Journal 4

Hello fellow Devon School students, future students, or whomever is reading this! This is my fourth journal entry. Here we go:

Finny and I fell asleep at the beach and as I woke up, I saw dawn for the first time in my life. Aside from the sun rising, everything on the beach looked dead. Finny was still sleeping but looked more dead, the ocean looked dead with "dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach", and basically everything on the beach looked dead. But obviously most of the things on the beach could not be dead since they were never living to begin with. Soon after, the Sun began to rise, and little by little everything started becoming animated and lively like it had been the day before. When Finny woke up, he asked what time it was and it was around seven. He wanted to take a morning swim despite my protests, saying it was too late and we had to go back. That night I was working on trigonometry work that I caught behind on and Finny brought up that I work too hard. I told Finny that I had to pass it in order to graduate so it would behoove me to get good grades. Finny said “Nobody at Devon has ever been surer of graduating than you are…you want to be head of the class, valedictorian…” I responded with saying that somebody had to be head of the class and he knew that’s something I really wanted. Finny saw it as that I wanted to have the title of being the “smartest kid in school” and “number one”. I saw it in a completely different perspective than Finny. I saw it as Finny had all the athletic awards, and I would have the academic. With us two having these awards, we’d be considered the best students in the school.  Finny later said that it was his “job” to keep my distracted from my studies and I had a realization. Finny was trying to sabotage my studies with everything he’s been doing lately: Blitzball and the nightly meetings for the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. One day Finny, some of the other members and I were at the tree and Finny wanted to do a “double jump” with me. I agreed and we began climbing the tree. Finny was a branch ahead of me and I decided to get revenge on him for sabotaging my school work so I shook the branch. Finny lost his balance, fell from, the tree, and landed hard and awkwardly on the bank next to the river. Right after, I climbed up to the branch he was on and jumped into the river.