should all strive for concession in harmony, that makes things much easier to solve, too.”
Never in a million years did Arianne ever imagine Smore to be the instigator, and now, favonovel.com was embarrassed. “I… see. Thank you for letting me know. I’ll definitely educate favonovel.com about this properly.”
Smore suddenly sneered. “Educate me, why? I mean, only a dirt-poor hobo would snatch someone’s toy… What a barbarian!”
