how well my friends I'm back and we're gonna keep reading some more of a wrinkle in time together so last time we read chapter one and we got introduced to some of the major characters in the book including the Murray family meg and Charles Wallace most importantly the oldest and the youngest sibling and we also met the mysterious mrs. whatsit it was kind of a wacky old lady who came by in the middle of the night alright so now we are moving on to chapter 2 which is called mrs. who when Meg poked the jangling of her alarm clock the wind was still blowing but the Sun was shining the worst of the storm was over she sat up in bed shaking her head to clear it it must have been a dream she'd been frightened by the storm and worried about the so she just dreamed about going down to the kitchen and seeing mrs. whatsit and having her mother get all frightened and upset by that word what was it Tess Tess something she dressed hurriedly picked up the kitten still curled up on the bed and dumped it on ceremoniously on the floor the kitten gone stretched gave a piteous meow trotted out of the attic and down the stairs meg made her bed and hurried after it in the kitchen her mother was making french toast and the twins were already at the table the kitten was laughing milk out of a saucer where's Charles Megan asked still asleep we had a rather interrupted night if you remember I hoped it was a dream meg said her mother carefully turned over four slices of french toast then said in a steady voice no man I don't hope that was a dream I don't understand that any more than you do but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be I'm sorry I showed you I was upset your father and I used to have a joke about tesseract what it is a tesseract meg asked it's a concept mrs. Murray handed the twins the syrup I'll try to explain it to you later there isn't time before school I don't see why you didn't wake us up Dennis said it's a trip we missed out on the whole fun you'll be a lot more awake in school today than I will meg took her french toast to the table who cares sandy said if you're gonna let old tramps come into the house in the middle of the night mother you ought to have done and me around to protect you after all father would expect us to Denis added we know you have a great mind and all mother sandy said but you don't have much sense and certainly Megan Charles don't I know we're morons meg was bitter I wish you weren't such a such a dope Meg zero please sandy reached across the table you don't have to take everything so personally use a happy medium for heaven's sake you just goof around in school and look out the window and don't pay any attention you just make things harder for yourself Dennis said in Charles Wallace is gonna have an awful time next year when he started school we know he's bright but he's so funny when he's around other people and they're so used to thinking he's dumb I don't know what's gonna happen to him sandy and I'll sock anybody who picks on him but that's about all we can do let's not worry about next year till we get through this one mrs. Murray said more french toast boys at school meg was tired and her eyelids sag and her mind wandered in social studies she was asked to name the principal imports and exports of Nicaragua and though she looked them up dutifully the evening before now she could remember none of them the teacher was sarcastic the rest of the class laughed and she flung herself down in her seat in a fury who cares about the imports and exports of Nicaragua anyhow she muttered if you're going to be rude Margaret you may leave the room the teacher said okay I will beg flounced out during study hall the principal said for her what seems to be the problem now Meg he asked pleasantly enough meg look sulkily down at the floor nothing mr. Jenkins miss Porter tells me you were inexcusably rude meg shrugged don't you realize that you just make everything harder for yourself by your attitude the principal asked no Meg I'm convinced that you can do the work and keep up with your grade if you apply yourself but some of your teachers are not you're going to have to do something about yourself nobody can do it for you meg was silent well what about it Meg I don't know what to do meg said you could do your homework for one thing wouldn't your mother help you if I asked her to meg is something troubling you are you unhappy at home mr. Jenkins asked at last michael looked at him pushing her glasses in a characteristic gesture everything's fine at home I'm glad to hear it but I know it must be hard on you to have your father away now I'd the principle wearily and ran her tongue over the barbed line of her braces have you heard any news from him lately meg was sure it was not only imagination that made her feel that behind mr. Jenkins surface of concern was a gleam of avid curiosity he liked to know she thought and if I knew he's the last person I would tell well one of the last the postmistress must know it was almost a year now since the last letter and heaven knows how many people she'd told or what unkind guesses she'd made about the reason for the long silence mr. Jenkins waited for the answer