I Need To Tell You My Story

Chapter 2: Nicknames

Me, Lincoln and Rhett are sitting on a bench next to the playground with our legs dangling and our mouths opening and closing. "We should have nicknames" Lincoln said. "Yeah" i said. We all agreed. "I'll be Uh...Link" Lincoln said smiling. "I can't think of a nickname for me so I'll just be Rhett" Rhett said. We nodded. "I'll be...Lucy...May" I said. "Nice to meet you Lucy May" Link said shaking my hand. I giggled and blushed. He's so sweet even for a 6 year old. Rhett is staring at the ground. "What's the matter?" Me and Link asked. "My goldfish Milo died this morning that's why I was late" Rhett said as a tear dropped from Rhett's eye sockets to the squishy rubber below our feet. Me and link patted his back. "It's ok I'm sure Milo will be ok in fishy heaven" Link said. Rhett nodded. I feel bad for Rhett. It sucks that people and pets you love have to die. But unfortunately everyone has to eventually die. The bell rung. Kids scrambled off the playground and ran inside the building to go to their next class. We got up and slowly strolled across the rubber then concrete ground. As we walked inside the school building Rhett wiped away his tears and sniffled. "We have m math now" Rhett said starting to stop crying. "Ok let's go back to class" me and Link said side-hugging Rhett. We are the threeo duo. Even though a duo is two people. Under Rhett's eyes and down his cheeks is tear stains and his eyes are bloodshot. We walked inside our class room and sat at our desks. "Ok class we now will do some addition and subtracting and in grade 3 you will learn multiplication and in grade 4, 5 and 6 you will learn divison" Mrs. Locklear said. Me and the rest of my class are hella confused about multiplication and d d divison. I think that's how you say it. We got our plain lined books out and started writing things like 20+67=. I'm sitting next to Link and Rhett. I glanced over to Link. Link glanced over to me. We smiled. Link leaned in and said in my ear "I love you". A warm fuzzy happy feeling went through my heart...