Cool Orleans

I had this really cool friend supposedly from San Fransisco who had lots of cats.  She was just all around the center of attention, whether or not she knows.  She is 1 year older, a month, or maybe so, I think, shy.  I remember because I saw her for her birthday, a bit after, once or twice, and she showed me she finally got some hip clothing.  She knew the popular boy in her year, though born in October or November, from New Orleans, whose best friend died.  She sat with him at pep rallies.  He was so, like, attractive when I interacted with him, like at P.E., sometimes or at least once at length, with the classes separated into 4.  The school was about 200 students per year.  It seems like all we could think about was like oh should you have been on like the dance team?  What about ballet, anyway?  What was I thinking?  What happens to people with dark hair?  I did fit in.  I did make flag team, but since my friend didn't I didn't do it.  They train with band, 1 hour during the day, which would have replaced Art II, "Advanced" Drawing and Painting, and after school a lot.  I guess it was a bit difficult, I mean they don't do this in junior high all the time.  It seemed like I'd make it.  Actually, I was hoping the boy would stay and I'd stay in it.  The drama teacher left, too.  Hardly anyone was in drama, and no one my age, the other few a bit older.  That boy was in choir, too, and sang Titanic as a solo.  I didn't try to get in Talented Music until later.  I found I wanted to quit when I got older and heard it would have been better so much if I did it the 1st year with the other teacher who left.  It was so sucky after my initial year!  I guess a year of Talented Theater did it, too.  The community theater had a dying agenda.  I didn't do theater at NOCCA because Classical Instrumental Music for piano was more smart and connected the arts, better, and gave me more valuable tools.  I might not have went back were I still in high school.  It's not a reliable program and may be for mainstream New Orleanians.  It was fun in the summer, but they don't let you board, since I went.