Apart

Yearbooks

June 5th
Alice
"Hey Alice can you sign?" Some random nerdy girl asked.
"Yes- sure." I shrugged. It's not like I'm going to refuse to sign anyone's yearbook even if I don't know them and they need a complete makeover. I scribbled, H. A. G. S. -Alice D on it because I didn't know what to write. After all, I don't know this girl.
I handed her back her yearbook and she gave me mine.
My yearbook was full of messages, phone numbers, emails, and signatures.
Liz waltzed through a crowd of seventh graders and over to me. "Like oh my god." She started. "Look at all these signatures! We must be like so popular, you know? Yeah? Yeah? Woo, I'm excited for summer."
"I-"
"Yeah, I know right? This will be like the best summer ever. I can't wait. Good thing this is the last day. Then we are going off to high school. What high school did you say you were going to? Wasn't it like, some good fancy one?"
"It's actually ca-" She broke me off again.
"Where is everyone?" Liz looked around for a split second before resuming her conversation. "Oh my god. So Johnny talked to me. Do you think he likes me? I hope. Agh, maybe I'm not talking to him enough. What's your opinion? Aren't you going to like, talk?"
"I really don't care." I sighed, running my hand through my hair. "But at least he would like you not me."
"Yeah, I hope he likes me. Maybe I should try to get his number? Or is that too needy? Oh I hope he asks me out! Should I ask him out? No, no, that's too risky." She decided.
"Well, I think we should find Bree and them." I said.
"Oh- oh! Yeah! Maybe we should. Do you want to find them with me? Like, where are they?" Liz grabbed my arm and pulled me through a group of gaping fifth graders.

***

A boy, I think his name is Josh, handed me back my yearbook. "Thanks." I smiled, handing him mine. I didn't bother to see what he'd said, but instead started walking towards the busses.
I caught up with Bree. "Hey." I huffed.
She sighed. "Finally summer."
"Yeah." We boarded our bus. "It'll be fun." We sat together. I took a quick selfie with her. Finally out of school, bitch. I sent to Emma on snapchat.