Jennifer stared out the window of her dad's truck. She thought of all her friends in New York and sighed. She hoped her dad would see her sighing and would cancel all of their trips. She looked at the mirror to see her energetic dad looking back at her with a huge smile on his face. He hadn't noticed? Jennifer looked outside again. All she saw was sand. She sighed again.

"Dad? When will we go back to New York?" she asked. Her dad laughed and shook his head.

"Not until you learn some self-defense. And why do you want to go back to New York, anyway?" her father asked. "Back in my childhood, everyone needed self-defense."

"Yeah. To defend against the dinosaurs." Jennifer said to herself.

"What did you say?" her dad questioned. "Jenn. Sometimes I think I should take you to my hometown. You probably would like it there."

"If I liked old people." Jenn said.

"Jennifer Lee Anderson. I am disappointed in you. No daughter of Lee Hugh Anderson is going to make trouble like all the other kids in your old school." her dad said. He shook his head as if something were dreadfully wrong.

"What's wrong, dad?" Jenn said.

"Nothing." Lee said. Jenn sighed. She knew her dad was sensitive to things like that. Her dad was always like that. She looked out the window again.

"I wish I was out with my friends in NY. Dad where are we going, anyway?" Jenn said. Her dad just stared out at the road. He sighed and looked back at her with puppy-dog eyes. That was almost too much for Jenn.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be like that dad. You know that I'm just sad 'cause we're gonna be away for a while."

"… All right, but do not let me hear you insult people because you're upset with us moving to Tokyo, ok?"

"Ok dad." Jenn replied. Her dad was TOO sensitive sometimes. She looked down at her DVD player. It was playing Naruto. She smiled and giggled at it. A ferret was attacking Naruto. Jenn peeked at her dad again. He just smiled in the rearview mirror. Naruto had several scratches from the ferret. Jenn giggled again.