Chapter 4
"This is good!" April said after taking a bite out of her deluxe presto burger that Odd had picked out for her.
"Do you have anything like this back where you're from?" Ulrich asked, sitting next to her at the round booth they were at.
"We have a place called Roi de Burger*, but that is nothing like this." April said.
"I think there's one down the road a little ways." Odd said. "But Presto Burger's my favorite."
"I see why." April said, covering her mouth as she still had food in it.
"Hey Aélita, since I'm your mother for a week, I think I should know something about you." Maggie said.
"Ok, what do you want to know?" Aélita asked before taking a sip of her drink.
"Well, I'm guessing your favorite color is pink, no?"
Aélita nodded her head.
"Do you have a boyfriend?" Maggie asked.
"No." Aélita answered simply.
"I know someone who wants to be her boyfriend." Ulrich said.
"Who?"
"I promised him I wouldn't tell." Ulrich said, drinking his drink.
"Do you have a learner's permit?" Maggie asked Aélita, curious about what Ulrich said, but didn't press it.
"No, I haven't gotten to the DMV yet." Aélita admitted.
Odd looked up at the clock on the wall and said, "Oh no! We've got to be back at Kadic."
"Why?" Maggie asked, looking at April to see that she had just finished her burger.
"We all ended up getting detention for being late to class." Jérémie said as he slid out of the booth.
"All of you?" Maggie asked as Aélita got up with Odd right behind her.
"Ya, we lost track of time." Ulrich said, getting out behind Odd.
"Well, it was my fault for you being late this time, so whoever's in charge of detention will have to talk to me if they get mad." Maggie said as April followed Ulrich out.
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"I should give you all another two hours detention for being late!" Jim's voice shouted as Odd opened the library's doors.
The six walked into the library and saw Jim at the head desk with Yumi sitting at the long table.
"Sir, it was my fault." Maggie said, walking straight over to Jim. "I wanted to talk to my daughter and my nephew."
"May I ask who you are?" Jim asked. Before Maggie had a chance to answer, he looked towards Odd, Ulrich, Aélita, and Jérémie and ordered, "Over to the table, all of you. No two people can sit next to another, you know the drill."
Maggie waited for Jim to look back at her before saying, "My name's Maggie Stone."
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Stone." Jim said. He looked down at April and froze. April looked at him with about the same expression. "April?"
April nodded her head, still not saying a word.
"Now it's my turn to be confused." Maggie said, surprised. "How do you know April?"
April turned to Maggie and said, "James is my father."
*English will be put in French, since they're all actually speaking French to begin with. I figured that would be the best way to show the differences of language.