The Family Reunion

Okay. I told you I'd tell you about it so I will. It started off okay, I guess. We needed name tags because no one knew anyone. Me and Madeleine tried playing marbles in the gravel; we did it at last year's get together. It didn't work this time, mainly because our moms came over and scolded us for cutting ourselves off from the rest of the clan. That didn't bother me or her, and no one else seemed to notice, but we had to join people anyways. So what we did was we found the tree farthest away from the people (I'm just gonna call them people; it's weird to call them family if you've never met any of them) and talked. We kind of had an agreement. I could bore her with greek mythology if she could bore me with medical anatomies and such. We were very open about boring people and didn't care that people didn't care. Anyways, eventually our moms came over AGAIN and scolded us on cutting ourselves off. We called it "Project Anti Social". They called it "Rude". I don't know what the big deal was, because nobody cared one way or the other, except of course for our mothers. So they forced us to join the three legged race. We sucked. Then we hid beneath another tree; closer this time. That way if our moms came over again wondering why we weren't talking to all the strangers, we could say without argument that it wasn't our fault, it was theirs for not coming over to say hi. Only something went wrong in Project Anti Social; people DID come over to say hi. They were three girls, around our age, sisters I think. Their names were Jessica, something or other and what's her face. They came over and I guess that they felt obliged to stay and talk, though we had absolutely NOTHING in common, and I could tell they didn't really enjoy our company. We weren't all that thrilled either. I started off the conversation with a bang, saying "Yes, I am weird. Let's just get that out of the way." They just looked at me like I was crazy. I can't say it's the first time I've scared people off; but that's another story. They made an excuse and went off towards the drink coolers. Madeleine was like "Ha! You scared THEM off!" Only they actually came back. Then Madeleine asked them which fracture in her anatomy book looked the most painful, and they went off to play some lame party game. "Nice," I said to Madeleine. "Hey, if you get to scare them off, so do I," she replied. Then we noticed that their drinks and shoes were left by us. They actually WERE going to come back. And they did. Only they ignored us and looked through each other's iPhones, which was really lame A) because they're sisters, and I think they've looked through each other's iPhones before, B) they came to us, under OUR tree, so if anything, we should be the ones ignoring them, and C) I was the only one without a phone. So then they went off (they really weren't very subtle) but they left their shoes and drinks AGAIN. They typed something on their phones and came back, asking us to say it aloud. A new girl was with them, her name was Zoey. They told me to go away because they were picking on Madeleine first. Then they invited me back over, telling me to say what they had wrote on their iPhone. You don't want to know what it said. Now came the realization I dreaded: I was related to some dumb popular girls. At least, that's what it seemed like to me. They listened to some bad music on their iPhone when Jessica said "Who wants to make up a dance to this song?" Everyone except me and Madeleine joined. So they went off underneath a different tree, and they most certainly weren't making up a dance. We noticed that whenever they saw us looking, they would do some moves. But when they were oblivious of our looking, they were sitting around gossiping. Things went from bad to worse when they disappeared again and suddenly Nathan and his new clone friends attacked them and us. Madeleine finally spoke her mind and suddenly Nathan was all offended. They attacked us on the air mattress, and I'm sorry, but I get mad. Madeleine said, "You shouldn't hurt us. We're family." Nathan2 - that's what I've decided to call him - replied with a dimwitted, "That's why it's OKAY to hurt you." That was when I attacked Nathan. I'm sorry, they were p!ssing me off. Nathan fought back, and so did Nathan2, but really, I've been fighting Nathan since he could walk, so I was well trained. They finally ran away. So that was our absolutely FABULOUS experience at the family reunion. Well really, what do you expect? You don't feel so bad dissing people you've never met, even if they ARE family.