Don't Change Yourself

Sophomore Year

Today was the first day of my second year of high school, and I want this year to be better than last year, and the recent summer break. The first few weeks weren't all that interesting. But then, something happened. There was a new kid that moved here from Eaton, and he was a junior and a ginger. His name was Russell Purcell, and I knew that I wasn't good enough to be one of his girlfriends, and I knew right then and there, he had a girlfriend already. I was right, he did. He was dating one of my friends younger sister. Russell and Amanda only lasted about a month, month and a half. I kept thinking about him for many weeks, and then I dropped out of Marching Band because I didn't like how the new band director was teaching, and I needed more time to work on my school stuff. I was so used to Mr. Baker's way of marching that I didn't want to learn anything newer at the moment. What was the point of learning something over if you already know what to do? Exactly, it would be boring. It was

It was Friday night, Homecoming Football game, he was there and he was being shy and away from everyone. I hung out with his brother until halftime, and then I looked around for Russell, but he was nowhere to be found. I asked his brother, Kenny, if he knew where he went.

   "He probably went home because he was bored. Why do you want to know where he is? Do you like him?" I looked at the ground and my face went beat red when Kenny said that to me. Finally, Kenny just said that he will take me to their house so that we could go get Russell and bring him back to the football game. We got to the house, and he was sitting on the porch all alone. Poor Russell, all alone. I thought of that before he looked up and looked me right in the eyes. I froze and nothing would come out of my mouth. I looked at Kenny and he shook his head like he knew what I wanted to say.