Chapter 3: Friends or Not Friends?

So, Arthur and Buster look for the rest of the crew, but before they do that, they need to visit the secretary to get their locker number and combination. Buster smiled happily at Arthur. The rabbit boy still looked the same, But grew taller, even tough he's about 5 inches shorter than Arthur, and a little bit of a mustache. His clothes looked like he cleaned out his entire wardrobe, he doesn't wear that light blue sweater anymore, he now wears a black shirt with blue denim jeans, he has some helmet hair too since he's now into skateboarding.

"So, how is your mother leg going?" asked Arthur as they went to the office.

"She's doing better than before the accident." replied Buster. Ms. Baxter had a car accident before Summer vacation. "Plus, my mom has a new boyfriend!" Buster's parents have been divorced ever since he was in third grade, Buster still visits his father, they go to trips together every Summer.

As they enter the office, they went to the secretary to get their locker number and combination.

"Name, please." The secretary asked Arthur.

"Arthur Read." said Arthur.

"Alright." said the secretary look for Arthur's name on the bunch of papers. "Ah, there you are! Your locker number is: "# 1010", and your combination is: "48-17-32", the instructions are on the paper, Mr. Read." She hand Arthur the paper.

"Thanks." Arthur said. He exit the office. "Meet me at my locker, Buster!" Arthur cried.

Arthur started searching for his locker. "Hmm, where can it be??" wondered Arthur. Arthur walked to every locker, one by one. "1006, 1007, 1008, 1009.... Here it is, 1010!" cried Arthur. He came to the locker and started turning, and twisting the lock dial to the correct numbers, and successfully it opened.

It was empty, of course. Arthur started unzipping his backpack, and stuffing all of his afternoon binders, notebooks, and other stuff in their. Last, he stuffed his Vans sweatshirt. As he closed his locker, and lock it, a cat female stood in front of him. At first, he didn't recognized her, but he realized the person was no other than Jenna Morgan.

"Hello, Arthur!" Jenna said brightly. The cat wore a red sleeveless shirt with black stripes, with a black skirt, and flip-flops. She still have that stringy hair but it grew a little longer, and of course, she stopped wetting the bed ages ago.

"Oh, hi Jenna." Arthur said with a half a smiled. He barley doesn't hang out with Jenna, including George Lundgren, since the both of them were hanging out with each other, mostly.

"Hey, have you seen George?" asked Jenna, "I wanted talked to him about something."

"Sorry Jenna, I haven't seen him." Arthur said. "Hey, how about you can sit with me and friends at lunch, You and George, how about it?" Arthur asked.

"Ok, sure!" said Jenna. "Since we don't hang out that much with you. Well, I better get going, and find George". But as she started to walk away, Buster came back.

"Oh, hey Jenna!" Buster said.

"Hello, Buster!" chirped Jenna, "Wait, have you seen George?"

"You mean Lundgren, then I think I saw him going to the Nurse's office (and it's only the first day, He he he!)" Buster said.

"K, Thanks!" Jenna said. She ran as fast as she can.

"I don't think we can find the rest, since the homeroom bell is going to ring in five minutes" said Arthur worried. "So far, I only seen Jenna."

But, Buster spotted a person that looked really familiar.

"I think I see Binky over their with that girl, Molly" cried Buster.

"I'll be damned, It is him, haven't seen him in a while." said Arthur.

Arthur quickly ran to him, but before he could even Binky on the shoulder, he shoved him back.

"Hey, what the...!" Arthur said.

"You, get the hell of my jacket!" shouted the yellow bull-dog.

Binky Barnes had grown real big and tall over the past years, he even grew stronger, with muscles, even a six-packed abs. When he was in third grade, he and parents went to Chine to adopted a baby girl who will be Binky's sister named Meilin, she is now about Kate's age, unlike the people at school, he treats her nicely. Binky had a buzz-cut and wears a Elwood Regional HS letterman jacket.

"Binky, remember, it's me Arthur!" said Arthur, hoping that Binky will recognized him.

"Oh, it's you!" said Binky recognizing him. "Well I changed since I was expelled in the other school." Long story short, Binky caused a lot of chaos in seventh grade, at Lakewood Middle School. So, Binky did changed a lot since he got expelled their. "So, I don't hang out with geeks like you!" Binky yelled.

A rabbit girl pushed Binky aside. "Well, well, if it isn't Read." said Molly. She still looked the same when she was a fourth-grader, but she had a lot of acne. She is also the sister of D.W.'s friend, James.

"Well, if it isn't Molly!" said Arthur mad that he saw her.

"Someone needs some Pro-active. Buster muttered to Arthur.

"What did you say, nerd!!" yelled Molly. She grabbed Buster by the shirt.

"Nothing! Nothing!" cried Buster.

"Good." Molly said, Beware of the Tough Customers!" Binky and Molly left to their class. Rattles, the leader of the Tough Customers, wasn't with them though.

"Wow, I can't believe that Binky isn't our friend anymore." Arthur said.

"No duh, Arthur." Buster said. "He got held back and repeated the third grade, and he got expelled from middle school in seventh grade. He's probably was born to be tough and rough.

"Yeah, but he treats Meilin nicely." said Arthur.

"Because that's his sister!" said Buster, "Don't be stupid, and don't worry about too, Arthur. He changed and you can't changed him back! You understand, man?"

"Yeah." replied Arthur, head down, "Thanks, also."

Then, the bell started to ring.

"Hey, we better get to homeroom!" said Arthur, "Who's your homeroom teacher?"

"Well, this paper said it's Mr. Zimmerman." Buster said looking at the paper.

"I'll be damned, again! Mine is Zimmerman too!

They ran to Mr. Zimmerman's class, when the rest of the people started leaving the hallway.