Today is Tuesday.

Mrs. Marcus said that she had got a school dropout in second grade. They would have to do something about that. And then she gave Andrew his clothes and said that she wanted to see him up and dressed before she counted to fifteen or he was going to take three baths a day every day for the next ten years. Andrew got dressed. He ate a breakfast bun and drank some milk. But he couldn’t let Sharon get away with it. He had to do something. After breakfast Andrew raced back to his bedroom. He opened his desk drawer and looked for a brown magic marker. All he could find was a blue one. It was getting late. Blue would have to do. He put the Magic Marker in his lunch box and headed for school. He stopped two blocks before he got there. He studied his reflection in a car window. Then he took out the Magic Marker and decorated his whole face and neck with blue dots. Maybe they didn’t look like Nicky Lane’s freckles, but they sure looked like something.