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At School

He wasn't sure why he wanted to tell her. He barely knew her. But she was the strange girl, who had told stories about monsters, and he needed to talk to her about just that, monsters. He had seen some of her drawings, and he had to admit it must have been hard to come up with a character with so much detail.

"Um…Mary? Can I…um Talk to you?" He approached her. She was standing by the cubby-holes in their third-grade classroom before recess.

"Sure Andy. What's up?" Mary smiled. She noticed that he held in his hand a Buzz Lightyear and a Cowboy, Woody, which she knew he intended to play with out on the playground.

"You're never going to believe what happened to me last night." Andy noticed how her face fell slightly.

"What?" she asked in a quiet voice. Mary had been through this situation way too many times before. She had never been too popular in her school, and when she started telling the stories about the monsters, whose names she couldn't quite remember, she had supplied them with enough ammunition to last them a lifetime of bullying. That didn't make her stop, though. Because Mary knew that somewhere there were monsters, and they weren't mean and scary. They had been quite funny, actually.

"A monster came through my closet!" Andy announced. Mary's bottom lip began to tremble and her eyes welled up with tears.

"I knew it." She whispered before rushing out to go hide on the playground.

He ran after her. "Mary! Wait!"

"Why? So you can keep making fun of me?" She asked tears streaming down her face.

"No! I never meant to make fun of you, I promise. It really happened." Andy explained. He noticed an old scribbled picture in her hand. "What's that?" he asked taking a seat next to her on the grass.

"This is the only picture of the monsters that I met that I still have." She held it up." I know they have names, but I can't remember them.

It featured a pink stubby thing that Andy assumed to be Mary standing between a fuzzy blue mass and a one-eyed green ball.

"That's him!" Andy exclaimed startling Mary.

"I'm sorry?"

He pointed to the green ball with one eye. "He came through my closet last night! He started telling jokes and at one point swallowed his mic-"

"Mike. Mike…something" Mary said under her breath. She was sure Andy didn't hear her and he continued talking.

"- that's how I knew it hadn't been a dream, the spit was still on the floor this morning."

" So you believe me?" she asked tentatively.

"Yeah, I do." They shared a smile.

"Hey, Andy do you wanna come over later?" Mary asked. She knew that he lived two houses down, so transportation shouldn't be a problem.

"Sure! You want me to bring some of my toys?" She nodded enthusiastically.

"I'll see you later, then!" Andy yelled collecting Woody and Buzz.

Mary smiled as she watched him walk towards his friends. She thought to herself "I have a friend."

I hope you guys enjoy! I wrote this over the summer, but wasn't sure how to finish it. So when I found it again, I found this and finally figured out an ending! Reviews are GREATLY appreciated!