Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

It was early fall and a very cool day. A brown-haired boy raced down Wilson Road. His name was Mac, a shy and super smart 8-year-old boy. He was in a hurry to his favorite place in the world, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

The story behind that was he couldn't keep his imaginary friend anymore because his mom said Mac was too old for one. His friend was named Blooregard Q. Kazoo, a kind, self-centered, funny, and clever little blue blob. (Everybody just called him Bloo.) That night, Bloo saw an ad for Foster's on TV and wanted to go. When they went to check the place out, they met some nice imaginary friends. A really tall red, white, and blue one who was very optimistic called Wilt. A big scary purple monster who was afraid of everything that moved named Eduardo, and a bird-airplane-cocanut tree thing who only said "coco" named Coco (surprise surprise…) After he found out it was a foster home (well, duh!) he didn't want to stay. Mac promised he'd come visit everyday but Bloo still didn't like it. After Mac impressed Madame Foster (the founder of the joint) by coming everyday, she decided to let Bloo stay forever without being put up for adoption if Mac promised to visit Bloo everyday at 3:00 p.m.

Mac couldn't wait to tell Bloo about the new student from Oklahoma that came to his class that day. She had short, red hair, a cute freckley face, and her name was Tessa. Mac didn't know anything about her because she was so shy that all she did was quickly glance at him,and smiled briefly when she sat beside him. She didn't say anything that day. Not even a "hi" or introducing herself. The teacher did that for her.

When he opened the door, Mac instantly saw Bloo aiming a water balloon at Madame Foster's imaginary friend named Mr. Heriman, who claimed Bloo was an annoying little bug, but that's all the other friends could say about Mr. Heriman.

"BLOO! DON'T! What are you doing?" Mac yelled.

"What's it look like I'm doing!" Bloo yelled back.

"It looks like you're going to get yourself in trouble… AGAIN!" Mac replied.

"Yes and no one will stop me!"

"Okay… well anyways… I want to tell you about-"

"You heard about it too?" Bloo said wide-eyed.

"What? What are you talking about?" Mac said confused.

"There's a ghost here! Everyone has seen it!" Bloo exclaimed.

"How can it be a ghost if everone can see it?" Mac said reasonably.

"It's just a pair of floating eyes! I know what you're thinking, can't it just be another imaginary friend? Mr. Heriman said he had never seen it come in!"

"What's your point?"

"It could've walked through the walls! It couldn't have come through the door! The doorman always just… sits there! It looks at us with big huge eyes and-"

"Man, I don't even know you any- BLOO! IT'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!"

Bloo whirled around and there it was, THE FLOATING EYES!

Bloo screeched but Mac laughed.

"WHAT!" Bloo shouted.

"Bloo, you're telling me that this is it!"

"Well, yeah!"

The eyes didn't look scary at all.

"You know, they're kind of cute," Mac said.

Suddenly the eyes got very angry and the shouted,

"I WOULN'T GO OUT WITH YOU IF YOU WERE THE LAST LIVING CREATURE ON EARTH!"

Mac and Bloo screamed and fled immediately.

"Oh yeah, Mac! Real cute!"

"Oh, shut up!"

They ran into a nearby closet and hid until the eyes floated away.

"That was close," Bloo panted.

"Yeah, it probably would've killed us if we didn't run," Mac replied.

Then they heard voices.

"Hey, Honey! I'm sure glad to see you," a girl's voice called.

"Tessa! I've been waiting all day! I want to show you something!"

"Tessa? Hey! That's the new girl from my school!" Mac whispered.

"Mac, she's talking to the eyes!" Bloo said, peering through the keyhole.

"What? Let me see!" Mac said surprised.

"What did you want to show me?" Tessa asked.

"Come on. I'll show you!"

"They're coming over here," Bloo shrieked, "We've got to get out of here!"

"The door's locked…" Mac said. His heart was beating fast, "WE'RE LOCKED IN THE CLOSET, BLOO!"

"Here I'll bust it down. One… two… THREE!"

Bloo flew towards the door but just as he was about to hit it, the door opened. It was Tessa and the eyes. Tessa folded her arms and smiled.

"I thought I heard you, Mac," she said.

Completely embarrassed, Bloo got up, brushed himself off and said,

"We could've gotten out ourselves, kid and … eyes…"

"I'm a girl," the eyes said impatiently.

"Right, and my name is Bloo." Bloo slowly and sarcastically replied.

"But it is Bloo," Mac mumbled.

"Right," Bloo again replied slowly and sarcastically.

"Have you shown yourself at all today?" Tessa asked her.

"…well no…" the eyes said quietly.

"Do you mean you're not a pair of floating eyes, Pair-of-floating-eyes?" Mac asked.

"What? No! She just turns invisible when she's really shy! And her name's Honey," Tessa answered, "She tends to stalk people because she forgets about her eyes."

Honey looked at Bloo and when his eyes met hers, she blushed and looked the other way.

"You're pretty shy yourself, Tessa, you hadn't said anything today until now," Mac pointed out.

"I guess since I know you now, I could turn visible," Honey said.

A full view of Honey appeared. She was a pinky-purple color with pencil yellow cheeks, legs, tail, and ears. She also bore a pair of red and white wings. Honey sort of resembled a bird-fox-bunny hybrid. Mac was a little surprised.

"Well, that was more or less of what I was expecting," he finally answered.

Bloo said nothing. When Mac looked over at him, Bloo was staring, wide-eyed and jaw dropped, at Honey. She blushed then blinked and snapped,

"It's not polite to stare you know!"

"I'm blinking, I'm blinking!" Bloo exclaimed, also snapping out of it.

"Oh, man! I've got to go! I'll see you guys tomorrow," Tessa said.

"Okay, later," Mac and Honey called. (Bloo was still staring at Honey.)

TO BE CONTINUED…