I've had fun the past couple days. Last night we went to Leto for the Student Council award ceremony. I was in rolled up jean shorts, long sleeve shirt, and silver tie until three minutes before we left when father made me change into a suit. We were some of the first people there. After a while Stacy showed up and I went to the door with him, shook hands with his dad, and went to talk to everybody. I kiddingly told Jana how fat she looked in her polka dotted dress and we joked around for a few minutes. I said hi to Derek and Cindy. Then we realized we were to sit on stage in rank order so I was sitting right behind the podium and award table. Cindy sat next to me (of course) and we had a damn good time laughing and joking. Rachel and Minh were right behind us and we all were hyper. I looked up on the table and saw my valedictorian plaque and pin which made me happy because I wasn't sure if they'd give one. Then I saw the Science award with my name on it. That blew my mind. It seemed set that Glen would win because that's what Mr. Thomas wanted and he had been doing better than me for a while. I wasn't really sure how I won. I was hoping to win English and thought it was the only one I had a chance for. I'm good in everything, but not perfect in anything (except science I guess). I already knew that I'd receive a plaque for English PRIDE.
Cindy and I were laughing and having fun most of the time we were up there. We never went long without a funny smartass remark or some sincere statement, often louder than we should have. I made sure to overemphasize my fun so my family would be impressed and so that Nicole and her mom out in the audience would see. I kept looking in her direction and they knew that I was. About half way through Nicole won an award for Excellence in German and had to walk up. I told Cindy not to go calling her a whore or anything. The remarks from everyone were hilarious. Everyone was saying out my name mockingly and were telling me to trip her. I can remember Andrea saying "trip her Dan, trip her." It was exhilarating.
I ended up being recognized (and had to stand up) for Honor Graduate, Tampa Tribune Honor Student, Valedictorian, Graduation Speaker, and Presidential Academic Fitness. I was glad for once that my name is at the end of the alphabet. Mrs. Blosfield announced my Science award as "The next young man has worked hard in the area of science... especially with the Ecology Club in the atrium..." and then I knew that I got the award for working so hard for Mr. Massena and for kissing the department head's ass! I was glad and am worth it. My PRIDE award was hidden originally and I was the first to get one, when they pulled it out it was a monster plaque larger than a framed paper award and heavy as hell. That was impressive and made the night damn well worth it. My ego shot way up right then. Then a sergeant from the Marines goes up to give some awards. He's a funny looking guy who I've seen at ASVAB (I respect him a lot though) and he gave out three. Then he says the next three are for outstanding academics. Then he goes "now I know that Mr. Skinner has already racked up plenty of awards but..." and I loved the attention and beamed. It was great. It was called a Scholastic Excellence Award. Afterwards I started walking around taking congratulations from everybody. My family went out to the car as soon as it was over. I got a hug from Abby and handshakes from many parents on the walk to the door. Then Nicole's MOM congratulated me! I liked that. Then I walked down towards Derek's family. Some guy acknowledged me and said "Hey Daniel do you need to get through...", and then shakes my hand. Then a bunch more parents shook my hand, some of Derek and maybe Andrea's families. I was loving the attention and couldn't get enough. After saying bye to Jana, Minh, and Andrea, Stacy and I took off. I'm back in power.
I congratulated Nicole today for her ONE award and then bragged about all of mine. She sort of admitted to being impressed by my load of awards. We then had an assignment in Ecology to tell him five things we like about his class, and five we dislike. Nicole and I sort of worked together. I listed her name once under thing I liked, and three times under dislikes. My other two dislikes were that facts that there were no cute or nice girls in the class. Nicole then leaned over and wrote "except Nicole" on my paper. We are actually talking again! Then I wrote as a way to promote the class "tell all the guys that girls like Nicole take the class" and she scooted away and didn't talk to me for fifteen minutes. Then she picked up my pad and pencil and and took a few minutes to write something down. I could hear my heart beating out because she has only written me one note ever and that was when we first met. It went like this:
Hey! How are ya? Well see you @ your locker on on Monday! Have a great weekend! Nicole {smile} PS- Buy me a car Please!he he
Thus I was hoping to God that she was writing me a note although I feared she was just figuring something out with Renee. Her writing me a note is very sentimental to me and it was scary waiting to see if she had. When she put it down on the table I didn't look at it at first until the bell rang. It said:
Hey there! I hate you! J/K that looks confusing! {smile} well, have a nice day! luv ya, Nicole call me sometime!
I couldn't believe the emotions that I felt at that second. I got up and told her that I had forgotten her number (I had actually until just yesterday when it flashed back) because I never wrote it down anywhere. She said too bad for me and we walked to our lockers. She didn't even go to hers. She stood there just to wait for ME. As we walked to my class we came up behind Cindy and I poked her in the back. She turned around and gave me a cute face. I was stuck on the fourth number of Nicole's phone and she goes "three" and as I went into class I spit out the whole thing.
I went in to Calculus and asked Cindy if her parents were proud of her two awards and she slyly reinformed me hat she won six. I told her I didn't mean all those times she had to stand when they recognized Honor students and those other stupid lists. She told me I couldn't make fun of her because I was just walking around with whore. Then I turned around to Jana and whined to her to tell Cindy to stop being a bitch. It was funny.
I thought for a while about Nicole and everything and if I should call her tonight. I still love her even though it hurts for me to think about it.
Abby and I were writing to each other yesterday in English and I was saying how I just wanted to forget about everything, be stupid all summer, and start new at college. We were getting all emotional and everything in our notes and she ended up with "Dan, I love you!". I don't know anything.
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