The italics are Malcolm's thoughts at that moment.

Malcolm's Point Of View

God, I hate Reese! All he always gets me into trouble. I wish Francis was here, but he's still in Military school. Mom and Dad just told us that we have two older siblings that are older than Francis. We never knew about them, Mom and Dad were broke and wanted them to have a better life, so they gave them up for adoption. All I could think of after that was, 'Hey, why couldn't they do that with us.'

Narrator:

Lois and Hal were totally out of money, neither of them had a job and they had no income at all. They had only been this broke once before, when they had the twins. They were so broke that they had to give their oldest twins a better life and gave them up. Recently they met the twins, but the other kids didn't. Lois and Hal sat the kids down and told them about the twins and told them that they would have to send Malcolm with his older sister for a month, or until things got better. They decided to send Malcolm because they knew how intelligent he was and his sister was, too, so it seemed like a perfect fit. When they told the boys it didn't go very well.

"What?!" Malcolm yelled, "You can't just send me away! That isn't fair!"

"Malcolm its only for a month," Lois said, "Plus this could be good for you, she is very smart and she was delighted to take you in. Not a lot of people are like that."

"Wow, no Malcolm for a month," Reese said, "This is the greatest day ever!"

"Shut up, Reese!" Malcolm yelled, "Mom, please."

"You leave tonight," Hal said.

"Tonight?" Malcolm was upset.

That night Malcolm went to the airport and got on the plane. He was nervous and mad about the whole thing.

Malcolm's Point Of View:

I can't believe any of this. I can't believe that I have a Sister and a Brother that I never even knew about. My sister is 36, so she is 20 years older than Francis and like 25 years older than me- Whoa! She could be like my mom, that's weird. She is like 23 years older than Reese and like 29 years older than Dewey, and 35 years older than Jamie, now that is insanely weird! I wonder what she's like. Is she nice and sweet or mean and evil, like mom? I wonder if my older brother is like Dewey or Reese. Please be like Dewey! I am so nervous. I think my sister will be nice, I mean she's paying for my flight and everything. She must care, I'm flying first class! I love her already, but I'm still scared. I am on a flight to Washington D.C., this is cool. Then I have to go to a Navy Yard? Maybe I'll see Francis, or maybe I'm going to Military school, too! I'm scared!

"Hey kid," the hostess said to me, "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," I said. Of course I'm lying; I don't want to freak her out. I shouldn't worry...Right?