Thank you so much to everyone who reviewed (which is really only like two people but whatever). I am so proud of you all and I'm going to get all emotional and pathetic soon. Sorry, shutting up. Sorry about the delay.

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Roger

Lunchtime, Roger looked at the huge cafeteria. The cafeteria consisted of about seven small-ish plastic tables that sat about seven kids each, and two long plastic-y tables that sat about twenty kids each. In the back, a large metal box with a padlock was open revealing cartons and cartons of milk. A metal…I have no idea how to spell counter...thing. Roger watched Mimi, Angel. Maureen, April, and Benny form part of the short line to the glass window. A hand would reach out from behind the window and hand them a tray of glop.

"Roger!" Mark waved him down from the table he was currently sharing with Collins and Joanne. Roger raced over, plopping himself down next to Mark and swinging his metal lunch box onto the table. He loved the clunking sound it made when it connected with the tabletop. "What d'you have for lunch Roger?" Roger grinned.

"Animals, and dino trees." He told them, savoring the importance of the words. According to his mother kids rarely got to eat dino trees.

"Dino trees?" Joanne asked. Roger nodded, opening his lunch box. He pulled out a box of animal crackers and a Tupperware container of broccoli. Mimi, Angel, and Maureen arrived with their lunches.

"Look you guys, Roger has dino Trees."

"Dino…Trees?"

"Yes."

"Dino trees?"

"Yes Maureen."

"Oh. Let's see them!" She squealed. Roger sighed; Mimi rolled her eyes, everyone else looked at Roger expectantly. The container of broccoli made a popping sound when Roger opened it. He set the broccoli head upright. The bottoms had been cut flat to make it easier to balance them, and they did indeed look like small leafy trees. Roger then ripped open the box of animal crackers. Withdrawing a polar bear from the cardboard depths, he carefully maneuvered the polar bear through the forest while narrating (I have no idea if that is how it's spelled, my spell check is useless).

"The lone polar bear went through the trees,"

"How did he go through the trees?"

"Shush, I want to hear." Joanne said. "Keep going."

"Ok, so the polar bear was going through the trees when he heard a noise. It got closer…and closer…and suddenly a,"

"Stop! You're freaking me out!" Mark cried.

"Don't be scared Marky, it's just a story." Angel assured him.

"But I don't want anything to happen to the polar bear." Mark said.

"Roger wouldn't kill the polar bear." Collins told him. "So what happened?"

"He was-"

"How do you know it's a he?" Maureen interrupted. "It could be a girl."

"Fine." Roger said, "She was getting scared because of the noise. Then a dinosaur came and ate one of the trees!" They all gasped. Roger, acting the part of the dinosaur, reached down, scoped up a 'tree' and stuffed it in his mouth. This amazed them all, and they made him re-tell the story enough times so that they could all get to eat a tree. Joanne, Collins, and Mark all vowed to bring in more dino trees. Mimi, Angel, and Maureen were all rather put out though; they got school lunch (the gray mess lay untouched on the Styrofoam trays) and couldn't get dino trees of their own. Roger promised to share.

"Thanks Roger!" Mimi wrapped her arms around his head in a lopsided hug.

"I can't breathe."

"Sorry," She said, and hugged him around the middle instead.

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Short I know, but cute…I hope. Actually, the dino tree thing is real. Scientists were doing a study to try and get little kids to eat vegetables and only this one daycare had kids who would eat broccoli. So they went and found out the reason was that one kid's mother had told them that broccoli was dino trees so he ate it and told all his friends so they ate it too. I just thought that was cool. Oh, and Power Peas!!