The Principal's Office

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The door to the principal’s office is open at all hours, although you will only find Hester at the receptionist’s desk from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. This is primarily where you can have private conversations with her. Though there’s an actual office in the back, it is always closed and locked.

Comments

[mayavericks]

[Maya tilts her head back, laughing far louder than she's been able to manage in some time.]

I'll expect you to honor that commitment. Both of them, for that manner.

[tailor_made]

[Hester lowers her chin to her chest, her shoulders shaking with barely suppressed giggles until she throws her head back and laughs right along with Maya, red-faced and uninhibited.]

Oh no, I'm stuck now. I can't just break a commitment like that, either of them.

[mayavericks]

I would hope that you would not, Hester. [She tries to choke back her laughter, tries to muffle it behind her hand.]

No, that's not quite right. I trust you will not. [A beat.] I trust you, period.

[tailor_made]

[Hester snorts, trying to recover from her Freudian slip, but the giggling quickly quiets when the concept of 'trust' comes up. Her expression goes a little soft, a little somber but she still smiles.]

...Thank you, Maya. That...it means a lot to me.