Hey, I actually did end up taking a break and doing something else yesterday! Not sure what it was, but...
The middle part of this entry is somewhat boring, just to warn you. It can be summarized as "I wasted time around town."
Anyway, today was the last day of finals - the makeup/miscilaneous-other-tests day. There weren't too many people around. I was there for the AP chem entrance thingy, and a lot of my friends were there for this math contest where they give you scholarships if you do really well. Still, the only person in the hallway where we hang out in the morning was Ivy. I didn't really want to talk to her, but I couldn't get away. We talked about marching band or something for a while, and then she said, "Are you sure the exam hasn't already started?"
"Yeah, they start an hour later than school normally does."
"Are you sure that's for today too though?"
"Why wouldn't it be?"
"Well, I just want to make sure. Come." Ivy has the tendency to use the word "come" as a command. On the way up the stairs, she said, "I hope I didn't screw anything up for you."
Always want to take credit for everything, don't you?
"YOU didn't screw anything up Ivy," I said.
"Well I was talking to Adam over the phone..."
Here we go. Always talking about phone conversations you two have had, when according to Toby, you used to complain constantly about how he never called you...
"And he's now convinced that I've ruined his life twice."
Really? I knew you ruined his life once...
"When was the second time?" I said.
"Now, I guess, by telling you about the girl in his chem class..."
"But that's not even true, Ivy."
She stopped and looked at me as if she were genuinely confused. "What?"
"It's not true. It's just a rumor."
"No," she said. "It's true. They went to a party Friday night..." At this point we ran into Jenn, Sam, Dave and Julian. We were the only people on the entire floor, that I could see. She looked at them. Jenn may have said hi. Then she said "Come Aidan, I still want to see if the exam's starting soon."
"Why would it? It starts in like, an hour," I said.
"Yeah, that's true," said Jenn.
"Oh. Well I want to find what room it's in then."
"It's in Mr. LaTarri's room."
"Well I want to find that."
"IT'S RIGHT THERE!" Everyone looked at me. There was silence. "I'm going back downstairs."
"I'll come too," said Ivy.
I hate your voice.
"I don't know what to do. Maybe I'll go bug my creative writing teacher."
I hate how you brag about your junior classes.
"I'm going to go find my neighbor," I said.
"I'll come too."
I hate how you hold your head up all the time like you're better than everyone else.
"I can't find her," I said. I was tiring of being subtle. "I'm going to the bathroom."
And you suck at the flute, I added in my head as the bathroom door closed.
I felt pretty physically sick for the rest of the morning. I sat in the hallway by myself and read, and then I took the chem test (I think I did pretty badly, but the test is probably just to scare people away.) After the test, Molly invited me to walk home with her, but I figured my parents wouldn't be thrilled, so I sat in the cafeteria with Julian, Sam, and a couple of other kids I don't really know and played cards, and it was pretty fun. After a while though, they all went home, and besides that I started to get hungry. The cafeteria was closed since it was only the five of us. So I called Molly and walked over to her house myself. My parents would never find out. (It's just the fact that her parents weren't home.) It took a while (about 20 minutes), but I talked a lot to the kids I don't really know, who were walking to the middle school, and that was nice.
We went up to the attic and hung out. She taught me to play chess. Then we tried to find something to eat. But we could only find about three pieces of leftover ziti and tuna with no bread. So we went out for Chinese. Then we walked to the library and read sex information books intended for preteen girls. Then we went to the middle school and wandered the halls. We couldn't find the only teacher who we actually cared about visiting (Latin, and also ran the academic bowl, which we were both on) but we said hi to several who we vaguely liked but who probably didn't care about our presence. Then I took my old bus home. It was pretty boring, but it's better to be bored with someone than by yourself, I think. My feet also really hurt.
You know, last night I was almost over Adam. Why should it matter to me whether or not he has a girlfriend? Well I mean, it should MATTER, but it shouldn't make me feel sick. Maybe it's just the fact that someone is lying to me, or at least trying to hurt me by exagerating fact. This is sad, but I honestly don't know which of them to trust. I wish I could say that I am certain Ivy's lying. Asking someone else out right away really doesn't seem like something Adam would do, and I don't put it past Ivy to lie to me just to lower my self-esteem. (Yeah, Adam said he'd heard about the rumer, so she didn't make it up. But she said she heard it directly FROM the girl, and she acts like she's certain about it.) But at the same time, I can see Adam lying to me because he doesn't want to hurt me or create a conflict. And I do know that a lot of girls have liked him... I don't know. I just hope I SEE him again. I litterally haven't seen the back of his head for about a week, and we hang out with the same people.
So tomorrow I'm starting a new semester, with all new classes. That should be interesting. Ivy's in my math class. I'm hoping the fact that Eric's in it too will keep the passive-agressive putdowns to a minimum. Molly and Dave are both in my Latin class. That should be pretty cool, even though apparantly the teacher's kind of sketchy and doesn't have any controll over the class.
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