Why Is It This Way?

Chapter Six Elaine's P.O.V

The last week of school. I've been looking forward to this since September but I'm not as excited as I thought I'd be. Yes, I'm excited for summer, the heat, the swimming and of course the sleeping in. I just think that I'll miss all of my friends. Mostly group B. I just became friends with them this school year and I'm not sure if I'm ready to hangout with them outside of school. I know that makes me sound like a crap person but I don't think they're ready either. I'm just gonna miss them. Especially Gwen and Ren, I've become so close to both of them because of this roleplay. Gwen playing the role of my boyfriend and Ren being my little brother who I went to for everything.

I feel a yank, I turn to see Marrissa putting her earbuds back in her bag. I forgot I was listening to music with her.
"So, did you like the song?" She asks
"Yeah, uh, loved it" I say
"Good we can listen to it on repeat during second break then!"
Gwen approaches the group when the bell rings leaving me with about a minute and a half to talk to her until lunch. I walk up the stairs with her, pushing through the crowd of people trying to get up the stairs.
"Why are you so late today?" I ask Gwen, practically yelling over the noise of the stampede.
"Slept in" she replies "getting ready for summer"
I laugh as we approach our backpack hooks. I don't sit with any of my friends. You can blame that on my teacher, she's hated me since day one. She's something I won't be missing this summer.

" I can't believe the teacher assigned us another math journal! Last one, thank god, but seriously! It's the last week of school! It's not like it's going on our report cards! She's just doing it to be a beech!" Tatiana cries. A 'beech' is what we call a bitch in our friend group.Sometimes on of us comes out with an actual swear word and honestly I'm surprised Tatiana held back this time. Normally when she gets into her rants she gets into her sweary mood.

"it's fine, you can just do a crap job at it and then not hand it in." I say

"And burn it" she adds, you can practically see the fire in her eyes. I should mention that Tatiana, Faith (another girl from friend group A) and I are going over to Tatiana's house and burn our math journals and then have I sleepover. I think It'll be fun but I know, that at least once, I will wish it was Gwen and Ren that I was hanging out with.

The next couple days go by in a blur. Tatiana refuses to finish her math journal and my days being Gwen's 'girlfriend' are coming to a close. I'm really going to miss the routine of school days, it'll just be weird without it, without Gwen, without everyone. It's the last day of school and the teacher is making us work on math journals and photobombs all middle block. I know that there is no point doing either of these things but I have nothing else to do so I just suck it up. I look at Gwen from across the classroom, it looks like she is also protesting against math journals. All she is doing is staring out the window, she doesn't even have a pencil out. My brain feels like it's melting, I decide to take a walk to the bathroom, there's only half an hour until the second break but I think that if I wait any longer my brain is going to drip out of my eyes, ears and nose. I raise my hand and watch the teacher, she acknowledges it but then her eyes fall back down to her computer, as if she looked up and nothing was out of place. I know that if I just get up and leave she'll yell at me, but if I sit here, with my hand raised high in the air, I'll look like an idiot. I get up out of my seat, attracting the attention of the other people at my table, and walk up to the teacher's desk.
"Mme, can I go to the bathroom?" I ask
"When Tatiana gets back" She says, barely looking up from her computer. I glance over and see the pink bathroom cone on Tatiana's desk. Damn it. She must have had the same idea I did and knowing Tatiana, she'll take as long as she can. I get back to my table and pull out my sticky notes and writing:
"Hey, this is kinda making my brain melt, I know it's supposed to do the opposite but i'm so bored I can't even think straight. I need to do SOMETHING to pass the time, what are you doing? I'm so bored I NEED IDEAS!!!! also give me your answer when I get back, I'll walk by you and you can slip it into my hand.
~Elaine "
Tatiana comes back into the class looking like she's about to die of boredom. I get up and grab the cone from her, placing it on my desk. I walk past Gwen and slip the folded up note onto her desk and smoothly walk out of the class.

When I get back Gwen has a smile on her face and her pencil out on her desk. I walk past, a small grin plastered to my face. She slips me a folded up piece of blue paper, I clutch it in my hand until I get back to my seat. The chair squeaks when I pull it out, I plop down and unfold the note under the table.
"Hey, honestly I don't even know what I've been doing for the last hour and a half. I've just been staring out the window. We only have half an hour left so just like stare at me or something. I'm just so beautiful that you would probably love that. Yeah I really don't know what to do. This is stupid for the last day, we are going to my house by the way, just us two
-Gwen"
I laugh at her sarcasm, she's cute and all but I think that if I stare at her it'll just make me want to talk to her more.

The long half an hour passes by in what feels like a decade. The teacher, acting like she hasn't been torturing us for the past two hours, gets up and tells us to pack up. The bell rings as we are shoving our math journals into our back packs. Everyone from friend group B gets up and crowds around me.
"Hurry uppppp" Nash whines
"Yeah, Hurry up Elaine! It's our last day of going off property and half of it is going to be spent standing waiting for you to get ready" Marrissa says
"Sorry Guys" I reply
" it's fine, you guys go, I'll wait for her and we'll meet you at the river" Gwen answers.
"Fine by us" Marrissa says. The group all leaves, leaving Gwen and I alone in the classroom.
"I thought we were going to your house together?" I say
"Oh we are, but do you really think your mom would let me take you to my house? Just the two of us?"
My mom? Oh, right. We are still doing that weird role play thing.
"Ha, yeah I guess so."
"Okay hurry up let's go, Marrissa is right, I don't want to spend half of my break in here"
I smile and shove my  math journal into my backpack.

The busser bell rings, five minutes before the normal bell that I'm allowed to leave at. Tatiana and Bea grab me by the arm and we stalk out of the school yard.
"I couldn't even handle that crap for five minutes. GOODBYE!!"
And that's how my grade 6 year ended.