"Colin! Where are you?!"

The shouting that woke Colin didn't come from upstairs in the Loud children's rooms, nor did it come from the living room. The yell had rather come from the door at the foot of the basement steps, where Colin had nmade his room.

"Leni? Is that you?" He asked to the girl on the other side of the door.

"Yeah... I think so. Please let me in!"

"Turn the doorknob!"

"Oh yeah!" She said as she walked into the basement. "What will they think of next?"

"-sigh- Chica, you're the definition of sweetness, but you have the brains of a goldfish."

"Oh, I'm just not good with doors! Anyway, I need your help, Connor."

"Leni, for the last time, my name is Colin. And what do you need?"

"Well, I have this really big test in Civics coming up, and you seem good at it. So I was wondering if you could help?"

"Ummm, Leni, I hope you know that I have a 64 in that class..."

"Well, that's better than a 71, at least! Wait, is having a lower score good or bad?"

"I think your thinking of golf, Chica. But If you want me to help you-"

"Oh, thank you Carter! I'll be ready by 9 am today!"

"Any time, Leni..." he said as she walked out of the basement. "Wait, 9 am today?"

He checked his alarm clock to see the time.

"1 am. Classic Leni." He chuckled as he fell back asleep.

"Well, 9 am." Colin said as he walked up the stairs to the living room. After his early morning meeting with Leni, he was prepared to take on the challenge of tutoring someone. He had never been a student that excelled at school, but luckily he had been trying to listen to his teacher for the past week. Needless to say, Colin was ready to take on the challenge.

"Good morning, Leni." He said as he sat down on the couch to watch TV.

"Oh, hey Cameron! Ready to study?"

"Ready as I'll ever be," he said as she sat down beside him. "Now, Leni, can you remember the first 10 presidents?"

"That's easy! Washington, Madison, Bush, Coolidge, Bacon, Kaepernick, and Hillary Clinton!"

After a minute of trying to figure out the jumbled mess that he had heard, he said, "To be positive, you got the first one right, Chica. But other than that, only 3 were actually presidents, ones a movie star, the others a football player, and the other one kinda, sorta lost."

"Oh... umm, ok..." she said as she I opened her history book. "Well, there's still time to get better, I guess..."

3 hours later...

"Ok, you're getting closer, but only the first two were right. You have the rest all out of order, Trump is the NEW president, and for the last time, Kevin Bacon was never leading the country!"

"Oh, I can't do this, Colin!" She said as she put her head in her hands. "I just don't understand how to get them all in order!"

Colin thought long and hard. Finally, thinking fast, he said, "Well, first off, thanks for getting my name right. And I have something that I think will work."

"-sniffle- You do?"

"Yes, and I think it might work. You like the mall, right?"

"OMG, WE'RE GOING TO THE MALL?!"

"No, no, that's not what I meant..." he said to Lenis disappointment. "Maybe later, though, if we get through this! Now, what's the first store you see going into the mall?"

"That's the Starbucks kiosk, I think..."

"Ok, now just imagine that George Washington is the person behind the counter at Starbucks."

"Ha, don't be silly, Kevin! Even I know George Washington is dead!"

"Well, just imagine figuratively then. Now, did we say Washington was at Starbucks?.."

The rest of the day, Colin helped to get Leni ready for the test. In fact, they got carried away in all the excitement of their new study method.

"Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland again, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, W Bush, Obama, Trump!" Leni said proudly as she brushed her teeth in the bathroom.

"Leni, I am extremely impressed that this actually worked," Colin said as he waited to brush his teeth. "I mean, even I wouldn't think of JFK "losing his head" over his pay at Peebles!"

"I just hope that I remember everything for tomorrow," she said to him.

"If you just keep practicing reciting them, you'll be fine. I'm going to bed, night Leni!"

"Night, Chris!" She yelled as Colin reached the foot of the stairs.

"At least she got it right once..." he mumbled as he went to sleep.

The next day at lunch, Colin was talking with Bobby and Lori when Leni came up to him with her test.

"The teacher let us grade our own test!" She said, but Colin was too busy looking at the letter at the top of the test.

"An F?!" He said shocked. "B-but how?! We studied the whole-" he stopped as the looked at the title of the test again.

"-Sigh- Leni, this test wasn't on the presidents at all! It was on U.S. Senators!"

"Huh? Let me see!" She said, taking the paper from him. Pretty soon, she handed the paper back to Colin as tears welled in her eyes.

"Oh, Chica, don't cry," he said as Leni sat down. "I know you cared about passing the test, but honestly, it isn't really that important. 5 points doesn't make the grade, after all."

"Well, I guess you're kinda right," she said as she pit the test on her backpack. "And besides, The teachers letting me take it again anyways! So, do you want to help me study again, Colin?"

"I would be honored to, Leni." He said as he got out his History Book. "Now, imagine Bernie Sanders is working at Starbucks..."