Millie patted the sheep, Ella. Ella's lamb, Cricket, came bounding up too. Giving them a final chin scratch, she kicked her legs back over the fence and booked it to the house. "WHERE have you been!" Mrs. Windstock scolded. "Darling, you are going to be late! Your first day of school!" Though it wasn't the first day of school for other students, it was for Millie and the rest of her family. They had been homeschooled up until this point. Today she would be going to a real school, with real other kids. Millie had interacted very little with other teenagers. being raised and homeschooled on a farm, she only went to town about once a month with her father.
