Sorry Mom calls them tangents Anyways I'm an anxious person I feel like that all the time I don't like it either Sorry So Stop apologizing Teddy you know just as well as me that when my family had to move from our home in Kamloops dry dusty and oh so nice and warm to Ravensbarrow way up north and ALWAYS RAINING I was gonna have a hard time Also there was that whole thing about evil hamsters trying to take over Ravensbarrow Elementary I had a hard time with that too Come to think of it maybe I should just start there Yeah Forget you read that first bit Let's start with the evil hamsters Well I didn't KNOW that there were evil hamsters when I showed up for my first day at Ravensbarrow Elementary Gosh that's a mouthful I should call it something else Oh wait Hamsters first 4
Behold the ULTRA EVIL hamster Twitchy nose Nubbin ears Beady slitted eyes Snatching little claws SUPER- evil teeth Now the school Maybe one of those things where you just use the letters A whatchamacallit ac ro nym Yeah An acronym Something like R. B. E. Nah Too many E sounds EEEEE Barrow Elementary Still not right Apparently barrow means grave I don't like thinking of graves Death freaks me out I mean it freaks everybody out right It's DEATH 5
Maybe something shorter but with less barrow Ravens Bee Elementary Maybe just Ravensbee 6 ALL right all right Moving on Stop tangenting Teddy Stop apologizing Teddy Sorry
It was my first day at my new school Ravensbee yeah I like Ravensbee a lot better My mom had grown up here She'd gone to Ravensbee I had cous- ins who went here too but they were out of town this week I was all alone I stepped out of my dad's car and slammed the door behind me It was raining A lot All the other kids were wearing heavy duty rain gear and I was already soaked to the bone in my cotton hoodie I thought rain gear would make me look nerdy more nerdy I guess Real smart Teddy Sorry Stop tangenting Teddy Stop apologizing Teddy Anyways 7
