Doctor Beck says, Today is an important day. Today we move to our new house. You will like the house, Mila. All the doctors will live there with you. We will eat and sleep all in the same house. No more doctors going away at the end of the day.

I say, Is Sandy coming?

Doctor Beck says, Yes, of course.

Sandy is coming. She is waiting for us at the house right now.

We go in a car to the new house.

The sun is hot and good. I am happy to be outside. But I have a worry.

I say, Doctor Beck, how can Sandy find the new house? There are many houses. How can Sandy know the house where we are going?

Doctor Beck says, Don’t worry, Mila. I told you. Sandy is there.

Listen. Let me tell you about the house. You have your own bedroom! Your window looks out over the Charles River. Justin thought you would like that. I will come and get you every morning. We will all eat breakfast together in the big dining room. The house has a classroom for you and Shay to work together all the time. Look, you can see the back of the house from here. That’s your window, right up there.

I am not listening. I see water.

Water! It is not big like the ocean, but it is not little like the pool.

I am out of the car running to the water.

I go over the road and into the water, swimming and swimming in my clothes, going with the good tide. I dive in the water. The water is not good to see in. It is all clouds. But it is much water.

I call my dolphin name. I call again and wait. First there is no answer.

Then I hear.

But what I hear is not dolphin. What I hear is human.

Sandy! Sandy is calling me.

I swim to the shore fast. I am happy, happy to see Sandy.

Sandy is smiling for me. But I feel another thing in Sandy.

I say, I am so good to see you. Why are you sad?

Sandy makes a gentle hand on my face.

Sandy says, My father died, Mila.

I understand to die. I understand from the dolphin days.

Sandy and Doctor Beck take me to the new house.

The new house is good brown sand outside. Inside, the house has a room with a very big table. The house has a room with many soft chairs. The house has a big room with computers and many games. The house has a room with good little caves filled with food smells.

I see a room for Shay to sleep and Doctor Beck and Sandy and Doctor Troy.

Doctor Beck says, This room is for my son, Justin. And this room, Mila, is for you.

The room has a little window in the door. Shay has a little window in her door. No one else has windows in their doors.

Doctor Beck says, Welcome home, Mila.