She invited me to dinner that night. I expected her parents to be hippies. Surprisingly they were not. We all had meatloaf except for Stargirl. She is a strict vegetarian. She showed me her room. It was perfectly normal in every way. The only unnormal thing was Cinnamon's apartment and her Happy Wagon. Her Happy Wagon is a wagon that she fills up with pebbles. The pebbles represent happiness. There are 20 pebbles in all and 17 were in the wagon. She told me that was considered pretty good. We went out on the porch and talked. She took pictures of a boy that lived across from her. She was doing a biography to give to his parents when he was older. She said it was something for him to appreciate. I was surprised at first but then realized that this was normal for Stargirl Caraway.
I then out of the blue said, "Are you running for saint?" Her eyes showed sadness and I quickly jumped back and said that I thought that because you are always doing things for other people and you never think about yourself. She then understood and took the impression that I was jealous because she was focusing on other people more than me. She came up to me and hugged me and then we kissed. It was a short but I can tell you that that was no saint kissing me that day.
The next day there was a huge sign on the school bulletin board that said STARGIRL LOVES LEO surrounded by a heart. I was so excited and embarassed. I quickly avoided her after school. She asked me if I saw it and I just walked away ignoring her. For the next two days I had gotten used to ignoring her when she caught me and I HAD to talk to her. I sat her down on a bench and told her that people were basically shunning us. She did not seem to understand. For the next couple of days I had to tell her what was normal, what was not, how to do things normally, and tell her why it is important to care about what other people think.
The next day she came to school right at lunch. She was not Stargirl Caraway she was Susan Caraway. Her real name was Susan. She had jeans and a t-shirt on. She wore makeup, earrings, rings, and sandals. She acted normal and never talked about Stargirl again. I was so proud of her. I kept on saying Susan just to hear myself. Instead of saying "I", I said "We". She was all mine! I was Susan Caraway's boyfriend!
The shunning still took place and this time it hurt BOTH of us. She was so upset and she tried so hard to become popular or at least close to it. I didn't know what to do to make her happy. She then came to school one day and told me that everything is going to be okay! She had a vision and it was of her winning the speech contest and coming home to a parade of people cheering for her at the school. She was so happy. She yelled, "I am going to be popular!" I didn't know if the vision would come true but I was certainly hoping it would.
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