I’ve had a very long day, and got a lot of
work done despite wishing that I was outside, enjoying another nice day, and
having fun with my friends instead.
Michael, Rowen, and Tim were busy too, though Tim likely found sometime
for a little football too.
Though it looked as though we might get
some rain this morning, we didn’t; and we had another warm, sunny
afternoon. The timing for that probably
seemed like a vote of approval from Mother Nature to Vanessa because that
happened while she was breaking up with Allen during our lunch break. I’m sure that he didn’t feel the same way
about that; and I think he’s even more hurt now than he was back in September
when Molly broke up with him because she didn’t want a boyfriend who wasn’t in
high school too. Knowing that Vanessa’s
timing was almost totally because she wanted to be single for our class trip
made things worse for Allen too; and it doesn’t really matter that he knew they
were having problems anyway.
Vanessa left Allen behind with a broken
heart, but he’s kind, gentle, and unassuming; so they didn’t have a major
blow-up or anything. That didn’t keep
the news from spreading fast; and it was soon the top gossip story of the
afternoon around the school. Allen isn’t
particularly thrilled with girls in general right now, so Rowen and I couldn’t
really be much help to our classmate today; but Michael lent an ear to Allen
and tried his best to help him out a little.
Writing very much about this may seem strange to some of you reading
this in the future, but high emotion moments are particularly stressful for an empathy;
and it can be really tough for Mom, Ethan, Ehlana, and I to be around people
who are experiencing extreme emotions – at both the good and bad ends of the
scale.
Now that the first break-up has happened,
we’ll see whether that starts a chain reaction with the remaining two ‘troubled’
relationships in our class. I suspect it
will; but we’ll see what happens over the next few days.
While that isn’t a good news story, it’s
pretty much the only news I have to write about tonight. I’m sure you don’t want to be bored with the
details of my work night; and nothing much else happened at school today. Our after school study time at Landry’s was
short and only mildly entertaining, and other than stopping to have dinner; I’ve
been working or studying from the time I got home from walking Michael to the
Inn and kissing him goodnight there until now.
I’ve stayed up too late again, but the work is getting done; and I’ll be
ready to take the next week off except for the usual daily business issues that
come up most days.
All I want to do right now, though, is get
some down time; so, until next time…
…Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the
Light!
