Jan 4 - Jan 10 2025

On Sunday, me and my friend, who I’ll call Apollo (they/them), went and saw the new sonic movie. It was really good and if I’m being honest I cried a little. Shadows backstory with losing Maria, who was like a sister to him, hit a little close to home. After the movie we met up with their dad at the local target since he was there running errands. They went home and I had to wait for my parents to come pick me up, so I decided to walk around a little. I made my way to the book section and decided to get the “into the Taylor-verse” book, and an important thing to note here is that 2 of my friends know i listen to Taylor Swift and one of them lives in a different country. As I’m walking, the employee door thing opens and someone walks out, and it’s this guy I know from theater, I’ll call him strawberry (he/him) and he’s a nice guy but it scared the shit out of me for some reason. I don’t think he saw the book though so it’s okay. After that I got picked up and went home.

On Monday, i had school, and my first two blocks were normal, but then I went to lunch. I was just hanging out waiting to get dismissed to eat, and my friend, we’ll call her Bluey (she/her), decided to ask me “what if you see pineapple again?” (Pineapple is this girl who me and Bluey are in theater with that I’m like super scared of. Pineapple was there when I was in the lunch line last Friday and I was visibly horrified. Bluey watched it happened and was determined to make sure I never forget it) So I’m like a tad spooked and like look around the lunch room for her from my seat. I don’t see her and assume she’s just doing something else, since she’s a senior and this is actually her free block, she only comes to my lunch cause it’s the first one and some of her friends are in it. So I’m like she’s not eating here today so I’m safe right? Wrong. Pineapple walks past to leave the building, not like directly past us but where we can see her, which is no big deal, EXCEPT Bluey points and loudly goes “THERE SHE IS” and according to Bluey she looked at us, I wouldn’t know cause I was too busy having my soul leave my fucking body. I get through my last few classes of the day uneventfully. After school I had theater though, I’m in tech and we’re just working on the background for the one-act right now. Pineapple and Strawberry were both there, neither said anything about the prior two incidents but I have deep regrets. After theater me and Bluey are talking, and I’m telling her the story of what had happened at Target on Sunday. Earlier when I had told y’all that only 2 people know I listen to Taylor Swift, at the time it was 1, and so I tell Bluey this story and reveal to her that I am in fact a Taylor Swift fan, she is shocked, I tell her no one will ever believe her.

On Tuesday my first two classes are mostly uneventful, except for the fact that I had handed one of my good friends from Oral Interp a pair of earrings in first block (this comes up later trust me). We’ll call this friend Carrie (she/her). I go to lunch and Bluey makes a bunch of Taylor Swift references in conversation that I try my best not to giggle at. Then once again, go through my last few classes uneventfully. However on Tuesdays I go to both Oral Interp practice and theater. Carrie and I meet at interp and then head to the bathroom. She needed the earrings so she could have them sit in some disinfectant thing, because she was going to do my second lobe piercings. So she takes a never before used marker and marks the spots on my ears to make sure they’re even. The needles are all individually packaged and stuff so it’s sanitary, however I am like insanely afraid of needles. The first needle goes in and it bleeds a bit but it’s okay. She gets the earring in then she cleans up the blood with q-tips a bit and gets a new needle. She stabs into my second ear and just goes “fuck” and I’m just like “???” Carrie tells me that the needle didn’t go in all the way. It takes a lil bit but she gets it in, then gets the earring in. We go back to interp and I get my new script printed and watch my friend, who we’ll call Marigold (she/her) perform her new piece. After interp I head to theater, Bluey was helping with tech for show choir that day so not much happened in theater.

So on Wednesday, pretty much all my classes went without incident, and Bluey didn’t see Pineapple during lunch so that was okay. (Bluey has been threatening to point and say “THERE SHE IS” pretty much anytime we see Pineapple) Bluey made more Taylor Swift references but it’s honestly really funny. Theater also went off with relatively no incident. However, Apollo’s mother makes them attend Youth Group at this church that’s really close to my school, and it’s after theater so I usually go with Apollo. So we went and I showed Apollo my ears, and they were mildly horrified because A, literally got them done in the highschool bathroom B, it had been like 3 days since we last hung out. 

Thursday also proceeded with little incident. However, in Bluey’s research in order to tease me about liking Taylor Swift, Bluey’s begun to like Taylor Swift so now we’re joining sides and starting a little club. I got through my classes and theater without anything interesting happening. After theater though, there was a show choir parent preview night, and my friend from interp, who I’ll call Gracie (she/her), is in show choir and had texted me the night prior asking me to come. As her #1 fan I was very excited! She did awesome, and multiple other people I knew were also there, including strawberry and a few other people who don’t have names in this blog yet. 

On Friday, Bluey was sick. My first few classes were fine, just boring, and lunch was lame without Bluey. Then in my last class of the day before Advocate, we had a substitute teacher. This one guy who’s really annoying and always irrupting the teacher and generally just making all of our lives slightly more difficult, started beefing with this one wanna be “gangster” kid (mind you we literally live in the middle of fucking nowhere in the Midwest). The sub did break it up really quick so it didn’t get too bad, but the annoying guy actually stopped talking for once which was nice. I feel like there’s no way this is gonna be the end of it though so I’m mentioning it now and I’ll keep you guys updated. Theater was fine, relatively boring without Bluey. After we got out of theater, there was a basketball game going on and I was kinda nervous cause there’s this one girl who use to pick on me a bit and she likes to go to events like that, so I stuck near Marigold, who was waiting for band to start, and Strawberry who was talking with Marigold and some of her friends. Strawberry had said hi to me when I walked over, I mean it when I say this guys really nice, not just the fact that he says hi to me, but like the way in which he says it. I wish nothing but good fortune on this guy, I’m less scared of him than I am of a lot of the other upperclassmen (I’m not sure if that’s all supposed to be one word or if I’m supposed to use hyphens but y’all are just gonna have to accept it.)

On Saturday, I woke up at like 5:28pm (I had gone to bed at like 3 on Friday) and my little brother and his friend came to my room asking for monster, like the drink. Apparently they wanted to pull an all nighter and thought I would have some, but I didn’t. I needed more stuff for cleaning my piercings though, since the stuff I had borrowed from my mom’s stuff ran out. Since I couldn’t ask my parents to get me some, since they don’t know about my ears yet, and since the boys couldn’t ask my parents to get monster, since none of us are allowed to drink energy drinks (not that it’s stopped us) we decided to work together. We went to our older brother and asked him to drive us to a nearby dollar general, since it’s the closest shop to our house. He took us there and we all got what we needed, so it was a pretty successful trip. I also worked on some ideas for bracelets for me and Bluey’s club. I have like a “prototype” made, for lack of a better word, but there’s a few changes I’d like to make for the finished version. That’s pretty much everything remotely interesting I did today.

I’ll try to post weekly updates on Saturdays. Hopefully next week’s post won’t be posted at like 3am.