Chris sat in his class room, until the bell rang for lunch. He sprung up heading quickly to the hall.
All grades ate lunch at the same time, and Chris wanted to sit by Martin-... or maybe he would sit by that pretty Spanish girl that was one grade above him. He had always admired her, but, never got a chance to learn her name.
Anyway, Chris walked down the hall holding his paper lunch bag in his hand.
But, was suddenly stopped by a few older kids from the forth grade,
"Hey midget, did your mommy make you that lunch?" teased the older, taller one who had been held back a few times, who's name was Luke.
"No... my sister did..." said Chris trying to push pass, but no luck. The three forth graders blocked him.
"Well, I was wondering why it looked so girly..." said another one of the three, named Jose.
Chris blinked and studying his lunch, "It doesn't look girly- How can you even tell that?"
The forth graders laughed, and the leader of the little group, named Derick stared down at Chris, "How can we tell? Easy, a little girl is holding it..." The group laughed harder, as Chris went red in the face, he was mad.
Chris again tried to walk away, but, again was stopped. Suddenly Luke grabbed Chris's lunch and crumbled it.
"Hey! That's mine!" said Chris, trying to fight them back, but, it was slightly hopeless.
But, all of a sudden, another voice could be heard down the hall, " Hey! Leave him alone!"
The whole gang, including Chris, and looked down the hall, to see a young boy with messy red hair who was no older then CK, standing beside the Spanish girl Chris had always admired.
"Watch ya going to do about it?" asked Derick, eyes narrowing.
"Jimmy... you know what to do..." whispered the Spanish girl.
The boy that's name was apparently Jimmy, ran towards the group, "CHARGE!" and in and instant jumped on Derick.
Derick gave a shout of surprise, as the Spanish girl came and grabbed Chris's arm, "C'mon!"
"I can handle myself..." said Chris, embarrassed about being helped.
"Do you want us to leave you with them?" the girl asked blankly.
Chris looked at the gang, who were all trying to pry a first grader off their leader, and then to the girl, "Um... never mind, let's go!"
"C'mon Jimmy!" called the girl as she and Chris made a dash towards the lunch room.
Jimmy jumped off Derick, and looked back to the gang that was now ready to jump him. Jimmy screamed and ran down the hallway after Chris and the girl.
In the lunch room, Laura was being followed by Zach none stop.
"And I build the most amazing robots. All by myself! And I don't draw sissy things like that rat brother. And I travel the world! And I-" Zach kept going on and on about himself, and how he was amazing.
Laura groaned silently and looked down at her tray.
She finally looked around, and soon spotted the only person that hadn't acted weird around her lately, sitting at a table, far off alone in the corner. Martin.
She quickly went over to Martin's table and sat by him, "Hi." she said with a little smile.
Martin nearly choked on the sandwich he was eating. He looked over at her and blinked, "You can't sit here..."
"Why not?" she asked, confused.
"Because Chris is going to sit there. He's my brother..." said Martin, going back to his sandwich.
"Well, then I'll move to another chair at the table." she said, about to get up when Martin stopped her,
"But this is me and Chris's table..." said Martin, not exactly sure why he was putting up for this fight.
Laura's voice lowered into a whisper, "Please can I sit at this table? That Zach person is driving me nuts!" she looked back at Zach, who was yelling at someone for bumping into him.
Martin looked back at Zach as well, and sighed, "Fine... you can stay at this table..."
"Thank you." she said as she settled herself down in a seat next to Martin.
Chris came over soon, with Jimmy and the Spanish girl (who's name he learned was Aviva).
The little group sat down and Martin stared at Chris, "Bout time you got here..."
"Sorry... had a little trouble..." said Chris.
Laura blinked and looked at Chris, "Don't you have a lunch?"
Chris swallowed hard, "I did..."
Martin was thinking about asking his brother what happened, but, instead, he broke half of his sandwich off, "Here Chris, take half..."
Chris took the half, and smiled, "Thanks bro... by the way, this is Jimmy and Aviva..."
"Hey..." said Martin, "And this is Laura, she's the new kid in our class..."
"Is she your girlfriend?" asked Jimmy, digging into the one of many slices of pizza he had in his bag.
Martin and Laura both froze and exchanged glances.
Martin had gagged on the juice he was drinking, "No, she's not my girlfriend..."
Laura pointed at Martin, "I just met him a few hours ago..."
"Jeese... okay, okay, I was just asking..." said Jimmy.
Soon lunch was over, and the recess bell rung loudly.
The little group of friends walked outside together, talking about things they liked, and so on.
When they reached the playground, none of them knew what was going on.
The playground, was usually a crazy place, where children ran around, being the silliest things they could be.
But, today, the playground was anything but that... kids were in couples, chatting, laughing and sitting.
"What happened to this place?" asked Chris.
"I dunno..." said Martin blankly.
"I think it's because of Valentines day..." said Aviva.
"AH! Cooties!" screamed Jimmy, backing away from Laura and Aviva.
Chris and Martin exchanged glances and also backed away from the girls.
Laura sighed, "There's no such thing as cooties..."
Jimmy whispered to Chris and Martin, "She just wants you to believe that!"
Aviva came up from behind Jimmy and smacked him a little, "Laura's right, girls don't have cooties... at least, not as much as boys do..."
Martin, Jimmy and Chris looked down at themselves and screamed, wondering if cooties were tiny germs that covered them.
Laura and Aviva laughed at them,
"I'm joking!" said Aviva, "You should have seen your faces!"
"That's not very funny..." said Chris.
Suddenly, a black girl came up to Aviva, "Hey Viva! Have you got a Valentine yet?"
"Oh hi Koki... not yet." said Aviva waving a little.
Jimmy all of a sudden was dazed, and just stood staring at the girl named Koki. Chris tapped Jimmy, "You alright?"
Jimmy snapped out of it, "I'm fine... You know, cooties probably aren't that bad..."
Chris blinked, "Um... okay..."
Martin looked at Koki, and got back to the subject,"Why do you need a Valentine?"
"Because, it's almost Valentines day, and I need someone to be my Valentine." Koki answer easily.
"But does everyone need one?" Chris asked.
"Well of course!" answered Aviva, "You don't want to be alone this Valentines day, do you?"
Chris didn't understand what the big deal about Valentines day was, "Why would it matter? I'm already always alone anyway..."
Aviva took it another way, "Aw! You poor thing! I know! You can be my Valentine!"
"What?" said Chris.
"C'mon! It'll be fun!" Said Aviva as she took Chris's hand and dragged him towards the swings.
Martin blankly watched his brother mouth; 'Save me!' As he was being dragged away.
"Awkward...." said Laura.
Jimmy swallowed hard, "I'm going back into the class room before that happens to me!" and he ran away.
"Ditto..." Said Laura, Martin and Koki, all making a run for it.