Now that the two of us were in the clear safe at home at st, I got Alice set up with one of the many books from my colle that I wanted her to read. Whilst I had her reading by herself for the time being, I went over to the home phone, picked it up, and dialed mom's number over my dad's since she was less likely to give me an ear full over dad in this situation.

  Following a not so short versation, mom informed me she and dad were already made aware of sudden disappearance. Which was expected because we had been gone missing from the for more than half an hour at this point. After that part, she pined for a bit before I tered with Alice's plus my own pints and reasoning of why we had done what we did.

  "Okay, but you know that isn't that great of a reason, because something could have happeo the two of you on your little trip from the school to the house, right?" She said, futilely trying to still win.

  "Perhaps, but the ces of anything are pretty slim due to a few reasons, ohe Uy is very civilized and mostly safe as long as we stay out of the roads as well as the rougher areas of the uy. Adding on further to that st part, the only rough areas within this entire uy are the bck market and low ine area, and we were nowhere near either of those pces so..." I tered, unwilling to let her win the argument.

  "The crime that occurs there is also pretty low as well, with the uy providing everyone a way to make a living even if they are disabled. In those people's cases, they are just taken care of by the gover due to their unfortunate circumstahus, even if we were in those kinds of areas, I'm sure we would've been fine because Alid I stayed out of sight from everyone on our way home." I tinued.

  "Two, you know hoable I am, so us getting into arouble I couldn't deal with is basically ent. Also, if we entered anything physical on our way home, I stand at 4 foot 6 and weigh around 110 lbs."

  "On top of that, I'm a pretty good fighter at this point, which I'm sure grandpa John would back me up on. Furthermore, I lift just as much weight as the average uy's adult male going by the weights I lift nowadays, hence even if we ran into a weirdo I'm sure I could beat them up in a short time and be on our way."

  "Alright sweety, you win." Mom relinquished.

  "However, I 't have you both stantly esg the school so we're going to o have that discussion of a promise whe home and I think Alice's parents will o join us for this talk of ours as well si involves their little girl too."

  "I don't have any issue with that." I responded.

  "Okay, I got to go, sweetie. Do you need Grandma to e over, or are you guys fine?" She asked.

  "Nah, we're good. We're just going to do our usual thing. Oh, before you go, mom, tell Alice's mom and dad that we're fine and are just at our house."

  "Was already pnning on it. See you ter, sweetie." She said stly, getting off the phone.

  "Alright, we're officially in the clear for now, Alice, though our parents will be ing to have a discussion with the bunch of us ter."

  "Do we o prepare at all for it?" She inquired while putting the book I gave her down.

  "No, not particurly. We just o state the obvious for ument. That being said, we'll likely o cede a bit to get what we want."

  "Do you have any idea what we should give them?" She asked.

  "What do you think of ag yearly final tests and participating in some after-school activities?"

  "That sounds pretty good, but we have to participate in the same activities together, otherwise I'll rebel." She said half jokingly, half not so much.

  "o rebel, Alice, that was my iion from the start." I said, disarming any iion of her causing a ruckus.

  Hmm, I think it's about time I let Aliow of our parents engaging us; she is more than mature enough at this poially to uand the significe of it since I would basically pce her mental age around a young teen but a mature one ssh genius one, a smidge less than two and half times her actual age.

  And since we're so young, I don't think things will go badly if she wants to call it off. heless, seeing how we're basically tied at the hip, I seriously doubt she would want that aing her know will probably have the opposite effed will probably cause us to grow closer rather than apart, which is a win win in my book.

  "Now that we have that settled, I think it's time I told you about something that you may not know of yet."

  "What?" She asked curiously.

  "Did you know we're engaged?" I responded, causio produce a surprised face that reminded me of a certain yellow mouse from my old world.

  "Really? You're not joking, right?" She asked after a short pause.

  "No, it's the truth. They really did set us up." I answered her before she u me like a missile, overjoyed apparently at what she heard.

  After catg her before she injured herself, I sat down with her still glued to me with her now basically in my p and expined what I knew of the details and when it happened.

  "Wow, I didn't expect my mom and dad to do something like that. I'm gd they did, though." Alice said as she cuddled up further into my chest.

  "It wasn't really so muom and dad that caused us to get engaged, I would say it was more so my grandma that was the cause of it due to her being the oo gather everyone for that discussion of theirs right after our first birthdays." I corrected her.

  "I see. Guess I'll have to thank her a bunch for log you down for me." Alice responded happily.

  Following that little episode, we got bato the swing of things and started studying again with her reading the one of the many books I had in my ever-expanding colle and me opening up the ptop my parents had gotten me a while back.

  We learned a bund progressed food number of hours when I had us our studying there. Our learning paused, we headed downstairs to the gym my parents had installed for me withi year. The pce also doubled as a sparring area that I used frequently with grandpa John, ahh the perks of being born with a golden spoon.

  The moment we reached the gym, I instructed Ali what she o do today. Once I had her on her way, I went ahead and initiated my own workout on the various pieces of equipmeup throughout the gym.

  A while into our workout, Alice finished hers much soohan I did because of her workout routine being signifitly lesser than my own in the amount she o do aamina and endura being anywhere near my own. So as I tiraining on my own, she rested and watched me train for the hour, patiently waiting for me to finish.

  Phew, I'm finally finished with the st of my sets. Thankfully, Alice doesn't mind waiting on me and seems to quite enjoy watg me work up a sweat.

