BEFORE YOU READ: Okay guys! So I went back and added an extra section on Chapter Five.

You might want to go back and read that before reading this chapter if you haven't already.

Sorry if this may have caused any confusion, :/

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Horton Hears a Who.

Adin held his tutoring session at the neighborhood whosketball park. Whoville was having unusually warm weather for a mid January day. Adin thought it was the perfect weather to shoot a few hoops...with some spelling of course!

"Okay, Tallulah," Adin began while dribling a whosketball. "We're going to play a good old-fashioned game of Horse using your spelling words."

Adin explained to Tallulah the rules of the game. She was to call out a letter for every goal she made. If she missed, she had to spell the word out in it's entirety.

"You can do it, Tallulah!" Coby cheered from the bleachers.

He then leaned toward JoJo's ear and whispered, "There's no way she can do it. She's not built for this court."

"Exactly," JoJo replied.

JoJo thought Adin's method of helping Tallulah was perfect!

Tallulah definitely wasn't tall enough to make a goal even by standing at the foul line.

So she'd have a lot of spelling to do.

"This is how she'll learn," JoJo explained.

"How to play whosketball?" Iggy asked.

"No!" JoJo snapped. "How to spell her spelling words."

Tallulah awkwardly dribbled the ball for a few minutes. She tossed it up into the air as high as she could. It barely tapped the rim of the goal.

Tallulah looked discouraged. JoJo felt the way she looked only more annoyed.

"'Adore'," Adin prompted.

"A-d-o-o-r?" Tallulah said.

"Wrong!" JoJo barked. He stormed down the bleachers and made his way over to Tallulah. Iggy, Beanie and Coby followed after him.

"Spell it the way we practiced a million times last week!" JoJo ordered. He was seething.

"A-d-o-o-r-e?" Tallulah tried again.

JoJo threw his hand over his forehead in frustration. That was one of the easier words.

Adin shrugged and said, "Sounds right to me."

Tallulah forcefully thrust the ball into the ground in retaliation. The ball bounced up from the pavement and smacked her right in the nose.

"Ow! My nose," Tallulah wailed. She bubbled up in tears. "I don't want to play this anymore! I want to go to City Hall."

"You promised me that you'd do some spelling," JoJo reminded her.

Tallulah groaned and stamped her feet. "Fine! But I can't learn this way," she argued, shoving the ball into Adin.

"Aw, man!" Adin broke in. "I was going to show you how to spin the ball on your pretty little finger."

"Can we go back to City Hall and have a snack instead?" Tallulah asked.

This time JoJo, Tallulah, Coby, Iggy, and Adin were sitting on the picnic table in Beanie's backyard. They were waiting for Beanie to come out with alphabet crackers and whomato soup. It was a part of his study method. JoJo was anxious to have Tallulah fed. It was the only way to get her to shut her mouth for a few minutes.

"Would you shut-" JoJo paused and reconsidered his phrasing. She was like all ninty-six of his sisters in one body. "Would you stop asking me that. For the last time we're going to go when you spell the words right."

Beanie finally came outside with the box of alphabet crackers and soup. He was wearing a chef's hat and apron. JoJo thought he looked just like the guy on the can good only stupider.

"Bon appetit, Tallulah!" he exclaimed.

Tallulah puckered her mouth as Beanie sat the bowl of soup in front of her. She reached for the box of crackers but Beanie waved her hands away.

"These aren't for eating...yet," Beanie explained. "I want you spell your words with them. If you spell the words right, then eat up! But if you spell them wrong, I get to eat."

"This might actually work, Beanie," Iggy said to JoJo.

JoJo chuckled. "Too bad we can't do this with ice cream," he joked, giving Iggy a nudge.

"Okay, Tallulah! Spell 'fervour,'" Beanie said.

Tallulah gathered a handful of the crackers she needed to spell the word. She dragged the letters F-E-R-V-O-R toward her with her index finger. Beanie winced.

"No. But you were pretty close," Beanie said. He tilted his head back and pointed to his mouth.

Tallulah huffed and bitterly placed the seven crackers on Beanie's tongue.

She blinked away the tears forming in her eyes. "I'll never get to go City Hall," she whimpered.

JoJo folded his arms around his chest. Tallulah was definitely trying. How could he say no to a crying face?

"I know!" Iggy blurted out. "She can write the words down on her thigh and look off it when she takes the test."

"You mean cheat?" Coby clarified.

Iggy shrugged. "Desperate times call for desperate measures," he said.

By then, Tallulah's tears spilled over and drowned her long eyelashes. "Great. I'm so stupid, you're friends have given up on me," she said to JoJo sniffling.

JoJo glared at Iggy. So much for being a good role model.

"Not just yet," Coby spoke up. "We still haven't tried my study method."

JoJo turned to Coby. "And what's that?" he prompted.

"I'll tell you. But first, let's reward Tallulah for at least attempting to spell the words." Coby said.

JoJo gave an exaggerated sigh. He then held out his hand toward Tallulah. "Come on, let's go to City Hall."

Tallulah perked up. A smile grew wide on her face. She gladly took JoJo's hand and cried, "Goody!"

"Just to let you know, the Mayor will be there," JoJo warned.

But Tallulah was too focused on fluffing up her hair to heed JoJo's warning.

Next: Tallulah reunites with "Mr. Mayor!" I'm so excited. Let me know in the reviews if you're excited too, XD