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After leaving the restroom, Cassie and I rejoined Veronica at our carts.
“You guys took long enough,” said Veronica. “You left me in this aisle of all places.” She waved her hand to point to the diapers on one side of the aisle and the feminine hygiene products on the other. “What were y’all doing here anyway.?”
I shrugged. “It’s just in between where we were shopping,” I said. “Cassie was looking at the makeup in the next aisle and I was getting a new toothbrush in the other aisle.”
“Well next time look around you before abandoning your carts for me to look after.” She drove her cart away from us. We took our carts the opposite direction.
“Do you suppose she suspects anything?” asked Cassie.
“Not a chance.” I said it louder and harsher than I meant to. In a quieter voice, I said, “She’ll be even more resentful and most likely to go to Bets if she finds out, so let’s keep quiet around her. He is content to hang out with Darlene, so we only have to deal with Melody and Bella.”
“Yeah, and we have the added bonus that we need to keep Melody from blowing our cover to everyone else about what this program is all about.” Cassie looked around, but then shrugged. “At least she is willing to try to be a grownup.”
I nodded.
We had all the items on our list, so we just walked around the store. As we passed the toy aisle, I saw Melody standing in front of the Lego display. She waved when she saw us.
“What are you doing Melody?” I asked.
“Just looking at toys,” she said. She pointed at her cart. “I got everything on the list, so I thought I’d just kill time until time to leave.”
I looked in her cart. She had pens and pencils and notebooks and paper like I did. There were no crayons either. The only thing I thought was out of place was here Frozen backpack. I was concerned about how childish it was, but I decided to let it go rather than make a scene. She was the one who would have to carry it after all.
Cassie looked on. “I love Legos. If I had any extra money I would get some,” she said. “Felix and Elsa had Legos at their house. I used to build robots out of them and control them with a Raspberry Pi.”
Melody shrugged. “My mother didn’t want me playing with Legos, so they were kept at my daddy’s house. I mainly had Lego Friends, not Lego Mindstorm, so I didn’t get to play with robots.”
I felt completely lost. “Wait, what?”
“We are engineering students,” said Cassie. “We all played with Legos.”
“I haven’t,” I said. “I didn’t even know I wanted to be an engineer before Bets called me and told me I got the scholarship.”
Cassie looked worried. “Did you take a computer programming course in high school?”
I shook my head.
“What about doing science fair? Popsicle stick bridges? Video games? Did you watch science fiction shows and wanted to be a rocket scientist?”
I kept shaking my head. “I’m good at math and I love to read romance novels. I got a 33 on the ACT. I was eleventh in my class which disappointed me because I didn’t get to graduate first with the top ten. I had to wait all the way at the end with the rest of the S’s. I was supposed to major in English at Ohio State.” I looked at Melody and Cassie and they were just staring at me.
“I though you were kidding about the whole yodeling thing,” said Cassie.
“No,” I said. “I really had a choice between studying yodeling in Austria or engineering at MIT.”
Melody smiled. “I’m just home schooled so I have no expectations of college. I didn’t do those science fair things either. Don’t worry. We can catch up on new experiences we didn’t have. You try so much to solve our problems that you never really tell us much about you.”
I thought back on this whole adventure. Camp was so hectic and I did intervene between Bets and Cassie and teach Melody life skills. I shrugged. “I just went to school and enjoyed it. I wasn’t in sports or other extra curricular activities. I was just about going to prom.”
Bella walked around the corner. “Oh there you are. Bets is ready and waiting to check out. Come up front.”
We followed and went to the front where Bets paid for our purchases.
The End of The Weird Scholarship – Chapter Fifteen.
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