Chapter 1: Another Crazy Idea by Calvin

Hobbes was swimming. Well, swimming in tuna, and eating tuna with it. Hobbes was enjoying himself, eating and swimming with tuna, it all seemed like a dream. Then, he saw Calvin, except as a giant.

"Wake up Hobbes."

"What you mean? I'm wide awake you maroon."

"WAKE UP YOU DINGY FURBALL!" Calvin yelled as he shoved Hobbes off the bed.

"Was that really necessary?" Hobbes groaned as he got up.

"Yes, and keep quiet, because Mom and Dad are sleeping."

Hobbes was confused, and then realized that Calvin's alarm clock read 4:57 am.

"Is it Christmas already?" Hobbes asked confused.

"No, I'm taking measures so I can skip school."

"How?"

"Simple, just pull a Ferris Bueller." Calvin said as he tried checking his temperature to see if the hot compress was working.

Hobbes groaned, "I think you mean, pulling a Calvin."

Calvin rolled his eyes. "Look, I got the clamy paws, I got the fever, what else is there to do?"

"Uh, send a letter to the school telling them your're sick."

"That's where you come in."

"Why do I have to do it? They'll just think it's you in some funny voice."

"I meant send an e-mail to the school furball, now get cracking on it while I make my sickness be realistic as possible." Calvin said as he left the room.

Hobbes sighed, and he trudged exhausted to the family computer, started it up, and luckily to Hobbes, the computer was still on the e-mail site. Hobbes looked around, and saw Calvin had scribbled down the school's e-mail address. He then proceeded to write a letter that he figured would be believable.

But unfortunatly, Hobbes isn't the greatest of spellers, so his letter probably wouldn't look believable.

Deer Pricncypale Spitte,

Plese exuse our sun Calvin for todays clases, he is very sik and is resting in bed so he dosen't infekt anybodi with his contagous deisase.

If u don't beleive this mesage we wil tak our sun to another skool where thire isn't no doubting princypales at al.

Thank u,

most Sincerley,

Calvin's parnets.

Hobbes grinned before sending the message. "Nobody will know the wiser." he thought as he clicked the send button.

A few hours later...

"Huh boy." Calvin's Dad stated as he looked at Calvin. "He looks pretty sick to me."

"I think it's probably best that we keep him home today, since the doctor's office is closed today, and I'm meeting my friend for today, I'd say it would be for the best." Calvin's Mom said as she looked at Calvin's 100.1 "fever."

"Ugh, are you sure, I need to go to school so I can go to a good college and live a successful life." Calvin said in a fake sick voice.

"He's sick alright, especially if he said something like THAT." Calvin's Dad said as he ran to catch his bus.

"Alright Calvin, I'm going to meet my friend for the day, since you'll be in bed all day, I got some stuff set up for you at your desk in case you need something."

"Alright, that's good." Calvin said before drifting off to sleep.

And with that, Calvin's Mom left, not knowing the wiser. As soon as Calvin's Mom left, Calvin got up.

"They bought it."

"I told ya Hobbes, I told ya." Calvin said grinning as he got dressed.

"I am impressed that actually worked." Hobbes said.

"Indeed, because I'm a genius." Calvin said as he finished getting dressed. "Oh yeah, you used spellcheck for the e-mail right?"

"Oh, yeah I did that, made it look convincing." Hobbes said, coming up with a quick lie. Luckily for Hobbes, Calvin believed him.

Meanwhile at School...

"Calvin? Calvin? Calvin? Calvin?"

Miss Wormwood was taking attendance in the morning at school, and was slightly surprised to see that Calvin wasn't there.

"I guess he's absent, Susie, take the attendance down to the office please." Miss Wormwood said as she handed the attendance sheet to Susie.

"At least I'll have a peaceful day." Miss Wormwood thought to herself.

Meanwhile, Principal Spittle was looking closely at the attendance, he looked how Calvin was the only one absent from Miss Wormwood's class, and he looked at the badly misspelled e-mail Hobbes had wrote.

He groaned.

"He's definitely skipping school. I'm going to get him, he's not going to get away with this." He grumbled as he reached for the phone at his desk.