Friday, 31 May 2013

Untimely Charity.

Mom and dad at some point decided that they would assist the parents of  one if Josh's classmates in the way one babysitting him for the afternoon whilst they move something (large) to somewhere(else). I only came by the information that they had decided this shortly before they left to bring Matt, Josh, Becca, and said unnamed Afrikaner home from school. I must confess, I panicked. There was no way that I could possibly clean my room (well enough for visitors) before my mom arrived home with them, too much school yet for that, and I have no idea as to the nature of this boy, be it mischievous or not— and I am certain of one thing; I don't want to find this out the hard way. 

So, in the spirit of self conservation, I have locked and fortified it into a veritable Fort Knox. The only minor (ok– major) flaw with my plan is that we haven't eaten lunch yet, and... well eating lunch when not in the dining room is usually er... difficult. So I'll have to leave my room sometime— oh there's the call for lunch now. I'll let you know if I survive. [1:02 PM]

[1:38]- I survived lunch, the visitor is shy, perhaps even more so than I am. He didn't say much, in fact I'm tempted to say he didn't say anything at all but it seems that he and Josh have worked out a mode of communication based on facial gestures and eye movements. 

He was blond, tan-skinned (darkly), and buzzed cut as most Afrikaners are, he wore short-shorts, long socks pulled about half way up to his knees, again– nothing out of the ordinary. There were only two things that made him different from most other Afrikaner boys (between 8&10 years of age. In like most, his eyes are brown, and he wore a button-up shirt— without a collar. I observed him as closely as possible without stalking him, and without starring at him, 'cause that would have just been uncomfortable for both of us. I can't say much on him, but I'm not sure how I like him yet. I've got a bit of school-work yet to do, but I'll let you know how it ends later-[1:55 PM]

[5:41 PM]- After I finished my schoolwork I practiced my ocarina, did some research and almost forgot that Shaun (as I have learned his name is) was here, everything was so quiet; which isn't normal at all. I went out to investigate and found that Matt Josh and Shaun were watching a movie together. "Perhaps they can be civil" I thought to my self. So I watched them. They played on the Wii, Lego Star Wars, Wii sports, and supermario bros. for Wii. Later they moved onto playing Minecraft on the iPad, and from there Angry Birds, Naught and Bad Piggies. The only conclusion I could come to about this boy was "for a farmer boy, he's really good at video games."

I slumped into my bed. I felt defeated. Going over what I knew, I was dissatisfied with the amount of information I had gathered on Shaun. He and I hadn't once spoken, and it wasn't likely to happen in the future, any time soon. He would be leaving soon and— heeyyy! He would be leaving soon and if I could see his mom, there could be any ammount of gleamable information there! With that idea in hand, I sat on the front porch and waited! And, waited... And waited. For about twenty minutes I waited, I checked my watch, and waited twenty more. And at exactly half-past naked-arm, I decided it might be more productive if I went and caught the cat so that I couldn't escape before it was time  to come in for the night.

I found him right away, shut him up in my bedroom and proceeded to shut up the house. It didn't occurr to me that this might be a bad idea until my mom scolded me for shutting the windows in the living room, because it had cut off the breeze from their exercising area. When I had finished reopening that end of the house, I saw a car pull up to the gate. 

It was a nice car, a white one. Mom came into the room and asked if I would get the gate. My plan was working perfectly! I got to the front door and thought I'd heard something, but I couldn't tell over my dad's exercise music. I opened the door and his mother was right-there! I didn't quite remember what I had been going to say, and proceeded to institute the most awkward silence of my life. I quickly went and got Shaun and informed him that his mum was here, and as they were leaving I went out to control Buster, who was being a bit rambunctious. I sighed to my self, maybe it would have been easier if I had just talked to him.

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