Today was the

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Today was the

Today was the last day of 7th grade.

Even though the general opinion of our collective class was that 6th was quite a bit more fun, it was still a pretty sad day.

They year had its up and downs, sure, but after all, it's another year gone, another step closer toward high school and therefore responsibility and therefore adulthood. It went by so fast, like just last week I was stepping onto the blue-floored basketball court with empty binders and a new schedule and now? Now we're bidding goodbye to the scuffed red stairs and silver sculptures until September.

We always do a countdown to the final bell and so many people shouted out the numbers through tears because endings are always hard even when they're a beginning to something else and we'll never be 7th graders ever again and we'll never step into this year's classrooms in quite the same way.

And my friend screams, "WE SURVIVED!" and then starts sobbing into my shoulder.

And the boy who can never seem to shut up has his face in his hands and is silently pretending he's not crying.

And countless multicolored Sharpies flash across yearbook pages with wishes of happy summers and promises to text.

And everyone recycles stacks of homework and throws their Lating binders in the air and eats too many of those too-sweet, powdery sugar cookies from Ralph's in artifical flavored celebration and says goodbye.

But time goes on anyway.

Life doesn't care about how sad it is to see all the wrapping paper and stickers ripped off lockers to reveal faded blue paint, to wave goodbye to the ivy-covered fences and plastic navy benches and empty cafeteria and the turquoise awning of the theater.

Three more months until 8th grade.

submitted by Abigail S., age 12, Nose in a Book
(June 7, 2017 - 8:37 pm)

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Awe Abi, you made me sad. And I was having such a good day, well other than cutting my knee again. But this is your day. I just have to compliment the way you wrote that. Even when you're just describing something, you do so so well that it is so full of emotion and life and just seems so real. I can almost picture these scenes and how very melancholy and bitter-sweet it is. Happy last day of 7th grade! I hope it was a good year and that there will be many more.

submitted by Epic Fangirl
(June 7, 2017 - 10:21 pm)
submitted by Top
(June 7, 2017 - 11:17 pm)

I always thought you were older than me! I guess you just act mature, so I never realized that we were the same age. That was beautiful, Abi. I'm homeschooled, so the end of the school year just means that I don't have to do school anymore, because only my siblings go to school with me, and I can see them anyway. 

submitted by Crookshanks, age 2nd year, Hogsmeade
(June 8, 2017 - 10:30 am)

This is so beautiful, Abi! Seventh grade finished yesterday for me as well, so I feel the same way. 

submitted by September
(June 8, 2017 - 10:22 pm)

Whoa, that was so real Abi! That's exactly how I felt! But also whoa, your guys school got out yesterday? My school got out May 19! But, to be fair, I have to go back like August 12.

~Starseeker 

 

submitted by Starseeker, age 154 moons , Nightwing Kingdom
(June 9, 2017 - 8:03 am)

Good Luck in 8th grade! I know it can be really sad to leave your friends and your school, but you'll always have new experences, and you can still keep those friendships.

submitted by Bibliophile
(June 9, 2017 - 10:19 am)

Wow, you were already out on June 7th?! I don't get out until this Thursday (the 22nd)! I'm also in 7th grade and I'm SO ready to be done. I don't hate middle school s much as I did when I started in September, but I can't wait for summer. I'm excited for 8th grade because our town is getting a new middle school (our current one is 101 years old and my ELA teacher said it was the oldest standing school building in MA) net year and it's going to be SO nice!!! I also really can't wait until we find out who our teachers are for next year because my best friend and I have literally never been in the same class in all of our 8 years of school! I can't believe that I'm sort of almost in 8th grade. I can still hardly believe I'm in middle school and am officially a teenager! ANyway, enough about me, congrats on surviving 7th grade and your 1st or 2nd year of middle school! What you wrote was beautiful and I wish my last day of middle school could be like that, but I think everyone in my school just wants to get out.

 

Turquoise says frod. Almost a real word Turqiouse! 

submitted by Dragonrider
(June 18, 2017 - 6:45 pm)