Ashton sat quietly in a chair of the principal's office while her father and the principal had a little talk about her behavior. That afternoon at lunch she had started a food fight after some girl pushed her in the cafeteria line. Of course this would be expected of a high school or even a middle school student but Ashton was only 5 years old. Her sister, Mally, on the other hand was easier to get along with, she didn't really care if someone hit into her and didn't apologize, or if someone cut into line. She simply wanted to get threw the day, she found school extremely boring and only wanted to get home. Ashton on the other hand found school easy and boring as well but instead of being passive like her twin sister, she became a trouble maker and always managed to start a fight.
"I don't know what I'm going to do with you," Nick, her father, said as he came out of the principal's office with a look of disappointment on his face, "Why can't you be more like your sister?" Ashton sat there looking at her feet, not caring about what her father just asked her. The principal came out shortly after and sat down next to Ashton and asked Nick to take a seat.
"Miss Stokes," he started as he took out a piece of paper and handed it to Nick, "We feel that you are causing trouble because you're bored, Am I right?" Ashton simply nodded as a response. "Well you father and I have decided to push you and your sister up a couple of grades, to keep you busy." Ashton looked up from the floor.
"You're going to take me out of Kindergarten?" she asked in a unusually soft voice. The principal nodded. "What if I can't do it? What if it's to hard?" she asked suddenly as she looked up at her father.
"Ash, what's 3x4?" he asked.
"12," she replied.
"And 7x7?"
"49," again another right answer.
"Don't worry about it, you'll be fine," he placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled for the first time sense she had seen him that afternoon.
"And Mally too?" he nodded. Suddenly the principal cut into their conversation not being able to hold himself back any longer.
"Mr. Stokes, you knew about your children's gifts and never said anything?"
"I figured they'll show themselves soon enough!"
Once Ashton moved up the amount of grades that her father and the principal felt she could handle, she stopped causing trouble and concentrating on her studies. Both her and her sister graduated at the age of 12 years old. Of course they went to college to follow in their father's foot steps and became a forensic scientist.