Part 2-- 8th grade year
summer ended, and 8th grade started. one day i was walking to math class, and a girl passed by me. i heard another girl say something, and the girl who passed me said, "kurt gave it (a sweatshirt) to me! and the girl replied, "aww thats so cute!" and memories flooded into my head, from 7th grade. i realized i missed him. he wasnt in any of my classes this year. then i got jealous, because he gave a sweatshirt to her, and never one to me. in october, a girl named jordyn(she kinda looked like a guy and everyone hates her..) and a guy named ty broke up. they had been going out for a while , and jordyn dumped him. he was sad, and later that day, kritstine told him about me because he didnt know who to like. and she says, "oh what about amanda, shes a really nice girl, shes pretty, and shes in band!!" ty said, "what? whos amanda?" kristine did a facepalm.. she had told me this, and the next day in band, i saw ty staring at me. i told 2 of my flute friends, kayla and yesenia, about what kristine said. after band, kristine told me that ty likes me. and i said, "whaaaat!" she tried to set me up with him, and wouldnt stop bugging me about it until i gave in. the next day, ty said, "hi amanda" to me before band started. i was nice, and said hi back. i had no feelings for him whatsoever. well, a few days later, i finally gave in and said okay, i'll give him a chance. then after band, kayla and i were waiting for the bell to ring. then, out of nowhere, kayla grabbed my metronome(google it if you dont know what it is) and ran away with it. i ran after her, yelling, "KAYLA GIVE IT BACK TO ME!!!" well, it just so happened that ty was nearby and he stopped kayla. he told her, "kayla, give it back to amanda." kayla gave me an evil look and ran away laughing, giving the metronome back to me. then, ty said, "kristine told me you had something to say to me." in my head, i was thinking, "kristiiiiine, seriously!" Then i quickly covered up by saying, "uhm, im going to put this metronome away first." then i walked away quickly to put it down with my stuff. thankfully, the bell rang when i was about to walk back! the next day, kristine said, "ty told me that you ran away from him! why didnt you ask him out?!" i said, "i didnt run away from him! and i dont wanna go out with him! i only like him as a friend!" Thing is, that me and ty had never talked before kristine mentioned me, and probably never would have. so, after band, i tried to avoid him the best i could. worked out pretty well. when the bell rang for band to end, i saw kristine and walked with her to gym. she asked me if i had asked him out and i said no. she said, "come on, you have to!" we were standing in the middle of the gym, talking, when ty walked in. i thought to myself, okay i'll just dump him in a week." so i called out to ty, "ty, come over here, i want to talk to you!" kristine gave me "the look." well ty came over, and i asked him the obvious. i asked him with an impatient voice, "do you want to go out with me?" he smiled and said, "yes." we stood there for an awkward five seconds and he broke the silence by saying, "well you should get to class now." so i did, thinking about the mess i got myself into. well i came up with the solution that kurt would get jealous because me and ty were going out. as much as i could, i was with ty whenever i saw kurt. no reaction from kurt. people kept saying we were a cute couple. those people were basically my friends and his friends.. i had no feelings for ty for a week. then, after a week i started liking him because he was so sweet to me. i liked him truly for a week. the week after that, i got irritated then planned to dump him. i got help from my friends. the 4th (and final) week, i had ignored him at lunch one day. later, kristine said that ty called me hot. i got a bit creeped out, i dont know why, but i did. well i dumped him a few days after he said that, trying to do it in the nicest way possible. didnt work out very well.
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well the rest of 8th grade was like okay, ehh. then, i finally tried to get advice from kristine because i told her i like kurt (again). and on may 23 (im pretty sure) after lunch, kristine saw kurt. i was going a different way than her so i didnt know this until she told me. well kristine asked kurt, "why are you mad at amanda?" and kurt replied, "im not mad at amanda. i havent even talked to her since last year." and of course she told me this, later. well that made me happy, but then i got confused. i kept asking myself, "then why did he glare at me? why did we stop talking, then? why didnt he try to talk to me when i was with my friend at her locker, because his locker was by hers? why, why, why?" well yearbook signing came around again, and i wanted to ask kurt to sign my yearbook. kristine said i should go, then! but i said, "noo, what if he glares at me again?" she said, "no, he wont. just ask him! its one of the last times you'll ever see him!" turns out i never asked him to sign my yearbook. i didnt want it to be last day of 7th grade all over again. pretty soon, out 8th grade graduation field trip came around, and we went to gameworks. well a few of my friends tried to get me to talk to him, but i never did. then, FINALLY, it was the day of 8th grade graduation. i am first in the list, so i got called first. as people were lining up when their names got called, i was thinking the whole time. about everything that happened in junior high, from 7-8th grade. they had announced my name, and i came up and got a folder thing and walked down the ramp. i shook hands with the people at the bottom, then went back to my seat, as we had practiced. time went on, and when it was time for kurt to go and line up, the girl sitting next to me said something to kurt. she said, "wanna see what it is?" she showed him the folders that we got. kurt said, "thats it...?" the girl said, "yeah, its stupid. it says we'll get our diplomas in the mail." well, that was the last time i'd ever hear kurt's voice and see him. after graduation ceremony was over, i gathered around with my friends. it was so sad, and one of my friends tried to get me to talk to kurt and tell him that i will miss him. she dragged me closer to kurt and his group of friends and said, "go! tell him you'll miss him!" i said, "nooo" and i turned around. kristine turned me back towards him and said, "come on. its the last time you'll ever see him. just say bye!" we would be going to different high schools. it went on for 5 minutes and some of my friends got disappointed in me. i never said a word to kurt. nothing. i convinced myself i would move on. so, i took my last pictures with all my friends before we left.
the end..