Calvin and Hobbes: Holiday Adventures
PART ONE: VALENTINE'S DAY
An excerpt from SUSIE DERKIN'S diary:
Calvin is so mean! Today he stole my pink fluffy binder I got for my birthday last year! Then he scribbled all over it and hid it in his desk! I was so mad!
Valentine's Day is coming up! I hope I get some good Valentines! I bet Calvin won't get me one. If he does, it will probably be a toxic candy bar.
Tomorrow's Valentine's Day! Oh, I asked my mom if they sold toxic candy bars in the store, and she said, 'No. You've been hanging out with Calvin too much!' Can you believe that!
It's Valentine's Day, and today at school, Calvin gave me a Valentine! It was so sweet! It didn't even come with a toxic candy bar! Too bad I didn't get him one.
CALVIN'S HOUSE
"Wow! That Susie Derkins is SLOW!" Calvin exclaimed, glancing out of the tree house window.
Hobbes climbed up the ladder and into the fort. "Yeah, I wonder when she'll notice that spider we put in her Valentine's card!"
At School the Next Day
"Calvin! Go to the principal's office, NOW!" Mrs. Wormwood yelled to Calvin.
Calvin frowned. "But I haven't done anything wrong today! Why must you force me to enter that foul torture room?"
But Mrs. Wormwood just led Calvin out of the room.
"Can't I get a drink first?" Calvin complained.
"Hello, Calvin," the principal said solemnly. He turned to the teacher. "What did he do this time?"
"He put a spider in my Valentine's card!" Mrs. Wormwood exclaimed, sulking out of the room.
CALVIN'S HOUSE
Hobbes would most definitely attack Calvin if he entered the front door, so he moped over to the side door.
But Hobbes must have been spying on him.
"Get off of me you flea-ridden maniac!" Calvin yelled.
Hobbes wouldn't let go.
Susie passed Calvin's house. 'What a dork,' she thought as she saw him wrestling with his stuffed tiger.
"So the spider crawled into your teacher's card instead of Susie's?" Hobbes questioned, smirking.
"Yeah," Calvin pouted. "I knew we should have used the toxic candy bar!"
"CALVIN!" Calvin's dad yelled from downstairs, sounding mad. "Get your sorry butt down here and explain these phone calls from your principal!"