6. School

After she gave away Robbie, Yin realized that she should probably go to school. She decided to look in the phone book for some local schools.

"Let's see. Washington State Prep, Seattle Middle, Seattle High. Um, I guess it'll have to be Washington State Prep. It's the only school with grades below sixth, so I guess it'll have to do."

On that note, Yin got dressed and started walking to Washington State Prep. The walk took her about ten minutes since the school was two miles away. When Yin got there, she checked into the principal's office.

"Hey. Um, am I in the right place? This is the principal's office, right?

"Yes. Yes it is Mrs.…oh. Hello sweetie. What's your name?"

" What? Oh, um, YinYang Dannie…Mrs.…Ming. I like your name. I used to know a person from China who's name was Li Ming."

"Oh. Why thank you dear. Do you know what Ming means?"

"Oh, yeah. It means bright. In Chinese. And when the characters are separated, they mean sun and moon."

"Oh my. Well you certainly are smart. May I ask how old you are?"

"I'm six years old. I've never been to school before, so I looked up this place in a phone book and was planning on enrolling here."

"Oh. Ok. Well where is your mother sweetie?"

"Um…my mother's dead."

"Your father?"

"He kicked my mom and I out of the house when I was a year old."

"Oh my! Well I am quite sorry that I brought that topic up. If you don't mind, then could you fill out these forms?"

"Sure."

Yin filled out the forms and gave them to Mrs. Ming. Mrs. Ming then told Yin where to go to class. Yin was enrolled in Mrs. Kim's first grade."

"Hello. Um, is this Mrs. Kim's class? Room 108?"

"Yes. May I ask who you are?"

"YinYang Dannie. I was just enrolled here."

"Ok Yin. Then could you take a seat at an empty desk? I was just teaching the class a new math lesson."

Yin took a seat at a desk in the back row of the classroom.

"Ok class. Now let's get on with the lesson. Timmy, what is 2+2?"

"2+2 is…um…I don't know."

"Ok. Yin. Do you know the answer?"

"Yeah. 2+2 is 4."

"Very good Yin."

Now class, math is almost over, but before science class, we will be taking a short math quiz."

"Uhhhhh." The whole class said in reply to the quiz."

"Now please write your name at the top of the paper and put your answers to the RIGHT of the question."

Mrs. Kim handed the class their quizzes. Yin completed the quiz in about a minute and turned it into Mrs. Kim.

"Ok Yin, you may go to your next class. The room number is 103. Do you need help finding the room?"

"No. I think I can find it. Thank you though."

Yin headed down the hall to science class.

"Good morning class. Ah, I see we have a new student. Well what is your name?"

"My name is YinYang Dannie."

"Ok. My name is Mr. Lee. Now class, today we will be learning about plants."

"Do you mean photosynthesis?" Yin asked.

"Oh, no. Photosynthesis is seventh grade material. I'm surprised that you even know the term. You can try to explain it to the class if you want though."

"Ok. Well, photosynthesis is a process that occurs, usually in plants, that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, such as glucose, using energy from the sunlight. The plants give off oxygen, which is what we humans breathe, during this process, and…" Yin stopped explaining because she could see that the class had no clue what she was talking about.

"Where did you learn that?" Mr. Lee asked.

"I'm not really sure. It's just something that I know." replied Yin.

Then the class bell rang. Yin headed off to her next class; music.

"Hello class, I'm Mr. Brown. I would not of usually said my name because you all know who I am, but I can see that we have a new student in the class. What is your name?"

"I'm YinYang Dannie."

"Ok. Now Yin, do you play any instruments?"

Yin wanted to say no because she knew that if she told the class that she could play eight instruments, then they would think she was a freak. If science class wasn't bad enough, then this would definitely make them think she was a freak. But Yin decided to be honest and say that she could play multiple instruments.

"Yeah. I can play eight."

"Would you mind telling me them?"

"Ok. Piano, guitar, violin, cello, harp, drums, ukulele, and mandolin. I can also sing, but not that well."

"Would you mind playing the piano? The song I'm teaching the class to sing is already on the music stand."

"Ok."

Yin sat down at the piano and began to play "Reflection" by Christina Aguilera. Perfectly.

"How did you play that?" Mr. Lee asked.

"It's not that hard of a song to play." Said Yin.

"Have you ever written any of your own music?"

"Sometimes, but it's not that good. You can hear one of the song if you want though."

Yin began to play "My Immortal" by Evanescence.

"Did you write that song?"

"Yeah. Do you like it?"

"Yes. Would you mind coming to the principal's office with me? You're not in trouble, I'm just confused why you're only in first grade."

Yin and Mr. Lee walked to the principal's office while the rest of the music class had a free period to just sing and play song of the instruments. After a long talk between Mr. Lee and Mrs. Ming, Mrs. Ming came out of the office and told Yin some news.

"Yin. First grade is too basic for you. I'm not sure where you learned all of this material, but I am putting you in the sixth grade."

"Ok. Where is the classroom?"

"It's in the next building down. I'll take you there."

The next four years of Yin's life was just like this. Yin would be put in one grade, but then she would just be taken out and put in a more advanced one. When Yin turned ten, she had already graduated from College and she had gone to Graduate School. She had thirty-eight degrees by the time she graduated.

