Homeschool was the worst part of any day.
Not that he had homeschool every single day No, most das he managed to get out of the house before big sis remembered that she was supposed to be teaching her stuff. It helped if he gave her something to do, like he made a mess or something. Not a big mess, not like how baby sis had kicked a whole thing of flour over that morning and then played in it like it was snow. No, if he made a little mess like spreading his toys around everywhere or knocking the dirty clothes hamper over on 'accident'. He would never have made a lot of work for big sis…just a little.
Just enough to get him out of doing his work.
"Is this enough?" asked Sho as he slid his math book across the table. He hated this. Math was the worst thig ever. Dad loved math, Fukuda said that dad took every single math class that there was when they were in University, and that was why Sho hated math. Well also because math was a tool of torment designed to make you want to cure at your big sister and flip the table over. He and dad weren't anything alike. Sho liked art and if you liked art then you couldn't like math.
That was a rule.
Big sis didn't like art or math…but she was still torturing him with it. She put her own book down…she got to work on history but he got math? That wasn't fair at all. He didn't like history that much either, unless it was the kind of history where people had big battles and died and stuff. He mostly just knew about art…also science was cool. Like when he and Shimazaki…when he and Ryou put a bunch of stuff in the microwave to see what would happen. Eggs exploded…if you put a dozen eggs in the microwave they all popped like popcorn but smelled a thousand times worse. That was science and it had been fun…especially when Ryou jumped…that had been funny….
He wondered what Ryou was doing right now…probably something more fun than this.
"That's only half a page…and a lot of these are wrong, too. Come on, please at least finish the two times table. You need to know how to multiply." Said Mob. She didn't like math any more than he did. Actually she might have liked it even less than he did. Numbers were hard, keeping them all in her head at once. She knew that dad loved math and she should have loved it too since she was his daughter…but she just didn't like it. Also she was a girl and dad had said that girls weren't as good at math and stuff like that as boys were…not that she cared what dad said…and not that she wanted him to come into the kitchen and tell them both that…well she knew that he would have said something mean to Sho…so maybe it was wrong that she wanted to see him again….
She didn't want to see her dad ever again. She wanted to do her schoolwork…so that was what she was going to do.
She passed Sho back his math book after circling the ones that he got wrong. She flipped his book over to the times table he filled in before. Twos were easy because you just had to count by twos and that was easy. She had learned that in the first grade. She could count by twos, by fives, and then by tens. So she knew her twos, her fives, and her tens. She kind of knew her fours because they were double the twos…and also she knew her ones and zeros but those were the easiest. She wasn't goo at this…dad usually helped her….but she didn't need dad to help her now. She didn't need him for anything. She would never need him again.
She had this. She didn't need someone who broke her family apart. She could hold what was left of it together.
"Do YOU know the two times table?" asked Sho. She was just as bad at math as he was and she hated it just as much as she did. Why did they even need this? She was already the Vice President of Claw and when he grew up and dad died then Sho would be president and she would still be the vice president since he wasn't going to fire his own sister.
"Yes…mostly. I can go up to two times eleven. That's easy. It's just twenty two. I don't know two times twelve though….so you can stop at eleven I guess." Said Mob. There. That was a good compromise. She mostly just wanted him to be done…and if he just sat down and did his work then he would have been done faster. Baby Mukai was stretching in the living room with her mom. She would be done soon and Mob wanted to be done when she was done. That way they could hang out some more…and maybe Mob had to teach her stuff too.
It wasn't like she could ever go to school.
They didn't have a permanent home. They moved all the time…and she didn't know when they would be moving again…but she knew that they couldn't stay here forever. Dad and Hatori were running Claw right now, which was weird because usually dad left her in charge when he ran away, but at any time she could be the one who had to be in charge…and that meant that she would have to move. Baby Mukai was going to come with her, of course, and that meant that she could never go to school or stuff like that….
Which was…just how things were.
When dad took over the world things would be easier. They wouldn't have to move around so often. Dad said that he would concentrate power in Japan because this was where they were from and also Japan was the best country in the world. Mob didn't think that Japan was the best country, she thought that they all had their good things and bad things, but she was looking forward to living in Japan all the time. There was no place like home after all….no that dad would be living at home with them. Not that he would ever live with her in a big giant house with her family like he had been talking about for her entire life. Dad was gone…he had done this to himself…and she had Mukai now. She had her little sister and…and Mukai was going to be happy. Even if she could never go to school or make friends her own age or…anything like that. It was ok. She had a brother and a sister who loved her….and school wasn't that great anyway…even if you did get to wear a cool uniform…and you got a cool school satchel too…
She could get one for Mukai.
