MISS EDEN: HI, MY NAME IS MIRELLA EDEN BUT YOU CAN CALL ME MISS EDEN. THE FIRST THING WE ARE GOING TO DO IS TRY TO GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER. THIS IS A WRITING CLASS(AS THE NAME "WRITER'S CRAFT" IMPLIES) SO WE ARE ALL GOING TO FORM GROUPS OF FOUR. THESE PEOPLE WILL ALSO ALWAYS SERVE AS EDITORS FOR ALL YOUR WORK. LEGHOO GUYS(SHE ACTUALLY SAID THAT)
I TURNED AND FACED THE TWO WHITE KIDS THAT WERE BEHIND ME. MARIA'S HOME SCHOOL IS THE SUMMER SCHOOL(LUCKY) AND THOMAS GOES TO PORT CREDIT.
ME: HI, MY NAME IS FEMI. I JUST FINISHED FROM ST. AUGUSTINE AND I'M HERE CUZ I WANNA BUMP UP MY MARKS FOR UNIVERSITY
ANYBODY NOTICE OUR GROUP WAS MISSING ONE PERSON? YEA! WE WERE ABOUT TO TELL MISS THAT THERE WAS ONLY THREE OF US IN THE GROUP WHEN SHE WALKED INTO THE ROOM. SHE APOLOGISED FOR BEING LATE AND MISS EDEN POINTED HER TO OUR LIL GROUP. SHE SCRAMBLED OVER TO US. SHE HAD TWO TOTE BAGS AND WAS STRUGGLING TO CARRY THEM. DAMN! WHY DOES ONE PERSON HAVE SO MUCH STUFF ON THE FIRST DAY?
RIVER: HEY GUYS, SORRY I'M LATE. I TOTS MISSED THE BUS AND GOT LOST. MY NAME IS RIVER.
ME, THOMAS, MARIA: RIVER? AS IN R-I-V-E-R? WHAT KINDA NAME IS THAT?
RIVER: SLOW DOWN! ITS RIVER-JORDAN MICHELEE ALLICK AND YES! I WAS NAMED AFTER THE RELIGIOUS MONUMENT, RIVER JORDAN. YOU CAN CALL ME RIVER THOUGH
ME, THOMAS, MARIA: OH WOOOW. THAT IS SO COOL. ONE OF THE COOLEST NAMES I'VE EVER HEARD OF.
RIVER: OH WHY THANK YOU
LONG STORY SHORT, RIVER BECAME THE FOURTH PERSON IN TEAM-WE-ARE-ALL-FROM-DIFFERNT-COUNTRIES-BUT-THERE-ARE-TWO-WHITES-AND-TWO-BLACKS-IN-THE-GROUP. REALLY! THATS THE NAME OF THE GROUP. RIVER ALSO BECAME MY FRIEND. BETWEEN GOING TO THE LIBRARY TO WORK ON OUR WRITING PIECES, EDITING FOR EACH OTHER, HELPING EACH OTHER OUT, MAKING FRIENDS WITH OTHER KIDS, TAKING THE AFTERNOON BUS BACK HOME TOGETHER, TRIPS TO MCDONALDS, RIVER AND I BUILT A RELATIONSHIP. WE HAD A LOT IN COMMON AND WE WERE ABLE TO BALANCE OUR CRAZY SUMMER SCHOOL LIFE WITH EACH OTHER'S HELP. EVERYWHERE I WENT, SUMMER WAS MY HANDBAG AS I WAS HER'S. WE ARE OF THE SAME HEIGHT, AND ALTHOUGH SHE IS JAMAICAN, WE HAVE THE SAME VALUES.
FOURTH DAY OF SUMMER SCHOOL
IT WAS A NEW WEEK AND I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING A GOOD ONE WITH RIVER. I GOT TO SCHOOL FIVE MINZ LATE BUT SHE WAS NOT AT HER DESK. I REMAINED CALM BECAUSE I KNEW IT WAS IN HER CULTURE TO BE LATE FOR CLASS. 9AM AND RIVER WAS STILL NOT HERE, I KNEW SHE WAS NOT COMING. ALTHOUGH, I HAD A GOOD TIME CHILLING WITH OTHER KIDS, IT WAS MY MOST DOWN SUMMER SCHOOL MOMENT WHEN RIVER DID NOT SHOW.
