"Sure no problem. I'll get her home after we're done" I replied. With that Cynthia came close to me and in a very low voice said, "Angela had the bes...t week of school ever. She aced every test, brought all her grades up, and has been extremely helpful around the house. I'm not sure what you taught her last week but I hope you can do the same with Savanna.". A small grin flashed on Cynthia's face. There was a brief pause when she said "Coach, the truth is Savanna doesn't enjoy wrestling and. “I’ve heard this before.”“The truth was more than they wanted to contemplate,” I said. “I don’t have to put forth much effort to understand high school math, even the advanced placement materials. The same goes with the other subjects. I get them without the exercises.”“And your friend Deena?”“My evil stepchild,” I said. “She and I look at my high school materials together. She’s there too, Mizz Aneeta. We’re in school because the law requires us to attend school, but other than some. But they did, immediately. As he walked to school, Jughead jogged tocatch up to him, but then gave a startled exclamation, "What the fuck,Archie! What happened to you?" Jughead had notice the painted toenailsright away. He also figured something was different with Archie's face,but could not pin down just what it was. Archie blushed inembarrassment."I lost a bet with Reggie," he said. So I have to paint my toenailslike a girl for a week, and wear these stupid shoes so that people cansee!". Both her parents had been athletic and her father had been a tremendous fisherman--not commercially, but only for pleasure--and it had only been a fluke that she hadn't gone along on the salmon trawler with him that fateful day he'd drowned. Mother, with the store to run and everything else, had not been able since then to do much though she liked to fish and hunt as much as Wendy's father had, and Wendy, weaned on books and fly-casting and shotgun powder, wanted to be able to be around that.