Crazy Things That Have Happened To Me

The Notebook Part 1

So, this happened to me last week, and has been escalating over the course of a few days. I thought I'd share, because it's actually full of drama.

This is the most drama I've ever experienced in my life.

At my cram school, the kids who are staying after get called into another room called the AfterRoom where we basically do whatever we want.

There's a group of 5 boys who are always in there. They all are friends, and their parents always come about an hour late.

Last week, I noticed them hunched in the corner together whispering, so I tapped one of them on the shoulder.

Our convo went as follows:

Boy 1: "What do you want?"

Me: "I just wanted to see what you guys were doing."

Boy 1: "Why should we tell you?"

Me: "Because I helped you with your homework(he's in my science class and needed some help) so you already know I'm trustworthy."

Boy 1: "Ok fine. But this is kind of confidential, so don't tell anyone that goes here."

Me: "OK. Not a problem."

He then showed me the notebook that they were all hunched around.

In it was a list of girls names with boys names written in 3 columns beside each girl name.

I asked Boy 1 what it meant, and his friend, Boy 2, answered me.

"It's a list of relationships. The first column is for boys who have/are dating the girl, the second column is for boys who have a crush on the girl, and the third column is for boys who are rumored/used to have a crush on the girl."

I was very surprised, and asked Boy 2 how they got the information.

Boy 2 told me that Boy 1 was Ms. Margaret in the newspaper for our school.

The Ms. Margaret panel was for people asking for relationship advice. You would send them an email with your name and problem, and they would block out your name/give you a fake name in the actual article.

He had gotten the info from Boy 1, and written it in the notebook.

I was feeling curious, and asked him to flip to my name in the notebook to see who's name was there.

He flipped to my name and when I tell you I almost died on the spot, I mean it.

There were no names in the first column, but there were 8 names in the second one, and 4 names in the third column.

5 of the boys in the second column were boys that I knew from some of my classes.

They are important for later in the story.

One of them, lets call him Luke for confidentiality, was a football player who was almost guaranteed to have a spot in a college for football.

Another, lets call him Cooper, was a member of the student council who happened to sit next to me in my second period class.

The third guy was my best friend, who we'll call Caleb. Caleb was a member of the National Honor Society, along with me.

The fourth guy was a TA(in my cram school, TA's can be students who have no more classes left in the day) who we'll call Jake. Jake was not only a TA(which you have to be over 18 for), he was also the son of one of the head teachers.

And the fifth guy, who we'll call Ben, was a guy who I not only studied with, but also DANCED WITH. He was my dance partner in my salsa class, and we had met through the style.

Needless to say, I almost had a stroke.

I kinda expected Luke to have a thing for me, as he had mentioned(not so quietly, may I add) to his friend that he really liked "blatina(black and latina) girls with thick thighs and long, curly hair".

But I wasn't expecting anyone else to have a thing for me.

You see, I'm on the aroace spectrum, so relationships are a big no-no for me.

Boy 2 asked me if I was okay, and I explained everything to him.

He was just as shocked as I was, and offered his help in getting away from these boys.

I gladly accepted his help.

He invited me to his house after cram school the next day, and after asking(begging) my mom, she let me go.

His house wasn't far from mine, so I just walked there.

I knocked on the door and Boy 2 answered, shushed me before I could even speak, and dragged me up the stairs.

When we got to his lounge room, I asked him why he did that, and he said it was because his sister had friends over.

Boy 1 entered not too long after with some food, and we began our planning.