Oreos with a fork and knife

 Oreos with a fork and knife

By: Jack Blohm

Ella Enjoying an Orio.
    Walking into a packed cafeteria for the last lunch of the day. The lunch line is moving fast so i quickly get a seat for me and my friends. Every one gathers with what the school had served up that day, pizza, burgers, or tomato soup. The  room is full of conversation  and laughter. I'm talking to my buddy about what game we're playing that week  when I look over to my good friend Ella. I see her sawing an Oreo in half with the finest of plastic cutlery on the barely clean  cafeteria table. i had to  asked "why", she quoted saying " what do you mean this is how you eat them" in a loud  obnoxious tone. As she continued to saw away. So i sat there and watched for a good thirty seconds as the Orio was slowly being cut through. After cutting the first chocolate half of the Orio, she scoops the cream with the fork and enjoyed the 3rd of the Orio. I don't think I've ever judged one of my friends so hard for something so little before. But she continued eating without a care in the world of what anyone else thought.

Ella is the most expressive friend that i have. she easily gets the attention of the people around her. Whether that be with her outlandish clothing choice consisting of either super goth or "super gay"-Ella . Complimented by having a louder than average speaking voice that is almost hard to ignore at times. Over time this personality started to blead on me  little by little. Not in  being since of being noisy, rather in accepting myself and being more expressive whether the people around me accepting of it or not. 

    Ella has never stayed in one place to long, she has been moved to a new place every 2-4 years because of her parents work. She told me about growing up in Chicago. having to check your shoes for scorpions in Arizona. Moving so much growing up it was hard to make permanent friendships . When Ella moved to Yardley Pennsylvania in our sophomore year she expected much the same. Unsure on how long she would be seeing these new people and places. Not even knowing if she was going to stay till graduation.   

    After a long week it was common tradition for me and Ella to go out and get some McDonalds. We would go through the drive-through in almost silence, with the only thing being said was the order. "40 nuggets and 2 large fries please". We take our hot food and drive less then 100 feet to the empty part of the parking lot. stop, park, turn the car off. Before you could hear  the engine start to click from cooling down it would become a screaming match. Screaming about friends, family, relationships, why school is sucking, why the world sucks, and everything ells in-between . Anything we wanted to get off our chest was allowed to be screamed about in the car. 

Ella and friends at graduation.
    During the middle of our senior year at high school. I was completing some work for my online classes when I get a call from Ella. She tells me that she will be moving out to Nebraska in 2 weeks. I was sadden by the news, I told her "I would keep in touch and she could come out and see me and our friends." This has happen since. We have been in contact and would either call or play games with each other once or twice a week.  Ella was able to fly down for her graduation and a year later when we planned a trip to the Poconos. My friends and I were very lucky to be able to see Ella during and after graduation 

    Ella has help me to realize to live in the moment and not to be scared of self expression because in this life that's all we got.  With life come constant changes to both people and location and Ella has helped me realize that. I understand that other people can rap there heads around facts of life at different speeds, but she helped me fully understand for my self. Helping me learn to not bottle thing up and to let things go.  Most importantly helping me by being the best friend she could be.




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  1. Dana LeeSeptember 8, 2021 at 8:33 AM

    There are a few grammatical errors, such as capitalizing I, and capitalizing the beginning of every sentence. The second sentence also has a subject error, the way it is written describes the room as starving and not yourself. You could rephrase the third sentence as "everyone gathers around with their meals, consisting of pizza, burgers etc." What is the point of the ...? Numbers under 10 need to be written out in words and eliminate the PS at the end. Punctuation belongs inside the quotation marks and the entire anecdote needs more dialogue.

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