Chapter 447

"I guess because if they were easy he wouldn't need him to teach them to us. I always feel like an idiot when I find out what I was supposed to learn, and how long it took me to learn it. It seems so simple to understand it now that mom said it. Without those words it was like peering into outer space. It's just a black void, with little dots of light trillions of miles away that you'll never reach in one lifetime."

From the top row of the auditorium they heard, "I'm looking for two errant females, with weeks of dirty laundry, looking for free ride home, with a dumb lawyer."

Cindy and Sandy screamed, "FRED!" They charged up a multilevel staircase to get to him.

They wrapped their arms tightly around him.

"Fred, why are your lessons so hard to learn?"

"Because they are the only ones worth learning. The simple ones anyone can learn. The hard ones make you think, and make you a better person.