The Isadora Diaries:
Persistent:
Tuesday, April 10th
I hate having dreams and then not being able to remember them. They could be some sort of awesome adventure in some land forever and a day with dragons, monsters, and a whole bunch of stuff that felt like it lasted for days. They could an awful nightmare where all you need is help, but no one will pay enough attention to you, but you know that person on the other side of the window is out to get you even if no one else does.
I've had both of those kinds of dreams before.
But I can't tell you what dream I had last night because I can't remember it. Or at least, not all of it.
Why is it such a big deal?
Because in the dream, Bea and I did something that got Haley to reveal her passcode, but I can't remember what we did! Now, dreams in general are weird, and what we did probably was realistic in anyway, but I could've gotten an idea from it!
But no.
It's Tuesday now, and Bea and I still haven't figured out a way to get Haley's passcode. We even tried watching her from behind, but we either always too far to see, or she noticed us, scoffed, and stormed away.
I swear.
This girl is going to be the death of me.
I swear.
Bea and I tried to think of new ways to get the passcode during lunch, but it was kind of difficult with two loud girls and AN annoying brother sitting at the lunch table, too. So we didn't really get much done.
Not to mention a certain boy that refused to leave me alone.
Yup, Klaus still hasn't given up.
Like I said before: he is persistent.
I mean, I knew that he was stubborn before but this is kind of ridiculous.
Of course, I still want to be his friend, but until I get those videos deleted from Haley's phone, I need him to think that I hate him! I thought I made it perfectly clear that I didn't want to be his friend yesterday by the bathroom.
I guess not.
Boys.
I swear.
They can't take a hint.
It's not a real hint, but still! Come on!
I wish I could just let him in on what Bea and I are going to do, but I know for a fact that he won't help us. He'll think it's a better idea to confront Haley and get her to delete the videos then because it'd be 'the right thing to do'.
Oh, please.
No one does the right thing anymore; it's a waste of time.
As if Haley would delete the videos just for me anyhow.
Anywho…
What was I talking about again?
Oh, yeah. How persistent Klaus is. (Which is very persistent, mind you.)
Today in our history class, Klaus passed me a note that said,
Hey, best friend
HEY, BEST FRIEND
HEY, BEST FRIEND
He actually wrote it once in normal handwriting, I'm just trying to emphasize how persistent he is by putting it in capital letters and in bold.
Is it working?
Why am I asking you? You're a laptop.
Anywho…
Wow, I really am getting off-topic a lot today.
Who knew I could be so darn ADD?
Hey did you know that doctors diagnose kids that have ADD with ADHD because they, like, combined the two?
Of course not, you're laptop.
And I'm off-topic again.
Anywho…
His persistence at that moment really impressed me. I told that boy straight up that we shouldn't be friends, but he's still going!
I had to give him props for being so persistent—okay, hold on I'm sick of using the same word over and over again.
Persistent, persistent, persistent, I feel like a broken record! *insert sobbing emoji*
Let's go to the online thesaurus…
Relentless, unrelenting, steadfast, tenacious, steady, and resolute are all synonyms. So if I use any of those, you know what I mean.
God, I'm sorry! I had cake, and I'm hyper and now my brain can't stay on one subject for too long!
I know, I've failed you, Laptop! I've failed you! *insert another sobbing emoji*
Did you know emoji is a Japanese term?
Aw, man! I'm sorry; I'm doing it again!
Focus.
Concentrate.
Anywho…
Since I was just so impressed with Klaus's relentlessness, I felt he deserved a response. So I wrote a note back to him.
Not because I wanted to talk to him.
Laptop, please.
Besides, it wasn't even a nice response.
I spit on the paper.
God, how weak do you think I am?! I can't crack now! Especially not with my freedom coming closer! (Well, it's kind of stagnate right now, but it will come closer!) I need to keep Haley thinking that I'm not up to anything, which means I need to keep being mean to Klaus, even with she's not around. If I'm nice to him in anyway Klaus will tell Haley, and I will literally be toast.
Haley will put me in a metaphorical toaster. She will make me toast.
Ha.
Haley will make me toast.
Not even in an alternate universe where everyone has opposite personalities.
But I suppose that in an alternate universe where everyone has alternate personalities, Haley would be nice, and I would be mean. What nice person wants to make a mean person toast?
I sure don't, so you can bet all your bunnies that I won't be making Haley any toast.
Aw, man! See, I'm off-topic again! Ugh! WHAT. IS. WRONG. WITH. ME.
Okay, I'm fine now.
Anywho…
I came in like a wracking ball.
Just kidding. I was just making sure that you were still paying attention.
And if you were paying even closer attention, then you would have noticed that I put wracking instead of wrecking.
I'm talking to a laptop.
Let's pretend I'm not. Let's pretend I'm sane.
Back to me spitting on the paper…
The teacher kind of saw me spit on the paper and hand it back to Klaus. She got kind of mad—well, grossed out, actually. But she did get mad at the fact I gave Klaus a note I spat on.
