Lesson Number One

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"Love you, baby girl." Stacey waves, as Molly got it of the station wagon. "Text if you need to be picked up..."

Molly waves and runs into the Minoru Mansion's gate; Hana ran to the gate and opened it, "Hey..."

"Hi," Molly sighs, "sorry, I'm late..."

"Nah! You're good," Hana chuckles, "enter."

As Molly entered the Minoru Mansion, she gasped, "Wow!"

"Okay..." Hana sighs.

"Close the door!" Robert called from upstairs, "AC is on!"

Hana shut the door and led Molly to the kitchen, "Oh my God, she's cooking..." Hana teased.

Tina smirks, "Hello to you too, Hana."

"Are people coming over?" Hana inquires.

"Mom?!" Nico calls from the outside.

Hana rolls her eyes, "I'll let her in..." Hana walks to the door and opens it letting her sister in. "Do you have any idea what's up?"

"Yeah," Nico walks in with shopping bags, "dad invited Dr. George." Hana turned pale, Nico looks at her sister, "Hana, hey! Hana, I know you dated Dr. George but we're having dinner with him, to thank him for saving our father's life. Can you deal with him for an hour or two?"

Hana sighs, "Fine. Is the whole Pride coming, as well?"

"They are now." Tina smiles.

Hana looks up to the ceiling, "God, why me?! Ima go change..."

"Hey wait, what about my Japanese homework?" Molly complained.

"Right?" Hana looks at Tina, "Mom, can you help her?"

Molly frightened, "No."

Hana put her right hand on Molly's left shoulder, "As long as she doesn't take you to Mitsuwa, you're good." Hana went straight to her room.

"Don't you owe me?" Nico asked.

"Oh right." Hana looks at her sister, "Mom, you know that white Valentino purse you had?"

Tina nodded, "What about it?"

"You wouldn't dare..." Nico glared at her sister.

Hana smirks, "Nico used it and left it at Atlas, where it was thrown in the trash and recovered the next day full of shit."

"You wha?!" Tina shocked. "My white Valentino purse..."

"You think thats bad?" Nico thinks, "Damnit! I can't tell on you without implicating myself!" Nico frowned as she walked up the stairs.

Hana smiles and follows her sister.

As Molly sat back down on the barstool next to the kitchen counter and began reading and taking notes. Tapping her pencil on the granite countertop.

"鉛筆をたたくのをやめなさい!" Tina annoyed.

Molly looks up, "おっとごめん."

"You're a dancer, right?" Tina grabs the pencil from the girl.

"I was on the dance team, yes." Molly admitted.

"Let's try counting, then..." Tina nods placing the pencil on the countertop. She stood up and instructed, "一, you put your hands on your hips. ニ, right fist up. 三, hand back on hip. 四, left fist up. 五, on hips. 六, right arm strikes. 七, left arm across. 八, nod." Tina drops her hands to her sides, "Now, you try..."

Molly began to dance as she started to count in Japanese, "一, ニ, 三, 四, 五,六,七 , 八. 八, 七 , 六, 五, 四, 三, ニ, 一..."

"Good job," Tina clapped, "you learned how to count to eight in Japanese."

Molly smiles, "Yay! Where'd you learn to dance? And how come Hana, Amy, and Nico inherited that?"

"Nico may have two left feet," Tina smirks, "but Hana was the Captain of the dance team in 2004 Atlas Academy."

Hana leaning against the doorway, "Learning any Japanese?"

"And some..." Molly turns around.

"What," Hana walked slowly towards her mother, "did you tell her?"

"What," Hana walked slowly towards her mother, "did you tell her?"

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"That you were the captain of the dance team." Tina sighs.

"Is this how you learned Japanese?" Molly teased.

"No." Hana shook her head.

"Then how?" Molly asked.

Robert started walking towards his wife and singing:

幸せなら 手を たたこう
幸せなら 手を たたこう
幸せなら 態度で しめそうよ
そら みんなで 手を たたこう

幸せなら 足 ならそう
幸せなら 足 ならそう
幸せなら 態度で しめそうよ
そら みんなで 足 ならそう

Nico laughs, "Yep, she gets the If you're happy and you know it in Japanese, and me and Amy get left in Mitsuwa." Nico sighs, "But I'm not bitter about it... she is the favorite."

"No no," Robert stood up, "your mother and I love all three of you, the same. We just got busy after Amy was born."

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