1ST DAY OF SCHOOL
SY: 2007-2008
It's the first day of middle school!!
I'm so excited!!
But I'm also nervous...
I might be too weird...
With these in thought I went downstairs to grab some breakfast.
"Hey, Ace!! You seem too excited that you didn't get too much sleep." My mom said.
"It's fine mooooom" I told her back.
After taking a bath and eating I waited for the bus which was supposed to pick me up.
"Mom? What time will the bus be here?" I asked my mom who was waiting beside me.
"Just wait for a few minutes dear."
The bus arrived and brought me to school early (which by the way means that I woke up too early).
While finding my classroom I noticed a guy that I seem to have seen before but looks different.
The guy looked directly at me.
Then I remembered that he was one of my friends back in preschool.
He was Karl Paxon, the happiest guy I have ever seen but now he seems too serious.
I went to class and found out that was actually part of my class too!!
I was very excited to know that because it means that class will become interesting with him in it.
I met some of my old friends back in preschool and they too noticed the difference between Karl back then and now.
It never faded in my mind but we went on with school life as it was until I slowly forgot about it too and never cared.
He never stood out in class.
He is always alone like the world has forsaken him.
He is not a bully nor was he ever bullied as far as I know.
I realized why when we became 2nd graders.
Even though he was very thin, he was the most athletic in our batch in every aspects.
When we had our class field trip, we kept bumping into each other with our moms and I kept greeting him with a childish smile until finally we we're laughing uncontrollably with our moms looking amused.
We went to a cafe inside the ocean park which was one of the destinations in our field trip and my mom offered Karl to buy him a hotdog which I was also eating but he refused then asked his mom to buy him one.
After that trip I felt like it was the beginning of a great friendship and I was very excited to see him the following day and thought that he was too...
Did he truly find a great friend? Will this friendship last?
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Tale of four: The writer's rebirth
Non-FictionThe story of Ace who parted with his friends after graduating from middle school due to his parents wanting him transfer to another school.