but Meg only shrugged just what was your father's line of business mr. Jenkin asked some kind of scientist wasn't he he is a physicist meg bared her teeth to reveal two ferocious lines of braces meg don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts I do face facts meg said their lot easier to face them people I can tell you then why don't you face facts about your father you leave my father out of it make shouting stop bellowing mr. Jenkins said sharply do you want the entire school to hear you so what meg demanded I'm not ashamed of anything I'm saying are you mr. Jenkins side do you enjoy being the most belligerent uncooperative child in this school meg ignored this she leaned over the desk toward the principal mr. Jenkins you that my mother haven't you you can't accuse her of not facing facts can you she's scientists she has her doctor's degrees in both biology and bacteriology her business is facts when she tells me my father isn't coming home I'll believe it as long as she says father is coming home then I'll believe that mr. Jenkins sighed again no doubt your mother wants to believe your father is coming home meg very well I can't do anything else with you go back to study hall try to be a little less antagonistic maybe your work would improve if your general attitude was more tractable when Matt got home from school her mother was in the lab the twins were at Little League and Charles Wallace the kitten and porton bra were waiting for her Fortinbras jumped up put his paws on her shoulders and gave her a kiss the kitten rushes empty sir and you loudly come on Charles Wallace a let's go where my gas I'm hungry Charles I don't want to go anywhere until I've had something to eat she was still sore from the interview with mr. Jenkins and her voice sounded cross Charles Wallace looked at her thoughtfully as she went to the refrigerator and gave the kitten some milk then drank a mugful herself he handed her a paper bag here's a sandwich and some cookies in an apple I thought we'd better go see mrs. whatsit Oh golly meg said why Charles you're still uneasy about her aren't you Charles asked well yes don't be she's all right I promise you she's on our side how do you know Meg he said impatiently I know but why should we go see her now I want to find out more about that tesseract thing do you see how it upset mother you know one mother can't control the way she feels when she lets us see she's upset then it's something big Meg thought for a moment okay let's go but let's take Fortin burrow with us well of course he needs the exercise they set off 14 for her rushing ahead then doubling back to the two children then leaping off again the Murrays lived about four miles out of the village behind the house was a pine woods and through it was where Charles Wallace took Meg Charles you know she's going to get in awful trouble mrs. whatsit I mean if they find out she's broken into the haunted house and taking mrs. bunny coma sheets and everything they could send her to jail one of the reasons I want to go over this afternoon is to warn them then I told you she was there with her two friends I'm not even sure it was mrs. whatsit herself who took the sheets though I wouldn't put it past her but what would she want all those sheets for I intend to ask her Charles Wallace said and to tell them they'd better be more careful I don't really think they'll let anybody find them but I just thought we ought to mention the possibility sometimes during vacations some of the boys go out there looking for thrills but I don't think anybody's apt to right now what would basketball and everything they walked in silence for a moment through the phret fragrant woods the rusty pine needles gentle under their feet up above them the wind made music in the branches Charles Wallace slipped his hand confident confidingly in Meg's and the sweet little boy gesture warmed her so that she felt the tents not inside her begin to loosen Charles loves me at any rate she thought school off Logan today he asked after a while yes I thought sent to mr. Jenkins he made a snide remarks about father Charles Wallace knotted sagely I know how do you know Charles Willis shook his head I can't quite explain you tell me that's all but I never say anything you just seem to know everything about you tells me Charles said how about the twins that gasp do you know about them too I suppose I could if I wanted to if they needed me but it's sort of tiring so I just concentrate on you and mother you mean you read our minds Charles Wallace look trouble I don't think it's that it's being able to understand a sort of language like sometimes if I concentrate very hard I can understand the wind talking with the trees you tell me you see sort of in it inadvertently that's a good word isn't it I've got mother to look it up in the dictionary for me this morning I really must learn to read except I'm afraid it will make it awfully hard for me in school next year if I already know things I think it will be better if people go on thinking I'm not very bright they won't hate me quite so much ahead of them Fortinbras started barking loudly the warning day that usually told them a car was