It’s been a rainy day in Witch Falls,
but that hasn’t kept us from having fun.
For our class, while I’ve actually been trying not to think
about it all week, Gretchen’s birthday party tomorrow night topped the
conversation list – her first boy-girl party.
I know I should just relax and deal with things like this, but don’t
seem to be able to handle the fact that I have a very low tolerance for tween
weird very well.
A good example of that happened at lunchtime. Rowen and I escaped to the music room so we
could avoid the worst of the chat among our friends about how cool it was going
to be having a Friday night party with minimal adult supervision. Michael and Lisa had both joined us by the
time we’d gotten our instruments out and were warming up, and the weird got
stranger – and more annoying – from there.
This first comment isn’t going to sound particularly great,
but to be honest; Lisa doesn’t really have either the interest in or aptitude
for playing music. Trying to practice
along with the three best students in our class just makes that more obvious;
and I’m sure she realized that as quickly as I did today. While Lisa and I haven’t really gotten to be
friends, we have always gotten along just fine, but she isn’t happy about how
Michael acts around me; and really gets annoyed anytime the sax jokes start
flying. The difference in our musical
abilities certainly put her off, and if that wasn’t bad enough; Tim and Nora
stopped in too, and though their teasing was meant to be fun, it probably moved
Lisa along from being annoyed to borderline angry; and pushed the weird scale
way too far for me to find anything funny about the situation.
Michael is like his father, and it takes a lot to get him
angry or annoyed, so Tim at least knew when he’d gone too far with his best
friend, and beat a hasty retreat. None
of us were really interested in practicing after that, but we went through the
motions for another ten minutes before packing up. Rowen and I left the room right away, but I
don’t think that Michael and Lisa did until just before we all needed to get to
our next class. Yet again, I’m left
wondering why on earth Aunt Leanne thinks that I need to rush into crossing
over and dealing with messes like that.
After having that little reminder that the weird can pop up
when you least expect it, I was happy to focus on our classes for the rest of
the day, and go home to some nice, sane, family business work. That only ended up being a break from the
strange and annoying because game night was back again; and Michael and Tim
were there with Lisa and Nora. I wasn’t
surprised to see that Michael wasn’t mad at Tim or Nora anymore, since he’d
already moved on by the time we’d gotten to our Social Studies class, but I’m
sure that Lisa still wasn’t happy despite the fact that she was trying hard not
to show it. Add in a couple of Aunt
Leanne matchmaking nudges directed at Michael and me, and though that bugged me
as much as it ticked Lisa off; there’s a good chance that she won’t be talking
to me much for a while. Please tell me
again why I only talk and think about skipping game night instead of acting on
those impulses. Oh right – because
playing with my family, friends, and neighbors is so much fun!
After getting home and coming up to my room, I should have
worked in normal time, since I’m not exactly winding down very quickly, but I
stuck with the time-phase work experiment, and don’t have anything left to do
except wrap this up and try to get off to sleep. Maybe if I don’t think about the weird from
today or the impending weird for tomorrow night at Gretchen’s party, that will
happen sometime before midnight. I’ll
let you know tomorrow whether that happened.
Until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor; logging
out!
