Lies Make Friends

Song: Riot by Three Days Grace
Time: 2:03
Mood: P.O'd


I'm in my Yearbook class, not really working on Yearbook obviously. It's opened in a different tab, but I'm not really paying much attention to it. I'm the editor, I have a role to fulfill, and I need to get my act together, but it's hard to talk about when your best friend since 3rd grade is being...naive.

I wrote her a note last week saying that her boyfriend may or may not be what he says he is. I chose the note format because I cannot really express my feelings well through words, and I didn't want anyone else around to hear about his potential lies. She further ignored me for the rest of the day. I was expecting SOME anger, but not enough to not talk to me for a whole week. She didn't say a thing at all.

However, she kept coming to school with her boyfriend's jacket, so I guessed that she didn't confront him - that or she had and found that he was innocent of the crimes that SOMEONE had said he had done. These, in case you're wondering, include, but are not limited to:

• Having a different last name
• Telling one of my friend's friends that he hated her laugh
• Having a one-year-old kid
• Being a complete and utter perv.
• Is not the age he said he is

But the girls I had heard this from insisted that everything was true. My boyfriend even knew the dude and said he definitely wasn't the age he said he his. Also, my boyfriend said that the guy is manipulative, which I'm afraid is happening here - that he's manipulating my best friend. It could be true, but anyway, back to the story...

I got to school today, and was still given the cold shoulder. Not a word, not even when she sneezed and I said bless you. Anyway, I wrote a note to my other friend, who said that her sister told her not to talk to me until I APOLOGIZED. Me? Apologize? Haha. No. Not going to happen. I told wrote that friend #1 could shove it up her butt before I did. Really, it was stupid. I was trying to be a good friend, and I even told her IN THE NOTE that I was not completely sure of the statements given to me, and that It may or may not be true. I said that. I don't deserve the silent treatment for trying to be a good friend, and I don't have to apologize for it either.

My friend told us to sit down and talk it out. We did. She sat there, mostly staring off into space, not really saying a word. She only said that she didn't talk to me because she "had nothing to say". She also said that she looked up the guy on FB, saying that it wasn't her boyfriend, and that he didn't have a "tattoo" like the guy in the picture. I found out later that she had lied. After our talk, she acted like everything was OK again.

Pft. Right. She can get herself hurt, but I warned her. I'll even be a good friend and not tell her "I told you so" when that time comes.

I'm signing off and hope you all have an amazing day. :) Here's a pretty picture from my other blog, theartinourhearts.blogspot.com to brighten your day:

Do Better

Right now, I'm listening to Do Better by Say Anything, courtesy of Pandora. It kind of made me feel better after the reviews I just read.  I just got my UIL results, and needless to say, I am not happy with them. For those of you who do not know what UIL is, well, it's United Interschoolastic League (I'm pretty sure that's what it is), and it's a huge deal in Texas, if it's not in your states too, and I love doing it. I participate in a lot of events every year, and sometimes get placed in others just because!
Well, my favorite thing to do is write, and those are the main events that I do - News, Feature, and Editorial Writing is what I participate in. I also compete in Computer Applications (which is using Word, Access, and Excel; if you have a BCIS class, you know what I'm referring to). Anyhow, I usually place in more than one event, and, this year, I placed in only one - one that I got in just this year! You would think that I would have placed in any of the writing ones, or the Computer, but no. I placed in Literary Criticism. I'm not complaining that I did, I'm just upset that I didn't in my writing events.
After finding out my results a few months ago, I was disappointed enough. Then, to rub it in, I got the actual writings I did, and the teachers' supposed constructive criticism. One featured a statement saying "You need to work on the editorial format and take a stronger stance." This is fine. This kind of criticism is perfect for me. Then, reading further, she (I'm assuming it is a she, as the writing is curly and feminine), said my stance was very passive, and my solution to the problem in the prompt was too passive as well. It's an Editorial Writing! You cannot go out and say "Hey, screw your statement, I do what I want!" My writing was "elegant" and well thought-out. It wasn't brash or harsh. I try to keep it neat.
Then, reading from the same paper, she said "Where did this come from?" This really doesn't make sense to you, the reader, because you haven't seen the prompt. The most I can tell you, without being even more long-winded than I already have been is that (clearly) in the prompt I was given to write from there was something about the marching band wanting new uniforms, and I used that in my writing. However, the grader, must have not read the prompt thoroughly. All in all, this was disappointing enough, and to read my other competitive entry (also graded by the same person), said the same thing about another statement I said in my paper. How can you grade something when you haven't even read the prompt?
People like this annoy me so much! And, I'm sorry to who ever may read this as it could be seen as tl;dr, but I had to get this off my chest. Anyway, more to be written later.

Hope you all are having an amazing day. :)