Congratulations, Amy and Jared!
They don’t know what I’m congratulating them for yet, but
they will soon enough; and I think that they are going to be awesome parents!
That was the top story for Witch Falls
today; though Mom was the only person I passed the news on to; and she’s only
given the heads up for this to Uncle Adam and Aunt Deborah. I would have done that too, but Rowen and I
are doing a sleepover at her house tonight; so I was only home for the
after-school snack before packing a bag and heading out for the night.
Other than finding out that Amy’s pregnant, there isn’t much
to report for school today. Oh wait,
that’s coming from the perspective of a non-football fanatic. For the football players and their fans, today
was all about the final regular season game tonight. This will be shocking, but Rowen and I
actually wandered over to the school for a while to watch part of the game;
mostly because Owen took Patrick and Scott there while Patricia stayed at the
store until closing time.
Our team played against division rivals, Pinehurst; and
needed the win to earn first place in our division. It was probably one of the toughest matches
of the season so far, but Kyle Landry was again the difference-maker; and it
was the points off of defense that helped our team win by a score of
fifty-eight to thirty. The Ridge River
Raiders ended the regular season with an eight and two record, and won all five
of their division matches.
The good news is that they’re headed for the playoffs! Bad news is that high school football is not
done for the year yet in Witch
Falls.
For tonight, Rowen and I should thank our school team. Their win has Patrick and Scott fired up; and
the two boys have been so focused on football that they’ve pretty much
forgotten to bug us all night. They
stayed at the game until it was over, while Rowen and I left the game at
half-time and eventually went to hang out with her Mom at the store after going
for a long walk first. Patrick and Scott
have been having a video football competition since getting home, and Rowen and
I have been hanging out in her room and playing on our computers mostly in
peace.
Rowen’s not exactly peaceful tonight, and while that isn’t
because of little brother and sidekick trouble; it is boy-related. Leaving the game and going for that long walk
was boy-related too, and while his identity still won’t be revealed anytime
soon in these journals, I did help cheer Rowen up by giving him a pseudonym.
Tommy Walker.
Yes, the classic rock opera was way before my time, but that
little tidbit ended up in my photographic memory; and Rowen thought that it was
hilarious when I explained to her that Tommy was the ‘deaf, dumb, and blind
kid’ character that eventually found enlightenment. We both thought that the YouTube clips were
weird, and while this will end up being an inside joke that we’ll keep between
us; I think Rowen liked the suggestion that her ‘Tommy’ would eventually come
to his senses too.
By the time I open this journal up for you, and other Magi,
to read it, Rowen; you’ll know the answer to that!
That’s about it for today.
Rowen and I are going to get some sleep now, partly because we’ll both
be busy tomorrow, and mostly because it sounds like Patrick and Scott are being
ordered to shut down the football competition and go to bed. We should probably a least be pretending to
be asleep before they decide that there’s still some pranking opportunities
tonight. This has been such a good day;
we really shouldn’t end it like that, so...
...say ‘goodnight, Cassie’.
“Goodnight, Cassie.”
