Carla Franke
I wish Andrea wasn’t going back to Florida after we graduate. She’s such a cool girl, there’s no one like her at all around here. Everyone else is so boring, either talking about their cars (many of which are up on blocks), or what they bought with their parent’s money. So boring, so ordinary. There are people here that haven’t even been out of New York State. We’re ten minutes from the Pennsylvania border, and they haven’t even been there.
I want to travel so much as soon as I graduate. I just want to hitchhike cross country. My mom said that I’d better not even think about it, but I’m set to go. As soon as I finish with the graduation parties, I’m gone. Andrea said I could come stay with her and her boyfriend if I wanted. I really want to go out west, to see the Pacific Ocean, and the Northwest, but I’ll probably go south to visit Andrea first. think
I have study hall this period, and no one really bothers the seniors if they just wander the halls. As long as we don’t disrupt any classes, and there aren’t many on the basement floor. We walk down here for a while, just talking. She’s done so much, been in the Florida Keys, walked on the beach, gone to Jamaica, and then moved here. RZHS must be such an unpleasant change for her, going from the luxuries of Florida to Upstate New York.
Jim Smitt and Nick Caufield are down by the computer room when we get down there. I stop and talk to Jim for a couple minutes. I’ve known Jim since we were in elementary school, and even though he’s kind of a jerk, I don’t mind him. He asks me if I’m going to the party after the baseball game tomorrow. Ashley’s parents went away, and her older brother bought her a couple cases of beer, so she’s having a party to celebrate the game. I don’t have anything else to do tomorrow, and my parents don’t really care if I’m out late, as long as I get to school, so I can’t imagine that I wouldn’t go.
I know that Nick likes Andrea, but she can’t stand him. Every time he tries to talk to her, she just gives a quick, one-word answer, and pretty much ignores him. Around Christmas time, when I first started hanging out with Andrea, Nick kept asking me to hook him up. The first time I told her about it, she just looked at me, like she couldn’t believe what I was saying. She told me that she thought Nick was one of the most repulsive people she’d ever met, and she’d rather date Ted Bundy than Nick Caufield. I told her that Nick wasn’t that bad a guy, he was just kind of messed up over what happened to his sister last year. She said that didn’t make him any nicer.
Clark Golding and Andy McCarthy come out of the stairwell and walk by. Jim says they have to leave, and start walking after Clark and Andy, so Ashley and I go upstairs.
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I wish Andrea wasn’t going back to Florida after we graduate. She’s such a cool girl, there’s no one like her at all around here. Everyone else is so boring, either talking about their cars (many of which are up on blocks), or what they bought with their parent’s money. So boring, so ordinary. There are people here that haven’t even been out of New York State. We’re ten minutes from the Pennsylvania border, and they haven’t even been there.
I want to travel so much as soon as I graduate. I just want to hitchhike cross country. My mom said that I’d better not even think about it, but I’m set to go. As soon as I finish with the graduation parties, I’m gone. Andrea said I could come stay with her and her boyfriend if I wanted. I really want to go out west, to see the Pacific Ocean, and the Northwest, but I’ll probably go south to visit Andrea first. think
I have study hall this period, and no one really bothers the seniors if they just wander the halls. As long as we don’t disrupt any classes, and there aren’t many on the basement floor. We walk down here for a while, just talking. She’s done so much, been in the Florida Keys, walked on the beach, gone to Jamaica, and then moved here. RZHS must be such an unpleasant change for her, going from the luxuries of Florida to Upstate New York.
Jim Smitt and Nick Caufield are down by the computer room when we get down there. I stop and talk to Jim for a couple minutes. I’ve known Jim since we were in elementary school, and even though he’s kind of a jerk, I don’t mind him. He asks me if I’m going to the party after the baseball game tomorrow. Ashley’s parents went away, and her older brother bought her a couple cases of beer, so she’s having a party to celebrate the game. I don’t have anything else to do tomorrow, and my parents don’t really care if I’m out late, as long as I get to school, so I can’t imagine that I wouldn’t go.
I know that Nick likes Andrea, but she can’t stand him. Every time he tries to talk to her, she just gives a quick, one-word answer, and pretty much ignores him. Around Christmas time, when I first started hanging out with Andrea, Nick kept asking me to hook him up. The first time I told her about it, she just looked at me, like she couldn’t believe what I was saying. She told me that she thought Nick was one of the most repulsive people she’d ever met, and she’d rather date Ted Bundy than Nick Caufield. I told her that Nick wasn’t that bad a guy, he was just kind of messed up over what happened to his sister last year. She said that didn’t make him any nicer.
Clark Golding and Andy McCarthy come out of the stairwell and walk by. Jim says they have to leave, and start walking after Clark and Andy, so Ashley and I go upstairs.
Follow Carl Gallian.
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