"I guess not! Wanna do something Friday?"

"Sure!"

"Cool. ...Possibly I should have thought more about what kind of thing to do on Friday, um."

"We could go see a movie but I don't know if there's anything playing that we'd both like..."

"Yeah...we could find out what's playing, we've got till Friday."

"Sure."

And now, physics.

Physics! They're so sciency!

The scienciest!

And at the end of the period Edie has to dash off with a cheerful wave--

--And Merry can probably successfully arrive at World History before her sister.

Yep.

"Hi again. This school does not have enough advanced classes, huh?"

"It does not!"

"It's kind of ridiculous."

"I feel so inadequately educated."

Giggle. "We'll just have to graduate early or something."

"Every so often I'm tempted to throw up my hands, declare that school can't keep up with me, and become a pure autodidact, but a depressingly large fraction of the interesting things it's possible to do with one's life demand a college degree. School totally can't keep up with me, though."

"Also, school is a good place to meet people. Like my sister."

"It has many advantages! Just, as an educational resource, it lacks... flexibility."

"Very true."

Time to learn about the history of the world! This class is actually really interesting. And the teacher's pretty great. Merry approves.

It is so approveworthy. And then they both have Statistics next so which one gets to class first is sorta moot. They get there before Anna-Sophia, though.

Anna-Sophia turns up not long after, but the teacher got there first so there isn't really time to talk before class.

But after class, Emily says, "do you ride the bus, or walk, or...?"

"Mom drives us."