The sun is bright in the sky and the playground was dry, so all the children were allowed outside. All the children were happy.
A small girl wasn't listen to what her tall read-head friend was saying, she was watching Garfield Logan. Despite his own thoughts on the matter, she wanted him to talk to her. It had been one year since she first sat next to him, and she had continued to sit next to him every day since then. But he never said a word.
So as Kory babbled on about meaningless things, such as Richard Grayson and Tameran, Rachel sat thinking of possible ways to get Garfield to come and talk to her. Suddenly a shadow fell over her; she looked up to see a silhouette of Garfield Logan. He sat down next to her and without hesitation said "Be my friend?" she just smiled at him and nodded her head.
"Good. I was worried you would say no."
She laughed and said "that would be mean."
Garfield laughed as well "I didn't know if you were mean or not, I was too chicken to talk to you before." The he stood up and imitated a chicken. Rachel laughed and told him "You're funny"
Garfield's face brightened considerably and exclaimed "Dude! I know some great jokes" while waving his arms around. Rachel stopped laughing and walked off. To the sand box, but Garfield just followed her