Chapter 7:
January 13th 2019 (1 1/2 years later)
It was the day of Piper's tenth birthday. Piper now had her seventh belt, the green one. Henry, Jonah and Lillian were now her best friends. Emilia and Brooke had a new addition to their group, a girl called Taylor, who was good at maths. Emilia, Brooke, Taylor and Piper were good friends. Piper got along well with Holly, Megan, Luis, Jasper and their new addition, a boy called Malik. Piper woke up with all of her friends standing in her room. She unwrapped her presents right before breakfast. Henry, Jonah, Reuben and Lillian had put money together to give her a hoodie with a picture of an ermine and facts about ermines on it. The hoodie was from a fair trade shop. Emilia, Brooke and Taylor had bought her the movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Holly, Jasper, Megan, Luis and Malik had put some money together to buy her a fountain pen. Emiko, her handler, had given her one of her old everyday kimonos.
Because it was a Sunday she didn't have any classes. Since the beginning of the year they had been Maths 5, ELA 6, Physics 5, Chemistry 5, Biology 5, Social Science 5, History 5, Geography 5, Politics 5, IT Level 3, Arts Level 3, Martial Arts Level 7, Japanese Level 5 and her training for basic training. She had been teaching French from 8 to 10 on Saturday mornings since the beginning of the year. She had no German classes anymore, she just had to go to revision every month. She wasn't taking part in her Dutch and Training classes for the time being, because of her training for basic training. Piper and her friends didn't have to do any extra training that morning, so they played paintball and went swimming together. In the afternoon Taylor and Piper went out to play tennis. Later, in the evening, they all watched the movie Emilia, Brooke, Reuben and Taylor had given Piper.