Chương 70: Apologize

"Joy, my baby what's wrong??" asked Natasha as she was standing right behind Chloe who had an angry expression on her face.

"Mommy!!!" said Joy as she cried even more and she ran to her mother.

"My baby's what's wrong why are you crying??" asked Natasha as she bent down and she picked up Joy, as she was still crying.

"What happened??" asked Natasha as she turned to look at Alfred who looked like he had no clue at all of what was happening right now.

"I don't know Madam, I stepped out briefly to go and check on the installation of a new ac unit, and by the time I returned to the playroom, Joy and Ethan were nowhere to be found, so I came to look for them, and then I just found them here with Joy crying" said Alfred as he explained himself, he was sure that he had only left for about eight minutes and yet something big happened.

"Joy, my baby, tell me what's wrong??" asked Natasha in a soft voice as she coaxed Joy, and she rubbed her back so she would stop crying.

"Mommy, I do not want to go to school, I do not" said Joy as her tears stopped dropping from her eyes, but she was still sniffing and her eyes were red.

"Oh how come my baby??" asked Natasha.

"What happened??" she asked, it was unusual for Joy to cry like this, and much more less say that she did not want to go to school, it meant that something must have scared her baby to cry like this.

"Because School is bad, it is a prison, and I will not be able to escape" said Joy.

"And the teachers are not nice there, and you will not come back for me" said Joy as she cried.

"Oh my baby" said Natasha as she was surprised, she turned to look at Alfred, and Chloe and they all looked back at her.

"Oh who told you that my baby??" asked Natasha as she looked at Joy's face and she wiped her tears.

"Ethan did" said Joy as she sniffed and she pointed to Ethan.

It was at that moment that all three adults turned to look at Ethan all at the same time, Ethan could see the anger on his mother's face, the disappointment on Alfred's face, and the unbelievable look on Natasha's face.

"Ethan, how could you say such to a little girl??" asked Chloe as she could not believe her son right now, she did not expect this type of behavior from him, he wanted to scare Joy, and he had succeeded the poor girl was still crying.

"It was just a joke" said Ethan as he looked down at the ground.

"Oh it was???" asked Chloe.

"Because Joy does not seem to think so" said Chloe as she looked at her son with a look that read "You better come and apologize right now"

"Chloe please calm down" said Natasha as Joy had finally stopped crying.

"They are just children, it's natural for them to play jokes on each other" said Natasha as she wiped off the remaining tears on Joy's face.

"Sure it is, but it is not normal for Ethan to be mean to a little girl" said Chloe.

"Just look at her, Joy looked very frightened" said Chloe as she looked at Joy.

"Ethan you better come over here and apologize to both Joy and her mother" said Chloe as she looked at Ethan and he walked forward.

"I am sorry Joy" said Ethan as he looked at Joy.

"I am sorry Mrs. White" he said as he looked at Natasha.

"It's alright Ethan" said Natasha.

"I am sure that you did not mean to scare her" said Natasha as she smiled.

"Now Ethan, turn around and march, because we are going home right this instant" said Chloe, she was going to punish him, and teach him that he should be a perfect gentleman, and she would even report him to his father, how could he disgrace her like this by playing a nasty trick on the little girl, and filling her head with nonsense??

"There is no need for that Chloe, he can stay" said Natasha as she turned to look at Chloe who was not being lenient with Ethan at all.

"No, thank you Natasha, but no," said Chloe.

"Ethan, has to know that you cannot be mean to others" said Chloe.

"I will see you later Natasha, but for now, I will leave" said Chloe as she turned to look at Ethan.

"Now march young man, march" said Chloe as Ethan began to walk and she followed after him.

"Oh just wait till you father gets home and hears of this nonsense of yours" said Chloe as her voice could be heard by both Alfred and Natasha as they moved further and further away until Chloe's voice could not be heard again.

"Is Ethan going to get in trouble mommy??" asked Joy as she looked up at her mother.

"Well yes my baby... he did something very mean" said Natasha as she looked down at Joy.

"But I do not want him to get into trouble" said Joy in her small still voice.

"Do not worry my baby, he will be fine" said Natasha as she smiled and Joy sniffed.

"My baby, what Ethan told you about school is not true" said Natasha.

"He was just joking, okay" said Natasha and Joy nodded.

"School is a very nice place, and you get to make new friends, and you can play and do many things, as well as learn" said Natasha as she smiled.

"So do not be worried my baby" said Natasha.

"Okay mommy" said Joy as she nodded her head.

"Good girl" said Natasha as she smiled and she gave Joy a kiss on the cheek.

"My baby are you hungry??" asked Natasha as she looked at Joy and Joy nodded.

"Alright then, let's eat lunch" said Natasha as she smiled.

"Alfred can you please set the dining table" said Natasha as she turned to look at Alfred.

"Right away Madam" said Alfred as he wasted no time at all and he left straight for the kitchen.

"Don't cry my baby, everything is alright" said Natasha as she hugged Joy.

...

Later that day.

Natasha was in her office working, and Joy was having her afternoon nap, she was really tired, it seemed that all her crying tired her out.

Natasha opened her emails, and to her surprise she had and email from Chloe.

"That was quick" said Natasha to herself, it would seem that Chloe was very serious about getting a job.

Natasha opened the file that was sent to her, and she went through it quickly, and just as what Chloe had told her, she had only finished High School.

Natasha took a look at Chloe's marks for her subjects, she saw that she had very high marks in English, and her Economics credits caught Natasha's eye.

"Impressive" said Natasha to herself, she had an idea.

She needed a manager to help her manage her new company, Mandy was really not the person for the Job, she never did as she was told, it was as if she was trying to be the boss of everything and most of all she was a pessimist, Natasha could not count how many times Mandy had told her to just leave the business be.

If not that Natasha needed someone who knew how things worked in the company before, she would have fired Mandy a long time ago.

So it was settled, Natasha would offer Chloe as job as her company manager, while Mandy would be demoted, Natasha trusted Chloe, she was a good woman, and most of all she had a valid reason for doing what she was doing.

"Come in" said Natasha as she heard a knock on her office door.

"Madam, Mrs. Thompson sent this brochure over" said Alfred as he walked into Natasha's office.

"Oh, thank you Alfred" said Natasha as she looked away from her laptop and she smiled.

"You are welcome Madam, I will just leave this here" said Alfred as he placed the brochure on Natasha's desk and he walked away closing the door behind him.

Natasha picked up the brochure and she read more about the School, the School's name was called the Scholars Academy, which to Natasha was a very suggestive name.

Natasha read more about the school, they operated from eight to five, but the children were allowed to leave school at twelve pm, the schools testimonies looked good, and best of all it was not too far from the Estate.

Natasha found the school nice, and she liked it already, she just wondered how come she never heard of the school in her last life?? but regardless that did not matter at all, she just had to discuss this with Joy's father and then Joy could start school in two weeks time when the School would start operating as they had went on a mid-term break.

Speaking of which, she had not seen Dom for a while now, not that she was looking forward to seeing him, in fact she was avoiding him, but she had to get this out of the way so Joy would start school as soon as possible.