The Day Cat and I Met

DISCLAIMER: I'm a girl. Dan Schneider is a boy. You do the math.

Cat and I have always been great friends. I hope we always will be. But, how did it all begin? Well, it started on the first day of preschool. I remember it like it was yesterday...

"Robbie, welcome to Preschool!" The lady guided me into a big classroom. It had walls that looked like the sky, with airplanes and clouds on the walls on the left side, and the moon and stars on the right side. All around were kids my age, playing with play-dough, and building-blocks, and crayons. I ran to the Morning side as fast as my skinny legs could take me. I saw a girl with very red hair playing with the building blocks in the corner, and decided to join her.

"Hi." I smiled and sat down next to her. She turned toward me. My mouth flew open. She was pretty! She had long, pretty hair in a pony tail with a little bow. Her eyes were big and brown, and she had on a little pink dress with a red bow. She definitely didn't have cooties! I smoothed down my khaki shorts.

"Hi! I'm Cat!" She smiled at me. I smiled back.

"Like the aminul?" I asked.

She jumped up. "What's THAT supposed to mean?" She asked, sounding hurt. What did I say?

"I wasn't being mean. I meant, like the Hello-Kitten?" I tried again.

"I love Hello-Kitten!" She sat back down again. "Wanna make a castle?" She picked up a block and started building.

"Okay!" I picked up a block too. She reached over with her tiny hand to get a pink block for the entrance.

"Who lives in our castle? Pirates?" I asked. "I love pirates! Arrgh!" Cat giggled at my pirate impression.

"No, silly! Princesses and knights do!" Cat smiled and picked up a princess doll.

"Aw... Can pirates live in the castle, too?" I asked. I tugged at my sweater vest.

"Hmm... Okay! But they have to be nice pirates!" Cat nodded.

We had barely finished the castle when Cat had an idea. "What if, okay, a dragon attacked the castle! And the pirates have to save the princess!" Cat poked my shoulder.

I looked around at all the dolls and pieces we had. "But we don't have a dragon."

Cat turned around, opened her bag, and pulled out a stuffed giraffe. "Will this work? It's a Giffaffe!" She mispronounced.

I almost started to correct her, but I didn't. I just nodded and grabbed my pirate. "Arr, ye scurvy dragon! Walk the plank, ye landlubber!" I spoke out of the side of my mouth, so she wouldn't know I was talking for the pirate. It was a trick I taught myself a while ago.

"Wow... How do you do that?" Cat asked. She cleared her throat. "Please! Save me, pirate! The dragon is going to eat me!"

I moved my pirate between her princess and the 'Dragon'. "You leave her alone! Or I'll throw ye overboard!" I said in a deep voice. Well, as deep as a 4-year old could manage.

We played on like that until snack break. We ran to the snack tables and grabbed our lunch boxes.

"What's in yours?" Cat asked me. She opened her princess lunchbox and peeked at the contents.

"I have a sammich, a juicebox and petzels. What do you have?" I asked.

"Choc-it milk and gushers!" Cat squealed happily. "Want some?" She held out a handful of gushers. I took one happily and offered her a pretzel, which she took.

We ate our snacks, and threw our trash away. Cat looked at me and smiled. "Let's be best friends!" She smiled.

I was confused. "Aren't girls only best friends with girls?" I asked. I smiled at her chocolate mustache.

"No, silly! Hey! Let's be secret spies!" Cat grabbed his arm and ran to the corner of the Night side. She grabbed some walkie-talkies and sent me across the room. She has a lot of crazy ideas. How do you play secret spies?

"Double-O-Robbie! Come in! Do you copy?" Cat's voice boomed out of the walkie-talkie.

"What's that mean?" I asked. I had never been a secret agent before.

"I don't know. My daddy watches a secret spy show, and they say stuff like that! So, who should we spy on?" Cat whispered. She looked around, saw Robbie, and waved. He waved back.

"How about that girl in the other Night corner." I pointed.

"The girl with the skissors?" Cat mispronounced again.

"Yeah! So, how do we spy?" I asked again. I should really watch more TV.

"We watch her, and talk to each other, and write stuff down!" Cat informed him.

"... Or we could go talk to her." I thought that would be easier.

"Okay!" Cat giggled and ran over to me. We walked over to the girl with "skissors", as Cat would say.

Cat poked me, so I stepped forward. "Hi. I'm Robbie, and this is Cat!" I said nervously.

"Why are you here?" She asked, not even turning to us.

"We want to be your friends!" Cat smiled.

"Well I don't want to be yours!" She crossed her arms. Cat ignored her and sat down next to her. I did too, because if Cat wanted to be friends to this girl, so did I. That's what best friends do, right?

This girl looked scary. She had dark brown hair down to her elbows, a black shirt with a skull on it, and blue eyes that looked angry.

"What's your name?" Cat asked innocently. The girl never looked up from the paper she was cutting.

"Jadelyn." She grumbled.

"Ooh, pretty!" Cat smiled. "Can I call you Jade?"

"I guess." She said under her breath. She finally looked up. "Now, go away." Cat ignored her.

"What are you doing?" She asked. I looked at her with a scared expression.

"Cutting stuff." She said. Cat picked up some scissors and some black paper, like Jade, and started cutting. "What are you doing?" Jade asked curiously.

"I'm making paper dolls!" Cat smiled. She got some glue and googly eyes, and stuck them on her paper dolls. Jade looked at them, took out a white marker, and drew some fangs on each of them.

"Pretty!" Cat giggled. I just nodded slowly.

Jade looked up at her. "You know what? You're alright." She stood up, looking at my with disgust, as though I was a bug she hadn't noticed before. I hope she doesn't step on me, I shivered. "My mom's here," She grumbled and walked to the door. My mom was there too, so Cat and I followed Jade and found our moms.

We stood with our moms, who were talking to each other. I waved, and she waved back. I have a best friend. That's a girl. And suddenly, I couldn't wait for tomorrow.

So, this isn't my best. It's basically just a start. The next chapter will skip ahead 2 years. Please review!