So I just told my friends, randomly at the lunch table, that I have an account on Wattpad. This second-rate writing site I've been going on instead of Figment because MY SCHOOL BLOCKED FIGMENT.
But anyway, I just burst out with it at lunch because I honestly didn't think they knew. And they didn't. They actually saw my account but they didn't know it was me.
It's really awkward because I said it out of nowhere- hey, here's a script:
Peer no 1: So yeah. Writing's fun (or some other thing about writing)
Me: Oh, I have a poem up on Wattpad.
Peer no. 2: Totally! Writing, muses, writerly stuff.
Me: OK, you don't have to care.
Peer no. 3: What is it?
Me: Just...
(EVERYONE STARES AT ME, waiting for it to be over so they can get on with their lives)
Me: I got a poem up on Wattpad...
Me: And it's like... entered...
(AWKWARD SILENCE)
Me:... in a contest...
(STARING)
Me: ... so you could read it....
Peer no. 1: You have a Wattpad?
Me: Yeah
Peer no. 2: What is it?
Me: Magicesi
Peer no. 2: Magic what?
Me: Magic, E-S-I. But that's not how you pronounce it.
Peer no. 2: Magic E-S-I?
Me: Yeah.
Peer no. 1: Why didn't I see you?
Me: I posted on your account! You remember...
Peer no 1: Oh, magic sezzey?
Me: Yeah, Magic Esi.
Peer no. 1: That's so cool! I didn't know it was you!
Me: Yeah...
Peer no. 2: I commented on one of your stories! I didn't know, this is like the girl who sits across from me at lunch...
Me: Weird...
Peer no. 2: Now I'm actually going to care about your stories...
Me: Ha ha...
Peer no. 3: SO YEAH WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY POEM? PAY ATTENTION TO ME NOW!!!
I'm just awkward, it's in my DNA.
I HAVE TO WORK ON MY BOOK, I swear. G-d, I keep coming up with excuses. First, awkward 'confessions'. Then, blog posts on my blog I haven't posted on in forever. Just now I was talking to some other guy, in gym (I got out for a few weeks because of my foot, mwahahahaha) and Peer no. 1 came over and there was even more awkwardness!
Peer no. 4: What are you doing?
Me: On my blog... but I should be working on my book...
Peer no. 4: I knew you were writing a book!
Me: Yeah, I need it done by November
Peer no. 4: Why do you need it done by November?
(Enter Peer no. 1)
Me: Well, because in November
(Start annoying little kid 'explaining voice' while staring up at ceiling)
I do this thing called NaNoWriMo, which is writing 50000 words of a book in a month, and I'm doing the third book in my series, a new book, and I have to finish the second book first-
Peer no. 1: Are my eyes red?
Peer no. 4: What?
Peer no. 1: My eyes, are they red?
Peer no. 4: Well, they're... pink, they look pink.
To quote myself: No, you don't have to care guys.
Sorry for the atrocious lack of punctuation, I MUST WORK ON THE OLD CITIES...
Magic*esi
keeping it awkward
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