Bonjour (Chapter Eleven)

Chapter 11 New People 

He quickly washed his hand and put his sleeves up and started chopping bananas in pieces. Slowly got closer to me I don’t think he thought I knew. I pretended to just be focused on the apples and then his shoulder touched mine. I looked in his direction and he asked me if he had heard the conversation between Lidia and her mother. “Why do you want to know?” “Well I’m just making conversation,” I looked him straight in the eye with my ‘Really Now’ look and said “If you want to make conversation why don’t you ask my name or introduce yourself,” I stop mid sentence and put down the knife. “ you should be paying more attention to what you are doing than what other people are doin, Okay.” He looked at me with a shameful look in his eyes. “My name is Shinelle, what’s yours?” He looked up slowly “My name is Peter, and I’m sorry about that,” I started chopping the apples again and said “It’s okay just think before you act,” maybe I overreacted but i was aggravated so I responded, “I might have overreacted a little bit.” “What grade are you in,” I asked. “Sixth what about you” “Fifth at Zetiva School it goes from pre-k to eighth.” I said. “I know I go there too but on floor G.” I was so surprised I would think that he would go to a different school a better school, every floor or story represented a different acceleration group the highest was group was Q or so I thought I wasn’t 100% sure. I was on P about to be on Q but then I messed up last year since it was a different grading system any little mistake could make you go lower. I didn’t want to tell him I was higher than him it would probably embarrass him, but what should I tell him oh I’m new so I have no idea what floor I’m on? Actually I could have but I didn’t “Thats cool I’m on floor P,” I said. His eyes had seemed like they EXPLODED. “FLOOR P!, isn’t that like the highest floor since floor Q is closed right now?” “Um,” “No way you are in the most accelerated group in the whole school, that is so cool you need to teach me your ways.” I was surprised myself i didn’t know floor Q was closed i though I didn’t make it because I didn’t have grades good enough for floor Q. I now know why floor P was so over crowded there must have been some students that are supposed to be on floor Q but it isn’t open yet. Was I supposed to be there??