Arnold wiped his nose and sighed. Why can't I fit in for once? he thought to himself.

Arnold decided that today he would try his best to fit in.

He walked up to Mrs. Frizzle, smiled, and said, "Hey, Mrs. Frizzle. You're looking good today."

"Don't mention it, Arnold!" she said, surprised at his sudden change in personality.

"Did you get it at the thrift shop on Fifth Street?" he asked, trying to keep the conversation light.

"Get what there?" she asked.

The rest of the kids didn't seem to notice their awkward conversation; they were too busy sighing at Carlos' bad puns.

"Whale, whale, whale...what do we have here?" asked Carlos, who happened to be dressed as a whale.

"Did you wear that suit to school just to make that joke?" Phoebe sighed.

"Maybe I did and maybe I didn't," Carlos replied.

"How does that even work...What's the dress code here?" asked Ralph.

"No shrimp suits, no mammoth suits...it doesn't say anything about whale suits," Carlos pointed out, thumbing through the rule book.

"At my old school we could wear shrimp suits!" Phoebe commented.

All of a sudden the sound of a slap echoed throughout the classroom.

"ARNOLD, HOW DARE YOU!" Mrs. Frizzle shouted.

"I'm sorry!" Carlos shouted.

"She wasn't talking to you, fuzz for brains!" Dorothy Ann said.

"I wonder what happened!" Keesha exclaimed. "This sounds bad, bad, bad, bad!"

Arnold's crying drowned out everyone else's voices. "I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I -I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I -I-I-I'm sorry!" he stuttered.

"Of all the students I've had…!"

All of a sudden, a volcano erupted. The lava burst through the door of the classroom.

"QUICK, TO THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS, but not you, Arnold."

Arnold gasped and hid in the cupboard as all the other children quickly ran to the bus.

"I THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MY MOM!" he yelled as they flew away.

Arnold stayed in the cupboard. He felt the heat of the lava approaching and thought about all the regrets he had. "WHY DID I EVER DO THAT!? WHY DID I EVER…"

Without another thought, he plunged into the lava with the gracefulness of a swan. Extremely loud screamo music played in his ears. "Wonder where that is coming from…" he said.

Suddenly, he woke up in his room. He had forgotten he had been listening to screamo music whilst doing his vocabulary homework.

Is this heaven? he thought.

Suddenly there was a knock on his window. Arnold got off his bed and walked toward his window.

"OPEN THE WINDOW, ARNOLD!"

Arnold recognized the voice, but couldn't quite place it. "WHO IS IT?" he yelled.

"IT'S MRS. FRIZZLE! WHO DO YOU THINK IT IS? IT'S LIZ!"

"BUT YOU'RE A CHAMELEON!"

"AND YOU'RE A GINGER!"