Chapter 3
Forget me not
The following Sunday afternoon, I went through all of my journals. I had been keeping journals since I was ten. All though it was pretty amateur stuff, I still enjoyed going through them. My collection consisted of probably fifteen journals. I read one entry from when I was on an expedition with my parents in France. They had put me in a hotel, while they went out to find something. It was a Parisian myth of some sort. I would spend the afternoons coloring or drawing. One entry was describing the perfect models I had seen in a magazine.
June13, 1999
The models in this magazine are so small. They look so perfect and poised. Small waist, big eyes, cool clothes. I want to be just like them. They travel but not the kind of traveling I do. My traveling is more being dragged around the world because there's no place to put me. The photographers take pictures of them in their beaded dresses modeling what is in this season. The designers make clothes especially for them with a price range middle class people could never reach. With the Gucci, Armoni and Calvin Klien labels that cost an extra thousand. That's what the boutiques are here. They are simply beautiful and everyone knows it. The craze is catching on, New York City, Los Angelos, Paris, and many more. I am due to meet my parents pretty soon so I have to end this entry.
Josie
I laughed thinking how I have grown from articles about models and there expensive clothes to a depth my mind has reached as a teenager. I put down my journals and stood up. I went over and looked out the window. The phone rang and my thoughts about who I am evaporated.
"Hello" I answered being polite the way I was thought in case it was someone for my parents or even my parents.
"Hey, Josie. How's it going?"asked Ellie.
"Not bad, you?"
"Everything's fine, I was wondering if you wanted to go to the movies and see Swimfan with the us tonight."
"Who's us?"
"Marco, Craig, Ashley, Emma, Manny, Spinner." she replied as if she were counting on her fingers.
"Sure, what time do you want me to meet you guys?"
"How about five."
"But it'll be dark.." I joked.
"Just don't think about the axe murders around the corner." She laughed.
"Can I bring a flash light?"
"Do you want me to come over, hold your hand and walk you there? No wait that's Craig's job."
"Shut-up." I said laughing.
"So we'll see you there right?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'll be there." I hung up the phone, immediately went to my closet and picked out a denim skirt and black rock-star belt. I grabbed a white blouse and a black cami. I put it all on and knee-highs with some platform loafers. I tossed my hair up. I put some black eyeliner on my lids and some darker lipstick on. All together it looked like the doomed version of "Baby one more time." But in a good way. I grabbed my purse and walked out the door.
As I walked the two blocks to the movie theatre I found myself walking up Crag's street. It wasn't on purpose it just kind of happened. Like my brain and my feet weren't connected. A light was on and Craig was walking out the door answering several of Joey's questions. I turned around and I walked faster and faster with every coming step. Until she finally broke into a run.
"Hey guys." She greeted like nothing happened.
"Sup?" asked Marco
"Hey." Nodded Spinner.
"Oh you made, thought we would have to send Craig. Now we need to lay down some ground rules between the young frisky pair. No googly eyes, no absolutely no making out. After all no one wants to see that. And if you two are getting too tempted then I will sit between you two."
"Hey guys, what's up?" Craig said.
"Just laying down rules for you and Julie- I mean Josie. Wow isn't that ironic."Ellie babbled.
"Ellie?" I asked in a sweet voice.
"Yeah Josie?"
"Will you shut up?" I said in the same voice.
"There's no garuntees," she said.
We went in a watched the movie. Seated in an order that went Marco, Ellie, Josie, Craig, Spinner, Ashley, Sean, Emma and Manny. Once in a while Craig and I would hold hands but then would quickly pretend that I was trying to look for something other then his hand.
"Well that was a good movie." Said Emma in a sarcastic tone probably still pissed that she had to sit next to Sean.
"Yeah it was kind of corny." I agreed. "You love me I know it!" I said braking into my impression of Madison. That made the group laugh.
Craig volunteered to walk me home. So we walked away holding hands. "Eh!" said Ellie. "We're not in the theatre anymore so it doesn't count." I said.
"So." Said Craig.
"So" I mimicked.
"What's up with you?"
"Nothing, going to go home and finish my homework." I said.
"You didn't finish your homework?"
"Nope, I'm living on the edge tonight." I said joking. We stood in silence for a few minutes. Then he leaned in to kiss me.
"I'm warning you, I have the worlds most putrid breath right now!" I said
"Then you'll just have to wait till tomorrow morning when I walk you to school."
"It's such a ways out of your way though." I said, trying to persuade him that my breath is worse in the morning.
"I am going to be here at seven forty tomorrow, wether you like it or not." He said smiling.
"Ok, see you tomorrow" I said opening the front door.
"Well I don't know if I can wait that long for a kiss." He whined.
"Fine." I kissed my hand and blew it tom him.
"Caught it." He said.
"Night Craig."
