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Nixy! 
Oh my.
There was one thing Ollie was certain of, was that the Quimbley's were definitely an... enthusiastic bunch. Did his niece really need the WHOLE family to take her to school?
Probably.
"FERN!"
Tallulah grinned, leaving her parents by the car to run and meet her cousin with an over-enthusiastic hug. "Morning Carol! Morning Uncle Thomas! Hello... everyone else!" She liked her uncle Tom. He was nice. Taught her how to horseride when she was, though.
Maybe they'd have birthday cards...
Heh.
She turned back to her cousin. "Come one, come on, come oooon! I'm so excited!" Fern had to be at least doubly excited - she had all SEVEN YEARS of School to look forwards to!
Fern had finally escaped from her family's embrace, only to find herself in another one. But this was a hug from her cousin, who was a teenager, so it wasn't the same thing, obviously.
"TA-LLUUUU-LA!" she crowed,
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
Her words were followed by an echoing of similar well wishes from the rest of the Quimbley family, and it was not even a full second after her cousin stopped speaking before they circled Tallulah in another group hug. Luckily for the-soon-to-be fourth year, the hug didn't last too long, because the family had to say their hellos to her parents.
Myrtle Quimbley, "Nancy, so good to see you!"
Phillip Quimbley, "Oliver, you need a haircut!"
Gretchen Quimbley, "Do you both want to come over for dinner?"
Thomas Quimbley, "Car looks good!"
Carol Quimbley, "Ollie! Nancy, oh can you believe our girls are leaving?!"
Carl Quimbley, "You remember Rhonda?!"
Rhonda Clark, "Hi!"
"ME TOOOOOO! LET'S GOOO!!!" Fern cried, yanking on her battered trunk, the cage for her toad tied to the top.
"HEY EVERYONE! TALLULAH AND I ARE GOING! BYE! SEE YOU THIS WINTER!" She had said her hellos to Aunt Nancy and Uncle Ollie while Tallulah was being suffocated by all the Quimbley love. Now she was ready to leave!