Wakey wakey little cookie." Jamila said as she sat on her knees beside Luna's bed. She shook her slightly. Slowly luna opened her eyes and yawned. "Come on cookie we gotta get you to nursery." She said as luna got out of bed with help from her mother.
Once luna was bathed and had gotten dressed both mother and daughter ate breakfast with luna mainly spilling cereal everywhere. "Oh luna." Jamila said as she quickly cleaned up after the three year old. Luckily for Jamila luna had a towel covering her clothes.
Once Jamila had cleaned up the house. She grabbed luna's hand and they both left the apartment.
They both played the ghost game by giggling and running towards the elevator.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~She parked up her little red car in front of the nursery. But when she looked at the empty building she raised her eyebrow in confusion.
Their were no children in the playground or the usual mums huddled together gossiping about everything and anyone.
Jamila decided to talk to Claire who was the recptionist anyway. She helped luna out of the car and they both made their way into the building.
"Hi Claire. Im here to drop luna off at nursery?" Jamila made it sound like a question. Claire raised her eyebrows at the young woman."The teachers are on strike? No nursery today." Claire said looking up at her confused.
"O-oh right." Jamila said. "We sent the notice out to all parents. Didn't you get the text? You know if you had a husband im sure he would have known. My nephew has become recently single you'd like him." The receptionist said.
"Claire i appreciate that, but I'm a little late for work i gotta go. I'm sorry." Jamila said looking at her watch. She grabbed luna and ran back to her car.
"Atleast give it a think!" Claire yelled after the woman.
Jamila began driving to work. It wasnt unsual for Claire to set up every single mum or dad she set her eyes on. Her recent victim was Jamila. Even though the young woman had told Claire she wasn't interested.
Still atleast Claire was nice and talked to her unlike some of the parents. It was no secret that many of the other parents looked down on her.
Jamila did send luna to a private nursery which was quite posh. It was only because of her uncle Strange though who wanted luna to be in the best school.
If Jamila knew how bitchy the other parents would be she would never have agreed to put luna in a private nursery.
All the other parents tended to have or show the perfect family picture. All coupled up and coming to pick up their babies.
Whenever jamila showed up most of them just looked at her in pity. Then they looked at her hand me down car which felt worse because they would scoff and tell their little kids to stay away from luna.
Yes. Clearly she didnt fit in. She could show them her powers to look cool. But knowing them they'd just call her a freak. She sighed as she arrived at the museum. "Luna please be a good girl for mummy. This is my job okay?"
"Okay." Luna said as she sucked on her dummy (pacifier for you non Brits!). Jamila parked up the car and carried luna into the museum.
As she walked in to see J.b sat at his computer. "Hello Mila." He said. "It's Jamila actually." She replied. "And who's this little one eh?" J.b said. Luna held on tightly to her mother as J.b reached out his hand to ruffle her hair."Luna's going to be attending work with me today. Last minute situation." Jamila explained.
J.b. shook his head and chuckled. "Donna's not gonna like this one." As if the woman heard her name Donna had shown up. She was carrying a box full of sweets and toys.
She put down the box and turned to see Jamila and Luna with a puzzled look on her face. "Sorry Donna its a last minute situation. Please she won't be no trouble at all i promise." Jamila pleaded.
Donna huffed before rolling her eyes "fine. But she stays with Stevie in the shop. Stevie! That better not be you again." They turned to look at Steven who was talking to a little girl in front of a small Pyramid of Giza model.
"Sorry, Donna. Yeah, sorry. Got it." Steven said as he grabbed the box off of her.
Jamila sighed here we go again. She thought. Donna wasnt the most pleasant woman to talk to and poor Steven mostly took the brunt of it. Jamila came in a close second.
They walked towards his little shop and he started placing the products on display. "There we go." He said as he did.
Jamila placed Luna on a chair behind the till. "Oh hello their Mila. And uh cheeky monkey." Steven said as he looked at both girls.
Whilst Donna continued her rant. "Don't know how many times I have to tell you this. You're not the bloody tour guide, Stevie."
"Steven, actually. I am... Steven." He corrected her pointing to his nametag. Jamila continued helping him stock the shelves.
"No, you're bloody useless unless you're actually doing what you're paid to do, which is to sell these to children and now take care of that little one. Since someone arrived unprepared." Donna said giving the side eye to Jamila. Then she turned back to Steven "got it?" Donna finished.
She looked back at Jamila "Er what are you doing? You've got a group to guide now bloody go get a move on." Donna said before walking off.
Jamila gave Steven a sympathetic smile. "Don't listen to her you'd make a brilliant tour guide. I do have to go now. I promise she"ll be on her best behaviour." Jamila said before kissing luna who kissed her back.
Jamila headed towards the main entrance where her group was stood.
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When she had finished her tour she walked up to steven. She smiled at him "How's the sugar trade going?" She asked him before walking to luna.
"I don't know what this has to do with Egypt really. They didn't have that back then, did they?" Steven said. "No." Jamila chuckled. "They liked figs and dates, and.." he continued.
Jamila chuckled before noticing another class arrive. "My next tour's here but just checking, we are still on for 7:00 on sunday?" She asked.
Steven looked slightly confused and Jamilas smile faltered slightly. "7:00 on sunday?" Steven asked confused. Luna started to fuss so Steven gave her a Taweret cuddly toy. Luna started playing with the toy.
"Best steak in town?" Jamila continued hopefully. "Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah." Steven said looking confused as luna started to fuss again and tug on his shirt. This time he picked up the three year old who seemed to become calm.
This small gesture made Jamilas heart skip. The two looked so adorable. And for some weird reason at that moment luna looked a little like Steven. They had the same eyes and same curly hair. Even the same face shape.
Jamila shook her head as Steven continued.
"Yeah? Okay." He said. Then he asked "okay thats great news?!" He asked a little confused but happy."You're a funny guy. I'll pick luna up later." Jamila told him.
Once her shift had finished she had gotten luna and said her goodbyes to steven before leaving the museum.
As soon as she got home she had fed luna and called up her best friend Maria.
"Maria the weirdest thing just happened to me." She told her...
"So anyway. Will you be able to babysit for me sunday?" Jamila asked.
"Of course i will. You know how much i love the little cookie monster." Maria said as they both chuckled.
They ended the call and Jamila decided to call steven to ask him what all that was about at the museum. Surely he would have remebered asking her to dinner.
Maybe he never meant it to be romantic just a friendly time out? But still shouldn't he have remebered.
But this was steven and he could act weird at times.
Ring. Ring.
Ring. Ring..
Ring. Ring...
"Damn that man and his fear of technology." Jamila huffed as she placed the phone down on her table.
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