You didn't have to go to school to wear a uniform and get a cool bag. Mukai could wear whatever uniform she wanted and she could have as many school satchels as she wanted. Mob had thought long and hard, when she had been little, what school she had wanted to go to. She picked based on the uniform…and also mom had let her pick out a cool school bag too. Mukai…well she could pick out all of that stuff…with just the two of them, like a sisters thing….and plus Sho, too, if he wanted to come along…and maybe her mom too if she didn't have anything else going on. Yeah…Mukai wasn't missing anything by not ever being able to go to school…and neither was Mob…and neither was Sho…
Though she did get the idea, maybe, that Sho would have learned better in an actual classroom than he learned at the kitchen table.
"Can't I just stop at five or something? I already know my fives." Said Sho pushing his book away from himself. He shoved it off to the side…and then big sis used her powers to put it right in front of him. He would never understand her for as long as he lived. If she wanted him to learn about something that mattered, like stuff he could do with his powers, then that would have made a hell of a lot more sense than math. What did he need math for? He could just have someone do math for him…or he could just use the calculator that came on his phone!
Big sisters were so weird sometimes. Little sisters were a hell of a lot more fun.
"Sho…ok. Just for today you can stop at your fives…but you're not done for today. Do a page from the classical Japanese book too." Said Mob. There. That was enough learning for one day…maybe. She didn't know. She used to go to school, back when she had been in the first grade, from eight to two….but there had been a lot of stuff like lunch and gym and recess to fill that time. There had been a lot more classes too…but that had been actual school. She and Sho knew what they needed to know and that extra stuff was for other kids…the ones who got to go to school…
Not that she wanted to go to school or anything.
Minegishi had been to school and they said that it was nothing like in anime. They had stopped going to school when they were fifteen and then gotten a high school equivalency. They had done that because school was a lot of…well not good stuff, they said. It wasn't like in anime where everyone got a super colorful uniform and everyone did fun club stuff and stuff. School was a lot of boring stuff and a waste of time, they had said, and Mob and Sho were better off not having to deal with it…even though if she had been in school then this would have been her last year. She would have been going to middle school and there were clubs there and cultural festivals, always her favorite part of any anime, and also there were boys there and she maybe could have found a boyfriend….since she was probably never going to see Teru again….and it seemed like it would have been a good time…
But that wasn't how her life was supposed to go…and that was ok.
She had her little brother, she had her little sister, and she had her friends. School was for learning anyway, dad had said, that was why they made you go from first grade until you were an adult. School was there so you didn't come out of childhood an idiot and anything that you could learn at school you could learn at home. School was dumb and stressful, dad had said, and she was better off not having to deal with other people like that. Clubs took up a lot of time too, dad said, he had been in kendo for six whole years in middle and high school and he'd gone to kendo school before that. Mob…did not like kendo…or naginata which was kendo for girls….and she knew that she wouldn't have liked that…but she maybe would have liked to have been in one of those clubs that were in every anime where the main character and her friends all hung out and had adventures and stuff….
But that was never going to happen…and also she and all of her friends already hung out all day and had adventures.
"When am I ever going to need classical Japanese? I already speak regular Japanese, isn't that enough?" asked Sho as he pushed his classical Japanese book across the table. What did he need Japanese for? He spoke Japanese…hell, he WAS Japanese. If anyone needed to learn more words, in regular Japanese and classical, then it was baby sis. He could hear her talking to her mom in the other room, they were still doing stretching, and she sounded like Shimazaki when he had too much to drink and stuff. If anyone needed more school it was her…not that he would ever be so cruel as to subject his own baby sister to this kind of torture. She didn't need any kind of school at all. Nope. When he was the President of the whole world then he would just have people following her around and reading to her and counting for her for her entire life.
"What if you see a word you don't know? I can't just follow you around and read to you for your entire life…you don't even like when I read to you now." Said Mob as she used her powers to slide his classical Japanese book back in front of him. He'd been working on that book since last winter…and he wasn't even a quarter of the way through it.
