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"What are you doing?" Guy asked an hour later. I was trying to get some schoolwork done on my computer.

"I'm doing school." I said.

"What's that?" Eep asked. I tried to explain it the best I could.

"Oh, I see." Guy said. "Can we go, too?"

"Yes." I said. "But first you need to learn to read." I spent an hour teaching them letters and their sounds. They learned UNBELIEVABLY fast. Man, were they eager.

Later, as I was getting ready for swim team practice, I was bombarded by questions.

"Hey, do you have a minute?" Eep poked me, trying to get my attention. "What's that?" She pointed to the microwave, and I tried to explain it. "OK! Can I try it?"

"You can try it tonight." I said. As I got ready to walk out the door, I pulled my dirty blond hair back in a ponytail.

"What are you doing?" Eep asked, watching.

"I'm putting my hair in a ponytail." I answered. "We need to do it for swim team practice." I vaguely explained swim team.

"Can we come, too?" Guy piped in.

"Yes, you can ride in the car and drop us off." I said, and slung my bag over my shoulder.

Two car rides, on swim team practice, and exactly 67 (yes, I counted!) questions later, we were at home eating dinner. After dinner, we decided to watch a little TV. (Note: Kyla and I had taken Guy and Eep around the house and introduced them to anything they wouldn't know, so they were familiar with the TV.)

"What should we watch?" Mom asked.

"How about The Croods, since two of them are here?" I suggested. Kyla and Klara shared a chair, Mom took the other chair, Guy and Eep took the couch, so I sat on the floor to leave plenty of room on the couch.

"Yeah, that's a good idea." Mom said, and grabbed the remote. She started The Croods.

All too soon the movie ended.

"No, don't turn it off! I yelled. "I love this song!" Guy and Eep watched me jam away to the song.

"You really like this song, don't you?" Guy asked curiously. I opened my mouth to speak, but Kyla jumped in.

"Yeah, she does." Kyla butted in. "We've listened to this song, like, 1,002 times."

"I think Kaylene was going to speak." Guy said gently. "What were you going to say?"

I felt myself closing up, like I always do whenever Kyla speaks for me. "Nevermind. Kyla said it for me anyway." Then I got up and left the room.

I just thought you all should know that Kaylene's problem isn't going to be addressed quite yet. I touched on it a little in this chapter.

Tomorrow (March 8th) is my birthday! I'm pretty excited. And yesterday (March 6th) was officially the best day ever. During my swim team practice, it was the last day, so the entire time was free time. I never felt so free. I felt like Elsa from Frozen when she ran away and made her ice castle. And then, at the very last minute, I dove off the diving board, which I have never done before, and my coach has been trying to get me to do. The sad thing is that it was probably my very last practice, as we are probably doing a private school next year, and I am currently homeschooled. Anyway, have a wonderful day, and I'll see you next time!

Kaylene's name pronunciation: KAY-leen