The Shiner

CJ’s parents were driving her to school one day. Mrs Rottweiler says that everyone will be amused when they find out what happened to her eye the previous weekend. When CJ arrived to school and met her friends, they all asked what happened to her eye, but she refused to tell. Her friends then all came to the conclusion that she had been a hero, which Rachel overheard and told everyone.

Everyone treated CJ like a hero, even Miss Ropey and the gym teacher. Shulman even gave him cookies, so CJ agreed to all this treatment. Queen Barb knighted her Dame CJ the Brave. Then there was a ceremony, in which kids gave her gifts. Sesame Boy gave her a Baberaham Lincoln (Sesame) which was in the shape of Baberaham Lincoln (the female version of Abraham Lincoln). CJ was about to tell everyone a falsified story of how she got the black eye, but then the Baberaham Lincoln sesame spoke and insisted that she tell the truth, saying that “if you don’t put things straight, you will have to live with it for the rest of your life.” CJ then told the truth; that she got the black eye because she was square-dancing and bumped into another boy (who looked similar to her 3rd Street counterpart, TJ Detweiler). Everyone laughed at first, then they cheered for they acknowledged that by telling the truth, CJ was now a REAL hero.

”I tried, Babe. Honestly, I did.”