Well hello!
I have quite a bit to tell you again, and since college is closed again due to snow (even for the exam students - there are a lot of angry posts on Facebook about it. I wonder if it will be open for my history exam tomorrow...) I have no excuse for not writing here, so let's get on with it.
Right. So I may have mentioned that I had an English exam on Monday morning and I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get to college to do it, so I was working out all sorts of ways I could get there - all of that wasn't necessary in the end because the college bus came as usual. Admittedly there were only five of us on it (usually there are fifty three) because college was only open to exam students and most people got a lift anyway. But I got there in plenty of time and the exam was actually okay. There isn't much one can revise for English Language except the terminology and the exam technique, both of which I revised on Sunday night and on the bus on Monday morning, and it was fine in the end. Hopefully I got a B or above (I really want an A) or I'm so retaking it, which would be annoying since it would have to be in June when I have my other exams. (That's why I don't want history to be cancelled tomorrow - there's a hell of a lot of revision to do for that and it would be impossible to pass with other exams to do as well.)
After the exam I was in Henley with Charly, waiting for it to be the right time to catch my train home, and when we went into a chip shop to get her some chips, she bumped into two of her friends, one of whom is really hot. Like seriously. He has quite amazing brown eyes, which you just know you could fall into, given the chance. We only spoke briefly, while Charly was getting her chips, and then he had to catch his bus and I had to catch my train, which was quite a shame. Although he did wink at me when I asked Charly where the station was from there (which I probably could have found myself but I wasn't sure) and he replied. Anyway, hopefully I'll be able to give you some updates on that soon. (Like later in this post. I'm doing things in order. xD)
So I got to the station twenty minutes early for my train, but at least I did have time to buy a ticket this time. Usually I get a child one, because I know I look young enough to get away with pretending to be fifteen even though I'll be seventeen in three months and ten days - however, after the incident with the ticket collector before Christmas, I decided to always buy adult tickets when I'm in Henley, and it was lucky that I did because the evil ticket collector came round to check. I don't know if he recognized me - he did give me a slight heart attack by scowling at me and making me think something was wrong with my ticket, but it turned out that it was only because I was holding it upside down. When he found out that a group of people further down the train hadn't bought tickets, though, he went mad. I felt quite sorry for them. They said the ticket machine hadn't taken their money and then the TC asked (in his hard-to-understand Indian accent) why they hadn't gone to the ticket office. They replied they didn't know there was a ticket office, which was fair enough - I didn't know there was one either. But the TC was really giving them a hard time about it, which I thought was really unfair of him since they did want to buy tickets off him then. They did, in the end, and they continued their journey in peace. I actually really admire their courage in the face of the evil ticket collector, especially as he tried to charge them twenty pounds for travelling without a ticket. I know that if that was me I'd have been kicked off the train again because I'm just so crap in situations like those. I wish I wasn't so non-confrontational.
Anyway so yeah. After I got off my second train at Reading (you have to change at Twyford to get to/from Henley) I went to the bus, as I usually do, only to find out that it wasn't going any further than Pangbourne. This meant that it was a complete waste of time and £1.60 -
- Random point: it just took me twelve minutes to get that pound sign because the button on my computer doesn't work, so I had to tweet about it to get someone to send me one. I hate my computer sometimes. -
- because I could have stayed on the train until Pangbourne. Admittedly I hadn't paid to go to Pangbourne but they'd never have noticed. Anyway, so I had to walk all the way from Pangbourne to home, which took an hour even though it's a five minute drive, up a massive hill which is hard enough to walk up even when it's not covered in snow. You know how it is when you walk in snow; your feet can't get purchase on the ground and they keep slipping out from under you so it's completely exhausting to walk even short distances. And then, to top it off, I slipped over when I was almost home and yesterday, walking to the bus stop to go to college, I slipped over again and landed in exactly the same place - the bones in my bum. Ouch.
