Its been a few days since the barbeque at Nathan and Hailey's place. I have been getting used to living in Tree Hill, although I do notice its sometimes hard to talk English all day long. I am used to talking English a lot when I was living in the Netherlands. Mostly i spoke English at home with mum and bass, but at school, dutch was the primary language.

Uncle Bass called me the night of the barbeque, and we had a great talk. I spoke about all the things I was worried about.

Mells Phone rings when everyone is sitting outside of Nathans and Hailey's house in the fresh summer air and are chatting about the day's events.

Mell picks up the phone and excuses her self. She walks towards the living room where nobody is.

"Hi, uncle Bass."

"Hi dearest niece of mine, how are you doing? How has Tree Hill been threatening you ?"

"its been good so far, there were some bumps in the road so to speak, but everything is alright for now."

"what sort of bumps mell?"

"Well, first of all, I met my father for the first time as mum probably told you already, I met a new friend on a basketball court, and we are just at the bbq of my dad's brother."

The conversations continued until mell noticed someone was standing in the opening of the door, trying to get her attention.

"Mum, what's up?"

"Hi, Mell, who are you calling? "

"Ohh, its just uncle bass, mum."

"oh, si hi to him for me, I thought you were outside and was looking for you? do you maybe have a minute to talk to me?"

"Yeah, always, just give me a second to say by to uncle bass."

"That's a fine sweety."

Mell picked up the phone again and ended the conversation with uncle bass while she promised to call him more often.

Mell sat down on the sofa that was in the living room, and Brooke followed. She waited patiently till Brooke spoke:

" I just wanted to talk about you are starting high school, and I know its not the right time, but we have to consider you starting highschool and which grade you should start in, of course."

"Really mum at this moment, oh well. Yeah, we should probably consider me going to Tree Hill high since you went there too. I would like that, I guess, and maybe I can join the basketball team also. who knows. "

"Okay, we have to see that, but I bet once you put your mind to it, you will succeed at it. I just wanted to check with you very quickly to see what you wanted, but then I will make an appointment with the high school and arrange everything for you to go there."

"Okay, thanks, mum, was that all btw?"

"Yepp, that's all, and I wanted to say that I am proud of you how you are handling everything that has been going on so far. You have dealt with a lot of changes and just wanted to say aswell that I am always here to support you no matter what, alright?"

Mell hugged Brooke and said:

"Thanks, mum, that helps a lot. I will don't worry."

Lucas walked in on Brooke and Mell hugging in the living room and couldn't help to snap a quick photograph of them before he walked in on them to tell them that everybody is cleaning up the last parts and it they wanted to help.

Brooke, Mell, Lucas, and everybody else was helping to clean up the last bits. They said goodbye to Nathan and Hailey before getting into the car and driving back.

Mell was looking out of the window and thinking about how things had changed. She thought about starting high school and how she didn't want to deal with that yet. She was worried about her dyslexia and if she had to tell mum about it. She didn't have it that badly but just lightly even though it was still enough for her to misspell things when she didn't see the words beforehand, and she was a slow reader.

How would she handle highschool in englisch?

But first of all, she still had another two weeks of summer holidays, and she was determined to make the best out of it.