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He l
ooked at his clock. It was almost three thirty! He had school in five hours.
His eyes closed. He forced them back open.
“Casey Happleton is just a weird girl,” he told the General.
General Jackson stuck out his tongue.
“My mother heard a scream in the night,” Marvin explained to his lizard. “So of course she thought it was Linzy. Because Linzy is her little darling! That doesn’t mean I sound like a girl!”
That made sense. Except his voice did sound different.
“I’m probably just getting a cold. From no sleep!”
He got on his knees. He bent his elbow around one of the legs of his desk chair. Then he tried to meet it from the other side with his mouth.
He tried another way.
He tried the other elbow.
“Casey Happleton is so weird!” he said.
He looked at his bed.
When he kissed his elbow the first time, he had been all tangled up in his sheets. Like a mummy.
So all he had to do was get tangled up in his sheets again!
He climbed back into bed. He tried to wrap the sheets around himself exactly the way they were before.
But the bed felt so good. The sheets so cozy.
He hugged his soft pillow. His eyes closed. He went to sleep.
Just like a caterpillar in a cocoon.
5
The Ugliest Face in the World
Judy and Melanie were hanging upside down from the monkey bars.
“Hi, Marvin,” said Judy. “Do you want to come to my slumber party?”
“Okay,” said Marvin.
“Oh, goody,” said Melanie. “We can stay up late and paint each other’s toenails.”
Marvin woke up.
“No!” he said, almost shouting.
He wanted to call Judy Jasper on the telephone and tell her he didn’t want to go to her slumber party. And he didn’t want to paint his toenails!
It was just a dream, he reminded himself.
A dream?
