Michael: I can't believe you did so good for your first two lessons.

Me: And I'm only five.

Selene: It was good. Better than I expected.

Me: [Smiles]

I got my bath and got out to put my pajamas on. I brushed my teeth quickly then went to my parents' room. I knock. "Who is it?" I heard Michael say.

I giggled. "Daddy."

"Oh. Elizabeth. Come in, Princess."

I opened the door and walked in. "Mommy told me to come get her when I was done."

"Ok. I'll go get her. Just sit on the bed." He said and walked into the bathroom. "Selene, Elizabeth needs you. She came to get you."

"Ok. Give me just a minute. I just have to change." Selene replied.

Michael nodded and walked back into the room. "She'll be out in a minute she said. She just has to change."

"Ok." I said sitting on the bed with my feet dangling off the bottom edge.

A minute later, Selene came out of the bathroom hair wet and changed. "You done, Baby?"

I smiled and nodded. "I even brushed my teeth by myself."

"You did? Can I see?" She asked half smiling.

I smiled showing my teeth to her so she could check them. She looked at them quickly and smiled. "Very good, Baby." She said.

I smiled and said, "I'm learning fast."

"I know you are. I'm so proud of you." She replied picking me up and carrying me to my room to tuck me in.

After tucking me in, she kissed my forehead and said she loved me and said good nite. I smiled. "I love you too, Mommy. Can you sing to me?" I asked.

She smiled. "Sure." She said sitting on the bed and stroking my hair. "I walked through the door with you. The air was cold. But something about it felt like home somehow. And I left my scarf there, at your sister's house and you still got it. In your drawr. Even now.

Oh your sweet disposition, and my wide-eyed gates. We're singing in the car, getting lost upstate. Autumn leaves falling down like pieces in the plays. And I can picture it, after all these days. And I know it's long gone. And the magic's not here no more. And I might be ok, but I'm not, fine at all.

'Cause here we are again. On that, middletown street. You almost ran the red 'cause you were looking over at me. Wind in my hair, I was there. I remember it, all too well.

Photo album on the counter. Your cheeks were turning red. You used to be a little kid with glasses. In a twin size bed. Your mother's telling stories about you on the t-ball team. You tought me about your past. Thinking your future was me. And I know it's long gone. And I know there was nothing else I could do. And I forget about you long enough, to forget why I needed to.

'Cause here we are again. In the middle of the night. We're dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light. Down the stairs, I was there. I remember it all too well. Yeah!

Well maybe we got lost in translation. Maybe I asked for too much. But maybe this thing was a masterpiece. Till you tore it all up. Running scared, I was there. I remember it all too well!

And you call me up again. Just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest. I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here. 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... Too well.

Time won't fly. It's like I'm paralyzed by it. I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it. After plaid shirt days and nights, when you made me your own, now you mail back my things, and I walk home alone. But you keep my old scarf. From that very first week. 'Cause it reminds you of innocence. And it smells like me. You can't get rid of it. 'Cause you remember it all too well. Yeah!

'Cause there we are again, when I loved you so. Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known. It was rare, I was there. I remember it all too well. Wind in my hair. You were there. You remember it all. Down the stairs, you were there. You remember it all. It was rare, I was there. I remember it. All too well."

I fell asleep right away and Selene kissed me good nite.