"I'm eleven, I don't need you to read to me. I don't need anyone to read to me…anyone but Ryou…but that's just because I don't know braille! I don't need to know this and….and give me one good reason why I should do this…besides that I need to learn how to read and stuff.
"Um…you just do, ok? That's what kids are our age learn at school so just…please try and learn classical Japanese, ok? Please do you work." Said Mob with a sigh. This was always so hard…which was why she didn't have him do homeschool work that often. She didn't know why he had to fight her about this…hopefully baby Mukai wouldn't take after Sho like that. Maybe she would take after dad…she was really smart….and Mob wanted her to be smart….but maybe about things that were difference than what dad was smart about. She…wanted the best for her baby sister…and her sister was her sister…and she needed to stop feeling weird about this.
She needed to get back to work…and she needed to get Sho back to work too.
"What are you going to do, then?" asked Sho. She never worked as much as he did…when it came to school work actually. She didn't like it either…so how about none of them did something that they didn't like? Why couldn't they just hang out and have fun all day? Other kids had to go to school, not them, so it made no sense for them to do this.
Big sis, of course, never saw things his way.
"My own work. You know that I have to do my own schoolwork too, Sho." Said Mob. She had schoolwork and housework and also regular work…well dad was handling that…but he could have disappeared at any time and then she would have had to be the President again…she didn't want to have to be…she would do whatever she had to do. Dad had already made her a whole other person to take care of so what was making her the President of Claw again?
"You never have as much to do as I do…and what you do have to do you hate. Why do we both have to do stuff that we hate?" asked Sho
"Sho…please don't argue with me." Said Mob. She was…not going to get angry with her dad…or even a little bit frustrated. She loved her brother and…and she could never be mad at him. Not when he lied to her for years and years and not when he argued with her about something as…non-fighty….as school work…a better word would come to her….maybe she was the one who needed to do some Japanese homework.
"Come on, this is boring. I have a calculator on my phone and I speak Japanese. Can't I go and hang out with baby sis or something?" asked Sho
"Sho….um….she's going to be busy so maybe you should just…do your work?" asked Mob. She…well she didn't like to lie…and she wasn't lying. She could teach baby Mukai how to read or something. Her mom had taught her and Sho at home even back when they went to preschool. That was just something that you were supposed to do for a little kid…and Mob could do that…she could take care of her own brother and sister. She knew what she was doing.
And she did not need help.
Mukai's mom seemed to think that she needed help. Mob didn't…she really didn't. She could take care of her own family. She was….grateful…that Mukai's mom had taken good care of her and loved her and stuff. Mukai wasn't an orphan, she had a family, but she had still been adopted and Mob had seen plenty of movies and read plenty of stories where orphans got put with families who were mean to them…even though that made no sense. Mob never got why people were mean to the orphans that they adopted….if you had to pick your kid then why not pick one you liked….but she was very grateful that Mukai's mom had been nice to her and had taken such good care of her…
But now her work was done.
"With what? She's two. Sho mostly just makes messes and picks her nose and yells at people." Said Sho
"I'm going to teach Mukai to read." Said Mob. There. That was what she was going to do. Like dad always, when you had the audacity to say something then that meant that it was going to happen. Like when he said that he was going to take over the world….or when he said that he was going to cheat on mom and make a whole new person.
"She can barely talk. How's she going to read if she can barely talk?" asked Sho
"She understands everything we say…and also I think that mom started teaching us to read when we were her age. I mean I can't remember a time when I couldn't read and my earliest memory is from when I was three so mom must have taught me to read before that." Said Mob
"How about I teach her to read and then you do my math and classical Japanese?" asked Sho
"Sho…come on, please work? If you finish early then I'll ask Shibata to make you homemade poptarts and soda." Said Mob. Sho stuck out his tongue…what? Did he not like poptarts now? Was he too big for poptarts? People grew up…they grew up and lied and…and she loved her brother and if he had grown up and didn't like poptarts then…then that was ok.
"Yes to the poptarts, no to the soda." Said Sho. Shibata…needed to stick to pancakes and waffles and other stuff that wasn't….soda.
"What's wrong with Shibata's homemade soda?" asked Mob. It wasn't that bad…if you didn't drink too much. It was mostly syrup and Sho loved sweet things…and also it was important to always support your friends even if they weren't the best at…everything that they tried to do. Being supportive was important and…and it wasn't that bad. Mukai liked it.
