As we age and gather dust...

Someone should have made an entry. =_=;

Anyway, let's talk about the Gabriel, since he was the talk of everyone's day. Personally, the last time I saw him was on Tuesday--and saw him unusually often, at that. During fourth period and while roaming around the building with Chet, it was getting rather disturbing how we'd bump into him in every escalator we took, him sticking posters advertising his snake club literally everywhere (and of course threatening (mostly) me to go to said club if I do not wish to find snakes/parts of snakes in my bag, locker, bed, food, drinks, shower, toilet, etc.) Then, at the very beginning of fifth when Hyo and I performed our almost-daily ritual of waving and whatnot at our next-door neighbors rora and Vicky in their Physics, there was Gabby again, with that glued-on grin and whispery lips, undoubtedly still trying to convince us to go to his club. Even when Brian and I were cutting gym sixth period and went down to second floor to visit Jimmyn/Rez, there was the creepy man yet again, with a ton of posters in each arm and covering walls with them. I was hiding behind Brian/Jimmyn so he "attacked" Rezwana instead, who, after about two minutes, decided to join me in my hiding as well.

So, given my last exposure/impression of him, I suppose it was semi-logical of me to assume it was his overadvertisement that had gotten him in trouble when I heard he's been missing since early Wednesday morning. I really thought he's been jumped, by, say, people who got seriously pissed at his constant reminding with that creepy smile and barely-audible voice. (Although obviously that makes no sense, as 1. People don't get jumped early in the morning and 2. he's not the type who'd "advertise" this annoyingly to people he doesn't at least somewhat know decently well.)

I first heard of this in Physics today from Hyo: how he left home early in the AM hours yesterday because he had to take a makeup Physics test but never showed up in school at all, and never came home later in the day. His parents called Hannah, received no news, and filed a missing-persons police report at around midnight. In gym today, Ms. Helinski came over and asked Brian whether he's had further news; apparently, the entire Japanese class has been sort of on the hunt for news of him. By seventh period in tech illustrations, Cindy was telling people he's been found unconscious, and is currently in a hospital, so that became more or less the latest news everyone has of him. There were no mentionings of physical injuries, and it had me wondering whether he has some sort of a condition that no one had known about or whatever.

I had never really hanged out with him that much. As Brian says, it's odd how this type of thing should at least grieve you to some degree...but for whatever reason, you simply aren't as deeply affected as you feel you should be. And thus you feel bad and guilty about that... ("What if he really dies? Then on the one hand you'd be saying, 'Wow, that's the first person I sort of knew that died,' and on the other you'd sadly add, 'I really wish I'd gone to his club back then.'") Not that I'm cursing him, of course, as Chinese superstitions go.


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Sudden realization upon staring at the date: I'll be 17 in just another five months. Woah...X_x;;