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Valentines Day

Grade Three

May (8), Drew (8), Ash (8), Misty (9), Gary (8), Paul (9), Dawn (8)

May hummed to herself cheerily as her pencil crayon moved back and forth on the page.

"Done!" She held it up to admire her work.

It was a large, pink, heart-shaped Valentines card, bordered with white lace ribbon, and with three chocolates in red wrapper pasted in the middle. It was perfect! Carefully, May wrote a note, and printed 'For Dawn' on it as neatly as she could. Then, tucking her masterpiece into a pink envelope, May got started on the next card.

Since Valentines Day was coming up, her class was having a small Valentines Day party. Her teacher, Mrs. Primm, had said that everyone has to make cards for each and every classmate, even if it wasn't a friend. That way, it would guarantee that everyone had an equal number of cards or gifts, so no one would feel left out.

May had bought cards for everyone in her class, but she had wanted to make her friends' cards by herself, to make them more special. Of course, her mother had to help her a couple of times to make sure the cards were looking their best. There was no way May could have managed to border Dawn's card with lace so neatly by herself.

Her mother had also helped her make Misty's card in the shape of a Luvdisc. May knew that Misty was not a girly-girl, and did not really like anything mushy. So she had had the ingenious idea of making her card a Luvdisc, a heart-shaped water-type Pokemon. Misty loved water-types.

Ash's card was a red heart, with some Pokemon stickers on it. And she also added on an extra chocolate, since she knew how much he loved those little treats. She was proud that she resisted the temptation of devouring all of them herself, although she had to keep reminding herself that they were for her friends, and not her.

She had made Leaf's a pink heart with red and green stripes. Green wasn't a Valentines colour, but it was Leaf's favourite, so no doubt she would love it. Leaf didn't go to the same school as her, though, but she could have Gary send it, since, he lived right next-door to her.

Gary's card was red, like Ash's, with many Pokemon stickers on it as well. They were mostly stickers of strong-looking fully-evolved Pokemon, since those were the kind he was most interested in.

Paul had been tricky. Ash loved getting cards, and Gary was fine with it, mostly because he could then show-off how many cards or chocolates he got, and Drew always liked receiving cards too. None of them were concerned about how Valentines cards and hearts were girly or anything. But Paul was a different story. He disliked anything romantic or love-related in general, meaning May had to be careful with how she made his card, so it would not end up in the garbage. She ended up with a blue card with a small red heart in the middle. Since he wasn't crazy about too much sweet chocolate, she especially picked out three small ones for him from the store, since they were slightly bitter instead of completely sweet.

Now, she was working on the final card: the one for Drew. Her mother had helped her draw a large red rose on the front of the card, since he seemed to like roses. Now, she was drawing a picture on the back. It was of him, standing outside on a sunny day, with many red flowers (since May was having difficulty making them look like roses) surrounding him.

She giggled as she coloured his green hair. It looked just like grass! Before she knew it, she was drawing flowers sticking out of his hair. Suddenly, she realized what she had done. She had just made Drew look like he had a garden on his head, and on his Valentines card too! She had to find some way to fix it...

"Whatcha doing?" May's little brother Max arrived, distracting her from her current problem.

"I'm making Valentine cards." May answered, stuffing the card into an envelope so he wouldn't see it. If he did, he might think she did it on purpose, and he might tell her mom, and then her mom might think she was making fun of her friend. She'll just have to find some way fix it later, when no one else was around.

Max noticed the pack of chocolates on the table. "Can I have a chocolate?"

"No!" May said quickly, pulling them out of reach. "There are only three left, and they are going to be for Drew!" Okay, so maybe she hadn't completely resisted eating some of the chocolates. At least she had managed to save enough for all her friends.

"Please? Just one?" May hesitated. As much as she found it hard to resist her little, five-year-old brother's pleading look, she knew she had to save the chocolates for Drew. So she did the one thing that worked when she wanted her brother to go away.

"Mom!" she called out. "Max won't let me work!"