She could hear Mukai running.
She could feel Mukai's aura and she could hear her running….how someone so small could make such loud footsteps Mob could never know. She wondered if all two year olds were like that. She wondered if she would ever end up with more two year olds to take care of…not her own because she was twelve. Dad…she didn't know what dad had been thinking telling her that she should have had her own kids if she wanted to take care of baby sis. She as twelve and twelve year olds didn't do that….and also she didn't even know any boys…and also…also just…no way! Dad was just…she didn't know what he had been thinking. She loved her sister and her sister was the only two year old she knew…unless she grew up and had a baby…or unless dad had more babies out there that nobody was telling her about….they had kept stuff like that from her before…
Sho said that he would never do that to her again…and she believed him…and…and Mukai was there and she was her only younger sibling who wasn't Sho and…and she…didn't have any other siblings coming!
"Soda! Soda please and thank you!" shouted Mukai as she ran in with her sippy cup. She tripped, a little, but she didn't fall. That was good. She never fell down here. She ran up to Sho and held out her hands. He took her sippy cup from her. Sho had soda….he always had soda! Sho always had good things! So did the other person….but mostly Sho.
"Sure thing, baby sis. You want a coke?" asked Sho getting up from his chair, grateful for the distraction.
"Coke please and thank you!" said Mukai
"Sho…" said Mob. She wanted baby Mukai to be happy….but she...well she had already had a soda today and the sugar made her run around and stuff. She didn't know how she was supposed to teach someone to read who was full of sugar. Sho was always full of sugar and he…well he really didn't like to learn things…and do schoolwork…so maybe it was just easier to let him play all day…
No, she had to do what was best for him. That was what it was to be in charge….and she was good at being in charge…despite what her mom said.
"Hey, stop giving her coke. She doesn't need any more sugar in her system." Said Tsuchiya as she made her way into the kitchen…which had been converted into a classroom. Huh. So that what these two were arguing about in here. That was…a lot of workbooks….a lot of untouched workbooks. She cleared a space at the table and sat Mukai down there.
Then she took the sippy cup from Sho.
"Hey, I was using that!" said Sho as he got a can of coke from the fridge. He knew that sugar was bad for you and all that other junk but…well baby sis wanted it and he was a good big brother and being a good big brother meant making your baby sister happy. Besides, two or three or seven cans of coke a day wasn't going to kill her or anything.
"Sho was using that." Said Mob. She used her powers to get the sippy cup back from Mukai's mom…wow. She was really strong. So she had to touch things to use her….telekinesis? Was that even the right word? She called it her qi and stuff….there was probably a real word for what her powers were. Mob probably just couldn't remember it right now. She had other things to remember, anyway, like that she was the one in charge of the house and Mukai could have as much soda as she wanted…even though sugar made her crazy….because Mob loved her and when you loved someone you gave them whatever they wanted. Like how dad gave her whatever she wanted…even a little sister….and even if he had given her a little sister in the worst way possible…
No. Stop it. Mukai is the best little sister in the world and it's not her fault that dad is a bad person.
"Well not I'm using it." Said Tsuchiya as she pulled as hard as she could…how could one person be so strong? And someone so small too? She wasn't even gesturing. She was sitting at the table with her hands folded….and now Mukai was trying to take her book…and she was holding that up above her head too….how could she….
Tsuchiya let go.
"She only had one soda today, she'll be fine. Sho's had six anyway and he's fine." Said Mob
"More than six." Said Sho
"Sho…how many sodas have you had today?" asked Mob. She….was not mad at him….even though he knew that he got a little…like Mukai…when he had too much sugar. She didn't know why he had to fight with her about EVERYTHING. She just…maybe this was just how kids were? She was a kid but also…well she hadn't felt like a kid in a long time. She loved her brother and…and she would always love him…but she really hoped that when she grew up and had kids they acted more like her and less like Sho.
"I don't know." Said Sho with a shrug. He knew that he'd had a lot…and he knew that if she knew then she wouldn't let him have any more…and he wanted more. He couldn't wait until he was old enough to decide this stuff for himself.
"How many cans, Sho?" asked Mob as she handed baby Mukai her sippy cup. She took it and banged it against Mob's math book. It didn't make a lot of noise….so maybe that was why she was banging it so hard.