URRGH! I DONT HAVE WEEKDAY MINUTES ON MY PHONE SO I CANT MAKE CALLS DURING THE DAY. BUT AS SOON AS THE CLOCK STRUCK 9PM, I PICKED MY FONE AND DIALED HER NUMBER
ME: RIVER-JORDAN MICHELEE ALLICK!!! WHY THE HELL WERENT YOU IN CLASS TODAY??!!!
RIVER: (CALMLY) CALM DOWN FEMI, I HAD TO DO MY COURSE SELECTION FOR UNI AND IT STARTED AT 9AM. IT WAS TOO LATE TO COME WHEN I WAS DONE.
I GAVE A BIG SIGH OF RELIEF CUZ I TOT SHE HAD LEFT ME TO DIE IN SUMMER SCHOOL
ME: AII. SO I'LL SEE YOU TOMOE EH?
RIVER: YEA SURE! HEY REMEMBER I OWE YOU A DOLLAR FOR A MCDONALDS DRINK. YU'LL GET THAT TOMOE. GOODNIGHT DARL
ME: NIGHT HUNN! DONT EVER SNAKE ME LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN
SIXTH DAY OF SUMMER SCHOOL
TODAY, I GOT TO SCHOOL 30MINZ EARLY (MAN! WHEN DID I BECOME A GOOD KID?) AND RIVER GOT TO SCHOOL 10MINZ EARLY TOO (HEY! I GUESS WE ALL ARE REPENTING). THE DAY WENT ON NORMALLY WITH THE LAUGHS AND JOKES AND BEFORE WE KNEW IT, IT WAS TIME FOR BREAK. YEA! ME AND MY GIRL WERE GOING TO MCDONALDS TO GET DRINKS :D
RIVER: FEMI, I THINK I'M DROPPING THIS CLASS. I DONT NEED THE CREDIT AND THE WORKLOAD IS TOO MUCH FOR ME
ME: NO! WTF?? I'LL HELP YOU. WHY THOUGH?

RIVER; SORRY FEMI. I JUST WANNA FOCUS ON MY JOB NOW AND PREP FOR UNI. WE CAN ALWAYS CHILL AND STILL BE FRIENDS. *AFRICAN ACCENT* YOU KNOW YOU LOVE ME
I PLAYED IT COOL BUT I WAS HURT. I'M NOT BEING RACIST BUT I DONT FIT WITH ANY OF THE OTHER KIDS. THE ONLY OTHER BLACK PERSON IS THIS BOY WHO'S HALF SOUTH AFRICAN, HALF INDIAN (THATS NOT EVEN BLACK). WHO WILL I SIT WITH? AND WHAT WILL I DO ON MY BREAKS? WHO'S GONNA SPEED WALK AND SAVE ME A COMPUTER BESIDE THEM WHEN I WALK SLOWLY TO THE LIB?
SO TODAY,
SEVENTH DAY OF SUMMER SCHOOL
I AM OFFICIALLY A SUMMER SCHOOL SINGLE. I DIDNT DO ANY OF THE THINGS I USED TO DO WITH RIVER. I DIDNT TAKE THE BUS WE USUALLY TOOK TOGETHER(I TOOK A DIFFERNT ONE), I DIDNT GO TO MCDONALDS AND I DIDNT WALK SLOWLY TO THE LIB CUZ I KNEW NO ONE WOULD SAVE ME A COMPUTER.
AISHA: FEMI, WHERE'S RIVER?
ME: OH SHE DROPPED THE CLASS
AISHA: AWW. ARE YOU OK?
ME: YES! YES I AM. THANKS FOR ASKING
AISHA: YOU WANNA COME SIT WITH US?
ME: NO THANKS HUNN, I'M GOOD
AISHA: KAY! COME OVER WHENEVER YOU WANT
ME: AII, I WILL. THANKS B
NOW I'M ALL ALONE IN THIS JUVI CALLED SUMMER SCHOOL. I'M NOT ONE OF THE WHITE KIDS WHO SMOKE, OR THE ONES THAT ACT LIKE THEY ARE BARBIE AND KEN, OR THE BROWN BOYS WHO SKIP CLASS, OR THE BROWN GIRLS WITH IJAB.
HI, MY NAME IS FEMI AND MY RIVER HAS FLOWED AWAY
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