My leg muscles are really painful as well today and were yesterday too. Bloody hill.
Anyway. Yesterday, in my second free, I was in Starbucks with Charly, and Alicia, Ruby and Simon were in there too so we went and said hi. Alicia told me that the Starbucks staff had recognized her so much that they'd given her a booklet of vouchers for 50p off a drink everyday, but she'd gone back again later and they'd given her another one by mistake. How awesome is that? I want one! Imagine the money you could save on 50p off a Starbucks beverage everytime you buy one. Anyway, so Alicia gave a voucher to me, which is only valid for today - and then college was closed AGAIN because of the snow. I am not amused. And to top it all off, I have a really powerful craving for a frappuccino right now.
Sooo. Anyway. It is now time to expand on my earlier (and rather confusing) paragraph about the hot boy. I was wondering who he was all of Monday night and most of Tuesday, and I was trying to figure out a way to subtly ask Charly who he is without being really obvious. Of course, when it actually came to asking her, I was standing by Hannah's desk at the end of English waiting to ask her about the coursework, and Charly was waiting for me, so I very subtly said to her "Who was that guy we were with yesterday? The one you were waiting for the bus with?"
(We'll call him T.)
Charly replied, "Who? T?"
And I (very subtly, naturally) said "He's hot."
Charly's response to that was quite funny. She's apparently really good friends with him because he went to her secondary school, and she spent the entire free telling me all about him. With a little persuasion from me, of course. Apparently he's in our year, he's seventeen, he's studying English Language and Ancient History (and two others which I've forgotten), he plays saxaphone and a bit of guitar and just generally loves music (so he loves English, history and music. Ooh, that sounds familiar). He likes brunettes, which is handy, and he's only ever had one proper girlfriend before and they 'didn't do anything', according to Charly. (She described him as 'desperate' because he keeps saying girls are hot, which actually I find quite sweet. She said that he has a heart of gold and he's very friendly... could he sound any more perfect? Besides, if he's 'desperate', that means he won't sleep his way around college or talk about other girls all the time or mess me around by saying he likes me but he doesn't want to go out with me. (Yes, I speak from experience here, and I can't be doing with boys like that. I want a boy who, as Charly said, has a heart of gold... you don't find many of those anymore.) Oh, and the best thing is: he's single!
Charly also told me quite a few other things about him which I've forgotten, but all of them just made me want to get to know him better. He sounds perfect to me; the only flaw in the plan is that he probably won't like me in return. Boys usually don't.
Anyway so Charly and I have all the same frees, blocks one and five, and it turns out that T has block five free too, so Charly's going to get him to hang out with us on Friday and try and matchmake us, I suppose. I have very little faith that it will actually work, but oh, I hope it does. Meeting him happened at a very good time, as well, because I'd just decided that it was time to get over Mono. I mean he and Pavlova are obviously not going to break up anytime soon and I'm sick of it still hurting me whenever I see them together. I'm aware that it's not that easy, but it's just a crush. It probably would have worn off soon anyway. Anyway, so after Friday's free I will hopefully have some more stuff to tell you guys about this. I wasn't actually sure whether to tell anyone about it, because everytime I do it seems to jinx things, but then Charly knows and without her there would be no chance of it happening at all. However it's hard to keep things like this to myself, so I thought I'd write it here, and then I wouldn't actually be telling anyone but I can still have the opportunity of talking about it with someone if they read it here. Which would be nice.
So tomorrow is the day of my dreaded history exam, which (although it's dreaded) I sincerely hope I'll be able to do because I just want it over with. I don't want to have to postpone it until June; I can't be bothered to revise for it all over again then. Besides, if we delay it until June then I won't have the option of retaking, which I think I'll definitely need. This snow is just a complete pain in the arse for everyone now. It's getting ridiculous.
Ooh! I 've just realized it's one month until Cora's birthday! I really should get her present soon.
Molly x
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