Side by Side, Eye to Eye
  • Dear Journal,
  • After already a month, Ronan finally forgave me…and my sister! And it all happened when I first woke up; my phone rang; I answered it.
  • “Hello?”
  • “Good morning, Sabrina! Sorry to wake you.”
  • “It’s okay. What’s the haps?”
  • “‘What’s the haps’? What does that mean?”
  • “It means, ‘how’s it going’, or ‘how are you’!”
  • “Is it slang?”
  • “Yup!”
  • “Okay. So, I talked to Ronan yesterday!”
  • “Oh! Really, you did?”
  • “Yep!"
  • "I thought you did that a month ago?"
  • "I had stuff to do. So Ronan said that he’ll apologize to you soon.”
  • “Okay…alright. I’ll meet him soon, then.”
  • “Okay, buh-bye!”
  • “Bye.”
  • I hung my phone up with a gloomy look. I got dressed, had breakfast, and walked out to town.
  • I did some looking at some shops. I was out and about until it was 1:30pm. I had a little lunch at the same café where I met Lady Jane and her brothers.
  • I walked home at 4:36 pm; I started remembering Ronan and me arguing; I started tearing up. I stood by a wall…and, quietly, cried.
  • I saw someone walk up. It took only one look; I knew who it was: Ronan Ó Foghladh.
  • “What do you want?” I asked in an envious way.
  • “Please,” Ronan begged, “Forgive me!”
  • “After what you said about my sister Ashley…and me? Why do you even want to talk to me, I thought we were ‘stupid’?” I said between sobs and gasps.
  • “You know what,”
  • “What?”
  • “I should never have said that! I’m so sorry!” Ronan said as he wiped my tears.
  • “I don’t understand why you don’t like me!”
  • “Oh, no! I do like you! I was just afraid that you or Ashley weren't safe people!”
  • Ronan wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead.
  • “You're Sabrina, right?”
  • “Yes, I am!”
  • Ronan looked at me different, as if he saw me before.
  • “Oh, great! How old are you?”
  • “I was born in 1995, so as of right now, I’m 12, about to turn 13! And I’m more of the sweeter type.”
  • Ronan smiled, and walked me home, I held his hand the whole way. So, I was pretty happy that Ronan was being sweeter to me and Ashley.
  • In fact, I’m starting to have a crush on him! Looks like I’ll be sleeping in the living room tonight.
  • All the best, Sabrina.
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May 1, 2008