Third Grade

Third Grade

Jeff heard rustling behind the bush. He sniffed, then turned to the bush, “Are you trying to scare me?”

No answer, “I know it’s you Frank,” he added.

Frank came out. “How’d you see me?” he yelled.

“I didn’t, I smelled you.”

Frank immediately sniffed his arm pit, “I don’t smell!”

“That’s true, to a normal person you don’t smell.”

“What does that mean? Never mind, it means you’re not normal!” Frank said, laughing.

“That’s true.”

“Oh yeah, you gonna give me that ‘everybody is special’ blurb, like the teacher’s do at school. It’s a bunch of crap! Everybody is special? Pffft. Lots of people are just boring!”

“I’m sorry you think that. Everybody does have their own uniqueness, that’s what makes everyone different.”

“Oh yeah, and what’s your ‘special uniqueness’ idiot boy!?

“I know yours is being a bully, something I don’t really understand.”

“I just know who’s stupid, so I treat them like they’re stupid. So, what is your ‘special uniqueness’?”

“Well, I also have some knowledge of people, like knowing who’s a bully, like you.”

“Hey!”

“But my best uniqueness is being invisible,” and suddenly he disappeared.

Frank was shocked. He tried to convince himself it was a trick, but he couldn’t figure it out. Worse, when he got back at school, there was no Jeff! Nobody knew who he was even asking about! It was like Jeff never existed!

Frank ended up in therapy quite young, it turned him around. Eventually, he ended up becoming a therapist himself, as he kept studying, trying to find out how he had imagined this person for so long before he found out he wasn’t even real.

Jeff also thought about Frank, from his home planet Uniberg. He always felt good knowing he really had helped the little earthling survive.