"I really don't know how many cans. I drank….two and a half two liters…so that's…a lot of cans." Said Sho. He couldn't lie to her…not again. She was still kind of mad about the whole…lying about where he was going and that he was seeing Mukai thing…and he couldn't make her any madder at him than she already was.
"It is….no more soda, Sho." said Mob. She had no idea how many cans that was….but it sounded like a lot….and Sho needed to drink more water. Sugar was poison, anyway, Minegishi said so….and they didn't have Fukuda around anymore to fix whatever damage Sho did to himself…not that she was going to go looking for Fukuda or anything. She had banished him. He was gone off somewhere and that was fine by her. Banished meant go away forever not go away until we need you again.
"Soda please and thank you!" said Mukai as she banged her cup on the table. It was supposed to make noise…and it didn't….she would just have to try harder then! She looked over at Sho…he could help her…but he was talking to his mama now. Not her mama. Her mama was making a mad face….
"Mama mad!" said Mukai as she pointed to mama. Mama's colors….orange….orange as mad. She could tell. Sho was happy. Red was happy. Pink and blue were not happy. Sho's mama was not happy.
"No, Mukai, I'm happy. See? No more soda for you…how about some water? How about some hot water with lemon in it. How does that sound?" asked Tsuchiya. She felt Mukai's aura pass over her…that was new. She had picked that up from her siblings. Neither of these kids knew to keep their qi to themselves…or maybe it was just because they had so much of it. Both of these kids were stronger than they had any right to be…well that made sense…they were President Suzuki's kids after all and he was the most powerful esper in the world, supposedly….
….also he was the laziest father in the world…less supposedly.
It looked like schooling was another one of those things that President Suzuki had left to his oldest daughter…his twelve year old daughter. When Tsuchiya had been twelve her biggest worries had been going to school, her training, and sneaking off to hang out with people her own age for a few hours. This girl…did a lot. Tsuchiya half expected her to have just been a really short woman or something and everyone to pop out and go 'h-ha, fooled you' and then they'd have a great big laugh at her expense. Honestly she would have welcome that. For as strong as this girl was, as an esper, she was still just a kid.
No wonder she was so high strung all the time. Who wouldn't have been in her shoes?
"I said for Sho." said Mob. She got a can of coke out of the fridge with her powers and started to pour some for Mukai. She could feel Mukai's mom watching her. She didn't care. She was the big sister and she was the one in charge of the house and if she said that Mukai could have soda then she could have soda….but not as much as Sho had drank. No wonder he had been acting up so much…she wasn't going to order as much soda next time…and also she was going to talk to Shimazaki about getting Sho two liters. She had no idea how many cans of soda were in a two liter but she figured it must have been more than the six a day that Sho was allowed to have…or had she changed it to seven? She couldn't really remember….
"I just…fine….but after that can Mukai is done for the day." Said Tsuchiya. One more couldn't hurt her….well it could…in the long run…or maybe not. She really didn't know. She hadn't really had a lot of soda as a kid. She had been allowed one gape soda once a week if she had been good…and she had snuck way more than that when she went out into the world…she loved Mukai and she didn't want to put her through that….but too much soda caused all kinds of problems….
Motherhood only got harder the older Mukai got.
She had thought, when she had been given Mukai, that it would get easier as she got older. As she learned to sleep through the night. As she learned to walk and talk. As she learned to make herself known. As they transitioned from diapers to pullups…she was pretty damn happy that diapers were over and done with. She had thought that it would have gotten easier but, as they moved past things like diapers and bottles, they moved into sodas and sippy cups and arguing…the talking had led to arguing….and it would only get harder as she got older if President Suzuki's oldest daughter was anything to go off of….
Motherhood was hard…but at least she was doing this as an adult and not a twelve year old girl.
"Please and thank you!" said Mukai as she took her sippy cup from Sho's mama. She reached up and pulled on her hair.
"Mukai….you're going to rip my braid off…but that's ok. It'll grow back…I guess." Said Mob as Mukai tugged on her hair. She didn't know why Mukai only wanted to pull on her hair. Mukai had a lot of hair, it went out in all directions, so it should have been more fun to pull on. Even Sho's hair would have been more fun to pull on since he had the same hair as her…they both had dads hair. She didn't have anyone's hair…even mom's….but that was ok. She was half Japanese and so was Sho…and he had gotten all the half and she had gotten all the Japanese….
