Chapter 7: "Picnic"

Date: 02-04-2015

After midterms were over everything went back to normal. I quite enjoyed the normal environment.

Three weeks went by one day after our group study I was invited to a picnic. I was very happy about it. I thought it would be nice to have a picnic but then I heard the cost of the picnic I almost had a heart attack. My father couldn't afford that much for a picnic but I couldn't say that so I waited for the last day and told them my parents won't let me go to a picnic without adult supervision. Which was a good excuse but it didn't work. They said they wouldn't tell my parents and if my parents asked they would say we were at Rijon's house and Rijon was ok with it. I then asked about the money. Suddenly Oisy said she would pay my share. I couldn't understand why she would do that. I spoke with her a few times but we weren't that close. She was more like a friend of a friend. Oisy was the tallest person in the study group including the boys. She had ebony colored skin, black hair, black eyes and she was beautiful. Well I didn't care if someone else paid for me even if that someone was a girl. I wanted to go in the first place. But I got curious so I asked Rijon why the price was so high. He said they planned to have lunch at a five star hotel restaurant near an amusement park after that we would go to the amusement park. I wanted to scream that it was not a picnic but I controlled the urge to punch the person who came up with the idea and asked whose idea it was. It was none other than Fray. I looked at her with pity not for her but for her parents. I mean we could just eat at the amusement park but she didn't want to because she didn't want to eat there.

So the next day which was the weekend we went to group study like normal. I told my parents that I would be late because I was going to Rijon's house and even gave them Rijon's number. So they thought It was ok.

Instead we all went to a mall to buy anything we needed or just shopping. I packed anything I needed in my backpack besides I didn't have money to buy anything. We then went to the restaurant. It was very luxurious and fancy but everyone seemed used to it but me. The food in the restaurant was very expensive but they lacked many spices so I didn't like it very much. After lunch we went to the amusement park. Which I enjoyed very much. I rode many rides from roller coasters to water slides we even went to the haunted house which was a bad idea because of the girls screaming. My ears were ringing. I mean if you didn't like it why did you even go there.

We went back home at almost 9 pm. My parents were furious so I apologized and it calmed them down.

I thought a lot that night because I was dissatisfied with our family income but I wasn't ungrateful. My father was very hardworking but I didn't get any money. So I thought how I could make some.

I always felt like an outsider because most of the people in my school were rich. They had good school bags, a nice watch, they had a phone and they talked about many things I couldn't get. I wasn't jealous but I did hope I could buy those things one day. So I needed money. I had to find a way to earn money without spending much time because I had my studies too.

I still remember that night because I had to think very hard but I couldn't find any answers I felt like life was very hard. All my fun after visiting the amusement park was drained from my mind.

I couldn't find any ways to earn money for many more months but my determination remained. Which eventually got me results I wanted but I will write about it another week.