I was trying to be funny.
I don't think she got the joke.
Okay, I know it's weird that I was trying to be funny considering that I mentioned more than once that I haven't exactly been in a good mood lately, but it's different now! I have hope! Therefore, I am in a good mood because I know that I'm going to get my best friend back!
It's seriously hard to be upset when you have something like that to look forward to.
Don't get me wrong, I hate being mean to Klaus. But, since I have to be so that everything can go as planned, as might as well have some fun.
So I spat on the paper.
I mean, I'm not going to scream at him that I hate him, run away from him crying (again—sort of), or anything else super mean. No! NO!
Nope. Instead, I'm just going to be doing stupid stuff.
Like spitting on his paper.
Because it's funny.
And when Klaus and I become friends again, I'll name all the stupid things I did, and they'll be so stupid that we'll laugh about them!
See?
I'm always thinking.
Anywho…(we weren't that far off-topic, shut up)
The teacher saw me spit on the paper and stormed to our desks as fast as she could in her heels.
Her heels looked really pointing.
I can't remember which the book it was, only that it was the one where they were in the hospital, but in one of the ASOUE books, Esme (am I right? Tell me I'm right) tried to kill the Baudelaires with her super pointy heels.
Heels can be deadly.
Anywho…
The first thing Mrs. Gabriel said when she reached it was. "Okay, Isadora. I know you like to torture Klaus sometimes," I smiled evilly here, "but what did he write to you that was so bad that you had to spit on the paper?"
The class started laughing, and I quickly covered my mouth with my hand and turned my head in the opposite direction so that they could see my smile. The urge to laugh was absolutely killing me! But I couldn't let them see!
Mrs. Gabriel took the note away from Klaus's desk and read out loud, " 'Hey, best friend '." The class laughed again. "Isadora!" she scolded with a smile tugging at the corner of her lips and a laugh growing in her voice. "He called you his best friend!" She finally let herself laugh and she continued, still laughing, "And you spit on 'friend'!"
The class laughed even more, which made it even harder to hold my laughter down! I used my hair and hand to block my face from Klaus's view as I had a miniature arm spasm when I let myself laugh quietly for a moment.
Unfortunately the teacher saw me laugh and said out loud, "And you're laughing about it! Isadora, you're so mean!"
I slammed my arms on the table and clenched my fists. "Dang it!" I said a bit louder than I should have.
Mrs. Gabriel looked at me like I was a weirdo.
I kind of am, so I wasn't offended.
But I was a little embarrassed considering that no one understood why I was upset.
"What's wrong with you?" Klaus asked me, laughing a little.
"Don't talk to me," I said not looking at him.
I was trying to be funny again so I knew I would burst out laughing if I looked at him.
"Oooohhhhh," the class went.
"Dude!" Duncan said to Klaus from behind him. "What'd you do to make her mad?"
"I think someone needs to apologize..." Mrs. Gabriel said in a sing-song voice.
I mimicked her tune. "I won't be listening to any apology."
The class 'Oh'd' again and there was some laughter, too. It was funny really, and I'm glad that my attempts at being funny were succeeding; I just wished that I didn't laugh so easily at other people's laughter!
"She hates me and I don't know why," Klaus complained. "She's obviously broken. Mrs. Gabriel, fix her!"
I couldn't help it! I laughed!
I threw my head back and absolutely cracked up!
"Nope, she's not broken," Duncan said. "She's still insane."
That's when the bell rang, and I hurried to gather my stuff so that I could escape quickly without having Klaus catch up with me.
I'm not that lucky of a person.
Klaus actually left before I did, so I thought, Hey, maybe he won't try to talk to me!
I was dead wrong.
Klaus cornered me once I stepped out of the classroom. "Hey! What's going on? Yesterday you were about to cry, and you were saying that we couldn't be friends. Now you're laughing and still don't want to be my friend?"
I laughed at how ridiculous I made myself sound. "Yup!" I mentally slapped myself for sounding too cheery.
He laughed. "What's going on, Iz? Please tell me!"
"I don't want to talk to you." I shook my head, and I made sure I didn't sound too cheery. I also tried not to sound mean either. Instead, I just said it like it was a completely normal sentence with so meaning behind it.
His smile fell. He looked around, as if he was trying to see if anyone else noticed how weird I was being. "Isadora, why don't you want to talk to me? I've already apologized to you. Do I need to apologize to you again? Because I'll do it!"
My heart melted a little bit at how sweet that sounded, but I didn't let him see. Instead I shrugged. "I just don't want to talk to you, and…" I dragged out the word once I saw Haley coming up the hallway. We locked eyes.
What an awful position.
I knew I had to come up with something quick. I had to make it look like I wasn't talking to Klaus in a friendly manner. I mean I wasn't anyway, but it probably looked like I did.