  "I'm done, Alice. Let's go get our sparring in before our parents arrive." I told her, walking off in the dire of the sparring area.

  "Okay." She answered, following in step right behind me.

  From there, we fought os until Alice was out of breath. At that point, she was basically all out of steam, thus I called it there. Our physical training covered for the day, we went off to the bathrooms to get the sweat washed off of us. Wheh of us were finished getting ed up, we met back up and climbed the stairs, arriving ba the living room soon after.

  "Alice, you want to have something to eat?"

  "Nn, I could use a bite after all that."

  "Okay cool, let me whip up something."

  With both of us hungry, I proceeded to the kit and got to whipping up a couple of meals optimized frowth and recovery, though I first had to break out the stool before I could actually begin cooking.

  Shortly thereafter, I had a nice size feast for two five-year-olds that were more physically developed due to our sistent training. Bringing all I prepared out to the table, she and I took our seats and had a pleasant meal between ourselves, occasionally chit chatting about the various things we were both learning.

  ...

  As soon as we were doing, we went back to the living room and tinued our studying for a number of hours until my parents showed up, along with Alice's in tow.

  "Sooo... what happened?" Dad asked us mere moments after all six of us had found our seats in the living room.

  "Well, Alid I got bored, so we decided to escape school and go home and do our usual thing." I answered.

  "Yeah, we were bored and didn't have anything to do besides draw. So why bother staying and wasting our time when we could be more productive here." Alice said, bag me up before receiving simultaneous sighs from each of our mothers and fathers.

  "I probably already know the answer, but I'll ask anyway. What caused the both of you two to bee so bored and uhused that you felt the o leave school?" Alice's dad David questioned.

  "It's not really one particur thing that caused us to leave, but an assortment. First, I believe yoal in sending us to school was for us to socialize with the other children going there so we wouldn't bee socially awkward, right?" I responded.

  "... Sigh, you're right on money as always, you rascal. That was indeed oal in sending you there." He answered.

  "So how exactly are Alid I supposed to socialize with a bunch of children that are substantially less developed than ourselves? I don't see how iing with them would be us in any sort of way and would instead have the opposite effect of stifling us. And seeing how giddy the four of you were with your cameras this m at the school's entrance, I suspect that's the real reason why you guys wanted us to go." I said, causing our parents to look slightly guilty.

  "Well, we wao have you both try going to school like normal kids, but if we're being ho, I doubt it would have been good for either of you in the long run. That said, we all still believe you guys will o i with others more at some point. You and Alice 't just i with just our families and call it a day." He said after a momentary pause.

  "And of course we did want to shoot some cute pictures of you two. arent wouldn't want to take some memorial pictures of their kids?" Alice's mother Aura answered this time, which the rest of our parents nodded and agreed to as well.

  "I see where you guys are ing frarding the memorable pictures, and obviously, Alid I won't just be iing with each other's families only. But I think it's pretty pointless going to school to waste most of the day aplishing nothing of note, just so we i with a bunch of children that just began learning their ABCs." I responded, which they basically had to agree with if they were rational human beings.

  "So with all that said, why don't we e to a promise that we all agree on instead of the alternative of Alid I esg school stantly?" I suggested, to our defeated looking parents.

  "What do you have in mind?" My mom Jane asked.

  "Alid I have already discussed ahinking ag or nearly ag all yearly tests along with participating in after-school activities and sports were a good promise."

  "Of course you little geniuses did, so let's hear the reasoning on why you think ygestions are a good promise." Mom responded.

  "Us ag the yearly tests would show that our education is more than keeping up with our peers. And our participation in after-school activities will allow us to get more socialization than if we were in school for the whole day, thereby solving the social issue." Aliswered after I gave her a nudge.

  "You two really have it all figured out, huh." My dad ented.

  "I think their suggestion is fine." My mom said.

  "Their suggestion is reasonable enough." Alice's mother followed up before both moms looked at their respective husbands.

  "We're okay with what they suggested, too. However, if either of you fail to get above a 90% in as, you guys will be going to school like normal kids, got it?" Alice's dad said stly.

  "Yes." Alid I responded in sync.

  With that issue resolved and it being around diime, our moms prepared a small feast that everyone enjoyed.

  Damn, even her mother knows how to cook up good food. When Alice is a bit older, I will have to ask her mom as well as my mom to teach how to cook. I could also teach her a thing or two, since I know how to prepare some pretty killer food. However, besides the basics, the only cooking I'm good at mostly sists of barbecue and grilling, hehe women of our families will have to teach her the other stuff because I'll be of no help in those areas at least fht now.

  And since I'm thinking of it, I should expand on the sele of foods I'm able to make and because she'll be learning how to cook various dishes, I might as well join her. It'll be ahing to bond over. Also, learning to cook a bunch of different meals wouldn't take me long at all either due to my skills and photographic memory, thus there's o worry about deying any of my projects or training I o get plete prior to my wastend adventure.

  Though even if I didn't have the time, I probably would dey everything else just so I ensure I'll have a woman that likes to cook. I definitely don't want to end up in a situation like I was in my previous world with my st couple of exes. Microwave chef girlfriends are pretty rough, not going through that shit again.

  Thinking of the many mouth watering meals Alice will be able to make iure, her and her parents went home while my family and I sat down on the couches and watched some old movies that were produced a decade before the world went to shit some 200 years back.