It was the first day of sixth grade when a pudgy boy with greasy hair and loud freckles had approached me. His name was William Grimm. Eyes beady with mirth, a mocking smirk on pink lips as he pointed to my notebook, “It’s that a Bratz notebook?” I could feel the dread and embarrassment come over me as I sunk into my seat. I loved Bratz, I loved to play with dolls. But clearly, that pastime of mine should’ve been left in the past, all the way back in elementary school. “Yeah,” I answered slowly. The smirk managed to grow, and his round face had become similar to that of the Cheshire Cat. He said nothing else after that, though nothing else needed to be; I’d said the punchline for him in his own personal joke. He walked away, shoulders moving
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She wore a bright pink coat and a purple scarf that hid half her face. Looking back, I feel bad because Will and I didn’t want her to join us, because we really wanted to stick to being a duo to have a better time. Alexis was a sweet girl, and very smart, too--but she just didn’t fit the kind of humor Will and I shared. Though, we did feel for her and decided to let her spend the rest of the day with us.
The three of us rented our snow tubes. They reminded me of the large donuts that you’d see people floating on in the summer, only they were black, and had a material at the bottom so that you didn’t end up with a ton of snow on your butt. When we got to the top of the slope, our classmates were everywhere, buzzing with excitement, and Will and I were just as eager to go down our first slope.
Only, Alexis wasn’t excited at all. It’d turned out that she was afraid of heights, and thus afraid of going down the hill. The only excuse I have for Will and I not being very good friends to her was because we were jerks when we were eleven. While the poor girl was having a panic attack, we decided that it’d be a good idea to go down the slopes a few times because we were so determined to have fun--which we did. I believe someone else had ended up calming Alexis down, and when she stopped crying, I managed to convince her that she would be okay sledding down the …show more content…
We swam for about an hour, the water was warm compared to the outdoor weather. When our fingertips turned pruney and we got tired of the taste of chlorine in our mouths, Will and I decided that we wanted to play a few games at the arcade, but Alexis continued to swim with a few of our classmates. We dried off and changed back into our clothes and went to play in the arcade, which was right by the entrance to the swimming pool. Though, in the midst of our fun, my eyes felt dry and began to burn. They itched and I rubbed at them, but it did little to help. I turned to Will, and asked him if he noticed anything strange about my eyes, and of course he said that they were red; they’d been irritated by the chlorine in the
She wore a bright pink coat and a purple scarf that hid half her face. Looking back, I feel bad because Will and I didn’t want her to join us, because we really wanted to stick to being a duo to have a better time. Alexis was a sweet girl, and very smart, too--but she just didn’t fit the kind of humor Will and I shared. Though, we did feel for her and decided to let her spend the rest of the day with us.
The three of us rented our snow tubes. They reminded me of the large donuts that you’d see people floating on in the summer, only they were black, and had a material at the bottom so that you didn’t end up with a ton of snow on your butt. When we got to the top of the slope, our classmates were everywhere, buzzing with excitement, and Will and I were just as eager to go down our first slope.
Only, Alexis wasn’t excited at all. It’d turned out that she was afraid of heights, and thus afraid of going down the hill. The only excuse I have for Will and I not being very good friends to her was because we were jerks when we were eleven. While the poor girl was having a panic attack, we decided that it’d be a good idea to go down the slopes a few times because we were so determined to have fun--which we did. I believe someone else had ended up calming Alexis down, and when she stopped crying, I managed to convince her that she would be okay sledding down the …show more content…
We swam for about an hour, the water was warm compared to the outdoor weather. When our fingertips turned pruney and we got tired of the taste of chlorine in our mouths, Will and I decided that we wanted to play a few games at the arcade, but Alexis continued to swim with a few of our classmates. We dried off and changed back into our clothes and went to play in the arcade, which was right by the entrance to the swimming pool. Though, in the midst of our fun, my eyes felt dry and began to burn. They itched and I rubbed at them, but it did little to help. I turned to Will, and asked him if he noticed anything strange about my eyes, and of course he said that they were red; they’d been irritated by the chlorine in the