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Just something that popped into my head. Teddy Martinez tells his teacher about his family. (In this story, Dr. Martinez is married to Jed (but her name is still Martinez)).
Dr. Martinez waited outside her son's kindergarten classroom for her parent-teacher conference. She didn't anticipate any problems. Teddy had inherited plenty of brains from both his parents.
The door opened. "Ms. Martinez?" the teacher called. Dr. Martinez went into the room.
"Hi, I'm Miss Brown," the teacher said. "Please have a seat.
"Teddy is a most delightful child. He's very bright. And such an imagination! In fact, we've been having some problems from him with separating his imaginings from reality. Just last week, they were all writing stories about their families-"
"He didn't write one?" Dr. Martinez interrupted. She didn't mean to be rude, but she'd left Teddy home with just Nudge and when the girl was on the computer a bomb could go off and she wouldn't notice. She couldn't count on Teddy behaving; the flock had taught him some bad habits. Like turning the oven on and trying to cook bacon, for instance. Or climbing up on the roof. It might be all right for Max and the rest, but Teddy had no wings to save him if he fell.
"Oh, no, he wrote one, all right," Miss Brown prattled on. "You and Ella and your husband were in it, but he made up some pretty strange things! We couldn't even get him to admit it wasn't real."
"May I see the essay?" Dr. Martinez asked. The teacher smiled and handed it to her.
My Family
by Teddy
I live with my mom, my dad, and my sister. Her name is Ella. She's nineteen years old. My mom is a doctor, and my dad is a doctor too, except he doesn't stick needles in people. I have 3 sisters and 3 brothers besides Ella. They don't live with us, and most of them don't have the same mom or dad as me, except for Max. Max is nineteen. Her name is long. It is Maximum Ride, except mom says Max can use her or dad's last name if she wants. Everybody else doesn't even have a last name. There's Fang, who is 19. If Fang and I go outside the house, like to the park and stuff, I have to call him Nick because Fang says his real name sounds too scary. Iggy is also nineteen and he is blind, except he doesn't have to use a cane or anything. Nudge is 16 and her real name is Monique but Max and Fang and everybody don't call her that. There is the Gasman, who is 13, and his sister Angel, who is 11.
The most important thing about them is that they have wings and fly around beating up bad guys. Plus they can do cool stuff like Angel can read minds and Nudge can talk to computers and Iggy can make bombs out of stuff to blow things up. And they have a dog Total who talks. They don't live with us usually but do sometimes and visit for Easter and Christmas and stuff. They like mom's cookies. Mom likes it when they visit and she and dad and Ella and me get sad when they leave. I love my whole entire family.
Dr. Martinez finished reading and looked at the teacher.
"You see," Miss Brown said, "he really has the most marvelous imagination."
Dr. Martinez nodded. "Yes," she said. "He does."
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