After breakfast, Melissa dropped another bombshell on her children by announcing to them that she would be driving them to school that morning. In her mind, it was the only way to ensure that they arrived at the school. As well as that Melissa wanted to make sure that Miss Lyons had arranged the next part of her plan.
Tom and Jen walked out to their mother’s car each of them finding out how their new uniforms dealt with the cold autumn morning. Jen felt warmer than she thought she would have expected to on a morning like this morning. It must be the trousers” she thought to herself. For a split second, she was happy to be wearing this uniform than her regular one. Then she turned to see Tom.
He was standing there trying to not let either his sister or his mother who had just locked the front door of their house see how cold he was. Jen was right he thought it was colder this morning and the thick tights had helped a little to keep out the cold. However, he was not used to feeling the breeze reaching the parts of him that it was that morning. If his mother had her way he would become used to it the time this was over and done with he thought to himself.
“Tammy you can sit up front with me this morning,” Melissa told her new daughter. “Mom,” Jen said looking shocked at her mother. She had gotten used to sitting upfront with her mother whenever the three of them went out in the car together. It took a split second of Melissa looking back at Jen to make her regret opening her mouth. “We girls need the heat more on a day like today. Boys like you are warm enough with what you are wearing.” Melissa replied.
Jen knew that her mother was going all out with treating Tom like a girl even down to a small thing like where he sat in the car. She began once again to feel sorry for her erstwhile sister. She wondered just what her mother had planned for Tom or was that Tammy now during the week ahead and all because of a stupid argument at the party on Saturday night.
The siblings took their new seats in the car. It took Tom a second or two to position the seat-belt to avoid crushing his new appendages once he had done so the three of them set off on the short journey to school.
