Well, you know me. Last day of school me kinda goes wild. Or, I did last year. It’s kinda funny. I don’t know what to say, honestly. Uh, yeah, this is the last day of school. Today’s the last day of school. You were probably expecting this to be a chapter. And here it is. The last chapter of this book. Yeah, this is the last chapter. I might cry.
So, in the kickball chapter, I apologized or whatever. I said sorry for what I said last year. And I think it felt sincere. I was sorry. But now, I’m not totally sure what I was sorry for. I think it’s cause I made her feel bad, but…
Anna made me think a lot. She’s always talking about how I like Caitlyn so much, but… if I really did, shouldn’t I feel worse about the whole situation? I- god, I hate this do i really have to think about something like this NOW of all times
I liked Caitlyn last year. Yes, I said it. I really, really enjoyed talking, playing, messing around with her, everything. It was all so much fun to hang out with her. Yes, she basically bullied me last year. And so did Anna and Jaidon, but I obviously knew that it was all in good fun. Especially since I did the same thing to them sometimes. But this year, all of that fun has kinda… I dunno, sizzled down? I can’t explain it, but I feel, I dunno, different from last year. Like things were so much happier, and now it’s all gone. Not because I told her to go to hell, I think that wasn’t the problem, but…
I think the reason I’m feeling this way is NOT because I think I didn’t like her last year- I 100% LIKED her last year. Maybe more than just liked. Uh, ignore that. But… this year?
I think my feelings changed. It’s not like I found someone else who was interesting, or I gave up, but… I don’t really know if I like her anymore.
I know, I’m not the type of guy to talk about his feelings, I’m a complete Tsundere. But… I’m being serious. I don’t think I like her anymore.
I don’t know how I feel about saying something like that. Now I feel horrible for admitting something that… I’m not even 100% sure is correct. I dunno, this whole thing is weird.
I… what do I do? Anna thinks I like Caitlyn SOOO much, but… now it’s different. I should… I should talk to Anna. I’ll just find her later, during school. Like I said last chapter, actually. Heh, looks like I was just kidding, I actually knew what I was doing the whole time, obviously. This was my plan the entire time.
“Anna?”
“Hey, Becky, you still thinking about Caitlyn?”
“Yeah, actually.”
Her eyes lit up. I rolled my eyes.
“OHMYGODWAITREALLYYOUARE??????”
“No, that’s not what I meant.”
“Ooooooh, Becky, you like Caitlyn????”
I shook my head.
“I apologized to her at the Musical.”
She stopped jumping up and down and made a more serious looking face.
“Oh. Yeah, she told me.”
“I- of course she did.”
“So, what, do you still like her?”
ALL of her energy is now gone. All of the energy from when I first started talking about her to now is all completely eradicated from her soul. I feel gross.
“I… don’t think so, actually.”
“I- wait, for real?”
“Anna, you’re not even gonna notice that I basically said that-”
“That you liked her last year? That was obvious, dummy. You’re so easy to read.”
“Like a book?”
“Uh, yeah. Literally everyone in the grade knew you liked her dude.”
“That… makes me a little mad.”
“Maybe that’s why she was so mad when you told her to go to hell…?”
She said, using her index finger to push into her cheek while looking up. She was mocking me.
“Okay, I get it. Can you… uh, help me?”
“What?”
“I mean, I don’t like Caitlyn anymore. And I feel like when I apologized it wasn’t… full.”
“And you want my help.”
“...yes?”
“Wow, Becky.”
She rolled her eyes, and looked at the ground. I presumed she was thinking, and waited for her to do so. She kept staring at the ground, so I looked around to waste time while I waited. Eventually she was taking too long, so I wondered if there was a real reason. I looked at where she was looking. There was an ant pile, with ants crawling outside. Maybe they could help me over this… useless pile of… I’m kidding. I got tired of waiting for her to… show signs of life.
“Anna?”
She shook herself out and looked at me.
“Sorry, I was thinking.”
Of course.
“Uh, okay.”
“So you… don’t like Caitlyn anymore.”
“Yeah…”
“Oh…”
I expected her to think I was joking, or run off and tell Caitlyn or Jaidon or whoever. But she started smiling. Laughing.
“Heh, someone told me the exact same thing a couple minutes ago. She was talking about you.”
“Who?! Caitlyn?!”
“You’re so smart Becky”
“Thanks, I get that a lot.”
“You’re so annoying. I think Caitlyn wants to talk to you. And, uh, I think it’s different from your… conversation last year.”
What?
“What?”
