"Mommy?" I said. "Where are we going?"
"To the bus stop dear. Your
going to school." My mommy said. "You know the place Tai goes everyday? Well
now your going there."
"Oh. Tai?" I looked at my brother. "Is school fun?"
"Sometimes." He ran back into the living room.
"Tai! What are you doing?" Mommy yelled.
"I gotta call Yamato."
"You're going to see him on
the bus in a few minutes!"
"I still gotta call him!"
"Tai…it's time to go! C'mon, we don't have time! He's probably at the bus-stop already!"
"Ma! I…"
"I don't care!" Mommy grabbed
Tai's hand, and walked out the door, me following close behind. Tai kept
whining about how he wanted to call Yamato.
We got to the bus stop. I saw a bunch of kids, a lot who were my age. A little boy with blond hair, holding onto Yamato, Tai's friend…a kid who looked like Tai but with littler hair, was running around wildly…and some other people, who looked older then me. A girl, Sora, who was also Tai's friend, bouncing a soccer ball on her head. A boy with red hair, using a laptop. A girl with long hair and a fancy dress, talking to a boy with blue hair and glasses….there were so many people!
Tai ran over to Yamato. "Hi!"
"Why didn't you call me?" Yamato said, in a very pouty voice.
"I wanted to, but my mom wouldn't let me. She's very mean, you see."
I walked over to the little boy gripping onto Yamato. "Hi! I'm Kamiya Hikari. What's your name?"
"Takashi Takeru. But call me TK."
"Okay TK. You can call me Kari."
"Hi Kari."
"Is Yamato your brother?"
"Yeah. Is Tai yours? Tai is Yamato's best friend."
"Yup, Tai's my brother. And he
talks about Yamato all the time."
"Yamato starts crying if he can't
play with Tai all the time."
"That's weird. Wait a second, how come you know all this, if you don't live together?"
"We see each other."
"Oh." The bus pulled up and we got on. I sat next to TK. I was about to talk to him, but he'd fallen asleep. So I went to sit with Tai. "Can I sit with you?" I asked.
"Sorry, no more room." He said. There were three people in the seat. Yamato, Tai, and Sora.
"Can I sit on your lap?"
"Sure." I hopped onto his lap.
"Your sisters cute Tai." Sora said.
"Kari?" Tai said. "Say thank you…"
"Oh, oh yeah, thanks."
Yamato and Tai started talking to each other, totally excluding Sora. So Sora talked to me. "So Kari? Today's your first day?"
"Yeah."
"Well, hope you have fun. Oh, and don't give anyone your lunch. They might wind up your friends for life." She glanced warily at Yamato and Tai.
"Okay, I wont."
The bus came to the school. The bus driver lady gave me a piece of paper as I walked out. It said, 'Ms. Schuyler.' I found out that TK's said the same thing.
TK and me walked up to the third floor and into class. "Hi kids." Ms. Schuyler said, smiling. "Why don't the two of you go sit over there?" She pointed to one of the tables. We walked over and sat down.
After a while, everyone got to class. "Okay…" Ms. Schuyler said. "We're going to have free time for the morning. After lunch, I'm going to have all of you practice counting, and writing the alphabet.
"Okay!" We got up and looked
around. There were a bunch of blocks lying in the corner. I picked them up and
started building. TK walked over to me. He accidentally tripped over one of the
blocks, and fell on my castle. It broke.
"Oops, sorry Kari." He got up,
and tried to fix my castle.
"It's okay. It was stupid looking anyways. You can help me
re-build it, and make it cooler."
"Okay." After working for
about fifteen minutes, TK and me had built the coolest block castle I ever saw!
Lots of kids were coming over to admire it.
"Wow…" They said.
"Me and TK built it together!" I yelled.
"Yeah! If I hadn't ruined the first one, it would've looked stupid!" TK said, smiling at me.
Eventually, everyone else went back to there own thing. TK and me kept on doing things together. We drew a picture together, we read a book together. We did everything together!
To soon, it was lunchtime. I wasn't very happy, because I was having such a good time with TK. But I got to sit with him at lunch. He gave me his pudding snack, but I didn't take it. I didn't offer anything to him, even though he offered me the entire contents of his lunch bag, at least four times each. I took Sora's advice.
I didn't understand why. I wanted to be TK's friend. But I wanted to do what Sora said I should. Maybe there was some other reason she said not to.
I didn't realize she was only kidding.
When we finished, we threw our lunch in the garbage. TK and me headed straight for the swings. But Tai and Yamato were there first. Only one swing was left. And they looked so funny! Yamato was sitting on Tai's lap while they swinged. So TK and me decided to do the same thing. Since I was bigger then TK, I sat on the swing, and TK sat on my lap. It was fun!
"Hi Tai!" I yelled to my brother.
Tai didn't answer me. He was two absorbed in his conversation with Yamato. And Yamato didn't answer when TK said hi to him.
When Ms. Schuyler called us back to class, I ran back to class, holding TK's hand. We sat back in our seats, and Ms. Schuyler gave us pieces of paper. "Write the alphabet. If you don't know it, come see me." A bunch of kids, including TK, started walking up to Ms. Schuyler.
"TK!" I yelled. "Wait! I can show
you the alphabet!"
"Oh?" He walked back to his seat
next to me. "Okay, show me."
I grabbed my pencil, and started writing it out. "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J…" I said the letters out loud.
TK caught on quickly, and did the rest on his own. We were both finished long before Ms. Schuyler came to collect our papers.
As soon as she picked up our papers, she had everyone count to ten, over and over, until everyone remembered.
"Okay…" Ms. Schuyler said. "I'm going to assign homework."
Everyone gasped. No one expected to have homework on there first day ever of school. "It's no big deal." Ms. Schuyler laughed. "All you have to do, is ask your mom or dad to listen to you count to ten."
About ten people were whispering to each other that, sure, they'd ask, but they wouldn't actually count.
Ms. Schuyler dismissed us into the playground. My mom was waiting for me and Tai. "Hi kids!" She walked over to us, and hugged us. "How was school?"
"It was great!" I said. "I have a
new friend, his name is TK!"
"Isn't that Yamato's brother?"
"Yeah."
"Tai?" She asked my brother. "How was school for you?"
"Fine. Sora was acting kind of weird though."
"Maybe it's all that hanging out with Yamato. She probably wants to play with you guys to."
"Maybe. Mom can we get ice cream? We do every first day."
"Sure." So we went out for ice cream.