The moment she saw Alvin, Ginny screamed, dropped her schoolbag, and rushed toward him.
She covered three steps in two, darted into Alvin's arms, grabbed her dad's face, and excitedly said, "Dad, why are you back?"
Alvin grinned and pinched Ginny's cheek. "I wanted to come back early and see how you managed to demolish the school.
"I heard Old Kent won the school demolition bidding with a bid of five thousand. How much money have you gotten now?"
Ginny covered her face with both chubby hands and said miserably, "Dad, why didn't you launch the Math Teacher into outer space?
"We only went back to school to play, and he made us take a test..."
As she spoke, Ginny put on an aggrieved expression, leaned close to Alvin's ear, and whispered, "Dad, I think our Math Teacher looks down on me..."
Alvin frowned at Ginny. "Why would you think that?"
Ginny widened her eyes and held up her palm as if it were a notebook. Then, imitating her teacher's manner, she looked at her palm and said, "Harry, 100 points. Lucy, 75 points. Emma, 93 points. Cassie, 62 points. Ginny, ahem, ahem..."
Ginny seemed a little hurt as she collapsed into Alvin's arms and said miserably, "The teacher didn't want to read out my score. I'm sure he looks down on me.
"Dad, I don't want to go to school anymore. I want to come home and work as a server..."
Alvin sighed deeply. He carefully regarded Ginny, whose self-esteem had been wounded, and said, "Then how many points did you actually get?"
Ginny wrinkled her little nose and said seriously, "I got 46 points. Just a little less than half."
Alvin clutched his heart. After a long silence, he looked at Ginny and said earnestly, "Dad can testify