“Yeah. But Becky, school’s almost over so… you’d better hurry to talk to her.”
“Wait, what? Oh, right, today’s the last- of course.”
Duh. OH SHOOT WAIT DO I REALLY HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A TIME TO TALK TO HER
“Mm, Becky, how about during graduation?”
Graduation. Give me a second.
“Oh, great idea!”
She rolled her eyes and walked off.
“Wait, I still- ugh, okay, fine.”
Alright thanks for that second here’s some words in return
So graduation for the fifth graders was fun. We first had to go through the actual graduation thing (they announced all of the kids who were graduating and they made a little bridge they put in the auditorium that we walked on to… resemble crossing the bridge from Elementary to Middle school? Eh, it makes sense.), and then the actual highlight happened.
The School Festival also happened around this time, but… the fifth graders skip that, it seems like. Didn’t notice it last year (I also don’t usually notice kids of other grades… you know, like a normal human being.), but it doesn’t matter. The ‘actual highlight’ I mentioned earlier was much cooler than the School Festival.
We, the fifth graders, had our Graduation Party.
WHOOOOO why arent you cheering i swear im gonna have sex with your parents if you dont cheer WHOOOOO
Yeah, we had a graduation party after the graduation. Wow, so crazy. Uh, after the graduation ceremony, we would leave the school auditorium and the teachers would host the party at a nearby park. This park becomes important later on, so… when I explain the layout, pay attention so I won’t have to explain it again. That won’t be for a minute, though.
At this park, we would be having a few different events. The first event was a class competition with a lot of mini activities in between. And then we had the main event, the Balloon Bash. Or the ‘water balloon fight’ for small brained people.
I’m just gonna skip to the part where this actually happened. You have NO idea how boring talking about the past is, it gets pretty tiring.
So the graduation ceremony ended (we had to wear nice clothes. I hate doing that. I dealt with it, though, since I’m a strong boy.), and my mom (who after letting me change in the car) drove me to the park. It was halfway between the school and my house, for, uh, your knowledge. When I got there, there was already a lot of stuff set up. A bouncy castle, some coolers and bings filled with water, even tables with pizza set up. I never would have thought they’d go this far for a graduation party. And I hadn’t even heard the full length of what activities they had for us.
There were adults, chaperones, I guess, standing at different parts of the park. Near the main building (It had no doors and was very open to the public, but it had a ceiling, a lot of built-in green tables, and even bathrooms.), there was the water balloons being held captive in their containers. Whenever kids walked up to them, they shooed them away, explaining that the water balloons wouldn’t happen until 7:30. It was 6:30 right then and there. I had to waste an hour to wait until I could… plan attacks on a few… certain people…
Maybe I won’t. I think I want some character development. I won’t go for her first.
The first game I wanted to try was the… food.
I was hungry. I’m human, not a maniac. I got the pizza, and looked at the list of activities. ‘Balloon Bash! - 7:30, Central Area’ was the main header. Of course it was. Uh, there was the water gun arena at the lower soccer field, the slip n’ slide and bouncy house at the upper soccer field, the chalk at the basketball court… some random sprinkler things every where… they really bought a lot of stuff for us.
After stuffing myself, I decided to just go wild. I met up with some of my friends, and we tried out almost everything. We went to the bouncy house and slip and slide first. The bouncy house was hot and stuffy, mostly cause there were already 15 other kids in it, which made it not fun at all. And then the slip and slide was also kind of horrible. Well, no. I mean- you know how you get excited when you see one, but when you go on it, it’s either really boring/slow or you go off of it and feel the… roughness of the grass?
Well neither of those happened it just had a lot of people sweat and the line was long
The group of us (Troy, Finn, etc.) then ran to the water gun arena. I was hoping there were still large guns. When we got there, we saw a lot of half-empty water bins scattered around the field, as well as one very large bin in the middle with… I think some water guns left. We ran to check it out, but saw that there was only a tiny little pistol left. Ew.
We all decided to take water from the bins and scoop it up, splashing each other. That was pretty fun, but eventually, it got pretty exhausting. The others ran to try and draw the best obama with the chalk, but I decided I was… mature… and didn’t want to do it.
I’m kidding I’m not that mature- I sat down, extremely tired. And then I got shot.
A fierce shot of water slammed into the center of my back, which stung. I toppled over, feeling my wet shirt. I turned around and saw Anna with one of the huge water guns. Of course she got one.
“Dude- seriously?! That hurt!”
She laughed and sat down next to me. She set the weapon down (tysm) and stopped her giggling.
