Mako's Message: Hi hi. So this is a little later than I wanted, but I kept changing my mind on what I wanted to do with it. All said and done I'm happy with it... So yeah! Enjoy.
School. Hurray.
I don't have many classes with Angela this time. Like, two. I think I have lunch with her, but I'm not sure because I didn't get to eat lunch. Which I wasn't really complaining about because I wasn't ready to talk to her.
I spent most of yesterday finishing up all the paperwork for the cheerleading team. But there was more to it that I didn't know about, which is why I missed my lunch. Apparently it's my responsibility to set schedules for practices, which was something else I didn't do when I was supposed to. Luckily everybody else seemed to keep the same schedules they had last year so I was able to do the same. Mostly.
I wanted to work in an extended tryouts, since I'm pretty sure Cameron was right and people are going to quit and I'll need more time to evaluate more people. That was a little harder to work in, but I was able to do it. I don't know why the school decided that the captains should have so much responsibility, but I want to punch that person in the face.
Other than that it wasn't anything special. No crazy drama this time. It's the same school with mostly the same people, but all the new kids are sixth graders so I don't see much of them.
But I wanted to go see Dave and ask how starting college went for him.
I mean, this was new to him and I... I honestly don't know what college is like. Especially when all I've seen of it is from movies and television (which I'm sure is nothing like actual college), and he was so determined to go. I wanted to know if he liked it. It seemed like such an important thing to him so...yeah. I was curious.
I went by myself, which turned out to be a good thing, I think, because I don't know how things would have gone with him there.
Angela was there, talking to Dave.
When I saw them there everything twisted up inside me and I felt like I was going to be sick. It was like when I was about to step into a super dangerous raid, like when we took on the Rainbow Factory or the Vampire Cult. Except there was absolutely NO excitement involved.
The only thing I heard of their conversation was Angela asking, "So you feel like this the whole time?"
Dave... I won't know. I think he was going to start his next sentence with "Well" but I don't know because that's when he looked up and saw it was me. He smiled and said, "Hey Mindy. How was school?"
I told him it was boring, aside from having to spend my lunch scheduling practices.
And that lead me into one of the things I wanted to talk to Angela about. But first I had to actually apologize to her. I turned to her and said, "Angela, I need you to know that... I didn't mean to hurt you. I would never want to hurt you. I just...I was so... I was so mad I didn't know what I was doing. You are one of my two best friends. I trust you more than almost anyone." Then I took a breath and said, "And that's why I want you as my Co-Captain."
And she blinked at me as this...flurry of emotions went across her face. Like it didn't know what to do. Then it went neutral and she coughed. Sorta. Then she smiled and said, "Well, yeah! Of course you do! Did you even have to ask?" and slapped my arm. Friendly like.
I said, "So you forgive me?"
And she said, "Uh, yeah! I mean, last year someone told this girl that her best friend sexted her boyfriend, so she took a tire iron to her friend's car and totaled the fucking thing. But then it turned out the bitch who told her about it made the whole thing up. And they manged to patch things up. I mean, sure, you roughed me up pretty good, but Alice put my arm back, gave me some pain killers, and as long as I don't put any strain on it I'll be right as rain in a few days." Then she smirked and said, "Besides, I need to learn how to shrug off beatings like that, right?"
Then I started laughing and I didn't know what to say.
Angela didn't say anything either, she just say there with this weird grin on her face, so then Dave chimed it with, "Ice cream to celebrate!"
He made us a couple small, but loaded with toppings, sundaes for us.
So we started talking about school. Ya know, classes, teachers, homework(yeah, we have homework), that sort of thing.
Dave thanked me again for the bag. He said worked out really well and he liked how he felt carrying it instead of a backpack.
So, I'm glad this all worked out.
But now I need to do homework because my teachers are sadists. Hell, my English teacher decided to go for the cliché, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" thing. That is going to be LOADS of fun.
No I'm not going to say what I actually did.
