A/N: Thank you to all those, who read and reviewed chapter ten. I really appreciate it! I hope you'll enjoy this next chapter, just as much!

Disclaimer: Alana Santos is mine.

The following week, when the children returned to school, they were greeted by their teacher, Alana. Although, they had grown quite fond of their substitute teacher, Simone Jasper, over the past seven weeks, they were glad to have their regular teacher back. And although, she missed her baby girl, Alana was glad to be back. She missed being able to teach others.

"Good morning class," Alana proudly said, as the students sat down at their desks.

"Good morning, Mrs. Santos," the class said in unison.

"Anyone want to tell me how their weekend went," Alana asked.

"My daddy took me to the beauty parlor and let me get my nails painted," she held up her hands, revealing a bright pink color. "See, aren't they pretty?"

Alana smiled. "They're very pretty," she said.

"Princess Peanut Butter head, do you know how many…"

"I told you to never call me that again," Elle angrily interrupted Emily.

"Oops, sorry. My bad," Emily apologized. "Now, as I was saying, do you know how many agonizing poops, a poor little flea had to go through, just to make that fingernail polish, you are wearing," she asked. "Well, if you don't know, the answer is three thousand, seven hundred and fifty two."

"That's a lot of poop," Luke remarked.

"Fingernail polish isn't made from flea poop," said Maeve. "It's made from…"

Emily held her hand, just mere inches away from Maeve's face. "Let me stop you right there," she interrupted. "Look, I know you're just dying to tell me what fingernail polish is really made of, and I appreciate that, but… there's a chance, I'll probably forget about all of it, within five seconds of you telling me," she explained. "So let's just save ourselves the trouble and tell Jason that it was Stephen who slashed his mommy's unicycle tire."

"What does that have anything to do with this whole fingernail polish conversation," asked Maeve.

"Trust me, it has a lot to do with it," said Emily.

"My mommy doesn't have a unicycle," said Jason.

"And I never slashed the tire of one, either," said Stephen, in a defensive tone.

"Speaking of poop," JJ began. "One time, my mommy, daddy, sister Roslyn and I went to Taco Tavern, and long story short… Roslyn got really bad diarrhea from it. She never ate there, again."

Everyone had looks of disgust on their faces, after hearing what JJ had just told them. JJ just shrugged her shoulders. "Eh… I still eat there. It hasn't done anything to me, to make me hate it, yet," she said.

"Okay… let's move on," said Alana. "Anyone else want to share what they did during the weekend?"

"My sister, Zoe and I got to volunteer at my Aunt Tabitha's animal shelter," said Kate. "It was really fun, seeing all the cute animals."

Alana smiled. "That sounds like a lot of fun," she said. "What's your favorite animal," she asked Kate.

Kate was silent for a moment, as she appeared to be thinking. She then smiled and said, "I really like dolphins. I think they're really cute."

"I like dolphins too," said Alana. "Okay, let's get started with the first lesson of the day. Today, we are going to learn about the United States of America. Who can tell me the capital of New York," she asked. She then saw Spencer's hand go up, first. She called his name.

"Albany," Spencer confidently said.

"Correct," said Alana. "Now, who can tell me, what is the Missouri State Bird? Spencer, let's let someone else answer, okay," she said, as Spencer's hand was the first to go up. She then saw Ashley's hand go up. "Ashley, do you know what it is," she asked.

"Is it the Cardinal," Ashley asked. She was a bit unsure of her answer.

"No, but good guess, though," said Alana. "Does anyone else care to take a guess?"

"I think I know what it is," said Haley. "It's the Blue Jay."

"Very good, Haley," said Alana. "Okay, I have one more question. Who can name one of the thirteen colonies."

Suddenly, Maeve's hand went up. Alana called upon her. "Virginia," Maeve said in extreme confidence.

"That is correct," said Alana. "Okay, I'm going to sort you all into four groups of six and in each group, I'm going to assign you a state and you'll each give an oral presentation about it. Each presentation has to be at least three to five minutes long and everyone has to have the chance to speak. This isn't just a one person project, okay," she asked. When the students agreed with her, she continued on. "Now, for the first group, I want it to be, Jason, Ashley, Penelope, Aaron, Grant and Spencer. The second group, will include, Tara, Maeve, Alex, Stephen, Clyde and Derek. Then we'll have, Luke, JJ, Haley, Kevin, Elle and Jordan, for the third group. And for the final group, it'll be Savannah, Emily, David, Beth, Will and Kate. Is everyone fine with the groups they've been assigned to," she asked. When there were no complaints or request to be put into another group, Alana continued. "Good. For Jason's group, I'm going to give you the state of North Carolina. Tara's group will be giving a presentation on the state of New Jersey. Luke, your group will give a presentation on the state of California. And last, but not least, Savannah's group will be given the state of Rhode Island. Now, are there any questions, before we get started," asked Alana.

"I have a question," Beth announced.

"And what is your question," asked Alana.

"What kind of facts, would you want us to tell you about each state," asked Beth.

"Well, I'd like to know the Capital of each state that was given, and as far as any other facts, it doesn't matter," said Alana. "Are there any other questions?"

"Uh… Yeah, I have a question," Derek announced. "Where can we find all of the information," he asked.

"I've checked out four books from the library. One book is about the state of North Carolina, one is about the state of New Jersey, one is about the state of California and the other book is about the state of Rhode Island," said Alana. "And I can assure you that you'll find plenty of information about the state you'll be giving a presentation on."

"Mrs. Santos, if you really wanted to save some time, instead of checking out some books from the library or making us do this whole presentation thing, you could've just allowed Spencer and Maeve to give the entire presentation for us," said Aaron. "They're both a couple of geniuses and I'm sure they wouldn't mind giving the entire presentation."

Alana let out a small laugh. "I'm sure Spencer and Maeve could do the entire presentation, if they wanted to, but this is a class project, which means, everyone has to be involved," she explained.

"But Spencer and Maeve were crying, this morning about how they wished they could do this project by themselves," said JJ. "Do you really want to break their hearts and not grant their wish?"

"I wasn't crying, this morning," said Maeve.

"Neither was I," said Spencer. "And we didn't even know about this project, until the rest of the class knew about it."

"You can't really cry about something, you didn't even know about," said Alana. "Now, do we have any more questions?" When no one had anything to ask, Alana allowed the students to get into their groups and begin working on their projects. She allowed each group, twenty minutes to find what they needed.

End of chapter eleven. You all know the drill by now, please leave me some reviews. I'll have chapter twelve up as soon as possible.