"Go on," Trevor said. "You won't be no good to
me itching to get over there as soon as you can." I handed him my basket of grapes and hurried
to join Tyler as he approached the house.
"All right," he said. "I'll confess I thought
you'd
do very poorly on all this, but you really surprised me.
You must have been a decent student."
"Decent but not terrific."
"Good enough," he insisted. "I think we can get
you past the high school equivalency all right." He indicated a bag of books. "These are yours. We'll start on it right away. There's a bottle of our chocolate
wine sauce in there for you to taste as well," "Thanks," I said, taking it all.
We heard Echo call to him and turned to see
she had come out on the porch.
"How is she?" he asked. "Any more talk
about...?"
"She hasn't said a word about any of it.
especially Destiny. I think it's still frightening to her." "Don't worry about it. I have some ideas about
how to handle all this. For now, let's forget about all
that and get to work."
One of the first things he did when he entered
the house was seek out Mrs. Westington to tell her
how well I did on the evaluation tests.
"You don't have to tell me. I knew that girl was
good material." she told him.
I was surprised at how much work Tyler had
already done in regard to my test preparations. He had
developed a structured series of lessons in every
subject.
"We'll work it as close to the actual school
experience as we can." he explained. "You'll read the