“Why’re you sitting down looking lonely?”
“I’m tired, that’s all. Why are you… sitting down looking lonely?”
“Well, I got lost and now I’m sitting next to you.”
No way really
“Ugh, whatever. So, uh, about Caitlyn…”
She frowned. What? I thought she- She always gets happy when I talk about her- why would she get all sad?
“Yeah, Becky, you don’t like her, I know.”
“Uh… yeah… so, what do you think I should do?”
“Dude I dunno you’re the one that liked her.”
Damn she got me there
“Fine, I’ll just… say whatever.”
“Becky you’re still really dumb after all this time.”
“Shut up.”
She laughed. I still felt like I needed to ask her about some things.
“Hey, Anna-”
“Oh, Becky! Lucky you!”
She had looked behind me and her eyes lit up.
“You said you still haven’t talked to Caitlyn about last year yet, right?”
“Yea-”
“Well, umm, Becky… good luck!”
She really likes bringing up last year, doesn’t she? Wait, Caitlyn- she’s walking towards- Anna, why are you running away- wait- I-
“Hey, Becky.”
Caitlyn walked up and sat down in the spot Anna was sitting down in. I’m not really ready for this.
“You’re wet.”
“Thanks for noticing, Becky. You too.”
That was weird to say. Maybe I’m just a weird person. Nah, not me. Couldn’t be. Then who?
“Shut up. So, I’ve got… a stuff to tell you.”
Really? ‘A stuff’ THAT DOESNT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE YOU COMPLETE IDIOOT
“Yeah, what’s up, Becky?”
“So… I’m sure Anna has told you countless times, but I liked you last year.”
She looked down for a second, then glanced back at me. She sighed.
“Yeah, she really said that a lot. And, well, you know that I liked you.”
“Heh, yeah… sorry, about last year.”
“You already apologized, dummy.”
“I know, but- never mind. I… so, I don’t think I really like you anymore…”
Her face froze. She laughed.
“Heh, Becky, I actually sat down cause I was gonna say the same thing. I liked you last year, but now, I don’t.”
“Really?”
I wasn’t expecting that. Well, I knew that I didn’t like her that much anymore, but…
It kinda hurts to hear that.
A lot, actually, a lot more than I thought.
“Hmm?”
“Er… I don’t really know how liking someone works, but- but do you wanna-”
“Make a bet?”
“A b- heh, okay, sure. What’s the bet?”
“Well, not really a bet, but like a truce?”
“A truce?”
“Well, I don’t know, just, let’s not target each other for the water balloon fight… and…”
“And?”
She squirmed around in her seat. That- that sounded weird. She- I can’t take that back, can I?
“And… let’s just stay friends… and we won’t tease each other so much.”
I- did she really just say that?
Ever since… ever since the start of meeting her, all she’s done is tease me. She tried to make fun of me almost every day. It was unbearable. It was dragging. It was pure hell.
And now she’s asking to stop doing that?
I’ve… never been happier in my life…
I also kinda… don’t want to say no…?
“Sure, Caitlyn. I agree with that.”
But, I guess it’s not entirely my choice in this decision. It’s hers, too. She doesn’t want this random teasefest, where, well, apparently a lot of people know that we ‘have a thing for each other’... but now that I don’t like her anymore, and she apparently doesn’t (How was I supposed to know she still did), it just feels uncomfortable. I think that even though I kind of don’t want this to end, I feel like it has to. It’s been going on for too long now.
“Really, Becky?”
“Yeah. I think I’ve been shipped with you by Anna for… two years too long now.”
She laughed. I smiled.
“Not just her, though, the entire grade had at one point…”
Right, a lot of people were gossiping about us. I don’t think I mentioned it, but there was a crowd at our kickball game, which was mostly girls who were saying my name and Caitlyn’s name over and over again, while we were ‘dueling’. Whenever we were arguing in the hallways to recess or lunch, or whenever we were fighting outside in the field, people would walk by, giggling. I guess I didn’t notice it very well.
There’s so much that I’ve done with Caitlyn. We’ve made so many bets, which I mostly lost, but then she’d sometimes feel bad and do something kind of nice for me. She’s a pretty kind person, I guess.
But… no longer the ‘pretty’ person that I want, or something.
I don’t totally get this feelings thing, but I think I’ve got one thing figured out: I used to like Caitlyn, and now, I don’t feel as much. I’d like to still be friends with her, because she’s still funny, and nice, and great to hang out with, but I’m not interested in… again, I don’t know what it means, but I’m not interested in becoming her boyfriend. That’s a gross word. You’d think that after everything Anna joked about I’d be used to the words she said about me and Caitlyn, but, no, these words still make me… well, squirm, heh.
