Hello all! This is going to be the first in a series that I'm going to start called Kindergarten Mal. The title sort of explains it all, I just thought it would be fun to write. Hope you enjoy!

You can always tell it's an extra special day when Miss Tibby lets us use the scissors in the box that she hides in her desk. I was so excited that I would get to use the kind of scissors my mommy and dad never let me play with. Mommy doesn't let me use them cause she thinks I have an over active imagination. Dad just thinks I'll run with them.

But they're wrong. And today I get to use them and there's nothing that Mommy and Dad can say about it.

After a long and exhausting hour of recess (Where I was promoted to Knight before the Queen banished me cause I couldn't hold in a sneeze) we all sat at our tables. My three bestest friends, Ken and Matt and Maria, sat with me.

A lot of the guys make fun of me cause I have a friend that's a girl. But they're stupid cause they dont know how great it is to have a friend who's a girl. Their mommies are always extra nice to you, and Maria's mommy always packs her an extra pudding cup just for me. The other guys say she has cooties, but my mommy says that cooties aren't real. I half believe her. I think cooties are real, but that Maria is a-mune to them.

"Mal?"

I proudly march up to Miss Tibby who finally grants me the honor of holding the scissors.

"Mal, don't you dare run," she says. "Take slow and steady steps, like the tortoise. Do you remember the story?"

I stick out my chest and gave a big nod. "Yes!"

I slowly turned around, exaggerating the carefulness Miss Tibby asked of me. Of course, Miss Tibby will always be the only true Queen of the Playground. That Natara is nothing but a cupcake princess.

I finally reached the table again and joined the Knights and Knightette of the Circle table. We joined scissors and vowed that the brightly colored paper Miss Tibby was starting to hand out would soon meet its doom.

"Fellow Knights and Knightette, we will soon go into battle. May the good lord bless our armor and our skill so that the good Miss Queen Tibby will be happy and impressed with our slayings."

"Amen," Matt and Maria finished.

"For Miss Queen Tibby!" Ken said.

Behind me I felt someone kick my chair. I turned around to find the cupcake princess Natara frowning at me.

"I'm the Queen!" She insisted. The rest of her table, Blaise and Amy and Neha, glared at us.

"There is no one fairer than Queen Tibby!" Matt smirked at her.

"For Tibby!" We, the Knights and Knightette of the Circle table chanted. Natara puffed her cheeks out and glared at us. Then, she suddenly grinned at me with an evil snicker.

"Mal Fallon is a poop head!" She shouted. The whole class laughed as I felt my face heat up. She is an evil princess.

Miss Queen Tibby told us to calm down as she passed out the construction paper to my table to slay. I got a red one and I pouted up to Miss Queen Tibby.

"Can I have a blue one?" I asked her royal highness.

"I'm sorry, Mal," she said. "I just gave the last one to Natara." I look behind Miss Queen Tibby and Natara held up a bright blue paper, sticking her tongue out at me. I glared at her as her table laughed at me.

I, Knight Fallon, will break the Honorary Conduct of a Good Knight and plan my revenge on Natara the Evil Cupcake.

I grabbed my weapon of choice and scooted over to Natara. I raise my scissors and slashed a taunting pigtail of Natara's.

Victory.

"Malachi Fallon!" Miss Queen Tibby hollered.

I spent the rest of the day in the corner.

Miss Tibby, my harsh but fair Queen.