Two weeks after starting school, Hannah was settling down nicely. She had no problem making new friends--at the expense of Tobias's sulky face--and hanging out with Samantha sometimes.
Perhaps because of that, she didn't get ostracized as Eugene had worried about. She seemed to enjoy learning more advanced material than in kindergarten and actively participated in class. Eating her friends' lunch, turned out, didn't make them think she was weird or a glutton. Eugene worried they might take advantage of Hannah instead, but...
Well, if they did, Tobias would have thrown some hands first, most likely.
The report Eugene heard from her every day made him proud and sad at the same time. He felt like his girl had grown even more, and started to curse the passage of time.
What truly broke him--and especially Arthur--was when Hannah stopped referring to herself in third person.
