SETH
By the time that lunch rolls around my day is gone. I feel like my days are just getting easier and easier the more that I get into my routine. It’s already 2 weeks into the new semester when I feel like yesterday we just started. My week goes so fast from school to work to church to basketball practice. The guys at first were really dragging me down when I first committed my life to God. But little by little they could see the positive change in me and everyone just accepted that it was a part of me now. I know that I am lucky that I have it so easy and I am grateful for that.
"Hey! Seth! Dude what are you doing later? Thomas scheduled a pickup game of b-ball at the YMCA at 4, you coming?" Matt says. Matt is the coolest guy in the school. I grew up with the kid and he never stops amazing me.
"Uh yeah I’ll be there, you said 4 right?" I actually have work today but the guys hardly get together anymore, I can’t pass up this opportunity and my manager won’t mind, I think. Matt and I walk down to the cafeteria for lunch. We have a whole table only for our group of friends. Every single seat is used, none to be spared.
"Seth? Seth, dude, you’re spacing out man" Oh I am spacing out, so bad I don’t even know who said that.
"Oh, um, sorry, what were we talking about?" I say to them while they stare at me like I’m crazy for not hearing what they are saying. But it is probably just about their new victim for torturing this semester.
"Dude, that girl over there, Lucy, I heard she was admitted to a mental hospital over the summer. She just showed up today. I think she is in my English class. Dude, she isn’t even hot." says Derik. That’s all that he really cares about, hotness of girls and how long it will take for him to get with her. I sneak a peek over at the girl Lucy.
I am surprised. I have never seen the girl before. Seeing her sitting there alone makes me want to go over there and speak to her but the guys, oh man the guys will never let me live it down if I do. Lucy looks like she has no want to be here. I also have the feeling that if the whole world would catch on fire she wouldn’t care one single bit. Now that I see her and think I have heard some weird things going on with her. She has this super creepy boyfriend and is really into drugs. But I also heard that her dad had a massive heart attack a few years ago and died. For some reason as I look at her I worry. I feel like I should really care about her. Maybe I should go up to her. She looks up as if she can feel me staring at her. Our eyes meet...
By the time that lunch rolls around my day is gone. I feel like my days are just getting easier and easier the more that I get into my routine. It’s already 2 weeks into the new semester when I feel like yesterday we just started. My week goes so fast from school to work to church to basketball practice. The guys at first were really dragging me down when I first committed my life to God. But little by little they could see the positive change in me and everyone just accepted that it was a part of me now. I know that I am lucky that I have it so easy and I am grateful for that.
"Hey! Seth! Dude what are you doing later? Thomas scheduled a pickup game of b-ball at the YMCA at 4, you coming?" Matt says. Matt is the coolest guy in the school. I grew up with the kid and he never stops amazing me.
"Uh yeah I’ll be there, you said 4 right?" I actually have work today but the guys hardly get together anymore, I can’t pass up this opportunity and my manager won’t mind, I think. Matt and I walk down to the cafeteria for lunch. We have a whole table only for our group of friends. Every single seat is used, none to be spared.
"Seth? Seth, dude, you’re spacing out man" Oh I am spacing out, so bad I don’t even know who said that.
"Oh, um, sorry, what were we talking about?" I say to them while they stare at me like I’m crazy for not hearing what they are saying. But it is probably just about their new victim for torturing this semester.
"Dude, that girl over there, Lucy, I heard she was admitted to a mental hospital over the summer. She just showed up today. I think she is in my English class. Dude, she isn’t even hot." says Derik. That’s all that he really cares about, hotness of girls and how long it will take for him to get with her. I sneak a peek over at the girl Lucy.
I am surprised. I have never seen the girl before. Seeing her sitting there alone makes me want to go over there and speak to her but the guys, oh man the guys will never let me live it down if I do. Lucy looks like she has no want to be here. I also have the feeling that if the whole world would catch on fire she wouldn’t care one single bit. Now that I see her and think I have heard some weird things going on with her. She has this super creepy boyfriend and is really into drugs. But I also heard that her dad had a massive heart attack a few years ago and died. For some reason as I look at her I worry. I feel like I should really care about her. Maybe I should go up to her. She looks up as if she can feel me staring at her. Our eyes meet...
