2nd Vocabulary Story

I watched as the seemingly demure new student walked in. I began to wonder about her, why is she here? Did she move or is she part of the WWP? I chuckled at that last thought. She had a pixie cut with brown hair that shimmered under the light. I was interested in her, what was her personality like? By her army-green-pattern, baggy sweater, and her black skinny jeans, maybe she was having a slipshod-day.

As the school day passed, the new girl seemed to be ubiquitous. I passed her multiple times during lunch hour, making awkward eye contact and a courteous smile both given and received.  Now looking at her slipshod outfit, I almost hope she doesn’t vegetate.  Lunch ended and she was even in my next class. I was honestly getting a bit suspicious.  Why was she everywhere? Goodness…

After school had ended, I went to my mothers’ bakery and yes- the new girl walked in. Everywhere, I thought. I could almost compare her to The Cold people get in the wintertime, its everywhere and you’re almost guaranteed to catch it; or in this case, run into it. She ordered a blueberry muffin and I gladly gave it to her and took the money that was due. She wasn’t too terrible. Maybe we could be friends, that is, if she doesn’t vegetate.

I watched as she ate her muffin in her chair with her female friend. I learned some things about her: Her name is Julia, she laughs at non sequitur statements and malapropisms that her friend seemingly cannot stop saying, her personality certainly was not impregnable, and she wasn’t really into pragmatic things.  Maybe the demure new girl isn’t so demure after all. Yes, she can be my friend.

Vocabulary Story

High school is a weird adventure. It’s filled with people you would call a dunce, a Charleston or maybe even a sycophant. Nonetheless, you still have to go and just deal with these people. This leads to making strategies for how to avoid to put up with them. Firstly, you might plummet yourself into acting nice to them if/when you run into them but think them as nefarious. If they ever did something rude or mean to you, might become vindictive and think you’re doing them a favor for doing just one bad thing to them instead of a lot of bad things. Although, that plan might backfire, the person you got back at might tell on you to someone to vindicate himself as a form of getting the last laugh.

Of course, all these things of ‘dealing’ with a sycophant will probably just lead you to disliking them even more. This is a very pernicious cycle. You don’t like them, they hurt you, you become vindictive, and they get to vindicate, you get mad, and the cycle is complete and repeats. The only way to get yourself out of this vicious cycle is to let it go. Not sing the song, but actually let go of the dislike and ignore them.