Your name is Dirk Strider and you've finally decided to let your best friend come back to school with you. At the beginning of the year you and your buddy were inseparable, which was obvious by the fact that he was always in your backpack just within arm's reach. You'd bring him out at lunch time too, letting him eat part of your sandwich and enjoy whatever soda you might have brought with you. Of course, he never really did eat the food or anything, it was just pretend. You weren't crazy enough to actually think he was alive.

However, as inevitable as nearly every High School cliche your time together at school wouldn't last long. You could only take so much jeering from your classmates, and you could only handle so many nasty comments about Cal that you just had to let him stay at home. Sure it sucked the first week, and you were bummed as hell. But you managed to overcome some hardships and realize some things about friendship that made you reconsider your choices.

You finally decided to bring your puppet friend back. It just wasn't the same without him, and it wasn't fair how lonely he was sitting at home all day with no one to talk to. So here you two were again, back at class and hanging out just like the old times.

Reaching in the backpack, Dirk pulled the long limbed orange puppet out of the bag. Setting him down upon the table, he pulled a few notebooks out as well. This was how he could focus, having Lil' Cal right by his side and holding onto whatever supply Dirk needed to refer to constantly. This time, it was a ruler.

The blond had decided to stay after school to get down one last idea for a kickass robot. He knew he wouldn't remember it when he got home, so it was best just to get it down right now. It wouldn't take too long, anyway. He just hoped no one would barge in to hassle Cal when he was just being a cool dude and helping out.