Chapter 2

Chuckie and Kimi are in the back seat of the car while Chas drives them to preschool.

"I'm a big brave dog I'm a big brave dog." Chuckie kept saying to himself.

"What are you doing?" Kimi asked.

"Oh, just, trying to convince myself I can do this preschool thing." Chuckie sighed, looking out the window.

"It's gonna be fun!" Said Kimi excitedly.

"Maybe for you Kimi, but not for me." Groaned Chuckie.

Back at Tommy's house, he put on his new Reptar backpack and headed out the door with Didi.

"I wanna come too." Dil said, following behind Didi.

"Sorry Dilly, but you're too little to come. You can come next year." Tommy replied happily.

"But I'm gonna miss you." Dil cried.

"No worries Dil, I'll be back at lunchtime, and we'll have all afternoon together. You have fun with daddy." Tommy said, waving goodbye to his brother as Didi got him into the car.

"Bye bye Tommy." Dil said, waving back and shutting the front door behind him, walking back into the house.

At preschool, Phil and Lil were the first to arrive. Betty walked them into the classroom, holding one twins hand with each hand, Phil on her right and Lil on her left.

"Phil and Lil are here for preschool." Betty said approaching Miss Applebee's desk.

"Welcome to the Woodberry school Phil and Lil. We're so excited to have you here!" Miss Applebee said with a smile.

Phil and Lil let go of Betty's hands and ran to sit down in the circle.

Have a nice day kids. I'll see you this evening at Tommy's house when I finish my shift at the Java Lava." Betty said with a smile, turning to leave the room.

The next person to arrive was Aunty Celeste and Zachary. Celeste was having trouble with her cane, so Zachary grabbed her arm and pulled her to Mis Applebee's desk.

"You must be our roll model Zachary. We're so happy to have you!" Said Miss Applebee. Zack nodded, as he went over and found Phil and Lil in the circle.

"Bye Bye Zachary, have a lovely day." Celeste said as she turned to leave the room. Zachary waved goodbye to his aunt with a smile.

As Celeste was walking back to her driverless mini van, Didi and Tommy were walking up the walk into the classroom.

"Hi, I'm Didi and this is my son, Tommy Pickles." Said Didi.

"Hmmm, Tommy Pickles, you look very familiar. I seem to recall Angelica brought you here one of her first days of school." Miss Applebee added.

"Yeah, she did, but Angelica's in kindergarten now, and, I'm a big boy." Tommy said with a smile, looking up at Miss Applebee.

"Yes, you sure are. Why don't you go take a seat at circle time with the others." Miss Applebee said, pointing over at the circle where the others were sitting.

"Bye Mommy." Said Tommy as he headed off to the circle.

"Bye sweetheart, daddy will be here at lunchtime to pick you and your little friends up. Yeah, I work all day at a highschool, so Tommy's dad will be picking him up each day, along with his friends, Chuckie, Kimi, Phil, Lil, and Zack. This will be the case everyday except on Fridays, when either our babysitter Taffy or Zack's aunt will be picking them up." Didi explained to Miss Applebee. The teacher nodded approvingly.

"Well, I'd better be going. Have a nice day Tommy." Didi said walking out of the room.

The last to arrive was Chuckie and Kimi. As they pulled into the parking lot of the school, Kimi jumped up out of her seat.

"Come on let's go!" Kimi said excitedly as she burst open the car door and hopped out of her car seat.

"Are you ready to go Chuckie?" Chas asked. Chuckie looked out his window to see a nice, red brick building.

"This place doesn't look so scary." Chuckie thought to himself.

"I guess so, let's go daddy." Chuckie said with a sigh as he got out of the car. Chas took him and Kimi's hands and led them up to the school.

"And this must be Chuckie and Kimi! We're so excited to have you here at preschool!" Said Miss Applebee.

"Yeah but I think Chuckie's a bit nervous." Said Chas.

"Well you know what Chuckie? There's nothing to be nervous about." Miss Applebee said with a smile, stooping down to Chuckie's level.

"Come on Chuckie," Kimi said, grabbing Chuckie's hand and dragging him towards the circle.

"Hey Chuckeroo, I saved a seat for you between me and Zachary." Tommy said with a smile. Chuckie sat in the empty spot, and Kimi went and sat next to Lil. Chas turned to leave, as four other kids entered the room, going and taking places in the circle. Miss Applebee pulled up a chair and got the class's attention.

