Cedric

Cedric is home, sick in bed... but with a very particular kind of illness: he's come down with "lovesickness"! He tries to explain the symptoms to Christian: chills, no appetite, shaky legs when he sees Chen... Christian, who's never been in love, finds it hard to understand. In a flashback, Cedric explains how he caught the "virus of love".

Grownups are sometimes really hard to understand. Cedric still remembers the day he ran home waving his report card like a flag - a report card that was brilliant, extraordinary, better than he'd ever had in his entire scholastic career! However, his father had remained completely indifferent, unimpressed. So his mom had explained that it was because his father was worried...

Cedric has earned the most disastrous report card in his academic history. After using up every trick in the book to defuse his father's traditional outbursts of rage on thE subject, Cedric sees only one possible solution: lose the report card someplace where it will never, ever be found.

That Christian! What a guy! He really is the best friend a kid could have! With all his ideas, how many times did Christian save Cedric's skin? Like when he lent him the Gameboy his brother had given him: Cedric drove his parents and Poppy so crazy with the noise of the console, that they gave him the money he needed to go to the movies with Chen.