" To Private's Eyes"

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Chapter 2

He reached the top of the platform and looked up at Skipper. Skipper had his flippers folded and was tapping

his foot. "What took you so long," Skipper asked impatiently.

" Sorry, Sir. I had to use the bathroom," Private stuttered. The other penguins starred at him, still waiting to

begin their training. They waited at least one hour for Private to come out of the headquarters.

" I suggest that you eat more roughage," Kowalski concluded. Private nodded his head in agreement then

trained with the team until Skipper announced it was break time. During the break, the penguins dragged

out their lounge chairs onto the platform and sat down in them. Soon, all of the penguins fell asleep in the

warm glow of the sun. Fifteen minutes later, Private woke up and noticed that the others were still sleeping.

Quietly, he quickly climbed out of his lounge chair, dashed into the penguin headquarters through the fishbowl

entrance, grabbed the letter that he had hidden under his pillow from earlier, and slid off to Marlene's habitat.

After he got to her habitat, he heard Marlene's loud, piglike snoring. It was then that he decided it would be

better if he put the letter under a small, medium sized rock in front of the entrance way and hope that Marlene

would find it later on.

After the break was over, Kowalski, Rico, and Skipper woke up to find that Private's chair was empty. They

assumed that he had already went inside the headquarters to escape the heat, so they decided to go in as

well. After the penguins went inside, they looked around their home, but they could not find any sign of Private

anywhere. Rico and Kowalski began looking into their swimming pool, which surrounded the entire

headquarters, through one of the portholes in the wall, in hopes of finding the young penguin. While the

others were busy surveying the water, Skipper pulled out his diary and began scanning it for the page he had

left off of shortly before Private had interrupted him. He kept flipping through his journal, looking for it, and

found that the page he was working on was missing. Skipper's head steamed. He marched off to the top of

the headquarters with his diary, leaving both Kowalski and Rico behind starring at the fishbowl entrance

he had went through. They both stood confused by his sudden exit then resumed scanning the pool.

Meanwhile, Private headed back to the inside of the penguin headquarters and plowed right into Skipper,who,

he saw, was holding his diary firmly in one of his flippers. " Private," Skipper asked in an interrogating tone. "

Did you by any chance see a sheet of paper lying around?"

Private gulped. Skipper's eyes narrowed at him, " No, Sir. Why do you ask?"

" Well," Skipper thought, glancing down at his diary. " I was looking through this book and noticed that there

was a page missing out of it and I wanted to know if you've seen it."

" Sorry, Skipper," Private responded. " I haven't." Private began to shake nervously. Skipper studied him

cautiously. Suddenly, Private bursted out into tears. " Oh, I can't take it anymore," he screamed, sobbingly. "

After you went onto the platform this morning, I took your book out from underneath your pillow and read it."

" You what," Skipper scolded. " Private, how could you!? This book, or should I say "my diary", was supposed

to be for my eyes only!"

" Your diary, Skipper," Private raised an eyebrow questionably, wiping tears off of his face.

Skipper glared at Private and smacked himself in the forehead." Yes my diary, Private," Skipper groaned and

stated in a firm tone. " I use it to write down all of my secrets in it whenever I feel the need to blab about

them. Every one of my classified, personal thoughts goes in here. Did you not read the writing on the cover

that told you to keep out?"

" Yes, I did read it," Private said. " I thought it was a story book at first, but as I read the pages, I realized

that it was a book about you asking yourself questions. Oh? By the way. You might want to get that mole on

your bum checked out by a vet as soon as possible. You know? Just in case."

Skipper's face blushed a beet red. He covered his bottom with his flippers then became furious. " You read

about the mole," he asked surprisingly, raising an eyebrow. Private gave a slight smile and put his flippers

behind his back. Skipper recovered quickly from Private's embarrassing, little discovery and uncovered his

bottom. He soon placed his flippers on his hips and glared at Private. " What else did you read?"

" Well," Private pondered, trying to avoid Skipper's furious eyes. " I did stumble across a letter to Marlene. And

since you didn't bother to send it to her. I figured I would take it out and give it to Marlene for you myself."

" Wait," Skipper panicked, grabbing Private by his shoulders. " You sent it over to Marlene? She wasn't even

supposed to know about that letter, at all!"

" She wasn't," Private's heart sank in guilt. Skipper released his grip from Private's shoulders and glared at

him, again. " Then why did you write it?"

" Well, because I…," Skipper stuttered, not knowing how to explain what he wanted to say. " Look you're too

young to understand any of this. I'll explain it to you when you're a little older. Like mine or Kowalski's age."

Just then, Kowalski and Rico heard the two arguing and climbed through the fishbowl entrance to find out

what was happening. Once they reached the platform, they saw Skipper yelling at Private, while Private was

trying to talk to Skipper. They waddled up behind Skipper, trying to listen in on their conversation, but Skipper

noticed them and stormed off into the penguin headquarters. The others watched him in confusion as he

furiously slid the fishbowl over the entrance.

" What was that all about," Kowalski questioned, raising an eyebrow. Rico cocked his head to the side,

starring at the fishbowl.

" I think I just did something terrible," Private ringed his flippers. " And now Skipper hates me."

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Whoa! This is not looking good for Private. Coming up next in Chapter 3. Kowalski and Rico confront Private to help him understand Skipper's point of view. Please stay tuned and find out more.