Garfield was happy. He was finger painting, he liked to finger paint. Garfield liked to finger paint almost as much as he liked attention and friends. Well, he thought he'd like friends better. He didn't have any friends yet. Even thought it was about half way through his first year at big school.
He was almost done with his finger painting. But the teacher interrupted. Garfeild didn't like it when people interrupted his finger painting, because he liked finger painting as much as he liked attention and friends (He thinks) "Class we have a new student. Her name is Rachel, and I want you to be nice to her." .
Garfield couldn't believe his eyes, he was only three but he knew that the girl who had walked into his classroom was beautiful. She had long black hair; it went all the way down to her waist, her eyes were a piecing azurite, her pale skin seemed to glow.
The teacher turned around and spoke to Rachel and then pointed to the seat next to Garfield. The class watched her sit down next to Garfield, but she ignored all of them and continued to her seat. She sat down and looked up and asked "Haven't you seen a girl before?" And they all turned back to their work
Right there and then Garfield Logan decided he wanted to marry that girl. Not now, she still has cooties, obviously, but when he's older he wants to marry her, because he has never seen anyone speak like that.
And with that she starts finger painting. He looks over at Rachel's picture. It's a pretty flower that has a butterfly on it. Rachel looks over at his picture, it's a giant green mess, but she likes it.
Garfield tries to talk to her. But she seems so smart; he doesn't know what to say. And before he knows it, his window of opportunity has closed, because it's the end of the day.
When he goes home, he tells his mum all about the new girl and she smiles at him and says
"Garfield, if you want this girl to be your friend, just ask her. I'm sure she won't say no."
Garfield doesn't mind that his finger painting was interrupted..