Mukai must have been half Japanese, too, or…half Korean or…half of something where she got all the half and didn't look a thing like Mob.
"And that's why she doesn't get more than one soda a day…and that's going to be her last one. She doesn't need more than two cans a day…and definitely not over eleven cans of soda…" said Tsuchiya
"I wouldn't give her that many cans of soda….I don't even think that one person could even manage to drink that much soda." Said Mob. She knew what she was doing. She knew how to be in charge. She knew not to give her own little sister that much soda. She….had been mean when she said that to Mukai's mom….but she had started it. She was the one who acted like Mob didn't know what she was doing.
"Shigeko…..you let your brother have that many cans of soda." Said Tsuchiya slowly. She….must have known…right?
"Hey! I didn't drink that many!" said Sho. He would have noticed if he had drank that many. He would have noticed and…and he would have been peeing like crazy…or something! Yeah! Twice in half an hour wasn't that bad….he was just dehydrated….which meant that he needed more soda to replace all the soda that he'd lost!
"You did. Two liters is equal to about sixty seven and a half ounces and one can of soda is twelve ounces so that makes about five and a half cans of soda in one two liter. You said that you had two and a half two liters so that makes over eleven cans…which is way too much soda. For the love of God…drink a glass of water once in a while…." Said Tsuchiya. How…had this little boy managed to make it to the age of eleven? And why…why did his dad let him do this? And…and how…President Suzuki must have been able to afford a nanny. If Claw could afford secret bases on every continent, massive holiday parties every year, and that elevator to space they were supposedly going to build when they took over the world…then he should have been able to afford a nanny….though maybe all of these passion projects were why there had been so many budget cuts lately.
"….huh?" asked Sho. That had been….a lot of numbers….had he really drank so much? Maybe that was why his teeth were itchy and his head so bad…usually Fukuda fixed it when he felt like this….but Fukuda wasn't around anymore….
Maybe he did need to drink some water…or switch to those skinny cans of soda…or something.
"See? This is why we need math…so please work on your two times table at least to five…or six." Said Mob. She…that was the kind of thing that dad would have liked. Her eyes narrowed. So that lady could do math…and dad liked math….well then…..
"You…don't know your two times tables yet?" asked Tsuchiya. That kid was…eleven. She had been working on basic algebra when she had been eleven…well she had gone to a good school…but still. That was weird, right? For a kid his age not to know his two times tables….that made no sense. This was the President's son. Didn't he care about his own son? Well he had put his youngest daughter up for adoption…and abandoned his oldest daughter to raise her brother it looked like….plus there was the full ashtray on the kitchen table that Tsuchiya did not want to think about.
"I'll learn them later!" said Sho as he slammed his math book down on the table. He was going to learn this shit…just not now! He didn't even see why he needed this and….and it was a lot of numbers to remember too! How could someone remember their whole, entire, two times table…and then all the others too? It was impossible!
"Later, mama, later." Said Mukai as she slammed her hands on the table. Later meant not now!
"He'll do them later, you don't have to help with that. You can go and do…other stuff. I'm going to teach Sho math and I'm going to teach Mukai to read." Said Mob in her best 'dad' tone. She knew that she shouldn't have been mean like dad was but….but he got things done. He knew how to get people to listen to him…and…she needed Mukai's mom to listen to her.
She was the one who was in charge here.
"She's two….and maybe you two should work on math…or have someone help you. You know I can help you both. I mean it must be hard to have to do all of this alone and-" said Tsuchiya. She had been to school, university too, and she may not have had any experience teaching…working on colors and shapes with Mukai wasn't the same, but she could give it a try. She couldn't have done any worse than…well than letting the eleven and twelve year old do it themselves.
"Thank you but we're actually done for the day. We're going to go and play with our friends now. Come on, Mukai." Said Mob as she got up from the table. They could make this up tomorrow or next week or whatever. She just…she didn't need help. She knew what she was doing. So what if Sho and her didn't now complicated math…they could learn later….and….and Mob was doing just fine!
She was the one in charge here.
"Fuck yeah!" said Sho as he got up from the table and followed big sis and baby sis out. No more school work and he got to hang out with Ryou?! This was the best day ever! Even if his teeth were itchy and his head hurt and baby sis was hitting him with her sippy cup and big sis was upset…and also she had been kind of mean to baby sis's mom….this was still the best day ever!
Any day without school work was the best day ever!