Mom and dad had a million and one questions. You'd think Jared and I had attended kindergarten for the first time. I guess the first day in a new school worked out to about the same thing for them. Maggie was happy enough, full of chatter about her new school and her new friends and all the exciting things she was going to be doing this year. I reminded myself to grill her later and make sure all was really well and that no one was bothering her. It had been a while since I'd been faced with the perils of school politics, but after all that I'd seen today, and that look on little Cassandra's face, my eyes were reopened. Maggie is an introvert; she holds things in a lot, so if I wanted to know anything I'd have to pry. Where I might've been a bit reticent to stick my foot in where my o