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Some Nerdy Prudes As Kids

Richie entered the warm, bright room. His long brown hair sticking in all directions, slightly concealed by the bulky navy headphones on top of his head.

"Hello, _____ Lipschitz?"

His mom replied, "Yes that's my baby girl."

Richie pushed his headphones down onto his neck.

"Well friend I think you are going to have a great time here." Richie looked up at the tall lady. She had strawberry blond curly hair and a blue dress on. Richie nodded and she said, "I'm Mrs. Winston and over there is your other teacher Mr. Daniels. I can show you to your seat and then later we can find your cubby."

Richie's mom patted him on the head, "_____ it's only a half a day, can you be a brave girl, your brother didn't die from it." Richie nodded again.

Richie was led to his seat by the teacher, "Oh so you gotta brother. Let me guess Trevor?"

Richie quietly said, "Ya, he is m-my twin-n."

"Oh really, y'all look so similar. Well ____ here is your seat, you sit next to Gabe."

Richie set his space backpack down on the back of his chair, thats what everyone else did. Richie was at a table with another kid with two chairs that were empty. Gabe, Richie thinks thats his name, has curly brown hair and a shirt with Be Kind on it.

Richie could sorta read so he discovered the name tag in front of him had his name on it fairly quick.

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Richie was overwhelmed by preschool so far. But his brother made it through it to kindergarten so Richie can too. He liked Mrs. Teacher though, whatever her name was. She read them a story which was fun. Richie also liked his cubby, where he put his lunch and cool drawing they all did.

"Okay class time for Play Time, we usually go outside but what kind of weather did you and Mrs. Smith decide it was?"

"Rainy!" A tall girl with wavy dark hair yelled out.

"Wow good job Steph, but we need to raise our hands." Mr. Daniels continued, "So we have to play inside because rain makes things muddy."

Mrs. Winston then continued, "But remember the rules, be kind to your classmates."

Other kids got up and rushed to the toys. Richie pulled his headphones up and scanned the surrounding area. He saw legos which he liked. He had some at home, though his looked in better shape. Richie walked over but saw another kid walk to the legos. Her hair was up into a pony tail and she wore a My Little Pony tee shirt and blue skirt. Richie debated walking over, he wasn't good with talking to people. But there were kids everywhere else so Richie might give it a try.

"Hi, could I have the Legos too?" Richie said. The girl looked up from what looked to be a fort.

"Ya, was long as your not like that jerk Trevor who broke some of them." Richie sat down on the chair next to the girl.

"W-What are you building?" Richie asked the kid building next to him.

"Only the best castle known to man, able to survive any siege or dragon...What are you building?"

"Oh I'm building a dinosaur-"

"What that is SOO sick! Maybe your dinosaur can attack my castel and my knight, Mulan, can protect us." She said, placing what looked to be a construction worker lego person on top of the wall.

"I guess, that would be fun. Why is-is the knight's name Mulan though?"

Ruth smiled wide, "She is only like the best movie character EVER! She literally saves China from invaders. I can tell you all about her. First she-

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"Ok class 3 more minutes of Play Time, start putting your stuff away." Mrs. Winston said.

"Thank this was so fun, can we sit together at lunch?" The girl said.

"Uhh, sure...Wait whats your name?" Richie said, Ruth blinked back at him.

"Oh ya, my names Ruth, what's yours?"

"_____"

"Such a cool name. Also do you wanna be best friends?"

"Sure I'd like that." Richie said back. Preschool wasn't all that bad.