[ WP ] `` All of a sudden , after getting pummeled to the ground by her during 8th grade recess , Calvin realized he was in love with Suzie . ''

He paced his way backwards and forwards across his room. Hobbes sat in the corner looking at him quizzically. `` What do I do? I had the frog stolen from biology class ready, all I had to do was drop it in her drink but I could n't do it!'' Hobbes continued looking at him with the same stare. `` Damnit Hobbes, why do I even talk to you? You're just a stuffed tiger, you're not even real. When she turned around and saw me with the frog in my hand she just knocked me straight to the ground and poured her drink on my face! But why can I only talk about this to you? You're just a stupid stuffed tiger, and you're the only one I can talk to?'' Calvin realised that he had picked the stuffed toy animal up and was shaking it like an interrogation victim in one of those detective shows his dad liked to watch. Throwing Hobbes across the room in frustration he buried his head in his hands. What should he do? And more importantly why the hell did he feel funny, not humiliated, but funny about being completely knocked to the ground in one punch by Suzie? 
 
 During dinner his parents asked him the usual questions about school and homework. It was hamburger-casserole night, normally Calvin's favourite meal but he instead toyed with his food and looked through it as if staring off at some important event somewhere else in space. Perhaps he should write a new Spaceman Spiff comic, he was getting quite good at this comic drawing stuff and writing always calmed him down and took his mind off things. Then the phone rang, his mother got up and answered it. `` Calvin, it's for you. It's Suzie Derkins calling about a fight? Are you being mean to her at school again?'' Calvin realised he was blushing and immediately ran from the room, leaving his parents confused and his mother standing holding the phone. 
 
 Later, after drawing a few strips Calvin had calmed down. With a clearer head he started to mull things over in his mind, a trick his dad taught him to help focus on one problem at a time. Still this made no sense, until he heard a purring, then a sniggering in the corner where he had left Hobbes... 
 
 `` Calvin loves Suzie! Na-na na-na naaa naaa!''