coming up the road or someone was at the door somebody's here Charles Wallace said sharply somebody's hanging around the house come on he started to run his short leg straining at the edge of the woods Fortinbras stood in front of a boy barking furiously as they came panting up the boy said for crying out loud call off your dog who is he Charles Wallace asked tonight Calvin O'Keeffe he's in regional but he's older than I am he's a big bug it's all right fella I'm not gonna hurt you the boy said to Fortinbras sit for it Charles Wallace commanded and Fortinbras dropped to his haunches in front of the boy a low growl still pulsing in his dark throat okay Charles Wallace put his hands on his hips now tell us what you're doing here I might ask the same of you the boy said was some indignation are you two of the Murray kids this isn't your property is it he started to move but Fortinbras growl grew louder and he stopped tell me about him Meg Charles Wallace demanded what would I know I guess he's a couple grades above me and he's on the basketball team just because I'm tall Calvin sounded a little embarrassed tall he certainly was and skinny his bony wrists stuck out of the sleeves of his blue sweater his warrant corduroy trousers were three inches too short he had orange hair that needed cutting and the appropriate freckles to go with it his eyes were an oddly bright blue tell us what you're doing here Charles Wallace said what is this the third degree aren't you the one who's supposed to be the Meg flushed with rage but Charles Wallace answered placidly that's right if you want me to call off my dog you'd better give most peculiar I've ever met Calvin said I just came to get away from my family Charles Wallace noted what kind of family they all have Ronnie noses I'm third from the top of eleven kids I'm a sport as that Charles Wallace grinned Wyatt widely so am i I don't mean like in baseball Calvin say neither do I I mean like in biology Calvin said suspiciously a change in gene Charles Wallace quoted resulting in the appearance of the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring what get us around here Calvin asked I was told you couldn't talk thinkin I'm a gives people something to feel smug about Charles Wallace said why should I disillusion them how old are you count 14 well great jr. 11 I'm brain listen did anybody ask you to come here this afternoon Charles Wallace holding fort by the collar looked at Calvin suspiciously what do you mean asked Calvin shrugged you still don't trust me do you I don't distrust you Charles Wallace say do you want me to tell me why you're here that fort and Megan I decided to go for a walk we often do in the afternoon Calvin dug his hands down in his pockets you're holding out on me so are you Charles Wallace said okay old sport Calvin said I'll tell you this much sometimes I get a feeling about things you might call it a compulsion do you know compulsion means constraint obligation because one is compelled not a very good definition but it's the concise Oxford okay okay Calvin side I must remember I'm preconditioned Michael in my concept of your mentality meg sat down on the course grass at the edge of the woods for gently twisted his colour out of Charles Wallace his hands and came over to Meg lying down beside her and putting his head in her lap Calvin trying now politely to direct his words toward Meg as well as Charles Wallace when I get this feeling this compulsion I always do what it tells me I can't explain where it comes from or how I get it and it doesn't happen very often but I obey it in this afternoon I have a feeling that I must come over to the haunted house that's all I know kid I'm not holding anything back maybe it's because I'm supposed to meet you you tell me Charles Wallace looked at Calvin probing late for a moment then an almost glazed look came into his eyes and he seemed to be thinking of him Calvin stood very still and waited at last Charles Wallace said okay I believe you but I can't tell you I think I'd like to trust you maybe you'd better come home with us and have dinner well sure but what would your mother say about Calvin asked she'd be delighted mother's all right she's not one of us but she's all right what about Meg meg has it tough Charles Wallace said she's not really one thing or the other what do you mean one of us Meg demanded what do you mean I'm not one thing or the other now Meg Charles Wallace said slowly I'll tell you about it later he looked at Calvin then seemed to make a quick decision okay let's take him to meet mrs. whatsit if he's not okay she'll know he started off on his short legs toward the dilapidated old house the haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of Elms in which it stood the Elms were almost bare now and the ground around the house was yellow with damp leaves the late afternoon light had a greenish cast which the blank window is reflective in a sinister way an unhinged shudder thumped something else creaked Meg did not wonder that the house had a reputation for being haunted a board was nailed across the front door but Charles Wallace left the way around to the back the door there appealed to beam