My Physcotic Life

Perfect Silhouette

Chapter Two: Perfect Silhouette

Today was 'Tuesday Sleepover,' Tessa and I always had a sleepover the second Tuesday, and the last Friday every month. And today is the second Tuesday in October, which meant I was having a sleepover. We hadn't talked by ourselves for awhile, so I think Tessa and I needed some girl time.

I was supposed to be at lunch, but having your period doesn't make you want to have a social life whatsoever. I was having the worst cramps ever, it seems to me that every other girl here has less cramps then I do. I literally ball up in a corner the first three days of my period because it hurts that much.

The bell rung, and I got up and walked as slowly as possible to Mrs. Archer's classroom. I entered the class right before the final bell rung, and sat down in my seat very carefully. I looked to my side to see that sitting next to me was Aden, I really liked sitting by myself, but I swear if he says anything I will blow up in his face like a bomb.

Today we were working on scenery selection, and how the background of a photo or anything artistic really, can effect the entire meaning of the piece. Mrs. Archer could see that some weren't comprehending the lesson as easily as others, so she said, "Let's say you have an bowl of apples on a table, and behind that table is a stove or a microwave, but let's say there is another painting still has the bowl with the apples, but now in front of a tree. These two paintings mean to different things, even though they do have the same object in the front, the background effects the piece just as much as the main focus of the piece."

She let us get to work after the speech, we got twenty five minutes to work on our project. We were doing this project called reflective silhouette, where the symbolization of the project was to show who you are. We had to pick a background piece, it could have been a favorite page of a book, music sheets, anything really.

My project started out with one quote from The Fault in Our Stars, but then I made it a huge collage, and my silhouette was going to go around every word that I think symbolized who I am. The books really meant a lot to me, because of my mom's sister, Laurel, she died

of cancer four years ago, and whenever I read the book I think of her.

I had another idea for the project, too. There is a song called The Fault in Our Stars, and I basically am in love with it, so I was going to first make my silhouette and then have the song lyrics in the front and not the background, so I would have a small silhouette of me in the background with the title and then all the lyrics around, hand written.

I sketched out ten ideas after that, but stuck with the first two. I looked slowly to my left, to see that Aden had sketched out his silhouette, but left the background empty. Which I was confused about, the background is supposed to shoe who you are, and being yourself shouldn't you know who you are by now?

The bell rung, which meant class was over and so was school, I gathered my supplies slowly, and patiently waited for everyone to exit, someone shoved me from behind, which caused all of my supplies to fall over. I turned around to see that it was Aden, I kneeled down to pick up my stuff, only when I tried to get up, my forehead met with someone's nose, and then I fell back down.

Almost immediately I yelped out, "Sorry, it's my fault I should have looked where I was going..." In front of me was the one and only Aden, who then interrupted my apology, and said, "Hey, no biggie, I shoved you first, and even though my nose is throbbing, it was nice bumping into you."

He started to walk away, but before he did, he turned around and said, "I like the first one." For a second I was confused by what he had said, but then saw the paper that had all my ideas written on it, and understood, he was talking about the reflective silhouette project.

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I was in Walmart, buying the supplies we needed to have the perfect sleepover. Tessa and I loved to watch romantic movies, but ever since the movie Frozen came out she was obsessed with buying the DVD so we could watch it over and over again. I remember the first time we watched in theaters, keyword being first.

Tessa wanted to watch the movie she forgot her money at her house, so she decided to sneak into to the movie, and as a little boy, about five or six years old, she grabbed onto him like her life depended on it, and ran into the entrance. The funny thing was no one was even watching her, so she could have walked in without the kid and made it in there without anyone noticing. I walked in right behind her, and she didn't even know that I paid the guy money to give us tickets. I swear Tessa is the weirdest friend you could possibly ever have.

After I got all of the food we needed to have the perfect sleepover, I walked to the cashier to buy all of this, and as I placed the items down, the guy was giving me a weird look, 'like why is this girl buying all of this food, is she trying to feed a zoo,' that kind of look.

I had everything from a giant bag of chips to marshmallows.

I arrived home to see that Tessa was sitting on my bed with a very excited look. I had slowly dropped all of the food because the weight was straining my muscles. And then the most ear shrilling scream came from Tessa's mouth, and I swear right then on my life my ears died. Like full on dead, they had there own separate graves and everything.

"God Tessa, what was that about? Are you trying to cause me more ear damage, you know these screaming things aren't healthy," I said and kept babbling on about how she was causing me ear damage and I would one day become deaf because of her.

And she interrupted, "He bought me the sweetest gift, and he's taking me out tomorrow night. He wanted it to be tonight, but how could I cancel on my best friend, and I have absolutely nothing to wear. Help me, please?"

"Okay, so do you know where he's taking you, like exactly?" I said planning every possible outfit that would go with a dinner date. The rest of the night we planned and talked about her outfit for the dinner date.

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I was alone sitting on my bed with a bag of Hershey's chocolate bars, and reading. The book I had in my hands was pure torture. Okay do first of all I'm only on the second book of the series, but so much has happened, that it's not even funny. The Mortal Instruments series is just literally killing me slowly, I mean they have to be together, they are meant to be. Clarice and Jase have to be together, I mean Simon is a good friend for her, but I mean no one understands. Ugh. This is so frustrating.

My mom walked into the room at that second, and I was crying, like full blown crying. She ran up to me and said,"Honey, are you okay?" with a worried look. And I laughed, I looked at her and laughed, because I mean, she couldn't possibly understand the undergoing pain of reading a book where stuff like this happens, why can't they just be happy, and together?

My weekend was uneventful, except for planning Tessa's outfit, it was casual, but still had some unique qualities. She was wearing a beautiful turquoise colored blouse, with a white tank top underneath, floral leggings, and brown/tan moccasins. (Which are very comfortable).

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I walked into the classroom with, but stopped and bumped into someone's back. I fell backwards to the floor, and bumped my head on a table. As I was hissing in pain I heard a voice, "Hey are you okay?"

I just stared at up and said nothing, because of my idiotic clumsiness this person probably thinks that I am a complete and utter lunatic. I nodded my head finally responding.