The Young and the Restless

As Eddie is in Kindergarten this year and prying information about his school day out of him requires the jaws of life, we have a verbal agreement that after school he has to tell me at least three things about his day. If I didn't diligently enforce this rule I would miss out on things like 'I only got 4 crackers at snack time. Everyone else got 5,' or 'We played Dodgeball and they told us to aim for the head,' or of course, 'Ms. P was REALLY mean today.' (Which she never is; she's the most awesome teacher ever, the one I prayed he would get all summer long.) Today, however, he finally spilled some of the juicy Lower El gossip I've been waiting for. In Eddie's words: 'H has a girlfriend. Sometimes they even sit together at the tables. But then today he broke up with her. I don't think he told her, but she knew anyway, I don't know how. When she found out she hit him in the face with her paper. But not hard, just soft, like a little slap. It was so funny. Now she's got a new boyfriend but I can't remember his name. It's not N. Or H. It's someone else.' I tried to pry further. Was H upset? Was J upset? Was H going to beat down the new boyfriend in the circle drive after school on Friday? What excitement might ensue???? But he was done. He made it clear that he'd gone well over his three item informative and that was all I was getting until tomorrow. I'm considering upping his requirement from three to four items of interest, just so I can get to the bottom of this drama before H and J are out of memory and their young love is only a tender breeze flowing down the school halls.