April 10
I have not seen Eliot for 2 whole days. I have looked and looked everywhere. I am worried and extremely bored. I have wandered to the graveyard and am sitting upon Rona's grave, writing. Mother and I are heading off to the Market in a while and I really wanted Eliot to come with us. I was reading back on April 7 and I saw that I had written "my Eliot". Why? Why did I write that? Sometimes I think I just start to write and my true feelings about things come out without me even noticing.
April 11
As I was sitting in the graveyard yesterday a Stupid BOY I know jumped out of a tree that was right above my head and scared the living daylights out of me!!! His name is Roger. Roger and I used to be tutored together. I was 12 maybe 13. We used to make all kinds of trouble together, and then one day he and his father just left. For no reason. Roger had no idea about him leaving he later wrote and told me. But we didn't keep in touch. He said he had come to see me on the 7th but Rachael told him that I was out in the graveyard. He had come out to the graveyard and had seen me and Eliot and had just decided not to bother us and come back later.
Roger has grown up. I barely noticed who he was and after his wonderful landing out of the tree I had screamed and ran straight for the door to the fence, but Roger caught me and told me who he was and then apologized "immensely for the scare". And then Mama, Roger and I went to the Market. Anyway as I said Roger has grown up. He is at least 6 feet tall, very strong build, he has wonderful golden hair and his eyes are the deepest, richest brown you will ever see!!! I had a wonderful time with him at the Market; we talked about when we used to go swimming after our lessons in the sea, out by the dock. Then we would go terrorize Rachael by putting bugs and the like in her hair, then me and him would go out at night and fall asleep looking up into the sky for shooting stars. I can't wait to see him tomorrow! He told me he would come by! Yes! Oh, How I have missed him!!!!!!!
April 12
Eliot woke me up this morning with a huge smile across his face, and said, "GOOD MORNING, SUNSHINE!!!" I was wondering, again, what happened to you last night? "Where have you been?" I asked then yawned so big my jaw cracked. Eliot's smile disappeared quickly again and then he said, "The Folk have been acting strange ever since you came in there last week." I was thinking okay? "So?" Then Eliot untucked his shirt and lifted it up to show his stomach. There were these awful bruises starting at his rib cage and worked there way down all along his stomach and they even went down further to where his pants were covering. "Is that what they did?!" I asked pointing at his stomach. "Yes!" He said, and pulled his shirt back down. "Well, why? Are you saying that I upset them?" That was a stupid question. "Well, yes." Eliot answered calmly.
Eliot and I went down to breakfast together and talked about why I would make the Folk so upset. We didn't come to any conclusion by the time Roger showed up around noon. Wow. Let me tell you everything that happened when the two boys met!
Okay, the door bell rang and Rachael answered the door. Roger came in and kissed my mother on the cheek and then came straight over to me and lifted my hand and kissed it!!! Hahaha, you should have seen Eliot's expression then! It was odd, I think maybe Eliot likes me... his face turned an awful sun burnt red and he turned around and headed for the cellar. He didn't say a word to Roger!!! Well, then Roger asked mother if me and him could go for a walk down by the dock. She said yes but before I went with him I told him I needed to get something from the kitchen and to wait on me outside. Then I slipped off to the cellar instead and knocked on the door. No answer. "Eliot," I said, "please come out, or let me in." The door was slowly opened but just a hair. I pushed it open further and Eliot was standing there. It kind of scared me the way he stared at me. "Yes?'' He asked, his voice strained. "I was just coming to see if you would like to come for a walk with me to the dock?" His eyebrow shot up, almost off his face! "What about that boy that just came to see you?" he asked. "Oh, that's Roger, an old friend of mine, and I told him to come back another day." I lied. He bought it.
I will write about the rest tomorrow.
I have not seen Eliot for 2 whole days. I have looked and looked everywhere. I am worried and extremely bored. I have wandered to the graveyard and am sitting upon Rona's grave, writing. Mother and I are heading off to the Market in a while and I really wanted Eliot to come with us. I was reading back on April 7 and I saw that I had written "my Eliot". Why? Why did I write that? Sometimes I think I just start to write and my true feelings about things come out without me even noticing.
April 11
As I was sitting in the graveyard yesterday a Stupid BOY I know jumped out of a tree that was right above my head and scared the living daylights out of me!!! His name is Roger. Roger and I used to be tutored together. I was 12 maybe 13. We used to make all kinds of trouble together, and then one day he and his father just left. For no reason. Roger had no idea about him leaving he later wrote and told me. But we didn't keep in touch. He said he had come to see me on the 7th but Rachael told him that I was out in the graveyard. He had come out to the graveyard and had seen me and Eliot and had just decided not to bother us and come back later.
Roger has grown up. I barely noticed who he was and after his wonderful landing out of the tree I had screamed and ran straight for the door to the fence, but Roger caught me and told me who he was and then apologized "immensely for the scare". And then Mama, Roger and I went to the Market. Anyway as I said Roger has grown up. He is at least 6 feet tall, very strong build, he has wonderful golden hair and his eyes are the deepest, richest brown you will ever see!!! I had a wonderful time with him at the Market; we talked about when we used to go swimming after our lessons in the sea, out by the dock. Then we would go terrorize Rachael by putting bugs and the like in her hair, then me and him would go out at night and fall asleep looking up into the sky for shooting stars. I can't wait to see him tomorrow! He told me he would come by! Yes! Oh, How I have missed him!!!!!!!
April 12
Eliot woke me up this morning with a huge smile across his face, and said, "GOOD MORNING, SUNSHINE!!!" I was wondering, again, what happened to you last night? "Where have you been?" I asked then yawned so big my jaw cracked. Eliot's smile disappeared quickly again and then he said, "The Folk have been acting strange ever since you came in there last week." I was thinking okay? "So?" Then Eliot untucked his shirt and lifted it up to show his stomach. There were these awful bruises starting at his rib cage and worked there way down all along his stomach and they even went down further to where his pants were covering. "Is that what they did?!" I asked pointing at his stomach. "Yes!" He said, and pulled his shirt back down. "Well, why? Are you saying that I upset them?" That was a stupid question. "Well, yes." Eliot answered calmly.
Eliot and I went down to breakfast together and talked about why I would make the Folk so upset. We didn't come to any conclusion by the time Roger showed up around noon. Wow. Let me tell you everything that happened when the two boys met!
Okay, the door bell rang and Rachael answered the door. Roger came in and kissed my mother on the cheek and then came straight over to me and lifted my hand and kissed it!!! Hahaha, you should have seen Eliot's expression then! It was odd, I think maybe Eliot likes me... his face turned an awful sun burnt red and he turned around and headed for the cellar. He didn't say a word to Roger!!! Well, then Roger asked mother if me and him could go for a walk down by the dock. She said yes but before I went with him I told him I needed to get something from the kitchen and to wait on me outside. Then I slipped off to the cellar instead and knocked on the door. No answer. "Eliot," I said, "please come out, or let me in." The door was slowly opened but just a hair. I pushed it open further and Eliot was standing there. It kind of scared me the way he stared at me. "Yes?'' He asked, his voice strained. "I was just coming to see if you would like to come for a walk with me to the dock?" His eyebrow shot up, almost off his face! "What about that boy that just came to see you?" he asked. "Oh, that's Roger, an old friend of mine, and I told him to come back another day." I lied. He bought it.
I will write about the rest tomorrow.