Thursday February 2
I managed to forget what happened yesterday. No one saw me on the side of the road with a broke down roach truck. Thank God! I found out that I won first place in the art contest. I was kind of nervous, I didn't think I'd win against Mackenzie. She drew her fashion designs. They were a lot better than I expected them to be. I was looking at my art project and my ribbon when Brandon came up to me with his camera to take a picture for the school paper. I stood next to my project and smiled for the picture. That's when Mackenzie walked past us. She stopped in her tracks and turned around. "I can't believe your entry won. My dog can draw a better picture than that with his eyes closed. The judges of the contest were obviously blind. That's why you won. You don't have any talent." "Shut up Mackenzie, you're just jealous because I won." I didn't actually say that, only yelled it in my head. "By the way looser, I saw you getting into that pathetic truck yesterday after school." I thought I was off the hook on the whole truck incident until Mackenzie told everyone. I didn't think she knew I didn't think anyone knew. Brandon just looked really confused like he didn't know what to say. Luckily he didn't go along with her bullying. I think she thought he would, and when he didn't she got so mad and stomped off.
Today in English class, I couldn't find the essay I had to turn in. I dumped all the contents of my backpack on the desk to look for it. I was frantic because I got an F on my last assignment and I can't get another one. Jessica sits right in front of me. She heard me rustling the paper and she turned around. "Can't find your homework can you? Want me to help you?" Before I could answer, she turned around and dramatically swept all of my papers off of the desk. Then she smiled at me and sat down like nothing happened. The teacher came into class shortly after and got so mad at me. She came to my desk and told me to pick all the papers up right now or I'd get detention. I didn't even do anything wrong. It wasn't me. I was so mad, I could've spit.
Friday February 3
I'm so glad its Friday. I can't come to this school another day this week. Chloe and Zoey slipped a note in my locker to meet them in the janitor's closet. I went to their meeting right away. They are always up to something. It wasn't anything that silly though. They just wanted to have a sleepover tonight at Chloe's house. We decided we would meet there at 6:30.
I was so excited to go. We had never had a sleepover before. We stayed up all night talking about boys and eating. The next morning, I slept late I was so relieved not to have Brianna run into my room and poke her fingers into my eye sockets. The next day we stayed at Chloe's house all day and her mom dropped us off at the mall. We wanted to look cool while we were there, so we didn't go to the cheap department stores our moms took us to. We went to the fancy expensive stores even though we're broke. We just wanted to look like we could buy it if we wanted to. We were having a good time shopping, well browsing when all of the sudden we heard a dreadfully annoying voice. "OMG! Look what the cat drug in Vicki, Icky, and Sticky. What are you all doing here? You can't possibly have enough money to shop here." Chloe, Zoey, and I just froze. "If you were smart, you'd spend your money at cheaper stores, so you could have more of it." But I didn't say it aloud, I said it in my head. I knew that Mackenzie had the IQ of a fruit fly, so she probably wouldn't understand what I meant anyway.
We left the store and just went to the food court. It was better to sit and people watch.
That night, I went into my room to find that Brianna had drawn a great big pink picture on my wall with the makeup I just got. I was in my room looking at the wall for a few minutes because I was so shocked I couldn't do anything. Then my mom walked in. I guess she thought that I was marveling at my art work on the wall. She was angry and she told me to get a bucket of soap and water and clean it off. And I was grounded for a week. Just my luck.
The next day, my parents, Brianna, and I went to Pizza Palace. That wouldn't have been my first choice but I lost the vote. I was not happy about going there because I knew that my parents would make me follow her around everywhere. Its easy to get lost amongst all the arcade games or in the playground. I'd be so embarrassed if someone saw me. When we got there, Brianna took off right away and I had to follow her. She went straight for the ball pit and I had no other choice but to dive in after her. When I stood up I turned around to see Brandon standing there. He'd come with his younger brother. He didn't laugh he just got in too. When Brianna got out to eat, Brandon and I walked around and played the arcade games together. It was great.
