FIRST PART OTHER THOUGHTS: How Do I Really Feel?

CHAPTER 1: REI… "Thoughts can't even have a temperature!"

Warm. I think warm when he talks to me. It's funny! It's just that—no one has ever made me feel so at home but him. And it's odd to be thinking warmly!

It's like my head heats up. I don't really get it! How is it even possible? I'm sure you can't change temperature just because someone grins at you. Thoughts can't even have a temperature! So is it just me imagining things?

I wonder…did he feel warm when I smiled just now across the room? Would he mind if I stuck thermometers in our ears and did some experiments?

I don't think so, but I'm not going to ask. It would be dangerous to have something sticking in your ear. What if someone bumped into you? The thermometer would jam right through your eardrum!

But still…that would be an interesting thing to do. And it would keep him interested in me! I don't want him to leave me so soon!

I think he's an amusing friend. I'm glad that I can know someone who is just so full of life that it heats up my brain!