Post by Kitsune on Jan 19, 2010 19:37:06 GMT -4
"...How does she do that?" My friend Kaela wondered aloud. In the busy halls, us three moved about several kids of different sizes rushing to see a friend or inching toward their own class. Kaela and Jessica were to my left chit-chatting when Kaela's short-attention span quickly spotted me. I was unlike K and J (or JK, but that got old), those two were NOT coordinated. They could and DID slip sitting down. I'm pretty sure if it weren't for the makeup they coated on themselves they'd be purple from the bruises they got falling.
Back to why I was the focus of JK's attention, I had been walking the entire time with my eyes my home-copy of Lord of the Flies. I dodged the rusty tan poles that held up the roof of the outdoor halls of the middle school.
"Omigosh...did I tell you guys?" Kaela squealed, her attention again on a different subject. "Josh Finn asked me if I wanted to go on his boat with him and his dad yesterday!" Jessica gasped dramatically. I smiled and predicted aloud "Did he ask when you knocked into him 'on accident' again?" Kaela did fall a lot, but I could tell her clumsiness from flirting with boys. I was so glad I wasn't so gaga about guys. Here, they weren't worth the time.
Kaela paused, shocked that I was following the conversation, but her rare silence transformed into a series of guilty giggles.
"Speaking of boats," Jessica sent me a glance and I looked up to find the two staring at me with a sly gleam in their eyes.
Kaela grabbed the book from my hands. Before I could protest, she waved it in her hands and said "You're leaving so soon for soooooo long, there's no way you're going to be reading this book when you could be chillin' with your buds," her gaze softened. "We're going to miss you."
Jessica asked curiously "What's Lord of the Flies about anyway?"
"Well from what I can tell its about kids a bit younger than us getting trapped on an island alone. Kids like..."
I dramatically threw a finger at sixth grader passing by us who jumped in surprise, his eyes wide. "That munchkin!"
Kaela and Jessica laughed.
"Maybe you'll get stuck on an island," Kaela joked.
If I had known the gravity of my future situation, maybe I would've paused and asked her to take back that harmless joke that 'jinxed' me. Maybe I would've stopped Jessica from tossing the book into the library's drop-in box. I'd read Hatchet as a child, among many other adventure tales, but I couldn't remember too much about the survival skills they used. Sure Boy Scouts and the like helped...
...but what really prepares you?
Back to why I was the focus of JK's attention, I had been walking the entire time with my eyes my home-copy of Lord of the Flies. I dodged the rusty tan poles that held up the roof of the outdoor halls of the middle school.
"Omigosh...did I tell you guys?" Kaela squealed, her attention again on a different subject. "Josh Finn asked me if I wanted to go on his boat with him and his dad yesterday!" Jessica gasped dramatically. I smiled and predicted aloud "Did he ask when you knocked into him 'on accident' again?" Kaela did fall a lot, but I could tell her clumsiness from flirting with boys. I was so glad I wasn't so gaga about guys. Here, they weren't worth the time.
Kaela paused, shocked that I was following the conversation, but her rare silence transformed into a series of guilty giggles.
"Speaking of boats," Jessica sent me a glance and I looked up to find the two staring at me with a sly gleam in their eyes.
Kaela grabbed the book from my hands. Before I could protest, she waved it in her hands and said "You're leaving so soon for soooooo long, there's no way you're going to be reading this book when you could be chillin' with your buds," her gaze softened. "We're going to miss you."
Jessica asked curiously "What's Lord of the Flies about anyway?"
"Well from what I can tell its about kids a bit younger than us getting trapped on an island alone. Kids like..."
I dramatically threw a finger at sixth grader passing by us who jumped in surprise, his eyes wide. "That munchkin!"
Kaela and Jessica laughed.
"Maybe you'll get stuck on an island," Kaela joked.
If I had known the gravity of my future situation, maybe I would've paused and asked her to take back that harmless joke that 'jinxed' me. Maybe I would've stopped Jessica from tossing the book into the library's drop-in box. I'd read Hatchet as a child, among many other adventure tales, but I couldn't remember too much about the survival skills they used. Sure Boy Scouts and the like helped...
...but what really prepares you?