Happy 13th birthday, Nora!
In an attempt to avoid any tweeird, Rowen and I left Nora’s
gift on her desk before first class.
That hasn’t usually felt weird for parties we’re not invited to, but
it’s stranger now that we have been to several other boy-girl parties.
I want to mention that Rowen and I really do consider Nora
and Vanessa our friends, but we also don’t spend much time with them outside of
classes. That’s mostly for the same
reason we don’t spend much time with Jenny anymore – they all just have very
different interests from us right now. The
big birthday parties are probably just temporary because of the novelty of the
co-ed groups, and we’ll eventually get back to doing things like this with just
our closest friends – like Rowen and I both wanted to do this year.
Other than leaving the gift for Nora, we had absolutely
nothing to do with the rest of her happy day; and I was very happy about that
because she and Vanessa were on a matchmaking mission of their own that would
have made Aunt Leanne proud. That
campaign started with four special Olde Bakery birthday treats that were
conveniently exactly enough for two couples.
They were also messy enough to offer personalized face-cleaning services
that I’ll just let you use your imagination to picture. Then there was the picnic lunch for four out
on the bleachers at the ball diamond for what is about as close to privacy as
can be had at school. Tim even
reluctantly got with the program during Phys-Ed class when he was one of the
soccer team captains; picked Nora and Vanessa for his team; and couldn’t pick
Rowen or me because of those first two ‘girl’ choices – Brock had been happy to
get both of us on his team instead.
Losing that match was the heavy price Tim had to pay for
doing what his girlfriend wanted him to do.
I was successfully able to stay far away from that
tweeirdness for every class and break except Music. That’s the only time I was close enough to
Michael to empathically pick up anything from him. In a nutshell, he was flattered, flustered,
attracted, repelled, and annoyed by Vanessa’s sudden and intense
attention. The word ‘attraction’
probably caught your attention first, but in case you don’t know Vanessa, a guy
anywhere around our age would have to be comatose not to be attracted –
especially if she’s very overtly expressing her interest in him. He was mostly annoyed because of how obvious
Vanessa and Nora were being; implying that he must be dumber than a box of rocks
and one step above needing to be clubbed in the head to get the message from a
girl.
I’ll guess that he’s been having an interesting time at the
party, but if he and Vanessa are being talked about on the tween gossip network
tonight; Rowen and I aren’t in the loop yet.
While everyone else in our class was getting ready for
Nora’s party, Rowen and I made stops at the computer store for a visit and at
her house to pack an overnight bag before going home for our after-school
snack. We got our homework out of the
way then too, but that still left us lots of time to go biking until we needed
to be home for dinner. It was still
pretty wet in the woods at the park, so after running into some mud, we decided
to do some country roads riding instead.
That was fun, and gave us some alone time to chat about our day. Since Vanessa and Michael were the big story
today, that was high on our list of things to chat about, but we talked about
‘Tommy’ for a while too, and while Rowen thought that being at Nora’s party
would be very entertaining because of Vanessa and Michael; she had mixed
feelings about not having to be around Tommy and his girlfriend tonight. I was just glad to be doing anything
else. Rowen would tell me that’s because
I really am jealous, but she forgets about the whole photographic memory thing
sometimes; and there is a lot of tween action that I do not need permanent
mental pictures to look back on for the rest of my life.
Imagine the stories I’ll be able to tell my friends’ kids
and grandkids, and if I really wanted to do it; I could provide pictures or
videos!
If you’re reading this, and are one of those friends – be
afraid; very afraid. ;^)
Back at home, we weren’t doing a dinner and a movie night –
everyone else was busy with other plans.
Mom went with an easy-dinner that included having Dad grill some burgers
and jumbo hotdogs. That made for an easy
clean-up, and then Rowen and I took Ethan and Ehlana to the park while Mom and
Dad worked in the office. With Mother’s
Day on Sunday, Dad wanted to get his work done so he could take Sunday off; and
Mom was mostly going to work to keep him company.
We rode to the park, and used the trailer for Ethan and
Ehlana. Biking the main trail with the
trailer wasn’t very successful, but that was mostly because we needed to stop a
lot to let oncoming traffic pass us when the trailer took up too much of the
trail width. The playground time was
fun, and Ethan and Ehlana got to spend a little time with Naomi when Philip
brought her to the park for some play time too.
We went for a ride around town after leaving the park; picked up treats
at the Emporium; and ate them next to the falls before finishing our ride with
a tour of the new section of town on our way home.
The bikes and trailer were put away and we were all upstairs
in the lounge by the time it was getting dark out; and Ethan and Ehlana were
allowed to stay up late to watch the first movie that Rowen and I had planned
for our sleepover. Rowen had Ethan for
her cuddle buddy this time because she teased him about always cuddling with me. He went along with it, but didn’t mention
that the real reason he didn’t cuddle with her much anymore was because he was
a not-quite-two-year old toddler working on a Grade Eleven education; and there
is a big difference between cuddling with his big sister and being that close
to her beautiful best friend.
If only ‘Tommy’ was as smart and observant as my brother!
We watched that first movie, and then took a break to get
Ethan and Ehlana ready for bed before taking them downstairs for a little
goodnight time with Mom and Dad in the office.
Rowen and I came back up to the lounge once the twins were tucked in,
and Rowen picked what she thought was a perfectly appropriate for the occasion
chick flick. It had the requisite hot
lead guy; the hot ‘gad girl’ trying to make him hers; and the Cinderella-like
‘good girl’ the hot guy eventually falls in love with once he comes to his
senses.
By the time we got to the happy-ever-after ending; we
decided to skip a third movie; and were soon snuggled in bed with Mandy for the
night. We’ve been chatting and listening
to music videos while I was doing a last email check and writing this, but
we’re both ready to get some sleep; and that’s pretty much all I have for today
anyway.
By the way, as promised; the bunny thing didn’t work last
night. I’m not even going to bother
trying that tonight, but hopefully I’ll sleep better. It’s going to be a long, tough yard work day
– especially since Mom is getting the weekend off from all work. One way or the other, I’ll take a guess that
I’ll be ready for some serious sleep time by tomorrow night. That really is all for now, though, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
