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Monday

My name is Samuel. Sam Manning. I hate the name Samuel. My mom is the only person that calls me Samuel. She sings the “el” at the end of my name when she calls me downstairs. I don’t like that. My teacher Miss Hershel wants us to keep a journal over Spring Break. She says it will help us to “cultivate a sense of yourself in relation to the world around you.” It’s just an exercise and she promises not to read our thoughts. Whatever. I can’t even think of anything to write about. Nothing exciting happens here. My sister is a little person and that’s pretty cool because there are like no other little people in our family. Her name is Sabrina. She is my favorite person in our house. She helps me play pranks on Mom. She’s really good at it cuz Mom never thinks that Sabrina would ever do anything wrong. Like last week I had Sabrina steal the flour jar and we dumped it out in the field. Then we smashed up a bunch of chalk and put it in the jar and Sabrina put it back while I distracted mom. That was pretty lit. I play a lot of Candy Crush even though most of the kids in class don’t like it anymore. Dad took my phone away because I was playing Candy Crush at the breakfast table. I also like Minecraft. It’s actually way better than Candy Crush and I can play that on my xbox. We’re having turkey burgers for dinner. They always suck.

Tuesday

Mom says I have to watch Sabrina this week. We can’t do anything fun because mom and dad have to work. Dad works from home sometimes. Insurance. I don’t know what my mom does but she complains about being tired a lot. Sabrina wants to ride bikes, so we did that. Then she wanted to make mac and cheese in the microwave. We did that too. Now we’re bored. Dad said we should go play in the fields, but Sabrina can’t run as fast as I can so it takes a long time to get to the stream. Dad has appointments soon. I’m going to get Sabrina and sneak into the back of Dad’s car. We can drive around and see how long it takes him to notice we’re there. I’ll write later.

Sabrina and I didn’t get caught in the car. She was real quiet like I told her to be. It got boring waiting in the car for dad when he went into someone’s house. I fell asleep but Sabrina stayed awake. She was trying hard not to talk but when we got home she said there was a little person at the house dad went into. A little person woman. She said Dad kissed her on the cheek when he left. Sabrina wants us to sneak into dad’s car again. I don’t want to, it was really boring. When mom comes home I’m going to play Minecraft with Miles. He used to sit next to me but Miss Hershel moved us because we talked too much. Miles is weird, he talks about Miss Hershel’s tits a lot. I have to be home for dinner. Mom says we’re having leftovers.

Wednesday

I don’t know when I’m supposed to write, in the morning or the night. It’s night now. Miles was busy today so I went to Caleb’s. We looked at his dad’s Playboys then we went to the park to shoot hoops. Caleb smoked a cigarette. I tried some but it hurt my throat. He said it won’t hurt as much next time. He steals them from his sister. Her boyfriend buys them for her. The minty kind. She’s hot but her boyfriend is a douche. He drives a factory Mustang. Dad says they have decent horsepower but the bodys are too heavy and it drags them down. I think I’d like a corvette when I’m 16. Sabrina wants to ask mom about the little person. Bad idea. She’ll get us both into trouble. I stole her three Oreo’s and she says she’s still going to tell. She said she won’t tell though if we sneak into the car again but its so boring. I’d rather go to Caleb’s again and look at the Playboys. We had lasagna for dinner. It was pretty good. Grandma brought it.

Thursday

I went to Caleb’s. We got in trouble cuz he dared me to smoke a whole cigarette and it made me puke. It got all over my shirt. Mom had to leave work to get me. She said I smelled like an ashtray. I told her I didn’t do anything and she slapped me. She promised she wouldn’t do that anymore. Dad told her to be calm said boys will try things. She yelled at him and didn’t make dinner. Dad took me and Sabrina to Domino’s. Sabrina likes cheese pizza. I hate cheese on pizza, I only like it with red sauce and pepperonis. I’m grounded from Caleb’s for life Mom said. Dad said give it time. My head really hurts.

Friday

Sabrina and I snuck into Dad’s car. He went to two houses. It was so boring. Sabrina thought she was going to pee her pants. I think she did a little. It smelled like it but she said she didn’t. The third house had the little person. This time Dad came out with his tie undone and he grabbed the little woman. Like on the ass. Sabrina forgot to lay back down and Dad caught us. He yelled at me and dad never yells. He told Sabrina it isn’t time to talk about all this yet. Whatever that means. Mom is acting really weird now. She’s outside smoking cigarettes. She doesn’t even smoke. Now who smells like an ashtray? We didn’t get dinner. I made me and Sabrina sandwiches. I’m glad I don’t have to write in this stupid journal anymore.

Sam Manning

Grade 6

Miss Hershels class