I really liked explaining to you about how my Elementary life was and all of my hellish adventures with Caitlyn, but now that’s over. We’ve graduated. We’ve matured. We’re moving on to Middle School, and we need to move on from our… you know, childish things. I just hope nothing bad happens in middle school.
I was about to tell Caitlyn a joke, but then the adults started yelling about the water balloon fight starting. We rushed to the center area, and saw that genocide that was ocurring. The parents had started throwing the water balloons they were protecting at us kids, and I got pelted twice. Once in the stomach, once in the shoulder. It didn’t not hurt. During the rampage, I lost sight of Caitlyn, but I coudln’t focus on that. I had managed to find a lonely bin filled to the top with water balloons, and ran over there to hopefully find some protection against the tsunamis that were flooding the park.
I stocked up and started sneaking towards her. I snuck up on her, holding two water balloons in my right and none in my left- it was holding up my soaked shirt, which had a bunch of spare water balloons I was going to pelt her with.
But then I thought about it. I said earlier I wasn’t going to target her.
UGH FINE
“Hey, Caitlyn, want one?”
I was holding a water balloon. She jumped away, probably thinking I was going to pelt her with it. But I didn’t.
“Oh, Becky. Uh, thanks.”
She took it, threw it at one of the nearby kids running around, and missed. I snickered.
“Shut up.”
“You suck at throwing.”
“I got unlucky.”
“I’m sure. Hey, you wanna-”
“You wanna… team up?”
“Uh… yeah, that’s what I was gonna- sure?”
“Then let’s get some water- oh, wait, pretty much all of the bins are empty by now.”
“Oh, hey, there’s this one bin that has a lot of water balloons le-”
“Becky, shut up!”
She covered my mouth with her hands.
“Don’t tell anyone else, idiot!”
“Ugh, get your gross hands off of me! Fine, here, follow me!”
I took her over to the lonely bin, which was still full with water balloons.
She kept taking the water balloons from my shirt storage and throwing them at everyone around us. I kept grabbing more from the bucket and handing them to her- it was an excellent automatic cannon, of sorts.
We were laughing. This was much more enjoyable than me popping one water balloon on her- it might’ve been funny, but this is probably still better.
This is fun. This is really fun. Just hanging out with her. No arguing.
I’m soaked, but don’t care. She’s soaked… and doesn’t care.
Man, I gotta admit. Even with her entire get up drenched in water, she still looks… you know…
Elegant. Heh, it’s still funny to me.
I hope I can keep this kind of fun friendship with her for a long time. That would be awesome.
Anna can go and screw around with me for however long, I know she’s never gonna change. But Caitlyn and I have changed. I might have zero classes with her and I might never see her in school ever again, kind of like this year, but at least I already experienced that these past two years. I think I had a great Elementary School year. I loved screwing around.
Next year it might be different, though. We’re going on to Middle School, where it’s not just ‘new classes, new electives, new stuff!’ - it’s new people, too. Our Elementary School is just one of the root schools to the Middle School. The other one is a lot larger. Meaning not just a few new people. A LOT of new people. Which could mean a lot of new stories, or maybe old ones. I don’t know. I’ll just have to wait and see.
But, I guess there’s one last thing of this ‘Balloon Bash’ that I need to do before I leave.
“Hey, Caitlyn?”
“Yeah, what’s up, Becky?”
We ran out of water balloons, and the rest of the kids who were flailing around slowed down. It seemed like the only people with balloons left were the people who were hoarding them, hiding away.
“Thanks for, uh, well, yeah. Thanks.”
“For- uh, okay? Thanks, too?”
“I- never mind.”
“HEY GUYS”
We suddenly got pelted by at least 10 water balloons. We looked up and saw Anna and Jaidon still holding onto a bin filled with water balloons. Anna grabbed a few and threw them at us, which we dodged. We chased after them, trying to steal the bin and attack them back. We eventually tackled them, and we all laughed as the water balloons spilled out and popped in the grass. We lied down, looking up at the sky, still cracking up. My clothes were wet. Everyone’s were. I guess it was a successful graduation party. Mostly cause we graduated. Yeah, we did that. We successfully graduated.
Um… I dunno how to end this book. Oh, I have an idea.
Thanks for listening to the first two parts of the story. See you later, hottie.107Please respect copyright.PENANA16jukWr0XX