Narrative

Narrative Episode 15 - The Timeline

"Ow"

"Owww"

"Owwwww"

Someone's strange callings woke me up. When focusing I realized it was the television singing in the other room. It was about time to get up anyway. It was me and Marceline today. Marceline is a conscience who formed a while ago near the time I beat depression the last time, so she's with us now as part of the plan to stop it from coming back. Today the band was going on a trip, so I had to dress up for that. I wanted to wear my flannel shirt and jeans since it would correlate with another day involved with defeating depression in the past, but we had to wear a dress shirt I believe. I prepared all of my clothes last night, so I thought I'd be okay but I forgot to find shoes. We had to wear dress shoes and I haven't worn those in a long time. I couldn't find them last night or this morning, but I just couldn't worry about it. I put on the all black shoes that I've been wearing to church and band performances instead, hoping that she'll make an exception. I was wearing my purple outfit, which I always normally wear with suspenders, but I felt reluctant to put them on.

Marceline: It won't be your purple outfit if you aren't wearing the suspenders.

Malachi: Fine...

After having everything (sort of) I went to check the itinerary to check if I had everything. Then I realized it didn't say I had to wear a dress shirt, it just had to be a buttoned shirt, and my flannel shirt had that. I could hardly find the shirt though. At nearly the last minute I found it and hurriedly put it on. It was wrinkled but I didn't have time to care. I grab all of my other things and went on my way to school. The shirt is actually Charles' keystone, since the character that Charles is based on wears a flannel shirt. Mother said it was ugly. Why did she have to take me to school today? I'm just trying to have a good time.

Purple: Wait but we have to wear the bow tie. Are we going to wear a yellow and purple bow tie with a red flannel shirt?

I guess I had to. I tried to ignore mom in the car and listen to some music. There was a feeling of dread hanging over me, like something bad was getting ready to happen. When we were outside mother went to get my transcript that she needed. Since I was moving to a school all the way in Cocoa, the schools wouldn't take care of it themselves like I was told. I went to wait outside with the other students. It felt like we were out there for hours. We finally went inside the cafeteria and went outside to the court yard. There was a fight right in front of the cafeteria when we went outside. I happened to be on the other side of the courtyard and preferred to stay there. Then I noticed the band room was open so I went in and everyone else did too. Jenya and Alicia were there. I asked Ms. Fergials if the shoes I had counted as dress shoes. She said they didn't but that she'd let me go through a bag of shoes to see if I found anything in there. Now that I remember, wasn't she going to have me go through that bag of shoes last year? Well, that was when I was homeless, I'm not going to need them now.

I searched through the bag but didn't find a pair of dress shoes that would work. When I came back out Ms. Fergials was going on about the fight that happened this morning. Or there was a different fight that happened just then? I'm not sure, but I told Ms. Fergials that I didn't feel any of the shoes in the bag fit what I was looking for. She said she would try looking herself and I left to my classes. I tried texting my grandparent that I needed to come home at 4:00 and go back to school at 5:30 and that I needed some dress shoes. I struggled to get service and send the texts, but I did. Tyra was talking to Ms. Burgess about something and then it was announced that it was her last day at the school. I'm gonna miss her. A while ago in Ms. O's class we were in a competition against other classes and since we won, we got a ticket that gave us pizza for lunch. Last time I forgot to turn in my ticket, so I wrote "TICK" on my left hand. I'm supposed to be against writing on my skin because it's not healthy I hear, but I made an exception. We were working for a while until Jaida pointed out that today was Friday the 13th. "No wonder I have this terrible feeling of dread in my stomach." I said out loud. Ervans noted how dark the phrase came out. That's twice now. How strange. Eventually Tyra left to go home and she gave us all hugs. If I did still have a crush on her, I think it would be gone by now. It'll be gone anyway once I get the timeline back on track. Ervans was talking to me about the musicology costume.