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Chapter 9 Mr. Klutz and the Secret Drawer
“You two,” Miss Daisy said. “Go to Mr. Klutz’s office. Now.”
“Oooooooooooooh!”
I thought Andrea was going to kill me on the way to the principal’s office. She was really mad. Andrea had never been to Mr. Klutz’s office before. That’s because she never does anything wrong.
“I can’t believe I’m in trouble,” Andrea said. “It’s all your fault, A.J.”
“Relax,” I said. “I’ve been to the principal’s office plenty of times. Mr. Klutz is a good guy.”
Mr. Klutz was sitting at his desk talking on the phone when we arrived. He is not only the principal of the school, but he also has no hair at all.
Once he let everybody in our class touch his head. It was cool.
“Are we going to be punished?” Andrea asked when Mr. Klutz hung up the phone. She was all nervous and talked in a quiet voice.
“I don’t believe in punishing children,” Mr. Klutz said. “I believe in rewarding children for doing good things. Now tell me, why can’t you two get along?”
“He says mean things to me,” Andrea said.
“She thinks she knows everything,” I said.
“He hates everything.”
“Not everything. Just you.”
Mr. Klutz leaned forward in his chair and rubbed his forehead. Grown-ups always rub their foreheads when they are thinking. I guess it must help their brains work better. When you get old, your brain doesn’t work as good anymore so you have to rub your forehead to get it
going again.
“What can we do to solve this problem?” Mr. Klutz asked.
“Kick A.J. out of school.”
“Kick Andrea out of school.”
“I’m not kicking anyone out of school,” Mr. Klutz said. “The two of you are going to have to live with each other.”
“In the same house?” I asked. “I thought you said you don’t punish kids.”
Mr. Klutz laughed even though I didn’t say anything funny. Then he took a key and opened one of his desk drawers. The drawer was filled all the way up to the top with candy. Chocolates. Lollipops.
Caramels. He had like a whole candy shop in his drawer. I decided right there that I want to be a principal when I grow up.
“Would you like some of this?” Mr. Klutz asked us.
Andrea and I nodded our heads and licked our lips.
“Here’s the deal. If you two can go a full day without fighting, I will give you each a candy bar tomorrow.”
“How about two candy bars?” I suggested.
“One candy bar each,” Mr. Klutz said. “That’s my final offer. Take it or leave it.”
I don’t like Andrea. She doesn’t like me either. But we both like candy bars.
I would have to go one day without fighting with Andrea. One day wasn’t so long. I could handle one day.
“Okay,” Andrea and I said.
Then we all shook on it. Shook hands, I mean. We didn’t just start shaking.
That would have been dumb.
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