Welcome to another edition of “Behind the Scenes of The Dream Doers Series.”
The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets begins on the last day of sixth grade for Alex and Tyler and class bully Zach. But today’s flashback story begins a short series of the first day of kindergarten for Alex, Tyler and Zach.
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Best friend. Today Tyler was going to find his best friend. His nice kindergarten teacher said so when he met her on the open house night thing. She promised lots of boys were in his class, and she told him that he could ask any of them to be his best friend.
His best friend would have to like baseball. He just had to. Or else they couldn’t be best friends.
Tyler wanted it to be later already so he could get up and go to school. But the sun wasn’t even up yet.
He tried to close his eyes, but they kept popping back open. Maybe he should just get ready now.
He picked out his best Cubs shirt, the red one with the picture of Wrigley Field on the back. He put on his blue Cubs shorts with the team logo at the bottom and wore his white Cubs socks under his red and blue Cubs shoes.
He looked awesome. He thought he would have to stop liking the Cubs because he lived in North Carolina now instead of Chicago, but his teacher told him it was okay to wear Cubs stuff to school. She liked the Cubs, too!
Now that he was ready to go, he wished his mom would get up. She needed to make his lunch.
He paced up and down the hall, around the living room and all over the basement. When was his mom going to get up?
That’s when it hit him. He didn’t have to wait for her. He was a school-man now. He could make his own lunch.
He marched to the kitchen, got out the bread, peanut butter, jelly, chips, apples, cookies and goldfish. After slapping some pb and j on the bread and smacking it together, he stuffed some chips, an apple, a bunch of cookies and some goldfish into his Cubs lunch bag.
He looked down the hall. Still no mom. Or dad. How could they still be asleep on such an exciting morning?
Well, he was ready to go. Maybe he would just wait for her in the van.
He draped his Cubs bookbag over his shoulder, grabbed his lunch and trotted to the van.
It was 5:32 in the morning.
He buckled himself in and waited. It was almost time to find his best friend.
A giant yawn escaped from his mouth. Maybe he would take just a little nap before it was time to go.
His head dropped to his shoulder and his eyes closed, finally allowing him to rest.
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This flashback story continues next week with another edition of “Behind the Scenes of The Dream Doers Series.” Stay tuned!
To Your Dreams,
Bonnie Jean
P.S. In case you haven’t yet been in front of the scenes of The Dream Doers series, it starts with The Dream Doers and the Summer of Secrets. In this young adult novel, best friends Alex and Tyler are forced to battle bullies, face their fears and keep strange secrets the summer they learn to do what they dream. You can hear the whole “Front of the Scenes” story for FREE. Just visit TheDreamDoers.com and fill out a super short form. Enjoy the story!
