A/N: Thank you every one for reviewing! I honestly didn't know I was going to get so many since a lot of people prefer Susie and Calvin together. Well thank you all! And keep reviewing! It encourages me!
I followed Calvin onto the bus, and immediately started to look for a pace to sit. All the seats were occupied except for the one next to Calvin. The door closed behind me and I felt various eyes watching me curiously.
The bus driver grunted. "Hurry up and find a seat kid."
I sighed and walked over to where Calvin was sitting. I gave him a friendly smile.
"Can I sit here?" I asked.
Slowly but surely Calvin nodded his head. As soon as I sat down he shifted away from me towards the window, as if he was scared of me or something.
I laughed a little. "Don't worry I don't bite." As I told him this, memories of kinder garden came rushing back to me, and visions of biting one of my school mates flashed before my eyes. "Well, actually…. maybe I DO kind of bite. But only when I get real mad!" I finished quickly, hoping I wouldn't scare him away.
To my surprise Calvin smiled. "I know what you mean" he said casually. "Me and my tiger Hobbes bite each other all the time when we get mad. Once I was pretending to be I dinosaur and I bit my mom's leg."
I giggled. "Once when I was in kinder garden, this mean blond girl named Audrey came up to me and started to push me around. I got so mad I just went all crazy!" I waved my hands in the air for emphasis. "And I started to pull her hair and bite her."
Calvin laughed. I was glad to see he wasn't afraid any more. I pulled out my sketch pad and began sketching a picture of Heather for Calvin to see. I could feel his gaze on my head trying to look over my shoulder to see what I was doing. I held up my unfinished picture.
"Wow…" he said in awe. "That tiger looks real!"
"Thank you." I said "That's Heather my tiger."
"No way! You have a tiger too?" he was beaming.
I laughed. I had to admit. He was pretty cute for a boy. "She's a white tiger" I explained. "I caught her with a tuna fish sandwich."
Calvin nodded. "Yup, tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."
For a moment I just smiled. It was a dream come true. I had bagged a friend.
"Hey, can I see your other drawings?" Calvin snapped me out of my thoughts.
"Oh, sure!" I said as I handed him my sketch book.
For a while our bus ride went like this: Calvin would compliment me and ask questions and I would answer them.
"I think I like this one the best." He said pointing to a picture I drew of Heather attacking my dad. "The blood looks really cool."
"Yeah." I agreed. "The blood was really hard to do. I had to erase it like a million times."
Out of the corner of my eye I caught him smiling at me. Not smiling like before, but like he was really pleased with a day dream he was having.
"Uhh… Calvin?" I waved my hand in front of his face.
"Huh! What!" he jumped out of his seat and almost fell, but I caught him. We immediately realized what kind of situation we were in and jumped apart. I saw Calvin's face become a cute shade of pink. I shrugged it off.
Then we heard the bus screech to a stop. The kids started piling out. I looked outside the window to get a glimpse of my new torture chamber. "Great." I mumbled sarcastically. "The torture chamber awaits." I felt myself being pulled from the window. I turned around to see Calvin tugging at my sleeve excitedly.
"C'mon! I'll show you around!" he said with a grin.
I smiled. "Ok." And I allowed myself to be dragged from the window off the bus.
Dear Diary,
Today was my first day at the new school. I made a new friend! His name is Calvin. He has a tiger just like me! He seemed to be all alone before I came, since he didn't really introduce me to any of his friends at school.
School is still school unfortunately. There's nothing great about it. I still get in trouble for not paying attention. Like today, I could have sworn I saw a big grizzly bear in the class room, so I jumped on my desk and started throwing things at it. The teacher didn't believe me so she sent me to the principal's office. Calvin stood up for me though. He said he had seen the bear too. But all that got him was a trip to the principle's office as well. Calvin is the only one that can see what I see. He told me same.
Lunch time was the BEST! Calvin and I tried to shoot milk out our ears! It was sooo funny! We laughed so hard our stomachs hurt. It never worked though… the milk just came back out of our noses and sprayed all over Susie. Susie is my other friend. Not a friend like Heather or Calvin, but still a good friend. Calvin and Susie don't like each other very much. But I think they care about each other a lot more than they let others believe.
I was so happy when it was time to go home. I was going to get on the bus but Calvin stopped me. He said he wanted to walk home wit me. I was going to ask Susie to come with us, but Calvin said he wanted to talk to me alone. So we started walking home. He didn't really say anything to me. But he sure did stare at me a lot. When he realized I noticed he turned really red, like an apple or something. When we got to my door Calvin took my hand. For a while he just stared at them. Then he lifted his head to meet my gaze and gave my hand a little squeeze. "Good bye, Carla." He said. Then without warnig he hugged me! He hugged me then backed away and dashed into the house next to mine. Afterwards I got this warm tingly feeling in the pit of my stomach. I wonder what it means.
Well I'm getting tired. Good night!
-Carla, the most awesome kid in the universe
A/N: Finally DONE! Don't worry Hobbes and Heather are coming soon! R&R!
-Cherry.