Glue and Cough Drops
The week went by while Alexis and I became friends. We worked on our straw art project together; it turned out to be a total disaster. The object of the assignment was to become friends with your partner, and it worked, for me and Alexis anyway. The art aspect of the assignment was to use Elmer's glue to build a structure out of straws. Our plan of attack for completing the assignment was covering each straw with glue and "smooshing" them together. The problem with this plan was the excess amount of glue that was poured all over the table. After getting fed up with the "sticky" situation, I squirted the entire bottle of blue Elmer's glue on to the newspaper covering the table. Carefully use straws, Alexis and I moved all the glue in to a small puddle and folded it up in newspaper, wondering who would be the unlucky person to find our, "blue-glue puddle."
That Friday first period Alexis told me she had a "cough," so we asked the gym teacher if we could go to the nurse. I thought we were just going to go to our lockers, but my ditzy friend had other plans. After quickly getting changed out of our gym clothes we actually went to the nurse's office, fake coughing. The nurse then showed us way the infamous disgusting cough drops were. Alexis took about a hand full, while I took two. I was repulsed at how Alexis could think they were tasty, but I didn't want to be rude so I took some. When we got out of the nurse's office I said,
"Where should we throw them out?"
"Huh?" replied Alexis
"Well, everyone says they are gross!" I told her
"Ha ha, look closely at yours, see how they are slightly different shades of yellow?" She pointed out, I nodded, she continued "the lighter ones are yummy, well to me any way. You took one of each, throw the dark one in this water fountain. I took a dark one to."
I stuck the light one in my mouth and smiled, they were good! Alexis laughed and then stopped at the line of one of the floor tiles and said, "Let's see if we can throw the bad ones in the water fountain from here."
"Okay," I replied. I threw mine first, a little too hard. It bounced off the wall but landed in the water fountain. Alexis took heed and didn't throw her's very hard; it landed on the floor in front of the water fountain. The bell rang and the two of us skipped away giggling, a new "after gym" tradition had been formed.