Noah is now sitting beside his mom in the principal school or Witspeak Academy, this is the name of the school that Noel and Alexis attend somewhere Sihan would never send him for the simple fact alone that Nathaniel is involved.
“It shows here that there is no father identification on your son’s birth certificate?” the man taps the paper.
“I have made a few bad decisions when I was young and…”
“Clearly,” the principal said, fixing his specs.
Naoh doesn’t like the attitude of this principal but he keeps his opinion to himself.
“It says here he is Homeschooled,” the principal asks, “he seems highly advanced for his age, hmm a foreign teacher… Mr. Evans I’d like your son to run some entry exams, I hope you don’t mind?”
“We don’t, right Noah?”
Noah nods, smiling seeing his mother’s smile. The principal calls a teacher who is given instructions to guide them into the examination room.
On his way there, he sees Arian ahead of him with some books. “Naenae!” Noah smiles.
“Shh, young Sir. Evans, first rules and foremost, the hallways are always to remain quiet. Rules are meant to be strictly followed.” She said sternly.
Noah nods, “understood,”
He looks at his mother who smiles awkwardly with him. Arian, hearing his name, walks quickly up to them.
“Hi, good afternoon Mr. Evans, Mrs. Prentuck”.
“Good afternoon Mr. James, have you finished your solo studying?”
“Yes,”
“Your chemistry classes?”
“Yes,”
“Your literacy classes?”
“Yes,”
“Your physical examination,”
Arian takes a long pauses, “… no”
“Well then, shouldn’t we be heading that way?” She points in the side direction.
Arian nods, but he smiles. “Good luck on your exams. I still want you to meet Riley.”
“Hm, I will.”
Arian holds his hand, “come to this school,”
Noah nods then breathes, Sihan thinks this is cute. It takes every urge in him not to whip out his phone and take a picture then kiss them both aggressively.
Saying goodbye they both went to the examination room, Sihan was stunned silent, he got this from the moment he reached those gates but, Witspeak Academy means business. In a room like this there is no room for copying, each being laird out individually.
The teacher gently slaps the table with the paper, Noah nods and then goes to sit down while his mother smiles and watches him from outside.
Noah looks at his papers, he studies hard so he knows relatively a lot on this paper. But is this a paper for children’s studies?
He carefully answers them, thinking. He remembers when his nose bleeds, it’s not the first but it’s been a while, whenever he overexerts himself and overthinks to a certain amount his child body starts to break down resulting in him feeling tired and nose bleeding.
This would alarm Sihan, but after some tests and examination he was determined to be fine. But still his parents didn’t stop there and eventually learned that the problem was Noah’s brain.
So they help trying to make him relax, Noah is treated preciously by Amani and Sihan. He is glad for them.
After doing the exams and going back to the principal, they were about to leave when they heard a shout.
“Noah,”
He turns to see Arian rushing towards him, “Arian?”
Arian breathes smiling, “here!” Arian said, offering a book.
“Huh?”
“It’s my story book, read it. We can talk about it together.” Arian said
Noah looks at it then smiles “of course!”
Arian smiles, waving goodbye to them, walking out, Sihan looks at Noah. “He is very nice,”
“He is very easy to misunderstand, but when you get to know him you find he is a clingy kid who wants a friend.” Noah said.
“Really that sounds a lot like you Noah,” Sihan chuckles.
“No I’m not!” Noah shouts embarrassed.
“Hehe, you make lots of friends here Noah.” Sihan said.
Noah looks at his mother, he knows his mother values friends since he lost all his back in college. He was a child, looking for a normal life.
“You make many friends too mom,”
Sihan is happy, he would let the world burn just so he could protect his child. Noah will never know how much he’ll protect and sacrifice just to make sure he makes it to happiness.
Soon sihan sees the car parked at the side he knows it, all the windows were tinged black, the car was silver he sighs walking over to it while holding his son hand tightly.
Noah notices this and begins to fret, the back door opens, Sihan looking inside to see Nathaniel in the front seat.
“Now, Noah. Don’t be nervous, okay? This is mom’s friend okay?” Sihan said nervously.
Noah is confused when Sihan gently puts him in the seat slowly only to see Nathaniel at the front he immediately runs out clinging to Noah.
“Mom! No!”
Nathaniel looks at his son who clings to Sihan, Nathaniel feels sad. He’s a beautiful boy who is afraid of him.
“Mom, I don’t want to go in the car, I don’t want to go in the car!”
Sihan lifts him up, feeling him clinging to him.
“I’m sorry,” Sihan continues. “He doesn’t want to come.”
Nathaniel runs his hand through his hair. “What now?” he answers
“Can I call an Uber?”
“No, it’s a restricted area, they have to have some relations to you or your child”
Sihan is bummed out hearing this Noah m, Breathes, “I’ll go, stay with me?” Sihan asks.
“Forever.” Sihan smiles at his sweet boy.
They boy goes in the backseat buckling down.
“You guys must be hungry, here is something to eat.”
Sihan takes the bag with lunch and Nathaniel offers an icy pop to Noah who looks at Sihan then at Nathaniel and hesitantly takes it.
Nathaniel smiles but Noah is still stuck closest to Sihan.
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