Tenth Grade Angst by Bruce Ingram

Author:Bruce Ingram [Ingram, Bruce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 39733082
Publisher: Secant Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One: Marcus

Before the year started, I was absolutely sure about how a bunch of things would turn out and almost nothing happened like I thought it would. Take the football season, for instance. We ended up 4 and 6, I missed four games because of the suspension and later a concussion, and Caleb and I never got on the same page on the field and now we’re barely even talking to each other at school. There were no playoffs, no first team district for me or anybody else, no college scouts at our last couple of games, and no team unity.

I thought Caleb and I would be hanging out and double dating, but that all fell apart, too. I used to think it was cool for him to be juggling two or three girls at a time, but now he just seems pathetic in the way he looks at girls as something to conquer. I know I shouldn’t talk too much because I was basically doing the same thing last year. But now I realize it’s best just to have a steady girlfriend, like Kylee… a girl that will get all over me when I mess up, but will let me know when she’s proud of me, too. The other day she told me how proud she was of my school grades, that they were more important in the long run than my accomplishments on the football field. I don’t know if that is really true or not, but it’s a whole lot better for her and my parents and Joshua praising me for my improved grades and attitude than being all over my case, like they were last year.

I’m actually liking some of my classes this year, especially history. Everything Mr. Wayne has gone over this semester has been really interesting. The Black Death wiping out a whole lot of Europe, all those wars of religion and the Catholics and Protestants slaughtering each other, the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers and how many of them knew slavery was wrong but didn’t know how to deal with it… the French Revolution, Robespierre and all those people going to the guillotine. The other night, Kylee and I went out to dinner and somehow we got on the topic of history and we must have talked about history stuff for most of our meal.

She told me that I maybe should major in history in college, that she could see me really getting into it and maybe even teaching history in high school or college. I’ve never really thought about what I would do after college besides playing professional sports. But she told me I should have a backup plan and after the way things went this football season, I had better have an alternative. I asked Joshua about my majoring in history and he told me that was a smart idea, that I would probably do really well with that.

Joshua has been treating me more as an equal. A couple

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