Her mother, Caroline, who had evidently been working in the kitchen, walked into the room. "Max, are you bothering your sister?"

"No. I just want one, teeny tiny chocolate. Just one."

May's mother turned to her. "I don't see how it would hurt to give him one. You did have so many in that chocolate pack."

"Now, I only have three. And I need them for Drew!"

Caroline put her hands on her hips. "May Maple, have you been eating the chocolates yourself? I am pretty sure there should have been more left."

"I only ate three!" May said quickly. Three plus eight.

"Hmm, maybe there weren't that many chocolates after all." May's mother said, although she seemed doubtful as she eyed the empty wrappers lying on the floor. She thought for a minute. "Alright, you finish up. Max, do you want to have some cookies? I made some Valentines ones."

"Okay!" Max hurried to the kitchen to get started on those delicious treats.

"Wait, I want some too!" May ran after him, not wanting her brother to finish all of them before her.

Caroline smiled after the two. She noticed all the cards in their envelopes, sitting on the table. May had been working hard for so long; Caroline decided to finish up for her. She noticed that the envelope that had Drew written on it had a card inside, but no chocolates, so she tucked the final three into it. She then got to work sealing all the envelopes.

It was the next day, and more specifically, Valentines Day! After dropping Max off in kindergarten, May excitedly began walking to class, the bag full of the cards in her hand.

"Why, if it isn't my little gingerbread cookie!" A voice sounded from behind her. May turned around.

"Hi Harley!" she said cheerfully in a sing-song voice, greeting the high-school student 'friend' she had once made a long time ago.

"Now, what have you got there?" Harley, who had a tray in his hands, noticed the bag she was holding.

"They're Valentines cards." May explained. "We're having a party, so I had to make cards for everyone!"

"Oh, we don't have Valentines parties in my high school class." Harley said, emphasizing 'high school'. "But, I decided to make some cookies for everyone. You want one?" He offered her a cookie from the tray he was holding.

"Thank you!" May carefully placed her bag down by her feet while she picked out one. Which was exactly what Harley had been expecting her to do.

"Whoopsie!" he said, as he 'accidentally' nudged (more like kicked) the bag, making all the cards fall out, scattered on the floor.

"Oh no!" Abandoning her cookie, May knelt down to gather all the cards and put them back into the bag.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Harley 'apologized'. "My bad! Well, my sugar plum, I would love to stay and help, but my hands are a bit full with this tray right now, and I need to get to class. "Later, honey bun!"

"It's okay Harley." May said, thinking he was being sincere. But he had already left.

"Need some help?" A girl from her class named Brianna asked, noticing the trouble May was having.

"Thanks!" May gladly accepted the helping hand, and the two made it to class after cleaning up.

Meanwhile, outside, Drew was stepping out of his limousine.

"Are you certain, Master Andrew?" his butler asked, eying the large bag Drew was carrying with a lot of effort.

"I'm fine!" Drew insisted. He briefly let go of the bag with one hand to flip his hair confidently. "I can carry this myself!"

"Are you absolutely sure? I can carry it for you."

"Yes, I'm fine." Drew struggled a bit, before managing to start walking towards the school. "See?" Of course he could carry the bag all by himself. He was in grade three now, not kindergarten. His butler never seemed to let him do things on his own.

"If that is what you wish, Master Andrew." The butler watched him dubiously until he had seen that the boy had entered through the school doors before driving off.

Drew dragged the bag along with him, heading for his grade three class. It was a lot heavier than he had expected. He didn't have just cards in there, but small goodie-bags for each of his classmates as well. Doing this by himself gave him a feel of independence, but he found himself regretting declining his butler's help a small bit. He paused for a moment, putting the bag down beside him to take a break.

"Well, if it isn't Drew. Hi!"

Drew turned, as he recognized the voice, coming face to face with an older girl.

"Hi Solidad." he greeted politely.

"You need help with that?" She gestured to the bag he had been handling. Drew thought for a second. He had had enough 'independence' for one day.

