In Deepest Minds: Book One

Chapter Three: A Petty Truce

The tour in a nutshell... was pretty decent at all. It was nice after all and then I went back to the classroom and then I try to fall asleep.

"Why do you want to sleep, Carl," Chris asks.

"I guess that's what he wants to do, Chris," said Lucy. Do you know me or something? I just want to sleep. That's just it "maybe he's lonely. But I don't know why."

Lonely? Always has been. I'm always lonely from the start of that thing that we fell apart. Our friendship, I mean. Does dreaming make me want to cope silently without using harmful things?

And then after that, I fall asleep. As I close my eyes and then I opened it and saw Chris, Kelcy, and Lucy getting along together and then they were playing some sort of cards. Is that UNO they're playing?

"Oh hey Carl," said Lucy. Why was Lucy part of my dreams? I think she's going to invite me to play some cards "wanna play?"

I sat down right next to Lucy and then we play some cards. UNO cards to be exact.

From that moment on, we play and play and play some more. It feels like I've been playing for hours on the playground. Then suddenly. The ground is shaking again and again as if it was an earthquake. Then suddenly. I opened my eyes and saw Kelcy with her vicious green eyes, green hair with green highlights and she was shaking me out in the chair.

"Come on, you snitch," said Kelcy. Still shaking me. She doesn't know that I was wide awake. I think she noticed "Oh, there you are. You're finally awake from your stupid dream."

Was my dream stupid? I guess, living in the dream seems so stupid, I guess? And it's my way to cope, Kelcy.

"What is it, Kelcy," I asked, well, what does she want to me, then?

"I know you were friends with Lucy," she said. Oh no, I have a bad feeling about this "I propose a truce. Let's be friends again."

Wait, what? A truce? And she wants to be friends with me again? What does she want from me? Why can't you befriend Lucy? Like you befriend some of your delinquent friends.

"I think you should ask Chris about this," I said. Yeah, I think she should. Maybe someday they'll get back together for some reason.

"I did and I think he agrees to me," said Kelcy. Kelcy, you liar. So that's why some people hate you. But I think you lie because you don't want to hurt others, because of the truth "I just have to make a truce... to you of course."

Should I agree with this truce or not? Do my choices matter with this thing? What should I do? Should I give her a chance?

I think I should. I also think she can make amends for her mistakes. All I have to do is to say it.

"Okay," I said and then I lend out my right hand. She went in and grabbed my hand firmly and she shook it "why are you proposing a truce. Do you want to be friends with Lucy?"

"DO NOT ask me that," she said. I think she was in denial. I think she's doing this for the sake of her status. People want to maintain their image, their facade, their appearance "well it's a deal, then?"

"Yeah," I said. A beginning of a new friendship with old friends. Because of a new girl in our school. A new friendship based around Lucy. I guess, my dreams slowly became a reality to me...

Will everything be alright? I mean, some of them didn't move on from the past. OUR past and our mistakes.

"Hey, Carl," said Chris and there's Lucy too, that's nice and then Chris glared at Kelcy viciously as if they were trying to kill each other or something. I know I may exaggerate for a bit but. I think that was a perfect figurative language for it "Kelcy."

"Chris," said Kelcy, why do they still hold grudges to each other? That's just so sad to me.

"Come on, guys," said Lucy. I tried not to intervene but I always get involved "stop fighting... I know you two can become great friends."

Then she smiled and they just stare at Lucy. Her smile attracts a lot of people. So much so, that the teacher even likes her smile. Kelcy and Chris crossed their arms and then went on each other's backs.

"Hmph," they said... I think that they still have something in common: being Lucy's friend.

After that, the class starts and then I listened. I don't know if the discussion is that important but I think I might have learned a lot because of this. The subject is oral communication and I think I have learned a lot of its contexts.

The strand I chose was STEM... but I know it was hard and all. People will always surprise you and you will see what they're capable of.

Kelcy is also on STEM but Chris is in ABM and Lucy is in Arts and Design. Those are different strands in preparation for college. At what university should I enter? A state university or something else?

The school is for learning, I know that. But other students think it's for lounging and being with people and find some sense of belonging. To me, school is something where people find some sort of belonging to each other and then we learn from school a lot of things. We have knowledge and wisdom at the same time.

I'm not the smartest nor the wisest man in the world. But I'm trying my best to be myself. I always keep on changing and so are my old friends. Are they forcing themselves to be friends with Lucy?

People have secrets and it'll always surprise you, no matter what.

I know the truth will always be revealed. But how will Lucy react to the truth we have in the past. Does she have to know? Does she have to know the truth?

About... what happened... about the time we talked behind her back... The painful truth is always behind us three. Why?

Why does our friendship is based on petty truces? Can we be just true friends? Like the last time. Those thoughts running in my head. Always spells out 'regret' in my mind. Always questioning 'What might have been?'

And then after for about an hour or so. The lunch break starts right away. Just, the time comes so fast. That I didn't even listen to the teacher's discussion or something.

"Let's have lunch," said Lucy. Chris and Kelcy are behind her. I don't feel good about this one. But I think it'll be alright, I guess.

So I stood up and then picked up my lunch box and went on.

I followed Chris, Kelcy, and Lucy as they went on to find a table at the school. Some people at the cafeteria I think it's another group of friends. Romeo, James, and Aiden. Those three are trouble makers and Romeo was the one who is meddling with other people's stuff no matter what it is or something.

"Oh look. The old friends are back," said Romeo. He just can't shut himself up. Just once he talks there's no way to stop him from talking. And then she pointed fingers at us "Kel, Chris, Carl... oh, who's that new member over here? Why are you friends with these guys?"

"Why do you care," she asked. We were surprised. She can also stand up for herself? Wow, that's kind of a step up to her "these guys are cool... I was just surprised that they were also friends."

"They broke up or something," said Aiden. I think he has a point on that and I can't say anything to it. I'm quite afraid "you don't know they're old friends?"

"Is it true? You were old friends," she asked. Both Chris and Kelcy stared at each other and then they stare at me. What? What am I going to say?

"Yeah," I said, I saw them smirking at us. I was ashamed that we told her a piece of our history that I don't want to talk about "we were friends once. But something happened."

"What happened?"

"It's... I... I don't want to talk about it," I said. I was afraid, I don't know how to say it to Lucy. Maybe she's not strong enough to handle it.

"It's okay," said Lucy, she's touching my shoulder. I feel relieved "sometimes the time will come... soon, I guess."

"Let's just get out of here," said Kelcy, she puts her lunch bag on her back. I don't know what are their lunches yet so. This might be interesting.

"Yeah," said Chris. It's my first time seeing Chris and Kelcy getting along. This might be a start of a new friendship with the old ones.