While all the other students were going back to school from vacation I was laying in bed. That’s all I ever did, lay there. I just watched my black and white television all say. It was boring for someone like me. I was not used to just staying in one spot most of the day, but it hurt to move. I started getting angry with people, I yelled at my mother often. I know its not right to do that after all she was the one who was taking care of me the most. I think the reason why I was so mad at people is because I finally knew the truth. Gene did this to me. A human being, a friend, a best friend. Anyways I heard Genes getting pushed around by a kid named, Quackenbush. I don’t know how Genes taking it though, I’ve never seen him get bullied. I decided to give Gene a call to check in with him and maybe chat a little. He told me that his room was empty and that he had not got a new roommate. Once I heard this I said to him, “You wouldn’t have let them put anyone else in there, would you?” He said, “No, of course not.”
Yes, I was mad at him before this conversation but it seemed like talking to him made me forget those feelings. After all we cannot change anything now. No use being hostile the past is the past.
He told me that he was the assistant crew manager. I was shocked and he knew it. He then said, “Listen, Finny, I don’t care about being a big man on the campus or anything.” I said I never thought he was trying to but why would he want to be some crew’s manager. It just did not seem like the job for him. To end the conversation I said, “Listen, pal, if I can’t play sports, you’re going to play them for me.” It sounded reasonable, I could no longer do what I loved and the reason why was Gene and he knew it too.
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