"Harry! Its show and tell!" Chrissy yelled. She was clutching a large book to her chest. It was surprising she could even hold it. "What did you bring?"
"My soldiers," Harry said quietly. It took about an hour to convince his uncle to let him bring them. Harry had to offer a week in the cupboard and extra chores.
"Ohhhh, can we play with them?" Chrissy asked excitedly. Harry had brought them plenty of other times for recess and taught her what he knew of war while she taught him more of magic.
As he went to say 'sure!' the bell rang signaling show and tell. He and Chrissy sat next to each other on the circle mat.

"Okay, kids! Ready for show and tell? Good! Okay, lets pull a name out of the name hat!" She reached into a large circus hat and called, "Harry!"

He got up and ran to the front of the room and pulled out a silver man. "This is a bag of my war mans! They go into big fights against each other. I have a bunch of them in this bag. My Auntie gave them to me when I was littler." Harry wasn't sure what else he should say.
"Does anybody want to ask Harry anything about his army men?" The teacher asked. Jonathan raised his hand.

"They're stupid. Show us something funner!" He said, making a face. Harry lowered the man back into the bag and sat back beside his friend.

"Jonathan! That's not nice. You go last for show and tell now." Jonathan made a noise similar to a pig snort and crossed his arms across his chest.
"Stupid Harry! Stupid Harry! Stupid Harry!" He screamed. The teacher brought him to the timeout chair in the back of the room and continued.

When Christina's name was pulled, she bounced happily to the middle of the circle and said, "This is my storybook! It has all of my favorite stories like Cinderella, Princess and the Pea, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk! My mommy reads me them every night. Some day I'm gonna do magic like the people in my book! My mommy said if I believe in myself I can do anything, so if I believe I can do magic someday I'll do magic!" Her cheeks were bright red and her eyes were distant, imagining what it would be like. Harry smiled. He loved when Chrissy talked about magic, because it made her so happy.

A girl, Kaitlin, raised her hand. "Magic isn't real. My daddy said so." Chrissy frowned.
"Well, my daddy and mommy says it is, and they're always right," She said indignantly.

At recess, Harry and Chrissy played with his army men on the side of the courtyard under a bush.

"This man can shoot fire!" He made a whoosh noise and knocked over a few of Chrissy's men with a bright red leaf he used as fire.

"Well he can shoot water!" She said, making a splashing noise while lifting up the men Harry knocked over.

Harry was about to shoot more fire when a large foot came down on his men, shoving them in the dirt. "Hey!" Harry yelled, looking up to see Dudley and Jonathan.

"These toys are stupid!" Jonathan said, grabbing a handful of the metal men and threw them across the grass.

"No!" Harry screamed, running to find and grab them. Chrissy grabbed the others and put them in their bag before the boys could throw those, too.

"Big fat meany stupid heads!" Chrissy yelled. She helped Harry find all of his men and they ran to play next to the teacher.

As everyone got ready to leave, pulling on his or her coats and hats, Chrissy screamed. Harry ran over right away. Her fairy tale book was open on the floor. Somebody had drawn over the pages and ripped and tore the book up. There were scribbles all over Rapunzel's hair and half of the Cinderella story was ripped out and crumpled.

"What happened? Are you okay?" The teacher asked, lowering herself to Chrissy's level. Chrissy just screamed louder and fell back onto her butt on the floor.

"My book! Stupid-face Dudley did it! He ruined my book and stories!" She yelled finally.

Dudley had a smug look on his face, then, when the teacher turned, he screwed up his face and said, "Did not! Nu-uh nu-uh Nu-uh!" And he fake cried.

"Did too! You're a big fat meany! I hate you!" She said.

"Did n-not!" Dudley wailed. "You're a big fat stupid- face meany!"

The teacher looked bewildered. She had no idea how to calm them down, and the buses were waiting outside for them.

Eventually, everyone made it out to the buses except Harry, Dudley, and Chrissy. The teacher had called their guardians to come pick up Dudley and Chrissy up, and Harry had to stay with Dudley.

"Uncle Vernon is gonna punish me now for this…" Harry said angrily, sitting with Chrissy waiting for his Auntie.

"He can't do that," She said. She was still upset, but had calmed down a bit, occasionally sniffling. "You didn't do nothing wrong. It was all stupid- face!"

"He don't care…"

"That stinks," She said quietly.

"Yeah…" He said. "We're best friends, right?" He asked her suddenly.

"Of course we are!" She said dramatically, raising her arms above her head. He smiled.

"Good," he said, giving her a big hug.

He finally had a friend.