"Well howdy there, little dumping!" Mrs. Minty greeted. She was overweight, wore a mint green dress, had her caramel colored hair in a bun, wore square-shaped glasses, white earrings, and black slip on shoes. "You come right in and socialize until class starts."

"Okay..." Verdinand walked away from Mrs. Minty and went to the other students. There were four dark green children, two boys and two girls, a pink girl with frizzy pigtails, and a boy in brown with spiky black hair. "H-Hi... I'm V-Verdinand," he introduced himself nervously.

"Hello Verdinand." all of the children greeted in unison.

"Hi Verdinand," the girl with pigtails walked up to him. "My name's Rosalina, those are my friends the quadruplets. Marlene, Marcus, Mariella, and Martin and that boy is Dave."

"Are you four related?" Verdinand asked the quadruplets.

"Yes," they all said.

"We have a big brother in second grade," Marlene told him.

"His name's Marvin." Marcus added.

"We all share everything, even with our other siblings." Mariella said.

"There's nine of us in total." Martin finished.

"Nine?" Verdinand's eyes widened, imagining living with eight Vendetta's.

"You look familiar to me." Dave observed. "You're kind of green."

"Yeah," Verdinand said. "My family and I like green. Ecspecially my sister Vendetta."

"Vendetta is your sister?" Dave gasped.

"Umm... Yeah..." Verdinand responded as if it wasn't a big deal.

The other kids then suddenly backed away from him, frightened. They were afraid to even socialize with Verdinand. Mrs. Minty placed a shiny red apple on her desk and took out the roll call sheet. "Now students, let's take attendance. That way I can learn your names. Dave Winfrey?"

"Here," Dave raised his hand.

"Marcus Bean?"

"Here," Marcus raised his hand.

"Martin Bean?"

"Here," Martin raised his hand.

"Marlene Bean?"

"Here," Marlene raised her hand.

"M-"

"Yes, yes, we're all here." Mariella interrupted.

"My, my, you must not speak out of turn, I'll give you a warning this time but next time it's detention for you." Mrs. Minty waved her finger. "Now, where was I? Oh yes. Rosalina Thorne?"

"Here!" Rosalina raised her hand high.

"And now, Verdinand Grinch."

"Present." Verdinand raised his hand.

"Grinch?" Mrs. Minty looked over at Verdinand. "What a strange last name for such a sweet little duckling. Verdinand, would you like to pass out these papers so we can do our first activity?"

"Okay," Verdinand smiled and went to collect the papers.

The other kindergarteners were shocked Verdinand was so friendly. They thought for sure he'd be a lot like his sister. The kindergarten class did addition and subtraction, then some finger painting, a quiet story, nap time and finally lunch. They would join the other students in the school cafeteria.

Verdinand kept his lunch box secure and looked all around the cafeteria. He saw Ms. Millet with some older students, posters on the walls and finally smiled as he saw his older sister eating lunch alone. Verdinand pulled up a seat and sat next to her as she gobbled down clams, beef jerky and grape punch.

"How was class, little brother?" Vendetta sinisterly smirked at him.

"It was great! We did addition and subtraction, and I did a finger painting of our house! And-and we read Little Red Riding Hood and-" Verdinand rambled on, but as he mentioned reading, Vendetta stopped him.

"You read a book?" Vendetta raised an eyebrow.

"Oh yes, it was a little diddy called-" Verdinand smiled, but he noticed the anger in his older sister.

"That's it!" Vendetta snapped. "No more school for you! You are no longer a Kindergarten student! I shall teach you to become evil like me! We are done for the school day!"

"But Vendetta, we still have until 2:00 to go home!" Verdinand interrupted.

"I do not care!" Vendetta hissed. "I knew this school would be too tough on you and you let people walk over you!"

"N-No I don't!" Verdinand gasped.

"Move it, green boy!" a dark gray boy with a baseball cap shoved Verdinand down.

"HEY!" Vendetta roared.

The gray boy turned and gasped. "V-V-Vendetta!? THE Vendetta!?" the gray boy stammered.

"Yes, it is I, Vendetta!" Vendetta introduced herself. "So quake with fear you tiny fool!"

"S-S-Sorry Vendetta, is that stupid kindergartner bothering you?"

"That stupid kindergartner you are referring to is my baby brother!" Vendetta hissed. "Verdinand, show some backbone!"

"Umm..." Verdinand shivered and looked at the gray boy. "Beware of my power?"

"Pathetic, you are!" Vendetta hissed at her brother then frightened the gray boy with Grudge. She then turned back to the kindergartener. "You are through with Kindergarten! From now on, you stay home while I go to school and I will educate you! I will not have a reputation with a weakling little brother! Do you understand me, Verdinand?"

"Yes Vendetta..." Verdinand sighed.

"Good, now...Hamster," Vendetta looked up at the tall hamster. "Take Verdinand home for me and come back here! I will make a fiend to unleash upon my brother's stupid class for taunting him!"

Grudge grunted and picked Verdinand up and threw him over his shoulders. The giant hamster then broke through the school cafeteria door and went on his way to take Verdinand home. Grudge made it to the Grinch house and threw Verdinand inside while Viktor read the newspaper and Violetta was knitting on the couch.

"Hi son, home so early?" Viktor observed.

"How was school, I hope you liked it!" Violetta giggled.

"Yeah Mom and Dad... It was nice..." Verdinand sighed as he was staying home for the remainder of his school days.


Awww looks like Vendetta SORTA cares about her younger brother. Oh well, nobody's perfect... I also made Mrs. Minty a kindergarten teacher based on how she treats the students when she substituted for Mr. Milk that one episode