Michael and I got around to having a first little chat at
lunchtime today at school, and while I was happy about that; neither of us were
all that impressed with the latest happenings in the tweeird zone.
I guess we should start with the tweeird; since that’s
actually why we were able to have that chat.
Vanessa and Nora have a new plan, and if they are trying to be subtle;
that part of the plan isn’t working. The
rest of it won’t work either, but it may take them a while to figure that
out. They’re going with the ages-old
divide-and-conquer strategy; and they started excluding Michael from everything
they were doing while keeping Tim close – and away from Michael as much as
possible. Today we were kept busy with a
combination of clean-up work and helping out with getting everything ready for
the play day tomorrow; and Vanessa and Nora fairly successfully kept Michael
off of every work crew they were on with Tim and some of the other members of
the couples club.
Since that just meant that Michael ended up working with
Rowen and me most of the time; we didn’t have a problem with that. I’d also like to point out that Michael and
Tim don’t actually spend that much time together on days when Michael’s working
at the Inn after school; so the effort today
was a waste of effort. We’ll see if
that’s different during play day tomorrow or not; but I’m okay with the idea of
playing those games with Michael if Tim’s too busy with Mora. Rowen and I have Friday night covered for
that too, and if Tim can’t hang out with us; we’re going to see if Rebecca’s
available instead.
That does bring me to getting a bit of alone time so Michael
and I could talk. He pretended not to
notice that there wasn’t a spot left open for him with the couples club when he
got to the cafeteria; and sat with Rowen and me instead while we ate. We went to the music room after that, and
Rowen conveniently needed to go for a washroom break so that we could be alone
for what ended up being about ten very entertaining minutes.
No, we did not just sit there and make out, though that
might have been fun too – I’ll know better after we eventually get around to
doing that for the first time.
I can tell you that Michael was very happy to hear that I’ve
finally crossed over; both glad and amused to find out that sharing that kiss
with me was responsible for my change in tween status; and doesn’t have a
problem with helping me figure out where we go from here.
We also learned that before you try a second ‘real’ kiss,
you should put your saxophones in their cases first. That attempt was awkward and strange compared
to the spontaneous kiss at the park, and had us both laughing; but that was fun
too. A second try with the saxophones
safely out of the way was a little more successful; but that was as much of a
risk as either of us wanted to take when we were in a school full of kids and
teens, and could be interrupted at any time.
I’m the one who mostly still needs some time to deal with everything I’m
feeling, and we both need to figure out how to deal with our tweeird zone
problems; so we don’t want to end up as a top story on the gossip network and
have to deal with that too. Since I’m
getting regular urges to kiss Michael, it’s probably a good thing that he’s
going to be working at the Inn today and
tomorrow. A couple of work nights might
help me to at least get a bit more control over these new urges.
Not hanging out together might help calm things down with
Vanessa too, but that’ll be temporary; and it’s bound to get worse before it
gets better. For today, though, I was
just glad to be able to go home after school and work in the office until
dinnertime. We had a bit of rain earlier
today, and again late tonight, but Mom and Dad’s baseball practice was on tonight;
and we all went over to the park so that Ethan and Ehlana could play with Naomi
at the playground while three out of four of our parents were playing with
their friends; and Liz was getting to have nap time. Liz and her baby are both doing just fine,
but she’s definitely getting more worn out keeping up with work and Naomi; and
I’m glad that Philip will be able to make that easier for her while he’s off
school for most of the summer. I should
start thinking about helping Aunt Leanne more this summer too – especially
since she’s doing so much extra work with the wedding and everything else she
has on the go right now.
At least she isn’t trying to play baseball too; though our
team could use her help. The Fix-it
Uppers are playing their first game on Friday night, and though I was busy at
the playground with Ethan, Ehlana, and Naomi; I saw enough of the action to be
worried about our chances this season.
It’s not that our replacement players are really bad or anything; the team
just isn’t gelling, and that’s making for lots of mistakes and
miscommunications. I’m just hoping that
the other teams are having as many problems.
There isn’t much else to write about for tonight. Dad had work to do in the office after we got
home, so Mom and I repeated the bedtime routine for Ethan and Ehlana; worked
through a new shielding lesson; and then I came up to my room to get started on
my own bedtime studies and computing.
Violet and I had a short messaging chat, and she’s now counting down the
hours to when she’ll be coming here. She
doesn’t expect to get here early on Friday evening when the ‘school’s out’
traffic is likely going to be crazy, but as long as she’s here by the time
Dillon’s done work at the Inn; they’ll both be
happy campers.
Note to me – take care of getting her room ready to go
tomorrow night; and maybe pick up an Olde Bakery Witch cookie on Friday to
leave on her pillow.
Violet probably won’t actually have all that much time to
spend with me this summer – she does need to do a lot of work with Mom, and get
ready to go away to college – but I’m still going to love having her here with
us.
I have my work for the night finished, and now that I’m
thinking about getting some sleep; I’m also thinking that Violet might not be
the only girl who will be too busy for us to spend much time together. We didn’t get around to discussing what’s
been going on with me over the past few days during that chat, but I’m sure
that Violet will hear all about it this weekend – if not by bedtime on Friday
night. Maybe I should have given her a
heads up, but I didn’t; and that’s mostly because I’m still not quite ready to
talk about it with anyone other than Michael or Rowen yet.
Yeah, I know, but there’s a world of difference between
intellectually studying things like psychology and sociology; and real life
experience. Most collegians have a lot
more life experience to take into those studies than I did when I was a
toddler. This isn’t even remotely romantic,
but I can also tell you that I have a whole new perspective on what must have
happened to Violet when her Magi abilities became active. I’m still studying and thinking about what
happened to me on Monday afternoon – from a Magi perspective – but I’ll need to
noodle that for a while before I’m ready to report on it in our Magi project
archive. There’s definitely something
that happens on multiple levels that could explain why an untrained Magi would
have things happen like they did for Violet.
Now I’m getting a mental picture of Tim hanging in mid-air
on his bike if he’d come over that last jump while Michael and I had still been
kissing. That’d be taking ‘catching some
air’ to a new extreme!
And here we go with the replay of that kiss front and center
in my mind again as I’m just about ready to go to sleep. Not thinking about bunnies doesn’t help,
though my attempts at doing that have been fairly feeble. Speaking of feeble, I really do need to get
some rest; or my play day gaming won’t be anything to get excited about, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
