Welcome back to Riley's world! Today I found myself sitting back in the desk I sat in ten days ago as I watched the clock count down for spring break. It seemed a bit different, but the people I was hoping to not see today were surprisingly absent and their absence was obviously noticed. The first day back was extremely tiring. In Leadership 7 we just got a new big project that is worth 35% of our final grade for this reporting period. I was excited to begin this project when I read the description and we were asked to choose a role model and make a powepoint all about them and how they were a leader to society. Our teacher gave us a list of role models we could chose from and I was pysched when I saw the person I am obsessed with and admire as one of the first options. Audrey Hepburn. I am like obsessed with Audrey Hepburn and her work in Hollywood and how well she coped with her life as a star. Audrey isn't exactly from our generation, as she was born on May 4th of 1929. I was super hyped when I asked the teacher if she was already taken and she said no. "Okay, I'm doing her!" I belted out in happiness. She agreed that I made a great choice. For the last 20 minutes of class, I worked hard to research her as much as I could to learn the things I did not know. This project is going to be one I can relate to, which will make it easier to do in the long run. After class, a disappointed Maya came up to me to ask who I was doing for the assignment. "Audrey Hepburn!" I cheered, and almost bragged to my best friend. "No, please no" Maya hesitated, as I know she's always been a let down in conversations I create about Audrey. "I saw her on the list and knew you'd be the first to chose her" Maya remarked exhaustedly. "Who are you doing?" I curiously questioned Maya, staring at her without a single blink. "I don't really care about this class or this project" Maya went on, "So I didn't chose, but I texted Gretchen and found out that we got a extra $50 to pay for the vandalism we did a few years ago!" Maya smiled like she was proud of such foolish decisions she made in the past. "So who are you doing for thr project?" I questioned, ignoring her rediculous story. "Ugh, it's Catherine the Great. What did she do that's so great anyway?" Maya's mood changed from relieved to annoyed faster than I could blink. "That's what you're supposed to find out!" I said lightening the mood. "They should call her Catherine not-so-great, because whatever she did can't be any greater than the $50 I no longer owe the community center!" Maya rejoiced. Sometimes I wonder why she's not proud of who she is, but she seems overly proud of the terrible mistakes she has made over the last years.
Later in English class, we found tests faced down on every desk in the classroom. "We have a test today?" Maya asked furiously. "Yes! That's why I said you only need a penicl for English!" the teacher snapped at her. "Sometimes I feel like they don't listen" the teacher said to her teacher's helper, who agreed with her. Class went by so slowly as we completed this test, which turned out to be a reading comprehension test. I looked over at Maya, in the row beside me, diagonally from my direction. "She's not going know a thing on this test" I thought anxiously. To my surprise, I wasn't wrong. Maya dropped her pencil on her desk as her head fell weakly into her hands through frustration. She sighed. I sighed, worrying that this will hurt her grades more than her brain. I saw her looking around the majority of the time, realizing she couldn't even be done half this test, which I was almost finished. We had English again after lunch, maybe she'd have more energy to think after eating. I store back down at my paper. All the words and phrases, poems and stories, even I was getting sick of it. Maya dropped her head on her desk in exhaustion. Right as the bell wrang, Maya flung her head up in relief and handed her test forward. "Riley..." I heard a voice in my head saying. "Riley, Riley..." I kept hearing, so soft and gently. "Riley!!" it yelled, I woke from my imagination to see the kid sitting behind me yelling at me. "Riley! Pass the tests forward!" He cried. "Oh, right!" I said nervously handing the tests forward.
"Okay, we are starting a new project in religion today, relating to our until on forgiveness" our teacher smiled. We have the same religion and english teacher, so we didn't have to move classes between 3rd and 4th period. "You are to chose a fairytale where the protagonist and the antagonist, DO NOT forgive each other, and re-write the ending so that they do. You can do this in the form of a video, a comic or a story" she said. I looked back at Lucas and smiled. "Partners?" I asked hopefully. "The boys asked me to be in their group already, but I'll tell 'em I already have a partner!" he smiled. "Thanks!" I smiled. Relieved and almost hypnotized, I was happy that Lucas would leave his friends' group to partner up with me. Lucas and I started discussing which form of presentation we are going to do and what fairytale we were gonna chose. Maya sat not far, all by herself, anxiously playing with her paper. "Why didn't you partner up with Maya?" Lucas asked. "Huh?" I replied in confussion, as I turned to see Maya sitting alone, looking a lot more depressed than she usually did. "But I wanted to work with you!" I cried in disappointment. "But she's your best friend, you're better than that" he remarked. I knew deep down Lucas was right, and all I've wanted to do was impress him, and the only way to impress him right then and there, would be to be the grown up I am, and work with Maya. "We should at least let her join our group" he suggested. "Or my buds will let me re-join their group" he added. "Okay, you're right. When Maya wounds up with the girls in gym class like she usually does, we can be partners!" I smiled. Lucas agreed and went to join back up with his buddies. I waltzed over to Maya, who looked like she hadn't moved a muscle for the past 15 minutes. "Hey, you okay?" I asked. "I'm always okay" she responded. "Bud over" I demanded. Maya scooted onto half of her chair, making just enough room for me to plop down beside her. "How'zit going?" I asked happily. "It's going fine" she responded. "So what are we going to do for the project?" she asked. "I thought you were with Lucas?" Maya asked. "Yeah well, I realized that my best friend has to come first" I smiled. "He made you do it" she said looking forwards. "Yup" I nodded my head. "Rapunzel!!" I gasped. "What?" She asked confused. "We'll do Rapunzel!" I added. "Okay, fine. What format are we using?" she asked. "Well not a video" I responded. "Nah, we don't have enough people" Maya pointed out. "We could do a comic!" I smiled. Maya nodded in agreement. "You could do the drawing and I could color!" I suggested. "Sounds fair" Maya agreed. So I started writing out our story line as Maya sat there and texted Gretchen about the money they gained for who-knows-what. Class ended quickly and we agreed our project was onto a good start. "You were right, Lucas" I said walking down the hallway. "Was I?" he asked smiling. "I should work with Maya, we can work together next time!" I pleasantly mentioned.
After lunch, science class started and Maya was nowhere to be seen. "Has anybody seen Maya?" the teacher asked. Everyone looked around, shrugging their shoulders, looking at others for answers. "I'll go find her" I said, leaving the class. I checked her locker, the bathroom and her friends' lockers. I went down to the other end of the school and there she was in the bathroom, scraping mud off her shoes with multiple sheets of paper towel. "Maya? What happened?" I asked. "My friend dropped her shoe in the lake and I went and got it for her" she said. "Why would you do that? What was in it for you?" I asked confused. "An extra strip of fruit candy!" Maya said ever so seriously. I helped her wipe all the mud off her shoes, and it took almost the whole period. When we were finished, we rushed back to class and took the last 15 minutes of science notes. I asked the teacher if he could do a meeting with my mom and tomorrow after school and then I made my way to my next class, which was none other than my dads. History was extremely boring, we took pages and pages of notes, then it was over. Then we had our second period of english and continued writing that exam I am scared to see the results for. Then last period we had...well I don't really remember! Haha, well I hope you all enjoyed my second post, comment down below for more posts! The more comments I get, the more posts I'll do! If I get none, I'll just do one per day at most. Remember, you can comment if you have a Google+ and/or Blogger profile! See ya later guys, bye!!
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