Oh, Valentine's day...
Ah Valentine’s day. Does anyone even still care about that holiday?
The answer is yes. Yes they do. And if Harriette heard another person boast about what their “sweetie”, “honey”, or even “honey bunches of oats” was doing for them on this stupid holiday she would burst.
Harriette wonders when she became such a bitter person, even last year she felt a little bit of the whole Valentine’s day lovey dovey spirit but this year she would prefer to just coast over the holiday.
The obvious reason was that this was the first Valentine’s day ever that Collin had a boyfriend, so the first Valentine’s day ever that they wouldn’t do something together to celebrate.
Yes Harriette would very much like to coast over this holiday.
Another person who agreed with Harriette was Ella, how was she supposed to feel the Valentine’s day lovey dovey spirit if she was currently fawning over a gay guy?
Yes Ella was upset for the exact same reason Harriette was, except of course Harriette was Collin’s sister and upset for a slightly different reason.
But Collin also wanted to coast through this holiday, oh how he wished that he could just celebrate as he usually did with Harriette. It’s not that he didn’t like spending time with Amado, he did. He liked Amado a lot, but he would rather skip all the fanfare and just go on as normal.
But that wasn’t gonna happen with Amado, no Amado was extremely excited to spend his first ever Valentine’s day with Collin and he had lots of plans. He even made reservations at a restaurant.
On a different note, Mariah just wished that people would forget all this stupid fanfare around Collin and just spend Valentine’s together as friends. She asked herself often, when listening to Ella whine about Collin, why was all of this that important? Maybe she didn’t understand because she’s only ever really liked one guy and he moved to england in the middle of seventh grade and she hadn’t felt much pain over that.
Tamarai liked the idea of celebrating Valentine’s day casually, with little gifts and maybe a date night, since it did land on a friday this year. And that was exactly what she was planning to do with that cute basketball player she was now officially dating. She was excited, but not boasting about it to all her friends.
Ah Valentine’s day... Does anyone even still care about that holiday?
The answer is yes. Yes they do. Either they love it, hate it, are confused by the fanfare, or just kind of whatever about it.
Thousands of Valentines
“What happened in here?” Harriette asked, staring at the mess covering Tamarai’s room. It looked like the local craft store exploding in there.
“Valentines,” was all Tamarai said as she pressed a small purple paper heart onto a slightly larger red one.
After closer inspection Harriette could see the pile of decorated paper hearts sitting next to Tamarai on the floor.
“For everyone in school?” Harriette asked.
Tamarai nodded, smiling up at Harriette, “Everyone deserves a valentine!”
Harriette smiled, laughing a little, Tamarai was just so nice.
“And how are you gonna deliver these thousands of valentines?” Harriette asked.
“I’m gonna drop them in their lockers throughout the day,” Tamarai explained, writing a short message on the heart she was working on.
“That’s gonna take some time,” Harriette said.
Tamarai shrugged, “I’m catching an early bus.”
“You’re too nice,” Harriette said, amused.
“No such thing,” Tamarai said, sprinkling some glitter on the heart before placing it delicately to the side. “You wanna help?”
Harriette shrugged, “Why not? You’ll need it.”
Harriette joined her on the ground and grabbed the closest pink heart and got to work. They sat like that for a while in companionable silence before Harriette noticed Collin standing the doorway.
“Valentines?” he asked.
“Yep,” Tamarai said, “we would love your artistic eye.”
“Alright, I’d love to help,” Collin said. He took a seat next to Harriette and together they worked on valentines until they were called down for dinner.
“Thanks for all your help guys!” Tamarai said as she dusted off the glitter all over her.
“That’s a lost cause,” Collin said, about the glitter, “you just gotta accept the sparkle.”
Tamarai laughed, looking down at her still sparkling pants, “yeah, you’re right.”
They all laughed and headed downstairs for some dinner.
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