The was a kid named Chirag Gupta who was one of my friends last year，but he moved
away in June.His family had a big going-away party，and the whole neighbourhood came.But I guess Chirag’s family must have changed their mind
，because today Chirag was back in school.
Everyone was happy to see Chirag again，but a couple of us decided to have a little fun with him before officially welcoming him back.
So we basically pretended he was still gone.
Boy，I SURE DO MISS CHIRAG.
YEAH...I WONDER HOW HE’S DOING？
HEY，GUYS！I’M RIGHT HERE！
I have to amit it was pretty funny.
DID YOU JUST HEAR SOMETHING？
NOPE...MUST HAVE BEEN THE WIND！
AT luch，Chirag sat next to me.I had an extra chocolate-chip cookie in my lunch bag，and I made a big deal about it.
I WISH CHIRAG WAS HERE.OH， HOW HE LOVED CHOCOLATE-CHIP COOKIES.
I’M NOT EVEN THAT HUNGRY...
BUT I’M SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU！
OK，so maybe that one was a little cruel.
〈GOBBLE GOBBLE SMACK〉
I guess we’ll probabiy iet Chirag off the hook tomorrow. But, then again, this Invisible Chirag thing could turn into the next 〝P.E.〞.
Tuesday
OK，so the Invisible Chirag joke is still going, and the whole CLASS is in on it now. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself or anything, but Ithink I might have Class Clown in the bag for dreaming this one up .
In Science, the teacher asked me to count the number of kids in the classroom so she’d know how many pairs of safety goggles to get out of the closet.
So I made a big show of counting everyone in the room except Chirag.
...33...34！THERE ARE 34 PEOPLE IN THIS CLASS.
Well,that REALLY set Chirag off.He got up and started yelling，and it was really hard to stare straight ahead and act like he wasn’t there.