"Welcome to preschool everyone! My name's Miss Applebee and I'm going to be your teacher. Before we head off to play though, I'd like all of you to go around the circle and introduce yourselves. Say your name, how old you are, and something you like to do." Said Miss Applebee.

"Hi, my name is Kimi, I'm 3-years-old and I like to play on the playground!" Said Kimi excitedly.

"Well, we'll get plenty of time to play outside on the playground." Miss Applebee replied.

"Hi, I'm Lil, I'm 3-years-old and I like things that are prettyful. This necklace I'm wearing today is shiny and belongs to my mommy." Lil said with a smile, picking up the necklace from around her neck and showing it to the other students.

"That's very pretty. Just so you know, prettyful isn't a word, but we'll be working on our words and how to say them this year in school." Said Miss Applebee.

"Hi, I'm Phil, I'm Lil's 3-year-old twin brother and I like eating worms and dirt." Phil said, pulling a worm from his pant's pocket.

"Um, young man, let's put that away, and come up with an interest that's a little bit more appropriate for my classroom please." Miss Applebee encouraged.

"Well, I do like Reptar, he can do anything!" Phil said.

"Ah, how nice! Does anybody else here like Reptar?" Miss Applebee asked.

Several of the kids raised their hands.

"Hi, I'm Emma, I'm 4 and I like playing on the see-saw." Said a smiling girl with blond hair wearing pink overalls.

"Hi, I'm Samantha, I'm 3 and I like climbing on big rock piles and jumping off of them." Said a red headed girl wearing a blue dress, covered in many bandages.

"Um, I'm Freddy, and… I don't like sandboxes cuz of the sand lizards." Said a blond headed boy wearing blue overalls.

"Can you tell us something you do like? And how old you are?" Asked Miss Applebee.

"Well, I do like picking dandelions, and, I'm 3." Freddy answered.

"My name's Caroline, and I like shiny things that move, like new scooters and toy cars. And oh yeah, I'm 4." Said a black girl wearing a purple shirt, pink shorts, and white shoes.

"I'm Tommy, I just turned 3 last week and I love going on adventures and playing with my doggy Spike." Tommy said with a smile.

"Well Tommy, you'll be pleased to know that we'll be going on lots of adventures here in school in the form of field trips. I'm sorry, but Spike can't come with us, but you can bring him in on bring your pet to school day" Said Miss Applebee. Tommy nodded and smiled.

"I'm Chuckie, and I'm ascared of a lot of things. I'm afraid of the guy on the oatmeal box and clowns, but I like picking dandelions and playing with my bestest friends Tommy and Zack. Oh yeah, and I'm 4-years-old and Kimi's big brother." Said Chuckie.

"Looks like we have some words to work on, but I'll keep those scary things in mind." Said Miss Applebee.

"I'm Zack, I'm 2, and I like learning new things and going on adventures." He said with a smile.

"Well, you'll get to do all of that here, and, we're very glad to have you as a roll model for our class." Said Miss Applebee with a smile.

Later on after circle time, the kids were at free play. Chuckie, Phil and Lil were over at the water table, which was full of water and various rubber duckies and assorted bath type toys.

"Wow, a tiny bathtub you play in with your hands!" Exclaimed Phil.

"Oooh neat! I like it!" Said Lil as she picked up a plastic saleboat from the water.

"This is fun!" Chuckie said with a smile, picking up a rubber ducky and making it squeak.

"Yeah!" Agreed Phil and Lil together.

The rest of the morning at preschool consisted of Chuckie playing blocks with Tommy and Zack, and for the final half hour, they all went out on to the playground where Chuckie played happily on the slide.

Later on after preschool, everyone was seated around the kitchen table at Tommy's house, eating fried baloni sandwiches.

"You know what? Tommy and Zack were right! I had fun at preschool, and I'm looking forward to going back tomorrow!" Said Chuckie with a smile, taking a bite of his sandwich.

"See? I told you it would be fun." Tommy replied happily.

"Same here." Said Zack.

"And the bestest part of all? Is after school we can come back to Tommy's house and eat fried baloni sandwiches, and now that Angelica's in kindergarten, she won't be here at lunchtime and naptime to bug us no more." Chuckie said happily.

"Yay!" Exclaimed everybody as they continued to eat their lunch.

The End