*posing for the big group photo*
Aspyn: “Sam, find a window so we can see you.”
Samantha: “I AM the window.”
Victoria: “I can’t snap with this hand.”
Aspyn: “Oh, you poor thing.”
Arihanna: “Darbie does not like carrots.”
Darbie(quietly): “Their devils.”
Cosmo: “Sam’s biggest pet peeve is water bottles leaking.”
Darbie: “Mine always explode.”
Victoria: “Yours explodes!?”
Samantha: “A name for myself? SUPERIOR.”
Victoria: “Here, Aspyn. A card for you.”
*hands her a card that says the word “Delusion”*
*talking about ignoring the copyright claim to make a prose packet for everyone*
Ramona: “That way we’ll all be a part of it.”
Aspyn: “You’re roping us into your crime?”
Ramona: “You’re minors, they’ll never suspect you.”
Ramona: “Not to spoil it, but we’ll reach a spot in the book that’s all about play.”
Aspyn(gasps): “I love play!”
Ramona: “I practice horticulture in therapy but I really think I should go to psychotherapy for my addiction to gardening.”
*Aspyn sees Samantha doing the Six-Seven hand gesture*
Aspyn: “Stop it SAAAAAAMMMMM!”
Ramona: “I’m afraid of heights, I’m more comfortable in trash cans.”
*Talking about Oscar the Grouch*
Ramona: “He was the OG dumpster diver.”
Samantha: “I love the smell of the mattress when you first wake up. Like, that first gulp of air in the morning.”
Aspyn: “Do you not breathe while you sleep?”
Ramona: “I signed us up for concessions for Thursday, because I felt like it was far enough away that the world might just end before then and we wouldn’t have to do it.”
*Victoria talking to Samantha*
Victoria: “I’m going to burn you for witchcraft.”
Ramona: “A mother will provide this, this, and this, then ruin those things. AND I’M GOING TO SEND YOU SOME MINT.”
Samatha: “This rice crispy really tastes like marshmallow.”
Aspyn: “That’s what they’re made out of, Samantha.”
Samantha: “These don’t taste like the expired ones you find on the floor of the pantry.”
*Samantha talking about things the class has done*
Samantha: “I don’t know what Victoria did.”
*Aspyn showing off her Pokemon cards she bought during lunch*
Aspyn: “I love Pokemon cards. Pokemon cards are my crack.”
Aspyn: “Did you know that if you soak tobacco in water, it makes arsenic?”
Ramona: “I did not know that.”
Victoria: “I did. :)”
*silence*
Aspyn: “It got very quiet.”
*everyone sitting in a circle in the dark with our phone flashlights on*
Samantha: “Welcome to our Cult Campfire.”
Ramona: “I used to be in a cult.”
*Aspyn sitting by the wall dividing Creative Writing and Film class*
Aspyn: “It’s so cold over here.”
Samantha: “That’s because Film’s over there.”
Victoria: “Darbie. Darbie. Darbie. Darbie. Darbie.”
Darbie: “What?”
Victoria: “Go to the hallway.”.”
Ramona: “I love how she describes these pieces as ‘going boneless like children in Target.’ Floppy child.”
*Darbie showing us her childhood stuffie and patting the head a bit too hard*
Aspyn: “Be gentle.”
*Darbie pushes and squeezes it*
Darbie: “It’s fine. Look, you can squish her bones together.”
*Aspyn talking about a metaphor for drowning*
Ramona: “I was thinking about drowning metaphors this morning. I was taking a bath.”
*Aspyn laying on the floor because her leg hurts from pulling a muscle, then lifting it in the air*
Aspyn: “Cut it off!”
Victoria: “I don’t know how to use commas.”
Darbie: “Half of commas is just vibes.”