"Night Josie."
The following Sunday afternoon, I went through all of my journals. I had been keeping journals since I was ten. All though it was pretty amateur stuff, I still enjoyed going through them. My collection consisted of probably fifteen journals. I read one entry from when I was on an expedition with my parents in France. They had put me in a hotel, while they went out to find something. It was a Parisian myth of some sort. I would spend the afternoons coloring or drawing. One entry was describing the perfect models I had seen in a magazine.
June13, 1999
The models in this magazine are so small. They look so perfect and poised. Small waist, big eyes, cool clothes. I want to be just like them. They travel but not the kind of traveling I do. My traveling is more being dragged around the world because there's no place to put me. The photographers take pictures of them in their beaded dresses modeling what is in this season. The designers make clothes especially for them with a price range middle class people could never reach. With the Gucci, Armoni and Calvin Klien labels that cost an extra thousand. That's what the boutiques are here. They are simply beautiful and everyone knows it. The craze is catching on, New York City, Los Angelos, Paris, and many more. I am due to meet my parents pretty soon so I have to end this entry.
Josie
I laughed thinking how I have grown from articles about models and there expensive clothes to a depth my mind has reached as a teenager. I put down my journals and stood up. I went over and looked out the window. The phone rang and my thoughts about who I am evaporated.
"Hello" I answered being polite the way I was thought in case it was someone for my parents or even my parents.
"Hey, Josie. How's it going?"asked Ellie.
"Not bad, you?"
"Everything's fine, I was wondering if you wanted to go to the movies and see Swimfan with the us tonight."
"Who's us?"
"Marco, Craig, Ashley, Emma, Manny, Spinner." she replied as if she were counting on her fingers.
"Sure, what time do you want me to meet you guys?"
"How about five."
"But it'll be dark.." I joked.
"Just don't think about the axe murders around the corner." She laughed.
"Can I bring a flash light?"
"Do you want me to come over, hold your hand and walk you there? No wait that's Craig's job."
"Shut-up." I said laughing.
"So we'll see you there right?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'll be there." I hung up the phone, immediately went to my closet and picked out a denim skirt and black rock-star belt. I grabbed a white blouse and a black cami. I put it all on and knee-highs with some platform loafers. I tossed my hair up. I put some black eyeliner on my lids and some darker lipstick on. All together it looked like the doomed version of "Baby one more time." But in a good way. I grabbed my purse and walked out the door.
As I walked the two blocks to the movie theatre I found myself walking up Crag's street. It wasn't on purpose it just kind of happened. Like my brain and my feet weren't connected. A light was on and Craig was walking out the door answering several of Joey's questions. I turned around and I walked faster and faster with every coming step. Until she finally broke into a run.
"Hey guys." She greeted like nothing happened.
"Sup?" asked Marco
"Hey." Nodded Spinner.
"Oh you made, thought we would have to send Craig. Now we need to lay down some ground rules between the young frisky pair. No googly eyes, no absolutely no making out. After all no one wants to see that. And if you two are getting too tempted then I will sit between you two."
"Hey guys, what's up?" Craig said.
"Just laying down rules for you and Julie- I mean Josie. Wow isn't that ironic."Ellie babbled.
"Ellie?" I asked in a sweet voice.
"Yeah Josie?"
"Will you shut up?" I said in the same voice.
"There's no garuntees," she said.
We went in a watched the movie. Seated in an order that went Marco, Ellie, Josie, Craig, Spinner, Ashley, Sean, Emma and Manny. Once in a while Craig and I would hold hands but then would quickly pretend that I was trying to look for something other then his hand.
"Well that was a good movie." Said Emma in a sarcastic tone probably still pissed that she had to sit next to Sean.
"Yeah it was kind of corny." I agreed. "You love me I know it!" I said braking into my impression of Madison. That made the group laugh.
Craig volunteered to walk me home. So we walked away holding hands. "Eh!" said Ellie. "We're not in the theatre anymore so it doesn't count." I said.
"So." Said Craig.
"So" I mimicked.
"What's up with you?"
"Nothing, going to go home and finish my homework." I said.
"You didn't finish your homework?"
"Nope, I'm living on the edge tonight." I said joking. We stood in silence for a few minutes. Then he leaned in to kiss me.
"I'm warning you, I have the worlds most putrid breath right now!" I said
"Then you'll just have to wait till tomorrow morning when I walk you to school."
"It's such a ways out of your way though." I said, trying to persuade him that my breath is worse in the morning.
"I am going to be here at seven forty tomorrow, wether you like it or not." He said smiling.
"Ok, see you tomorrow" I said opening the front door.
"Well I don't know if I can wait that long for a kiss." He whined.
"Fine." I kissed my hand and blew it tom him.
"Caught it." He said.
"Night Craig."
"Night Josie."