So I continued my sentence with a sob, and I made sure that I made myself look terribly upset as well. "And I just don't want to talk to you *sniffle* because your so mean to me and *sniffle*" I really didn't know what to say, he hardly ever gave me a reason to be upset.
Haley was coming closer, and I realized that she was actually coming to where we were standing. I had to make myself act more dramatic!
I sniffled again, but when I started talking, I transitioned my voice from sounding sad to sounding crazy angry, "And I should've asked out your friend and no one will ever find you!" And with that, I stomped away, just as Haley reached us.
I know.
I made absolutely no sense.
*insert me hanging my head in shame*
But what was I supposed to say? I wasn't really upset. I was just trying to make it look that way to Haley so that she wouldn't get suspicious in any way.
I CAN'T BELIEVE I ALMOST BLEW IT THOUGH.
I mean, really? Laughing is usually a sure sign of happiness, so making myself look happy when I'm supposed to be the exact opposite is NOT GOOD.
Curse my sense of humor.
My wonderful sense of humor.
But it really was funny, so I don't totally regret it. I mean, I did make Klaus laugh, did I not?
And that is always a good thing, no matter the circumstance.
I don't care what you say!
He came to talk to me during lunch, but I didn't really talk to him.
I almost blew it again, actually.
Curses.
Oh, and I also made myself look like a super big psycho!
That's always a good time.
Wo-oh wo-o-oh! It's a always a good time!
I'M GETTING OFF-TOPIC AGAIN.
And I was doing so well. *sobbing emoji*
Anywho…
Not much really happened.
I was sitting at my lunch table with usual people. That being, Bea, Duncan, Jo, and Katelyn. Then Klaus comes up behind me, grabs my shoulders, screams in my ear, and scares the living daylights out of me! I screamed so loud that it freaking echoed in the entire lunchroom and everyone got seriously quiet and looked over at me.
To wipe off the embarrassment, I did the natural thing. I laughed like it was the funniest thing in the world. Everyone went back to minding their own business while I laughed along with my friends at my ridiculously loud (and high-pitched, might I add) scream.
"I hate you so much, don't talk to me!" I yelled, doing an awful job of controlling my laughter. I tried to give him a few good punches, too, but I was laughing way too hard for them to do any damage.
Klaus sat down next to me laughing as well. That's when I remembered that Haley was sitting at a table not that far away, and she was probably watching every move that was being made. I looked in the direction of her lunch table and saw her looking straight at me, holding her phone up. I stopped laughing immediately.
I turned to Klaus and said seriously, "You need to leave me alone."
He smiled. "I'm not leaving. You know you want to talk to me."
I had to duck my head to hide my smile that almost turned into laughter. I quickly regained my composure, snapped my fingers, and pointed away from the table. "Go!"
He shook his head.
That tenacious boy.
"Fine," I said, pretending to be annoyed. "I'll go."
That's right. I did the smart thing and left.
If I stayed, I just would've kept on laughing, and it wasn't like Klaus was going anywhere if I stayed. He's tenacious.
I was hoping that he wouldn't follow me out again, but then I heard, "Isadora!"
I looked behind me to see Klaus getting up to follow me. Without stopping, I called back to him, flailing my arms about, "And don't follow me again, Klaus Clarke, because no one will ever find you!"
I know.
I used the 'no one will ever find you' line again.
It's a good line…
Just as I was walking out of the lunchroom, I looked back to see Duncan pulling Klaus back to the table.
Thank you, Duncan.
I wasn't sure if I could keep a serious act if my life depended on it at that point.
It was that bad.
I did feel bad, but I kept telling myself that Klaus would understand eventually, and we would be friends again, and we'd hold hands as we run into the sunset to his castle so that we may be wedded and happily ever after with singing animals and magical fairies to help us fight against the evil forces that want to destroy our happily ever after with their dark, evilness.
Well.
Maybe that entire sentence won't happen.
Maybe.
Okay, I'm kidding, I know it won't happen.
Now that I really think about it, I don't really want it to happen. That'd just be really weird and random.
Let's stick to things that I'm comfortable with for now.
Like spitting on paper.
Yeah, that's way more normal.
Anywho…(that's right, I'm not finished)
On the way home, Duncan asked me why I was being so mean to Klaus. Quigley, who didn't even know I was being mean to him until that moment, asked as well.
"Does it have something to do with what happened at Grayson's party on Sunday?" Quigley asked.
"No," I shook my head. "I just don't want to talk to him. Is that so wrong?" I had to add something to that really quickly, or else my brothers would keep on bothering me until I told them the truth. AND I COULDN'T LET THAT HAPPEN.
So I added really quickly "I'm PMSing, guys," this is where I covered my face with my hands and changed my voice so that it sounded like I was about to cry. "Just let me wallow in my self-pity, all right? *sniffle*"
They left me alone after that.
I'm so brilliant.
*evil grin emoji*
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"Forty days and counting
I'm going to sleep when
I wake up there will be
Thirty nine more days left..."
~ And Counting by Lights
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