Day 38

Name: Kailee Smith

Profession: Student, Horizon High School

Location: Her bedroom in Scottsdale, Arizona

Question: What brought you to where you are right now?

Answer: Because I can socially afford to have fun

Today, my sister. We talked for two hours, and all with the intention of putting it on my blog. However, as it is past 3 a.m. and I am only one person, I’ve picked out my favorite part of the conversation to include below. I think it’s a wonderful snapshot of why I love my sister.

“Ew, Sierra. Those boys in forensics. It’s disgusting. First of all, they’re probably the most perverted people you’ve ever met. It’s not just two. It’s about ten of them, and they’re perverted but they’re really smart, and I think I might be one of the only girls that they talk to. They’re like perverted openly. It’s not just secretly perverted. I don’t have any friends that are girls in that class, so they all surround my desk when we have to do homework. One time, it was a couple of weeks ago, Mom and Dad already know this story, I went to go get their books or papers or something. It took me a while to get them. When I came back, all their desks were aligned in a pattern, and I didn’t understand, but it was a trail to my desk. It was all against the wall, so it was the only path I had to go through. They put their desks like that so I would have to squeeze through the desks on my tip-toes. Half the people on one side would get to see my butt and the other half would get to see my front. I had to squeeze through desks because they were too close together. They positioned their desks like that on purpose so that it was a trail of desks. But I didn’t get it, so I was like, ‘You guys are dumb. Why did you put your desks like that?’ And when I sat down, they were like, ‘No, Kailee! You went through the wrong way!’ I was like, ‘What?’ And they were like, ‘We wanted to see your front and we wanted to see your back side!’ And I was like, ‘Ew! You guys are disgusting!’ And some kid dropped a pencil. He did it on accident. And I picked it up and looked up and everyone was staring at me. I was like, ‘Ew.’ But not at my face. Ryan was fully staring at them. My breasts. I was like, ‘Ew, Ryan! Come on! Come on! At least make it secretive.’ Ryan was like, ‘It was instinct! If a pencil drops and girl reaches for it, you’re obviously going to look at it!’ At the end of class, they were all standing up, and Ryan was like, ‘What are you guys all standing up?’ And he stood up and said, ‘Oh. I know why you guys are all standing up.’ They could see straight down my shirt. I was like, ‘Oh. You guys are so cool!’ That’s my life in that class.”

“This one time in forensics, I told Ms. Bird this, I told my teacher this, because just once I wanted to see if it would work. I’ve seen it in the movies, and I just wanted to see if it would work. I was sitting there, and we had to do a crossword puzzle, but I didn’t want to do it because you actually had to look up the things, the vocab, and I didn’t want to get out a book. I was like, ‘[Sigh] I need help!’ I was over exaggerating. I can’t even explain it to you. ‘Let me help you! Let me help you!’ It was three or four people around me. I was like, ‘I don’t get this crossword!’ Everyone’s like, ‘It’s okay! It’s okay! I’ll do it! You can just copy mine!’ And then a little bit later, I was like, ‘[Sigh] I need a book!’ and literally one guy jumped out of his seat. ‘I’ll get you one!’ I’m not even exaggerating. I just tried it one day and it worked. I felt so bad. He got me a book, and I was like, ‘Thanks.’ I was sitting down and then I was like, ‘[Sigh],’ and someone was like, ‘What?! What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘[Sigh] My back hurts.’ He gave me a massage! [Laughs hysterically] I would literally be like, ‘I need a highlighter’ and somebody would get it. At the end of class, Nick was like, ‘Did you finish your crossword?’ and I was like, ‘No…’ Three boys raced to get theirs out of their backpacks. Literally, they were racing to see whoever could give it to me. Peter got his first and shoved it in my face. I was like, ‘[In a very dramatic, feminine voice] Oh, thank you. I’ll give it back to you tomorrow.” I put it in my backpack. Everyone was like, ‘I was going to give it to her!’ I was like, ‘Ah. I don’t want to put this book away.’ Sierra, it’s not like I even had a friend who was doing it with me. You know what I’m saying? You would do it if you had a friend watching and laughing. I was doing it all by myself. I’d be like, ‘I don’t want to put this book away,’ and the same kid who got me it stood up and put it away. The kid who massaged me the whole entire class did that thing on my neck with a pen. He wasn’t actually drawing, but he was doing it. It was so funny, but I felt so bad. I told Ms. Bird, and she was like, ‘Oh my gosh! You had to try it once and it worked! You had to try it once! That’s ridiculous!’ That’s half of my forensics class. The other half of my forensics class, they call me every name they can think of, they say to me, ‘This is what you’re going to do! You’re going to get me gum!’ The boys in the class. I’m like, ‘Sorry, I don’t have any.’ Then they call me, ‘Hey, ugly,’ and they’re just really, really mean to me. They’re like the cool kids that pick on me. And then the nerds worship me. I can’t even explain it. I don’t want to sound conceited, but I can’t even explain it. Salote came and sat in my class one time, and we were doing laptop stuff so we put our desks together, and we were looking at the computer. All of a sudden, she looked up and everyone was surrounding her. She’s like, ‘What the heck?!’ I was like, ‘Just ignore them, just ignore them.’ She’s like, ‘Why are they all over here?’ I was like, ‘Because. Just ignored them.’ We were talking and they were like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I was like, ‘None of your business, Aaron!’ Salote was like, ‘Why are you being mean?!’ I was like, ‘Just ignore them, Salote.’ Then they were like, ‘Kailee, Kailee, Kailee!’ I said, ‘Guys! I’m with Salote! What do you talk about when I’m not here?’ And they were like, ‘What we would talk about if you were here. When you’re not here, we talk about what we would be doing to you if you were here. What you would have said if we did this to you. How you would have reacted if we would have said this.’ I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’ and they were like, ‘No. We don’t have anything else to talk about.’ Salote was like, ‘EW! What the heck?! Leave us alone!’ So I wouldn’t exactly consider that a love life.’