The Looking Glass 2022-23 | volume 41 | Page 73

She soon then got up on her knees and looked inside the jar, nothing inside, the moth flew away. She slumped down and groaned in disappointment.

“Rebecca! There you are.” the boy shouted. He ran and hugged her, who’s now looking at him with surprise, just like he said, she has the same round sky blue eyes like her brother. Her face is covered in dirt and there’s a bandaid on her nose. 

“Clyde, you ruined it!” she whined. “The bugbots come here to gain energy from the sun and I was so close to getting one as my pet!”. She pouted at him. 

“Well I’m your big bro, and it’s my responsibility to look out for you. Even if I had to ruin your fun.” Clyde said. He squeezed her tightly as she tried to get free from his arms. He looked at me with a smile on his face. “Thank you so much for finding her. I honestly don’t know what I’ll do without you.”

“No, no, I don’t really need it, you can say that to someone who needs it. Well, I’ll be going now. Cya.” 

“No! Wait!” he got up and reached out to me. I turned around to see him, hand holding his little sister. “I wanna return the favor for helping me out. Is there anything I can do?”

“No,” I shook my head. I don’t feel like talking about the imaginary party for next week, I lack the skills of hosting one and have a bad rep at school so why bother?

“Please, I mean it.” Clyde repeated. I stop to take the time to be in his shoes; I go out of school, I go to my sister’s other school, she gets lost often, I look and cannot find her, she goes--

Oh. Oh I get it now. I can see why he gets worried whenever he doesn’t see her outside the main entrance of the school. I didn’t get that kind of responsibility since I’m the only child of the family. I felt bad for him even though we just met. I decided to let him in on the party I wish to throw on the day before christmas break.

“Oh a party? Hmm, that seems like a good idea. I guess I could help out on that. Are you planning on inviting anyone?”

“My friends, I told them about it.” That was a lie. I said I wished for a big party with them, I never said I’m actually gonna do it. 

“Sweet, are there any interesting things you wanna add?” he asked “Like Pinatas, a snowball fight, Oh! What about ice skating? Are you into that?”

I thought about it, I don’t think there are any Christmas themed Pinatas, snowball fights seem cool, I’m a good pitcher on the baseball field, and I don’t know about ice skating, I only see it on the winter olympics on tv. 

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