[FL] The Comfort of Solitude

Day 4,038, 15:21 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Celadori Cotis


Dear Diary,


It's been a few days since we got to talk, I know, but so much has been going on I've just been toooooo tired. Everyday when I get back from walking home I just want to go lie down, but then I have to help mommy with work around the house. I wish dad would get back soon so he could do these things again! I hate washing dishes and he would always do them after mommy cooked dinner and we were done eating.

Our house is quiet now, too. He used to sit out back on the porch and play guitar when he wasn't listening to the football game (he tells everyone that he likes the eIrish league, but I only hear the English Premier League around the house and him cheering more than he ever did for our Shannon home team hehehe). When he gets back he can watch me on the pitch again, he would come to each of my games - no, that was when he cheered the hardest, for me, I'm sure 😛

I got a silver star on the maths test in homeroom yesterday, only Angela beat me, stupid Anglea with her berets, and she is always sucking up to teacher too. And she keeps trying to talk with Bobby BUT SHE KNOOOOOWWWSSSS I like like him, I wish she just wouldn't come to school anymore, or her family would have disappeared with the Asterians. So many other people did, why not her?!?!?

Speaking of (or not) they stopped our Romanian lessons after the old teachers came back and they get REAL mad if we try to say anything. I think I'll stop trying to poke fun at them about it, its not like mommy who just whispered to stop, Mister Gastor got really quiet after he yelled at us and just looked out the window for a while until I said sorry, but I don't think he cared? He just shook his head and started writing more of the assignment on the board. I hate giving speeches but we have to give a memorized, ugh oral report next week and so I'll just have to say it as fast as I can and sit back down...

What else what else... OH we got to do art again today! First time in a few weeks. That is my second favorite class because we just get to draw and paint... I used a bunch of pastels and made this sunset I saw walking home the other day. Mr Peters said it was good and Angela's looked like dooty compared to mine, so I'm happy with it too! I showed mommy and she said it was nice and to put it in my room. She usually hangs my art on the fridge, but this one she just handed back after a little while and said it was beautiful. All the adults stare off a lot more since the fighting started, actually. I guess they get sad thinking about it. But it will be better soon, so why be so glum?

Anyway, I better get going to bed, I'm sleepy now and we still have to walk to school until they fix the potholes in the roads from all the tanks and explosions. Stupid friggin war... on the plus side my km time is down a lot since this all started! I bet if I keep walking after the buses start I could even beat them to school!


Madeline Faraday