Diary of a 7th Grader

Holding this Grudge

March 6 2013

I am excited!! Three more weeks until spring break!!! Anyways, today was not as bad as I thought. There were maybe a few problems here and there. In gym, we played volleyball. Mrs. Lane assigned us to different teams. I was with Diana, Emily, Jacob, Austin, Jay, Denton, and Katy. While we were playing, the volleyball was coming towards between Emily and me. I put my hands up ready to hit it, but then I saw the Emily put her hands up as well. So I decided to let her get it since she was much more closer to the ball. She touched it, but she missed and it was the other team's point. "Look out for the ball next time." Katy told me. I nodded my head to show her that I understood. Emily on the other hand didn't take it too easy. "I thought you had the ball! Why didn't you hit it, look out for the ball and stop missing!" Emily yelled at me all up in my face. She closely looked at me angrily. Get out of my face dude, I don't care what you say! I got the point already, gosh!  I said in my head. I stared at her with a blank expression on my face until she turned around. My eyebrow twitched a bit as I clenched my fists and I thought, I really don't like you! 

It's true. Not only because of what happened in gym, I've always hated her. In elementary school especially! Back then, I didn't have any friends to play with because I was too shy to make any. Mary was my only real friend when we were little. Mary and I would always love to play with each other during recess. But sometimes I would not be able to play with her, and that was Emily's fault. Most times, Emily would come over to us while we were having a great time, and tell Mary to play with her. When Mary would refuse, Emily would just grab her arm and drag her away. I would get so sad. So I would just walk over to the little dark place by the sun room and sit there, alone. There would be some kids playing around there, but they would just ignore me. I just felt so very lonely, like no one but Mary cared about me in the school. Emily had her own friends to hang out with, I would always wonder why she would take away Mary, it was so unfair. I am just glad now, that whenever Mary can't hangout with me, that I have more friends to talk to. If someone in the school were to rate her on what level of popularity she is in, it would be so low. She would be ranged 1. From 1 to 10, I would be 7. I am not that popular, but I am popular enough to at least have lots of people who know me. Some of the popular kids talk to me, and you can tell they enjoy being around me. I always smile, laugh, and help them in anyway that can. Everything just back fired on Emily. But I will still hold that grudge on her, because it was her fault that I had to live in sorrow for 4 years. At least everything is better now. :)