Cindy was lying on her bed studying for the test tomorrow. Her legs were curled and her diary sat out along with a massive collection of books. Cindy had just had Libby over for dinner and had her over to help her finish her test. "There...I'm all done!" Cindy smiled brightly at all of her answers and closed her notebook. She clipped her fizzy pink pen to the side and flopped backwards on her bed. Cindy then sprawled her hands out like she was making a snow angel. She changed her view over to one of her hot pink pillows, edged with fuzzy fuzz and held it close to her heart. Cindy's room had changed very little. She still kept all of her childhood toys but instead of them laid out she had the displayed around the top of her walls. Her bed no longer had the princess-looking canopy but was more of a modern teenage look. It favored a strong pink with white and light purple with pink fuzz almost everywhere you looked. She had lots of wooden dressers and nick-knacks to even it out a bit. Her room was never junky and she always cleaned it. She soon became bored and began to think of things that she had done today. Jimmy...Candy Bar...feelings...crush...love...hate...killin' Betty Quinlyn... I got to stop this! Cindy rolled to her side, still clutching her pillow. Now she was in the fix for a mental battle Jimmy is...difficult. I can never go through with anything. I mean...He'll never understand
You have never told him anything, you haven't even told Libby everything!
What is there to tell?
You like Jimmy and you just can't admit it. C'mon you have liked him ever since he moved to Retroville. Sure maybe at times he's a pain but still you like him.
So what do you want me to do? March up to Jimmy and tell him " Hi Jimmy, I have had an enormous crush on you since like, the 5th grade, do ya like me too?"
Well that's a pretty fast start, short sweet and to the point...wanna try it?
NO! I can't run up to him and tell him that, I can just forget it! I mean what does it matter!
It matters to you! Cindy, we can't this one crush ruin our lives! Just ask him and if he says no get over it.
Okay 3 questions : Who said anything about telling Jimmy anything, and what if I can't get over it, and since when has there been a WE and OUR life?
You ask too many questions! Look, sooner or later you're going to have to tell Jimmy the truth. You can't hide it forever and---
Why can't I! I have this long!
If you had let me finish...yeesh! The pressure is going to build up and you'll let it all out trust me, and you can't let Betty Quinlyn steal his heart! Besides Jimmy will figure it out sooner or later.
Yeah right, Jimmy wouldn't know if a girl had feelings for him ever if they gave him every sign in the book!
Well whose fault is that?
HEY! Watch it! And Betty is nothing to Jimmy, she is such a little prep! Jimmy is so stupid for hanging out with her. She probably makes him shop for her and carry her purse around.
How do you know, Jimmy has been hanging around her for some time and he's been enjoying it. Why can't you be happy for him?
Lemme guess you and Libby have met?
We've got a meeting pending. And you know good and well she's right about Betty and Jimmy relationships affecting you. Besides I hate the little brat as well. She thinks she's all that with her "hand-sewn" clothing! Man, I hate her!
Hey aren't you supposed to be giving me good advice? You have to have good info to all of my enemies and friends?
I am? I just thought that I was your inner conscious helping you to make the good decisions in life. And just because I give you the self pep talks don't mean I'm not a bad girl, I do have to live with one.
Okay...I'm a bit confused on how I'm having a conversation with myself, this is a bit crazy
Uh, you already have past crazy, but hey what else is new? I got to go! Chow!
Cindy quickly rubbed her eyes and sat up. "Oh, it must have been a dream!" Cindy got off her bed and stretched well. Her eyes quickly caught sight of the moon in her window. She ran over and leaned on the windowsill placing her elbows on the top of the windowsill and flipped her head back slightly to move the hair from her face. "Wow, this is so beautiful!" Cindy turned around and leaned on the wall to the right of the window. Just then Cindy's phone ran. She ran and leaped into the air, doing a small flip towards her bed. She landed perfectly doing a spilt and snatched the phone from its stand. She clutched her legs and laid back down on her bed, her hair just fell right to the side of her. "Hello?"
"uh, hi Cindy" Cindy clutched the phone in her palm and panicked slightly. jimmy calling me! Here, Now? Take it easy Cindy, just breath... She took a small breath and exhaled. She pulled the phone to her ear and responded...
"Hi Jimmy, how are you?" She took in another breath slowly and calmed herself some more. But began gnawing on her nails.
"I am good, uh look... Cindy, Betty Quinlyn had invited me to her skating party and she told me to invite all of my friends. It's tomorrow after school at 7:00. so you wanna come?
"Is Betty Quinlyn going to be there?"
"uh yeah, I suppose it's her party..."
"Oh"
Silence was now set in. Cindy chewed on the last bit of nails she had. Jimmy was scratching his head hard trying to think of what to say next. Then it hit him...
"Cindy"
"Yeah" Cindy sat up now, awaiting...
"Are you---um..was there something bothering you at the Candy Bar...I mean did I do something to upset you?"
"..." Cindy was now stuck. She could either deal with this problem now or make a new one. Just take a guess on which one she chose...
"yeah..."
"so...what was it?"
"you...you...uh, didn't say hi to me?"
"Is that a question to me or were you not done?"
"why do you have to be such a know-it-all Neutron!"
"I didn't do anything, I just asked a question! See, here we go again! You're arguing over the stupidest of things with me!"
"Back that up with some evidence Neutron, I recall you getting smart in order to start a fight with me! I never started anything! Watch who you blame things on!"
