D.J. skipped up the thirty flights of stairs to Mrs. Jewls\'s room. He was grinning from ear to ear, from nose to chin, from here to there, and back again.

"Hey, D.J.," Todd shouted, "glad to see you." Todd was a pushover for smiling faces.

Mrs. Jewls heard him. She began to write Todd\'s name on the board under DISCIPLINE, but when she saw D.J.\'s smile, she put down the chalk. "Good morning, D.J.," she said. "What are you so happy about?"

DJ. grinned and shrugged his shoulders.

Mrs. Jewls smiled.
65Dameon looked at the smile on Mrs. Jewls\'s face, then at Todd\'s, and finally at D.J.\'s. Then Dameon smiled, too. His smile was almost as big as D.J.\'s. They were best friends.
Once they saw the two of them smiling, the rest of the class couldn\'t help but smile. Rondi had a very cute one, due to her two missing front teeth. Nobody had an ugly smile.

Jason came to school late. He was very upset. But the first thing he saw was Dameon\'s smile, and he felt a little bit better. Then he saw Rondi\'s toothless grin, and he even began to smile a little himself. But when he saw the piano on D.J.\'s face, he fell, laughing, onto the floor.

Everybody started to laugh, even Kathy, and she hardly ever laughed except when someone hurt himself.

The whole room seemed to be laughing, not just the people in it. The blackboard chuckled. The ceiling snickered. The desks were jumping up and down, and the chairs we............