Fate, why have you forsaken me?

07Nov09

My latest crush is the boy who I shall call Carter Jackson. Yes, the quarterback whose sprinting skills would be better suited for the football field than racing poor, non-athletic girls to math class. I’m sure you saw this coming. For a few weeks there we had more interaction than all of my previous crushes combined. But then the swine flu break came about, and since going back to school we haven’t spoken.

Yesterday in math my teacher handed back our tests (which most of the class failed miserably, but the good bit was that our teacher blamed himself, and that’s always nice) and told us he’d let us re-take them, and he’d let us work with partners. We were suspicious; it was too good to be true. Then he added, “Oh, and I get to pick your partner,” and you could practically hear the collective “well shit” from the class; seriously, you don’t want to take a huge test and spend the next forty minutes with somebody stupid. I know that sounded bad, but it’s the honest truth. Still, I’d rather be with them than get stuck with that guy who thinks he’s smart, and who you have to argue with every step of the way.

Anyway, Mr. Mason got out the class list and paired us up alphabetically. The first person was with the last person; then the second person was with the second-to-last person. On and on. I got paired up with a nice, smart girl named Jenna who I knew well enough from the tennis team and liked. It went fine.

Today I wasn’t paying attention in class and a thought occurred to me and I ran with it. After going over the class list in my head and furtively looking around at my fellow classmates, I concluded, very pissed off, that if Carter Jackson hadn’t been absent the day before, he would’ve been my partner. I was just like, yeah… damn you, fate. Damn you!

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