AFTER A STROLL ON A MISTY MORNING

Portrait by Vinod Laxman

SHHH! I have something I wanna tell you! K? Can you keep a secret? Yea? Oh good! I'm so excited I can't stand it! hee hee! I have to tell ALL my friends at school tomorrow, so I don't want anyone but you to know right now.. K? wow!! good!

Something really amazing happened on my walk today!! No silly, not the rain sheesh!! ha ha, so much better then that! Yea I know we needed it! Shoot let me tell my story!! KK!!??

Finally!

Remember the new boy we saw at school yesterday? Yea,, great! Isn't he cute?? wow!! yess! Anyway on my walk this morning, I saw him!! Not only that but he stopped to talk to me!! YES YES I know!! He's GORGEOUS!! Well, He lives right down the street!! Isn't that wonderful!?? I couldn't believe my luck! Then when he came over and spoke to me OH WOW! I was soo nervous! I just knew I would say something silly! My palms were damp and my throat seemed to close up!! OH NO!! But.... Ah come on!! No, I didn't tell him he was cute! sheesh!! and of course I asked his name! I wasn't that far gone!! Hee hee! His name is Vinod! Yea yea! adorable huh? Oh my God Yes!! He's like the cutest boy in school!! I know! He just stopped me to say HI! No that's not all he said! Sheesh your goofy today! hee hee, He asked me my name and I asked him for his, and he told me his family had just moved in and he wants to get to know some of his neighbors. Yea I know that's me! ANYWAY!!! He told me too that he likes to paint and he wants to do one of me!! WOW!! Can you believe that!!?? Yes Yes ME!! Weren't you listening!?? Of course I said Ok!! Do you think I'm crazy or something?? Sheesh! Hee hee! If he's painting me I can see More of him!! So,,,I tried to play it cool, you know? And asked him what he wanted to paint and how and when, all that stuff. When? Oh,, next weekend. We have school Silly! So it's got to be on weekends!! Gimme a break!! Yes that's all! Isn't that enough!?? SHEESH!! Hee hee! But he said he'll see me at school tomorrow and then we went our own way.

I just can't wait until tomorrow! I have to tell all the girls at lunch! And Hopefully!! Those snobby girls at the next table will hear all about it too! Yes Yes! Especially HER!! She just thinks she's all that! And did you hear her the other day? Yea? She said she could get any boy she wanted? Yea.. even the new boy!!?? HA HA! We'll see about that won't we!??

Oh no! There's Mom! I have to go! I told her I'd help with the house today and if I don't.. uh oh!! Well you know Mom!! I'll be grounded for the next century if I don't! Then I won't be able to see Vinod for the painting! Ok!! See you in the morning! Bye.....