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Emily Device was not ready to be a teen mother. It had taken all her willpower not to flee the class and instead join up with her partner. Thankfully said partner was Vice President Temes, who was likely both very capable and knowledgeable with a great deal of charisma. So there was that bit of relief, however...Emily Device was not ready to be a teen mother. Also, the sounds coming from the nurse's vicinity were...alarming.

"Miss Temes...I...really don't touch it," the witch admitted, very much ashamed. "I'll help in any way I can! I'll clean and go shopping and do any written assignments but...I really don't want to touch it." She paused, took a deep breath, and then put on a brave-in-the-face-of-certain-death expression, "But I will! If you need me to, Vice President, I will!"

"Nice to meet you Tess." Smiling, Alcie tried to mask the fact that she was very nervous about this task because she had no idea how to take care of a scareling. How did her mother take care of her? "That sounds good. A name?" Oh boy. "Should we pick a feminine name or a masculine name or maybe we should try to go gender neutral?" Looking at the pumpkin carefully, the water demon patted it gently wondering what was inside of it. "And yes, I think we should put a little ribbon on it so that we'll know its ours."

Watching Julian with a keen eye, Belladonna was trying to size up her new partner. She hadn't heard him speak yet and that was probably because she had been busy talking to her own friends, but she also kind of thought he was shy. He had even stuttered when introducing himself! And wasn't that shyness just tooooo cuuuttte?? In no way was Belladonna going to let this opportunity to make this adorable boy blush pass her by!

"Want to hold it?" She asked, offering it out for him to take. Since they were both parents now she figured he should have ample time to hold it, but was starting to feel the worry that he might drop it. Belladonna vowed to never drop it, promising to hug it too often to let that happen. "I think we should name it..." A pause to consider the name. "Rowan. That's a good, stout name."

A thought crossed her mind that made this whole project a little bit better.
"You like your name, don't you Rowan baby??" She asked, patting the hard shell of the pumpkin. If she just thought of it as a pet and not an actual person, she could totally handle this. Pets were a lot like babies! They made incoherent noises, they sometimes made messes and they needed to be clothes when cold. (Binx was always complaining about those booties he had to wear when the weather turned chill, but he never complained about the cold, now did he?! NO!!) Was her logic flawed? Yeah, probably, but Belladonna wasn't the most motherly person ever, but she would at least try!

When Israfel came too, he was greeted by another student he'd never seen before talking to him about his baby. He stared at her blankly. Paused. Wondered if he'd had an 'accident' as his elder sisters might have called it, but then relaxed. He was at school still. In health class. And judging from the other pairs...It was some kind of exercise. It was a scare tactic well known. Make students raise kids so they never go romping and unknown patches late at night.
"His skittish anxiety much lesser now that he had passed out, the siren looked at both his partner and their child. "Poor thing looks kind of lumpy don't you think?" He looked back up at his partner. She was pretty and very well dressed. Surely two good looking students deserved a good looking ....'baby'.

"Miss Cricket?" Israfel raised his arm. "Can we get a new one? This one is all lumpy and clearly can't be our child." He smiled, catching onto the joke, if a bit slowly.

Shine sat through most of the class quietly, pretending very hard that she was invisible. With all of the conflict and chaos going on, she'd kind of lucked out - it was easy to miss the observant zombie huddled over in one of the corner desks, shyly gnawing on a rope of twisted cherry licorice.

When the announcement of their assignment was made, Shine sunk a little more in her seat. If Cricket's 'child' made that kind of horrible shrieking noise, she could only imagine what hers would manage. This Elaphe was not going to like her much, and it was going to be entirely because of the bad characteristics she'd passed on to their spawn, she was certain.

After shuffling to the front, she picked up the pumpkin carefully, eyes fixed curiously on Cricket for what was probably an uncomfortably long time. She cautiously let the little gourd rest in her palms - puncturing her sweet little Halloweenling would get them a bad grade (and made her lose its father a possible friend).

Now...to figure out which one of her classmates was Elaphe...

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Cricket seemed, for the most part, impassive as people gathered up their children and went on their merry little way. It seemed, for the most part, things would work out well.

Give or take certain students she'd be taking note to grade EXTRA HARD because of their disgusting behavior as it was happening. But Cricket was a b***h, her judgement was to be expected. As for her spare-student....

Cricket looked at Shehk for a long time, frowning at the girl in disapproval, before waving her hand dismissively.

"I expect you to find a partner before your 'child' pops." she said seriously, taking up one more pumpkin and holding it out to the Pricolici, who just seemed anxious as hell. Find a partner, huh? Well.. she'd..find someone, she guessed....

"It can't be anybody already working on this assignment either." she added, frowning. Shehk felt like that frown was telling her, quite seriously, to go die in a fire. Either way, Shehk took the pumpkin and retreated out the door. She'd just pick SOME AMAZING STUDENT to work with.

Preferably not-Nuk. :C

(If someone who hasn't had a chance to join in this RP wants to, they can PM me and be a pumpkin-parent with Shehk. You have until the end of today to PM me. If nobody does, I'll just arrange something myself.)

THIS IS A REMINDER TO GET YOUR HOMEWORK POSTED TO CRICKET'S OFFICE BY TOMORROW NIGHT!