Katya’s Special Day

Katya and Merkeeta were walking down the hall of West Valley Elementary School talking excitedly. They talked about the amazing adventure they had recently been on - visiting The Jewel World and meeting the Emerald Queen.

"Everything was beautiful," remarked Katya. "Just beautiful!"

"I know," Merkeeta responded with a smile. "I liked making the gold earrings the best!"

They bumped into Tedds and Parker coming down the hall from the other direction. Katya and Merkeeta smiled at the two boys, but Parker didn't smile back. In fact, he seemed rather angry.

"I heard you took my grandfather's sashes out of the clubhouse," Parker accused them. "Those are my sashes! You can't just take them without asking."

"We didn't take them Parker," Merkeeta responded defensively. "We only borrowed them. We wanted to time travel too."

Parker frowned. The ninja sashes were his and he never gave anyone permission to use them.

"Well you can just "borrow" my things either," he made his point. "You didn't even ask my permission! How would you feel?"

Tedds just looked on because he didn't really know what these KidzAnimals were talking about. "Sashes?" he thought. "Clubhouse... Time travel... What?  WHAT?!"

Katya didn't know how to respond at first, because obviously Parker was right. The girls had gone into the Clubhouse and used Parker's things without asking.

All at once Katya realized something.

She knew how to sew! Plus, she had lots of extra fabric! Katya had been saving fabric scraps for years -- waiting for that special project. She'd make her own sashes. So there!