April Second

3:37 pm

Well… that was strange.

The school day just ended, literally JUST ended two minutes ago. I'm sitting on the bus writing this. And boy, it's been a strange day.

Austin acknowledged me, which was completely shocking.

Math class was, to say the least, interesting. I sit behind Austin by two seats. When I was coming into class, I made eye contact with him. And he smiled, waved, and said, "hey Ally!" I never would have thought that Austin would do that, especially with all of his friends looking at him like he was crazy. So I said "hey" back to him and I proceeded to my seat.

So the rest of the class I sat in complete shock. I couldn't even do my bell work questions! Those are always so easy to me. I must have been SUPER surprised. I don't know why else I would do so bad at a subject I'm normally pretty good at.

At lunch, Trish and I grabbed our food through the lunch line, and sat down at our usual spot, kind of by the side of the lunchroom, next to the giant windows. Then all of a sudden, I hear, "what is the point of lettuce anyways?" It was Dez, of course. For the first time, ever, Dez sat with Trish and I at lunch. We had a strange conversation. But it was interesting. And I don't think any of the conversations between Trish and I were that hilarious. So it was alright. Dez is alright.

Then, out of the blue, Dez says "Austin's still eating with his friends. That's weird," and I almost choked on my sandwich. I didn't even know Austin was in our lunch! Why would he come over here anyways? Did Dez tell him to come over? I never asked so I guess I'll never know.

Dez and Trish and I talked for a long time and finally I was done eating, so I went to throw my tray away. I bet you can guess what happened.

I ran into Austin.

No, literally I RAN into him.

I smacked right into him and all the stuff on our trays went FLYING. And so did we. We were sprawled out on the floor, in front of the whole cafeteria.

Everyone was staring. And laughing.

The rest was kind of fuzzy, but I remember picking up all of my trash quickly and throwing it in the garbage and the next thing I know I'm sitting in a bathroom stall by myself. I was so embarrassed. And all of those people looking at me? Not my cup of tea.

Unfortunately, I had one more class period to get through. Luckily today in English, Mrs. Jefferson gave us a reading day. So the whole class sat in silence reading, while I hid behind my reading book in shame.

Trish didn't come even look for me. I guess it's possible that she didn't see it, but I doubt it. It caused a pretty big scene.

HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID.

I'm smarter than that.

It seems like every time I do something dumb, I'm with Austin.

Austin Moon makes me dumb.

I dislike Austin Moon. So so so much.

April Second

9:04 pm

Today only continues to get stranger.

Right before dinner time, I got a visit from an unwanted visitor.

That's right, AUSTIN.

But I guess he was there for good intentions. He apologized to me. Which was surprising. He looked at me with little begging puppy eyes and asked me to forgive him. He said that it was his fault for running into me near the garbage can.

I didn't think so. Maybe he just wanted me to not think he was a jerk or whatever. It was my fault, but it was nice for him to pretend.

Then I said sorry, and he smiled and said that he had to go work on something, and tripped over the stairs on his way out.

Dumb little puppy Austin Moon.