I Became a Kindergarten Teacher for Monster Babies!
Chapter 48 I’m-your-teacher-so-listen

Chapter 48: Chapter 48 I’m-your-teacher-so-listen

Boo crossed his tiny arms with dramatic flair. "Did NOT!" he repeated, pouting so hard his lips looked like a duck’s beak.

Alina narrowed her eyes playfully. "Hmm... let’s check, shall we? Open your mouth, mister."

Boo grumbled under his breath but obediently opened his mouth wide, sticking out his tiny pink tongue just to prove his innocence. She leaned in, squinting like a detective. No sparkles, no sticky specks—thank the heavens.

She let out a breath of relief and gently patted his cheek. "Good. I believe you, sweetheart."

Boo, still pouting, leaned back little with an exaggerated sigh and turned his head dramatically away from Drake. "He lies. Big mean dragon tattletale," he muttered.

Drake only stuck out his tongue in response, his eyes glinting with mischief. "Better than having sparkly poop," he teased under his breath.

Alina’s shoulders shook with silent laughter as she gathered the glitter and put it out of Boo’s reach. She couldn’t help but lean in and whisper near Boo’s ear, "Next time, you can help teacher put it on the paper instead, okay?"

Boo sniffed and rolled his eyes, but a tiny smile tugged at his lips when he thought she wasn’t looking. And when she turned to peek at Drake, she caught him giggling behind his flower.

Then She showed them how to take a long strip of green paper, twist it gently, and fold it into a simple stem and leaf shape.

"Look, just a little bend here... good! See? Now your flower has a pretty stem," she explained, demonstrating with her fingers.

Around her, tiny heads bobbed up and down. She caught herself smiling so much her cheeks hurt.

She loved the way they all got so serious when they focused. Little tongues poked out between lips, brows scrunched up like tiny old people trying to read tiny print. Boo had his mouth open so wide in concentration that a drop of drool almost fell onto his paper. Rocky’s face was so serious he looked like a miniature statue. Even Drake’s chubby cheeks puffed out every time he bent the paper wrong — then he’d mumble "No! Do it again!" to himself, tail flicking back and forth.

And sweet Sable — she peeked over at him and nearly melted — he was copying her stem step by step, his little fingers trembling but determined. When he noticed her watching, he squeaked and bent lower over his paper, his dark eyes wide, his tongue peeking out the corner of his mouth. Goodness, she thought, I could frame him right now and hang him on my wall like a baby angel.

She helped them one by one, kneeling next to Luna and gently fixing the point on her crooked leaf. "See, Luna? Just a little pinch here... perfect!"

Luna crossed her arms with a huff, though her eyes gave her away—she was clearly happy.

Lucian was not impressed with his leaf — it looked more like a crumpled green blob but he copied her carefully anyway. "It’s ugly," he muttered under his breath, cheeks pink, as if the paper had personally betrayed him.

"It’s beautiful because you made it, sweetheart," Alina whispered, smoothing his hair back.

And Felix... well, Felix had already made his stem, plus three extra sharp-looking leaves, plus what suspiciously looked like a tiny paper dagger hidden behind his flower. She gave him the look but he only turned his head.

She’d just finished helping Kelpie curl the tip of his leaf.

And Drake and Boo sat side by side, comparing their flowers with all the seriousness of ancient kings deciding who owned more land.

"Yours is ugly!" Boo snickered, flicking the petal of Drake’s flower. .com

Drake’s eyes went wide. He puffed his cheeks out. "Yours is ugly! Mine is better — teacher helped me!"

"No, yours is—"

And that’s when it happened. Drake’s tiny nostrils flared. Boo’s face went from smug to horrified in half a second.

"Don’t you—"

But Drake huffed a tiny puff of flame. Boo squealed and dropped his flower just as it caught fire — which, of course, landed right on top of all the other precious paper bits on the floor.

Whoosh!

Alina whipped around so fast her hair smacked her face. She lunged forward, smacking the tiny flames with her bare palm, the sting making her eyes water.

"Ow—!" she gasped, but she didn’t stop until the fire was down to ash.

Kelpie squeaked in panic. "I help!" he yelled, his tiny hands outstretched. But in his worry, he poured too much power out at once — a wave of cool water splashed all over the floor, drenching everything and everyone near it. fre ewe bnove l.com

Luna let out a furious little growl. She shifted in an instant into her tiny wolf form and bolted onto a desk, shaking her wet fur with an angry sneeze.

Rocky let out a squeak and turned himself into a big round boulder right in the middle of the puddle. Boo hovered as high as he could to avoid the water, clutching the last glitter pot like a lifesaver. Vlad Jr. turned into a tiny bat and hung upside down from the ceiling beam, wings wrapped around him like a tiny vampire blanket.

Sable vanished into a shadow under the cabinet, only the tip of his little horn peeking out. freeNovelFire

Lucian sighed, crossing his arms with the most dramatic eye-roll a toddler could manage. "Everything’s ruined," he muttered, like a tiny old man disappointed by life.

And Drake? He crossed his arms too, cheeks puffed out, pretending he hadn’t done anything. "He started it," he mumbled at Boo, who hissed back, "Did not!"

"You started it!" Drake snapped, his little tail swishing behind him as he pointed an accusing claw at Boo. "You called my flower ugly!"

Boo puffed out his ghostly cheeks, glaring right back. "Yours was ugly! And you made fire! Fire is bad!" He crossed his arms, nose in the air.

Alina, still kneeling in the middle of the wet floor with soggy paper petals stuck to her skirt, narrowed her eyes at both of them. Her warm, patient smile was gone—just for a second replaced by her best I’m-your-teacher-so-listen look.