7. Jobs

Yin was looking in the newspaper job section after she graduated. She looked in the job section of every newspaper. Since she graduated, a month ago, she had had thirty interviews for jobs. Yin had an interview once a day. She didn't get any of the jobs though. The fact that she had thirty-eight degrees didn't balance out the fact that she was ten.

After a long, long time of looking for jobs, Yin finally found one that she believed would work out for her. A Babysitter. She was a ten year old with thirty-eight degrees, but she was going to be a babysitter.

"It's better than nothing. I guess." Yin said to herself.

Yin went to the house. It was on the west coast of the USA. She decided that even though it meant traveling around the country, she should still go. A new start and a new town might even be good for her.

Yin traveled, on foot mostly, for about a month. She finally got to the house that wanted a baby sitter. It was a huge house that was surrounded by what appeared to be a huge metal wall. Possibly a security system. Yin didn't really feel like finding the point on the wall where she could actually talk to the owner, so she just climbed the wall. Well, she kinda fire bended herself over the wall, but it's all the same in the end. At least she got over the wall.

When she climbed the wall and got to the other side, she was met by an eight foot tall Fiskerton Phantom. The Fiskerton Phantom grabbed her and started taking her towards the house.

"Put me down you harry freak!" Yin yelled as she made her hands lite on fire. The Phantom threw her on the ground as he was being burnt by the fire.

"Whateab Watds thateub forenu!?"

But Yin was too busy running away from the Phantom to care about what he said. Soon, she was met by a man with a scar on his eye. He was African American and he was really muscular. She decided that she didn't want to burn him and get on his bad side, like she had done to the Phantom, so Yin ran away. She didn't get far before tripping over…air?! She looked back to where she tripped, but nothing was there. Then the creature became visible and she realize that she tripped over what appeared to be a komodo dragon. The Phantom, komodo dragon, and scarred man were then met by a woman with white hair and a sword that shot fire. The fire shot at Yin, but she quickly returned the shot with her own fire. Then the man tried to hit her with his weird glowing glove thingy, but Yin moved out of the way. Yin was suddenly picked up by a man with stupid looking pink glasses on. The other four people and cryptids surrounded her, while weird glasses dude was picking her up.

"Ok. I don't know who you are, but your glasses look really stupid. Why don't you just dye your hair pink next time too, ok?" Yin said

"Um. No. Streaky, I'm not dying my hair." Glasses guy said.

"Ok. One, I only have one streak of red in my hair. And I didn't even dye it. It just came one day. And two, It's Yin. Not streaky." Yin

"Really!? I could care less goth." Beeman

"I might be goth, but my freakin' name is YIN!!!!" Yin

"Ok, Beeman, we don't even know why she's here. Let's try not to annoy her too much." White haired lady

"Wait. Your name is Beeman!? What's your first name? Wait, wait don't tell me. It's…um…Author Beeman. Right? Yin

"How'd you know that?!" Author

"I'm psychic." Yin

"There's no such thing!" Beeman

"Yes there is!" Yin

"No there isn't!" Beeman

"Ok. I'm not having this argument. Can we get some actual intelligence in here, cuz it's seriously becoming dumber by the second with pinky over here." Yin

"Ok. You two, stop it already. Beeman, we have to get back to the meeting. Wait! Where's Zak!? He was supposed to stay with Fisk!" White haired lady

"Um…put me down pinky. I mean right now." Yin

"No. You'll just run away! Do you think I'm an idiot?! I mean…" Beeman

Yin interrupted Beeman by kicking him in the knee. She dashed forward and caught a boy with black hair with a little white star in the front.

"Wow. Are you ok kid? Where did you come from?" Yin

"I'm, I'm fine. I fell out the window when I was spying on you guys. Who are you?" Kid

"Yin. And you're…Zak?" Yin

"Yeah. How'd y…" Zak

"I'm physic." Yin

"Cool! Daddy! This girl is physic!" Zak

"I'm not sure about that Zak. What do you think Drew?" Scar guy

"Well Doc, I don't know. I mean sixth senses are unlikely, but she did fire bend at me during that fight." Drew

"Andftr Shelu Burntitr Mequt!!!" Phantom

"Ok. Sorry about that tall guy." Yin

"His name is Fiskerton, pyro." Beeman

"Thanks pinky." Yin

"Ok, how about we all go inside. It's getting dark out." Drew

"Ok Drew, we should get back to the meeting anyway." Doc

So we all went inside. I met the Secret Scientists. Weird name. I would of wanted to be called the awesome people who investigate unknown stuff in the world. Zak agreed that it would be a cool name. I learned that house was owned by people named the Saturdays. Cool last name. Eventually, the meeting was over. Drew and Doc talked to me a while about the babysitting job after the meeting. I am now Zak Saturday's new babysitter. And on top of that, the Saturdays were letting me stay at their house.

The next couple years were all pretty normal. While, besides the fact that this family was a family of cryptozoologists. All was pretty normal. Well, at least until Zak turned 11.

End Note

Ok, so this isn't the end of the story. It's just the end of Yin's back-story. Now things are going to start actually having to do with the Saturday family. There will be a new story called "Yin and the Saturdays", but I really don't know when it's going to be written. It'll probably be in the next week though, but I'm not entirely sure. It will defiantly not be tomorrow night though. I have to write 2 essays as part of a history test .