Fruit Fly

May 13, 2004

        I awake by the very strange Kate shouts, "Claire! Claire, it's almost 8 and you’re still lying there! Get up!" I jumped out of my bed and run to the shower but I forgot my towel so I went back to my room. I just had the shampoo then I run again to the room and wear my clothes as fast as I can.

        "Oh noooo. Kate I'm so late I got to go, just make your food, alright? Bye!" I grabbed one bread then I ran to the school.

        Exactly 8:30, I entered the school. Then I ran upstairs to the library. I saw Nikki already organizing the books. She glanced at me, she didn't talked to me until I sat beside her. "Hey" I said.

        "Oh, I thought I was just hallucinating. Hey, good morning. How was yesterday? Did you see each other?" She's starting to become a rapper. Warming up, then go. I just nodded at her question then she adds, "How was it? I didn't know you had a friend. And I didn't know you are Pariz."

        "Fine." I answered her.

        "What do you mean fine? You mean fine because I didn't know your name? Or fine because you want me to-" before she tells whatever choices, I told her:

        "Fine. The talking with Lara was fine." I have to explain everything to Nikki, I guess.

        "Oh, hmmkay." Then she continued to arrange books. I started to arrange, too.

        I was walking downstairs after my duty when I saw a girl with her full hair in her face. I feel a little creep and my heart starts to beat so hard that I can hear it. She walks towards me and touched my shoulder. I was going to shout for help but I felt relief when she speaks up.

        "Hi, Claire. I'm so sorry about yesterday. Forgive me for assuming so much. I just want to be your friend because everybody's been avoiding me and I can't stand that." She sounded lonely so I held her hands from my shoulder for a second.

        "It's fine. But...” I don't know what to say. I'm not really into this conversation with strangers so I just added. "I have to go, we'll just talk later." Then I started walking.

        "But. Hey, Claire!" I stopped and looked at her. "Are we friends now?"

        I doubted so much that I just thought it's better to say yes. I nodded and continued to walk.

        After my last class, I was walking in the pathway really slow when my phone beeps and so I read it. It was Kate. ‘Up to 5:30 only, see you at 6! ;)’

        When I arrived at home, it was 6 o'clock and I saw Kate already waiting for me sitting in the living room. "Hey, Claire, is it fine for you that we go out to the carnival?" She screamed at my face with a huge smile that seems to please me. She laughs.

        I laugh too, "Okay.."

        We went to the carnival and rode the dragon thing, I forgot what it's called. We ate junk foods and had a lot of fun. It's a very happy place and it absorbed all my energy. If I was a cellphone, my battery's now low. Then we went home walking. "Kate, I don't know how to say this... umm... What if someone wants to befriend you but you don't like that someone?" I asked her but I don't feel confident on talking about it.

        "Are you... Is someone wants to date you?! Is he cute?" she got it wrong. Really wrong.

        "No! It's a girl. She wants me to be friends with her." I cleared it to her.

        "Oh, yeah. Um, what's her name?"

        "Lara. She's weird. So strange. She helped me once in my Psychology class and stalked me to the comfort room just to ask me if I want to be friends with her but then someone called and I ran away. Yesterday, she again told my co-worker that she's my best friend and she wants to talk to me. We talked yesterday but we had a conflict." Her face saddens. "But today I already told her that we are now... friends...” She smiles back.

        "Lara, huh? Okay. That's great. I wanna see that girl sometime. Can you invite her at our house? Dinner? Maybe next week? I have to talk to her so she'll know the 'terms and conditions' if she wants you to be her friend." I slapped her head and she laughs. Then we went home. What a happy day. I'm tired. Good night!