"Yes please. Thank you." Then, feeling extremely lucky about having a high school student as his friend, Drew led her over to his class.

May quickly slipped the last card from her bag into a box. There! All done! Every student had a box made especially for them, in which everyone else was putting the Valentines Day cards and gifts.

May noticed Brianna placing an extra-large card in Drew's box. She caught her eye, and Brianna smiled, putting her finger to her lips. May nodded in return, confirming that she won't say anything to Drew.

"Hi, May!" Dawn hurried up to her. "My box looks very full. Can't wait till we get to see what we got! What about you?"

"Yeah! I hope I got a lot of candy!" May said, imagining how much candy was in her box.

"Hello! Your favourite person, Gary Oak, is here!" Gary announced as he strutted into the room. He eyed his nearly-full box and grinned. "Yep, I'm definitely everyone's favourite!"

"No, your not." Misty came up behind him, looking annoyed, Ash following closely behind. "Everybody's box is that full."

"Hey, where is Paul?" Drew wondered, coming up to the group.

"Over there." Dawn pointed to Paul's desk, where said boy was sitting grumpily, evidently in a sour mood. "Even he brought cards. He said his brother made him."

"Oh ya!" Gary remembered something, and he quickly began pulling something out from his school bag. "Leaf sent everyone cards. She said she didn't send any candy too because then she thinks I might take all of them instead of giving them to you. Hmph! As if!"

"I have something for Leaf too!" May quickly handed over the card she had made for her friend. It seemed the others had had the same idea. "I wish I could have given it to her in person."

Gary shrugged. "Maybe next year. She was saying something about moving to this school."

He handed the cards to whomever they were sent for, before heading over to his classmates' boxes with Misty and Ash to fill them even more with the cards they had brought.

Later, Mrs. Primm brought heart-shaped cookies and red fruit-punch for everyone, which were to be eaten in a short while, and they began their little party.

May excitedly emptied her box, looking through everything she received, especially pleased with the cards her friends had given her.

Gary was counting everything he had gotten, getting ready to compare the number with others. Drew tried to point out that he probably got the same number as everyone else, but Gary was convinced someone had given him extras.

Apparently, nearly everyone had found some kind of way to make Misty's cards non-girly. She was very satisfied with what she got, and particularly adored the Luvdisc card from May. However, it seemed Gary had given her a Combee-shaped card saying 'Com-bee my Valentine' as a joke, because he knew she hated bug-types. Losing her temper, she chucked it accurately at his head without being caught by Mrs. Primm's sharp eyes, since the teacher was getting the punch and cookies ready on a table.

Dawn thanked her friends for the cards and gifts they had given her after she looked through them. She reached Paul's desk to thank him. The cards he had given everyone were store-bought and very plain, although Dawn had noticed that he had stuck one chocolate on every card that was for those in their friend-group.

"Thank- what are you doing?" Dawn became distracted as she noticed that instead of reading the cards, Paul was yanking all chocolates and candies off them and putting them in a pile.

"What do you think I'm doing?" he muttered without looking up, still focused on his task.

"You're only taking the candy? I thought you didn't like sweet stuff."

"I don't. They're for my brother."

Dawn smiled. "That's very nice of you, giving him all that candy!"

"You think I'm gonna just give it to him? No, I'm gonna sell it to him." He counted the number of treats he had gathered up so far. "Not bad. That's more than last year. I'll probably get a pretty good price this time."

Dawn made a face. "Never mind..."

The next card he pulled out was a blue one with a small red heart in the middle and three chocolates in brown wrapper pasted on. Dawn recognized them as being the bitter-flavoured ones which she had seen at the store. The card had 'From May' written on it. Paul paused for a moment, read the card, smirked, and pocketed the chocolates from May before continuing with his work.

"WOW!" someone exclaimed. Dawn turned to see Ash admiring an extra-large card. "Look at the size of the chocolate!" There was a huge heart-shaped chocolate that had come with it.

