Nonfiction Snippet: Middle School
Another assignment for Creative Nonfic. This time it's a memory from adolescence.
Middle School
I was sitting the school cafeteria with my classmates, waiting for the bell to ring so I could scurry off to band class. Everyone was talking, but I wasn’t really paying attention. They were probably talking about celebrities or reality TV or some other nonsense. Whatever it was, it didn’t concern me. Then someone asked me if I’d watched last night’s episode of Degrassi. Sorry, I said, but I don’t like that show. Someone else, a girl one grade below me, asked why. He voice was chock full of frantic disbelief. I told her I didn’t like the drama. I thought it was shallow. But life is drama, she insisted as she slammed her open palms down on the table, and if you can’t handle drama you can’t handle life!
That afternoon I went home and flipped the TV to Cartoon Network’s Toonami block. Yu Yu Hakusho was on first, and I watched in eager anticipation as my favorite heroes took down demon after demon, protecting a world that was far more interesting than my own. During a commercial my thoughts drifted back to the events at the lunch table. I rolled my eyes. When the show came back on it sucked me straight into the action, banishing the girl’s drama to the farthest corners of my mind.
And my classmates wondered why I preferred anime.
Middle School
I was sitting the school cafeteria with my classmates, waiting for the bell to ring so I could scurry off to band class. Everyone was talking, but I wasn’t really paying attention. They were probably talking about celebrities or reality TV or some other nonsense. Whatever it was, it didn’t concern me. Then someone asked me if I’d watched last night’s episode of Degrassi. Sorry, I said, but I don’t like that show. Someone else, a girl one grade below me, asked why. He voice was chock full of frantic disbelief. I told her I didn’t like the drama. I thought it was shallow. But life is drama, she insisted as she slammed her open palms down on the table, and if you can’t handle drama you can’t handle life!
That afternoon I went home and flipped the TV to Cartoon Network’s Toonami block. Yu Yu Hakusho was on first, and I watched in eager anticipation as my favorite heroes took down demon after demon, protecting a world that was far more interesting than my own. During a commercial my thoughts drifted back to the events at the lunch table. I rolled my eyes. When the show came back on it sucked me straight into the action, banishing the girl’s drama to the farthest corners of my mind.
And my classmates wondered why I preferred anime.