~Dear Diary,~

~I got hit with a dodgeball, hurt like hell and something weird is going on between Mckayla and Andrew, but I have no idea what it could be. Thank God for painkillers, and the ability to sit out during gym class and feeling extremely tired. 

~A thing that kind of bothered me was how close Mckayla, Tracey and Chase. I know that there been friends' way longer than me, but the fact that they're so close kind of makes me feel sad about everything! God, why is all of this confusing? ~

-Rosetta H.

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Gym class sucked. It was the worst thing ever, Ms. Park was way too excited for her class, I mean, I know it's the last week of school and all, but she really needs to calm down with the whole hype of dodgeball! 

"Alright Kids! We're playing a fair good game of dodgeball! We're gonna have fun and go nuts! Happy hitting! So, Mckayla and Raine, you'll be our captains and you'll get to choose everyone else." 

As we were all getting into groups, I had one though "Why is dodgeball the biggest sport that gym teachers love the most?" 

It like, doesn't make any sense! Either they give a huge kick out of seeing everyone attack each other with red rubber balls or it's the fact that the really nerdy and geeky kid finally has enough of their tormenter and hits them so hard that they knock a tooth out! It has happened twice, but some of the kids got suspended for that, and the crappier part was that it happens like once or twice! 

Mckayla and Raine got to picking the other kids to join their teams, until they were a few kids left; Me, Mark and some skinny guy, so I ended up on Raine's team. While I watched Mckayla, Tracey and Chase having fun together, I had to be on the other team, trying to pitch ideas for how we could win, but everyone just ignored me. 

It sucks, I'm the idea girl! Coming up with ideas isn't exactly easy to do, I'm an idea girl, shutting down the idea girl is like the lamest thing you could ever do! But it didn't matter at that point because the game had already begun. 

I think I did pretty well at some point, but sports were never my thing, so moving around and ducking at the right time was how I managed to survive the game for a bit. That was until I was planning to hit Jacob, but Mckayla aimed for me and... hit me in the stomach. 

"OWWWW!" I shouted, I kneeled down on the floor and I almost puked! My glasses knocked down and Mckayla, Tracey and Chase were trying not to laugh while Ms. Park blew her whistle; I sat out and Ms. Park glared at Mckayla.

"What? It was an accident," Mckayla explained. "It's not a huge deal."

"Mckayla Queens, in my office. Now!" Ms. Park said with a stern voice. "We need to have a chat, everyone else can resume the game and Rosetta, sweetie you head to the nurse's office." 

Mckayla rolled her eyes and stomped her feet with Ms. Park, the door closed and did what Ms. Park wanted me to do! Even though I'm kind of scared of the nurse sometimes, luckily, I was fine, I just needed to take it easy for the rest of the day. 

During passing hour, Mckayla was at her locker, totally annoyed, I'm not sure what Ms. Park said to her, but I can only assume it wasn't anything good. 

"Hey Mckayla. What's up?" 

"Ugh, nothing good. Ms. Park is so freaking annoying. You didn't mean to hit you, right? It was an accident, it's not a huge deal or anything!" Mckayla rolled her eyes, "You know that, right?" 

"Yeah, totally...it's just that when I got hit by your dodgeball, you, Chase and Tracey laughed at me? Like, you thought the whole thing was hilarious." 

"What? That's stupid, I wouldn't laugh at you, you must be imagining it wrong." Mckayla patted me on the head like I was a kid, she looked away and Tracey and Chase had gotten closer to Mckayla. 

"Hey Mckayla! You were amazing in gym class today! It was insane!" Tracey squealed, while Mckayla smirked. "Yeah, thanks. If it wasn't for my accident, I would have helped my team won." 

"True, our team was a mess without you." Chase nodded, "Tracey almost had a ball into the face and also ran into a wall?" 

"That was a mess up on my account." Tracey admitted. The girls talked to each other while I stayed quiet and watched, I felt a bit left out, but you know you can't be included in everything, and sure it stung, but I can get over it!

But the thing that tipped me off was at lunch, the ladies were nice to me as always, as I walked to my lunch table with Mckayla, Tracey, Chase and Andrew, Mckayla and Andrew were laughing like crazy about a joke Mckayla made. 

And as I was eating, I noticed that Andrew had a A+M on his wrist in ink, like Mckayla did. 

"Uh, what's up with the A+M stuff, guys?" I asked.

"Relax babe, it's nothing... It's like a joke between me and her, don't worry." Andrew smiled, but it didn't calm me down, why did he need to tell me to calm down?

"Yeah Rose," Mckayla nodded and flashed a grin, "Relax." 

I nodded and drank the carton of milk, even though it was weird how they were acting, but I tried to be calm and watched them talk and laugh, and just try to not feel weird. But one thing that was strange was when I saw Andrew after school, he got a bit clingy and hugging like he'll never see me again. 

I asked him about it, and he was like "Girl, are you gonna police me on everything I do? What's next, you'll get mad when I breathe a certain way?" 

"Oh, I'm sorry if I made you think like that. I was just wondering why you were acting very affectionate. I mean, I know you well, you're not exactly the type of guy that's super touchy." 

"Oh, well I felt a bit different with that, can't be that big of a deal, right?"

"Right, so will you be able to walk me home again?" 

"Oh, sorry babe! I can't," Andrew shrugged. "Got practice to do with the baseball team today and I can't miss it, maybe next time?" Andrew smiled, he kissed me on the forehead and waved goodbye as a bunch of cheerleaders all went to go hug him, and some of them gave me the evil eye, which did not sit right with me at all.

But it's whatever, I guess! It's not like I'm jealous or anything, I'm way too cool for that. Even though it still bothered me, for whatever reason. 

It's cool, I'm fine, like ice! Yeah! Yeah...

~End~

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