Diary of a 6th Grade Girl #2(2)
All my life, I don’t think that I have ever been so humiliated. And that’s saying something, because I’m not the most graceful person, and I have been known to trip and fall just standing still. But I couldn’t get close enough to my locker to be able to take down the picture in time. I noticed that Kyle had already made his way close enough to see it.
He took it in, and searched the crowd, until he had found where I was. Our eyes met for just a moment, and I’m not entirely sure what expression was there. I didn’t stay long enough.
I could tell easily enough that the expression held in his eyes was not a good one. As soon as I saw that, I knew that I was done. I made a run for it, and I didn’t stop until I had made it to the nurse’s office. Okay, I’m not happy with what I did next, but I faked sick to get to go home. I told the nurse that I was terribly, horribly sick, and that I wouldn’t be able to make it through the day.
She gave me a cool cloth to put on my head and took me to a private room with a bed and told me to lie down and rest until my mom got there. I sat there for a while, thinking about ways to get out of ever going to school again, until my Mom came.
So that’s why I’m home before lunch on a school day. I couldn’t handle staying there or having to face Kyle again; especially not right after he saw that terrible picture of me. It was so embarrassing! I don’t think that I will be able to go to school ever again.
Day 18, continued
Dear Diary,
So, I needed to log another entry in here because something exciting happened. I can’t write for long, because I have to go and get ready!
It was almost time for dinner when the phone rang. I didn’t even bother to look at the caller ID because I knew that it would be someone from school calling to make fun of me or something. I just hit the button to let it go to the voicemail. As the message played, I heard Kyle’s voice play out. I can’t tell you how badly my heart skipped a beat when I realized that it was him—and then it skipped another beat when I realized that he wasn’t saying anything mean. In fact, he was being really nice.
I answered the phone halfway through his voicemail, because I couldn’t bear to let him hang up without me getting to talk to him. When I answered, he told me that his parents were letting him invite me out to dinner. It would just be the two of us. His parents would be in the shopping center nearby to pick us up when we were ready.
He didn’t bring up the picture in the hallway at all, and I appreciated that. I asked my parents if I could go. It took a lot of begging for it, but they agreed in the end, as long as I bring their cell phone to call if anything happens. Yay! I’ll see Kyle soon, and I’ll make sure to write everything down here.
Day 19
Dear Diary,
Last night was really great. I loved it a lot. Kyle’s parents are, of course, very nice. I think I told you that earlier on in this diary. But anyway, he took me to my favorite restaurant.
At first, we just talked about classes and stuff from school, but I could tell that there was something that he wanted to say. I wasn’t sure what it was though, so I just kept going with whatever he wanted to talk about. Finally though, I worked up the nerve to bring up the picture on my locker.
That bit of the conversation was really tense at first, because he didn’t want to say anything hurtful and I didn’t want to hear him say anything mean. In the end though, he was extremely nice and just said that Kristy can be very mean sometimes. He told me that he would always be there for me, and that he has my back whenever I need him. I guess he talked to the principle today and told him what happened for me.
If Kristy does anything to bother me again, I just have to go in and tell the principle. After I do that, the school will take care of it for me, and she’ll probably leave me alone after that.
But anyway, Kyle was really sweet. He just said that he cares about me, and that he likes me for who I am. He said the picture wasn’t even that bad! Isn’t he nice? He’ll even lie about a stupid picture for me, just to make me feel a little bit better. Dinner was really nice, and we had a lot of fun.
School starts soon, so it’s almost time to leave for the bus. I’ll write again later, or maybe sometime tomorrow.
Day 20
Dear Diary,
I didn’t get the chance to write yesterday, and I can’t write long today. I have so much homework—most of it is a huge project for Social Studies that will take a long time to finish. Oh well.
School was really bad today. I kind of forgot that the rest of the school saw the picture too, and that they wouldn’t be as nice about it as Kyle was. I’ve had to endure a lot of name calling, and watching other people smear their faces with chocolate and laugh at me while they do it. Oh well. Kyle held my hand and walked me to all of my classes, and ate with me at lunch. So the day could have been a lot worse, in the long run.