Hey guys! Change of plans. I'm bored so this is going up a week early. By the way it takes place five months after the first book.

Some sort of high pitched screech almost like a cat dying woke Nya up from her first nap in weeks.

It stopped for a moment then picked up again with a slight change in pitch.

What in the world? Nya thought as she sat up and pulled the blanket off of her. As Nya reached the top of the stairs, she saw Isabelle blowing into a purple recorder. Where did that come from?

"Mommy guess what? We're playing recorders for the spring pageant at church!" Isabelle exclaimed as she saw Nya approaching her.

Nya smiled, "that's great. What will you be playing?"

"Amazing Grace. There's going to be a solo at the beginning. I really hope I get it. Want to hear what it sounds like?" Isabelle squeezed.

Nya nodded her head and Isabelle began forcing out notes that sounded, well, as far away from Amazing Grace as you could possibly get.

Isabelle stopped for a second and pointed at a bar labeled twenty four, "and here's where Ms. Andrea will play the chorus, and we all sing, and so will all the big kids in hand!" Isabelle explained then returned to her squeaking.

When Isabelle finally finished, Nya, and Ed and Edna who had joined in began to applaud. Isabelle did a courtesy which made the adults smile.

"With a little bit of work, you should have that solo," Ed said assuringly.

"Thanks Grandpa!" Isabelle said and skipped off to do who knows what.

Jay banged his head against his desk. Two more weeks then he was out of there for spring break. He could hardly wait.

Ed and Edna had insisted that they always wanted to take the family to Disney world, and this was the year it would finally happen. Jay needed this vacation more than he was willing to admit. It had been months since he had done anything to relax.

"Mr. Walker, you're needed on line two. There's a fight going on between employees," Jay's coworker, Zane Roberts said.

"Could this day get any worse?" Jay sighed, "First we find out there's a traitor in our own company and now the new guy's picking fights again!"

"Hey, don't shoot the messenger!" Zane said, "I'm only telling you what Mr. Garmadon told me to tell you."

Zane looked up as Jay entered the room once more.

"I can't believe it! I get the fact that Lloyd's here because his dad is the owner, but you'd think he could at least be able to you know not be so cocky!" Jay ranted, "Take a guess at who he was fighting this time! It was Cole! Can you believe it? Cole never argues with anyone around here!"

"Are you done yet?" Zane asked.

Jay nodded his head, "Yeah. I'm sorry. I guess I'm just really stressed out with everything going on with my dad and all."

"It's fine. I understand. My father in law passed away a couple years ago. Not to mention I never really knew my own father. Hey, how would you and your family like to come over for dinner this Friday. Our kids could play and we could talk?"

"Sounds great. I'll let Nya know. I'm sure my parents will be fine for a couple of hours."

Kai stood on his porch. How did he get here? A year had gone by, and everything had changed. He remembered back when he and Skylor had sat on one of their porches together before. Where was Skylor now? Did she miss him too?

Kai shook his head. He had messed up big.

God, forgive me.

Dinner was ready when Jay walked in. Everyone else stood around the table obviously waiting for him.

"Long day?" Nya asked as she approached him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Yeah," Jay sighed, "I'll tell you about it later."

Nya sat Alex down in his high chair and the rest bowed their heads in prayer over the food.

Well? How was it? I decided I wanted to put all of the ninja in it. And no, I don't hate Lloyd or anything. You can expect some character development in him later on.

Question and answer time?

Do you think Isabelle will get the solo?

What episodes of the new season have you seen? I want to make sure I don't accidentally spoil anything.

How's your day been going I guess?

I don't know when I'll have the next update up. If I can post it sometime this week, then great, but if not I have a swim meet out of state this weekend so it might be awhile. Until then, see ya!

#God's Not Dead!