All she really needs to know about high school she knew in kindergarten

This morning my daughter will step onto the #49 Western Avenue bus and take it to her first day of high school. I will climb back up to my office and try to lose myself in my work. If I'm able to do that, it will be because I think my kid knows the score as well at 14 as she did at six, when she told me:

Red and yellow are BFFs.

Yellow has crush on blue.

Orange wants to be in with red and yellow but they’re bullies so they don’t let him.

Brown is a boy, and friends with black, who is a little grumpy.

And purple is really nice to people and she’s a girl.

Seven and eight are girlfriend and boyfriend.

Nine is a bully. (And a girl.)

Ten is nine's dad.

Six has a crush on five.

(Six is a girl and five is a boy.)

One and two are toddlers.

Four is five (years old), and has a crush on three.

And Dad believes in his girl, because she is 14, and true blue.