Okay, I got my new diary (correction: JOURNAL) earlier than I thought. I guess my mom really wants me to write. Here's what happened for the past 3 days I was gone. Some weird guy in a penguin suit showed up, and then a small pink creature (believe it or not, it's a HE) showed up and...ATE everyone except for the penguin. Then he got super powers out of nowhere and beat the big guy. But that's not even the weirdest part! After Mom decided to cancel the trip, the creature summoned a flying star and we all rode on it and flew home. I wish we could have left Rodrick and Manny behind, but we can't have nice things, can we?
From there, nothing else really happened, but the person (I'll call him Pinky until further notice) ate all of the food in the house. Sorry, I should say sucked in. I was actually kind of glad he did, because I was getting tired of plain Cheerios every day. He even ate all of Grandpa's nasty leftover watercrest salad! So we went to the store, and when no one was looking, he ate much of the food there. Did he EVER get full? Not that I was complaining.
He must have read my mind, because he mainly ate stuff I didn't really like. If he reads minds, I just hope he doesn't find out about Holly Hills. Mom didn't actually cook any of the food we bought, so it wasn't all great. She did buy me a new diary (How many times will I have to tell her: DONT BUY ONE THAT SAYS DIARY ON IT?)
_Monday_
In school, Greg had just arrived in the hallway. His backpack seemed heavier for some reason. Oddly enough, Rowley wasn't there. Nothing really happened until Gym class, where Greg went outside. He didn't want to change with the others, so he went outside and took off his normal clothes. His gym clothes were under them. It made him hot, but it was totally worth it. Soon enough, other people were there. Somebody noticed a piece of moldy caramel on the ground.
So now instead of Cheese Touch, it was Caramel Touch.
Stupid, right?
Coach Malone tried to make us run around the track, but we were all going out of our way to avoid the caramel, so we went inside early. For some reason, Patti stared at me, shocked, but I didn't know why. I ignored it and went back in, but then the fire alarm rang. Now, anyone who's been to my school for a decent amount of time would know that it's a false alarm, but of course, the school went all crazy.
Everyone was rushing outside, even though the teachers were trying to calm them down. It got even crazier when they went outside and someone pointed out that the caramel was gone.
Everyone went INSANE trying to figure out what happened to it. Some people made up some ridiculous theories. I even joined in on the "fun" so that I wouldn't look suspicious. Rowley wasn't here today, so I couldn't pin the blame on him, not that I would have or anything. Then Patty Farrell stared at me, with her hands at her hips.
"Is there something you want to tell us?" she asked Greg.
"No." he said calmly.
I guess she was trying to guilt trip me into "admitting" it, but to be honest, I had no idea what happened to it. I was too busy trying to avoid it. She kept trying to get me to admit it, but I didn't. So she lied to everyone, saying I did it. I was still safe, when a few people said they never saw me near it. But then she said something totally ridiculous:
"This pink THING in his backpack ate it! He has the caramel touch now!" Patty yelled. Her efforts to slander Greg were in vain, because everyone ignored her. She went closer to him.
"If you didn't take it, empty out your bag. NOW." she commanded.
Hey, if it would shut her up, I would do it. I reached into my bag, and felt something weird.
"There it is!" Patty was saying. Greg had no idea what she was talking about. There was NO WAY anyone would believe her. He had nothing pink in his backpack, unless...oh, no!
Pinky must have followed me without me knowing! That's why my bag seemed so much heavier than usual! Pinky came out and made some baby noises.
"NO PETS ALLOWED!" shouted Patty. "Hahahaha, not only are you going to be in trouble, but YOU HAVE THE CARAMEL TOUCH!"
Pinky didn't seem to know what was going on. Everyone stepped away from us (me and Pinky). I could hear Patty's laughter the whole time.
Meanwhile, a large penguin was near a fire alarm. He went away from the shadows after everyone passed him.
"Heheheh...now that I've tracked down that darned Kirb-eh, I can clobber him! No one can stand in my way, not even Greg!" He laughed. "KIRB-EH, PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MATCH!"
