Free Diary of a 6th Grade Girl #2: How to Survive Middle School by Claudia Lamadre Page A

nearby to pick us up when we were ready.
    He didn’t bring up the picture in the hallway at all, and I appreciated that.  I asked my parents if I could go.  It took a lot of begging for it, but they agreed in the end, as long as I bring their cell phone to call if anything happens.  Yay!  I’ll see Kyle soon, and I’ll make sure to write everything down here.
     

Day 19
     
    Dear Diary,
     
    Last night was really great.  I loved it a lot.  Kyle’s parents are, of course, very nice.  I think I told you that earlier on in this diary.  But anyway, he took me to my favorite restaurant.
    At first, we just talked about classes and stuff from school, but I could tell that there was something that he wanted to say.  I wasn’t sure what it was though, so I just kept going with whatever he wanted to talk about.  Finally though, I worked up the nerve to bring up the picture on my locker.
    That bit of the conversation was really tense at first, because he didn’t want to say anything hurtful and I didn’t want to hear him say anything mean.  In the end though, he was extremely nice and just said that Kristy can be very mean sometimes.  He told me that he would always be there for me, and that he has my back whenever I need him.  I guess he talked to the principle today and told him what happened for me.
    If Kristy does anything to bother me again, I just have to go in and tell the principle.  After I do that, the school will take care of it for me, and she’ll probably leave me alone after that.
    But anyway, Kyle was really sweet.  He just said that he cares about me, and that he likes me for who I am.  He said the picture wasn’t even that bad!  Isn’t he nice?  He’ll even lie about a stupid picture for me, just to make me feel a little bit better.  Dinner was really nice, and we had a lot of fun.
    School starts soon, so it’s almost time to leave for the bus.  I’ll write again later, or maybe sometime tomorrow.
     

Day 20
     
    Dear Diary,
     
    I didn’t get the chance to write yesterday, and I can’t write long today.  I have so much homework—most of it is a huge project for Social Studies that will take a long time to finish.  Oh well.
    School was really bad today.  I kind of forgot that the rest of the school saw the picture too, and that they wouldn’t be as nice about it as Kyle was.  I’ve had to endure a lot of name calling, and watching other people smear their faces with chocolate and laugh at me while they do it.  Oh well.  Kyle held my hand and walked me to all of my classes, and ate with me at lunch.  So the day could have been a lot worse, in the long run.
     

Day 21
     
    Dear Diary
     
    Thank goodness.  It’s the weekend, finally.  I’m going to try and forget about everything that happened this week, and just move on into the next one.  Maybe the other kids from school will forget about it all.
    I plan on spending the rest of the weekend finishing up my project and talking on the phone.  Kyle wants to go fishing with his dad.  I might go with them.  We’ll see how things go.  Keeping my fingers crossed that things go okay, especially when I go back to school on Monday.
     

Day 22
     
    Dear Diary,
     
    It’s like, almost midnight right now.  For me, this is pretty late, but I just got home.  It’s Saturday, and I did end up getting to go fishing with Kyle.  My dad came too, to spend some time with his dad.  It was pretty cool, because then neither of them were paying all that much attention to what Kyle and I did.  They talked for like five hours straight about politics and sports and things like that.
    While they talked, Kyle took my hand and led me further down the river.  The area there is really cool, there are nature trails that lead everywhere, and you can see the fish jumping in the lake.  It’s a lot of fun being with Kyle.  When we were sure that our parents weren’t paying attention, Kyle led me down the start of a nature trails.
    It was