Okay, I know this chapter is short but I could not think of anything else to happen. The next several chapters will be fillers, going though Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter before any action is going to happen again. It's just gonna be everyday life in the Robinson family.

Chapter 8-Homeschooling for Jessie

November 7th, 2011

Two days after the Halloween party at the Framagucci's, Bud and Lucille decided that after New Years, Jessie would start her freshman year at Joyce Williams High School. But before that time, she had quite a bit of schooling to catch up on.

"So m is the slope of the line?" asked Jessie, studying the equation on the paper in front of her. She and Lewis were currently sitting side by side at the dining room table, going over the slope formula in algebra. Lewis nodded and opened his mouth to reply when the door bell rang. "And that should be Franny."

"And she'll be helping me with English right?" Jessie asked as Lewis closed the math book and set it aside.

"And Spanish," added Franny from the doorway to the dining room. She was wearing a black skirt with a red blouse and her black hair was pulled back into a ponytail, a cowlick clearly visible near the front. On her shoulder sat a single frog. She smiled brightly at Lewis and Jessie as she walked over to them. "I hope you don't mind. I thought Frankie could do with some fresh air."

"Not at all Franny," Lewis replied with a smile as Franny sat down on the other side of Jessie, Frankie letting out a croak from her shoulder. "How are they coming along?"

"Nothing yet," she replied. Jessie looked back and forth between the two in confusion. Franny let out a small laugh at the look on her face. "Sorry. You see, I'm teaching frog's music. Frankie here is my star pupil. Your brother is one of the few that believe I can do it."

Jessie glanced at Lewis and smiled at the slight pink tinge to his cheeks before turning back to franny."I believe you too."

"Really?" asked Franny in disbelief, smiling at Jessie.

"Hey if I can find my brother after fifteen years and prove what really happened to our family with one of his inventions, then anything's possible. No matter how crazy it sounds," Jessie replied. Franny suddenly reached over and pulled her into a bone crushing hug. Lewis laughed from the other side as Jessie began to turn blue before Franny let go.

Franny let go of Jessie and the two girls turned to look at Lewis. They glanced at each other for a moment before turning back to the still laughing Lewis, smirking. Lewis stopped laughing at their smirks and looked between the two girls.

"What are you laughing at chicken legs," began Jessie, smiling as Lewis cringed at his nickname. "You're next."

Twenty minutes later the three were back at the dining room table, Lewis now extremely quiet. After Jessie started that he was next, he knocked over the chair and bolted out of the room. Unfortunately he only made it about twenty feet out of the room before he was caught but the two girls and pulled into a bone crushing hug till he turned blue from lack of oxygen. Now, Jessie and Franny were beginning to work on English, starting with Romeo and Juliet.

"Question? What the hell language is this?" exclaimed Jessie after reading the first page of the play and not understanding a word of it.

"It's English," Franny replied with a laugh, Frankie once more perched on her shoulder. "Just old English."

"You think this is bad, wait till you get to Beowulf," Lewis stated, remembering the story from when he took British Literature in High School. Jessie turned and glared at him, punching his arm."Ow! What was that for?"

"Giving me something to look forward to," she replied sarcastically before turning back to Franny, who was watching the two with a smile.