Vince's POV
Vacation is the best time of year. Seriously. No school – who couldn't love that?! I actually slept in today until my mom yelled at me that it was eleven and TJ called at ten. So I picked up the phone and called him back.
I carefully punched in the number. It was so easy: 833-2241. He picked up almost instantly. "Hey, LaSalle," he said.
"'Sup Detwiller," I said back.
"I need to talk to you about something."
That kind of shocked me. TJ wasn't all that honest with me lately for some reason. "Sure, Teej, what is it?"
His line went quiet. "Well – my friend, uh, CJ likes this girl named, uhm, uh, Trinelli, and he's not sure how to talk to her."
"By CJ do you mean you and by Trinelli do you mean Spinelli?"
"Uh, kind of."
I laughed. "I have been waiting for this ever since third grade! Now we're almost in ninth grade. Way to play hard to get! I could get Gretchen to talk to her."
"GRETCHEN?! Are you kidding me?!"
"Well, they are best friends, Teej."
"I know, but Gretchen? Do you want me to die?"
"Well, do you have any bright ideas, Teej?"
Not to my surprise, he went silent. "Well, uh, ya, you see…"
"You've got nothing!" I was laughing like mad for some reason.
"Not true. I started to get a plan from Mikey, the weird thing is he said he was planning it for himself and then he just stopped."
That dumbstruck me. Mikey never stopped mid sentence like that. "Huh. Well, let's hear it anyway."
"Tender."
I smiled. Even though we were starting high school, TJ kept his catch phrase. "Anyways," he said, "Somehow we've got to get Spinelli to realize one of her good friends likes her."
"How are we going to do that?!"
"HOW SHOULD I KNOW?!" TJ hung up. I sighed. I was waiting for him to call back, but he never did, so I texted Spinelli. We had fifth and seventh period together.
My schedule was keyboarding, biology, English, geometry, lunch, Spanish, and then P.E. It was awesome that I had lunch with all my pals and P.E. with them, too.
Keyboarding – I wondered what that was. Gretchen said something about computers I think, but I can't be certain. And the teacher is really cool, too – Miss Grotke from Third Street got promoted to a high school teacher, and she got hired as the keyboarding teacher. This will be enjoyable!
Biology – I hoped that was better than science last year. That was a drag. The teacher, Miss Dearborne, was nice and all, but it was so boring. Once Spinelli dropped her inhaler in a hazardous chemical and it melted. That was pretty funny to me, but Spinelli's friend Fisty told me to be quiet. Anyway, Mr. Newsome seemed nice.
English – other than P.E., that was my best class. English was a fun class, especially with the teacher, Mr. Mathews. Mr. Mathews was the coolest English teacher ever! He let you bring video games to class on test days to do after the test as long as there's no sound on, or you can even text, or a lot of things. He sets you up in groups of four as long as there are enough people. He's really cool.
Geometry – I got put in the honors class somehow. I didn't know there was Honors Geometry, but I guess you learn something everyday. I passed Pre-Algebra Honors and Algebra I Honors with "flying colors" as Mr. Brink and Mrs. Hirsch told me. I didn't like Mr. Brink though everyone else did. Mrs. Hirsch was my favorite teacher last year. I guess she thought I was excellent, so in a few days I'm meeting her good friend Ms. Bridges.
Lunch was my favorite class, and I'm getting Mrs. Adrian as lunch room monitor. Mrs. Adrian is the dance teacher for every other period, but fifth period is her lunch so she's lunch room monitor. She's really nice. And I have this class with my friends, which is a bonus.
Spanish – I had to take one foreign language, and my options were Dutch, Swedish, or Spanish. I thought Spanish sounded easiest, so I picked that. Senorita Rodriguez seemed nice enough. She spoke English every once in a while, mostly to tell us to stop texting or something.
P.E. – that's another great one. Mr. Stivers is the funniest P.E. teacher ever. He's really funny and doesn't choose partners for you when you need to do something in partners, unlike Mrs. Schiffman and Mr. Barajas do. Mr. Stivers is also the boys' basketball coach. This class is going to rock because I also have it with my best friends.
For once, I can't wait for school!
I know it's short, but I couldn't think of anything other than Vince's schedule. I have writer's block!! Grrr! Also, I was thinking about my other story Island II and what I have to do in an upcoming chapter. And by the way – I lose.
You see, 'I lose' is a part of a game called The Game. The Game is where if you think of The Game you have to say "I lose," and you have to wait for thirty minutes until you can lose again.
Loooooong story. And you have to play from now on. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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