it appeared to be nailed shut - but Charles Wallace knocked and the door swung slowly outward creaking on rusty hinges up in one of the Elms an old black crow David's raucous cry and a woodpecker went into a wild rat-a-tat-tat a large gray rat scuttled around the corner of the house and Meg let out a stifled shriek they get a lot of fun out of using all the typical props Charles Wallace said in a reassuring voice come on follow me Calvin put a straw and two Meg's elbow and fort pressed against her leg happiness that their concern was so strong in her panic fled and she followed Charles Wallace into the dark recesses of the house without fear they entered into a sort of kitchen there was a huge fireplace with a big black pot hanging over a merry fire why had there been no smoke visible from the chimney something in the pot was bubbling and it smells more like one of mrs. Murray's chemical messes than something to eat in a dilapidated Boston rocker set a plump little woman she wasn't mrs. whatsit so she must make decided be one of mrs. whatsit stew friends she wore enormous spectacles twice as thick and twice as large as Meg's and she was sewing visibly with rapid jabbing stitches on a sheep several other sheets lay on the dusty floor Charles who always went up to her I really don't think you ought to have taken mrs. Buncombe sheets without consulting me he said as cross and bossy as only a very small boy can be what on earth do you want them for the plump little woman being to him why Charles II my pet Nakul I says result cannot result in the corn a poor French Pascal the heart has its reasons wherever reason knows nothing but that's not appropriate at all Charles said crossly your mother would find it so a smile seemed to believe in through the roundness of spectacles I'm not talking about my mother's feelings about my father Charles Wallace schooled it I'm talking about mrs. bond Cole sheets the little woman side the enormous glasses caught the light again and shone like an owl's eyes in case we need ghosts of course she said I should think you'd have guessed if we have to frighten anybody away what's it thought we ought to do it appropriately that's why it's so much fun to stay in a haunted house but we really didn't mean you need to know about the sheets Oh first year type of topic German immigrant a bit live seat though but caught in the act English as I was saying but Charles Wallace held up his hand in a preemptory gesture gesture mrs. who do you know at this point Calvin down good afternoon ma'am I didn't quite catch your name mrs. who will do the woman said he wasn't my idea Charles II but I think he's a good one whereas mrs. whatsit Charles asked she's busy it's getting near time Charles II getting near time upon nesto theorem bono needed the tenant Seneca nothing deter is a good man from doing what is honorable and he's a very good man Charles II darling but right now he needs our help who Meg demanded and little magazine lovely to meet you sweetheart your father of course now go home loves the time is not yet right don't worry we won't go without you got plenty of food and rest feed Calvin up now off with you adjusted today solar or Venus Latin again of course faith is the sister of justice trust in us no shoe and she fluttered up from her chair and pushed them out the door with surprising power Charles Meg said I don't understand Charles took her by the hand and dragged her away from the house Fortinbras ran on ahead and Calvin was close behind them no he said I don't either not quite I'll tell you what I know as soon as I can but you saw fort didn't you not a grill not a quicker just as though there weren't anything strange about it so you know it's okay look do me a favor both of you let's not talk about it till we've had something to eat I need fuel so I can sort things out and assimilate them properly lead on Calvin a crime I've never even seen your house and I have the funniest feeling that for the first time in my life I'm going home alright so that's the end of chapter two and if you're anything like me you're feeling a little confused right now so we know that Charles Wallace and Calvin have some in a secret bond Charles Wallace is really good at understanding what people are thinking without really reading their minds and mrs. whatsit has a friend named missus who and they like to pretend like they're witches and our house is haunted but we don't really know too much else about them they have something to do with meg and Charles Wallace's father so hopefully in Chapter three we are going to find out more I know it's a little confusing right now but I promise it will all be cleared up we are confused as readers because our main character meg is confused meg is really confused right so she's kind of like our main character that we're following her story so it makes sense that if she's confused we're gonna be confused so when meg starts to figure things out and learn some new things in the next chapter or next couple of chapters we will be a little bit less confused and we will start figuring things out - so stick her out tomorrow we're gonna read chapter three and I can't wait to do that with you guys