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it was a sunny day in yoyleland
the pavement echoed the sound of steps as I walked across the crosswalk laden with couples and the giggles of kids playing tag. The day felt normal,
so routine it seems as if I've repeated this day over and over. It didn’t feel wrong- just weirdly comforting. Then someone grabs my shirt hard enough to make me jerk back.
“Book!” The voice of an annoying girl shouts. That annoying girl is my friend, Taco, who I've known since childhood. We've always walked together. Warm days, rainy days, snowy
days. I still remember the warm laughter that would fill the air. But those days are over. They have been over ever since we started high school,
Recently, she has been oversleeping so often, i never got the chance to do so. It might be just because she got bored? Maybe she hated walking with me?
But whatever the reason is things have been awkward with us.
Maybe she just really is trying to abandon me.
“Hi, book... I slept too late again. But do you want to walk together?” She smiles like an idiot and I agree. “so,” “Have you decided to join a club?” Huh? What does she mean?
When did I ever agree to? “no...?” she frowns and responds, “then maybe you can join mine?” Taco. She was in a literature club, wasn’t she? I scattered my brain to find it. A
memory flashed: “book, i joined a club, it is a literature club, there is only four of us now, price tag, pillow, pin and me, we are all girls, i think we might make it very far, and show
them how resourceful and powerful woman and knowledge can be, I think you should join, you are a book after all!” Then she laughs happily.
Warmly.
I flash back to reality realizing I must have froze there for a second because taco was still as well “taco, why would I join? I mean... We are in school for 6 hours each day,
And I have homework plus a bookshelf filled with as many stories as the library, do I really need to join a club now?”
She looked at me again this time with a pleading look. “Please, I told the club i had someone joining today!” Now that is a stupid promise. as we arrive i stop at the doorway,
“Taco, now, why did you do that?” she rubs her neck like the reason is embarrassing,
“weeellll,” she says, shifting the topic. “Pin made yoylecake and everything!”
I sigh. “I will think about it.” I'm mad at her. Why would she convince me too join a club-
A club I had no time for!? “And I don’t want to join because you will be there or anything like that. But because I feel I feel bad for the club, you know?” i shout as she walks off and yells
“Alright, bookie!” She threw a candy that lands in my hand perfectly. I entered the school that seemed the same as how i left it yesterday. I settled into ELA class, and before i knew it-
The day was over. Ela is fun.. and thinking about taco’s face when I told her I would consider it, made it happy, but of course i could not tell her that! But Maybe- just maybe...
...i would be joining,