Chapter 3: Why?
LIBBY: But just remember Vortex, I was there too! Ya, me! Me! I have been there with you all the time, whether or not you were friends with Jimmy and I have never bailed on you! You now for the first time in seven years has let me down! What do you have to say about that!
Libby stormed off before Cindy could really answer
CINDY: (out loud) Well fine if you want to be that way!
Cindy watched Libby as she left. She kept her eyes on her until she was as gone as the wind. Cindy then went home. Her eyes began to water. When she got in between Jimmy and Cindy's house, Jimmy was there, standing and waiting for her. Before Jimmy could even say a word to help sympathize Cindy, she spoke up
CINDY: (crying) Forget it Neutron.
Cindy continued her way to her house. She opened the door, entered, shut it and locked it. Her mother once again wasn't home. Cindy went to her room and wrote in her diary
CINDY: (writing in her diary) I guess it's officially over. After becoming friends with Jimmy, I think my friendship with Libby is over. But really, I can't blame her for being angry with me. It's me who should take the blame. For not coming on time to shop with her best friend but to be with her ex-enemy and icing cookies. I still don't know about Jimmy and I being friends again. I don't think that's official but I bet for forgetting about Libby and shopping, Libby would never forgive me. Ever.
Cindy sighed to herself and dropped her pen. She had no more deep thoughts in mind and so capped her special pink-ink pen decorated with pink, sky blue and white rhinestones all over the pen. She put her pen away and tucked her diary under her bed and laid on her bed
CINDY: (talking to herself out loud) If only I remembered. At least remembered to look at the time. Then shopping with Libby would have hit my mind. But I didn't. I can't believe after apologizing to Jimmy, we kinda become friends again and start icing Mrs. Neutron's palatable lemon cookies and end with a wrecked friendship with Libby, and after seven years. Why?