Richard Rodgers walked into his Year one classroom with a big grin on his face, it was his first day at school his eye's were darting quickly around the playground.

"There's a lot to do isn't there?" His teacher Mrs Millar said to him as she watched him look around in excitement.

"Yeah," Rick said his attention mostly on the kids. "I'll show you the classroom and then you can play before the bell rings."

"Okay," Rick said grabbing a hold of her hand so he didn't get lost.

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The room was big, bigger than his old school the room was split in two with a shelf dividing the room. The front of the room was the classroom with long desk, tiny chairs, name tags on the desk, three tins.

One tin was filled with textas, the second one was filled with colouring and writing pencils and the third had crayons. "You'll be sitting in the second row in the middle next to Kate and Ryan."

"It doesn't have a name on it," Rick said sadly looking up at the teacher "It's coming soon." Mrs Millar said with a smile.

"Can I play now?" He asked. "Yes, of a morning you can play inside the classroom but only in the play area or you can play outside."

"Okay," Rick said walking towards the play area.

The play area had a table in the centre of colouring in, in one corner was colourful bean bags and a couple of books on the ground. The other corner had building blocks and the shelves were filled with woven baskets that had labels of what toys were in the baskets.

Once he looked around the play area he ran outside to see what you could play with out there. The playground had plenty of grass with a jungle gym, a basketball court, handball court, soccer nets and plenty of other things to play with.

Rick decided to play on the jungle gym, they had a jungle gym at his old school but only the big kids were allowed to play on it.

The bell went and the kids started to pack away what they were playing with and headed into their classrooms, Rick was having so much fun on the jungle gym that he didn't want to go in but he also didn't want to get in trouble.

"Do you need help, getting down?" A teacher said to him. "No thanks," Rick said handing towards the slide.

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When Rick got into the classroom it was alive with kids in their seats talking to the person next to them. He looked over at his desk and saw Kate was on the right of his desk and Ryan was on the left of his desk.

Kate had brunette hair tied up in pigtails with a Mets baseball jersey on, Ryan had light brown hair, a striped top on with a vest.

Rick watched as a boy with dark hair reached over to pull on Kate's hair. "Ouch Stop it," Kate said as a boy behind her pulled on her pigtails.

The brown hair boy next to him laughed. "Do it again," He said tapping his shoulder.

The boy reached over again and pulled on her pigtails again. "Josh," Kate said turning around to face him. "Stop it." She growled and then turned back around.

Rick headed for his seat and sat down. "Who are you?" Kate asked in confusion. "I'm Rick."

"Ow," Kate said once again as Josh reached over to pull her hair once again. "Stop," Kate told him again. "I don't want to." Josh kept repeatedly pulled on her hair nearly making her cry.

"Cut it out." Rick said butting in but Josh didn't listen.

Rick picked up texta and throwing it at Josh getting him in the eye. "Ow." He let go of Kate's hair right away and covered his eye.

"What's going on here?" Mrs Millar asked.

"The new kid blinded Josh." The brown hair boy said angrily.

"Rick." The teacher said shocked. "He wouldn't stop pulling Kate's hair," Rick said above a whisper.

"Rick we don't throw things at people, if we don't like what someone is doing we say stop."

"Sorry Mrs Millar," Rick said. "Now Mr Davidson, I want you to go to sick bay to get an ice pack for your eye, then to the principles office you've been very naughty."

"Mrs Millar, can you fix my pigtails?" Kate asked. "Yes, I can," She said walking over to Kate.

"Do I have to go to principal office?" Rick asked. "No just don't do it again."

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Rick sat with Kate at lunch they talked about zombie apocalypses, spies and other fantasy things, By the end of morning tea they were best friends.