Puss in Boots and his new friends: New animals in the house

Chapter 6: Pain and forgiveness

The next day, was the day of the four friends' school projects as they all waited nervously in their costumes for their teacher, Mr. Stewart, to call out to them while he went through each partnered student on their projects, introducing them in front of the class. Mr. Stewart was just sorting out his students, turning to the two girls, introducing their project on Ireland. "Thank you, Isabelle and Jessica on your project of Ireland. Very interesting stories about it. B plus. Alright, up next is Zoey Rivers and Robin Kandger on their project of America." He went. Zoey and Robin both took a deep breath while their hearts started racing, nervously getting up from their desks before pushing their project up to the chalkboard on a cart, much to their teacher and other classmates' amazement. "My goodness! You, two, must've put a lot of work into it. It's amazing!"

"Thank you." Zoey said.

"Anyway, Zoey, Robin, please introduce us to your project."

"Okay, so you all know, we did America and that you know I am from New York and as you can see here it is one of the biggest cities in our country."

"And it's also the busiest. That's why they call it 'The city that never sleeps.'" Robin said.

"So here are a few things that are part of this city. We have the Empire State building, Time's Square, and the Central Park zoo." Zoey said.

"We have a few friends that used to live to there. There's pictures of them to prove it." Robin said, showing the class pictures of the four zooster friends and the penguins, including Happy, who had photo bombed, jumping out from behind Private and Rico in between them, smiling excitedly, which made Zoey chuckle to the sight of it.

"Yeah, I took a picture of the penguins, originally, it was supposed to be just four of them until their sister, Happy, jumped in shouting 'Photobomb' after I told them to say 'Fishsticks.'"

"And Alex, Marty, Gloria, and Melman let us borrowed some of their old photos they got taken from the people that came to the zoo during Field Trip day a few years back. Now with Melman's photo, as you can tell, he was a hypochondriac back then, but after their adventure outside the zoo, he's learned to take some risks and try anything new like dancing on a tightrope with Gloria. He's still a bit of a germaphobic along with having a few health conditions, though, just not as bad as he thought he was before."

"We also put their pictures in the habitats they used to live in. Alex was the biggest star because of his dance moves." Zoey said.

"Oh, yeah, he loved the attention. He and his wife, Gia, adopted a daughter just a week ago. Melman and Gloria also adopted two kids of their own. A boy and a girl while Marty got himself a little brother, too." Robin said.

"Well, congratulations to your friends." Mr. Stewart said.

"Thank you." Zoey said.

"Anyway, Zoey, Robin, tell us about the Statue of Liberty, the Freedom Tower, and that bald eagle on top of it."

"Okay, well, the Statue of Liberty was created and given as a gift from the French in 1888. She stands tall to let everyone know that our country is free. I sculpted it up in clay, which took a while to finish and detail, too."

"We even manage to set some lights in the statue's torch along with the rest of the buildings, including the Broadway theater that will light up and sing Frank Sinatra's song 'New York, New York.' Anyone wanna get the lights before we hit the switch?" Robin said before a boy with dark skin and short black curly hair raised his hand, getting up from his chair, running up to the lightswitch.

"I got it!" He said, turning off the light.

"Great! Thanks, Ian." Zoey said, before she and Robin hit the switch as their project lit up bright, including Lady Liberty's torch while the song "New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra started playing, much to the class' amazement.