"If you listed carefully Vortex, you would know that I just said you're arguing over the stupidest of things!"
"With me! You forgot with me!"
"What?"
"I remember what you said, your sentence was: You're arguing over the stupidest of things with me!" Don't you remember Einstein! This would show that you were blaming me for the start of this argument! It takes two to start an argument anyway Neutron!"
"But it only takes one to have a problem"
"What?...what is that suppose to mean?"
"I mean, what's wrong with you Cindy, you're always mad, you never want to hang out, you sit in your room all day and whenever I talk to you, it's just us fighting--"
"Isn't that what you want?"
"What! what are you talking about Cindy!"
"Look...thanks Jimmy for inviting me, I'll see you tomorrow at school. bye"
Cindy hung up the phone and plopped her face in her pillow. Two damp puddles were seen on each side of her face as only small sniffles were heard as she cried herself to sleep that night.
"Cindy! Wait, I don't under...stand" Jimmy only heard the phone click and nothing more. He threw the phone to the floor next to the picture of him and his friends. He faced the picture and to phone but only reached to turn out his light. "Like I said, I'll never know..." Jimmy laid in his bed and soon fell asleep.
Okay for the people that did not understand Jimmy and Cindy's argument. Jimmy had started off with : Is that a question to me or were you not done?. Though Jimmy was right with the fact that he did ask a question, the sarcastic way of responding lead Cindy to anger. Cindy felt she had to defend herself because she knew she was lying and she needed to cover it up. The only way she could avoid telling the truth was to get Jimmy into an argument. And thus he would forget. The next repine from Cindy was wood to a fire, she knew that hitting Jimmy's egotistical side would get him upset, which is why her statement: why do you have to be such a know-it-all Neutron! This set Jimmy in the argumentative state. So on to breaking down what Jimmy said next:
(I didn't do anything,)
This is wrong because whenever someone says that you started something, you aren't helping the situation by saying you didn't do anything. They will just say that you did again, thus starting a battle of who's right.
(I just asked a question!)
True, but he did this sarcastically, just asking for an argument.
(You're arguing over the stupidest of things with me!)
Two things to keep in mind, (1) "You're" are short for "You are". (2) A pronoun is a word like: he, me, she, them... etc. "You" is a pronoun as well.
To replace the pronouns with what Jimmy said here, he's technically saying:
Cindy is arguing over the stupidest of things with Jimmy. Pay attention to this because this important. And also some may wonder why I didn't type: Cindy is arguing over the most stupidest things with Jimmy. Well, read it for yourself! Loll Though Cindy is the "you" in the sentence it's improper grammar it's like saying: If we were good, can we get a piece of gum? The sentence should be said like so: If we are good, can we get a piece of gum? If you need further help on this, get some grammar books.
Cindy's next response:
(Back that up with some evidence Neutron, I recall you getting smart in order to cause a fight with me!)
This is false because Cindy was wrong with the first thing she said (which was Jimmy never said hi to her at the Candy Bar), so she started the fight because she wanted to fight (sorry that might be confusing . '), but remember she wanted this to be undetectable to Jimmy. Since she made up the "Jimmy didn't say hi to her thing" Jimmy knew she was lying which made him say his sarcastic line. So Cindy bit back to keep the lie safe. And to replace the real answer to Jimmy's question, she started an argument to get him to forget. (Is that too much?)
(I never started anything!)
Once again, it's just like saying "I didn't do anything!" You're not helping!
(Watch who you blame things on!)
This is true because when Jimmy said you're arguing over the stupidest of things with me! He was infecting saying: Cindy is arguing over the stupidest of things with Jimmy! (But he couldn't say that because he is Jimmying! So you replace the noun "Jimmy" with the pronoun "me" to make sense) Once again, Cindy is leaving more and more room for an argument to thrive (but she wants this)
Jimmy comes back with:
(If you listened carefully Vortex, you would know that I just said you're arguing over the stupidest of things!)
Right, but one thing he forgot was:
(With me! You forgot with me!)
Cindy was actually finishing his sentence, which was: You're arguing over the stupidest of things with me! Jimmy cut off his own sentence without knowing it; she brought this back up to show him his mistake. Of course the way she said it made Jimmy say:
(What!)
With Cindy saying with me in Jimmy's place it would make no sense to him.
Example:
You say to your friend: I have 3 friends named Bob, Bobby and Bobbie. Now if your friend repeats that to you, would it make sense? No, because you said that you had three friends not your friend. So for Cindy to say with me, itwould not make sense when put in Jimmy if said to him, it would be like saying: Cindy is arguing over the stupidest of things with Cindy. (To Jimmy)
Thus Cindy has to explain herself with:
(I remember what you said, your sentence was: You're arguing over the stupidest of things with me!" Don't you remember Einstein! This would show that you were blaming me for the start of this argument!)
So for the last sentence she said:
(This would show that you were blaming me for the start of this argument!)
This is true because from his statement (without the pronoun "you're") Cindy is arguing over the stupidest of things with me.
So if Jimmy said this (the bold letters above) to her he was saying that she is the cause of the argument! So now do you understand? IF not it's really not important, but this part of the story makes a whole lot of sense if you do. For the people that understood, I'm proud of you! This isn't rocket science; it just is a bit of grammar fun. Now on to the next chapter!