“SIT.”

His voice wasn’t that loud, but i jumped anyway and i slowly sank into the little bitty student desk nearest me. My classroom was an old first grade room and the desks were small and low to the ground. i felt ridiculously small and very awkward sitting there in that tiny desk. My mind raced through all the options i had (stay mad? beg for forgiveness? say a simple apology? start crying??), but before i could come up with a plan of action he was speaking again.

“First of all, I was only going to hug you. Second of all, if someone walked in I had planned to say that was moving to the area and I’d stopped to check out the school and that you were answering my questions. And last, but certainly not least, DO NOT EVER TELL ME THAT I CAN’T TOUCH MY PROPERTY AGAIN. Understood?”

I fondly remember the first version of Puppy Tales.  I haven’t been following the new one until just recently, and I’m glad to have found it again.