Weekly Sanity

Chapter 1 - 14th day of July 2013

It was a Sunday afternoon. It’s a weekend when normal teenagers like ourselves would be spending time at home or with their friends in the mall (like we’re doing right now). Today was the sacred and final day before the dreaded Monday begins, Sunday.

“Why can’t I have a normal best friend?” Melissa said to me randomly. Oh, and also I think I’m the best friend she was referring to.

 “There’s nothing wrong with me!” I started. “You’re the abnormal one here, just look at what you’re wearing. Very tomboyi- No! You’re a LESBIAN. Eww, Why I am even hanging out with you? Ugh!” I walked away from her until I realized that I forgot that Melissa was my best friend and I should’ve not said those things to her.

“Oh, I’m so sorry Mel. I don’t care if you’re lesbian, I promise. They’re not bad. I even met one yesterday, such a sweet gal-er-guy whatever…. But uh,” I noticed Mel looked at me with a very stiff expression. I continued my rant-ish speech: “Er – right, I didn’t mean that you know. It just came out. I’m a terrible person!”

At that point, people started staring at us. It made me wonder, why can’t people mind their own business? Oh well, I don’t care anyway, as I think apologizing to my best friend was the priority here.

My friend looked away for a moment but the grin that formed on her pretty little face reassured me. She stated to laugh at me. People had torn their gaze from us, finally realizing that there were more important things in life than staring at a couple of teenaged girls.

“Hence, proving my point about your non-normality,” Melissa smirked the way boys our age usually do. “Wait, you didn’t actually thought that I was a homosexual right?”

“Nah, I’m just kidding.” (I’m not) “Though, you’re really tomboyish you know. If it weren’t for your long hair and er-secondary development, you would pass a guy to me, yeah,” I nodded to no one in particular as I agreed with myself. “Oh, I’m so sorry Mel! I’m such a-”

“No,” she gave me a kind of a sad smile. “It’s alright, but you should know, really, I am a lesbian!”

It was like a in most TV shows I watch. It happens when a moment of awkward silence was needed to transit. A gust of an unrealistic wind blew passed us before I could think of something to say.

“WHAT?!” was supposed to be my witty response. I thought that it’s the only reasonable word to say.

“Hold up, I’m just kidding. You know who I like right?” Mel smiled at the thought of that guy; I even noticed the feint flush on her cheeks. She’s beautiful. Wait, maybe I’m the lesbian here for having a homosexual thought. Oh well… Wait what?

“Hey! Snap out of it!” Mel shook me in my place. “You scare me sometimes you know that?”

“What? I’m just thinking of something.” That’s only normal right?

“Sorry, I was just being paranoid. You’re weird you know, one second your angry, the next second you’re being cheerful again. I’ll never get used to it” Mel said. I was about to open my mouth to say something but she continued. “…and no! It has nothing to do with P.M.S.”

“Yeah, yeah,” I dismissed the idea with the wave of my hand. “sheesh. Fine … back to wanting me to be a normal friend who you take out to the mall, like a normal girl should be doing at weekends, right? Fine.”

And after that, how I was forced to go with her to the mall will never be discussed again. I set aside the fact that she asked me nicely and she was my best friend, of course. It’s boring here. Yeah, people think that I’m not a normal girl for not liking malls. But it’s just that this one is really boring! No, wait, what if I don’t like the mall? Does that make me tomboyish? No, tomboyish girls still like to go to the mall. Yes that’s it.