As usual Grace was woken up by her alarm playing we are family, very loudly. Dano had thought it appropriate when he'd brought her the phone for him to set the alarm ringtone and volume and Grace was yet to persuade him to give her the code to change it, not that she minded to much, but still first thing in the morning it was enough to drive anyone slightly crazy.
Stumbling across her new room she hit the off button and opened the door. Her first thought was breakfast, it normally was after all she was a teenager, and so she headed down the stairs. It was only downstairs that she realised that her Uncle was no where to be found. Assuming he was simply still asleep she made herself, some toast and ate it. It was only as she turned to head back upstairs that something in the distance caught her eye. Turning back towards the window she grabbed the pair of binoculars left on the side and scanned the horizon. That's when she confirmed it. Her Uncle was mad, just as Dano had told her for years. That's right Steve aka Mr Super Seal was swimming, a couple of hundred meters out in the ocean, at 6:15 in the morning.
Laughing to herself she put down his binoculars and headed up stairs to have a shower and get ready for the day. Once she was backdown stairs after showering, getting dressed, doing her hair and make-up, packing her cheer cloths, and packing her school books grace found herself wandering back into the kitchen, phone in pocket, school bag over a shoulder and gym bag by the door.
"Hey Uncle Steve" grace greeted him with a hug "enjoy your morning swim?"
"morning kido, and yeah, I take it you saw me in the water" nodding her head grace started to go through his cupboards and fridge to find herself some lunch and an after-school snack.
"you know that cheer thing I told you about" grace asked whilst facing Steve who was now eating his breakfast "we have a practise tonight and most of the dads are coming about 6:30 which is towards the end of practise so we can start putting it together and then the rest of the practise for that section will be done at home, so will you be able to come?"
After thinking for a minuet Steve replied, "I will try my hardest to get there but ill text you otherwise ok?"
"Ok , thank you Steve, it means a lot to me" after looking at her phone "I'd better go as I've got assembly this morning, see you later"
"bye kiddo" was Steve's response as grace grabbed her gym bad and head out the front door.
"Grace was really looking forward to today, not only did she have cheer practise this evening, but she had her first 2 classes sitting next to Jake and her other classes were with her cheer friends. She just new today was going be a good day, or at least she hoped as she was still waiting for any news from Dano and her mom, and she didn't know if Uncle Steve was actually going be there tonight even though he promised. But still, today was going be a good day or at leas she was going try and make it one.