Disclaimer: Nope. Excerpts belong to the amazing Ann Brashares.
A/N: I neglected to mention this last time, two chapters ago, when Lizzie returns to the pool, I accidentally called Sean, Larry's brother, Scott one time. Sorry for any inconvenience. This chapter is also a journal entry of Lizzie's from her freshman year.
Reviews:
It seems that camping has the lead. If you would like another one, review or e-mail me with your choice, but as of now, camping.
Kobe-Mac: That's for me to know, and for you to find out.
Cute But Psycho: Basically, they lost touch with the departure of Parker. I'm still deciding what to say about Parker's disappearance.
Madison and BrownEyedGurl: We'll see if Parker's departure will be revealed. I'm not sure, yet.
Chapter 13: Shot Down
Journal~
December 14, 2004
Ay! Freshman year is very, shall we say, different than junior high. It's just not what I expected. It's been a lot of fun, though. Miranda and I joined the swim team at the school and my season went really well. As did Miranda's. Mostly, it's just been meeting new people. It's really weird being here, practically my whole junior high went into this high school, but I hardly see any of them anymore.
Currently, I have just been let down, again. That's about the thousandth time. I guess it's just in guys' nature to do something that pisses you off, huh? After Gordo, there's been no guy that I've been interested in that has been anything like him. We really shouldn't have lost touch with each other. It kinda sucks that that happened, but I don't really know anyway to get back in touch with him. I don't even know if he'd remember. He probably had some new girl this summer anyways. As I was saying, the guys here, don't understand anything. It makes it a little difficult for me to actually get over Gordo. No one else is up to par.
There was one guy, Alex, that I liked, but he completely ruined it. He used to throw things down my shirt. That just was the end. No more. And last year, Kevin and I really good friends and now he won't speak to me. What the hell is that? That's not Kosher. I don't accept that.
I want to see Gordo again, just for closure. I want to see him and I want him to be horrible and not remember me. I found this in The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. It's perfect:
"But maybe it had just been attraction last summer. How did you separate attraction from love? And how could you possibly think you loved someone you barely knew and hadn't seen in almost nine months and quite possibly would never see again.
"In those last hours in Santorini, Lena had certainly believed she loved him. But what lunatic would base her whole life on a few hours? And anyway, she knew better than to trust her desire-drenched memory. The Kostos she remembered probably had less and less in common with the actual Kostos as the months passed."
How true, how true. I'm not saying that I love Gordo, far from it. I'm too young to be in love. But, still, it's everything I've been thinking since I last saw him. Like, honestly, he could be a totally different person now. I don't want him to be, I'd like it if he weren't and we could run off into the sunset together (Ha!), but I know that isn't how life works out. At. All. Life sucks. As the old saying goes, "Life's a bitch, then you die." It's never going to go my way. Why should it?
I've been updated recently about the current whereabouts of Parker. She's in another country. She isn't allowed any true contact with any of us, I guess her parents think we were a bad influence on her or something. Yeah, us, the bad influence, right. I definitely remember losing my virginity to my brother's friend in eighth grade. And wait, he was a sophomore in high school. Yeah, that really happened. Note eye rollage. Whatever. I don't care what her parents think of me, it's not like I ever liked them in the first place.
A/N: The polls are still open. The three C's: Campus, Concert, or Camping. It's up to you. One vote per person.
A/N: I neglected to mention this last time, two chapters ago, when Lizzie returns to the pool, I accidentally called Sean, Larry's brother, Scott one time. Sorry for any inconvenience. This chapter is also a journal entry of Lizzie's from her freshman year.
Reviews:
It seems that camping has the lead. If you would like another one, review or e-mail me with your choice, but as of now, camping.
Kobe-Mac: That's for me to know, and for you to find out.
Cute But Psycho: Basically, they lost touch with the departure of Parker. I'm still deciding what to say about Parker's disappearance.
Madison and BrownEyedGurl: We'll see if Parker's departure will be revealed. I'm not sure, yet.
Chapter 13: Shot Down
Journal~
December 14, 2004
Ay! Freshman year is very, shall we say, different than junior high. It's just not what I expected. It's been a lot of fun, though. Miranda and I joined the swim team at the school and my season went really well. As did Miranda's. Mostly, it's just been meeting new people. It's really weird being here, practically my whole junior high went into this high school, but I hardly see any of them anymore.
Currently, I have just been let down, again. That's about the thousandth time. I guess it's just in guys' nature to do something that pisses you off, huh? After Gordo, there's been no guy that I've been interested in that has been anything like him. We really shouldn't have lost touch with each other. It kinda sucks that that happened, but I don't really know anyway to get back in touch with him. I don't even know if he'd remember. He probably had some new girl this summer anyways. As I was saying, the guys here, don't understand anything. It makes it a little difficult for me to actually get over Gordo. No one else is up to par.
There was one guy, Alex, that I liked, but he completely ruined it. He used to throw things down my shirt. That just was the end. No more. And last year, Kevin and I really good friends and now he won't speak to me. What the hell is that? That's not Kosher. I don't accept that.
I want to see Gordo again, just for closure. I want to see him and I want him to be horrible and not remember me. I found this in The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. It's perfect:
"But maybe it had just been attraction last summer. How did you separate attraction from love? And how could you possibly think you loved someone you barely knew and hadn't seen in almost nine months and quite possibly would never see again.
"In those last hours in Santorini, Lena had certainly believed she loved him. But what lunatic would base her whole life on a few hours? And anyway, she knew better than to trust her desire-drenched memory. The Kostos she remembered probably had less and less in common with the actual Kostos as the months passed."
How true, how true. I'm not saying that I love Gordo, far from it. I'm too young to be in love. But, still, it's everything I've been thinking since I last saw him. Like, honestly, he could be a totally different person now. I don't want him to be, I'd like it if he weren't and we could run off into the sunset together (Ha!), but I know that isn't how life works out. At. All. Life sucks. As the old saying goes, "Life's a bitch, then you die." It's never going to go my way. Why should it?
I've been updated recently about the current whereabouts of Parker. She's in another country. She isn't allowed any true contact with any of us, I guess her parents think we were a bad influence on her or something. Yeah, us, the bad influence, right. I definitely remember losing my virginity to my brother's friend in eighth grade. And wait, he was a sophomore in high school. Yeah, that really happened. Note eye rollage. Whatever. I don't care what her parents think of me, it's not like I ever liked them in the first place.
A/N: The polls are still open. The three C's: Campus, Concert, or Camping. It's up to you. One vote per person.