This story is inspired by the the song For Good from the musical Wicked, and the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven Please review and tell me what you think, and how I can improve the quality of my work! Also, please tell me if you want me to continue the story!

I know, now I have three stories all going at the same time. But writting is how I deal with stress, so... I guess you can tell, I'm really stressed out right now.

Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS

It's hard to be a third grader. Any eight year old can tell you that. Going to school, waking up early, teachers, bullies… But it's especially hard when your dad is in the military. Kelly Gibbs knows that better than anybody. But if there's one thing that's harder to deal with than anything else, it's crushes. They somehow manage to get a hold on your heart and break it and break it and break it. And they don't even know that they've done anything wrong! Actually, sometimes they don't even notice you at all. Everybody gets crushed by a crush someday. No one is immune to it. Not even people with military dads.

"Happy birthday, Kelly!" Maddie Tyler greeted Kelly as she walked through the front doors of the school. Kelly laughed

"It's not my birthday, Maddie. You're early!" She giggled. "My birthday's not until tomorrow!"

Maddie smiled. "Yeah, I know! I was wishing you a happy birthday tomorrow, today!" The two girls stood in the foyer, giggling, until the ten-minuet bell rang.

"Come one Maddie. I gotta go to my locker. We only have ten minuets until school starts and we're late!" She took Maddie's hand and the two of them skipped to the colorful-looking lockers.

"So are you brining treats for our class?" Maddie asked.

Kelly nodded. "Uh-huh! I'm bringing homemade M&M cookies! It's my dad's recipe."

"Mm," Maddie closed her eyes and smiled. "You're dad's a good cook. I remember. Hey isn't your dad home right now?" She asked.

"Kelly smiled from ear to ear. "Yep. He's gonna be home for six months!" She opened her locker and started digging through for her notebook. Suddenly, she heard a loud noise that made both of the girls stop smiling.

"Hey what is that?" Kelly asked, sticking her head back out of her locker. Maddie looked down the hall. There were a bunch of big fifth graders shoving some kid into a locker.

"Who is that?" Kelly asked.

Maddie shrugged. "Don't know. I think he's in our grade, 'cause I've seen him around. But I think he's in one of the other classes. I don't know his name." The boy was kind of tall and quirky. He had curly brown hair and thick glasses. He seemed really scared of the big fifth graders. They probably beat up on him a lot. Kelly winced as one of the boys stuffed the kid's head into the locker and slammed the door. Why did fifth graders have to be so mean?

"We should do something!" Kelly said. She started to walk towards the boys, but Maddie held her back.

"Kelly, you can't! They're fifth graders! They'll kill you!" Kelly looked from Maddie to the boys. She had to agree with her. They were too big. All she could do was watch. The boys kick the locker a bunch of times, before they walked away, laughing. After they were gone, the boy crawled out of the locker. His glassed were mangled and broken, and he had a bloody nose. He turned to look at Kelly and Maddie. There was a sad look in his eyes, as if to say: "Why didn't you do something?"

"Come on, Kelly." Maddie urged. She pulled Kelly away, and the two ran off to class.

…

Kelly got her tray of food, and walked out of the lunch line in the cafeteria. She then went to go find Maddie. She finally found her, sitting on a table by the microwaves. Kelly smiled and sat down across from her. Maddie and Kelly ate their lunch, ultimately, in silence. Maddie kept trying to start up a conversation, but Kelly was looking behind her.

"For Pete's sake! What are you looking at?" Maddie asked and turned around. She saw a whole bunch of people that she didn't know, and a couple of people that she did. One of the people she saw, was Danny Forester. He had black hair and green eyes. He was one of the most popular kids in the school. Maddie was the only one in the whole school who knew that Kelly liked Danny.

"You're looking at Danny, aren't you." Maddie teased.

"Am not." Kelly said.

"Are too. I can tell. You have that 'distant' look in your eyes." Maddie said. Kelly shot her a glare. "So, when are you gonna tell him you like him?" She asked.

Kelly shrugged. "Probably never."

"Why not?" Maddie asked, shocked.

"'Cause! He doesn't even notice I exist. All I ever want was for him to tell me that he likes me. Or at least to talk to me. But he won't. He's not in our class, so maybe I'll make an extra cookie and give it to him."

"You should." Maddie mused.

"But I'm not looking at him. Look." She pointed to the boy that they saw get shoved into the locker. He was sitting all alone at the end of the table.

"We should go sit with him." Kelly said.

"And do what? We already ate our lunch. Let's go to recess!" Maddie shouted, excitedly. Kelly had to agree and they left.

…

Maddie met Kelly in the foyer of the school the next morning. Kelly was carrying a big paper bag along with her backpack.

"Are those the cookies? I can smell them. They smell good! Did you make one for Danny?" Maddie asked.

Kelly nodded. "Yeah! I made one for him, and I made it extra special! It took me a half an hour to get it decorated right." She said as she walked over to the lockers. She got to her locker, and did her combo. She opened it and put the cookies inside. She looked around for that boy that was beat up, yesterday, but he wasn't there. She felt so bad about not helping him, and not sitting with him, that she couldn't sleep all night!

"Come on, Kelly! Stop staring! We gotta got to class!" Maddie said.

"Ok, ok! Hey will you help me pass out the cookies during homeroom?" Kelly asked. Maddie nodded and they two ran off to class.

Homeroom came, and Kelly and Maddie went to Kelly's locker to get the cookies. They passed out the cookies while the whole class sang "Happy Birthday" to Kelly. When homeroom was over, she only had one cookie left, and it was for Danny. She didn't usually bring lunch from home, but today she did. So she gently slid the cookie into her lunch box, and waited for lunch to come.

Finally, after what seemed like the longest class of her life, it was lunch time! Kelly ran to her locker and got out her lunch (and Danny's cookie) and ran to the lunch room. She walked in, and saw Maddie sitting right across from Danny!

"Hey, Kelly! We saved you a seat!" Danny called. Kelly was ecstatic. Danny never talked to her! She had wanted him to talk to her and to notice that she was there, for ever! It was like a dream come true! She gripped her lunch tight and nodded. She had always wanted to sit next to Danny! She never even thought that he knew her name! Suddenly she stopped. She remembered what it was like to ignored. She remembered what it felt like to be forgotten. But there was someone else who knew that feeling even better that she did. Kelly turned around. There he was. The boy with the thick glasses and the curly brown hair, sitting all alone at the end of the table.

"Sorry guys," Kelly called to Danny and Maddie. "Maybe later!" She turned around and walked towards the lonely boy. She took a deep breath and sat down across from him. He didn't even look up. He probably thought that she was here to tease him.

"Hi," She smiled. "My name's Kelly Gibbs." But the boy didn't respond. He looked up a little, but looked back down again. He thought it was a prank. He though she might hurt him. He thought she would beat him up. That's when Kelly realized just how lonely this kid was. He didn't have a friend in the world. Before she knew it, she found herself reaching into her lunch box and pulling out something… something… the cookie! It was Danny's cookie! She had spent an hour last night decorating it just for him! But none of that mattered. She outstretched her arm and handed him the cookie. The boy lifted his head and looked behind him, thinking she was handing it to someone else.

"No," She said. "It's for you." The boy looked up, his eyes wide and bright.

"Really?" He asked. Kelly nodded. The boy smile, for probably what was the first time in a long time, and took the cookie. He took a bite. "Wow! This is really good!" He said, crumbs falling out of his mouth.

"Thanks! My name's Kelly, by the way." She smiled.

The boy looked up, happiness brimming in his eyes. "My name's Jimmy. Jimmy Palmer."

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