As Ash gobbled it up, Dawn noticed a shy, quiet girl named Serena, who was sitting at the back, watching him, a tiny blush on her face, before she went back to her own cards.

Dawn gasped loudly, making the connection. "Did you see that?" she whispered loudly to Paul.

"No." he answered bluntly, his eyes still trained on the candy-counting. "Now go away."

Dawn frowned. "Glad to!" She walked over to May to see what she thought of the card she had given her.

May had picked up the card she had received from Drew. She glanced over at her green-haired friend as she opened up the envelope.

Drew was slowly reading through all of his cards and gifts at his own pace. When he reached Brianna's he easily guessed who it was from, and sent her a smile across the room. This resulted with the girl blushing and smiling proudly at the acknowledgement.

May suddenly noticed the next card that Drew had in his hand. It was the one from her. She suddenly remembered something: she had not fixed that little mistake she had made. She had gotten distracted with the cookies her mother had baked, and had completely forgotten that she was supposed to be fixing the card! What if Drew thought she was making fun of him? What it he got upset and offended? What if he didn't want to be friends with her anymore and stopped talking to her and their whole friendship became ruined?

She had to stop him before it was too late! With Drew's unread envelope still in hand, she got up, and began walking towards her friend.

Drew had opened the envelope, and was about to pull out the card, when suddenly, his eyes widened as if remembering something. He got up, and began walking towards May's desk. The two of them met halfway.

"Hello." May said, anxiously, rocking back and forth a bit. She glimpsed at the card in Drew's hand. Had he read it? He didn't look angry...

"Hey." Drew calmly flipped his hair, acting nonchalant. But May noted that his eyes had flickered to the card which she was holding. "So, did you read my card?"

"Not yet. Did... did you read mine?"

"I was about to." He looked at the card, before turning back to May. "You know, maybe you should just... forget about mine."

May blinked. "Huh? Why?"

Drew shrugged. "Because, you know, you already have so many, so mine's probably not gonna make a difference. And... oh, forget it! Look," He looked her in the eye. "I kind of made a mistake in the card I gave you, and then I forgot to fix it. So... I was just thinking that maybe you shouldn't look at it."

May was stunned. "I made a mistake on your card too!" she admitted. "I was going to fix it, but then Max came, and my mom made cookies, and my mom closed all the envelopes, and then I forgot."

"So we both made a mistake on each other's cards. That means we're even." Drew was now looking at the envelope in his hand interestedly, curious as to what the mistake was, not unlike how May was observing her envelope.

"Why don't we both open them?" May suggested. "We both made mistakes, so it's okay right? We won't get angry at each other?"

"Yeah." Drew agreed, and both opened the envelopes, taking out the cards that they had received from each other.

May's card from Drew was extremely fancy-looking. May loved it, but when she read it, she frowned. Instead of it saying 'To May', it had 'To February' written on it. And even in the note, it said 'Thanks for being such a great friend, February!' instead of 'May'.

Drew raised his eyebrows when he saw May's drawing on the card she had given him. He looked up at her.

"Flowers in my hair?" He had an amused look in his eye.

"My name is May!" May pouted, but she didn't stay like that for long. Instead, she burst into giggles, mostly from relief. Even Drew chuckled a little.

"Well," he said, "it's definitely more interesting than all my other cards."

"And I don't think I'll ever forget who this was from!"

The two chuckled a bit more, until Mrs. Primm announced that they could now have the cookies and punch.

Gary's disappointment at finding out that he hadn't obtained any extra gifts was extinguished when he picked out the biggest cookie for himself. Ash thoroughly enjoyed his cookie, and asked for another before anyone else. Misty discovered that she particularly liked the punch. She and Dawn joined May at her desk to chat while they enjoyed their snacks. Drew sat with Gary, Ash and Paul at Gary's desk. Paul seemed to be sure of the fact that he could get at least five dollars out of Reggie with all the candy he had collected.

Overall, it had been a great party for all of them.

And there you go! One Valentines Day chapter!

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